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Albert Shaw introduces P. M. Mattheeff to President Roosevelt. Shaw met Mattheeff many years ago in Bulgaria and again recently, as Mattheeff was the Bulgarian commissioner at the World’s Fair in St. Louis. Shaw recommends Mattheeff to Roosevelt as someone who knows well the situation in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece, including the Macedonian question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-26
Albert Shaw writes to President Roosevelt about P. M. Mattheeff, the Bulgarian commissioner at the World’s Fair and minister from Bulgaria to Greece. Shaw finds Mattheeff to be a very interesting man, and has provided a letter of introduction for him to present to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-26
Albert P. Wright writes to President Roosevelt upon hearing that someone told Roosevelt he had a drinking problem, which Wright states he does not. Wright discusses the difficulties in the Philippines, especially in regard to conflict between Filipinos and Americans. He openly divulges his antipathy for the Filipinos on the island.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-15
Victor Howard Metcalf provides President Roosevelt with a series of correspondences regarding an immigration inspector, George C. Triick, who was accused of mistreating Mr. Chow Tszchi, a Chinese dignitary. The department agrees that the Government should provide the utmost courtesy to Chinese people but notes issues in proving citizenship or defining who could be classified as a Chinese laborer. Chinese merchants, teachers, students and bankers are welcome, but not laborers with falsified Chinese papers pretending to be of a higher class. A treaty written in 1904 sought to deal with falsified records but the Chinese thought it was too strict. Metcalf notes any concerns of harshness in the enforcement of exclusionary laws is necessary to combat those trying to skirt the system.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-07
Colonel Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, is organizing the selection and shipment of tindalo lumber to be used in President Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill. The lumber was part of the Philippine exhibit at the World’s Fair.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-07
Douglas Robinson wires that he and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson will travel with President Roosevelt to St. Louis, Missouri, for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-14
Douglas Robinson tells President Roosevelt that he and his wife, Corinne, will be delighted to join him for a trip to St. Louis to see the World’s Fair. Having just wired a telegram with the same message, Robinson learned that the wires were down. He has sent the letter by special delivery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-14
Douglas Robinson writes how pleased he and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson will be to visit with President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at Thanksgiving. Robinson asks if he can travel with Roosevelt to see the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-11
David R. Francis, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was disappointed to hear that President Roosevelt may not be able to visit the Exposition, and strongly encourages Roosevelt to attend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-04
In his recent reading, J. H. Woodard found a book describing who the first charter for a steamboat navigation company was awarded to, which included Nicholas J. Roosevelt. Woodard suspects that this is President Roosevelt’s grandfather, and offers to send him the book if it is of interest to Roosevelt. He recently spent time at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and asked a number of people about their opinion of Roosevelt, and reports that almost universally the response was positive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-31
Description and photograph of a souvenir handkerchief from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition featuring the event program and images of President Roosevelt, President Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and exposition president David R. Francis.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904
Text of the speech given by President Roosevelt at the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in which Roosevelt discusses the history and reasons for American expansion.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1903-04-30
President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt arrive at the St. Louis Exposition in an open carriage. They wear formal attire. Two police officers are among the people gathered to greet the Roosevelts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-11-26
President Roosevelt rejoices that Mayor Wells has given him the keys to the city of St. Louis. A teddy bear holds the keys while a policeman prevents Thomas Henry Carter, Henry Clark Corbin, and former President Grover Cleveland from exiting a building.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-02
President Roosevelt, dressed in fringed buckskins, shakes hands with former President Grover Cleveland at the St. Louis Exposition. Both presidents are carrying large, full game bags, and guns. Roosevelt’s bag is labeled “Universal Popularity.” Cleveland’s bag has many tags hanging off of it: “Brooklyn Eagle Boom, Negro Question Speech, Grover Grover Four More Years of Grover Maryland, Bryan Opposition, New York World Boom, Popularity.” Caption: Grover–How are they comin’? Teddy–All my way–How is it with you? Grover–Booming!
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-30
Former President Grover Cleveland escorts a woman wearing a crown labeled “St. Louis” and a sash labeled “Popularity” past President Roosevelt and David R. Francis, President of the St. Louis World’s Fair (also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition). (Mr. Cleveland made a speech at the Fair, and it was thought that he might become a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President and run against Roosevelt.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-01
Business card of Harry Watcham, manager of the “Inside Inn, Within the World’s Fair Grounds.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-23
A woman labeled “St. Louis” bows at the final curtain for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, with exhibition buildings visible in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-11-30
A statue labeled “Thomas Jefferson The Father of Expansion” stands at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, with Puck directing the attention of George Frisbie Hoar and other anti-expansionists Edward Atkinson, Carl Schurz, and Charles Francis Adams, who look on in disbelief.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-04-15
Elmore Y. Sarles answers questions about the Maltese Cross cabin sent to him by Dr. Volwiler. While Sarles does not know many of the answers, he directs Volwiler to several individuals who should.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1918-03-26