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Thomas J. Keenan sends Theodore Roosevelt a photograph of the bas-relief of himself adorning Kennan’s office building and offers to make a duplicate impression.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-09-20
French Ambassador Jusserand has not wanted to add to Theodore Roosevelt’s voluminous mail, until now. He and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, plan to attend Roosevelt’s departure in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They bid Roosevelt farewell and wish him success and good health.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-14
Representative Burke sends an invitation from Father Patrick McDermott, the representative of established Catholic priests in Africa, and asks an acknowledgement be sent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-26
As President of the New York Peace Society, Andrew Carnegie informs President Roosevelt that a meeting may soon take place to attempt to sway Governor of California James Norris Gillett to stop certain anti-Japanese immigration bills in the California legislature. Carnegie believes, however, that it may be wise to wait for further developments before such a meeting takes place and asks for Roosevelt’s input.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-21
Robert P. Porter agrees with much of President Roosevelt’s letter on the Westinghouse situation in Pittsburgh. He especially thinks that they cannot let personal feeling “enter into the question.” However, he thinks that either Roosevelt or a member of his administration expressing the hope that the problem clears up soon would be beneficial.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-03
A memorandum outlines the current assets and debts of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh, and the plan of a Readjustment Committee to rescue the company from bankruptcy. The memorandum makes suggestions on how to make the Merchandise Creditors’ plan effective, including lifting receivership of the company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-28
Robert P. Porter encloses memoranda regarding the matter he brought to President Roosevelt’s attention yesterday. Roosevelt had said he would take the matter up with Secretary of State Elihu Root and Treasury Secretary George B. Cortelyou. Porter believes that action could bring economic prosperity back to a district that has been hit hard by recession.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-28
Senator Estournelles de Constant of France finds a letter from President Roosevelt to be “like the signal of a light-house above the fog” when compared to his communications with most European governments. He eagerly anticipates his meeting with Roosevelt in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, next spring. Estournelles de Constant notes the challenges of getting Germany and France to reconcile and predicts “brilliant failure” for the next conference of The Hague if arms limitation cannot be agreed upon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-18
Douglas Robinson regrets asking if there was a position available for William. R. Blair. Robinson generally avoids politics. He regrets he cannot accept Roosevelt’s offer to stop by Sagamore as their schedules conflict. Monroe and Stewart have returned from their trip to Merrifield’s ranch. They enjoyed playing cowboys and had a successful hunting trip. They are off to Harvard tomorrow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-24
Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent informs William Loeb that he found a lot of support for Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon and President Roosevelt among the union members with whom he spoke. Sargent also tells Loeb that while eating lunch with a few Democratic friends, they expressed the hope that President Roosevelt would be elected for a third term and that if the “Republicans have not the courage to nominate him, the Democrats will.” He thanks Loeb for sending the confidential letter and lets him know he is “in harmony” with the views of the writer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-19
Douglas Robinson, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law, writes to him about his old friend and former classmate, William Robinson Blair. When Judge Buffington is promoted to the United States Court of Appeals, Robinson thinks Blair would be a good candidate to fill his vacated position on the United States District Court. Robinson also mentions that many people have been telling him that it might be necessary for Roosevelt to run for reelection in 1908.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-12
Samuel Harden Church is pleased that President Roosevelt has decided to have his bust made by Auguste Rodin. Church tells William Loeb that arrangements will be made by the Carnegie Institute, and the statue will eventually be placed in the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Church is confident that the sculpture will have great historic and artistic value.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-09
Boies Penrose writes to set up a meeting between President Roosevelt, Arkansas Senator James K. Jones, and Pennsylvania oil magnate Theodore N. Barnsdall to discuss “serious complications in Indian Territory over gas and oil matters.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-02
Samuel Harden Church informs President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb that the sculptor Rodin has expressed interest in sculpting a bust or statue of the president that expresses his “tremendous energy and vitality.” Church recommends the Art Halls of the Carnegie Institute as a logical location for the statue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-02
Program for the dedication of the largest flag in the world, which will occur at noon on July 5, 1909, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-07-05
The Philadelphia Evening Item reports on the good economic conditions in various industries, companies, and places in the United States and its trading partners, which it says “give[s] the lie to the calamity howlers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-22
President Roosevelt rides on a train that is full of items: “grizzly cub,” “petrified pumpkin from Dakota,” “redwood log from California,” and a barrel “from Colorado Springs.” The box of “ostrich eggs” falls off as they head “to Pittsburgh 10 miles.”
Cartoonist Walter R. Bradford, at this point in his career, was almost exclusively a humor cartoonist; even his political cartoons like “Homeward Bound” were sillier than they were partisan. At the time he also drew gag cartoons for Life magazine, and a Sunday comic page ridiculing revolutionaries, Fitzboomski the Anarchist. Ironically, Bradford would evolve into a cartoonist for radical causes in radical journals like Appeal To Reason and the International Syndicate of Baltimore.
President Roosevelt would like George von Lengerke Meyer to speak at the Americus Club banquet in Pittsburgh. Roosevelt hopes that Meyer can come at once and get to know his work before he takes up his position as Postmaster General.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1907-02-27
Senator Penrose apologizes to William Loeb for not replying to his telegram concerning James K. Jones and Theodore N. Barnsdall interviewing President Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. Penrose has instructed Jones and Barnsdall “to make their interview as brief as possible.” There is a brief note in shorthand.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-08
Howard Eaton had to return to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to see his ailing mother. She passed away on February 9. They have had good winters in North Dakota but the range has become hardened. Commissioner Roosevelt has 350 to 400 cattle and sold half his horses. Sylvane M. Ferris and Arthur William Merrifield live at the old camp and intend to sell their stock this year. Joseph A. Ferris is still tending his store but will likely close soon. Eaton hopes to return to Idaho this fall for another hunting trip.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
1890-03-10