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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about his concern for sister Corinne Robinson’s health. Jacob Riis visited as well as C. Grant La Farge and Bob. The children enjoyed a belated Fourth of July celebration and Roosevelt offers predictions on the upcoming presidential election.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1896-07-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about the importance of the upcoming presidential election between Democrat William Jennings Bryan and Republican William McKinley. He feels Bryan’s election would be “a great calamity.” Roosevelt also describes a recent dinner.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1896-07-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about a recent family picnic and Ted learning to shoot a rifle. Bellamy Storer is visiting and Roosevelt thinks if William McKinley is elected he may put Storer in the cabinet. He talks of the Republicans chances in the next election and his feelings on William Jennings Bryan.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1896-08-02

Hanna boom the work of Scott

Hanna boom the work of Scott

Senator Scott is the primary supporter of the project promoting Senator Hanna for President in 1904. Hanna denies having an interest in the nomination but he would be a formidable candidate for the Republican nomination and general election.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Sandford Martin

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Sandford Martin

President Roosevelt tells writer Edward Sandford Martin he is happy with the way the election turned out and happy to end his public life. He truly enjoyed the presidency and if he conscientiously thought he should keep on, he would have as he likes having his hands “on the levers of the great machine.” He looks forward to his private life at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-11-06

Letter from Robert Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Robert Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Judge Grant thanks President Roosevelt for reading his novel in serialized form and promises to send him a copy in book form when it is released. Grant invites President Roosevelt to come visit him in Boston in the autumn. He also assures the President that he will be voting for him in the upcoming elections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-30

Progressive party membership certificate

Progressive party membership certificate

A Progressive Party charter membership certificate given as a receipt for contributing $1 to their campaign fund. It features Theodore Roosevelt’s picture as candidate for president, Hiram W. Johnson’s as candidate for vice president, treasurer Elon Huntington Hooker’s signature, and the party slogan, “Pass Prosperity Around.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Bucklin Bishop

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop to say he is glad to hear Bishop’s son will be lecturing at the University Club and that work on the Panama Canal is going well. Roosevelt also discusses the upcoming Presidential election, saying he believes President William H. Taft is unfit to be President, and weighs the pros and cons of running for President himself.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-12-29

Letter from Arthur von Briesen to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Arthur von Briesen to Theodore Roosevelt

Arthur von Briesen outlines the steps he has taken to prepare for Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential campaign: steps toward the purchase of a German newspaper, Staats Zeitung; the establishment of a committee to select persons of German descent from the northeast to meet at a conference with those of German descent from western states; and the establishment of a committee to begin work on the actual presidential campaign.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-04