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Arizona historian James H. McClintock writes to President Roosevelt to ask for his opinion on the task of writing a historical narrative on Cuba’s regiment. McClintock mentions that he can add to the work already completed by using official Cuban records.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-30
“The record is in Washington. We left on Aug. 20th.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-20
Theodore Roosevelt remarks “that’s a mighty interesting record” to Charles McCarthy of the Wisconsin Free Library Commission. Roosevelt will go through the record carefully with editors of The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
President Roosevelt thought over what Secretary of the Navy Newberry said about Admiral William Sowden Sims, and is obliged for the suggestion. When the captain of the Minnesota comes, Roosevelt will speak on the lines that Newberry suggests. Roosevelt encloses a letter that he thinks should be put in Sims’s record.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-16
President Roosevelt directs Secretary of the Navy Newberry to attach to Admiral William Sowden Sims’s officer record a statement of all “the essential facts concerning the value of his services.” Roosevelt believes that Sims has done more than any other man for the improvements of the Navy’s efficiency in target practice, and wishes that his contributions to gunnery, ordnance, and construction be recorded.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-16
President Roosevelt has received a request for information regarding the purchase of the Panama Canal zone, and asks William Nelson Cromwell for any information he can provide on the subject. Roosevelt wonders if there is any way to access the stock books of the Panama Canal Companies. He wants to know whether the information may already be held by the United States government, or if it is held by private entities in the United States or France.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
President Roosevelt has been asked about the transaction to purchase the Panama Canal by Oscar K. Davis of the New York Times, and in turn asks Senator Knox about obtaining access to information on the matter. Roosevelt would like to know if the United States government got the stock books of the Panama Canal Companies with records of the votes of the stockholders, or if Knox knows where such records may be found. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt asks Knox if he knows who will be interviewed by Congress on the matter of the Panama Canal purchase.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt comments the request for information to the War Department from Commodore Bunce is too extensive, and some of what was requested is confidential. Roosevelt notes much of the War Department is currently on leave and asks Bunce if the request can be modified into more general terms.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-01
Walter M. Dressel offers to send Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the New Harlem Register, a 1903 genealogy book by Henry Pennington Toler documenting the descendants of New Harlem’s original patentees. He offers to send Roosevelt the book if interested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-08
Commissioner of Pensions Ware returns a letter from Secretary of War William H. Taft to William Loeb, and provides what information he can regarding the questions posed in it. As far as Ware has been able to find, it is unlikely that Presidents Grover Cleveland or William McKinley knew about the age rulings in the Pensions Bureau, and says that the closest he has been able to find is from the “Rules of Practice” approved by Cornelius Newton Bliss when he was Secretary of the Interior in 1898.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-15