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Harry Pratt Johnson and the Union League Club want Joseph Hodges Choate to be the speaker at the next Washington’s Birthday celebration. Johnson hopes Theodore Roosevelt will put in a good word for them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-09
Charles N. Elliot sends Theodore Roosevelt John Burroughs’ book about his Western trip with Roosevelt and requests that Roosevelt write a brief appreciation of the author for inclusion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
Nicholas Murray Butler informs Theodore Roosevelt of the general good feeling towards Roosevelt at a luncheon attended by Butler and southern politicians. Butler stresses that Roosevelt’s standing in the South has greatly improved upon his reelection and suggests some steps Roosevelt can take to cement that relationship.
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1904-12-16
Theodore Roosevelt informs J. J. Curran that he spoke to Hamilton Wright Mabie about the book sent to him, which got lost with other books in his desk. Roosevelt will be sure to lock it away and appreciates his courtesy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Theodore Roosevelt invites A. P. Gregory to visit him during his time in New York City and hopes he can come over for lunch or to spend the night, Edith Kermit Carrow Roosevelt looks forward to seeing him as well. Roosevelt informs Gregory that W. B. Yeats and Mr. Synge are also invited to tag along, Hamilton Wright Mabie and other people at The Outlook are great admirers of his work and also look forward to meeting him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-23
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed hearing from William Sturgis Bigelow. Hamilton Mabie wrote the article and is glad Bigelow liked it. Roosevelt admits he was nervous about Senator Henry Cabot Lodge’s reelection. He agrees with Bigelow’s “fool and crook argument.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regrets Roosevelt has no more copies of his bookplate and apologizes to Susan W. Janney.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-27
Theodore Roosevelt will show Minister Maurice Francis Egan’s letter to Hamilton Mabie, the author of an article in The Outlook. While he is not orthodox, Roosevelt tries to avoid the type of “intensely offensive spiritual pride” that conceits being heterodox. Roosevelt believes greatly in the doctrine of works and knows many men whose doctrinal beliefs are incompatible, yet they can work harmoniously. He strongly condemns religious men who disapprove of the search for scientific truth. Roosevelt found Egan’s conversation with Frederik VIII, King of Denmark, interesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Lyman Abbott for his Christmas remembrance, noting that Mrs. Roosevelt was touched by the sentiment. Roosevelt also sends regards to members of the Outlook Company and notes that he will be visiting the following Wednesday morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-29
Mercy Elizabeth Merrell likes The Outlook and The Spectator. In particular, she likes the Outlook’s support of President Roosevelt.
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1901-1909
James E. McConnell invites Theodore Roosevelt to address the Congregational Club of Rhode Island on December 11.
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1911-10-30
Joseph L. Merrell invites Theodore Roosevelt to the annual dinner of the Hope Lodge. He asks him to consider the offer carefully.
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1911-08-26
Jeremiah M. Cobb implores Theodore Roosevelt to address the Newark Presbyterian Union, despite word from Hamilton Wright Mabie that Roosevelt is not interested in the speaking engagement. Cobb explains that the event is interdenominational and reflects the rapidly growing community.
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1911-05-29
Clifford G. Twombly, an acquaintance of Gifford Pinchot from Yale, invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak to a club of the five leading churches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on the topic of “Civic Righteousness.” He explains that the clergymen of Lancaster “are trying hard to arouse this boss-ridden community to a higher sense of its responsibility.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-27
Sinclair Lewis asks Theodore Roosevelt to provide a note to James Brown Scott approving the application to the Carnegie Peace Fund to bring British peace poet Alfred Noyes on a lecture tour of the United States.
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1911-04-22
Anna Knight informs Frank Harper that she has forwarded a copy of Hamilton Wright Mabie’s bookplate to the author of the enclosed letter, and told her that she would additionally pass the request along to Theodore Roosevelt for a copy of his bookplate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-24
Caroline L. Rodman hopes Theodore Roosevelt and Hamilton Wright Mabie, through whom she sends the letter, would be willing to help the Orange Guild of the Church Institute for Negroes. They hope to endow and support five church schools, similarly to the Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington addressed the group this year, and they hope Roosevelt and Mabie may be able to address a meeting of the group next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-23
David Nelson Beach asks Theodore Roosevelt to deliver the Enoch Pond Lectures on applied Christianity in February 1912.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-21
Lawrence F. Abbott informs Ferris Greenslet that Theodore Roosevelt can no longer be reached at Nairobi, but he will be at Khartoum on March 15. There is a chance that correspondence might reach him there, although Abbott does not have a specific address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-29
This excerpt from Puck includes a piece from Ladies’ Home Journal about Hamilton Wright Mabie and an excerpt from “An Appreciation of William Randolph Hearst,” which satirizes him as “the idol of the proletariat.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-20