Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and George Otto Trevelyan at Welcombe Stratford on Avon.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-06-04

President Roosevelt is looking forward to visiting Arthur Hamilton Lee while in England. If Roosevelt visits in the fall he would be pleased to visit Lee’s hunting lodge, and he details his experiences in deer stalking and fox hunting. Roosevelt agrees with Lee on international athletics and finds that such competition often ends in an unhealthy bitterness. Roosevelt will read The Quarterly, in particular the article on Germany, and he has things to say to Lee in person rather than on paper.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

G. P. Putnam and Sons are sending a copy of England Under the Stuarts by George Macaulay Trevelyan in accordance with instructions received from his father, Sir George Otto Trevelyan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-04

Creator(s)

G. P. Putnam & Sons

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Viscount Grey for his letter and sympathizes with his party’s political situation. Roosevelt has no regrets about losing the 1912 presidential election but worries that not seizing the current opportunity to fight for social and industrial justice will have negative ramifications in the future. Changing topics, Roosevelt writes about the need to fight on heroically after an attempted assassination, recounting his own story about finishing his speech. Finally, Roosevelt is relieved that Sir Cecil Spring-Rice is likely to succeed Ambassador James Bryce.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt sends David Gray a letter from George Otto Trevelyan, which he requests be returned. He wants Gray to spend the night at Oyster Bay so they can discuss matters.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the book and Albert Henry George Grey’s inscription in it. He is happy to entertain Grey and his daughter if they return to North America. Roosevelt wishes for a full evening’s conversation with Grey, Edward Grey, and George Otto Trevelyan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes Clara S. Hay from The Outlook office that he does not remember anything about a vase to Lord Alverstone. Roosevelt, Elihu Root, and Henry Cabot Lodge once sent a vase or a loving cup to Sir George Otto Trevelyan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-09-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Delamere, Florence Anne Cole, Lady, 1878-1914

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Viscount Grey for his letter and sympathizes with his party’s political situation. Roosevelt has no regrets about losing the 1912 presidential election but worries not seizing the current opportunity to fight for social and industrial justice will have negative ramifications in the future. Changing topics, Roosevelt writes to Viscount Grey about the need to fight on heroically after an attempted assassination, recounting his own story about finishing his speech. Finally, Roosevelt is relieved that Sir Cecil Spring-Rice is looking like the man likely to succeed Ambassador Bryce.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he is welcome to show his letter to William Garrott Brown. Roosevelt was “genuinely shocked” to see what Brown wrote. Roosevelt believes that a comment in George Otto Trevelyan’s The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay applies to people who are trying to “write a national anthem to order.” Roosevelt feels that Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” would be a fine national anthem. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt thanks Gilder for the volume of poems, which arrived as he was signing this letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Harriet Douglas Robinson Wolryche-Whitmore for her letter, and wishes that she and her husband Henry could have attended the dedication. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing them when he is in England in a year, but notes that he has had to decline a number of invitations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott to tell his son, Lawrence F. Abbott, that he will write to him soon. Roosevelt will show Abbott’s letter to William H. Taft because he would like to discuss the matter with him before he answers. He also sends Abbott a letter from George Otto Trevelyan that he thinks will interest Abbott.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks James Ford Rhodes for the letter, and says he values it very highly. He sends him a copy of a letter that he sent to George Otto Trevelyan.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks John Carter Rose for the letter, and thinks that they share the same theory of governmental power. Roosevelt believes that the United States needs a strong executive, but only for a limited term.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

William Loeb forwards Secretary of State Root copies of letters that President Roosevelt wrote to George Otto Trevelyan and Charles D. Walcott, as well as a copy of Root’s own telegram to Secretary of War William H. Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-20

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

President Roosevelt found Ambassador White’s letter interesting. He wishes he could see George Otto Trevelyan, and says that he admires Prime Minister H. H. Asquith more than late Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Roosevelt has asked Congress for four battleships, because he knew he would not be able to get two unless he pushed for four. He believes White’s reading of the Kaiser-Tower-Hill case was accurate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt introduces British statesman and writer George Otto Trevelyan to American Ambassador Griscom. He finds it “nonsense” to introduce him to an American, for Trevelyan is “one of the men whom all good Americans delight to honor.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-12-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Root, Elihu, 1845-1937

Language

English

President Roosevelt thanks George Haven Putnam for the book on Alexander Hamilton by Frederick Scott Oliver, and says that he greatly enjoyed reading it. Roosevelt largely agrees with the book, but feels that, although he is no fan of Thomas Jefferson, the book did not do him justice.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt praises Martha Baker Dunn’s essays and also thanks her for sending him the Walt Whitman poem, which he had never seen before. They seem to have similar taste in poetry. He has sent her work, along with that of William De Witt Hyde, to George Otto Trevelyan to “show him that there are Americans who write things worth reading.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919