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Feodor von Luerzer encloses a newspaper clipping and is concerned that Vice President Roosevelt is being “misled by a fallacious, perhaps a wholly invented story.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-26
Claris Yeuell is the editor of a Republican newspaper in Alabama and a supporter of Vice President Roosevelt. He believes that efforts are being made to raise public sentiment against Roosevelt in the South in light of Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to the region. The scheduled visit with Booker T. Washington is receiving a great deal of attention. Yeuell requests an interview with Roosevelt and is willing to publish anything to help Roosevelt’s candidacy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28
William W. Jermane of the Minneapolis Journal requests an advance copy of the speech Vice President Roosevelt will deliver at the Minnesota State Fair.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-23
William S. Van Keuren requests a small donation from Vice President Roosevelt to help him get back on his feet. He campaigned so hard last year that his health was ruined. Van Keuren is also in the process of starting a weekly anti-Tammany newspaper but lacks the funds to have the first issue printed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-23
Thomas H. Shevlin has sent Vice President Roosevelt’s letter to Mr. Bixby and informed the “Labor people” that Roosevelt cannot attend their parade. Copies of Roosevelt’s speech have been made and will be distributed to reporters after the speech.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-24
S. Denison is on assignment in Connecticut and Collier’s Weekly has instructed him to get a statement from Vice President Roosevelt regarding the police situation. Denison is uncomfortable with the assignment and understands that Roosevelt may not want to make a statement. Next month, Denison is traveling to Deadwood, South Dakota, to visit Seth Bullock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-25
Guild Copeland requests a statement regarding accusations that railroad companies paid for President Roosevelt’s western trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-26
George Bird Grinnell writes that Theodore Roosevelt should laugh at the absurd news published about him. A. G. Wallihan will not be publishing his book of photographs with the Boone and Crockett Club at this time. A New York publisher will distribute it on a subscription basis. If they fail to get enough subscriptions to justify publishing it, then Wallihan will come back to the Boone and Crockett Club. Grinnell also asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on the idea that wild animals are dangerous if people live or pass through their areas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-03-01
Lemuel Ely Quigg provides his side of the story in a political dispute occurring within the 27th Assembly District. The fight was not meant to disrespect Gherardi Davis and he showed “much stupidity” for getting involved in the quarrel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-09-20
Ambassador to Great Britain Hay agrees with everything Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt said in his letter and assures him that he will do nothing unless ordered. While the people of Great Britain have been kind, Hay has read a lot of disparaging comments about the United States in various newspapers. He comments on British and American relations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-29
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt refutes an interview printed in The New York Journal, stating that it was an invention from beginning to end. Roosevelt reports that he refused the interview, despite the persistence of the reporter, because he has never “given a certificate of character to the Journal” and that nothing “would be of less consequence” than the reporter changing his opinion of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-20