Philanthropists--Charitable contributions

Theodore Roosevelt will do his best to provide the aid that Aline Jackson requests for East Africa, but since most charitable donors have already given to European causes, he is not sure how much he can promise. Roosevelt would like to write to her and her husband, Frederick John Jackson, about his South American expedition, but that seems too trivial to write about when the world is at war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-11-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Seth Low that the fund is too small to be administered as it currently is and that the present structure is unfair to the Board of Trustees. Roosevelt tells Low to return the gifts to him and he will use them for a philanthropic purpose such as relieving unemployment in New York City.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt sends fifty dollars to James Mark Baldwin of Harris, Forbes & Co., noting his previous contribution to the Belgian Relief Fund and that his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, and his son-in-law are currently working in the American Hospital in Paris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt congratulates photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis, and praises the actions of J. Pierpont Morgan. Morgan provided funding for Curtis’s series of books on Native Americans.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Booker T. Washington understands why Theodore Roosevelt cannot attend the Tuskegee Board of Trustees meeting but is pleased to announce that Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck and Company has agreed to join the Board. Washington felt that it was his duty to press charges in the Ulrich assault case even though he doubted there would ever be a conviction. Almost all evidence presented in Henry Albert Ulrich’s defense has been “pure fabrication.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Creator(s)

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Cleveland H. Dodge agrees with Theodore Roosevelt’s recent article for The Outlook about the Salvation Army in England. Dodge laments the break that has occurred between William Booth, the Salvation Army’s founder, and his son, Ballington Booth, as well as the implications that has impacted the organization both in England and the United States. Dodge feels that the Salvation Army cannot fulfill its potential in the United States so long as it is in conflict with Ballington Booth’s Volunteers of America, and consequently, he refuses to support either group. He urges Roosevelt to help the two Booths reconcile before the elder man dies.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-06

Creator(s)

Dodge, Cleveland H. (Cleveland Hoadley), 1860-1926

Jacob A. Riis welcomes President Roosevelt home to New York, where his family has returned for the summer. Riis announces to Roosevelt that John D. Rockefeller’s challenge gift of $125,000, for the seaside hospital for children suffering from tuberculosis, has been matched. The news will not be announced publicly until the next day, and Riis wanted Roosevelt to know, in thanks for his early support of the effort.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-01

Creator(s)

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

Reverend Schick thanks President Roosevelt for his generous donation in support of Grace Church.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-19

Creator(s)

Schick, John M., 1848-1913

John Joy Edson writes to President Roosevelt to thank him for his contribution to the Associated Charities of the District of Columbia.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-26

Creator(s)

Edson, John Joy, 1846-1935

Treasurer of the New York Orthopedic Hospital, Mrs. William Robinson, writes to President Roosevelt, reminding him of his donation last year and asking if he would like to renew his subscription for the current year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-01

Creator(s)

New York Orthopedic Hospital

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, the Teddy Bears for Kids program, and the John A. Gable TRA Journal fund. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists along with a text box containing the mission statement of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that John E. Wilson and his wife June have established an endowment fund named in honor of John A. Gable to support the publication of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. The announcement encourages readers to contribute to the fund. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2014

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, and the Teddy Bears for Kids program. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2014

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories, and it recognizes those who contributed to the Founders Circle, the funds from which were intended for the building of a Theodore Roosevelt museum. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, and it includes those who contributed to the Teddy Bears for Kids program. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2012

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) lists its financial supporters across a range of categories. It lists the contributors to the TRA from its six most expensive, or premium, membership categories. It also lists those who contributed to special needs funds of the TRA, like the USS Theodore Roosevelt fund, and the Teddy Bears for Kids program. The names of contributors in each category are alphabetized, and the logo of the TRA appears throughout the lists.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2013

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Louis B. Livingston describes the process by which the prize money awarded to Theodore Roosevelt for his 1906 Nobel Prize languished for years before it was finally put to use to address the needs of soldiers and their families during World War I. Livingston notes that Roosevelt refused the prize money for his personal use and that he oversaw the establishment of a Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace to promote better relations between workers and their employers. When the money went unspent, Roosevelt asked Congress to return the funds to him. Livingston asserts that this episode demonstrates Roosevelt’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances and his preoccupation with World War I in the last years of his life.

A photograph of Roosevelt with the representatives of Russia and Japan to the Portsmouth Treaty negotiations appears in the essay, along with a copy of Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize award check and a page from the Congressional Record. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal