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John E. Leaycraft thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his letters of introduction to Joseph Hodges Choate and Horace Porter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-06-06
John E. Leaycraft asks Vice President Roosevelt for a letter of introduction to Joseph Hodges Choate and Horace Porter before he visits England and France over the summer. He is already acquainted with Henry White, but is worried White will be away from London during his visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-06-03
Maria Longworth Storer is happy the Roosevelt family will be living in her house. Storer is hoping her husband, B. Storer, will be given another post in either Paris or Berlin in the spring, depending on vacancies, and discusses the tensions in Spain following President McKinley’s recent message. Storer notes efforts to bolster “Republican Catholocism” in France.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-12-11
President Roosevelt would never deny a request from Maria Longworth Storer for anything but political reasons. He does not intend to make any changes to his Cabinet and is particularly impressed with Secretary of War Elihu Root. Roosevelt would take many things into consideration before appointing any man to a Cabinet position. At present, it would not be advisable to appoint a Catholic man as ambassador to Germany or Italy. If the position of ambassador to France becomes available, it could be offered to Bellamy Storer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-04
Vahan Cardashian writes to Andrew D. White expressing his concerns about the persecution Armenians are facing under the Turkish government and his fears the violence will escalate. He hopes White will be one of several other prominent men to form a committee that will weild their power to advocate for Armenian rights.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-12
Theodore Ayrault Dodge asks for a letter of introduction to Henry White, the new ambassador to France. He reports that the former ambassador, Robert Sanderson McCormick, treated him well. He comments on President Roosevelt’s Irish Saga and promises to send copies of his biographies of Napoleon I by April.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-17
Robert Sanderson McCormick has suggested no change to the functions in connection with the turning over of Admiral John Paul Jones’s remains by Special Ambassador Horace Porter to Special Ambassador Francis B. Loomis even though Secretary of State John Hay has died.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-02
General Horace Porter accepts with pleasure the appointment as a special ambassador with which President Roosevelt has given him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-01
Third Assistant Secretary of State Pierce encloses a telegram from Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick recommending General Horace Porter be appointed as a Special Ambassador in connection to the upcoming ceremonies for removing the remains of John Paul Jones.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-27
General Porter has in his custody the remains of Admiral John Paul Jones and will formally deliver them to a representative of the United States Government. Robert Sanderson McCormick recommends that Porter be appointed as a special ambassador during the transfer of the remains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-27
Brander Matthews wishes a happy New Year to President Roosevelt and asks if he has seen certain recent articles and papers. Matthews also suggests the appointment of someone with a “German name would produce a bad effect on the French.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-01
President Roosevelt has not received any letters from Stephania A. Porter asking for a photograph besides this one. He is sending the photograph at once, as he would not like to seem as if he was slighting her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-10
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of the Navy Metcalf the names of those he wants to appoint to the Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-17
In a letter to Elihu Root (and possibly intended for a wider audience), President Roosevelt gives his perspective of his conflict with the recently-recalled Austrian Ambassador Bellamy Storer. Embedded within the letter are reproductions of private letters between President Roosevelt, members of his administration, and Storer. The letters detail the saga of the Storers’s push for Archbishop Ireland to become Cardinal and the fracturing of their friendship with the Roosevelts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-02
President Roosevelt apologizes to G. Willett Van Nest that the appointments of delegates to the Second Hague Conference have already been made, and that even if a vacancy arises he does not think he could appoint another person from New York, as Joseph Hodges Choate and Horace Porter are both from there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-24
President Roosevelt tells Uriah M. Rose that he is confident in his abilities to represent the United States as a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-08
President Roosevelt was amused at the newspaper clipping Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte sent him. He asks Bonaparte to communicate with General Horace Porter and Maryland Governor Edwin Warfield about the planned celebrations in honor of John Paul Jones.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-20
President Roosevelt does not believe that General Porter will resign, but he will keep George Haven Putnam’s suggestion in mind.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-09
Secretary of State Hay has written to Ambassador Choate and Ambassador Porter as requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-19
J. Frederic Tarus informs Theodore Roosevelt that shortly he will be receiving an invitation to attend the sixth annual convention of the U.S. Navy League in Los Angeles. Tarus is the chairman of the Executive Committee and is tasked with presenting the invitation and communicating with Roosevelt. He asks if there is a time on Thursday when the committee can meet with Roosevelt to discuss matters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07