1918

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Captain Hugh Knyvett an Australian Galahad

The honor of Captain Hugh Knyvett, " an Australian Galahad," a World War I hero. Roosevelt contrasts him with the "mischievous weaklings, who clamor for peace without victory"

GLC08051

10 March 1910

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Walter S. Field

asks that he appear for him in any suits that may be instituted against him as trustee for a Kickapoo indian named Wah-nah-ka.

GLC07733.02.1

October 27, 1917

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Hoover

Addressed to "My Dear Mr. Hoover." Discusses the starvation relief in Europe and Hoover's part in its management. Expresses his support and advises Hoover as to the next steps in food distribution abroad. Discusses rationing. Stamped on page one by the U.S. Food Administration, received October 30. Pages two and four have been written vertically by Theodore Roosevelt.

GLC00162.13.01

April 1, 1906

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his son regarding family matters and missing his children. Letter written on White House letterhead with corrections in Roosevelt's hand.

GLC01410.01.01

October 1, 1907

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his son describing the aspects of his journey a child might find interesting. He includes two sketches drawn by Roosevelt during his trip down the Mississippi River. Letter written on U.S. Steamer Mississippi letterhead.

GLC01410.02.01

October 3, 1907

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his son about sights on the Mississippi River. He mentions getting caught in the rain in St. Louis. With two illustrations by Roosevelt, including a self-caricature. Letter written on U.S. Steamer Mississippi letterhead.

GLC01410.03.01

3 January 1912

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Samuel McChord Crothers

"We must get the Republican Party on the side of the progressives, and on the other hand we must keep the progressives sane....." Written on "The Outlook" letterhead.

GLC08321

02 December 1886

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Document

Title: Marriage Certificate for wedding of 25-year-old Edith Kermit Carow, Parish Church of Saint George, London.

GLC08331

1898

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Photograph

Title: Rough Riders on Parade

A procession of mounted men, taken from slightly to the left of a direct frontal perspective. Written at Camp Wikoff.

GLC06449.01

1 May 1908

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Header Record

Title: [Presidential pardon and U.S. Army discharge pouch of George W. Peters [Decimalized]

GLC05653

1902/01/20

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Document signed

Title: Contract for payment to members of the Cherokee nation (cos. Thomas Buffington)

Signed by Buffington at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, for the Cherokee Nation and approved by Roosevelt at Washington. "Executive Mansion" has been struck and "White House" typed-in. Approving Act of the Cherokee National Council for expenses.

GLC02657

1903/02/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Document signed

Title: Document re: expenses for democratic government for Cherokee

Co-signed by Thomas Mitchell Buffington (principal Cherokee Indian Chief), J.T. Parks, and J.W. Zevely. Accompanied by a copy of the Act passed by the Cherokee National Council.

GLC02855

1901/09/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to H. L. Shaw re: assuming the Presidency, inviting his Harvard friends

Signed as President on black-bordered stationery. Alludes to a dinner with his Harvard friends held as Governor of New York two years prior.

GLC02793.053

1901/10/28

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Gen. Curtis Guild

Signed as President. Roosevelt writes that his "Southern policy" is to "take the best man white or black."

GLC02793.054

1908/06/11

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Rev. Roland Cotton Smith re: hopes for recovery of Smith's sons

Written as President

GLC02793.056

1908/10/20

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to John T. Stewart re: his hope to be remembered as a friend to labor

Signed as President. Roosevelt also writes that he hopes to be thought the best President for farmers, small businessmen and "Abraham Lincoln's plain people."

GLC02793.057

1908/11/26

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to George Bird Grinnell re: Grinnell's request that he write about Africa

Signed as President. Roosevelt had not been to Africa yet.

GLC02793.058

1907/08/08

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Charles R. Flint re: thanking him for gift of fish and woodcock

Signed as President

GLC02793.055

1894/06/14

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. W. Chandler

On stationery of US Civil Service Commission. "There must be failure and sorrow, where life is as it should be, eager, strenuous, vigorous. It has been a hobby of mine that intellect was of small moment compared to character." With envelope.

GLC05726

1911/09/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to [George] Gray

An extraordinary and lengthy letter, full of observations about people he met, especially the crowned heads of Europe. Labeled on page 1 "For nobody's eyes but yours." Written while acting as special ambassador for the United States for King Edward VII's funeral. Considerable discussion of his Guildhall Speech (see GLC 5798). Gives his opinions on British affairs in Africa, the Arch-duke Ferdinand and other European leaders, anarchists vs ultra-clerics etc. Includes an extraordinary report of conversations(s) with the King of Spain (re: Spanish-American War), encounters with a petty…

GLC05750

1903/06/12

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: sending report, punishment for Col. Dickey

Sending report on Col. Dickey's case which "calls for exemplary punishment."

GLC05913.02

1903/06/15

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to William P. Frye re: reinstating Dickey against principles of good government

"If I have stood for anything it has been for honesty in public life, and it would be a shameless betrayal of every principle of good government to reinstate [Senator] Dickey...."

GLC05913.03

1903/05/22

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: not reinstating Col. Dickey

On White House stationery. "It is evidently out of the question for [Col.] Dickey to be reinstated."

GLC05913.01

1914/11/14

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Samuel M. Crothers

Typed in blue ink on printed personal stationery of Roosevelt, with changes in his hand. Crothers worked at Houghton Mifflin & Co. Discusses theory of "divine right" and states "with all our faults, we govern ourselves better than any one man, or group of men can govern us." He also writes, "Democracy is a form of government fit for people of high moral caliber."

GLC06058

1882/11/20

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry B. Adams

"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of enormously overrated abilities, and standing about on a par with Jefferson Davis -- minus the latter's boldness."

GLC05792