Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to C.M. Rishel
Theodore Roosevelt sends Brigadier General Rishel a telegram to regretfully refuse Rishel’s invitation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08
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Pennsylvania--Wilkes-Barre
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the Wilkes-Barre Foreign Service Veterans
Theodore Roosevelt thanks the Foreign Service Veterans of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania for the invitation to speak. Roosevelt has forwarded it to the Progressive Party managers, who handle his scheduling.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-23
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to J. J. Curran
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Father Curran that Roosevelt will arrive in Wilkes-Barre accompanied by a stenographer. The secretary asks Curran to find a hotel for the stenographer.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-20
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Augustin McNally
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Augustin McNally’s letter to The Sun. Roosevelt proposes they meet on the train while he is traveling from Jersey City to Wilkes-Barre for Father Curran’s jubilee celebration.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin A. Van Valkenburg
Theodore Roosevelt regrets to decline Edwin A. Van Valkenburg’s invitation to speak, as he cannot undertake anything other than “the Wilkes-Barre business,” presumably referring to Father Curran’s jubilee celebration there. Roosevelt praises Van Valkenburg’s editorials on Woodrow Wilson and Hiram Johnson.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-16
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Augustin McNally
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Augustin McNally’s letter to The Sun. Roosevelt proposes they meet on the train while he is traveling from Jersey City to Wilkes-Barre for Father Curran’s jubilee celebration.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-16
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to J. Andrew Boyd
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary will send J. Andrew Boyd a copy of the speech Roosevelt will deliver in Wilkes-Barre for Father Curran’s jubilee if Roosevelt has time to prepare it ahead of time.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-14
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to J. J. Curran
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks Father Curran to make his plans on the understanding that Roosevelt will leave Jersey City and arrive at Wilkes-Barre on August 21. The secretary has made reservations for Roosevelt to leave Wilkes-Barre for New York on August 23. Roosevelt will pay for the travel arrangements himself and is pleased to come for the celebration.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. J. Curran
Theodore Roosevelt instructs Father Curran to make travel arrangements on the train from Jersey City to Wilkes-Barre and from Wilkes-Barre to New York for an unnamed man. Roosevelt calls the National Progressive Convention a “miracle” that filled everyone with enthusiasm.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-10
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to Charles H. Thompson
Theodore Roosevelt has made arrangements to speak in Massachusetts and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Roosevelt wishes Charles H. Thompson to arrange for him to speak in Rhode Island the day before or the day after Roosevelt speaks in Massachusetts.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-08-02
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to William Flinn
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter from J. R. McCormick referencing Mr. Towne, the editor and proprietor of a Scranton, Pennsylvania, newspaper, who is now using the Tribune Republic in support of Roosevelt. The secretary asks William Flinn if he will return the letter after reading it, along with some suggestions as to what response should be made to McCormick. He also asks for Flinn’s advice in the case of William H. H. Llewellyn, “a disappointed office seeker” who tried and failed to become the Roosevelt delegate from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Llewellyn is now supporting a delegate from the United Mine Workers, even though Flinn appointed Mr. Tompkins and Tompkins is already the candidate for the Progressive Republicans of Wilkes-Barre. Finally, the secretary asks Flinn to read a letter sent to Roosevelt from Harry H. Daugherty before returning it with his suggestions on “what ought to be done” in the matter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-03-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles D. Linskill
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles D. Linskill for the letter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-02-15
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Wilbur Palmer
President Roosevelt clears up any misunderstandings concerning what he said to the miners about visiting Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Representative Palmer.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-02-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Gray
President Roosevelt introduces Father John J. Curran, who has invited Roosevelt to the Fourth of July celebrations at Wilkes-Barre. Roosevelt has obligations elsewhere and hopes that Judge Gray can attend the festivities for him, especially due to Gray being an integral part of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-19
Letter from Ferris D. Cornell, Frederick C. Kirkendall, and Jonathan R. Davis to Theodore Roosevelt
Dr. Cornell invites Theodore Roosevelt to give a lecture in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, after the November elections. The letter is cosigned by Mayor Frederick C. Kirkendall and Jonathan R. Davis, Chairman of the Luzerne County Republican Committee, who add handwritten notes urging him to accept the invitation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-07-18
Letter from George W. Perkins to Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Perkins enjoyed President Roosevelt’s speech in Wilkes-Barre but disagrees with him on another issue.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-08-16
80,000 miners listening to President Roosevelt at the temperance convention, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
A crowd of mine workers stand listening to President Roosevelt’s speech at a temperance convention in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905
Cardinal Gibbons entering President Roosevelt’s carriage, Mine Workers’ Day, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
President Roosevelt sits in a carriage while Cardinal James Gibbons enters to alongside him.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905
Here and there
In this newspaper column, in which the author reminisces about local history, the portion involving Solomon P. Ide is highlighted. Ide was born in Lehman, Pennsylvania, in 1818 in the same house in which he currently resides, and remembers many of the early inhabitants of the town.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-03-08
Newspaper article on temperance speeches
The article alleges that President Roosevelt followed up his “temperance speeches” in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Jamestown, New York, by ordering two cases of Schlitz Export beer. It concludes that with such action, Roosevelt “does make a monkey of himself.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-25