New York (State)--Plattsburgh

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William T. Hornaday for what he wrote about the “idiotic red tape business” of regular officers turning away young people under circumstances of humiliation. Jack Coolidge was one of the people unjustly turned away from camp.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A schedule of instruction for the 1st and 2nd provisional training regiments at the military camp at Plattsburg, New York. It lists activities and times for July 2-7, 1917. It was enclosed in a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to his son Kermit Roosevelt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-06

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt writes that he cannot wait until Kermit, Belle, and their new baby arrive in New York. He tells Kermit that Archie, Ted, and Quentin plan to go to the Plattsburg military training camp again this summer and he thinks Kermit should go too. Roosevelt fears that it will be difficult for Kermit to get a commission because he did not go last year. Roosevelt closes by describing his trip to the West Indies.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1916-02-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about a speech he gave entitled “Americanism” and rails against President Wilson and his foreign policy toward the World War and Mexico, unfavorably comparing Wilson to Thomas Jefferson. Roosevelt talks of how well Ted has done in business this year and discusses the army training camp at Plattsburgh, New York.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-10-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt declines A. D. Boomhower’s invitation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Horace G. Knowles liked his Plattsburgh speech. Roosevelt and Knowles also discuss Elihu Root’s presidential chances and refers to Root’s position at the 1912 Republican National Convention in Chicago. Roosevelt references the schooling of Knowles’ son Lewis Wallace Knowles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-12-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks W. B. Rogers for his generous offer. Roosevelt went hunting with Alexander Lambert, where he killed the number of moose allotted by law. Then was forced to kill another moose, with the permission of the Secretary of Mines and Fisheries.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Benjamin F. Harris that while he is glad he spoke at Plattsburgh, New York, and at the Panama-California Exposition, he does not believe further speeches on preparedness will be useful this winter. If he were to accept any invitation to speak at a college, however, it would be the one offered by President Edmund J. James of The University of Illinois. Roosevelt hopes that Harris will visit him if he is ever in New York and says that he enjoyed the speech Harris sent him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could have been at Plattsburgh with publisher Charles Scribner and expresses regrets that The Life Histories of African Game has failed to sell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

The Wilson administration has behaved “infamously,” and Theodore Roosevelt considers President Wilson to be a timid man who will “avoid war at all hazards.” Wilson is favoring Germany and attempting to keep the German American and pacifist vote. Roosevelt breaks down American opinion into four sections; German Americans, professional pacifists, the majority who are not interested in international affairs, and a small percentage that think like him. Three of Roosevelt’s sons have finished training at the Plattsburgh camp, and they all did well. He has his volunteer division sketched out and guarantees it will do its duty. Roosevelt is distressed at Russia being “terribly smashed,” and he hopes the allies can stay together as they can win the war together.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt visited the Plattsburgh camp and there was a great “jamboree.” The Wilson administration “took ferocious umbrage” at Roosevelt’s speech but he is glad he spoke out. Ted Roosevelt did well at the camp and was named a First Lieutenant. Ethel Roosevelt Derby was distressed that Richard Derby had not been made a Corporal, but there is often only one promotion and twenty suitable candidates. Roosevelt paid close attention to Captains Van Horn and Collins. He was impressed and asked them to visit Oyster Bay, New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt requests that George W. Perkins be cautious and not suggest that the Republican Party nominate Roosevelt for president. Roosevelt suggests that he would only receive Republican support in the event that Republican leaders know they will lose. Under these circumstances they would nominate Roosevelt in order to have him defeated and end his legitimacy, as well as the legitimacy of progressivism. Roosevelt appreciates Perkins’s support but his nomination would be useless and damaging. The public is against him personally and politically. Roosevelt will continue to write and speak on international and general affairs but intends to be less involved in public affairs. He will not run again for public office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt hopes General Wood will accept D. T. Abercrombie into the Plattsburg Camp, a private military preparedness camp to prepare upper-class college graduates for service as officers. Roosevelt assures Wood that although Abercrombie is 49 he is more able than many younger men.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt doubts that Henry S. Drinker received an accurate account of Roosevelt’s speech at the Plattsburgh camp. Roosevelt advocated for military readiness but did not attack the Wilson administration. He accuses Drinker of making statements in favor of readiness but being unwilling to support action. President Wilson has been following a “policy of supine inaction.” In his speech, Roosevelt was careful to place the responsibility of military readiness on the people, although he believes the responsibility should rest with Wilson.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that Frances Parsons liked the speech he gave in Plattsburgh. He tells Parsons that he put his “whole heart into it” and “evidently drew blood from the Administration.” Roosevelt believes Secretary of War Lindley Garrison did him a “real service” by enabling him to get the attention of the country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt will heartily back Amos Knapp, Roosevelt’s personal messenger when governor, if Joe Murray is not to have the place. Roosevelt’s speech at Plattsburgh, New York, “drew blood” from the Administration. He wishes the Republicans would see that they do not gain anything by “kow-towing” to Wilson.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes to James Stuart Blackton that his film, The Battle Cry of Peace, was well-received in Plattsburgh and by General Leonard Wood. Wood and Roosevelt both would like Blackton to attend an upcoming business men’s camp.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt was amused by the clipping that Mrs. S. A. Tucker sent. Roosevelt thinks it is nice that there are so many Roosevelts and Derbys at the Plattsburgh training camp.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt is not sure that the present administration can be kicked into war, but it is possible that the Germans will declare war anyway.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919