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Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus congratulates President Roosevelt on his success in recent “humanitarian diplomacy.” Straus is confident that Roosevelt’s efforts will bring peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-14
Anna Roosevelt Cowles writes that the letter from Lizzie Reid which Cowles read to President Roosevelt is to be kept private. She also notes that Gussie Jay telegraphed his son in Constantinople about Roosevelt being re-elected, and that was the first information regarding the election to reach Constantinople.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-15
Elbert F. Baldwin recommends that President Roosevelt appoint F. Marion Crawford to the Constantinople legation because Crawford has a good understanding of customs and culture in the region and because he is a Roman Catholic. Baldwin discusses Crawford’s qualifications in detail, including mentioning his time in Turkey and India. Baldwin is acquainted with the other men suggested for this mission, but he does not believe they measure up to the same standard as Crawford does.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-25
Theodore Roosevelt wishes Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton “all possible luck and a speedy fall of Constantinople.” Roosevelt expresses confidence that, regardless of the outcome, Hamilton will have done all that is possible to achieve success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt is a “genuine lover of peace” and does not believe war is necessary to “maintain the virile qualities.” However, he believes the professional pacifists have lost these qualities and are the “very worst enemies of real peace.” Lewis Einstein currently holds an interesting position at the American embassy in Istanbul and it must be a “sad spectacle” to view the failures of the Turkish revolution. Roosevelt had hoped that Turkey could transform and lead the Muslim community into the modern world. It appears they could not.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-29
President Roosevelt explains to Albert Bushnell Hart that he took the stand he did regarding the Constantinople matter because Secretary of State Root informed him that James L. Barton and Mary Mills Patrick had misrepresented the facts. Roosevelt explains what he now believes the facts of the matter to be, as Hart is as mistaken as Roosevelt was.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-16
President Roosevelt has received the cables Secretary of State Root sent from Ambassador to Turkey John George Alexander Leishman regarding the American College for Girls in Constantinople. He suggests that Root try to show the missionaries “the folly of which they have been guilty.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-29
President Roosevelt has Harvard University President Eliot’s letter about Archibald Cary Coolidge. Currently, there is no intention to make changes in Constantinople as the current position holder (possibly William Blumenthal) is “doing his duty well.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-14
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Hay to look into reports about the American embassy in Constantinople. If present Consul General Charles Monroe Dickinson is not spending at least ten months a year at Constantinople, he must be removed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-30
President Roosevelt explains he is trying to get a legation for Romania and Serbia established. If he is successful, the post will go to Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, John Wallace Riddle. Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody he might be able to make Thomas Ewing Moore Secretary of Legation under Riddle, but he is not sure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-27
President Roosevelt thanks John S. Kennedy for the letter and agrees that the United States must have a good man at Constantinople.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-25
Cecil Spring Rice informs Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that his friend Edward Ashley Walrond Clarke, British Consul General to Zanzibar, has promised to look after President Roosevelt. He discusses the Turkish reform movement, its influences, and global impact. The British have appealed to William II, Emperor of Germany, to stop arming.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-06
Edward North Buxton, conservationist, sends President Roosevelt the book The Life of Lord Dufferin and sends his greeting to Roosevelt’s wife and daughter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-25
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Vahan Cardashian has spoken to the Turkish ambassador, Seyfettin Bey, and shares information with a reporter about the position of Turkey in the conflict with Italy. Cardashian does not believe the reasons used by the Italians justify an attack on Tripoli.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
Kermit Roosevelt and his brothers are undergoing military training in Plattsburg, New York. Archibald B. Roosevelt and Ted Roosevelt have received commissions in the reserve corp and Quentin Roosevelt is doing well at the aviation camp. Richard Derby is a major in the Medical Reserve Corps, but has not gone to the front yet. Kermit hopes to be on the Mesopotamian front as he is familiar with that area. Belle Roosevelt is staying nearby and Kermit visits her when he can. Kim Roosevelt has been ill and may have German measles, which Kermit describes as very unpatriotic. They will join Belle’s family in Spain when Kermit goes to the front.
1917-06-14
Kermit Roosevelt describes his travels in Europe and his acquaintances, including Francois Millet, son of painter Jean Francois Millet, and Rudyard Kipling. He is having a grand summer.
1911-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s notes on animals, primarily birds, he observed and collected during a 1872-1873 trip to Europe, Syria, and Egypt.
1873
Secretary of State Hay encloses a letter from John S. Kennedy regarding the Consulate General at Constantinople.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-26
John S. Kennedy forwards the opinion of George Washburn, president of the faculty of Robert College, on the kidnapping of Ellen Maria Stone, an American missionary in Bulgaria. Washburn believes the situation has been “horribly mismanaged,” particularly by Spencer Eddy, the American charge d’affairs in Istanbul.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-19