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Harry Pratt Johnson and the Union League Club want Joseph Hodges Choate to be the speaker at the next Washington’s Birthday celebration. Johnson hopes Theodore Roosevelt will put in a good word for them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-09
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes to Harry Pratt Judson that he cannot ask Joseph Hodges Choate to make a speech at the Union League Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary is sure that Arthur L. Lynn is mistaken in believing that Roosevelt expressed his approval for the “business” of Montgomery Ward & Co. in Africa in his address to the Union League Club of Chicago. Roosevelt did not refer to this firm, nor would he give his permission to Lynn to do as Lynn suggests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-30
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Edwin E. Noyes for sending the medal given to Roosevelt by a Greek society in Chicago during his visit. Roosevelt would like Noyes to search the rooms in which he stayed there, for a lost cuff link made from an old Greek coin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt thanks A. A. McCormick for his letter and asks that McCormick arrange for Roosevelt to visit Jane Addams at Hull House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-17
The Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt informs John Callan O’Laughlin that Roosevelt’s departure for Chicago has been rearranged.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
President James of the University of Illinois offers his support for Howard H. Gross’s plan for a ten-year campaign advocating soil conservation. William Jennings Bryan concurs with James’s endorsement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-11
Edwin E. Noyes has conducted a careful search for Theodore Roosevelt’s missing cuff link, but tells Frank Harper that he has not been successful in finding it yet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-04
Bernard E. Sunny sends Theodore Roosevelt the honorarium from his visiting the Union League Club in Chicago on Washington’s birthday, and asks if Frank Harper would be able to send the expense account for Roosevelt’s trip so that they can pay that as well. Sunny and the entire Union League Club are very grateful for Roosevelt’s spending the day with them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-23
Bernard E. Sunny, a member of the Union League Club of Chicago, conveys a request from Lewis K. Torbet asking whether it would be possible for Theodore Roosevelt to deliver an address to the Daughters of the American Revolution when he is in Chicago. Sunny provides an overview of the full day of events the Union League Club already has scheduled, but acknowledges Roosevelt’s “facility for crowding a good deal into a little space,” and says the club will do its best to accommodate any outside requests Roosevelt decides to accept.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-09-26
William Dudley Foulke recently gave a speech condemning libel in the press. Foulke shares that people respond enthusiastically to President Roosevelt’s name in the middle west. Uncharacteristically, according to his own perceptions of their correspondence, he commends Roosevelt for an excellent run as president rather than sharing distressing news.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-25
Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon informs Secretary of the Treasury Shaw that he has no designs on running for President and has discouraged those promoting his candidacy; his focus is solely on the upcoming midterm elections. Cannon recounts a conversation with men from the Manufacturers of Agricultural Implements League in which he urged them not to believe the promises of the Democratic Party with regard to tariff revision. He hopes that President Roosevelt’s letter on the matter, which is due for imminent release, will help to sway their opinions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-20
David L. Kohn recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s visits to Chicago, Illinois, in 1896 and 1911. He mentions the first and dwells on the second, highlighting and quoting extensively from each of the four speeches Roosevelt made on February 22, 1911, ending with a speech at the Union League Club of Chicago. Kohn notes the venue and audience for each address which included speeches to young people and first generation Americans. The speeches covered typical themes for Roosevelt such as patriotism, the duties of citizenship, and reverence for the past. Kohn also provides a history of the Union League Club of Chicago.
Photographs of Kohn and Roosevelt accompany the article as do photographs of two letters and a ledger entry.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2012-10-27
Brief report and photo album from the 2012 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Chicago, Illinois. The report notes the highlights of the weekend meeting, including the various tours of sites in Chicago, the conferring of awards, and information on the symposium. The report is supplemented by forty-three color photographs of the Chicago skyline and the guests, speakers, and dignitaries at the meeting.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
Emory Speer wishes to deliver an address praising President Roosevelt’s accomplishments at the Union League Club of Chicago’s banquet celebrating George Washington’s birthday. Speer asks whether it is an appropriate occasion to deliver such an address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-21
Henry E. Weaver recalls once picking up President Roosevelt at the Chicago, Illinois, rail station on behalf of the Union League Club. Weaver and the club were pleased with their past support of Roosevelt and are his “staunch friends.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-05