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Reverend George C. Williams asks Theodore Roosevelt to visit the Laurel and Bethel Camp between August 11 and 28 and speak about his trip to Africa as it would help prepare individuals for missionary study.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-29
Charles R. Watson invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak at an upcoming men’s convention as part of the national congress of the Men’s Movement of the United Presbyterian Church. Roosevelt visited this church’s missions while in Africa, and members are eager to hear from him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-25
Charles R. Watson encloses a copy of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of North America’s annual report. The Board took action to thank Theodore Roosevelt for his support of their missions in Sudan and Egypt, which he visited on his trip up the Nile.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-03
Charles R. Watson of the Board of Foreign Missions sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter from Reverend Andrew Watson from the Egypt mission. He hopes Roosevelt will carefully consider Watson’s letter and apologizes for its typographical issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-05
John M. Schick acknowledges receipt of the letter from William Loeb enclosing President Roosevelt’s contribution to Hungarian and Bohemian mission work, along with a signed photograph for Shick’s son. Schick asks Loeb to thank Roosevelt for his contribution, and for the photograph, which made his son very happy.
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1908-11-24
Silas McBee encloses a letter from the Executive Committee of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada. McBee asks President Roosevelt if he would write a reference letter for the Movement that McBee could use in England. The French Ambassador told McBee about the conversation President Roosevelt had with the ambassador about the Peace Congress. The ambassador begged McBee to tell Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau what McBee had told Roosevelt.
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1907-05-11
President Roosevelt wishes Benjamin L. Smith success in his effort for domestic missions.
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1903-02-13
Charles D. Walcott tells Theodore Roosevelt that Emma Baker Kennedy was not enthusiastic at the idea of aiding in publishing scientific works. Instead, Kennedy’s interests were in “home and foreign mission work, and philanthropic endeavors in and about New York.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-16
Speaking to an overflow assembly of persons celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Presbyterian Home Missions, President Roosevelt remarks on the expansion of the nation, materially and spiritually. He notes that the churches are necessary to the nation’s advancement, ensuring that the forces of evil that arise with industrialization are countered by forces for good.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-20