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Miller Freeman sends Theodore Roosevelt a clipping on the Panama Canal and discusses the Canal’s impact on the population of Seattle, Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-26
Edwin F. Sellers invites Theodore Roosevelt to address the Traffic Club of Philadelphia at their fourth annual dinner. The club has over 300 members consisting of railroad officials and industrial traffic managers. Sellers mentions his father, Major Edwin E. Sellers, and his brother, Lieutenant Commander David Foote Sellers, who was one of Roosevelt’s naval aides during his first administration as President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-05
Theodore Roosevelt feels that the flooding from the Mississippi River must be dealt with by the nation as a whole and by all the states that share its watershed. Roosevelt writes that had recommendations from the Inland Watershed Commission been followed damage would have been averted. If elected president, Roosevelt will commence a comprehensive study of the Mississippi River focused on the River’s economical and ecological usefulness, impacting transportation, housing, food production, and emigration. Roosevelt supports conservation policies and the 14-Foot Waterway Board of Army Engineers plan to construct an efficient, extensive canal and levee system.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-06
Theodore Roosevelt invites William A. Prendergast and his wife to Oyster Bay via his secretary. He suggests that Prendergast can take a train leaving Pennsylvania Station to Long Island if Prendergast wishes not to drive.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Dr. Brush that he need not worry about providing transportation for Theodore Roosevelt on Memorial Day. Roosevelt’s secretary has scheduled the commemorations in Newark to begin at eleven o’clock so that Roosevelt may reach Claremont at eleven forty-five. A car will be supplied in Newark to take Roosevelt to Claremont.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-01
An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The act stipulates funding for salaries of ambassadors and ministers, salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations, contingent expenses, foreign missions, and a number of international bureaus and commissions among other things.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28
President Roosevelt will arrange for a private car to bring Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Ted Roosevelt, and Kermit Roosevelt home; as long as Edith thinks it will be safe for the young children to be around the sick boys.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-11
President Roosevelt met with Senator Platt regarding John Thomas McDonough. Government transportation should be arranged for McDonough and his family to San Francisco, California.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-06
Mark L. H. Odea shares with Theodore Roosevelt the plans of the newly formed See America First Association, which intends to bolster American tourism education and revenue. Odea asks Roosevelt for his views on the subject, in addition to any suggestions he might have.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-06
George E. Megee gives Theodore Roosevelt an extensive history of himself, including his financial troubles revolving around a steam boat vessel which was destroyed in an incident involving night watchmen. Megee feels he has been unjustly treated, and is frustrated with how his local authorities and his country broadly-speaking have handled the situation. He asks Roosevelt for advice and/or assistance in this matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-31
Frederic W. Brown explains why he has sent Theodore Roosevelt an enclosed newspaper article, saying that he believes that the issue it addresses is a national one. Brown is working to gather supporters to work on the issue of improving transportation facilities in New Orleans, and asks Roosevelt if he would offer his support to the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03
William Augustus Patton, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, tells William Loeb that there will be no objection to the man who is accompanying the horse riding in the caboose of the train, but asks for the exact date of the shipment to make sure that this is able to work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-28
Secretary of War Taft asks President Roosevelt if the USS Dolphin or USS Mayflower would pick up him and his staff when they arrive in Hampton Roads, Virginia, and take them back to Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-12
Before President Roosevelt gives his planned “The Man with the Muckrake” speech, Frank Putnam of National Magazine asks him to read an article which he believes demonstrates that there is genuine, widespread resentment about economic oppression throughout the country. Putnam admires Roosevelt and believes that he could play a role in the “Third Revolution,” which will free people from “industrial bondage.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-11
Herbert H. D. Peirce wants to know if he has the President’s authority in making daily transportation arrangements for the Peace Plenipotentiaries and delegates.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-25
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Postcard showing a Chinese woman sitting in a rickshaw being pulled by a Chinese man. Dragon motifs are visible in the top corners. Charles C. Myers comments on Chinese women’s use of rickshaws.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Chinese Rickshaw, similar to Japanese Rick-i-sha and used the same. In addition to this the Chinese use the sedan chair, which is a sort of chair with poles attached to it so as two or four men can carry it. This sort of a chair is used to carry fashionable women to their places of worship as their feet are so small and deformed by the use of wooden shoes that they can walk but very little. But for facial expression, I saw some Chinese women that were very good looking all except their eyes.”
Article on the transport workers’ strikes that have been going on in London since the middle of June.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-01