United States. Department of State

Faithfully yours

William N. Tilchin thanks Shirley Hudders and Marie Hewett for their many years of service in compiling indexes for the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, and he notes that with their retirement he is in search of new indexers. Tilchin also comments on the death of former Secretary of State George P. Schultz, and he classifies Schultz as a “Rooseveltian statesman.” Tilchin recalls interviewing Schultz for a research project in 2000.

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Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2021

Letter from Elihu Root to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of State Root forwards to President Roosevelt a copy of a letter he sent to the French Ambassador about the arrest of three French citizens in Puerto Rico.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

President Roosevelt informs Secretary of State Root that the papers related to the extradition of Jan Janov Pouren were sent from the White House on October third, and were marked as received by the State Department on the same day. They were not sent to the Index Bureau until the fifth.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert DeCourcy Ward

President Roosevelt must get the State Department involved in order to solve the issue in Robert DeCourcy Ward’s alarming letter, but Ward has marked the letter “strictly personal and confidential.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-15

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elihu Root

President Roosevelt requests that Secretary of State Root address the extradition “of certain alleged political offenders” to Russia. Currently, he is not pleased with the campaign, especially with the revival of the liquor agitation. Additionally, he feels that the Republican National Committee is not well handled. Given William H. Taft’s record and personality, Roosevelt cannot understand why Taft is not more popular. He is still convinced that New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes should be renominated.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James E. Sullivan

President Roosevelt informs James E. Sullivan that he will write the State Department to see if Sullivan’s appointment can be made out as he desires. Roosevelt is sorry about runner Johnny Hayes’s work decisions. He thoroughly enjoyed having the athletes.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Archibald Gracie

President Roosevelt congratulates Archibald Gracie on the work he is doing. He is fond of General Stephen D. Lee and General Simon Bolivar Buckner, and will look up the matter of General Marcus Wright. Roosevelt encloses a letter to the State Department that Gracie requested.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin Denby

President Roosevelt thanks Representative Denby for the letter; it provided the information he desired. He will take up the matters with the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Department of State.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theo. A. Bingham

President Roosevelt encloses a report to General Bingham, New York Police Commissioner. The New York Police Department is irritated with the Department of Commerce and Labor for supposed failure to cooperate. The State Department is upset with the New York Police Department for supposed laxness in criminal arrests in Central America. Roosevelt acknowledges such disputes occur between governmental departments and does not doubt there will be improvements.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Schroers

President Roosevelt apologizes that he cannot provide the letter John Schroers requests. However, the State Department will send one.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Andrew Dickson White

President Roosevelt regrets to inform Andrew Dickson White that he has heard from the State Department and there are no provisions for cases such as Mr. Morrill’s. Roosevelt does not think he will be able to appoint Morrill.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

President Roosevelt instructs Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to conduct himself “in relation to the whisky [sic] importation cases by the memorandum” from the State Department.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mary Bradford Crowninshield

President Roosevelt offers Mary Bradford Crowninshield his sympathy. He has asked the State Department to take up the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

President Roosevelt thoroughly enjoyed Minister Egan’s report from Copenhagen. He hopes that Egan is enjoying his posting.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Whitelaw Reid

President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Reid for keeping him updated on personal matters in the midst of his other work. He specifically mentions learning about George Macaulay Trevelyan from Algernon Charles Swinburne’s work, Songs Before Sunrise. Roosevelt is concerned about Secretary of State Elihu Root and believes turning smaller matters over to Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon has helped. Roosevelt is interested in Root’s and Reid’s opinions on British administration of Newfoundland.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Department of State

President Roosevelt directs the Department of State to refer to the concluding part of his letter of April 10 regarding documentation of the incident with Governor of Jamaica James Alexander Swettenham. Roosevelt instructs that the reports from those involved, including Admiral Robley D. Evans, Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, Father Mathew Carlin Gleeson, the ship surgeon, and all officers, be readied for publication. At some point, the affair “may see the light,” in Great Britain, and Roosevelt wants “immediately to produce our whole case in answer.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to G. W. Woodruff

President Roosevelt informs Acting Secretary of the Interior Woodruff that he does not feel warranted in using the Department of State’s funds without talking with Secretary of State Elihu Root and First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, who are currently unavailable.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-21

Memorandum from Thomas H. Netherland

Thomas H. Netherland lists the materials delivered to the State Department for the reception.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oscar S. Straus

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus to help the State Department by having Congress take the appropriate action regarding the Fulton Memorial Exhibition at Bordeaux. Straus’s department has been given the plan and they will need to assist the State Department to manage it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

Letter from William Loeb to Alvey A. Adee

William Loeb requests that Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee read the enclosed letter and discreetly tell Minister Carlos C. Arosemena that communications of that type must be sent through the Department of State. Regardless, however, it is embarrassing to receive any such request on behalf of citizens of Washington “who come within certain rules that it has been found necessary to adopt in connection with social functions at the White House.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-02