Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Agnes Barclay Quay
President Roosevelt writes to Agnes Barclay Quay with concern over her husband’s, Senator Quay, health.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-28
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Quay, Matthew Stanley, 1833-1904
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nicholas Murray Butler
President Roosevelt wishes for Nicholas Murray Butler to visit and concurs that William J. Calhoun is worthy of esteem. Roosevelt comments at length on an article in Collier’s Weekly, one he assumes was written by Norman Hapgood, and desires Butler to “know the exact facts.” On careful reading, Roosevelt believes the article was written with malicious intent due to its numerous falsehoods regarding the construction projects at the Capitol and the White House, the hiring of the architects completing these jobs, appointments of others to government posts, and other matters. In his explanation, Roosevelt makes analogies to many political situations, past and present.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Agnes Barclay Quay
President Roosevelt writes to Mrs. Matthew Stanley Quay expressing his condolences on the passing of her husband Senator Quay.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
President Roosevelt would like to find an appointment for Isaac L. Anderson. Senator Matthew Stanley Quay is interested in Anderson. Roosevelt instructs Secretary of War Taft to work with Quay regarding the appointment.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-03-08
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Coral Quay
President Roosevelt appreciates the books by Zacharias Topelius and looks forward to reading them.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-02-16
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Owen Wister
President Roosevelt agrees with Owen Wister’s thoughts. Roosevelt is grateful to the American people even though he has had a great deal of work as president. Roosevelt notes his cabinet has been a huge support to him and is glad he owed the election to “Abraham Lincoln’s ‘plain people.'” The president expresses his frustration with certain journalists and newspapers who criticize Roosevelt about having too close of a connection with “the wicked” but who ignored Alton B. Parker’s “hand-in-glove intimacy” with James J. Hill, William F. Sheehan, and Thomas Taggart. Roosevelt acknowledges he has made mistakes, but many of the criticisms leveled at him are due to ignorance.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-19
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
After meeting with Senator Quay, President Roosevelt suggests that any further segregation of Cherokee lands be postponed until the case currently before the Supreme Court has concluded. Quay would like a hearing on the matter and Roosevelt wants all action postponed until after the hearing.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-07
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay, the Delawares, and the Cherokees should all be at the hearing to examine the case. President Roosevelt would like Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to communicate with Quay and also attend the hearing with the necessary officials.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-01-09
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Philander C. Knox
President Roosevelt encloses letters from Senator Quay requesting approval of the application from the Perry Oil and Gas Company for a pipeline from the Kansas border through the Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Roosevelt may need to discuss the matter with Attorney General Knox after the arguments in the Northern Securities case.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry C. Payne
President Roosevelt needs to call an extra session of Congress to consider the Cuban Reciprocity Treaty and would like to see some minor financial legislation. Roosevelt agrees with Senator Quay that Gray would be a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-08-27
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Wilbur Palmer
President Roosevelt tells Representative Palmer that although he appreciates the call that Palmer, his District, and the miners hold on him, and although he would like to accept, he cannot accept the invitation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-09-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nelson W. Aldrich
President Roosevelt requests that Senator Aldrich discuss the matter with Senator Quay.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-20
Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to W. R. Andrews
President Roosevelt informs W. R. Andrews that circulars should not contain the name of anyone in government service. The Civil Service Commission has requested that the matter be put before Attorney General Knox but Roosevelt will delay doing so to give Andrews time to change the circular and withdraw the previous circular.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay
Congressman Grow has requested a consulship for William J. Pike and has President Roosevelt’s support if a position can be found in the future. Pike also has the support of Senators Penrose, Quay, and Warren.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-31
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Hay
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay has requested that Henry D. Saylor be given a consulship and that Consul William B. Sorsby at San Juan, Guatemala, be transferred. President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of State Hay to investigate these requests.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-11-09
Letter From Theodore Roosevelt to William Allen White
Vice President Roosevelt shares his opinions about Senators Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Matthew Stanley Quay, Thomas Collier Platt, and George W. Dunn. His main supporters are farmers, upper class mechanics, small businessmen, and others who oppose populism.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-08-27
Letter from William Dudley Foulke to Elliot H. Goodwin
William Dudley Foulke tells Elliot H. Goodwin that he is always in favor of investigation of improper use of patronage, but thinks that the suggestion to investigate the use of patronage in favor of William H. Taft, as suggested by the Indianapolis News, does not make sense. Foulke also tells Goodwin about some of the proceedings of a recent Indiana Civil Service Reform Association meeting.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-02-22
Letter from Ralph Metcalf to Benjamin Ide Wheeler
State senator Metcalf discusses senatorial candidates and Washington state politics with President of the University of California Wheeler. At Wheeler’s recommendation, Metcalf has been working to build sentiment for Secretary of War William H. Taft as a presidential candidate.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-08-17
Memorandum on the term of James F. Penman
The term of James F. Penman as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Northeastern District of Pennsylvania was completed last year, but his bonds do not expire until April 1906. The conditions are such in the district that it has not been possible to find a candidate to replace Penman.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-05-07
Letter from Louis N. Hammerling to William Loeb
Louis N. Hammerling writes to William Loeb about the miners who attempted to visit President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay. Hammerling asserts that the miners were not representing most mine unions and informs Loeb that T. D. Nicholls of the Pittston Convention of Miners were not aware that workers were attempting to see Roosevelt. Hammerling will be writing an article about the incident.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-14