Letter from Agnes Lackey to Theodore Roosevelt
Agnes Lackey invites Theodore Roosevelt to be a speaker at the March 1912 school teacher’s meeting if he is available.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-10-14
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School superintendents
Letter from Mathew W. Quinn to Theodore Roosevelt
On behalf of the New York Schoolmasters Club, Matthew W. Quinn invites Theodore Roosevelt to be guest of honor and make an address on any subject Roosevelt might choose. The club has had many distinguished speakers and they believe an address by Roosevelt would highly honored. Quinn remembers Roosevelt signing a relief measure to provide salaries for the teachers in Queens when the city failed to provide.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-10-05
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Regis Henri Post
President Roosevelt is reluctant to tell Puerto Rico Governor Post that he has seen reports about Post’s controversial address to a conference of school superintendents. These remarks have caused great concern and Roosevelt has consulted with former Governor of Puerto Rico Beekman Winthrop, Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield, and Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte over the matter. If Post can deny all the remarks, Roosevelt will conduct an investigation to clear him. However, if the reports are substantially true, Post should resign, as it would be doubtful he would be confirmed as governor by the Senate.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-11-02
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Regis Henri Post and Puerto Rico school superintendents
An unknown witness relates an incident in which he reports that a likely-inebriated Governor of Puerto Rico Regis Henri Post unleashed a slew of verbal abuse on the Puerto Rico School Superintendents, with particular acrimony aimed at Assistant Commissioner of Education Everett W. Lord. One redacted section quotes Post accusing the superintendents of being the second largest cause of anti-American sentiment in Puerto Rico, behind only the missionaries. The recounting of Post’s attempts to apologize the next day does not suggest the superintendents were willing to forgive Post.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-11-28