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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Walter H. Foster

Theodore Roosevelt informs Walter H. Foster that Charles Sumner Bird will not consider running for office. Roosevelt accepts this decision as final and thus will not publicly comment on it. Roosevelt feels it best that he stay out of the political arena, remarking that the only state in which the Progressives won in the last year was California where Roosevelt did not enter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Van Benschoten

Theodore Roosevelt asks William H. Van Benschoten if he can read the things said about William Barnes by Collier’s Weekly and McClure’s Magazine. The magazines asked Barnes why he had never sued them for libel. Roosevelt also hopes that he can meet with Van Benschoten soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Memorandum from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Perkins

Theodore Roosevelt feels that people are not interested in his opinions on President Wilson or in what he or any other Progressive says about a tariff commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Henry Barry

President Roosevelt returns Ian Hamilton’s book to General Barry. He found the book interesting and thinks that Americans could study it to their advantage. Every officer who will handle artillery or infantry in action should carefully read Hamilton’s account of the experiences of the Japanese and Russians during the Russo-Japanese War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Winthrop Murray Crane

President Theodore Roosevelt requests a visit from Governor Winthrop Murray Crane to consult on election strategy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Military record of Albert Leopold Mills

This document reports the significant moments in Albert Leopold Mills’s military career. Highlights include his extensive career as a military instructor, his involvement in campaigns against the Crow and Sioux, as well as the battles at Santiago and Las Guasimas in Cuba, and his receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Colonel John W. Vrooman reports in a letter to William Loeb, which encloses this document, that this copy represents what was contained within the “beautiful engrossed album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a handsome leather cover.” The album was a souvenir at the Union League Club dinner celebrating General Mills on August 29, 1906.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-06

Creator(s)

Vrooman, John W. (John Wright), 1844-1929

Letter from Gherardi Davis to Theodore Roosevelt

Davis writes President Roosevelt to give him a worker’s perspective on how the gubernatorial election campaign of William Randolph Hearst, whose election he thinks inconceivable. Davis worries that there might be a bad showing upstate. He believes that workers were more interested in Charles Evans Hughes’s ideas on political economy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-27

Creator(s)

Davis, Gherardi, 1858-1941

Letter from Ralph M. Easley to William Loeb

Ralph M. Easley shares with William Loeb the sentiments that a “very important labor man” expressed to him, feelings purportedly shared among all of the labor advocates who support Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Evans Hughes of New York. These men hope that Representative Joseph Gurney Cannon will not be brought into the campaign. Those Cannon would influence already oppose Democratic candidate William Randolph Hearst and, because of his conflict with Samuel Gompers, Cannon could do more harm than good.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-10

Creator(s)

Easley, Ralph M. (Ralph Montgomery), 1858-

Letter from Jacob Sleeper to Elihu Root

Jacob Sleeper, the chargé d’affaires in Cuba, informs Secretary of State Root that the Cuban government’s Amnesty Order had little effect and the rebellion is still active. Sleeper believes that rebel leader Faustino Guerra is waiting for the Cuban government to make the first move, but the government is lacking in men and arms. It is rumored that Colonel Emilio Ávalos y Acosta will attack Guerra’s command near the Bay of Cortez to open up a waterway in case Western Railroad service is interrupted, as Guerra has been threatening to dynamite its bridges. There are rumors of a lack of harmony between the Cuban President and Vice President in regards to patronage and the conduct of the war. Rebel leader Ernesto Asbert is threatening to burn foreign properties unless the government accedes to their demands.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-30

Creator(s)

Sleeper, Jacob, 1869-1930

Letter from Joseph Gurney Cannon to Theodore Roosevelt

Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon assures President Theodore Roosevelt that he played no role in the publication of a recent cartoon in the Washington Post and has told anyone who spoke to him about it that the drawing has “no foundation in fact.” The cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman depicts Roosevelt telling Cannon “You will be President,” but Cannon wants Roosevelt to know that he lacks “the Presidential bee” and is focused solely on the upcoming midterm elections. So that the cartoon does not become a distraction to the nation, Cannon wonders if Roosevelt wants him to release a rebuttal or simply ignore it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-23

Creator(s)

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926

Letter from Joseph Gurney Cannon to Theodore Roosevelt

Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon tells President Roosevelt that he did not know of Roosevelt’s suggestions before delivering his speech, but he still thinks the speech was close to Roosevelt’s proposal. Cannon describes the part of his speech that spoke about tariff revision and explains his thoughts on when the matter should be broached by the Republican Party. He also shares the pressure within his home state of Illinois for him to run for President in 1908 and drop out of the House of Representatives now.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-17

Creator(s)

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926

Letter from Frederick Dent Grant to Theodore Roosevelt

Major General Grant writes to President Roosevelt regarding a meeting with Lieutenant Colonel William W. Wotherspoon and their discussion of various military issues in the Philippines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-26

Creator(s)

Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912

General McClellan’s dream

Transcript of an article that appeared in the Evening Courier of Portland, Maine. Article was by Wesley Bradshaw (pen name of Charles Wesley Alexander) and recounts the story of General George McClellan’s vision of George Washington warning him of the imminent advance of Confederate troops on Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1862-03-08

Creator(s)

Alexander, Charles Wesley, 1837-1927

Letter from Charles Oman to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles Oman thanks President Roosevelt for recommending the writings of David-Leon Cahun, and discusses historical military strategies from the Mongols, the Islamic Empire in the 13th century, and horsebowman, in particular.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-22

Creator(s)

Oman, Charles, 1860-1946

Letter from John Callan O’Laughlin

John Callan O’Laughlin met with President Roosevelt and discussed potential outcomes of the Japanese and Russian conflict. If Vice Admiral Rojestvenksy’s fleet is believed to be strong by the government, then Roosevelt has no concern. However, if the fleet is weak, Roosevelt advises considering the effect upon Vladivostock. Count Cassini indicated he would bring Roosevelt’s views to the Russians.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-02-09

Creator(s)

O'Laughlin, John Callan, 1873-1949

Letter from George W. Melville to Theodore Roosevelt

Rear Admiral Melville believes that the United States should hold or own the islands at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. Although it may be difficult to acquire Curacao from Holland, he believes the other islands can be purchased from Columbia if the United States offers a good price.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-15

Creator(s)

Melville, George W. (George Wallace), 1841-1912

Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt

John Campbell Greenway recalls an incident after the Battle of San Juan Hill where it was suggested that the troops be withdrawn from their positions.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1913-09-13

Creator(s)

Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. Cameron Forbes

President Roosevelt was sorry to hear about Major George M. Barber, but comments that “a man who gets drunk at such a time and under such circumstances is utterly useless.” He thanks W. Cameron Forbes for what he tried to do for James Andrew Drain, and was interested to read Forbes’s account of his work with Governor-General of the Philippines Henry C. Ide. Roosevelt believes Lieutenant General Henry Clark Corbin’s plan to merge troops is a good one.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-07-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Hermann Speck von Sternburg to Theodore Roosevelt

A prominent member of the German foreign office is advocating for Hermann Speck von Sternburg’s return to a position in Washington, D.C. Sternburg is traveling to central India to view the British military maneuvers. He is interested to see the military developments since the South African War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-12-01

Creator(s)

Sternburg, Hermann Speck von, Freiherr, 1852-1908