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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Shaw

President Roosevelt likes Albert Shaw’s proposal for an article in The Country Calendar, and encourages him to write the article himself from Alexander Lambert’s notes. Shaw can use any of Philip Battell Stewart’s photos not needed by Scribner’s. Roosevelt asks that the article be confined to his “country life” at Oyster Bay, as he is writing an article about the hunt in question for Scribner’s himself.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-18

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Brinton McClellan Harvey

President Roosevelt suggests to Harper’s Weekly editor George Brinton McClellan Harvey that Charles A. Gardiner write an article on his views of executive powers for the North American Review.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-06

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis E. Leupp

President Roosevelt will be glad to help in the memorial for William Henry Baldwin. While he agrees with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp’s advice about the Newsboys’ Magazine, he permits himself “the malicious pleasure” of saying that Leupp’s ideas of the composition of the Panama Canal Commission are wrong.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-12

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Brander Matthews

President Roosevelt has not seen the December Political Science Quarterly, and asks Brander Matthews to send it if he has it. Roosevelt does not think American Ambassador to Italy George von Lengerke Meyer will go to Paris for his next post.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-03

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Murat Halstead

President Roosevelt asks Murat Halstead to look into a matter in which a letter sent by Roosevelt to O. O. Stealey, the editor of the American Newsboy’s Magazine, is being used to exploit the company. The president does not want his name in connection with the enterprise, if it is being used in this way.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ray Stannard Baker

President Roosevelt praises Ray Stannard Baker for his article in McClure’s Magazine about lynching. Roosevelt has admired Baker’s pieces about labor, but believes the recent piece on lynching is the best discussion he has seen of the topic anywhere, and is even better than to his other work.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to David Starr Jordan

President Roosevelt informs President Jordan, of Stanford University, that he is unable to write to the college magazine, because if he writes to one, he has to write to one hundred other college magazines. Roosevelt made this mistake earlier in his career and does not want to make it again.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Hamilton Holt

President Roosevelt promises to read the article and to consider Davis’s name in reference to selection of the delegates. However, Roosevelt informs Hamilton Holt “there has been much hanging back among the great Continental powers about fixing the time.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-07

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Diplomatic, Consular, and Other Representatives of the United States

President Roosevelt introduces Caspar Whitney, who is making a trip to South America, to the diplomatic, consular, and other representatives of the United States and asks for them to assist Whitney.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Watson Gilder

President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for his comments in the Century and agrees with Gilder’s opinion of Charles J. Bonaparte. Roosevelt expresses his wish to have Bonaparte associated with his administration before the end of his term.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Allen White

President Roosevelt liked William Allen White’s recent article in the Saturday Evening Post because White stated so clearly the “fundamental fact of the election.” Roosevelt hopes he will be able to accomplish what the people wish and has aimed for a “square deal” for all. Although Roosevelt and White have not always agreed, the president thinks they stand for the same thing “down at bottom.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Murray Butler

President Roosevelt appreciates Nicholas Murray Butler’s willingness to write the unsigned article he mentioned and discusses the problems with the Argonaut article about the tariff revision. According to Roosevelt, there will be damage whether the tariff revision is tried or not, but “less serious damage” if the revision is tried. Roosevelt will not, however, break from the Republican party on the issue.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-03

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

President Roosevelt writes to Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, to tell him how much he appreciated some commentary on his presidential campaign that had recently been published. The article accurately stated Roosevelt’s views on a number of positions, and described Roosevelt’s motivations better than he could have done himself. If Roosevelt is victorious in the election, he wants Abbott to come spend a night at the White House.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-29

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Collier

President Roosevelt sends Robert J. Collier copies of two letters that he received from the correspondent of the Kansas City Star from Missouri. Roosevelt’s letters to Collier are being used by Samuel Hopkins Adams to try to harm Roosevelt during the final moments of the campaign. Roosevelt states that he is in favor of the Republican ticket in Missouri, as he is in every state, but never made a comparison between the Republican candidate Joseph Wingate Folk and his opponent Cyrus Packard Walbridge. He asks that Collier keep the matter to himself, as someone, whether Adams or someone else, apparently hopes to influence the election in Missouri, as well as the presidential election itself.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-29

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from William Loeb to The Outlook

William Loeb asks The Outlook to make sure that copies intended for President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are being delivered to Washington D. C., rather than to Oyster Bay.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-29

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oscar S. Straus

President Roosevelt enjoyed Lebowich’s article, and wishes he had been amongst the Harvard men in Roosevelt’s regiment. Roosevelt agrees with Lebowich that he attempts to treat Jews and Catholics as he does Protestants; Roosevelt believes that in the future there will inevitably be Jewish and Catholic presidents and, thus, hopes that he treats them as he would want to be treated by a Jewish or Catholic president, i.e., “without regards to the several creeds which they profess or the several lands from which their ancestors have sprung.” Roosevelt tries not to be patronizing or condescending, and appreciates that Lebowich noticed that.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-15

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Lee Mantle

President Roosevelt informs Lee Mantle that the letter Roosevelt purportedly wrote to Michael Donnelly, a letter published in Miners Magazine, is an “absurd and impudent forgery.” Roosevelt has requested that Donnelly submit the letter, if it even exists, to the district attorney in Chicago so that the forger can be pursued and punished.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt would like Charles J. Bonaparte to write the article about him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-19

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from John Burroughs to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt is lucky to have identified the Cape May Warbler as John Burroughs has not seen one. Burroughs is glad that Roosevelt enjoyed his Atlantic article and is sending a copy of his article in the Cosmopolitan. Burroughs advocates doing something about the “unfair advantages” that have benefited Standard Oil.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-10

Creator(s)

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lincoln Steffens

President Roosevelt is aware of the intrigues surrounding the presidential nomination but he will take care of his own business and abide by the result.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-12

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919