White House (Washington, D.C.)

Letter from William Loeb to Robert Bacon

William Loeb confirms receipt of Assistant Secretary of State Bacon’s letter regarding Juan Pardo y Barreda, the brother of the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, and the upcoming White House social season. As he is not attached to the legation officially, and after considering several options, Loeb feels that the best thing to do is to invite Pardo y Barreda to the Diplomatic Reception of January 4. He asks Bacon to explain the situation to Ambassador Felipe Pardo y Barreda.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-30

Letter from William Loeb to Noel W. Barksdale

In reply to Noel W. Barksdale’s letter to Colonel W. H. Crook, William Loeb informs him that he would be pleased to add the names of Barksdale and his wife, Florence Evelyn May Barksdale, to the guest list of the reception of January 18.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-30

Letter from William Loeb to Joseph F. Saunders

William Loeb confirms receipt of Joseph F. Saunders’s letter, and has filed it with similar requests for invitations to upcoming White House receptions for consideration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway

President Roosevelt wishes John Campbell Greenway a happy New Year. He is going with his family to their cabin in Virginia, Pine Knot, for a few days, and wishes Greenway could join them. He suggests Greenway should visit the family at the White House and give Roosevelt enough notice so he can make arrangements.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-26

Letter from William Loeb to Henry C. Gauss

William Loeb confirms that, as Ellen C. Bonaparte, wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, requests, he will have invitations sent to Henry C. Gauss for a number of people. He regrets that he cannot fulfill Gauss’s own wishes, as he has received too many similar requests to make scheduling exceptions for when invitations were issued for, and therefore cannot grant any.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Noble

President Roosevelt thanks William Noble for the knife engraved with his initials. He will carry the knife while he is president, and then leave it at the White House, or give it to the State Department or Smithsonian Institution.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-22

Letter from William Loeb to Adolph Von Haake

William Loeb confirms receipt of Adolph Von Haake’s letter, and is pleased to invite Von Haake, his wife, Alice Maud Von Haake, and their daughter, Alma M. Von Haake to the reception to be held at the White House on January 18, 1906.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Heihachirō Tōgō

President Roosevelt thanks Admiral Tōgō for the revolver he sent as a gift and sends a photograph in return. He hopes that if Tōgō is truly visiting the United States next year, he will visit the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dora Watkins

President Roosevelt sends his childhood nurse, Dora Watkins, twenty dollars and wishes her a merry Christmas. He describes his sons Archie and Quentin playing in the snow with their cousins behind the White House. He shares his plan to play hide-and-seek with the children and their friends inside the White House on Saturday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James S. Whipple

President Roosevelt tells Commissioner Whipple that he receives presents of game at the White House all the time, including entire carcasses or portions of bear, buffalo, moose, caribou, elk, and deer. The elk and boar in current question were shot in New Hampshire by Roosevelt’s son Ted on the Corbin game reserve. The family will enjoy eating them, and he is glad that it was lawful not to stop them in transit to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-15

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Courteney Selous

President Roosevelt thanks Frederick Courteney Selous for the copy of Swayne’s Travels and is glad to send a photograph of himself, and looks forward to receiving the rest of what Selous is going to send him about lions. Roosevelt hopes that Selous enjoyed his visit to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt was glad to have his son Ted unexpectedly visit with a friend and tells him that he is welcome to bring whoever he wants to the White House at any time. Roosevelt is in the middle of a speechmaking trip through the South, where he was greeted most enthusiastically by the public, noting that they had “nothing sufficiently bitter to say of me” just a year prior. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is visiting New Orleans and believes the risk of infection from the yellow fever outbreak there is small. He is interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football that his older brother Ted played two years ago. He updates Kermit on what has been going on at the White House, where the rest of the family is settling in after the summer in Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ernest Harold Baynes

President Roosevelt praises the names Ernest Harold Baynes has assembled, and is pleased to accept the honorary presidency of the American Bison Society. While he cannot be present at the first meeting, if Baynes can arrange for a meeting to be held in Washington, D.C., after October 1, Roosevelt would be pleased to receive the members of the organization at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-31

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Grenville M. Dodge

President Roosevelt was particularly pleased to receive Grenville M. Dodge’s telegram. He invites Dodge to visit the White House sometime in October.

Comments and Context

The Russian and Japanese delegations to the Portsmouth Peace Conference had recently concluded negotiations, bringing the Russo-Japanese War to an end and prompting many people around the world to congratulate Theodore Roosevelt on his successful mediation. The official treaty would be signed several days later, on September 5, 1905.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Laurie McCawley

President Roosevelt requests that one of Robert E. Lee’s grandsons, two of whom are serving in the army, be detailed to serve as a White House aide. He asks Major Charles L. McCawley to investigate the matter and evaluate which of them might be more suitable for the position.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Brander Matthews

President Roosevelt thanks Brander Matthews for the letter, article, and pamphlet. Roosevelt wishes Leigh S. J. Hunt and Jessie Noble Hunt could come to the White House to spend the night, as his schedule has been so busy he has not been able to see them any other way. Unfortunately Leigh has not been able to get a hold of Jessie, so Roosevelt thinks “it will be too late” for them to come to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-12

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

President Roosevelt hopes Arthur Hamilton Lee can visit this summer and is glad to hear about Prince Louis of Battenberg. If the British fleet is at Annapolis, Maryland, around October 1, Roosevelt will meet it there. Roosevelt tells Lee not to worry about a “possible contest” between England and the United States, as he treats it “as out of the question.” If the fleet is able to come between October 1 and October 18, Roosevelt will be able to receive the officers at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Paul Morton

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Navy Morton that he hopes the telephone arrangements for the White House are not final, as the changes would nearly double the current expense.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sophie C. Anderson

President Roosevelt informs Sophie C. Anderson that the flags from Fort Sumter should be “put under glass” and stored in a prominent location. He will take up the matter of the preservation of the flags with Secretary of War William H. Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-16