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T. Everett Harvey informs Theodore Roosevelt that Dr. Cook is sending him an advance copy of My Attainment of the Pole and hopes Roosevelt will read it and offer his opinion. The letter emphasizes that the book presents Dr. Cook’s side of the controversy and addresses criticisms with evidence.
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1911-09-12
Harvey, T. Everett
The Fifth Annual Meeting and Dinner of the American Alpine Club will be held in New York City on January 7, 1907. Commander R. E. Peary and Dr. Frederick A. Cook will be present and will tell some of their experiences.
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1906-12-29
Vaux, William S. (William Samson), 1872-1908
Theodore Roosevelt thoroughly thanks Representative Bates for his help with the Robert E. Peary matter.
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1911-03-07
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Representative Bates for supporting the bill to promote Robert E. Peary. He believes in the importance of recognizing men such as Peary.
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1911-01-25
Theodore Roosevelt is genuinely touched by Representative Chester A. Congdon’s letter and thinks he is right. However, as he shares with John Campbell Greenway, he does not see how he could have stayed out of the fight. If he had, his friends and supporters would have felt he abandoned the fight for decency. Roosevelt will do all he can to regulate the use of great wealth in business, eliminate privilege, and work for more equality of opportunity and better conditions for those not well off. However, he will not go into general assaults or accept visionary theories as panaceas, regardless of who promotes it.
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1910-12-19
President Roosevelt would like Herbert L. Bridgman to forward the enclosed letter to Captain Robert E. Peary.
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1908-11-07
President Roosevelt asks Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry why Robert E. Peary is not receiving full pay after Roosevelt directed him to be put on duty pay.
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1908-08-04
President Roosevelt thanks Harry De Windt for his book, Through Savage Europe. In a postscript, Roosevelt mentions having had lunch with Robert E. Peary and bidding him goodbye on his way to the North Pole.
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1908-07-24
President Roosevelt notifies Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus that Robert E. Peary has been directed by the Navy Department to report to the superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Roosevelt tells Straus to instruct the Superintendent to order Peary to make tidal observations in the Polar Sea, which it is believed will illuminate the Coast Survey theory that there is a land mass in the Arctic Ocean.
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1908-07-03
President Roosevelt writes to Henry Clay Frick to introduce Robert E. Peary, the arctic explorer. Roosevelt apologizes for taking advantage of Frick’s good nature, but Roosevelt feels that Peary’s work is important and, as one of his benefactors recently died, his next expedition does not have the funding that it needs.
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1908-02-22
President Roosevelt does not believe it would be possible to appoint Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary to a position Morris K. Jesup has inquired about.
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1906-11-27
Rudolph Forster acknowledges Morris K. Jesup’s letter, as well as a letter from Josephine Diebitsch Peary. On behalf of President Roosevelt Forster informs Jesup that Navy Admiral Mordecai T. Endicott’s position with the “Bureau” cannot be given to Admiral Robert E. Peary, Josephine’s husband.
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1906-10-03
President Roosevelt believes explorer Robert E. Peary “is doing good service” and will support him, especially in Peary’s absence.
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1906-09-15
President Roosevelt informs William Ziegler that he is interested in Walter Wellman’s work on an Arctic expedition, and endorses Wellman’s administrative abilities. Roosevelt notes he will help Wellman in any way, just as he helped Robert E. Peary’s arctic endeavors.
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1905-03-11
President Roosevelt heartily thanks Morris K. Jesup for working with Robert E. Peary.
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1905-01-31
President Roosevelt asks Dr. Gilman and the Carnegie Institute to support Robert E. Peary and back his next Polar expedition.
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1903-12-18
President Roosevelt believes in Captain Peary and wants to assist in the work of his polar exploration. Roosevelt will not accept an honorary presidency of any organization but would accept honorary membership in the National Geographic Society.
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1903-09-19
President Roosevelt believes that Robert Peary has done valuable work as an Arctic explorer and supports giving him a leave of absence.
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1903-08-28
Holmes E. Offley hopes Frank Harper can get him a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to aid him in his efforts to get Congress to recognize his service in the Navy and the Navy Department from 1861 to 1876. He has testimonials from other prominent men.
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1911-11-04
R. B. Taggart informs Theodore Roosevelt of the secession he attended at the Water Way Convention where he heard a lecture from Robert E. Peary and follows it with his opinions on the upcoming presidential election. Taggart feels that Roosevelt must run for the presidential nomination the people feel he is the better man for the job than the proposed candidates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-21