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Should there be a vacancy, H. W. Raymond requests to be considered for the position of assistant secretary of the Navy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-05
Maria Longworth Storer encourages President Roosevelt to appoint her husband as secretary of the Navy or secretary of war. Storer’s husband, Bellamy Storer, is currently the American ambassador to Spain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-22
Maria Longoworth Storer states that an unnamed individual is suitable for Secretary of the Navy or Secretary of War. Two copies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-22
Thomas E. Fraser requests clarification from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt on where his regiment is to be drawn from. (Roosevelt’s original letter to Fraser had unintended bleed-through from another letter, with conflicting statements about where the men were going to be drawn from. Roosevelt told Fraser they should come from the West, but told John J. Fox Jr., that some would come from “Harvard and elsewhere.” Fraser underlines this portion and includes the notation “not west.”)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-04-26
Secretary of the Navy Long tries to discourage Assistant Secretary Roosevelt from resigning from his post.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-07
John Addison Porter thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and wishes him success in his “new and important undertaking.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-09
Houghton Mifflin Company requests an update on Theodore Roosevelt’s revisions of his books Gouverneur Morris and Thomas H. Benton. The printers are almost out of copies of those articles and they are anxious to get the new editions, even if that means the introductions Roosevelt proposed are not quite ready yet. They hope Roosevelt can notify them of the status before he travels west with the Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-05-12
Rear Admiral Evans has not bothered the Department of the Navy knowing what Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt has in mind for him. He reports that conditions are not good and warns Roosevelt to prevent Spain from sending ships to Cuba and to send American vessels as quickly as possible. Evans does not think highly of a certain admiral or chief of staff. He instructs Roosevelt to keep the letter confidential.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-11
Senator Lodge writes Commissioner Roosevelt about a lunch he recently had with Presidential Nominee William McKinley. The pair talked about McKinley’s plan for his time in office, including policy on Hawaii and McKinley’s desire not to go to war over Cuba. They also spoke extensively about McKinley’s plans for his cabinet. Lodge assures Roosevelt that his chances of an appointment in the naval department are good, though McKinley sought assurance that Roosevelt did not have “preconceived plans which he would wish to drive through the moment he got in.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-12-02
Admiral Robley D. Evans is set to retire on his 62nd birthday because of his bout with rheumatism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-10