Periodicals

Letter from Edward Sandford Martin to Theodore Roosevelt

Edward Sandford Martin informs Theodore Roosevelt of a private dining room on the top floor of The Century where he could host Taylor, James G. Croswell, and three of four other men for lunch. Martin suggests it will pay to meet Croswell. Martin will be reading Roosevelt’s recent editorial from The Outlook tonight and asks if Roosevelt has read History of Freedom by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, mentioning it works well in Taylor’s book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

Creator(s)

Martin, Edward Sandford, 1856-1939

Letter from John A. Herman to Theodore Roosevelt

John A. Herman writes Theodore Roosevelt in response to reading Roosevelt’s introduction to H. J. Mozans book Along the Andes and Down the Amazon (Following the Conquistadores). Herman has travelled in South and Central America in a parallel journey to Mozans. Not all men agree with Mozans’s conclusions, so Herman appreciates Roosevelt’s approval.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-16

Creator(s)

Herman, John A. (John Armstrong), 1853-1935

Letter from Mercer P. Moseley to Theodore Roosevelt

Mercer P. Moseley sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the editorial published in the New York Commercial today.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Creator(s)

Moseley, Mercer P. (Mercer Pamplin), 1873-1928

Letter from Richard Pretlow Ernst to Theodore Roosevelt

Richard Pretlow Ernst sends Theodore Roosevelt two newspaper clippings from the Louisville Evening Post. The editor, Richard Wilson Knott states that William H. Taft has ruined the Republican Party in Kentucky and Ernst agrees.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Creator(s)

Ernst, Richard Pretlow, 1858-1934

Postcard from Emily Tyler Carow to Theodore Roosevelt

Emily Tyler Carow thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending her The Outlook each week, she always looks forward to it arriving. She went walking on a glacier yesterday and appreciates the air in Switzerland.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-03

Creator(s)

Carow, Emily Tyler, 1865-1939

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caspar Whitney

President Roosevelt tells Caspar Whitney, editor of Outing Magazine, that his name should have been on the “roll of honor,” a mistake Roosevelt plans to rectify in his next volume of speeches and messages. Roosevelt also explains that his statements about naturalist William J. Long appeared in Everybody’s Magazine because the reporter feels as strongly about the material as Roosevelt himself. The president notes that other magazines are “old friends,” but Whitney has no idea of the requests he receives to write articles in magazines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernest Hamlin Abbott

President Roosevelt sends Ernest Hamlin Abbott, and the Abbott family as a whole, an advanced copy of Caspar Whitney’s upcoming article on nature-fakers for The Outing. Roosevelt wants the family to review it, so they understand “not to lend the weight of names . . . to help a noxious impostor.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caspar Whitney

President Roosevelt feels Caspar Whitney’s article covers the case entirely and congratulates his admirable work. He regrets not publishing in the Outing Magazine, but he had not intended writing at all.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Reed

President Roosevelt approves of the response sent to the Smart Set magazine in response to a request for his endorsement. He says reports of Ambassador Reid’s “ostentation” and other unflattering news reports about official embassy conduct are harmless; he appreciates all the speeches Reid has made in an effort to unite the “right classes” of Americans and English people. Roosevelt agrees with Reid regarding pursuing arbitration in a treaty dispute with Great Britain over fisheries in Newfoundland. He also comments briefly on the result of the trial of Big Bill Hayward, calling it a “gross miscarriage of justice.” Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciates the silver bowl Elisabeth Mills Reid sent as a gift.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas E. Watson

President Roosevelt would be pleased to have Mr. Clark write an article such as the one described by Thomas E. Watson, but he cannot be officially involved in it. He would especially like the article to appear in Watson’s magazine, as he tries to “be a President who represents the South just as much as the North, the East or the West.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Theodore Roosevelt explains to Joseph Bucklin Bishop that he did not betray what he said in confidence, but that he did not expect Senator Thomas Collier Platt to publish the explanation he gave him of the issue, and that Francis E. Leupp, “simply put two and two together.” He encourages Bishop’s plan to purchase the newspaper he is interested in, as although it would not influence New York much, it would have a national impact.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from William E. Dodd to Theodore Roosevelt

William E. Dodd tells Theodore Roosevelt how outraged he is at an article in the recent Harper’s Weekly magazine that he perceives as slanderous towards Roosevelt and paints him as attacking William H. Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Creator(s)

Dodd, William E. (William Edward), 1869-1940

Letter from William B. Howland to Theodore Roosevelt

William B. Howland hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovering from her accident and praises Theodore Roosevelt’s recent editorial in The Outlook on the Panama Canal. He says him and Ella May Jacobs Howland are enjoying their time at the Manor Club House and he believes Albert Henry George Grey will accept honorary chairmanship of the English Committee on the Hundred Years.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Howland, William Bailey, 1849-1917

Letter from Warren W. Foster to Theodore Roosevelt

At the suggestion of Father Thomas J. Lynch, Warren W. Foster is sending Theodore Roosevelt and article he published in Pearson’s Magazine. Foster welcome’s Roosevelt’s feedback on his ideas of the “science of penology” and his efforts to bring it to the public’s attention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Creator(s)

Foster, Warren W.

Letter from Jacob A. Riis to Theodore Roosevelt

Jacob A. Riis remembers that The Times did not support Theodore Roosevelt on arbitration treaties and so shares the editorial from The Times today.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-30

Creator(s)

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Letter from John G. Geiwitz to Theodore Roosevelt

John G. Geiwitz encloses an article and is sorry to see Theodore Roosevelt returned his other article. He also submitted it to The Saturday Post.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-27

Creator(s)

Geiwitz, John G. (John George), 1862-1951

Letter from Michael J. Donnelly to Theodore Roosevelt

Michael J. Donnelly encloses self-written poetry for Theodore Roosevelt to consider publishing in The Outlook.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-15

Creator(s)

Donnelly, Michael J., 1859-1935

Letter from John O’Hara Cosgrave to William Loeb

John O’Hara Cosgrave notes that nothing was said about pay for President Roosevelt’s article on Nature Fakers and believes that it was intended as a contribution to the controversy. However, Everybody’s Magazine is left in the president’s debt and Cosgrave inquires whether Roosevelt would allow them to send him some books and looks to William Loeb for guidance.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-18

Creator(s)

Cosgrave, John O'Hara, 1866-1947

Letter from Lawrence F. Abbott to Theodore Roosevelt

Lawrence F. Abbott thanks President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for their hospitality in their country home and includes a list of seven questions about the Great White Fleet. He would like to include information about the fleet and its journey in The Outlook magazine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Fraser), 1859-1933

Letter from Caspar Whitney to Theodore Roosevelt

Caspar Whitney informs President Roosevelt that he had received four letters where people had made fun of him for taking up “cudgels for Roosevelt” although Whitney was not included in the roll of honor in the September issue of Everybody’s magazine. Whitney tells Roosevelt that his “interest in life is not to be reckoned on rolls of honor,” but the letters have made him wonder if the absence of his name from the rolls meant more than he originally thought. Whitney would like to know where he stands with the president.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-07

Creator(s)

Whitney, Caspar, 1862-1929