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Theodore Roosevelt compliments Chase S. Osborn on his Mother’s Day proclamation. Roosevelt congratulates the people of Michigan and the United States on what Osborn has done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-12
Theodore Roosevelt is unable to accept the invitation from Anna Jarvis of the Mother’s Day Association, though he deeply appreciates the “courtesy and kindness” of those who ask him to speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-10
Michael McMahon sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter and roses. Additionally he inquires about the previously sent for a battleship.
Anna Jarvis asks Theodore Roosevelt to send Mother’s Day greetings to be published. Jarvis informs Roosevelt that there will be celebrations country-wide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-11
Chase S. Osborn sends Theodore Roosevelt a booklet inscribed for him by a “colored” man. He wonders if Roosevelt saw the reference in his official Mother’s Day proclamation to Roosevelt’s race suicide article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-11
Frank Knox points out that Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination for the presidency will come “with a resistless sweep which no man can check.” He will avoid any public promotion himself for Roosevelt’s sake, however. He encloses Governor Osborn’s Mother’s Day proclamation, as it references Roosevelt’s recent Outlook editorial “Race Decadence.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-08
Anna Jarvis invites Theodore Roosevelt to give an address for the Mother’s Day gathering in Philadelphia. There are 45 governors who are honorary vice presidents of the Mother’s Day Movement. She encloses some proclamations which illustrate the ways that men like Roosevelt view Mother’s Day as having economic value to the church and state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
J. Morton Darrohn asks Theodore Roosevelt for his opinion on the song he wrote about Mother’s Day, so it becomes popular and “bring[s] joy and happiness to some poor mother.” If Roosevelt’s secretary receives the letter, Darrohn requests he give it to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
Herbert W. Elvidge would like Theodore Roosevelt to speak about mothers at the Allentown, Pennsylvania, YMCA’s Mother’s Day celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14
Alan Hudson asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to write a letter about the place and work of a mother, to be read at a Mother’s Day celebration.
In a handwritten note, she instructs her secretary to decline because Theodore Roosevelt is no longer in public life. The letter should be similar to the one written to Success.
A newspaper article announcing May 14, 1911 as Mother’s Day in Michigan. The article highlights a speech given by Governor Chase O. Osborn and his ideas on mothers and motherhood.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-08
Governor Chase S. Osborn sends a proclamation on Mother’s Day describing motherhood as “the sacred spring from which flows the stream of humanity.” Willing motherhood is a measure of a race’s vitality. Osborn requests the citizens of Michigan observe the holiday and read Theodore Roosevelt’s article “Race Decadence.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
5-14-1911