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Felix Agnus asks President Roosevelt not to render his decision in the Schley case before Admiral Schley’s counsel has submitted their appeal. The appeal will contain vital facts that have not yet been presented and will be ready early the next week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-15
St. Clair McKelway describes to President Roosevelt a conversation he had with Rear Admiral Albert Smith Barker, who was very pleased with the appointment of Captain Charles E. Clark to represent the United States at King Edward’s coronation. Barker also commented on Roosevelt’s intended action regarding the Sampson-Schley controversy. Barker admires Sampson but acknowledged that it was unfortunate Schley was “the only man on whom the searchlights were turned.” McKelway asserts that while Barker is a man of broad mind, the navy needs to be saved from cliques which might prevent Roosevelt’s administration from doing what it ought.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-15
Paul Dana sends an enclosure from Charles Stewart Davison regarding the Schley case. Davison has closely studied the case and Dana suggests that Senator Lodge provide another angle to bring the information to President Roosevelt’s attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-18
George Edward Graham appreciates being consulted on the Schley case. He assures President Roosevelt that under no circumstances will he allow his personal relationship with Admiral Schley to influence his advice.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-20
Senator Lodge encloses an important letter from Paul Dana of the New York Sun and a memorandum of the Schley case prepared by Charles Stewart Davison for President Roosevelt’s attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-21
After receiving President Roosevelt’s letter, Benjamin F. Tracy decided not to publish an article regarding the Schley controversy and instead sends it to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-07
Paul Dana encloses an item related to the Schley case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-07
The court of inquiry failed on one point by passing over Admiral Winfield Scott Schley’s dishonesty towards Lieutenant A. C. Hodgson as only an “injustice.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-07
Brander Matthews has received a letter from his friend Leigh Hunt who is in Shanghai and wanted to express his support for President Roosevelt. Matthews approves of Roosevelt’s actions in the “Schley squabble.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-29
The Schley-Sampson controversy has been settled by the court of inquiry and the matter should now be dropped.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Elihu Root were correct in reprimanding General Nelson Appleton Miles for speaking out publicly regarding the Schley controversy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Admiral Schley and his advisers should accept the decision of the court of inquiry. President Roosevelt has made his opinion known in the past and the country is tired of the dispute.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Curtis Guild relates the events of the Tavern Club’s annual Christmas festival and sends the words of a singing “gag” related to the Miles and Schley incidents. All “decent Democrats” and most of the newspapers in Boston have praised President Roosevelt and Secretary of War Root regarding the incidents. Guild wishes that Winthrop Murray Crane could have accepted the position as Secretary of the Treasury.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-24
Benjamin F. Tracy thanks President Roosevelt for the dismissal of Edgar S. Maclay after Maclay’s literary attack against Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-23
William Emlen Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for arranging the letters of introduction for his acquaintances. He has been following the Schley matter but offers no advice. The will of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt has been decided satisfactorily.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-23
At the request of President Roosevelt, Edgar Stanton Maclay agrees to resign his position as special laborer in the Office of the General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, New York. He concludes by defending his book, History of the United States Navy, which has created controversy due to a passage regarding Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-23
Secretary of the Navy Long defends the Navy Department’s treatment of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-19
Ambassador Storer supports the negotiations in Rome and hopes that once the treaty is complete he can leave Madrid. Storer has read President Roosevelt’s message and the Schley decision. He apologizes for his letters of “criticism and complaint.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-18
Benjamin F. Tracy defends Admiral Dewey and the judgment of the court of inquiry which was examining Admiral Schley’s conduct at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-27
Article argues that Edgar Stanton Maclay was unfairly discharged from his government position for a section of his book disparaging Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-27