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Benjamin Davidson asks Theodore Roosevelt to send him a copy of the speech Roosevelt made at Grant’s Tomb last Decoration Day, which Davidson attended.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Benjamin Davidson that Theodore Roosevelt does not have a copy of the speech he gave at the General Grant National Memorial, but Davidson might be able to find a copy in either the New York Times or the Brooklyn Eagle newspapers from the day of the speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
The secretary of Theodore Roosevelt informs Olaf Gates that Roosevelt cannot receive Gates’ party at Oyster Bay because he will not be home. On Decoration Day, Roosevelt is scheduled to speak in Newark and at Grant’s Tomb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Sir Raymond Unwin’s invitation because Roosevelt is visiting Newark and Ulysses S. Grant’s Tomb for Declaration Day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary expresses Roosevelt’s regrets at being unable to prepare an address to be given at Grant’s Tomb but will offer an impromptu speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary requests a letter from Dr. Brush outlining the arrangements that have been made for Memorial Day. Roosevelt is scheduled to unveil a statue in Newark at one-thirty that day, and will afterwards attend the exercises at Grant’s Tomb starting at four o’clock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Elizabeth A. Monks that Roosevelt cannot answer her inquiry, as he does not yet know all the details about the arrangements made for him to visit Grant’s Tomb on Memorial Day. Roosevelt’s secretary is forwarding Monks’s letter to Dr. George W. Brush and suggests that she might want to communicate with him instead, as Brush knows all about the arrangements.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-24
After attending Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at General Grant’s tomb, Lewel R. Reid expounds to Roosevelt on his thoughts on the themes of the address—”Duty” and “Self-denial”—alongside American figures who have displayed these virtues. Reid invites Roosevelt to embark on a venture to bring moral reform to the United States, and requests a meeting to discuss the topic further.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-30
James J. Finnegan is very sorry that Theodore Roosevelt was not able to attend the Oyster Bay Baseball Club’s opening game on Memorial Day. He admits that the speech Roosevelt gave at General Grant’s tomb instead “will do the people at large much more good.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
William C. Gill commends Theodore Roosevelt for his Memorial Day address at General Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb. He remarks on the ways in which various figures in American history have striven for peace, though that “theories are nicely and happily worked out in Dreamland but how different in practice in near-Utopias.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
Bela Tokaji commends Theodore Roosevelt on his recent Memorial Day address at Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb, which he considers to be one of Roosevelt’s finest, sure to silence his detractors. Tokaji affirms the National Progressive Republican League of the State of New York’s commitment to Roosevelt, remarking that all its members are likewise members of the National Roosevelt League.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
Charles T. Thompson requests a copy of Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming Decoration Day address, to be given at Grant’s Tomb in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-29
George W. Brush discusses timing and travel arrangements with Frank Harper for Theodore Roosevelt’s engagements on Memorial Day in Newark, New Jersey, and New York City, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-28
Frederick Dent Grant thanks President Roosevelt for the wreath that he and the First Lady sent to Ulysses S. Grant’s tomb and for the tribute Roosevelt paid to his father. Grant also expresses his appreciation for Roosevelt’s thoughtfulness at the time of Julia Dent Grant’s death. Roosevelt’s actions have inspired in Grant a “most loyal and affectionate devotion.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-31
Albert W. Bryce memorializes former President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as the mausoleum in which he is buried.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-06
New York City postcard with photographs of President Roosevelt, the elevated subway, Grant’s Tomb, and City Hall. The reverse of the postcard contains a message in German to William Graff.
1908-03-20