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James A. Mallinson recalls a kind reply from Theodore Roosevelt in the past and recently read comments from Roosevelt regarding the Salvation Army and an article written by H. Rider Haggard. He would like to submit a page to The Outlook and wishes Roosevelt would be more active politically again.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
U.S. Navy Chaplain Gleeson reports to Rear Admiral Davis on the state of Kingston, Jamaica, following the earthquake. According to Gleeson, many of the dead were still lying in the streets and the hospital was overcrowded, with an insufficient number of doctors to attend to the wounded. Gleeson visited Winchester Park, which the Jesuit priests had opened up to the public, where a makeshift hospital had been built. Gleeson notes that there is not an immediate danger of famine, but many are concerned about the possibility of an epidemic resulting from the number of dead bodies still lying in the streets.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-20
Ensign Roper asks President Roosevelt to contribute to the Salvation Army’s Christmas food bank.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-06
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Commander Evangeline Booth to thank her for her invitation but he regrets that he is unable to accept for now. He has many engagements and is concerned that he will be asked to attend “a hundred others” if he heeded her request.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-19
President Roosevelt congratulates General Booth of the Salvation Army on the work he has done and continues to do.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-02
William Loeb responds to a request from Evangeline Booth, enclosing a message from President Roosevelt to her father, General William Booth of the Salvation Army. General Booth was making a farewell tour of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-02
William Loeb sends Harry H. Bayes a $10 check from President Roosevelt to assist in the Salvation Army’s winter work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-12
President Roosevelt is very interested in the results of H. Rider Haggard’s investigation of Salvation Army colonies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-11
Benjamin F. Barnes sends a $10 check on behalf of President Roosevelt to support the Salvation Army, as Frank L. Roper requested in a previous letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-09
President Roosevelt wishes Commander Booth-Tucker safe travels abroad and “a safe and speedy return.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-22
President Roosevelt wishes General Booth continued success with his work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-20
Evangeline Booth appreciated Theodore Roosevelt’s article in The Outlook about H. Rider Haggard and the Salvation Army. She invites him to visit some of their institutions to learn more about their operations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-13
Cleveland H. Dodge agrees with Theodore Roosevelt’s recent article for The Outlook about the Salvation Army in England. Dodge laments the break that has occurred between William Booth, the Salvation Army’s founder, and his son, Ballington Booth, as well as the implications that has impacted the organization both in England and the United States. Dodge feels that the Salvation Army cannot fulfill its potential in the United States so long as it is in conflict with Ballington Booth’s Volunteers of America, and consequently, he refuses to support either group. He urges Roosevelt to help the two Booths reconcile before the elder man dies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-06
Evangeline Booth is holding a sale in March to benefit rescue work for women and homes for orphaned children. She would like permission to list Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s name as one of the patrons of the sale. Helen Herron Taft has allowed her name to be used.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
Evangeline Booth is holding a sale in March to benefit rescue work for women and homes for orphaned children. She would like permission to list Theodore Roosevelt’s name as one of the patrons of the sale. Helen Herron Taft has allowed her name to be used.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
Ezra William Decoto, Probation Officer of Alameda County, was instructed to investigate conditions at the Golden Gate Orphanage and Industrial Farm run by Wilfred C. Bourne and his wife, Alice A. Bourne. This report includes testimonials from the State Board of Examiners, the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, all of whom think the management and conditions at the orphanage are positive and benefit the children living there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Congressman Gallivan in which Roosevelt enumerates the various individuals and causes to which he has directed his Nobel Peace Prize money. Roosevelt lists the charity or work, the individual whom he wishes to see distribute the funds, and the amount of the award.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1918-08-22
Christopher G. Ruess, Chief Probation Officer of the County of Alameda, California, praises the work of C. Wilfred Bourne and Alice A. Bourne at the Golden Gate Orphanage. Ruess was pleasantly surprised by the good discipline and naturalness of life at the orphanage, and says that he is in the habit of recommending to the court that orphans get sent there when religion and temperament do not prevent it, and has not regretted this yet. He wishes that wealthy people knew of the good work the Bournes have been doing there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-30
Theodore Roosevelt returns to Edith Wyatt a manuscript about the exploitation of women, “the saddest, and most perplexing, problem we have to face.” He laments that merely abolishing brothels and professional prostitution is not adequate, as evidenced in Sweden and in Vermont, where there is “lamentably widespread sexual immorality, and self-sale of the most callous kind” by women raised in respectable homes. Roosevelt comments that he was taught that chastity was as much the duty of the man as the woman. He abhors excusing the man and letting the blame fall on women. Roosevelt hopes to help through organizations such as the Salvation Army.
1912-12-15
A man beating a large drum and a woman playing the cymbals in a street in the middle of the night disturb the sleep of everyone in the neighborhood. The drum is labeled “Salvation Army.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-06-30