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The American consul in Odessa, Alfred W. Smith, and Ambassador of the Russian Empire to the United States Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen, have been informed that President Roosevelt gladly accepts the honorary membership in the Crimea-Caucasian Mountaineering Club that he has been offered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-12
President Roosevelt thanks Charles H. Sholes, President of the Mazamas, for the honorary membership.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-14
President Roosevelt explains the reason no response was sent to the Mazamas club’s previous letters. Because of the absence of William Loeb, his usual secretary, the letter of the Mazamas club was answered by form letter, and Roosevelt was unaware of it. Additionally, Roosevelt cannot accept the offer for someone to propose his name for honorary membership, but only considers the matter when honorary membership itself is offered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-22
Bulletin of the Mountaineers society. Contains an itinerary of the 1913 outing to the Olympic Mountains and the summiting of Mount Olympus, a report on a gift of Alpine seeds that has been gifted to the society, and notices of upcoming meetings and walks sponsored by the society.
1913-09
Corresponding Secretary W. G. Steel extends to President Theodore Roosevelt an offer of honorary membership in the Mazamas, a mountain climbing club. The induction would recognize Roosevelt’s lifelong interest in natural conservation and his role in creating Crater Lake National Park. Steel describes the club’s history and the parameters of honorary membership and requests permission to submit Roosevelt’s name for election at the next annual meeting.
1905-08-17
Benjamin F. Barnes informs W. G. Steel that President Roosevelt declines the offer of honorary membership in the Mazamas. Roosevelt appreciates the courtesy but has made it a personal rule not to accept membership in organizations in which he cannot take an active role due to his public duties.
1905-08-24
William Loeb notifies Henry G. Bryant that President Roosevelt gladly accepts honorary membership in the American Alpine Club.
1906-02-28
Corresponding Secretary W. G. Steel asks President Theodore Roosevelt why he refused honorary membership in the Mazamas, a mountain climbing club but accepted it from the American Alpine Club. Steel references an enclosed piece of correspondence.
1906-04-09
Corresponding Secretary W. G. Steel has not received acknowledgment of his letter from April 9th and sends it again. The offer of honorary membership to the Mazamas has not been met cordially, and lack of acknowledgment to this letter will lead to the assumption that President Roosevelt desires to “to snub” the club.
1906-05-14
Theodore Roosevelt explains to President Charles H. Sholes how he came to accept honorary membership to the American Alpine Club but not to the Mazamas. Roosevelt asks that the matter is not given any publicity.
1906-05-22
Charles H. Sholes, Edmund P. Sheldon, and M. W. Gorman, all members of the Mazamas in Portland, write to F. C. Little, Recording Secretary of Mazamas, submitting Theodore Roosevelt’s name as an honorary member of the Mazamas, to be voted on at the October meeting.
1906-08-27
W. G. Steel submits his resignation as a member of the Mazamas.
1906-08-30