New Mexico

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Benjamin Ide Wheeler

President Roosevelt sent the things that Benjamin Ide Wheeler sent him on to The Outlook. He believes that Franklin K. Lane will eventually be confirmed to the Interstate Commerce Commission. Roosevelt adds that he agrees with Wheeler on the issue of statehood for New Mexico and Arizona. The only reason that he wants them to be admitted as one state is because he believes the alternative is admitting them separately in three or four years.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philip Battell Stewart

President Roosevelt is glad of what Philip Battell Stewart wrote him about Herbert J. Hagerman. Roosevelt believes that Hagerman is a “straight man” and they urgently needed someone like him in New Mexico.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Emerson Hough

President Roosevelt informs Emerson Hough that Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw strongly opposes his friend Pat F. Garrett’s reappointment as collector of customs in El Paso. On-the-ground reports show that Garret is inefficient, away from the office a lot of the time, has bad habits, and is in debt. Roosevelt has heard complaints about him from respectable citizens in Texas and New Mexico, and will call for an investigation on Garrett’s conduct to determine whether he should be reappointed.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Shaw

President Roosevelt tells Albert Shaw that his message has already been distributed to the press and contains the recommendation to admit Arizona and New Mexico as one state. He also asks who in Massachusetts is “grumpy” about his communications with Henry Melville Whitney about reciprocity.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Lambert

President Roosevelt will write to his son Theodore Roosevelt about the moose horns, but thinks he will take them without the scalps. Alexander Lambert must have had an interesting time in New Mexico, Roosevelt guesses, even though he did not shoot a grizzly bear. He thinks that the bird Lambert heard was either a rock wren or a canyon wren.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to R. A. Alger

President Roosevelt informs Senator Alger that after deliberately reviewing the matter, he has unquestionably concluded that Arizona and New Mexico should enter the Union as a single state.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. H. Llewellyn

President Roosevelt warns Major William H. H. Llewellyn, Attorney General of New Mexico Territory, that in Washington there’s a perception that he’s “lukewarm” in his prosecution of land fraud cases. Roosevelt asks why Benjamin H. Tallmadge was released.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Lambert

President Roosevelt enjoyed the poem and letter from Alexander Lambert, Roosevelt’s personal physician. He is glad Lambert is going to New Mexico and wishes he could go too. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt asks if he can do anything more about his rifle and his son Ted’s moose head.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Jacob Gould Schurman

President Roosevelt tells Jacob Gould Schurman, president of Cornell University, that he is inclined to keep Miguel Antonio Otero as Territorial Governor of New Mexico, but has heard good things about Herbert J. Hagerman.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

Theodore Roosevelt asks Ethan Allen Hitchcock to allow Frank Mead to use a financial clerk during his work in the southwest and to direct the Indian agents to report to Mead as general supervisor on the condition of the tribes. These reports will include the condition of the tribes and “their proposed industrial plans.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-23

Bursom endorsed with strong emphasis

A printing of the full proceedings of the Republican Territorial Central Committee meeting held at Albuquerque.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-06

Penitentiary report creates a row

A report on the financial affairs of the New Mexico territory penitentiary under Holm Olaf Bursum’s administration was promised. Instead of a carefully prepared statement to the reform paper, it was poorly promulgated through one newspaper and caused divide in the press and confusion among the people. To resolve the matter and provide “actual information and reliable conclusions,” the Advertiser reviewed the case and published their findings.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-08

Letter from George Roland Malby to William Loeb

George Roland Malby recounts for William Loeb his sixteen years of service in the New York Legislature, in the Assembly, and Senate. Malby hopes Loeb will pass on to President Roosevelt congratulations for taking a stand and acting in the interest of the people in recent bills relating to railroad rates, Arizona and New Mexico joint statehood, and agriculture. Malby offers his continued support to the president and sends wishes to the Roosevelts from his wife Lucy A. Malby.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-04

Manly and fair demand made

Holm Olaf Bursum responds to the report concerning the financial affairs of the New Mexico territory penitentiary under his administration, by citing a few instances which highlight the report’s “unfairness, incorrectness and unreliability.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Arthur Jones

President Roosevelt has been impressed with Frank Mead and would like him to be given some field work in Arizona or New Mexico in order to help preserve the manners and customs of the Native America tribes.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Simon Bibo

President Roosevelt thanks Simon Bibo for the jars that he received while in Laguna, New Mexico.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gustave Weiss

President Roosevelt thanks Gustave Weiss for the letter and appreciates the courtesy shown to him at Laguna, New Mexico.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. H. Llewellyn

President Roosevelt thanks Major Llewellyn for the news about the counties and is pleased that Ritchie’s conduct was correct.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-13

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dennis Thomas Flynn

Senator Beveridge and Senator Nelson have given President Roosevelt doubt on the advisability of admitting Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory as states. Roosevelt continues to support statehood for Oklahoma Territory.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Matthew Stanley Quay

President Roosevelt has been speaking with Senator Beveridge and Senator Nelson regarding the admission of Arizona Territory and New Mexico Territory as states. There is a strong case against admitting these territories and Roosevelt would like to discuss the matter with Senator Quay.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-04