Letter from Bernard Moses to William H. Taft
Bernard Moses points out numerous irregularities within the Bureau of Public Instruction of the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-01
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Letter from Francis C. Travers to Theodore Roosevelt
Francis C. Travers reports that the Vatican is willing to appoint an American prelate to the position in the Philippines and recommends Father Belford.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-02
Letter from John Ireland to Theodore Roosevelt
Archbishop Ireland has been working to inform and influence American Catholic opinion concerning the Roosevelt administration’s handling of the friars matter in the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-05
Memorandum from Elihu Root to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Root opposes allowing Apolinario Mabini to return to the Philippines without taking the oath of allegiance. He expects that Mabini would continue to plot insurrection. Mabini is not a prisoner and can travel anywhere in the world, except the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-29
Letter from J. R. Shoemaker to Theodore Roosevelt
J. R. Shoemaker warns President Roosevelt to be cautious when dealing with the Vatican.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-19
Letter from Luke E. Wright to Elihu Root
Governor General of the Philippines Wright, subsequent to a meeting with Emilio Aguinaldo, discusses a variety of recent issues and occurrences in the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-20
Letter from Merritt O. Chance to William Loeb
Merritt O. Chance encloses a letter from Professor Henry C. Ide of the Philippine Commission.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-21
Letter from John Ireland to Clarence Ransom Edwards
Archbishop Ireland finds the War Department’s reaction to the controversy over schooling in the Philippines to be proper and fair.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-21
The “mistakes” of Roosevelt
Newspaper article supporting President Roosevelt and questioning the reference to Roosevelt’s mistakes that Professor Judson made in a speech.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04
Letter from Elmer Burritt Bryan to Division Superintendents
The Secretary of Public Instruction requests further information regarding the number of Filipino and American teachers in the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-24
Letter from Clarence Ransom Edwards to William Loeb
Colonel Edwards sends several enclosures but other requested documents are not yet available.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-24
Letter from Thomas F. Clark to John Hay
Thomas F. Clark is concerned because the Pacific Commercial Cable Company does not intend to extend its cable beyond the Philippines. This plan would force U.S. communications destined for China or Japan to pass through another company, the Eastern Extension Company.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-28
Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt
Senator Lodge is looking forward to President Roosevelt’s visit and is sad that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will not be accompanying him. He has not planned any big events or dinners for Roosevelt as he assumes he will want a quiet day. Lodge has not commented on the Anti-Imperialist letter and is leaving it to Roosevelt to deal with the issue of the Philippines on the campaign stump.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-30
Letter from Leslie M. Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw encloses excerpts from the Philippine Friars Memorial that were printed in “The Rosary.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-31
Letter from Jeremiah Whipple Jenks to William Cary Sanger
Jeremiah Whipple Jenks has been touring Southeast Asia and the Philippines in an official capacity with the Philippine Commission and offers his views on numerous issues.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
Letter from Elihu Root to William H. Taft
Discussions are ongoing with the Catholic Church for settling various disagreements in the Philippines, including the withdrawal of religious orders and the sale of church land.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
Letter from Elihu Root
Secretary of War Root denies that official educators in the Philippines are proselytizing for Protestant denominations and notes that such activity is against Filipino law.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
Telegram from William H. Taft to Elihu Root
Governor Taft is working on an agreement with the Vatican so that Filipino land currently held by religious orders can be sold.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-10
Letter from Donald McDonald Dickinson to George B. Cortelyou
Donald McDonald Dickinson offers his opinion on the prospects for President Roosevelt’s administration and the attacks being made on him. Although popular sentiment is with Roosevelt, the organization is likely to oppose him in strength at the next election, and the time to begin preparing for that fight is now. The Booker T. Washington incident and his speech at Arlington hurt him. If Roosevelt could make some statement this fall about his desire to find a solution for the negro problem, it might assuage those in the South who were offended. Dickinson also urges that Abram S. Hewitt and others with large investment interests be made advisers to the president.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-11
Letter from Francis C. Travers to Theodore Roosevelt
Francis C. Travers was pleased with the administration’s reaction to the false complaints regarding teaching in the Philippines.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-07-12