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Elizabeth J. Mitchell asks Theodore Roosevelt for assistance in securing a position as a private secretary in Washington, D.C., or New York City, providing her educational background, teaching experience, and professional references.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
President Roosevelt thinks Kermit Roosevelt has been spending too much time counting down the days until his return and that is why his marks are not where he wants them to be. Roosevelt visited Philadelphia to make a speech at the University of Pennsylvania and had lunch with the Philadelphia City Troop. Roosevelt also talks about boxing with Grant and wrestling and doing jiujitsu with Professor Yamashita.
1905-02-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks L. Ward Bannister for his letter. He suggests Bannister obtain material regarding Roosevelt’s proposition to review judicial decisions in the United States by contacting Dean William Draper Lewis of the University of Pennsylvania and William L. Ransom.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary requests that Oscar K. Davis send pamphlets to Judge Lindsey in Denver, Colorado, containing Roosevelt’s Columbus speech on judicial recall. Roosevelt believes they would be useful in Lindsey’s campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-04-30
President Roosevelt tells Walter Camp that his son Ted wrote to both him and his mother that he was not unfairly targeted in the football game against Yale, and that the game was clean. In a postscript, Roosevelt describes his role in organizing a meeting between graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-24
President Roosevelt would like Samuel McCune Lindsay to be able to stay another year in Puerto Rico without it affecting his chance to become a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. It would be a great public service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-25
President Roosevelt cannot accept the invitation to the University of Pennsylvania.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-17
An invitation from the American Philosophical Society and other associations to a memorial meeting for Henry Charles Lea on January 20. Additionally included are a program for the meeting and a calling card for Arthur H. Lea.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-20
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-02-15