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Ready to tilt with Vatican

Ready to tilt with Vatican

Edward A. Lancaster, Member of Parliament for Lincoln, Ontario, outlined a bill to amend the Marriage Act which will make a marriage in one province valid and binding in all other provinces. No decree, ecclesiastical or otherwise, can dissolve a marriage performed by any recognized ceremony. This amendment is aimed at combating the Ne Temere Decree, in which the Pope stated marriages must be performed according the canon law of the Church in order to be valid.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Letter from Thomas Barbour to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Thomas Barbour to Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas Barbour conveys his satisfaction upon reading Theodore Roosevelt’s “coloration-paper.” He is delayed in reading and remarking on the paper because he has been visiting his family’s park in the Adirondacks. Barbour has great pleasure in remembering time he spent at Oyster Bay. He hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s fall is not serious.

Comments and Context

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about his hunting trip north of Quebec, Canada, where he killed a caribou and two moose. He also details Archie’s disappointing hunting trip to Banff, Alberta, Canada. Roosevelt criticizes President Wilson and his foreign policy toward Germany and Mexico and discusses the war in Europe. He also mentions that Ted is doing good business work, and Ted feels that Kermit has a real future with the bank.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-10-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Cowles

President Roosevelt informs Captain William S. Cowles that he arranged for Cowles to continue as Chief of the Bureau of Equipment until the end of Roosevelt’s term. Roosevelt is happy to hear that Cowles was one of those invited to represent the United States Navy at the Québec celebration, and hopes he will attend. Roosevelt adds the he spoke to Secretary of War William H. Taft about Cowles’ career after Roosevelt leaves office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

President Roosevelt tells his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, that his sons, Kermit and Archie Roosevelt, were overjoyed to see her at Groton, and that he is happy that she could visit. He is pleased that she and her son, William Sheffield Cowles, will be accompanying her husband, William Sheffield Cowles, to Québec. Roosevelt also comments on the goings-on at the Republican National Convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-17

Letter from August Belmont to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from August Belmont to Theodore Roosevelt

August Belmont has been in the wilderness hunting moose, and only recently heard of President Roosevelt’s accident. He hopes that Roosevelt’s life will not be similarly endangered again, and is grateful that he escaped injury. Belmont briefly describes his experience hunting moose with his sons, and hopes one day to be able to invite Roosevelt or his son, Theodore Roosevelt, on a similar hunt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902

Letter from William S. Cowles to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William S. Cowles to Theodore Roosevelt

William S. Cowles thanks President Roosevelt for the opportunity to represent the United States at the Québec celebration, and says he will take both Anna Roosevelt Cowles and their son William with him. He is looking forward to flying his flag again, even if it is only for a couple days. Cowles appreciates the chance to remain in his office as Chief of Bureau of Equipment for the Navy Department until the end of Roosevelt’s term, and for the good report of him that Roosevelt gave to Secretary of War William H. Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-10

Letter from Adèle Le Bourgeois Chapin to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Adèle Le Bourgeois Chapin to Theodore Roosevelt

Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, would like to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Quebec by making the Plains of Abraham a national park and building an Angel of Peace statue there. He had noted to Adèle Le Bourgeios Chapin that he thinks it would be appropriate to get contributions from the United States, as the Plains of Abraham are part of its history as well. Chapin would like to ask Grey’s American friends to contribute to the statue’s fund, or perhaps even to give the statue as a gift, and asks President Roosevelt’s opinion on the advisability of this idea.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-07

Extract from Lord Grey’s speech

Extract from Lord Grey’s speech

Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada, speaks to the Women’s Canadian Club about raising the funds to erect a “colossal statue of the Angel of Welcome and Peace” on the Plains of Abraham to welcome emigrants to Canada. This should be done to celebrate the tricentennial of the founding of Quebec. Describing Canada’s history, Grey compares the United States’ dedication to erecting patriotic monuments and preserving its past to the lack of enthusiasm in doing the same in Canada.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-28

Letter from Earl Grey to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Earl Grey to Theodore Roosevelt

Governor General of Canada Earl Grey reports the success of Quebec’s tercentenary celebrations to President Roosevelt. He thanks Roosevelt for sending Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as representative of the United States and his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles as his personal representative. Grey comments on the lessons of nationalism found in J. Ellis Barker’s history of the Netherlands. Additionally, Grey is having a duplicate of a historical chair made for Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Cowles

President Roosevelt has already made arrangements for Admiral Cowles to remain as Chief of the Bureau of Equipment until the end of Roosevelt’s presidential term. He has also spoken with Secretary of War Taft about Cowles’s career. Roosevelt is delighted with Mr. Winslow’s request to Cowles and he would like an admiral at the Quebec celebration.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-06-10