University of California (1868-1952)

Assistant Secretary of War Sanger asks University of California President Wheeler if he plans to request that Professor Bernard Moses return to the university and resign from the Philippine Commission. President Roosevelt has a successor for Moses in mind and having Moses return to the university is preferable to the other methods of opening a vacancy on the Commission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-08-22

Creator(s)

Sanger, Wm. Cary (William Cary), 1853-1921

Mabel Helen Taft sends Theodore Roosevelt some postcards showing several scenes of the Charter Day Exercises at the University of California, and hopes that they are a pleasant souvenir of the event.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-24

Creator(s)

Agaton, Mabel Helen Taft, 1878-1948

Theodore Roosevelt writes to President Graupner of the University of California Club to thank him for the invitation. Regrettably, Roosevelt cannot undertake any other engagement while he is in San Francisco.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt hopes that the University of California has not suffered as much damage as it has been reported to have suffered. He tells Benjamin Ide Wheeler that he shares “the horror and grief of the country at the disaster that has befallen California.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Roger Sprague writes to Theodore Roosevelt, as he recently returned from teaching in China. Sprague would like to meet with Roosevelt, both to make his acquaintance and to share some of the changes that are taking place in Chinese society. He refers Roosevelt to Professor S. B. Christy of the University of California, who can vouch for his character.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-26

Creator(s)

Sprague, Roger, 1869-1933

Frederick J. H. Merrill writes to Theodore Roosevelt, and notes he is a candidate for the position of State Mineralogist of California. Merrill maintains he would be grateful for any help Theodore Roosevelt might be able to provide in this.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-25

Creator(s)

Merrill, Frederick J. H. (Frederick James Hamilton), 1861-1916

George D. Wardrop informs Frank Harper of a conversation he had with Reverend A. Wesley Mell, who expressed concerns that the recent implication in the press was that Theodore Roosevelt “was to deliver the Earl Lectures under the auspices of the California University.” Mell has stated that the Pacific Theological Seminary is paying for the lectures, and wished that this could be made clear to the press.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-17

Creator(s)

Wardrop, George D. (George Douglas), 1890-1929

Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President of the University of California, has written to Governor Hiram Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., to clarify that the remainder of the plans for Roosevelt’s trip to California are in their hands. Wheeler does hope that the Roosevelts can come celebrate the University of California’s Charter Day. He also believes that it will be possible for Roosevelt to visit Stanford on March 24, but make it back for the lecture in San Francisco that afternoon. Wheeler expresses his fondness for Roosevelt Jr. and his wife.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-07

Creator(s)

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

David Starr Jordan, President of Stanford University, has heard that Theodore Roosevelt will give the Charter Day address at the University of California, and wishes for him to give an address at Stanford around the same time. Jordan reminds Roosevelt of a promise to speak at Stanford, and promises him that he will have a good audience.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-10-13

Creator(s)

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, tells President Roosevelt that he will lecture at the University of Berlin on various topics of American life. He asks Roosevelt if he can come to California in August. Wheeler has been out to visit farmers with six other university professors on their “agricultural train,” where the farmers’ dislike of Japanese people was a common subject. Wheeler feels that the California Legislature should do nothing about it, with the matter better left in Roosevelt’s hands.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-09

Creator(s)

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

Horace M. Albright recalls some of his memories of Theodore Roosevelt from admiring him as a boy to meeting with him in an effort to join a Roosevelt led division of the United States Army in World War I. Albright recalls meeting Roosevelt three times while a student at the University of California, and he discusses his relationship with Roosevelt’s children, concluding his article with an anecdote about Roosevelt’s eldest daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Albright’s article is preceded by a biographical sketch of the author, and it includes two photographs of Albright during his time working for the National Park Service.

An inset box in the article includes a mailing address for the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and lists its President and Executive Director.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987

Secretary of War Elihu Root will be returning this week and will likely be glad to discuss Bernard Moses and the Philippine Commission with President Wheeler.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-09

Creator(s)

Sanger, Wm. Cary (William Cary), 1853-1921

Acting Secretary of War Sanger encloses all correspondence with President Wheeler concerning Bernard Moses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-13

Creator(s)

Sanger, Wm. Cary (William Cary), 1853-1921

President Wheeler and the University of California expect Bernard Moses to return from his leave of absence at the beginning of next academic year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-01

Creator(s)

Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927