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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Representative Bingham he will visit Philadelphia the following week. Roosevelt asks Bingham for a formal list of matters to investigate while he is there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-21
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Biddle Porter for his kindness, but he again reiterates that he cannot be in Philadelphia on the date requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-08
Gifford Pinchot would like Josephine M. Stricker to change her record of his address to the Real Estate Trust Building in Philadelphia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-08
Gifford Pinchot was away and then involved in an important legal matter. Regarding the farmers, Congress and executives should not be the only ones in control. Rather, farmers’ organizations should be supported and their input welcomed by the government. Pinchot also leaves notes with page numbers next to topics relating to labor and business; with more time he could have done more. Pinchot thinks a first draft is “not a fair subject of criticism” but does not feel the letter measures up to Roosevelt’s usual level of writing. Pinchot concludes by remarking that he enjoyed Roosevelt’s article on the League of Nations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-15
Gifford Pinchot tells Theodore Roosevelt about a public meeting for African Americans that will be held in Philadelphia. The subject is to be Abraham Lincoln.
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1913-06-21
Gifford Pinchot was sorry not to see Theodore Roosevelt again in Pittsburgh. Pinchot had to give a talk at the Game Protective Association. Meeting men outside the factories as they enter, quit, or go to lunch seems to be working well.
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1914-07-07
Edwin Augustus Van Valkenburg encloses a letter from Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Jr., and tells Joseph M. Dixon that Progressive Party supporters are expanding rapidly in the Philadelphia area.
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1912-09-01
Ida M. Tarbell encloses a letter from her brother, William Walter Tarbell. She believes that her brother would like Theodore Roosevelt’s help with his “pet club.”
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1912-01-25
Nathan T. Folwell writes Theodore Roosevelt as the President of the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia to express frustration in Taft’s tariff policies and how they negatively affect textile manufacturing. Folwell would like all manufacturing interests of the country to come together to elect Roosevelt as the next President.
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1911-12-13
Charles Sheldon thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending the copy of Roosevelt’s article remarking on Albert Russel Wallace’s recognition marks. Sheldon thinks Roosevelt will. be interested to hear that no members of the American Ornithologists’ Union defended recognition marks in birds after a paper on the topic was read. Sheldon looks forward to having lunch with Roosevelt, Frank M. Chapman, and William Brewster.
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1911-11-30
Edwin A. Van Valkenburg was unaware that a young man in his office telegraphed Theodore Roosevelt about the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, election. He agrees with Roosevelt for declining to comment and apologizes for him having been in such a position. Van Valkenburg comments on the election that he “never saw a band of plunderers so unmercifully whipped.”
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1911-11-14
John Helmus appreciates Theodore Roosevelt for offering to sign a copy of his book African Trails and will be sending a copy to autograph for Albert Levering.
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1911-10-20
William Brown Maloney informs Theodore Roosevelt of the excerpts they are using from his letters to be presented in the play Graft and seeks his endorsement.
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1911-10-20
Michael McMahon sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter and roses. Additionally he inquires about the previously sent for a battleship.
Martin Grove Brambaugh requests Theodore Roosevelt’s presence in Philadelphia to help with education affairs in the city.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-08
Edward T. Devine invites Theodore Roosevelt to Philadelphia to visit a city planning exhibit he discussed earlier, and giving Roosevelt a chance to meet with William T. Johnson.
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1911-05-31
Hamilton Wright Mabie regrets that he and his wife cannot visit Oyster Bay at the invitation of the Roosevelts, as it would conflict with his upcoming trip to Philadelphia.
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1911-05-27
Lena W. Hazzard requests that Theodore Roosevelt assist in finding her a job after the death of her father. Though she fears she will not pass the examination, she has provided a list of personal references and expresses her interest in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-19
The Industry Lodge No. 131, Free and Accepted Masons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania resolves to authorize an anniversary celebration of the constitution of the Lodge and invite Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-08
Anna Jarvis invites Theodore Roosevelt to give an address for the Mother’s Day gathering in Philadelphia. There are 45 governors who are honorary vice presidents of the Mother’s Day Movement. She encloses some proclamations which illustrate the ways that men like Roosevelt view Mother’s Day as having economic value to the church and state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05