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Olive Child Mitchel Johnstone thanks Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for their kind letter of sympathy. Johnstone relates that her husband, John Purroy Mitchel, is doing well and she is encouraged by his condition.
John Purroy Mitchel was hospitalized on December 6, 1911.
Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister for an invitation to her home, but declines. He writes of pressure to publicly support John Purroy Mitchel’s mayoral campaign, but insists that his support would do more harm than good.
1917-10-05
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to say he wrote General Peyton March to get orders for Kermit. He reports that Quentin Roosevelt shot down a German plane and Eleanor wants Belle to join her in Paris. He recounts a visit from his friends Chapman and Cherrie and a story about Cherrie’s sons enlisting. Roosevelt says he and Mother ride horses and row and he was a pallbearer at former New York Mayor John Mitchell’s funeral.
1918-07-13
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Charlotte Matson that he gave his Nobel Prize money to a committee for a foundation to promote the cause of peace. Seth Low can provide a full account of how the money is being used.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes a letter to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid, introducing John Purrey Mitchel, President of the Board of Aldermen of New York City and a member of the firm of Mitchel & Mullan. He asks that Mitchel be shown any courtesies possible during his business trip abroad.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-05
Theodore Roosevelt wrote John Purroy Mitchel and sends Ernest Harvier a letter of introduction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-13
Theodore Roosevelt thinks highly of John Purroy Mitchel and would write to him with the “greatest pleasure.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-06
Theodore Roosevelt thinks Josiah Turner Newcomb would be an excellent fit for the Magistrate’s office, and will recommend him, but warns him that Mayor John Purroy Mitchel has not heeded Roosevelt’s advice in the past.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-14
Ernest Harvier reports to Theodore Roosevelt that he told John Purroy Mitchel that he believed a public official without organized political support could not hope to accomplish anything in New York City politics. He believes that the subway situation shows this belief to be correct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
While Theodore Roosevelt was out of the country, John Purroy Mitchel, an anti-Tammany candidate, was elected President of the Board of Aldermen in New York City by a 75,000 majority. A similar margin of victory in the upcoming election will keep Tammany candidates in a minority and make it possible for Republicans to control the State Assembly. The current “Senatorial situation” is contributing to this political climate. New York City’s growing population makes it key to controlling the entire state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-09
Ernest Harvier thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his kindness regarding John Purroy Mitchel. Although possibly unbecoming of a Democrat to say, Harvier hopes the Republicans will choose a candidate from upstate New York for Chairman of the State Committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-18
Ernest Harvier believes John Purroy Mitchel, although lacking in experience, has “a future big with opportunity.” Harvier asks Theodore Roosevelt to tell Mitchel he is always willing to offer his services.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-11
Ernest Harvier asks Theodore Roosevelt to send a note saying Harvier is familiar with New York City politics to John Purroy Mitchel, who was elected President of the New York City Board of Aldermen on a fusion ticket with Republicans and anti-Tammany Democrats.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-04
Hamilton Fish recounts a confrontation between former President Theodore Roosevelt and labor leader Samuel Gompers at a July 6, 1917 reception for a delegation from the new Russian government of Aleksandr Kerensky. Fish personally witnessed the confrontation, and claims that it resulted from Gompers’s denunciation of African American strikebreakers in East St. Louis, Illinois. Roosevelt criticized Gompers for his message and the “meeting became a riot,” and Roosevelt had to be escorted to safety.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1975
Miscellaneous photographs of Theodore Roosevelt in the United States and abroad, including several posed shots of Roosevelt and his family at Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt and King George V, Roosevelt in hunting attire, posed beside a tent out West, and on a platform with Charles Evans Hughes and New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in front of what appears to be the New York Public Library.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1925
Theodore Roosevelt points to several excerpts from the book Out of Their Own Mouths that he says illustrate Germany’s aggressive attitude toward the United States during and prior to World War I, providing justification for the U.S. to enter the war. While there are rumors of peace in Europe, Roosevelt says the only true peace will come with the overthrow of the German government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-10-05
Grace Stackpole Lockwood Roosevelt visited, and Flora Whitney came to see her. Flora wrote a nice note in response to the book she received from Theodore Roosevelt and is “just as good as she’s pretty.” Roosevelt’s trip through the northwest ended in fine style with large, enthusiastic crowds. He is opposing Germany in the war as they are an “abhorrent foe.” However, he also believes that Great Britain preferred an American policy of feebleness rather then strength. Roosevelt wants the United States to “prepare her own strength.” He has also been speaking in New York about the war and campaigning for Mayor Mitchel.
1917-10-08