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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Collier Platt

President Roosevelt informs New York Senator Platt that Public Printer Francis Wayland Palmer started to remove Oscar J. Ricketts from his position, which made it compulsory for Roosevelt to request Palmer’s resignation. Roosevelt would like to hire “some good men” from outside the Public Printing Office who have no interest in any of the factional conflicts there.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt is going to try and get Secretary of State Elihu Root and Joseph Hodges Choate to come to Sagamore Hill when Senator Lodge will be there. He tells Lodge about the current situation in the Government Printing Office, where Francis Wayland Palmer was removed from his position and Roosevelt is trying to decide on a replacement. He also discusses the current unrest in Japan and tells Lodge that he has instructed Root to deal with the Newfoundland matter “as soon as possible.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis Wayland Palmer

President Roosevelt informs Francis Wayland Palmer that he is removed from the position of Public Printer, and instructs him to turn over his office to Oscar J. Ricketts as Acting Public Printer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-08

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Cabot has written Elihu Root about the fishermen on the West Coast and the possibility of deploying a revenue cutter there to prevent trouble. Cabot hopes that President Roosevelt will keep Oscar J. Ricketts as the Public Printer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-26

Letter from Albert H. Howe to William Loeb

Albert H. Howe thanks William Loeb for the opportunity to read an unidentified enclosure. He will discuss it with Frank H. Platt, who looks after Thomas Collier Platt’s legal interests. Howe also expresses his approval of President Roosevelt’s action in appointing Oscar J. Ricketts as head of the government printing office.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-12

Telephone message from George B. Cortelyou to Theodore Roosevelt

Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou asks President Roosevelt not to appoint Oscar J. Ricketts to the office of Public Printer before Cortelyou speaks to Roosevelt. Cortelyou thinks appointing Ricketts would be a great mistake, no matter who recommends it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-01

Letter from James Sullivan Clarkson to William Loeb

James Sullivan Clarkson encloses a letter from Oscar J. Ricketts, an employee at the Government Printing Office. Clarkson is not familiar with the facts Ricketts presents, but trusts that William Loeb will know if there is anything in what he says or what the article from the Evening Star relates.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-09-18