Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Henry P. Curtis describes a recent publication on European natural history that he believes Theodore Roosevelt might be interested in. He explains how many towns were named after the animals that once resided there, such as Wolverhampton (wolves).

Curtis also shares with Roosevelt that his father was a Whig, while Curtis is a Republican. He expresses admiration for Senator John Sherman, discusses his political adversaries, and wishes that Sherman, Alexander Hamilton, and Daniel Webster could have been presidents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-15

President Roosevelt leans out towards the crowd as he delivers his speech. The area is decorated with American flags draped over the building.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-01-02

Creator(s)

Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920

President Roosevelt begins his letter to Cecil Spring Rice discussing the presidential election and how Alton B. Parker and the Democratic Party chose to campaign. Roosevelt mentions his plans to send Ambassador to Italy George von Lengerke Meyer to St. Petersburg, and spends the rest of the letter discussing Japan and Russia. The Japanese government treats Americans well, while Russia has treated the United States, England, and Japan poorly. However, Roosevelt believes the Japanese Army groups all white men together and considers such men inferior to themselves, as evidenced by the experience of American military attachés in Japan. The president opines that Russia is the main enemy of Japan, as long as it focuses on China, Korea, and Manchuria. However, if Japan desires to become a maritime power, it could threaten the United States, England, and the Netherlands. Roosevelt concludes his letter by saying, “[W]e must trust in the Lord and keep our powder dry and our eyes open.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt details the numerous accomplishments of Secretary of State Elihu Root to Andrew Carnegie. Roosevelt makes clear that while the successes occurred during his administration, the credit for State Department efforts firmly belongs to Root, especially as they relate to world peace. Roosevelt is unable to give a speech in Norway, as the request came after he accepted three speaking engagements in Europe and rejected all others.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt conveys best wishes to Major Boynton and the Society of the Army of the Cumberland reunion, and expresses his high regard of the society, its past and present members, and legacy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

The Roosevelts enjoyed General Dodge’s visit, especially the stories of his experiences with Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman during the Civil War. President Roosevelt believes that if these stories were written down they would make the best book that has been written about the Civil War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is pleased that Augustus Saint-Gaudens is not opposing Edward Kemeys, as Roosevelt is a fan of Kemeys’s “wild beast figures.” Roosevelt was pleased with the Ulysses Grant statue selection but believes that Saint-Gaudens’s statue of General Sherman is the “greatest statue of a commander in existence.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Katherine E. Gunkle describes the physical suffering her father, William H. Gunkle, experienced while serving as a surgeon during the Civil War. His consequent poor health left him unable to work and she was left to care for herself upon his death ten years after his discharge. However, her declining health makes her uncertain how she will continue working. She asks Theodore Roosevelt to petition Congress on her behalf for a pension.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-20

Creator(s)

Gunkle, Katherine E., 1854-1933

L. J. Wright is glad to have seen Theodore Roosevelt again and shares the “many strange things” that have occurred since she last saw him in Springfield, Illinois. She hopes that Roosevelt will be able to help her sons better positions and wages. She informs Roosevelt that she and her family feel that “every thing goes wrong since you are no longer at the head of the nation.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-06

Creator(s)

Wright, L. J.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-06

Creator(s)

Fitzpatrick, Z. I.

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

Joel Chandler Harris provides a biographical sketch of his life to Erastus Brainerd, giving details of his youth and how he came to write his stories featuring Uncle Remus.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1885

Creator(s)

Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908

Augusta Saint-Gaudens tells President Roosevelt that she and her son, Homer Saint-Gaudens, greatly appreciated the tribute that Roosevelt gave to her late husband, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at his memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-18

Creator(s)

Saint-Gaudens, Augusta

De Alva Stanwood Alexander asks President Roosevelt if he could explain why, in 1884, it was not possible for Republicans to nominate someone other than James Gillespie Blaine for president. Alexander is doing research for a new volume of his Political History of the State of New York, and has found a letter that seems to suggest that there was a possibility that someone other than Blaine could have been nominated if various opposition groups had joined forces. Alexander praises Roosevelt’s recent article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-15

Creator(s)

Alexander, De Alva Stanwood, 1845-1925

Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt on the diplomatic efforts of Canadian politician William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has been meeting with various members of the British government. King has been implying that Roosevelt is apprehensive about Japanese hostility, but Reid is denying this and says instead that Roosevelt is merely annoyed. He also updates Roosevelt on his travel plans and his hope that he will get to visit the King to convey a message from the winner of the King’s Cup.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-20

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Jacob Riis describes the construction of a women’s college near Lynchburg, Virginia. Riis endorses J. Milandner Ceit who is applying for a consulship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-12

Creator(s)

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

Postcard showing a neoclassical building, the United States Treasury, in the background with an equestrian statue of General William T. Sherman in the foreground.

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Washington News Company

James B. Martin examines the tumultuous relationship between Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles and President Theodore Roosevelt during the first two years of Roosevelt’s administration. Martin details Miles’s impressive record as a field officer, earning the Medal of Honor during the Civil War, and he shows how he was not as well prepared to fight bureaucratic battles in Washington, D.C., as the Commanding General of the Army. Martin looks at the issues that caused a breach between Miles and Roosevelt, including Miles’s criticism of American actions in the Philippines. Martin covers the role played by Secretaries of War Russell A. Alger and Elihu Root, and he lays most of the blame for the Miles-Roosevelt dispute at the feet of Miles, but he does note that Roosevelt’s large ego and decision not to forcibly retire Miles contributed to the feud.

Photographs of Miles and Root appear in the article. An article box on page eleven notes that this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal is dedicated to Oliver R. Grace.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987

In a letter to the editor, Edward P. Moses states that the Senate Committee of Education will hear Senator John Houk’s bill providing for the collection, transcription, publication, and distribution of materials relating to Tennessee history on the following Monday. He discusses how many books on history were possible because of manuscript collections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-23

Creator(s)

Moses, Edward P. (Edward Pearson), 1857-1948

President Roosevelt must decline Grenville M. Dodge’s invitation to the reunion of the Society of the Army of Tennessee. However, Roosevelt expresses his respect for the “men of that great army” and wishes he could meet General O. O. Howard, the only living commander, and the descendants of other important Civil War generals. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919