Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
President Roosevelt enjoyed Nathaniel Southgate Shaler’s poem and wants him to visit Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-26
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Louise Ingalls
President Roosevelt thanks Mrs. Ingalls for the copy of her husband’s poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-11-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Paul Bocock
President Roosevelt thanks John Paul Bocock for the “copy of the ode,” and declares he has no right to give or withhold permission.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Frisbie Hoar
President Roosevelt sends his thanks for the “photographic reproduction of the original of Leigh Hunt’s poem.” In a postscript Roosevelt notes that “Mandy” has accepted an unnamed suggestion Senator Hoar made.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-10
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Bridges
President Roosevelt thanks Robert Bridges for the poems and is having a difficult time getting Bridges’s brother confirmed in his appointment.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-13
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Watson Gilder
President Roosevelt does not believe that Clinton Dangerfield’s poem refers to him but rather to the Republic of the United States. When Dangerfield is in town, Roosevelt would like the Gilder family to join them for lunch.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-13
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lemuel Abijah Abbott
President Roosevelt thanks Lemuel Abijah Abbott from the picture of the flag with lines of poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as for the explanation that accompanied it.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-03-14
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mary French Morton
President Roosevelt thanks Mary French Morton for a book of poems.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-01-06
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Paul Morton
President Roosevelt finds the poems charming and asks Paul Morton if they were written by “Mrs. or Miss Morton.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-12-29
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Curtis Guild
President Roosevelt thanks Curtis Guild for sending the “Tavern quatrain.” He is disappointed that Winthrop Murray Crane did not accept.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-12-30
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ella Howard Bryan
President Roosevelt was surprised to learn the identity of Clinton Dangerfield, Ella Howard Bryan’s pen name. He enjoyed the poem and appreciates the responsibility that has been placed before him.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-11-12
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Richard Watson Gilder
President Roosevelt asks Richard Watson Gilder to to send the enclosed letter to Ella Howard Bryan, telling her he enjoyed the poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-11-12
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Archibald Hopkins
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Archibald Hopkins for the “‘Benjamin Franklin'” and is glad the Republican National Committee put it out. He also thanks Hopkins for the poem titled “Populism.” Roosevelt returns both to Hopkins.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1897-09-25
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Kinsella
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks James E. Kinsella for the verses, which he will read with interest.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1897-09-18
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Century Club Committee on Admissions
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt writes a reference letter to the Committee on Admissions of the Century Club regarding Robert Cameron Rogers. Roosevelt praises Rogers’s poetry and writing.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1897-05-18
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Letter from H. D. Fruit to Theodore Roosevelt
H. D. Fruit, after reading President Roosevelt’s comparison of Woodrow Wilson and James Buchanan, is forwarding a letter written by Buchanan to his friend after leaving office. Fruit wishes to congratulate Roosevelt and the United States, “knowing that the time has been out of joint and that one is born to set it right.” Fruit closes with a poetry verse by James Russell Lowell.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1916-07-03
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Letter from A. L. Cummings to Theodore Roosevelt
A. L. Cummings encloses a document for Theodore Roosevelt and will be supporting Roosevelt in Austin, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-05-02
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Letter from Emil C. F. Stubenvoll to Theodore Roosevelt
Emil C. F. Stubenvoll sent Theodore Roosevelt his poem “Teddy bear” a while back. He greatly admires Roosevelt and hopes to meet him someday. Stubenvoll would be happy if “Santa Claus” brings him a photograph of Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-12-05
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Letter from John J. Sullivan to Theodore Roosevelt
John J. Sullivan shares letters, clippings, and a poem with Theodore Roosevelt to highlight sentiment toward Roosevelt in Ohio. James Rudolph Garfield said he would write to Roosevelt regarding the recent meeting of the 19th district Garfield Club meeting, so Sullivan assumes Roosevelt knows all about it.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-11-24
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To President Roosevelt
A copy of a poem praising Theodore Roosevelt written by Charles W. Templin and sent by his mother, Nancy Ann Templin.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-11-11