Telegraph

Telegram to Henry Cabot Lodge

A letter sent “by direction of President Roosevelt” provides Senator Lodge the text of a telegram the president sent to Augustus Peabody Gardner. In the telegram, Roosevelt stated that bringing about the resolution could cause damage to both Lodge and Secretary of War William H. Taft if it is beaten. Even the introduction of the resolution would damage Lodge on a state and national level. As such, Roosevelt advised that the resolution be abandoned and said Gardner can quote him on that.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt shares several communications he has had with Augustus Peabody Gardner regarding efforts being made on behalf of William H. Taft’s nomination for the presidency. Roosevelt believes the resolution Gardner wished to introduce would harm both Senator Lodge and Taft, and he has advised against it.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John J. McCook

President Roosevelt tells John J. McCook that he does not need to come to Washington, D.C., as he already knows of the situation. If circumstances arise that give Roosevelt questions, he will telegraph McCook at once.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Curtis Guild

President Roosevelt thanks Curtis Guild, Governor of Massachusetts, for the telegram. He appreciated a recent speech that Guild gave.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt about an incident that happened in the State Department. President José Pardo y Barreda sent a telegram to Roosevelt, but Roosevelt never saw it, as Alvey A. Adee drafted a stock reply to it. Adee used a phrase that attracted significant criticism in the press, and Roosevelt could not explain the matter without revealing that he never saw the telegram in the first place. Roosevelt directed that no one should sign his name for him anymore in the future. President Roosevelt comments to Kermit about a quote from Charles Dickens that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge had sent him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to the Department of State

President Roosevelt provides a slight reprimand to the State Department for having sent a telgram to President José Pardo Y Barreda of Peru without first checking with him. He objects to the form of the telegram, and feels that some of the wording should not have been used, as they have drawn criticism from several newspapers. He asks that any similar future telegrams be submitted to him before being sent.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-02-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis J. Heney

President Roosevelt congratulates Francis J. Heney for the work he has been doing prosecuting governmental corruption in San Francisco with Rudolph Spreckels, District Attorney William Henry Langdon, and Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor. Next time they meet in person, Roosevelt hopes to speak with Heney about injuries he has done Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of War Taft if he knows anything about the City Party or the “lunatic” who sent the enclosed telegram, John Baker Keys, whom Roosevelt dimly remembers. Roosevelt wonders if the Roosevelt Club has anything to do with this City Party, and asks Taft if it is time to sever all connections with the club.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-01

Telegraph from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

“I approve.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Letter from William Loeb to Emil C. Wetten

William Loeb encloses a telegram which Emil C. Wetten may read at the Hamilton Club of Chicago’s banquet.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-04

Telegraph from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that General S. B. M. Young will become Superintendent of Yellowstone Park.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-08

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt feel a telegram is not enough to express their sympathy towards Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-08

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Emil C. Wetten

President Roosevelt bids his good wishes to Emil C. Wetten and all members of the Hamilton Club. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-09

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Alford Wariner Cooley

President Roosevelt acknowledges a telegram from Assistant Attorney General Cooley and asks that he get a sworn statement from Leary. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-16

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt tells his son Theodore Roosevelt that his brother Archibald B. Roosevelt is improving from his bout of diphtheria. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-04

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Howard R. Fuller

President Roosevelt congratulates Howard R. Fuller and wishes him luck at his annual dinner.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Allen White

President Roosevelt informs William Allen White that newly appointed Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou has been reviewing the matter but as yet to determine the reductions. If legislation is not passed soon, Roosevelt will consider hiring outside accountants to thoroughly investigate the matter before he again approaches Congress.  

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethan Allen Hitchcock

President Roosevelt believes that Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot’s letter justifies the removal of “Nolan” from the Dallas, Oregon General Land Office. He asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to do so unless he has information to the contrary.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-16

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Henry Harriman

President Roosevelt is “exceedingly pleased” with the work that Union Pacific Railroad Director Harriman reported to him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-13

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James Keteltas Hackett

President Roosevelt regrets to tell James Keteltas Hackett that he cannot write a telegram to his dinner, because he receives far too many requests like these to fill them all. Hackett is a well-known actor, as was his father James Henry Hackett, and even though Roosevelt regards him as a “the son of a great man, it is not always wise to do what one would have been glad to do for the great man himself.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-06