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On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Ziba T. Moore for the fine results achieved in Pennsylvania and invites Moore to visit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges Alton A. Vosburg’s letter and reports that Roosevelt greatly appreciated the work that Vosburg and others did in Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges James R. Williams’s letter and support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter from Mr. Cuthbert as representative of several letters sent to Roosevelt regarding delegates from Pennsylvania. Roosevelt finds the claims of these letters difficult to believe but wants it understood that since Senator Boies Penrose “and the others” were defeated they should not be sent to Chicago.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-25
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary acknowledges Charles F. Frazee’s letter and thanks him for his work in Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt comments on his upcoming trips to the west, asking if the Nebraska trip needs to be decided before the results of Pennsylvania and Illinois primaries and if he should stop at Sioux Falls. He states that this trip will be the last one west of Ohio.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-07
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary will bring Chase S. Osborn’s letter to Roosevelt’s attention once he returns from Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-09
Theodore Roosevelt expresses to Augustus Everett Willson that he is eager to know whether Willson and his travel party will travel to Oyster Bay by motor or by train, so he can make arrangements to meet them accordingly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Wallace Batchelder thanking him for the gold medal and apologizing for the mistake in the book that accredits Batchelder to the Pennsylvania roster instead of Vermont. Corrections will be made in future editions, but he recommends writing to the War Department about the needed change.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
The writer of the letter informs Pennsylvania State College President Edwin Erle Sparks that he will submit the invitation from Sparks to Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary; however, Roosevelt is likely too busy to accept the invitation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary declines an invitation from the Pennsylvania Division of the Traveler’s Protection Association of America for June 12, because of a previous engagement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells B. H. Ocker that Roosevelt is not able to recommend a patent agent as Ocker requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt, unfortunately, cannot give any more information to the men in Maine because he does not know, nor does he suspect the Progressive National Committee knows, what the strategy is for the 1916 election. Roosevelt would need to consider whether or not to join the Republican Party again on a state-by-state basis. As of right now he would not rejoin in New York, but would rejoin in Pennsylvania to support specific candidates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-07-07
Theodore Roosevelt tells William Flinn of a satisfactory conversation he had recently with Governor Hiram Johnson of California. Because of their similar platforms and goals, Roosevelt thinks it would be a “first rate move” to bring Johnson and Pennsylvania Governor Martin Grove Brumbaugh together to speak in Pennsylvania sometime next fall. Roosevelt does not want anyone to know that the suggestion came from him, though he has also sent a duplicate of this letter to newspaper editor Edwin A. Van Valkenburg of the Philadelphia paper, the North American.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-03
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Florence Kelley about the preparedness movement. Roosevelt has not been able to get people to take an interest in the matter or to look at it his way when they do take an interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt will meet Edward Alsworth Ross on the 31st and suggests he take a train from Philadelphia to Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt thanks C. S. Morris for the letter and agrees it is just as Morris says. Roosevelt discusses the cause of what happened in Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt thinks that Pennsylvania and New York are strange states. The bulk of working class men in Pennsylvania voted for Senator Boies Penrose, and in New York they voted for William Barnes’s candidates, “without caring for positive proof of their attitudes in such matters as the Workers’ Compensation Act and the like.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-07
Theodore Roosevelt sends his best wishes for Congressman Fred Ewing Lewis’s success in the campaign for Secretary of Internal Affairs. Lewis has served the Progressive Party and the people of Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-10-30
Theodore Roosevelt assures George Bridges that he backs the Progressives of Pennsylvania “in any course” and that the prime issue is to do away with “the Penrose machine” in the state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-09-17