Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903

Theodore Roosevelt does not think William W. Morrow will find his speech obnoxious when he sees it in The Outlook. He agrees with Morrow’s statements about judges. However, judges in New York tend to declare laws unconstitutional even though they are upheld in other states and by the Chief Justice. He does not want these judges recalled but wants a way for the people to deliberate and pursue an industrial policy if desired.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt declines a request from Truxton Beale to write a critique of Herbert Spencer’s writing. It has been many years since he read his writing and he would need months of study to write something serious.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-04-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Charles Bonaparte wrote to Episcopalian Bishop William Lawrence about the concerns expressed by people about giving Senator Henry Cabot Lodge an honorary degree from Harvard.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-09

Creator(s)

Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921

Charles C. Goetsch examines the legal, philosophical, and political dispute between Theodore Roosevelt and Simeon E. Baldwin, a Yale Law School professor, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and Governor of Connecticut. He details the conservative legal outlook of Baldwin and how this view clashed with the progressive political beliefs of Roosevelt. Goetsch shows how a legal dispute over the constitutionality of the Federal Employers Liability Act extended from the courts to the 1910 election campaign where Roosevelt’s rhetoric prompted Baldwin to consider a libel suit against the former president.

Two pictures, one of Simeon E. Baldwin and the other of Theodore Roosevelt speaking from the platform of a train car, are included in the article.

A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is included in the article as well as an advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank of Garden City, New York.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

In his article for Ladies’ Home Journal, Theodore Roosevelt describes the benefits of reading and provides advice on how to get people of any age interested in reading “serious literature.” Roosevelt elaborates on his reading habits and book selection processes, which stem from both his current mood and educational desires.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1915-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Herbert Spencer appears as a statue of a large dog at the entrance to a public building emitting rays of light labeled “Science.” Many diminutive men, wearing over-sized top hats, scamper about with ladders and muzzles in an attempt to silence Spencer’s views on religion and science. On a nearby flagpole hangs a banner that states “Freedom of Thought.” Caption: “The Society for the Suppression of Blasphemous Literature proposes to get up cases against Professors Huxley and Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and others who, by their writings, have sown widespread unbelief, and in some cases rank atheism.” Tel. London, March 5, 1883.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-03-14

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

Volume I, Number 6 of the newspaper, “a National Journal devoted to Politics, Literature and Finance.” This issue includes a portion of an address on federalism by Alexander Del Mar given before the Liberal Club of New York City, as well as details of the debate that followed Del Mar’s remarks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1873-02-22

Language

English