Trevelyan, Charles Philips, Sir, 1870-1958

Theodore Roosevelt tells George Otto Trevelyan that he thought Sir Edward Grey’s speech was fine and lived up to Trevelyan’s hope that it might be worthy of Henry John Temple Palmerston with all Palmerston’s good qualities and just the sense of power Grey should convey as the English spokesman of foreign affairs.

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Roosevelt asks Otto Trevelyan to tell Charles Philips Trevelyan how fascinated he has been with the last Garibaldi volumes, however Otto Trevelyan’s son George Macaulay Trevelyan, is the author of the Garibaldi trilogy published around this time.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks and acknowledgments to George Otto Trevelyan. Roosevelt sends along copies of two of his speeches so that Trevelyan can see what Roosevelt actually said. Roosevelt thoroughly enjoyed Trevelyan’s last volume and feels that the reactionaries in the United States are just as bad as England’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

George Otto Trevelyan takes great pleasure in Theodore Roosevelt’s letters and prizes each one he receives. He comments on current politics in Great Britain. Recently, he and his wife, Caroline Philips Trevelyan, vacationed in the Swiss Alps and delighted in the landscape. His son George Macaulay Trevelyan’s new volume will be published in September, and his Parliamentarian son, Charles Philips Trevelyan, will be glad to hear from Roosevelt. Trevelyan sends his regards to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and the family. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-03

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

George Otto Trevelyan sends Christmas greetings to Theodore Roosevelt and his family. While Great Britain’s two general elections were momentous, Trevelyan will most remember the year for Roosevelt’s visit. He discusses the political happenings of the country. Trevelyan writes the last chapters of his book slowly and with great enjoyment.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-16

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

George Otto Trevelyan briefly tells President Roosevelt of some recent hunting he has done, and hopes that Roosevelt is able to visit when he is in Great Britain. Trevelyan’s son, Charles Philips Trevelyan, has told him about a recent dinner in honor of Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, which Trevelyan then relates to Roosevelt. There is a great deal of tension between the House of Lords and the Liberal Party of Great Britain, which controlled the House of Commons, but Trevelyan believes that Asquith will help the Liberal Party advance their reform agenda.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-15

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

George Otto Trevelyan was pleased to read President Roosevelt’s letter on president-elect William H. Taft’s religious opinions because Trevelyan’s wife Caroline is a also Unitarian. He outlines the history of her family’s becoming Unitarians, and notes that Unitarians used to be politically popular in Leeds. Trevelyan also notes that his son Charles, who Roosevelt had previously been very kind to, has been made Parliamentary Secretary for Education.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-20

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

George Otto Trevelyan thanks President Roosevelt for his letter, which was praised by his son Charles Philips Trevelyan. Trevelyan has been following newspaper accounts of Roosevelt’s role in dealing with Russia, and laments the problems that beset the late British Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. He is glad that Roosevelt does not have to deal with similar problems. Trevelyan sends Roosevelt a book about the 1857 mutiny in India.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-30

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928