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Letter from Christopher Columbus Shayne to Theodore Roosevelt

Christopher Columbus Shayne discusses strategy for the 1904 campaign. He is confident President Roosevelt’s has the support of the Republican Party and that the people are with him. He notes the need to make sure Republican newspapers are toeing the line. Shayne approves of Roosevelt’s idea for a Western trip but urges him to have his speeches planned out in advance to avoid costly mistakes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-07-19

Letter from Thomas H. Tongue to Theodore Roosevelt

Representative Tongue is hopeful that the rumor of Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson resigning from his Cabinet post is false. Wilson is highly regarded in Western states and Tongue cautions that the general elections in Oregon could be affected by a change in the Department of Agriculture.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-12

Letter from A. J. Woodcock to Theodore Roosevelt

A. J. Woodcock praises President Roosevelt’s writings about the West and his embodiment of “the strenuous life.” He presents an old Roman coin that Woodcock’s father obtained in Catania, Sicily, as a “souvenir of the regard of the sportsmen of America for you, their chief.” Woodcock noticed with interest the recent visit of Chief White Calf and the Blackfeet Indian delegation to the Capitol.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-07

Letter from Thomas H. Cavanaugh to Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas H. Cavanaugh has heard reports of a plan in the western states to break state delegations to the national convention against President Roosevelt. He believes the plan to be associated with the “Rockefeller-Morgan interests.” Roosevelt’s friends are aware of the danger and will work to oppose this effort.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-28

Letter from H. I. Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt

H. I. Cleveland encloses a letter he received and his reply. He believes the letter is connected to a series of covert attacks against President Roosevelt. The literature and syndicate letters of these attacks have been spread widely across the western United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-30

Letter from George Hamlin Fitch to Jacob A. Riis

George Hamlin Fitch encloses an article about President Roosevelt that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. If Jacob A. Riis sees or writes to Roosevelt, Fitch would like him to know that he has the loyal support of California and the West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-28

Letter from George W. Clark to Theodore Roosevelt

George W. Clark has not met one man who does not favor Vice President Roosevelt’s nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1904. Clark claims that Democrats and Republicans will support Roosevelt in the West and Southwest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-05

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot writes to Vice President Roosevelt with a proposed itinerary for an eight to ten week trip to explore the forests and irrigation of the West. Frederick Haynes Newell of the United States Geological Survey has proposed to Pinchot a way in which press coverage could be controlled.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-27

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Both Gifford Pinchot and Frederick Haynes Newell understand why Vice President Roosevelt cannot make the trip. Pinchot would like to meet with Roosevelt before he goes west.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-02

Letter from Thomas E. Fraser to Theodore Roosevelt

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.”)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1898-04-26