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At the suggestion of an editor of The Baltimore Sun, H. M. Wharton asks Theodore Roosevelt to write a letter of support for the conversion of Robert E. Lee’s home into a memorial to Lee and Southern women. Wharton says the idea has support from prominent businessmen and politicians and a letter from Roosevelt would be very helpful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-21
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary gives E. Mont Reily the address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-31
Grosvenor Dawe informs Theodore Roosevelt that six other governors are heading representative committees at the Southern Commercial Congress, with more expected. The Congress “typifies a new union of the South along the constructive lines of commerce and business” compared to the unity of fifty years ago during the Civil War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16