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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mary A. Lockwood for her knitted jacket. He tells her she has a fine soldier’s record in her family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-01
Wililiam Loeb sends Assistant Secretary of War Oliver a request from Douglas Robinson regarding the two sons of Henry Corn who are in the 13th Cavalry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-11
Theodore Roosevelt received John St. Loe Strachey’s letter after Roosevelt published his article on “hyphenated Americanism.” He congratulates Strachey on his son-in-law’s military service. He informs Strachey that he will never again run for public office, but will continue speaking and writing while the World War is ongoing and will then retire.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-10-09
President Roosevelt directs Acting Secretary of War Oliver to commute the sentence of a soldier. Given the circumstances that the soldier’s wife was pregnant and was on the point of having her baby, Roosevelt feels that while the soldier committed a fault, the sentence as was given is excessive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt writes of Edith Roosevelt sending her first typewritten letter, how pleased they with Grace Stackpole Lockwood Roosevelt and their other daughter-in-laws, of visits from various military men, the training of the national guard and how proud Roosevelt is of his sons.
1917-09-01
William H. Altman sends Vice President Roosevelt some papers and “relics” he obtained from Roosevelt’s saddlebag and haversack while he was working at the Rock Island Arsenal, where equipment from Roosevelt’s troops were received for repairs after the troops returned from Cuba. Altman explains that he comes from “fighting stock,” gives a list of relatives who have served as soldiers, and asks for a remembrance from Roosevelt. Altman offers to send Roosevelt a copy of Rock Island Arsenal: In Peace and In War, if he does not already have one.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-02-27