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Selina Maud Pauncefote, daughter of British Ambassador to the United States Julian Pauncefote, left her calling card with a photo of her father, writing “With warm regards & lasting gratitude.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-06
Andrew Carnegie gives President Roosevelt his opinion of the roles of the Senate and the President in the treaty ratification and amendment process. Carnegie expresses his hope that the two sides can work together to finalize the arbitration treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-09
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about recent happenings in Washington. There has been a fight in Congress over free silver which Roosevelt has been following closely. He met Julian Pauncefote.
1891-02-08
George B. Cortelyou returns to Secretary of State Hay the papers regarding the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and Lord Pauncefote’s memorandum.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-07
President Roosevelt thanks Selina Maud Pauncefote for the picture of her father, former British Ambassador Julian Pauncefote. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed visiting her and assure her of their friendship.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-03
President Roosevelt thanks Selina Cubitt Pauncefote for her telegram of congratulations. Roosevelt mentions how often he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt think of Pauncefote and her late husband, Julian Pauncefote, who had served as British Ambassador to the United States. The president believes the Pauncefote family has achieved much in their public and private lives—more than any other family of diplomats.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-03
President Roosevelt appreciated Maud Pauncefote’s kind letter and is glad that he could contribute to having the proper honors paid to her late father, Lord Pauncefote. Lord Pauncefote was the British Ambassador to the United States at the time of his death.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-29
President Roosevelt thanks Lady Pauncefote for the books and is sad that she is leaving. Lady Pauncefote was the wife of Baron Pauncefote, the British Ambassador to the United States who died May 24, 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-20
President Roosevelt asks Colonel Kitson to thank Lord Pauncefote for the clippings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-21
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt chides Cecil Spring Rice for not replying to his or Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s letters and suggests possible reasons why. Roosevelt enjoys his new position, although he will not see much of his family. He is proud of what he accomplished as police commissioner but reached a point where he could not do anything else.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-04-28
Herman H. Kohlsaat asks Theodore Roosevelt to address the Commercial Club of Chicago during the winter. He states the subject will be industrial education, a key interest of the Club, and hopes Roosevelt will be available to speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
S. H. Likerman and fellow classmates at Central High School of St. Joseph have been debating the question “Resolved That Congress should fortify instead of neutralize the Panama Canal?” Likerman asks Theodore Roosevelt for information regarding his opinions on fortifying the canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-16
Ural A. Rowe asks Theodore Roosevelt to answer “yes” or “no” to the listed debate team question regarding fortifying the Panama Canal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Senator Lodge discusses a number of topics regarding the late Secretary of State John Hay. Lodge bemoans the editing of a publication of Hay’s letters, claiming that Hay was “one of the best if not the best letter writer of his time,” but the publication does not do him justice. He reminisces on the many men of letters he has known in his life, and believes that Hay was the most “brilliant, humorous, sympathetic, [and] witty” among them. Lodge holds more criticism for Hay in his role as a secretary of state, discussing how Hay bungled multiple treaties, took credit for accomplishments that were not his own, and formed poor relations with the Senate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-14
The “To-day” section of The Daily telegraph details several goings on in world news, with the largest section focused on the upcoming British diplomatic vacancy in Washington, D. C. Many prominent British politicians and noblemen are named as possibilities for the vacancy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-23
Lyle A. McGeoch examines the state of relations between the United States and Great Britain when Lord Lansdowne served as Britain’s foreign secretary from November 1900 to December 1905. He highlights the negotiations concerning the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the settlement of a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States, and a crisis stemming from Venezuela’s debt to Great Britain and Germany. McGeogh also looks at how Lansdowne struggled with the appointment of an ambassador to the United States, his difficulty at times in dealing with the personal style of diplomacy employed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and Lansdowne’s recognition of growing American power in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1979
This draft of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty between the United States and Great Britain describes the agreement regarding the construction of an isthmian canal in four articles. The first allows the United States to build a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, using various financial arrangements and having sole governance of the canal. The second notes that the Clayton-Bulwer Convention agreement of 1850 is superseded as the basis for neutrality by the principles of Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal, adopted in 1888 in Constantinople. The principles therein seek to keep the canal neutral and available to all nations for commercial use, and include the neutrality of the surrounding water and infrastructure used to maintain the canal. Article three, noted as having been stricken by the Senate, invites further nations to agree to the treaty as writ. Article four designates the official signers as the President and Secretary of State of the United States and the Queen of Great Britain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-02-05
This copy of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty between the United States and Great Britain describes the agreement regarding the construction of an isthmian canal in five articles. The first denotes that this treaty supersedes the Clayton-Bulwer agreement of 1850. The second allows the United States to build a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, using various financial arrangements and having sole governance of it. The third establishes that the Free Navigation of the Suez Maritime Canal rules, adopted in 1888 in Constantinople, will serve as the basis for neutrality. The principles therein seek to keep the canal neutral and available to all nations for commercial use, and include the neutrality of the surrounding water and infrastructure used to maintain the Canal. Article four states that this agreement remains valid regardless of the politics of the nations surrounding the canal zone. Finally, article five designates the official signers as the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and the King of Great Britain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-04
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt hadn’t seen the poem before, but it is a “bully” one. He is concerned about fireworks in Washington, D.C. Roosevelt details the guests that will attend Quentin Roosevelt’s upcoming christening and promises to send a photograph of Ethel Roosevelt. He wishes Robert Harry Munro Ferguson could take part in their “Sunday scrambles.”
1897-12-22
Documents and timeline of negotiations between the United States and Newfoundland for a treaty of reciprocity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-13