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James Yereance encloses a program from the memorial service of John B. Devins and asks Theodore Roosevelt to send a tribute to Devins that can be read at the service and published in The Observer. Yereance mentions that their mutual friend Jacob A. Riis has sent in his own remarks and wishes Mrs. Edith Roosevelt well after a recent fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-05
Albion B. Turner encloses his article on corporation laws and worker conditions and asks for Theodore Roosevelt’s comments.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-19
It is revealed in the memo that a circular, based on one of President Roosevelt’s letters, has been sent to Diplomat Rockhill in China.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-26
A statement, possibly a memorandum meant for President Roosevelt, regarding the gubernatorial election in Missouri, which became embroiled in public relations issues involving Roosevelt, in part due to the publishing of an exchange of letters. Roosevelt is quoted explaining his attempts to remain distant, despite the fact that editors are hounding him and will print more with or without his involvement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-04
Three men struggle under tariff burdens–“on the salaried man,” “on labor,” and “on farmer”–as the “one cent newspaper publisher” refuses to pick up the “tariff on wood pulp.”
This unsigned cartoon by W. A. Rogers, who recently had switched affiliations from Harper’s Weekly magazine to the daily New York Herald, drew this cartoon during a period of intense debate about United States tariff rates and import duties. It might appear to depict a family quarrel about arcane tax and trade matters, but it was a very contentious issue at the time.
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary forwards a letter from Bronson M. Cutting of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Oscar K. Davis. He asks that Davis review Cutting’s comments about the Roosevelt Press Bureau. Davis should contact Cutting to publish works in New Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Viscount Bryce for his friendly response. Roosevelt encloses two articles he has written since the sinking of the Lusitania and congratulates Bryce on his work regarding German attacks. Roosevelt expresses his dismay toward the American “Pontius-Pilate-like attitude of neutrality.” He concludes that he does not have the patience to discuss pacifists such as Jane Addams.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to publisher S. S. McClure that no one was interested in publishing the letter from Count Albert Apponyi. They published the letter from Baron Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár. Many people give articles to Roosevelt, which he passes along to newspaper men who sometimes publish them. Roosevelt will pass on interesting articles to McClure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt requests that George W. Perkins arrange a meeting for William H. Muldoon with Frank Andrew Munsey and Henry L. Stoddard. Muldoon is a Progressive supporter and is interested in providing articles for Munsey and Stoddard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-03
President Roosevelt invites Colonel Higginson to lunch or dinner when he is next in town. He suggests that W. Cameron Forbes’s letter would be valuable if published and asks Higginson to look into making it public.
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1904-11-12
Edward P. Dechert praises Theodore Roosevelt’s defense of Judge Lindsey in the latest issue of The Outlook, and offers the work “Ben Lindsey – Hunter of the Beast” for him to publish if he sees fit. Dechert then explains the origin and motivation for the work, as well as his past misinterpretation of Roosevelt’s stance
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-01
Charles Dwight Willard apologizes to Theodore Roosevelt for using a pencil, but he is currently bedridden due to a recurrence of his tuberculosis. Roosevelt’s letter greatly cheered him. His purpose in writing is to give “a batch of local gossip–political, newspaper and personal.” He recounts an anecdote about Lyman Abbott correcting Roosevelt’s article and, regardless of its veracity, how it affected Harrison Gray Otis. Willard discusses the success of Edwin T. Earl’s newspaper and comments on Meyer Lissner’s political endeavors. He praises Roosevelt’s writing as the kind “that gets results in cleaning up error and helping public sentiment into right lives.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-10
Attendees of the Clerical Conference are resolved to disagree with the publishing of Theodore Roosevelt’s address last Tuesday. The conference-goers were under the impression that the event was private, and they agree that the use of the invitation to forward Roosevelt’s address to the press was dishonorable, especially because it was inaccurately described.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-22
Reverend C.S. Mason has written three stories and is looking for advice on where to send them to be published. He wonders if The Outlook might accept one or all of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-19
Joel Chandler Harris provides a biographical sketch of his life to Erastus Brainerd, giving details of his youth and how he came to write his stories featuring Uncle Remus.
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1885
Ambassador Reid writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about events in England following news of the death of Secretary of State John Hay, including the Fourth of July reception held by the embassy there. Reid shares information about the Kings of England and Spain and hopes that she will share the news with President Roosevelt. Reid also expresses some nervousness about speeches being printed verbatim in Europe, and remarks about the volume of speeches he is asked to give. He includes several songs that were sung at gatherings he attended.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-10
Joseph Pulitzer and a monkey, possibly meant to represent William R. Hearst, are pictured as cyclones producing trails of yellow journalism newspapers with outrageous headlines, calling for a declaration of war; while President McKinley calmly reads a paper that states “The People of the United States have full confidence in your Patriotism, Integrity, & Bravery. They know you will act justly and wisely: decent press.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-03-23
A female figure sits on a stone bench writing a list of names in a large book, including “McKinley, Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Hobson and his crew, Wainwright, Clark, Miles, Shafter, Wheeler, Roosevelt, [and] Wood.” Behind her, Puck has erected two monuments on a “Barren Island,” topped with statues of “Pulitzer” and “Hearst.” Each monument is papered with yellow sheets of paper that give credit for the success of the American forces in Spanish-American War to both Pulitzer and Hearst. Caption: He erects a monument to two celebrities that history has neglected.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-10-05
At center, a woman wearing a newspaper dress drinks “Subsidy Brand” champagne chilling in a bucket labeled “Wall Street Cooler,” while a man labeled “Corporate Interests” writes a check. A bust statue of “Horace Greeley” is visible in the background. The entire scene is framed by an octopus with tiny male figures caught in its tentacles. Surrounding vignettes show a newspaper editor as he looks to his staff (larger than life) and to the newspaper owners (diminutive), a “Business Manager” telling an “editorial writer” to tone down comments about a “forest spoliation matter [because] the boss has acquired some interests out there,” and a newspaper reader “who has read the paper for forty years” influenced by the resulting editorial – “I guess that western forest steal ain’t as bad as they made it out. This editorial says it’s been grossly exaggerated.”
People today are aware, and often concerned, that newspapers show bias. In fact since before the Revolution most newspapers were intended to assert partisan points of view. Readers expected and often welcomed the situation. It was only in the twentieth century that newspapers self-identified as neutral or independent or non-partisan, or “news only,” even if editorial pages leaned left or right, Democrat or Republican. That facade faded away, or morphed into outright partisanship.
Milton A. McRae believes that President Roosevelt will be reelected and thanks him for the letter of introduction to U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Powell Clayton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-06