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President Roosevelt writes to Russian Ambassador Cassini regarding a letter to Minister Takahira. Roosevelt suggests that he may want the letter returned back to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-15
Two boys talk on a busy city sidewalk next to a produce stand. Caption: Messenger — I didn’t do a t’ing but win a dollar an’ t’irty-two cents at craps, las’ night. / Bucket-Shop Office Boy — Put it all on Cotton, Billy, an’ stand fer a raise uv fifteen p’ints – I heerd de boss tellin’ a come-on ter sell short!
The context of this cartoon is a simple joke that even messenger boys could share in the nation’s prosperity during the early years of the President Roosevelt’s administration.
Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to receiving William W. Wotherspoon’s paper on airplanes, and hopes that they can meet again in person soon. Roosevelt also hopes that Wotherspoon recieved his other letter and was able to give Emperor Wilhelm II his message.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-29
Theodore Roosevelt explains to the postmaster of Yuma, Arizona, that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, would like to hire a guide, Cipriano Domingues, for a short trip across the Mexican border. Roosevelt asks the postmaster to hire a messenger to deliver the enclosed letter to Domingues, to have the messenger write Kermit if Domingues was found and agrees to meet Kermit, and to tell Kermit of a grocery store so as to purchase provisions. Roosevelt asks the postmaster to send a bill for expenses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-24
Vice President Roosevelt cannot give advice about the appointment of messengers to individual senators as they would not tolerate such advice from a vice president. Roosevelt will be alone at Oyster Bay, New York, but he would be pleased with a visit from Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes and Isabella Selmes. He is unsure of the exact dates he will be home but will inform them as soon as possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-07
Ambassador Meyer writes to President Roosevelt regarding his dinner meeting with English Ambassador Egerton and Egerton’s words about the Russian loan. Meyer then mentions his discussion with the King who anticipates Meyer’s move to Saint Petersburg, Russia. The King foresees Russian conflict over China, shares his bad experience involving his tampered letters in Russia, and describes a case in Saint Petersburg involving an Italian Embassy official being bribed by someone seeking to crack the telegraph code.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-14
A “messenger” brings a message for “the boss” but does not know to whom to give it. Victor Dowling, Thomas Taggart, De Lancey Nicoll, William F. Sheehan, George B. McClellan, and David B. Hill hold out their hands for the message.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-30
In the first section, President Roosevelt holds his big stick and walks toward the “House” and the “Senate.” In the second section, Roosevelt accidentally hits the “House” as he reaches for a “message from the jungle.” In the third section, Roosevelt glares at the “House,” who sits on the ground, and hits the “Senate” in the head as the messenger laughs. In the fourth section, Roosevelt walks away as the “House” and the “Senate” point their fists at him.
Cartoonist Camillus Kessler drew for several St. Louis newspapers — the Women’s National Journal, the Republic, The Star, and Joseph Pulitzer’s Post-Dispatch— all consistently Democratic in focus. This cartoon, for the Star, is however virtually free of partisan rancor. It treats President Roosevelt’s tilts with Congress not as bitter controversies (which they were) but as unconscious side-effect of his other preoccupations. Most readers would have assumed that the whacks delivered to Congress in the cartoon were over the raging Secret Service imbroglio, but Kessler attributes the message about Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari as a distraction.
The report is a compilation of the messengers employed by the executive departments of the federal government. Independent agencies are not included in the total.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-01
John Campbell Greenway sends information on how Theodore Roosevelt can be reached while in Apache County, Arizona. Telegrams addressed to C. M. Cotton or Lorenzo Hubbell will be delivered to Roosevelt by Indian runner.
1913-08-16
An elderly physician sits in a chair in an office. Hanging on the wall is a fee schedule labeled, on the left, “Ailments for People of Moderate Means. Low Fees” and on the right, “Same Ailments for Rich Patients. Fees Accordingly.” For example, on the left “Colic $5.00” becomes, on the right, “Appendicitis $1000.00,” “Earache 5.00” becomes “Otitis Media 250.00,” “Indigestion 5.00” becomes “Acute Gastro-Enteretis 400.00,” and “That Tired Feeling 5.00” becomes “Neurasthenia 350.00.” A young messenger boy is delivering a message, and in the background, well-dressed patients are sitting in a waiting room. Caption: He has ordinary and inexpensive ailments for ordinary patients and high-sounding and costly maladies for the rich.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-22
A gold miner stands at the door to a cabin telling the miners inside, who are celebrating Christmas, that there has been a “gold strike up the creek,” which causes the miners to rush for the door. Caption: Man at Door — Hey, you fellers! There’s been a gold strike up the creek!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-12-04
John Edward Addicks is sending a special messenger with an important communication.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-28
W. A. Faulk is seeking a messenger position at the customhouse in Portland, Oregon. He requests an endorsement letter from Vice President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-26
Walter Howard Loving has heard that African Americans will not be commissioned to serve with Filipino troops in the Philippines. As such, he requests an appointment as a messenger in the United States Senate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-25