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President Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter for Gifford Pinchot’s attention. There is some discontent with Walter Hines Page in the South and Roosevelt does not think any harm will come of adding Chapman’s name.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-15
President Roosevelt invites Henry Cantwell Wallace to serve on the Country Life Commission, which he is establishing to study and report upon the present conditions for farmers and their families in rural areas with the goal of making farming life more attractive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-10
President Roosevelt invites Kenyon L. Butterfield to serve on the Country Life Commission. Roosevelt is establishing this commission to study and report upon the present conditions for farmers and their families in rural areas, with the goal of making farming life more attractive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-10
President Roosevelt invites L. H. Bailey to serve on the Country Life Commission, which he is establishing to study and report upon the present conditions for farmers and their families in rural areas, with the goal of making farming life more attractive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-10
Robert Erskine Ely thanks Frank Harper for his letter and says the announcement for Theodore Roosevelt’s address at Carnegie Hall has gone out as Harper Suggested. Dr. Albert Shaw will not return from Europe before Roosevelt’s address; Ely asks Harper to suggest someone else to be the chairman, who will also be expected to give an introduction for Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-04
Theodore Roosevelt hopes to see Robert J. Collier’s letters from Walter Page, Rudyard Kipling, and more. He is hoping he can accept Collier’s invitation, but is unsure. Roosevelt also provides literary feedback on Collier’s sonnet, believing “blue-coat or gray” to be better than “rebel or Yank.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to send letters of introduction to the ambassadors in England and Germany on Lafayette Young’s behalf. He does not know the ambassador to France but will still send a letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-15
President Roosevelt feels that the success of the country lies in supporting farmers and improving their social conditions where needed. In light of this, he invites William A. Beard to serve on the Commission of Country Life, which will report on the living conditions on the farm and suggest the means of improving rural life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-11
President Roosevelt instructs Gifford Pinchot to refer to Walter Hines Page as “Walter H. Page of North Carolina” rather than as editor of World’s Work, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-12
President Roosevelt feels that the success of the country lies in supporting farmers and improving their social conditions where needed. In light of this, he invites Charles Simon Barrett to serve on the Commission of Country Life, which will report on the living conditions on the farm and suggest the means of improving rural life.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-11
President Roosevelt instructs Henry Cantwell Wallace to hold meetings in rural areas with farmers and other people who live there and do work related to farming. The aim is to ascertain the general conditions of “the open country,” and to figure out how best to represent the people living there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
President Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Gifford Pinchot and members of the Country Life Commission meet with farmers from across the United States to discuss matters associated with rural living. It is imperative, says Roosevelt, that “the men who actually live on the soil should feel a sense of ownership in the Commission.” Roosevelt suggests a list of topics for these meetings to help the Commission ascertain the conditions of the open country.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
President Roosevelt instructs Kenyon L. Butterfield to hold meetings in rural areas with farmers and other people who live there and do work related to farming. The aim is to ascertain the general conditions of “the open country” and to figure out how best to represent the people living there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
President Roosevelt thanks L. H. Bailey for his work on the Commission of Country Life. He believes farmers and members of the rural community should feel that they are part of the commission. Therefore, Roosevelt suggests Bailey arrange community meetings to discuss such topics as roads, postal facilities, and rural schools. Bailey is to find out what rural conditions are, what farmers can do themselves, and how the government can provide aid.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
John Graham Brooks thanks President Roosevelt for his letter on Alfred Holt Stone. He had already gotten letters about Stone’s Studies in the American Race Problem from Edwin Anderson Alderman, Walter Hines Page, and William Garrott Brown. Brooks also received another edition of Socialism & Individualism. He told Lawrence F. Abbott that it is the most powerful work he has seen in thirty years of reading socialist literature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-16
Robert J. Collier suggests an edited list of people to invite to a breakfast in honor of President Roosevelt before he leaves on his safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-04
Benjamin Franklin Mebane offers campaign suggestions and encourages President Roosevelt to get his message before the people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03