Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Daniel J. Keefe
President Roosevelt congratulates Daniel J. Keefe on his “first class” public letter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-08
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joel Elias Spingarn
President Roosevelt looks forward to receiving the books from Joel Elias Spingarn. Although Roosevelt believes in the need for the participation of scholars in government, he can not write a letter for Spingarn in regards to his candidacy for Congress because it would then require him to write letters for many other candidates. Instead, he suggests that Spingarn have a friend meet with Roosevelt who would then be able to convey the idea of Roosevelt’s feeling about having scholars participate in government with the voters of Spingarn’s district.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge
President Roosevelt found Senator Lodge’s letter to Richard Olney to convey a true mastery of language. Enclosed are letters that will allow for a full understanding of the scandal concerning Laura A. Hull Morris, and Roosevelt will also have information for Lodge about the Brownsville incident. Roosevelt has just given William Sturgis Bigelow the first of the five dollar gold pieces.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lawrence F. Abbott
President Roosevelt encourages Lawrence F. Abbott to say that he spoke after having looked at the same documents that Roosevelt had access to regarding the Portsmouth Treaty. Roosevelt feels it is ridiculous for The Springfield Daily Republican to call for a formal denial of the vague reports from Ambassadors Arthur Paul Nicholas Cassini and Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen. The unofficial statements would under no circumstances require President Roosevelt’s involvement, and he has made himself clear in his own letters.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott
President Roosevelt did not feel it was necessary to respond to William Jennings Bryan’s letter, and instead he has written the enclosed statement regarding Edward Henry Harriman and Paul Morton. He will not fight dishonest publications like the Sun and the Evening Post, and the enclosure will clear up any questions about contributions from Harriman.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-09-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott
President Roosevelt sends an editorial letter on Christian education in China to Lyman Abbott of The Outlook, permitting him to make any necessary edits.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-09-07
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry C. Loudenslager
President Roosevelt informs Representative Loudenslager that his and Representative J. S. Sherman’s proposal is a repetition of what he has already written in the letter. Roosevelt believes that their objection revolves around his addressing two subjects in the letter that perhaps should not be combined, and therefore thinks he will split the letter into two different letters.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-09-04
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
President Roosevelt shares the same opinion as William H. Taft that governor Charles Evans Hughes should be renominated. Roosevelt feels that making a speech would do more harm than good. While William Jennings Bryan has a strong following for the “church vote,” Roosevelt believes Bryan’s approach is dangerous. He approves of Taft’s letter to John Wesley Hill and suggests that secretary of state Elihu Root review it before it is made public.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-08-18
Letter from George B. Cortelyou to Emilio L. Scharf
George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, rebukes professor Emilio L. Scharf for a recent circular letter and documents he has been sending out, as Scharf used the names of Cortelyou and President Roosevelt after being instructed not to. There is no time to change the documents that Scharf has sent out, but Cortelyou writes “so that there may be no possible misunderstanding of our attitude.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-04
Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to James Norris Gillett
President Roosevelt saw Senator Frank P. Flint, who has been very helpful, after receiving Governor Gillett’s message. On Flint’s advice, Roosevelt sent a telegram to Speaker Philip A. Stanton of the California State Assembly that Stanton may publish. Roosevelt asks Gillett to see Stanton. He approves of Gillet’s course of action, and will happily offer additional assistance if Gillett thinks he could be useful.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-02-06
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur von Briesen
President Roosevelt asks Arthur von Briesen to tell his son, Fritz, that he appreciates the letter he wrote in the New York Times. He would like Fritz to come see him if he is in the neighborhood.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John P. Curtiss
President Roosevelt thanks John P. Curtiss for the kind letter he wrote in the Times.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
By the time President Roosevelt had already sent his letter to the National Committee for publication when he heard that William H. Taft’s people did not want him to publish it, and it was too late to withdraw it. He hopes it still did some good with workingmen. Roosevelt thinks that Taft has done good work in New York, and believes he may win Missouri; the only state he is concerned about now is Ohio.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-29
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lucius B. Swift
President Roosevelt is glad that Lucius B. Swift referred two men to him, because he was able to secure “just treatment” for them. Roosevelt is glad to hear what Swift says about William H. Taft carrying Indiana, and he thinks that in New York, Taft will also do as well or better than Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign. He is also glad that Swift liked his open letter to Senator Philander C. Knox. He is amused that the New York Sun thinks he plagiarized it from Knox’s speech, when in fact Roosevelt wrote the labor part of Knox’s speech with the intention of including it in this letter. Roosevelt believed that it was time to attack the alliance between William Jennings Bryan and Samuel Gompers “straight from the shoulder.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Thompson
President Roosevelt tells George Thompson, owner of the St. Paul Dispatch, that he does not wish to write an open letter, as he has not seen anything that would warrant such an action from him. Roosevelt believes his public speeches on issues such as the tariff speak for themselves.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-07-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Rodman Paul Snelling
Regarding public offices, President Roosevelt defends his appointment to and removal of “colored men” and claims to have made this policy well known to the public through the publication of an open letter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-10-12
Letter from William Dinwiddie to Theodore Roosevelt
William Dinwiddie asks Theodore Roosevelt to look over an open letter by Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands, which speaks out against “the men who have caused the United States Government thousands of dollars of expense in investigating a mass of allegations, misstatements and deliberate falsehoods, as to the situation in the Philippines.” Dinwiddie provides his impressions of the letter and more broadly of the Philippines, concluding that the islands are sparsely populated with a great deal of land that is ripe for cultivation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-03-15
Letter from Abram B. Reading to Theodore Roosevelt
Abram B. Reading complains that Frank Harper’s letter, sent at Theodore Roosevelt’s direction, telling him that Roosevelt does not write personal letters for public quotation, implied that he had requested that Roosevelt write such a letter. Reading says that he did not expect a personal response to his letter about corporations, but rather expected Roosevelt to write an open letter to the public about the topic. He believes that the public has a right to know Roosevelt’s thoughts, and hopes that Roosevelt will ultimately agree with him about corporations.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-05
Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Lodge is glad President Roosevelt enjoyed his letter to Richard Olney. Lodge thinks Roosevelt could refute any bad publicity related to Laura A. Hull Morris that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker might cause. Lodge would like more information from Roosevelt about the state of things in the country.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-05
Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Lodge found President Roosevelt’s most recent letter to be one of the strongest pieces of political writing he has read yet. Lodge is sure Massachusetts will go for William H. Taft and cannot see why other areas would not be similar. He does, however, fear that New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes could potentially be defeated. Lodge encloses his forthcoming reply, to be published in the Boston Herald, to Richard Olney’s claims about electing William Jennings Bryan. Lodge thinks Roosevelt will appreciate the Dickens quote.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-09-29