Memorials

Eliza A. Lawton requests Theodore Roosevelt’s assistance in remedying an error made on her father’s memorial that excludes her from his list of daughters. Roosevelt approved the volley of shots fired at General Robert Anderson’s memorial services at West Point, so Lawton hopes he will be of assistance in changing the inscription when all other options have failed her.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-31

Eckford C. DeKay informs James M. Spencer that Governor John A. Dix accepted the request to be honorary Vice President of the Mary Todd Lincoln Memorial Association.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-29

Senator Bradley plans to introduce a bill for a monument honoring General George Rogers Clark and asks for help passing it. Due to his interest in Clark, Bradley named Theodore Roosevelt as a commissioner of the bill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-15

Irving Price Wanger informs Theodore Roosevelt that Congress appropriated $100,000 for a memorial arch at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. However, Wagner disapproves of the site selected by the Valley Forge Park Commission. He asks Roosevelt to read his views on the matter and send a statement of support.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-08

George B. Hinman asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak in Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association’s efforts to raise funds for a memorial to Joel Chandler Harris. A list of the Association’s committees listed on the back.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-19

Augusta Saint-Gaudens tells President Roosevelt that she and her son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, greatly appreciated the tribute that Roosevelt gave to her late husband, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at his memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-18

Reverend Joshua E. Wills has been in communication with the people of Southampton, England, about a proposed memorial to the pilgrims who departed for America from that town. Wills asks William Loeb if there is a chance that President Roosevelt would be willing to visit Southampton on his return journey from his African safari to make a speech at the dedication ceremony of this memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-21

Atlanta Mayor Joyner informs President Roosevelt that he has been unanimously elected as one of the vice presidents of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association, which is dedicated to preserving Snap Bean Farm, the home of author Joel Chandler Harris. Joyner trusts Roosevelt will accept the position and donate to the fund to purchase the home. Joyner also asks Roosevelt to suggest other names of men “who you think we should make vice presidents of this association.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-22

Jeannie Penniman Smith Platt sends President Roosevelt a photograph of a memorial honoring Orville Hitchcock Platt to be installed in their village library. She hopes President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will visit her home.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-17

Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt on the activities of the American Embassy in London. Reid has attended and given some short speeches at the dedication of memorials related to Harvard or Yale alumni, noting that relationships forged though the universities strengthens ties between Great Britain and the United States. Reid has made a proposal for the arbitration between the United States and Great Britain regarding fisheries off of Newfoundland. Arthur F. Winnington Ingram, the Bishop of London, is looking forward to visiting the United States and will be present when Roosevelt dedicates a lecturn to Bruton Parish Church. King Edward VII and Parliament are still at work until August, but the current Parliament has not yet achieved much in the way of legislation. Reid describes the King and British people’s reactions to the International Peace Conference at The Hague, and the prevailing attitude about the immunity of private property at sea. Finally, Reid describes some press coverage at the recent 4th of July events at the Embassy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-19

This program describes the events during a week of celebration in Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia. Events include the dedication of two buildings at Marietta College, excursions to Blennerhassett Island, reunions of the Union Veteran Association of Washington County, the conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the dedication of a bronze tablet commemorating the first settlement in the Northwest Territory. The tablet was unveiled by Alice Roosevelt Longworth and dedicated by Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10

Joseph Hodges Choate encloses a circular from the Louisbourg Memorial Fund along with a copy of a letter from D. J. Kennelly asking for President Roosevelt’s sympathy with the movement and the patronage of the memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-05

Frederick Dent Grant thanks President Roosevelt for the wreath that he and the First Lady sent to Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb and for the tribute Roosevelt paid to his father. Grant also expresses his appreciation for Roosevelt’s thoughtfulness at the time of Julia Dent Grant’s death. Roosevelt’s actions have inspired in Grant a “most loyal and affectionate devotion.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-31

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

B.S. Reynolds Co.

Language

English

This postcard depicts London’s Albert Memorial, a statue surmounted by a tall spire. Several people stand at its base, while others gather nearby outside the fence surrounding it. Charles C. Myers explains it was created in memory of Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, and describes the height and cost of the monument.

Comments and Context

In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The Albert Memorial Monument is the most beautiful in all London. It is 178 ft high and cost $600,000, erected by the city in 1857 in memory of Prince Albert. The whole structure is gorgeously embellished with a profusion of bronz [sic] and marble statues and mosaic work.”

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Photograph showing President Roosevelt in front giving a speech as crowd sits behind him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-10-19

Director Thomas D. Nicholson of the American Museum of Natural History provides a history of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund which was established in 1960 to provide grants to individuals to support research projects that reflect the museum’s focus on the conservation of North American wildlife. He notes the considerable financial support that members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association have provided during the first fifteen years of the fund’s existence.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1975

The Lincoln Farm Association invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Hall. Includes a card about special trains, an invitation from Governor Augustus Everett Willson, and a list of officers and trustees of the Lincoln Farm Association.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-09

Albert W. Bryce memorializes former President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as the mausoleum in which he is buried.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-06

Various prominent citizens including, President Roosevelt and multiple senators, justices, and cabinet members, state their support of endowing a department of political science in Western Reserve University in memory of the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-27