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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oscar S. Straus

President Roosevelt notifies Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus that Robert E. Peary has been directed by the Navy Department to report to the superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Roosevelt tells Straus to instruct the Superintendent to order Peary to make tidal observations in the Polar Sea, which it is believed will illuminate the Coast Survey theory that there is a land mass in the Arctic Ocean.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Carl Learing

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt does not know if the charts Carl Learing requests are printed for free distribution. He instructs Learing to contact the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Light-House Board for the other information he requests.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-09-30

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot encloses Senator La Follette’s speech pertaining to President Taft as it appeared in the Congressional Record. Expert testimony in the “most recent Alaska scandal” has shown that Richard S. Ryan’s locations controlled all the land tributary to the available deep water in the Controller Bay harbor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-15