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William Eleroy Curtis, a reporter for the Chicago Record-Herald, notifies President Roosevelt that he is planning a visit to five southern states. Curtis asks Roosevelt if there are any people or issues that he should write about.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-24
Booker T. Washington writes to President Roosevelt including a newspaper clipping from the Montgomery Daily Advertiser. Washington notes that the newspaper clipping shows the appointment of a recommended postmaster and believes that Alabama will meet and even surpass the “Mississippi Standard.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-14
Edward Sandford Martin sends President Roosevelt a book of “counseling thoughts for use, if needed, after election,” but notes that he has seen a proof copy of an article predicting that Roosevelt will win with three-quarters of the electoral votes. Joseph Bucklin Bishop recently objected to something that Martin wrote, but Martin believes that Bishop’s “judgement has been affected by his efforts to carry Mississippi for the Republican ticket.” He mentions that Roosevelt’s son, Theodore Roosevelt, may be interested to know that his son, George Whitney Martin, has been at home recovering from having his appendix removed, but that he is nearly well again.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-26
Edgar S. Wilson encloses a clipping where “the vulgarian,” most likely referring to James Kimble Vardaman, “enters a denial.” Wilson stresses that this paper must not be lost. He believes that President Roosevelt may already have a copy of the paper where “the same party editorially blackguarded” President McKinley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-03
Booker T. Washington sends President Roosevelt the population figures for Representative Williams’s congressional district in Mississippi.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-09
Report illustrating the population of Representative Williams’s congressional district broken down by race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-09
Eugene Snowden asks William Loeb to congratulate President Roosevelt on his behalf for winning the nomination for president at the Republican National Convention. Snowden offers to help with Roosevelt’s campaign in any way he can, especially in the south where he is acquainted with many of the states’ leaders.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-01
Louis T. Michener writes James Sullivan Clarkson that the Roosevelt-Fairbanks ticket is popular everywhere except in some financial circles, and that the Republican Party platform is popular except among southern Democrats. The Democrats object to the Republican party addressing the problem of disfranchisement of African Americans in the South.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-25
Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley tell the story of the most famous bear hunt in American history: Theodore Roosevelt’s unsuccessful hunt for black bear in Mississippi that gave birth to the teddy bear toy. Ambrose and Brinkley provide political context for the trip to Mississippi, list the members of the hunting party, and describe the hunt of November 15, 1902. The article also describes Clifford Berryman’s cartoon depiction of the hunt which led to the creation of the teddy bear.
A photograph of Brinkley and his wife, and three photographs of members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) distributing teddy bears at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, accompany the article. A text box with the vision statement of the TRA appears at the end of the article.
This brief article relays the history behind the Teddy bear phenomenon which began in 1902 in President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration. The article recounts the story of Roosevelt’s failed bear hunt in Mississippi and the subsequent invention of the Teddy bear by Morris Michtom. It discusses the Clifford Kennedy Berryman cartoon that inspired Michtom and quotes from a magazine celebrating the anniversary.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1979
In a letter to the editor, Edward P. Moses states that the Senate Committee of Education will hear Senator John Houk’s bill providing for the collection, transcription, publication, and distribution of materials relating to Tennessee history on the following Monday. He discusses how many books on history were possible because of manuscript collections.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-23
The author reviews the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 manuscript by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt. The manuscript was in connection with Twain’s 1907 letter to the editor responding to James E. Edmond’s editorial criticizing his refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi wherein Twain defends his friendship with Roosevelt. The author speculates why Twain did not publish the 1909 manuscript.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
In connection to the recent posthumous discovery of a 1909 letter by Mark Twain criticizing Theodore Roosevelt, editor, James E. Edmonds, reprints a 1907 editorial criticizing Twain’s refusal of Roosevelt’s invitation to Mississippi and Twain’s response defending his friendship.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
Efforts from Democrats, particularly southern Democrats, to make personal attacks upon President Roosevelt, are unwise and have largely failed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07
Mississippi Representative John Sharp Williams holds a ballot box to an Igorrote tribesman from the Philippines while an African American man faces a “Southern ballot” box that is locked shut. Caption: John Sharp Williams has a ballot box for the Igorrote, but none for the Mississippi Negro.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-24
In reply to Governor Noel’s telegram, President Roosevelt says that the War Department and Red Cross are ready to give “substantial assistance,” but they need more detail about the extent of the disaster.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-27
President Roosevelt would like two exact duplicates of his gun made. However, the silver plate on the stock of one gun should be engraved with the initials “C. M.” and the stock of the other gun should read “H. M.” The two duplicate guns and “one ordinary gun of the same model” should be sent to Clive Metcalf in Mississippi. A handwritten order is included with the letter.
Buffalo Bill Center of the West
1907-10-24
Newspaper article calling for unity among Mississippi Republicans and support for President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-10
Postmaster Michael J. Mulvihill writes Edgar S. Wilson hoping to prevent T. G. Dabney’s appointment to the Mississippi River Commission. Dabney was Chief Engineer of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-03
A four panel cartoon showing National Guardsmen marching into Camp Ordway in Washington, D.C.; President Roosevelt assisting Foreign Affairs Minister Komura and Secretary of State Witte with the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, ending the Russo-Japanese War; Secretary of Agriculture Wilson celebrating the return of Hyde (possibly James Hazen Hyde); and a Mississippian and a Louisianan eying each other across the state line, while a mosquito above them says, “Here’s where I get my work in. Biz-z-z.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905