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Report of the removal of Laura A. Hull Morris from the White House, emphasizing the mild mannered nature of Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President, during the event.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-12
Captain Charles D. A. Loeffler and the people at the front door have been notified regarding the matter in question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-05
President Roosevelt appreciates Frank Basil Tracy’s letter about the Moro fight. He will be admitted by the usher Major Charles D. A. Loeffler, a Civil War veteran. Loeffler once shared his experience of attacking a Comanche camp and how sorry he felt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-17
William Loeb informs Lewis K. Brown that he cannot comply with his request for an invitation to the White House reception of February 8, as the number of military officers in Washington, D.C., to will be invited will already fill the White House. He is pleased, however, to put Brown’s name, along with his wife, Catherine Brown, on the list of those to be invited to the reception of February 1.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-10
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about seeing James S. White, a “cowpuncher” he knew from North Dakota, and he had him to lunch “with a mixed company of home and foreign nobility.” The president also encourages Kermit to not lose heart about his grades and to “keep pegging away.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-02
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou details why Théobald Chartran’s painting depicting the signing of the “Protocols of Peace” between the United States and Spain in August, 1898, is not historically accurate. He does not want a 1902 letter from the French ambassador at the time, Jules Cambon, to be attached to the painting’s provenance. Cortelyou shares the letter and compares Cambon’s list of attendees with his own meticulous secretarial notes from the event. Neither the photograph Frances Benjamin Johnston took the day after the actual signing nor Chartran’s painting provide a completely accurate representation of the attendees and setting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-05
President Roosevelt greatly appreciates the bronze badge and speech that former Commander-in-Chief Brown sent him. He wishes Brown well and hopes to see him at the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-26
Captain Loeffler sends New Year’s wishes and congratulates President Roosevelt on his successful administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01
William Loeb would like another search performed in order to find the correct copy of Dante for former First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-16