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Letter from Rose A. Metzler Carter Hearst to Theodore Roosevelt

Rose A. Metzler Carter Hearst asks Theodore Roosevelt to allow The Philomathean Society at Lordsburg College to make Roosevelt an honorary member. Lordsburg College has two literary societies and Hearst believes having Roosevelt’s name associated with her society will help them in their rivalry against the other society to secure the best members.

Comments and Context

Lordsburg College changed its name to La Verne College in 1917.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Letter from David Jayne Hill to Theodore Roosevelt

On behalf of the Literary Society of Washington, David Jayne Hill offers President Roosevelt an honorary membership.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Peyton R. Harris

President Roosevelt accepts his honorary membership in the Blackford Literary Society of the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He sends a photograph of himself for the club as well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-27

Letter from Charles Williams to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles Williams, on behalf of the Eroalethean Literary Society of Hiwassee College, asks Theodore Roosevelt’s permission to enroll him and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt as honorary members of the society.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-23

Thackeray in America

Ambassador Reid delivers a speech on William Makepeace Thackeray and his special place of respect among the American people at the Titmarsh Club Dinner in London, recounting the kind recollections of men who knew Thackeray while he visited the United States. Reid acknowledges that Charles Dickens’s less flattering depictions of Americans in his own works have their merit, but restates that Thackeray’s writings on his time in America and his skill as a writer have left him as well loved by Americans as the English.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12

Dresden Literary American Club

Stories and poems written by Theodore Roosevelt, Elliott Roosevelt, Corinne Roosevelt, and their cousins during the summer of 1873 while studying in Dresden, Germany.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1873

Letter from Andrew George Werner to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt has been elected honorary member of the A. G. Werner Literary Society. Werner asks him to please accept this election.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-12-23