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Letter from William Loeb to Julia Wyatt Bullard

Letter from William Loeb to Julia Wyatt Bullard

Secretary to the President Loeb encloses the requested signed quotations from President Roosevelt. The quotations are on Roosevelt’s opinion of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and national memory of the Civil War more broadly, praise of white backwoodsmen’s use of guns and axes in North American western expansion and imperialism, ideal gender roles for men and women, and the need for national commitment to “the life of strenuous endeavor.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-09

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Robert Gooding

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Robert Gooding

President Roosevelt congratulates Idaho Governor Gooding on his reelection. Roosevelt asked Secretary of War William H. Taft to visit Idaho because he believes Gooding is “a champion of that spirit of American liberty.” He does not regard Gooding’s victory more highly than that of Charles Evans Hughes in New York but rather applauds them both for helping to work against tyranny.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John W. Frazier

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John W. Frazier

President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot be present at the reunion of veterans of the American Civil War at Gettysburg on September 15, 1906. He asks John W. Frazier to extend his goodwill to all those present, and comments on the uniqueness of the Civil War, “where the men who fought against one another are now knit together by the closest ties of brotherly love.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry S. Burrage

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry S. Burrage

President Roosevelt wishes that it were possible for him to be in attendance at the celebration of the memorial to William Conway, but as it is not he sends his appreciation of the occasion through Henry S. Burrage. Roosevelt remarks that Conway (a sailor serving in Florida who refused to lower the American flag on the occasion of that state’s succession in the Civil War), “stands as typical of the best men among those admirable enlisted men of the army and navy to whom this country can never pay too great homage.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Horace Lorimer

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Horace Lorimer

After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nathan Bijur

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nathan Bijur

President Roosevelt informs Nathan Bijur that Julius M. Mayer will be calling upon him with a suggestion; Roosevelt thinks it is Bijur’s patriotic duty to accept. Roosevelt also asks Nijur to discuss sending the statement on the passport question to the State Department with Mayer and George B. Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar

President Roosevelt sends his regrets to General Blackmar that he will be unable to attend the annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Boston, Massachusetts. Roosevelt has the greatest respect for those who fought for “the very life of the Nation” and agrees with former president William McKinley that their “patriotic spirit still animates the Republic.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from William T. Hornaday to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William T. Hornaday to Theodore Roosevelt

Writing shortly after the 1916 Republican National Convention, William T. Hornaday expresses his dismay and disgust at the current state of the Republican Party which he feels is led by “pacifists, slackers and hyphenates, who are neither patriotic nor intelligent.” Hornaday believes that the nation as a whole has become “soft” and “rotten” and deserving of a “good licking.” He praises Theodore Roosevelt’s leadership ability and wishes that the Republican Party had nominated him for another term.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-06-12

Creator(s)

Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937

Letter from Ella T. H. Haines to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Ella T. H. Haines to Theodore Roosevelt

Ella T. H. Haines writes Theodore Roosevelt about a patriotic-inspired painting of hers on display in an exhibition on Market Street in San Francisco. She hopes he will write something describing it. She says she had a “spiritual inspiration” to create this painting and she also “knew two years before” that William McKinley would be assassinated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-18

Creator(s)

Haines, Ella T. H. (Ella T. Hill), 1851-1928