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Ambassador Choate thanks President Roosevelt for offering him the opportunity to remain as ambassador until Choate can personally dedicate his memorial window to John Harvard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-10
Ambassador Choate expresses his gratitude after six years of service and submits his letter of resignation to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-12
The Democratic Donkey, as a woman, sits in a pew in a church with William Jennings Bryan preaching “Jeffersonian Simplicity” from a pulpit. On Bryan’s left are Alton B. Parker, Henry Watterson, and William Randolph Hearst, and among those on his right are New York City Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., former Representative Tom Watson of Georgia, Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, and Senator “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman. All are preaching except Hearst, who righteously looks up to the heavens. In the background, the sun illuminates a stained glass window labeled “Our Thomas” and showing Thomas Jefferson. In a far corner of the church, Grover Cleveland is asleep. Caption: The Democratic Donkey (drowsily) — He-e-e Haw! What a lot of ways to be saved!
If “politics makes strange bedfellows,” the calendar can make them even stranger. Puck Magazine, generally and justly considered a Democratic journal for most of its life, placed itself in agreement with many of the policies of the new president, Theodore Roosevelt, after the assassination of President William McKinley. That is, until the presidential election year of 1904.
An excerpt from a letter Quentin Roosevelt wrote about traveling in France during the summer of 1909. He discusses seeing a flying show, Notre Dame, and the Louvre. He does not like French train travel and discusses subjects of photographs he has captured with his camera.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1909
Secretary of State Hay writes to President Roosevelt that Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate will be heartbroken if he has to leave London before June, but the incoming ambassador, Whitelaw Reid, wishes to start in May. Hay also writes that John La Farge says the Harvard window will be ready in time, but Hay doubts that it will be.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-20
Postcard showing a close-up view of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Pedestrians are visible in front of the cathedral. Charles C. Myers discusses the dimensions of the cathedral and the pipe organ. He comments on the stained glass depicting the life of Christ and the statues of Adam and Eve.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Here is the Notre Dame at closer range. It is one of the oldest Cathedrals in the world being founded in 1182. The foundation was laid by Pope Alexander 3rd then a refugee in France. The inside measurements of this building is 417 ft long, 156 ft wide and 112 ft high. The roof is supported by 75 large stone columns 4 ft in diameter and 112 ft long and also 108 smaller ones of different lengths. The two rows of large columns are set farther apart at the top so that when you look up they seem to be parallel. The great pipe organ was built in 1750 and has over 6000 pipes and 5 key boards. It was the largest in the world at the time it was built. On either side of the chapel are two circular windows 42 ft in diameter. These windows are of stained glass and representing scenes during the life of Christ and are of note as they are the only circular windows of the kind and size in the world. The Notre Dame is also the only church in the world having life size statues representing Adam and Eve. This church is built entirely according to the old Gothic style of architecture and is indeed very interesting.”
“News and Notes” reports on the donation and delivery of six stained glass windows for the chapel onboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. The windows were donated by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and four religious denominations from Oyster Bay, New York, and feature scenes from the Bible and other religious themes. The section also notes the passing of Hamilton Fish who was a recent recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal. “News and Notes” provides a biography of Fish and remarks upon the other recent winners of the medal. Other topics covered include promotion of the TRA’s genealogy of the Roosevelt family; a text box “About the Theodore Roosevelt Association” that relays some of the history and mission of the TRA; a change in the leadership of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site; and an announcement that the next annual meeting of the TRA will be held at Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia.
Photographs of three of the stained glass windows, as well as one of the carrier, join three photographs of Fish and a drawing of Theodore Roosevelt’s head as illustrations in the section.