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Having recently heard Theodore Roosevelt speak on the topic of “Clean Journalism,” Louise F. Bodmer feels that Roosevelt may be interested in reading an upcoming copy of the Christian Science Monitor in which an address on clean journalism will be published. She offers to send Roosevelt a copy if he will provide an address to which it can be sent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-28
Senator Lodge discusses a number of topics regarding the late Secretary of State John Hay. Lodge bemoans the editing of a publication of Hay’s letters, claiming that Hay was “one of the best if not the best letter writer of his time,” but the publication does not do him justice. He reminisces on the many men of letters he has known in his life, and believes that Hay was the most “brilliant, humorous, sympathetic, [and] witty” among them. Lodge holds more criticism for Hay in his role as a secretary of state, discussing how Hay bungled multiple treaties, took credit for accomplishments that were not his own, and formed poor relations with the Senate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-14
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw responds to a request from President Roosevelt to review a letter from Representative Ebenezer J. Hill. Shaw is skeptical of Representative Hill’s conclusions about denatured alcohol’s potential as fuel. Shaw discusses the proposed McCleary bill, which would adjust American tariffs on German goods, and the potential impact of tariff adjustments on the upcoming midterm election. He believes that Roosevelt could maintain the confidence of the American people by advocating a tariff that ensures American-made goods receive the same treatment as similar goods from any other country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-09
Henry Howard, Chairman of the Eastern Yacht Club Regatta Committee, reports that all matters in connection with the German-American races are progressing most satisfactorily, and that there is more general interest in the matter than in any yachting event which has ever taken place in New England. Howard sends a small book containing the rules and conditions of the match, and notes that every effort is being made to give the match an “international character.” Howard further presents the reasons he thinks might compel President Roosevelt to attend the event.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-27
George von Lengerke Meyer reports on the organization of the New England States Auxiliary Committee of the Republican National Committee. He discusses his plans to shut down the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company for two weeks to avoid reducing wages. Meyer also discusses what the Democrats are saying in Massachusetts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-28
Silas McBee accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch. McBee is interested in what Roosevelt has written about the South, and notes the “profoundly delicate and difficult problem of perfect reconciliation” between the South and New England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-16
A constituent in Essex County, Vermont, Z. M. Mausur, writes to Senator Redfield Proctor concerning the lack of a solid Republican Party newspaper in New England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-07
The printed version of a speech Robert M. La Follette gave at the All Southwestern Conference for Social Centers on February 2, 1911. He advocates for the development of civic and social centers as a way to increase civic participation, especially in rural communities, which he says will strengthen democracy and increase civic progress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-17
Drawing upon papers by Professor Kuno Meyer and John Sampson, Albert T. Sinclair asserts that the secret language of Irish stonemasons, the “bearla lagair,” and the Shelta language spoken by Irish tinkers, share a common root in Old Irish.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Richard Olney holds a watering can as he looks down at a withered flower in the “New England corner” labeled “Olney presidential boom.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-09
President Roosevelt sits at his desk and holds a book entitled “Big Game in Africa Shown to Be Extinct” in one hand and “Petition from [T]exas. Spare African Animals. Signed–School Children. Petition from New England. Have mercy on African animals. Signed–School Children” in his other. His rifle–“my pet”–is on his desk as well as “Nature Stories.” On the ground is an open book: “Political Game in America: Dead and Dying.” Kermit Roosevelt says to his father, “Dad, they’re mollycoddles.” President Roosevelt replies, “Oh! No! This needs investigation.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
President of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company Charles S. Mellen has met with President Roosevelt to expedite an investigation into his railroad’s merger with another New England Line. Mellen argues that such investigations are embarrassing to businesses, hinder railroad development, and ought to be completed as quickly as possible once begun. Roosevelt has agreed to finish this investigation, but any companies that violate the Sherman Act will still be prosecuted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
The Department of Justice will not prosecute the merger of two New England railroad lines due largely to the intervention of Charles S. Mellen, president of one of the lines in question. Mellen, whom the article calls a “close personal friend” of President Roosevelt’s, met with the president privately to assure him the merger does not violate the Sherman Act and to push for expediting the investigation in the interest of allowing business to continue as necessary. Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission Charles A. Prouty has already come out in favor of the merger as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-07
Secretary of War William H. Taft seemed to be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president, but his candidacy is losing support. Even thought President Roosevelt supports him, and he is personally popular with the public, he is a poor campaigner and is losing ground in several states to other politicians, including Roosevelt himself, whom some support for a second elected term.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-21
On December 10, 1919, Governor Calvin Coolidge hosts five New England governors in a conference on transportation and fuel conditions. At the State House in Boston the governors pledge support of coal regulation and continuing financial aid for New England’s railroads after their return to private control in peacetime. Attending the conference are Governors Coolidge, Massachusetts; Percival W. Clement, Vermont; Robert Livingston Beeckman, Rhode Island; John H. Bartlett, New Hampshire; Carl E. Milliken, Maine; and Marcus H. Holcomb, Connecticut. Views of governors on upper portico of the state house and posed in Governor Coolidge’s office.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919
President Roosevelt addresses representatives of the Methodist Church gathered in Carnegie Hall on the bicentennial of John Wesley’s birth. He opens by noting that it is in the United States that the Methodist Church has grown the most, starting from about the time of the Revolutionary War. The Methodist Church has also played “a peculiar and prominent part in the pioneer growth” of the country, particularly in westward expansion. Methodist preachers and ministers served as a moral guide for the frontiersmen and women to help them conquer both the “forces of spiritual evil” and the hostile terrain of the frontier. Roosevelt urges the church of the present day to show the same spirit of courage and determination as these earlier pioneers in order to advance humanity, kindliness, and brotherhood within the nation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-26
President Roosevelt addresses representatives of the Methodist Church gathered in Carnegie Hall on the bicentennial of John Wesley’s birth. He opens by noting that it is in the United States that the Methodist Church has grown the most, starting from about the time of the Revolutionary War. The Methodist Church has also played “a peculiar and prominent part in the pioneer growth” of the country, particularly in westward expansion. Methodist preachers and ministers served as a moral guide for the frontiersmen and women to help them conquer both the “forces of spiritual evil” and the hostile terrain of the frontier. Roosevelt urges the church of the present day to show the same spirit of courage and determination as these earlier pioneers in order to advance humanity, kindliness, and brotherhood within the nation. This is a press copy of his speech with edits marked in pencil.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-26
President Roosevelt addresses representatives of the Methodist Church gathered in Carnegie Hall on the bicentennial of John Wesley’s birth. He opens by noting that it is in the United States that the Methodist Church has grown the most, starting from about the time of the Revolutionary War. The Methodist Church has also played “a peculiar and prominent part in the pioneer growth” of the country, particularly in westward expansion. Methodist preachers and ministers served as a moral guide for the frontiersmen and women to help them conquer both the “forces of spiritual evil” and the hostile terrain of the frontier. Roosevelt urges the church of the present day to show the same spirit of courage and determination as these earlier pioneers in order to advance humanity, kindliness, and brotherhood within the nation. This is a press copy of his speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-26
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou writes to President Roosevelt to introduce Charles F. Brooker, a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican Committee of New England. Brooker wishes to talk to Roosevelt about several campaign matters and Cortelyou encourages Roosevelt to make an appointment with him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-30
Though the Post Office Appropriations Bill reduces the number of division superintendents of Rural Free Delivery, Senator Platt strongly recommends that William C. R. Hazard must be kept in his position as division superintendent of Rural Free Delivery for New York and New England. Hazard has been very useful to the State Committee and with the campaign this year, his assistance is “vitally necessary.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903