VOLUME 20 October 6, 1899 to December 21, 1899 SERIES 21+2 Oct. 6th, 1899. Captain W. H. H. Sutherland, U.S.S. Dolphin, c/o Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. My dear Captain Sutherland:- It was a source of real regret to me not to be aboard the Dolphin so that I might see you. You know that you and some other of the Navy men are peculiarly near to me. I was awfully glad to catch even a glimpse of you. Pray remember me to Gibbons and Poundstone, and believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 6th, 1899. Col. John Jacob Astor, 21 W. 26th, N.Y. City. My dear Astor:-- Thanks to you and Secretary Long and General Frank Greene I was able to do everything that was right and proper for the Governor General of Canada and Lady Minto. I am particularly obliged to you You did me a real favor which I greatly appreciate. But it was characteristic of you to do it. I have grown to feel that you are one of the men to whom I turn when something comes up in which I need help. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt3 Oct. 7th, 1899 Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, N.Y. My dear Tizzie:-- On receipt of your last telegram I started a vigorour investigation in the Oyster Bay telegraph office. I find that your telegram was received, but there is an irreconcilable conflict as to what then became of it. The messenger boy says he met my coachman and gave it to him, and the coachman denies ever getting a glimpse of it. Edith waited 48 hours and not hearing from you, wired a similar request to the Alty Morgans, but found they could not have us, and so we got the Colgate Hoyts to take us on their yatch. I am awfully sorry, dear Tizzie, for what must have seemed to you like great rudeness, when you had been so kind in granting the favor we asked. I am especially sorry as the Mintos are really charming people and I wanted them to see you and know you would have liked them. With real regret and many thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 7th, 1899. Mr. J. H. Clarke, The Criterion, 156 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City My dear Mr. Clarke:- I have yours of the 3rd inst. I got no letter from Mr. Astor, so I finally saw him myself in connection with the yatch races. He was very pleasant but declined entirely to go into the arrangement, saying that it was utterly out of his line. I am very sorry. I wish it had been possible for me to do something. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt3 Oct. 7th, 1899 Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Roslyn, N.Y. My dear Tizzie:-- On receipt of your last telegram I started a vigorour investigation in the Oyster Bay telegraph office. I find that your telegram was received, but there is an irreconcilable conflict as to what then became of it. The messenger boy says he met my coachman and gave it to him, and the coachman denies ever getting a glimpse of it. Edith waited 48 hours and not hearing from you, wired a similar request to the Alty Morgans, but found they could not have us, and so we got the Colgate Hoyts to take us on their yatch. I am awfully sorry, dear Tizzie, for what must have seemed to you like great rudeness, when you had been so kind in granting the favor we asked. I am especially sorry as the Mintos are really charming people and I wanted them to see you and know you would have liked them. With real regret and many thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 7th, 1899. Mr. J. H. Clarke, The Criterion, 156 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City My dear Mr. Clarke:- I have yours of the 3rd inst. I got no letter from Mr. Astor, so I finally saw him myself in connection with the yatch races. He was very pleasant but declined entirely to go into the arrangement, saying that it was utterly out of his line. I am very sorry. I wish it had been possible for me to do something. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt4 October 9, 1899 Mr. J. De Witt Miller, Drawer 1612, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Miller: I have just received from you a copy of the Rough Riders, and pasted in it a slip from Van Amringer's speech at Columbia, which I was very much interested in seeing. Do you want me to put in my autograph and send the book back? Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct 9, 1899 Lieutenant R. C. Day, 34th Infantry, U.S.V. c/o War Department Washington, D.C. My dear Lieutenant: I have received the photograph and am much pleased with it. It does you justice. Lord, how I wish I was with you all! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt 5 October 9, 1899. Messrs. R. H. Macy & Co. New York City. Gentlemen: I thank you very much for your courtesy in sending me the plate. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 9, 1899 Rev. Lyman Abbott, The Outlook, New York City. My dear Mr. Abbott: When could I see you and Mr. Smith? Would it be possible for you to come up here, or can you tell me when you are to be in New York so that if I find I can be there I can telegraph you? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt6 October 9, 1899 Hon. Ansley Wilcox, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Wilcox: The time was so short that I could not go to the Reformatory in person. I have read your letter with great interest. What you describe is just about what I anticipated would happen. I have never felt the horror of corporal punishment for criminals. Personally, I should be heartily glad to see the whipping post used for wife beaters and abusers of children. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th, 1899. Messrs G. P. Putnam Sons, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Will you get me a book on the Indian Mutiny published McMillans and written by a man by some such name as Rice Holls? Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt7 Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 16 Thomas St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Travers:-- I find that if possible I better get some more widely known man than McGuire. I want a man whose name will carry weight. William E. Kernan of Utica has been suggested to me. He is widely known and of excellent standing. and he possesses the important qualification of not being from New York City. I have asked Nicholas Murry Butler to go to Judge Daly for a final effort. Faithfully yours. Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 7th, 1899. Hon. James T. Rogers, Binghamton, N.Y. My dear Mr. Rogers:- I have yours of the 7th inst and send you here- with the letter. I cannot tell you much I enjoyed my visit to Binghamton. Sincerely Yours, Theodore Roosevelt 8 Oct. 9th, 1899 Mr. Henry White, U. S. Embassy, London, England. My dear White: -- Just a line to tell you how things are here politically. We are in a period of revulsion at the moment, and though I hope the elections this fall will turn out well, I should not be surprised at disaster. Next year, however, I think we shall win on a straight expansion fight. The President has come out very strong for it. All scandal in the national administration is at an end with Root's appointment to the Secretaryship of War, where he is doing admirable work. Dewey's home-coming has helped us. The naval and land parades and his reception were really impressive. I went on to the dinner to him at the White House, and it was a distinctly note-worthy gathering. I have been on the stump a good deal myself this year. My own affairs are progressing satisfactorily on the whole, though of course, the Evening Post and its kind are attacking me because they are against Expansion; and Whitelaw Reid is doing all the mischief he can, partly because I supported Choate, and partly because, as he could not get his price, he wants to down the republican party. Lord and Lady Minto have just been staying with us, and we were simply delighted with them. Tell Mrs. White that I think Lady Minto as charming a woman as I have recently met. How is Mrs. White? Nobody can be quite as charming as she is after all! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 9th, 1899. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: -- Messrs William J. Sherwood and Chauncy French of Binghamton New York are about to go to Cuba. They are trustworthy and responsible business men of good reputation. I am not personally acquainted with them, but they are warmly recommended to me by men like Ex-Mayor Green and Assemblyman James T. Rogers of Binghamton, in whom I have entire reliance. and I am well acquainted with their reputation. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt8 Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. Henry White, U. S. Embassy, London, England. My dear White: -- Just a line to tell you how things are here politically. We are in a period of revulsion at the moment, and though I hope the elections this fall will turn out well, I should not be surprised at disaster. Next year, however, I think we shall win on a straight expansion fight. The President has come out very strong for it. All scandal in the national administration is at an end with Root's appointment to the Secretaryship of War, where he is doing admirable work. Dewey's home-coming has helped us. The naval and land parades and his reception were really impressive. I went on to the dinner to him at the White House, and it was a distinctly note-worthy gathering. I have been on the stump a good deal myself this year. My own affairs are progressing satisfactorily on the whole, though of course, the Evening Post and its kind are attacking me because they are against Expansion; and Whitclaw Reid is doing all the mischief he can, partly because I supported Choate, and partly because, as he could not get his price, he wants to down the republican party. Lord and Lady Minto have just been staying with us, and we were simply delighted with them. Tell Mrs. White that I think Lady Minto as charming a woman as I have recently met. How is Mrs. White? Nobody can be quite as charming as she is after all! Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 9th, 1899. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: -- Messrs William J. Sherwood and Chauncy French of Binghamton New York are about to go to Cuba. They are trustworthy and responsible business men of good reputation. I am not personally acquainted with them, but they are warmly recommended to me by men like Ex-Mayor Green and Assemblyman James T. Rogers of Binghamton, in whom I have entire reliance. and I am well acquainted with their reputation. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt9 Oct. 9th, 1899. Major General W. Merritt, Governor's Island, N. Y. City. My dear General:-- I am very much flattered at the invitation you have sent me to address the Military Service Institution at its annual meeting. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to accept, especially as I have some sharply defined ideas as to the uses and limitations of volunteers, to which I should like to give expression, but I am sorry to say it is an absolute impossibility. I have had to stop short on speaking and decline every invitation after election day, because I simply must devote my whole time now to the State work. There is no invitation I regret so much having to refuse as yours. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt. Oct. 9th, 1899. Douglas Robinson, Esq., 55 Liberty St., N. Y. City. Dear Douglas:-- I enclose you my check for $2000. which I think I can spare from my literary earnings. Please invest it in any way you think best. The whole parade seemed to me to be a success. I had a very pleasant time at the White House at the Dewey dinner, but was promptly nabbed by the President to go to Cincinnati. He also tried to rope me into going to Nebraska and Iowa, but there I rebelled. Don't you want to go with me to Cincinnati, or to take the two days trip through Maryland with me when I am on the stump in that State. The Cincinnati date is Oct. 21st and for the Maryland business the 25th and 26th. It would be the greatest pleasure to have you, of course. What time does the Steamer StPaul on which Cabot arrives next Saturday come in? Can you arrange to have her arrival notified to you at Liberty St, so that I may promptly get it when I get into town on the morning of Saturday to see Cabot. Please answer me at Oyster Bay where I am going the day after tomorrow. I want to know when the ship will in all probability get in. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt10 Oct. 9th, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Root:-- One word of congratulation for your altogether admirable speech. No speech that has been made will serve us better. It cannot be calculated as a campaign document. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th, 1899. Mrs. Laura Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Dear Laura:-- I enclose the letters. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you in two or three days. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt11 Oct. 9th, 1899. Hon. Frank Moss, 93 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Moss:-- In a week I shall speak against Tammany and for Mazet at the big meeting at the rink. I should like any hints from you as to what I ought to say and the attitude I should take about your Committee, what you have done, etc. etc. Please write me at Oyster Bay, Long Island where I shall be for the next few days. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct 9th, 1899. My dear Captain Sharp:-- I have just received the various publications and thank you most cordially for them. If only attention had been paid to them before the late war, what an infinity of suffering and mismanagement would have been saved! With great regard and renewed thanks, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Captain Henry G. Sharp C/O War Dept., Washington, D.C.12 Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. Henry L. Einstein, The New York Press, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Einstein:-- There are several matters I would like to talk over with you very much. If you are willing to submit to rather a picnic, would you not come out to me at my house at Oyster Bay, Long Island, and spend Thursday Night. The 4.20 P. M. train from East 34th St. is the best train to take. You can get back on the 8.50 train next morning. Please drop me a line to Oyster Bay where I shall be for the next few days, if you can come. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Seth:-- I have yours of the 8th and thank you heartily for writing me. I have known that that feeling existed. I think it is unfounded so far as my speaking at the county fairs is concerned, but I think it is eminently right as to my speaking in the future. When the election is over I shall definitely stop all speech making, unless on some really great emergency. I am awfully obliged to you, old fellow, and appreciate your writing on the subject. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt13 Oct. 9th, 1899. Dr. Howard Van Rensselaer, 123 State St, Albany, NY. My dear Dr. Van Rensselaer:-- I cordially thank you for your photos. They are all very good, and the picture of the porcupine myself exceedingly amusing. Mrs. Roosevelt is as much pleased with them as I am. Again thanking you, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. S. R. Wharton, Room 10, 76 Clark St., Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Wharton:-- I have yours of the 6th. Will you let me think over that for a little while and then communicate with you? I am almost afraid it would not look very well. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt14 Oct. 9th, 1899. Hon. H. H. Kohlsaat, Times Herald, Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Kohlsaat:-- I send you the enclosed from S. R. Wharton. It seems to be that such a movement as he suggests would be altogether premature and ill-advised. The President, when I was at the Dewey dinner at the White House, insisted upon my going to Cincinnati-- I mean literally insisted, and would not take no for an answer, so I had to reluctantly accede. He then did his best to get me to go to Nebraska and Iowa, but here I finally refused, for I agree with you that if I went at all I would find it very difficult not to go everywhere. With warm regards, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th, 1899. Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, 27 West 76th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Slicer:-- First, let me enclose you Collier's letter to me about the appointment of OLeary. Second, in acknowledging your letter of the 6th inst, let me express my pleasure at what you have done. The papers should be filed here at Albany and I agree with you that their contents should at once be given to the public. Next Friday I shall be at Oyster Bay. If you are willing to picnic with me, could you not come out and spend the night with me at my house there? I have received very strong letters for Clinton and for Hotchkiss. As you know, I am rather inclined to a different man from either-- Kruse of Olean whom I know personally, and who would be a genuine honor to the bench. I am glad at what you tell me in connection with Sheehan. Yesterday McCullagh and the Attorney General come in to see me about it. I shall now take over to the Attorney General your letter and ask him to revise his action in connection with it. With hearty thanks, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I have just seen the Attorney General's department and have asked them to call on you. They feel strongly that if we think we have a case against Gardner, we have no business to practically "throw" Sheehan by trusting the prosecution to a man whom we know to be unfit. I shall act on your advice about Barrett. Quigg has just been here about my speaking next Tuesday or Wednesday. I have stipulated that you should speak with me, and have asked Quigg to call upon you and find out who you would like for a third man - whether John Proctor Clarke, or somebody else.15 October 9, 1899 General Leonard Wood, Santiago de Cuba, CUBA. Dear Leonard: I will write to Wolcott at once and ask him to interest himself in your promotion, and I will see Lodge on his return at the end of this month and get him to do the same. Neither the President nor Root gave me any definite answer, or indeed any answer at all, after I spoke to them about it at the Dewey dinner, but I could not help feeling that it is all right. It may be that they resented my speaking. Root's attention is evidently now fixed mainly upon the Philippines, where, from what Dewey tells me and from what various Generals have written me, Otis has shown himself no great improvement on Shafter. Root has not written me in response to my last letter about your description of affairs in Cuba; and the other day, while asking me for full information of every kind that I had about the Philippines, he told me he did not at the moment care to hear from me anything more about Cuba. I told him I was sure he must realize Brooks's unfitness, and was sure that he could not but see that you would have to have the Island if we were to stay there. Though he evidently did not think it prudent to answer, I am confident that he is as convinced of both facts as16 I am myself. It was delightful having Mrs. Wood through the Dewey celebration, and during our visit from the Governor General of Canada, Lord Minto, and Lady Minto. The Mintos', by-the-way, were very nice. I was very much pleased at the way Dewey spoke to Mrs. Wood about you as soon as he realized who she was. He said that they wanted you out in the Philippines, and that you certainly could settle matters there in short order. As for Mrs. Wood herself, both Mrs. Roosevelt and I completely lost our hearts to her. We had always liked her; but after she left we both agreed that she was one of those people who grows on one the more one sees of her. She is charming in every way! I have had my own experience with Dorst. I have for months been championing him to the War Department. He wrote me not long ago asking for a final push. I promptly wrote Secretary Root, giving a list of regulars whom I hoped to see promoted, and heading the list was Dorst, my communication running as follows: "Captain J. H. Dorst is at present Inspector General on the staff of General Wilson at Matanzas. You can get full information from General Wilson about him. I believe it will be all favorable. He was Adjutant General of the Cavalry Division before Santiago and I saw much of him. He did a great deal of the actual handling of the men in the fight of July 1st and I was an eye witness of his good conduct under fire. Dorst would make an admirable Colonel. I should be delighted if I17 had a bridge to have him in it as commanding a regiment." [handwritten] Faithfully yours, Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. Charles Miller, The Times, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Miller:-- I have been really touched by two or three of your recent editorials upon me. The Times has always been so near my idea of what a newspaper should be that I have been sincerely glad when it approved of what I was doing. A year and a half agao when I was at Santiago, you had an article on my promotion as Colonel which I prized more than anything else that was said about me in the papers. Now, I should like very much to meet you, and if possible Mr. Ochs. I should like to go over my whole administration with you-- or at least as much of it as your patience would stand. I want you to understand everything right from the bottom. There is not an appointment that I have made, or a piece of legislation that I have sanctioned, save for reasons which I think would commend themselves to you, even though you might not agree with the course which I finally took. At any rate I should like much to have the chance to meet you. Will you not write me at Oyster Bay where I shall be for the next few days. Perhaps I could get you and Mr. Ochs to take lunch with me somewhere. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt17 had a brigade to have him in it as commanding a regiment." [*R???? answered that he would make the offer ?????????*] [*??? ??. ???? had a line from D????, and I lea??? ???*] [*Say? Wales was ???????*] Faithfully yours, [*???????????????????????*] Oct. 9th, 1899. Mr. Charles Miller, The Times, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Miller:-- I have been really touched by two or three of your recent editorials upon me. The Times has always been so near my idea of what a newspaper should be that I have been sincerely glad when it approved of what I was doing. A year and a half agao when I was at Santiago , you had an article on my promotion as Colonel which I prized more than anything else that was said about me in the papers. Now, I should like very much to meet you, and if possible Mr. Ochs. I would like to go over my whole administration with you-- or at least as much of it as your patience would stand. I want you to understand everything right from the bottom. There is not an appointment that I have made, or a piece of legislation that I have sanctioned, save for reasons which I think would commend themselves to you , even though you might not agree with the course which I finally took. At any rate I should like much to have the chance to meet you. Will you not write me at Oyster Bay, where I shall be for the next few days. Perhaps I could get you and Mr. Ochs to take lunch with me somewhere. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt18 Oct. 10th, 1899. Appleton Morgan, Esq., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Morgan:-- On my return I find your beautiful book. Like all good studies on any matter concerning Shakespeare, it cannot but appeal to every educated man. I thank you most cordially for having written it. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Oct. 10th, 1899 Col. John N. Partridge, Supt. of Public works, Albany, N.Y. Sir:-- Will you please answer the attached communication from B. Rice, West Schuyler, N.Y. and report on the matter to me? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt19 Oct. 10, 1899. Hon. Bartlett Tripp, Yankton, S. D. My dear Mr. Tripp:-- I thank you for yours of the 6th. Unfortunately I cannot go to Nebraska. I wish I could. I particularly want to see you. Is there any chance of your coming here? It seems to me that you and Sternburg have shown how Germany and the United States can work hand in hand in the Pacific, and a greater lesson could not be taught. Sincerely yours, Oct. 10th, 1899. Col. J. A. Goulden, 171 Sway, N. Y. City. My dear Col. Goulden:-- I thank you most cordially for yours of the 7th. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to review the parade of the New York veterans next Memorial Day. I accept with pleasure. By the way, I have just forwarded to Commander-in-Chief Shaw $500. from an unknown friend for use this winter for any specially deserving cases among the veterans. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 20 Oct. 9th , 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler , Columbia University , N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- Indeed I am delighted with the conference work and congratulate you upon what you have done. Most emphatically Root's speech should be printed as a campaign document and circulated everywhere. I have got to go to Cincinnati on the 2Ist , to Maryland on the 25th and 26th and to Boston on the 31st. Then I shall stop short and shall try not to make another speech for months to come. I shall have to try to help out Mazet. With hearty thanks , Faithfully yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 9th , 1899. Hon. M. A. Hanna , Cleveland , Ohio. My dear Senator Hanna:-- What time is the meeting in Cincinnati? What is the best train to take from Albany? When can I get away? Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt21 Oct. 9th , 1899. Col. Charles Dick , Columbus , Ohio. My dear Col. Dick:-- Will you please tell me what time I am to speak in Cincinnati? What train shall I take from here? Would it be possible for me to see or dine with Judge Taft at Cincinnati? I am particularly anxious to see him. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th , 1899. Hon. Regis H. Post , Littlewood , Bayport , N.Y. My dear Post:-- Your letter puts me in a quandary. I want to do anything you ask , and yet it is an absolute impossibility for me to begin speaking in the different close Assembly Districts. If I begin in one , I cannot with any face refuse to go into others. I shall have to make one speech for the fusion ticket in New York , and only one. I have had a number of urgent requests to speak for different assemblymen whom I earnestly wish to help. I simply cannot accept. It is not physically possible for me to. Now , is there any way save by speaking myself in which I could help you? Is there any man you want sent down there? all I can do I most gladly will. For there was any one in the legislature for whom I grew to have more hearty respect and admiration than yourself. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt21 Oct. 9th , 1899. Col. Charles Dick , Columbus , Ohio. My dear Col. Dick:-- Will you please tell me what time I am to speak in Cincinnati? What train shall I take from here? Would it be possible for me to see or dine with Judge Taft at Cincinnati? I am particularly anxious to see him. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th , 1899. Hon. Regis H. Post , Littlewood , Bayport , N.Y. My dear Post:-- Your letter puts me in a quandary. I want to do anything you ask , and yet it is an absolute impossibility for me to begin speaking in the different close Assembly Districts. If I begin in one , I cannot with any face refuse to go into others. I shall have to make one speech for the fusion ticket in New York , and only one. I have had a number of urgent requests to speak for different assemblymen whom I earnestly wish to help. I simply cannot accept. It is not physically possible for me to. Now , is there any way save by speaking myself in which I could help you? Is there any man you want sent down there? All I can do I most gladly will for there was any one in the legislature for whom I grew to have a more hearty respect and admiration than yourself. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt22 Oct. 10th , 1899. Capt. W. Crozier , Ordanance Bureau , War Dept. , Washington , D.C. My dear Capt. Crozier:-- I have seen Root and he is thoroughly well affected towards a reorganization. I told him all about you , and he said that he would be very glad to see you; but as he has so much on hand and may easily forget , I wish you would identify yourself with this letter. Meanwhile , if there is any way in which I can help towards the reorganization of the army , I shall most gladly do so. Faithfully yours , Oct. 10th , 1899. Let. Col. Arthur H. Lee , Military attache , British Embassy , Washington , D.C. My dear Lee:-- Root says he is anxious to see you. Pray call on him at your convenience. It was delightful having you for even so short a time at Oyster Bay. I thought the Mintos charming , by the way. Sincerely yours ,23 Oct. 10th , 1899. Lt. Wm. L. Flanagan , 262 10th Ave. , N.Y. City. My dear Lt. Flanagan:-- On my return here I find the whiskey. I thank you very much. Mrs. Roosevelt has already written you about the beautiful flowers you sent. We were both so much concerned to learn of your accident. With warm regards to Mrs. Flanagan and renewed thanks to yourself , believe me. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th , 1899. Mr. Ernest Neal Lyon , C/o Success , Cooper Union , N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Lyon:-- I have just received the copy of Success with your poem. I want to thank you very much and say I appreciate your having written it. Sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt24 Oct. 10th , 1899. John Brooks Leavitt , Esq. , 111 Bway , N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Leavitt:-- I have yours of the 9th. Most certainly you have ever right to write me. The trouble is that if I interfere in nominations in one district , I shall have to interfere in all , and not only would this open a hopeless vista , but my earliest and fiercest critics would be the CitizensUnion men in the other districts. In some districts I should advocate taking up the Citizens Union man. There they would approve. But in other districts I would advocate taking up the organization republican , and there you would find that they would at once heavily criticize me. Faithfully yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th , 1899. W. Seward Webb , Secy. &c. , 51 E. 44th St. , N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Webb:-- I have yours of the 9th inst asking me to join the American Hackney Horse Society. I thank you heartily , but I am asked to join so many different things that I have to establish a rule not to join anything. With regret that I cannot comply with your request , I remain , Very sincerely yours , Theodore Roosevelt25 Oct. 10th , 1899. Mr. R. J. Waddell , Tweddle Bldg. , Albany N.Y. My dear Mr. Waddell:-- Rough Riders appeal to me , and I can truthfully say that the cut you enclose portrays a remarkable exhibition both of horsemanship and shooting. With regards , I am , Very truly yours , Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th , 1899. John C. Rose , Esq. , 828 Equitable Bldg. , Baltimore , Md. Dear Rose:-- I have yours of the 7th. I will come into Maryland from New York , and not from the West , and will be entirely at your disposal. Faithfully yours , Theodore Roosevelt26 Oct. 10th, 1899. Miss Marion Howard Brazier, Trinity Court, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Brazier:-- Replying to yours of the 9th inst, permit me to say that you do not realize what you are asking of me. It would be absolutely impossible for me to go into any work of the kind you suggest now. I am simply overwhelmed. I am very sorry not to be able to oblige you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Lt. Geo. Curry, 11th Cav. U.S.A., SanFrancisco, Cal. My dear Lt. Curry: - I have yours of Sept. 29th. I have done what I could for Vinnedge already. The trouble is that I had to choose among the different candidates. You and Ballard were the two for whom I made a dead set in the second batch. I tried hard for a Captaincy for you. You do not know the number of men that write and ask me. Certainly a couple of hundred from the old regiment have applied. It simply is not in my power to do any more. From New Mexico you and Ballard and Dame and Coleman are men for whom I made up my mind to fight just as hard as I knew how. I knew that Luna would be all right any how. With warm regards to Ballard and Vinnedge and yourself, and wish you all luck, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 27 Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Wm. R. Corwine, N.Y. Life Bldg., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Corwine:-- I am in receipt of a copy of your circular. Surely you do not mean that I am put down as signing for the Ramapo water business. Any such use of my name is wholly unauthorized. The signature itself must be a forgery. I have certainly not signed anything in connection with it in recent years. Whether or not in 1883 I signified my acquiesence in a scheme for increasing the water supply I do not remember, but in any event such a signature has nothing to do with the present scheme, to which I am unqualifiedly opposed, as a matter of course. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899 Lieut. V. Steenstrup, Schacksgade 82, Copenhagen, Denmark. My dear Lieutenant:-- It is a great pleasure to receive your letter. I should suggest two books: In the first place, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's History of the Spanish American War published by Harpers, New York, and in the next place, Scribners book on the Spanish American War by Richard Harding Davis. Harpers and Scribners of New York are two of our greatest publishing firms. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt28 Oct. 10th, 1899. Hon. Charles F. Manderson, Omaha, Neb. My dear Senator:-- Many thanks for yours of the 7th. I received your address and enjoyed it greatly. I wish I could get out to Nebraska but it is an absolute impossibility. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Hon. William Vaughn, Birmingham, Ala. My dear Mr. Vaughn:-- I was very much pleased to receive your letter of the 7th inst, and now I will do what I can for Taylour. I have always had a great regard for him, but when he drank as he did I felt I could not conscientiously push him for office. I do not want to make my recommendations count for nothing, and I only want to write what I can stand by. But now that Taylour acknowledges his fault, I have every confidence that he will mend it, and so I will gladly do what- ever is in my power. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 29 Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 16th Thomas St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Tavers:- I have yours of the 9th. I am very much obliged to you. As far as I am concerned I would fifty fold over take McGuire on your recommendation than any one else; but in a committee like this I have got to look to the effect upon the State at large. I found that nobody knew about McGuire; that the Catholics up the State did not feel that he was sufficiently prominent representative, and that on the other hand, the Senators and the educators thought they were buying a pig in a poke. If I increase the Committee I may put on McGuire too. If he is your stamp, it is the type of man I want. I want a man who will do his own thinking, who will be firm and at the same time conciliatory, and who will look at matters from a broad standpoint. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt30 Oct. 10th, 1899. Nathaniel H. Davis, Adref, Grandin Road, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Nat:-- I have yours of the 8th. You are more than kind. Wont you see the local committee? I suppose I must make my arrange- ments through them. Judge Taft wants to see me, and if I could see you and Frank and Sam with him, it would be most pleasant. You are awfully kind to write to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. R. S. Guernsey, 56 Pine St., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 9th. Pray write me exactly what it is you want to see me about. There is not the slightest sign at of any such danger as that of which you speak. You say the Civil Service rules would obviate the dangers you fear. Please write me exactly what you mean. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt31 Oct. 10th, 1899 Mr. George Gunton, Union Sq., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Gunton:-- Your letter of the 9th really pleased me. You must remember, however, the exceedingly evanesnent character of the feeling which produced such a reception as that I received.. But of one thing you may rest assured, that so far as I have deserved it by what I have done in the past, I am going to try to deserve it by what I shall do in the future. It does seem to me that we have genuine cause to feel proud in what has been done in the way of legislation and administration this year in this State. I want to see you as soon after election as is convenient, to go over with you the labor part of my message. I shall read your September number with the greatest pleasure and interest. The franchise tax is going to work well. There will of course be difficulty at first. The demagogues and the unreasoning fools who are the natural allies of the demagogues, hold out preposterous hopes of the amount of money that can be obtained by taxing corporations; and on the other hand, the corporations do not want to be taxed at all; so that we shall have bitter attacks from both sides. But on the whole, things will go well. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt32 Oct. 10th, 1899. Hon. Wm.H. Taft, Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Judge:-- I have yours of the 7th and was delighted to hear from you. I hate to see ungracious, but I simply cannot make another speech. It would not do. Will you so inform the ladies of the Society of the Daughters of the Revolution? Now, when I come to Cincinnati I am more anxious to see you than any one else. In fact, you are the only person whom I really must see. I did not want to come, but the President put it in a way that I could not very well refuse. I really ought to be attending to my work here as Governor. It will be the greatest pleasure to see you, my dear Judge. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Robert Bridges, 155 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Bridges:-- I have yours of the 6th. I am delighted that you like the Cromwell, and also that you thought some of Miss Youngs quatrains as good as Mrs. Roosevelt and I did. You may send the proof and check direct to Miss Youngs. I am strongly of the opinion that I will be able to write you the article on the reorganization of the army. At present I am about four articles behind which I have promised divers magazines, some of them as much as a year ago, and I will have to get through those first. I never supposed you would want more than the regular pieces I have given you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt33 Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. S. C. Mead, c/o The Merchants Association, N.Y. Life Bldg., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 7th inst. It seems to me you are following exactly the right course. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899 Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. J. A. Hayes, Cor. Sec., Cazenovia, N.Y. My dear sir: - - I have yours of the 9th inst. and thank you most cordially for your good opinion. It is a real pleasure to me. Of course, I shall be glad to accept the honorary membership, but you will readily understand that such a multitude of calls are made upon me that I cannot undertake any new duties just at present. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 34 Oct. 10th, 1899. Wm. A. Hale, M.D, Cor. & Fin. Secy. Royal Society of Good Fellows, 588 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass My dear sir:-- I thank you most cordially for your very kind invitation of the 7th inst to attend the public meeting of your society, and wish I could come, but it is an absolute impossibility. I cannot undertake another engagement of any sort. My duties as Governor will not permit it. With real regret, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. J. Wesley Jones, Esq., President, V. L. S. C., World Bldg., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 9th inst in which you inform me of my election as an Honorary Member of your institution, and am pleased to accept with deep appreciation the honor conferred upon me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 35 Oct. 10th, 1899. To the Captain of Company K., Third Artillery. My dear sir:-- This will be presented to you by Charles E. Johnston formerly of my regiment, who will show you his discharge. He served with gallantry under me, making an excellent record. I trust he is doing well. I commend him to you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Charles E. Johnston, Battery K., 3rd Artillery, Cantel de Meisic, Manila, P. I. My dear Comrade:-- I have yours of Aug. 18th. It is a great pleasure to hear from you and that you are doing well Quite a number of the men of the old regiment have enlisted and some of them got commissions; so you will have a number of the regiment with you in the Philippines. I am sure you will always do well. I am glad to send you the enclosed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 36 Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Willis O. Huson, Fortuna, Arizona Ter. My dear Sergeant:-- I have yours of the 29th of Sept. with enclosures, which I return. I wish I could help you, but there is absolutely no way unless the War Department writes me. Secretary Root has told me with the greatest positiveness that he cannot consider any further recommendations of mine for the Rough Riders unless he asks about them. I have from Arizona at least a half a dozen on file in the War Department, and he has answered me the same way about all, even about Wilcox and Frantz. It is perfectly idle for me to send your application on, and would do you no good whatever. It would never reach the President's eye and would be simply filed away under the other applications I have made or forwarded. If Arizona's quota is not full, then your Governor, or your delegate or your State Committeeman may be able to get your name on. If they do, I will most gladly write and back you up. But it would be simply deceiving you with false hopes for me to send on your application on my own hook now. What I am writing you I have been obliged to write certainly a hundred men of the regiment. More men have been appointed from it than from any other volunteer regiment to commissioned places in the Regular Army, and as I said the Secretary has returned me one invariable answer to all my recent letters and has distinctly requested me not to write any more, stating that he could not pay heed even to those I had already written, and by recommending more I was simply destroying what little chance there was for those already put forward. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt37 Oct. 10th, 1899. TO THE JUDGE of the Northern District, Indian Territory. My dear sir:-- It gives me pleasure to recommend for the position of constable of the Third Commissioner's District of the Norther District of the Indian Territory MR. SYLVESTER V. THOMPSON of Tulsa, I. T., formerly of my regiment. He served with the utmost gallantry at Guasimas, was wounded seriously at San Juan Hill, and was a thoroughly good soldier. He is a man of good character, of fine education, and a strong republican of an old republican family. I most cordially commend him. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. Joseph P. Healy, President, N. Y. Post Office, N. Y. City. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for your very kind invitation of the 6th inst to address the N. Y. Post Office Clerks Oct. 15th. I wish I could do as you request, but it is an absolute impossibility. I cordially sympathize with your efforts and endeavored to have you put upon the same footing as other employes when I was in the Civil Service Commission. With real regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt38 October 10th, 1899. Hon John W. Griggs, Attorney General, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Griggs:- One of my Rough Riders, Mr. Sylvester V. Thompson of Tulsa, Indian Territory, who fought most gallantly and was wounded by my side at San Juan Hill is an applicant for the position of Constable of the Third Commissioner's District of the Northern District of the Indian Territory under the Judge of the Northern District of that territory. Can you do anything for him? He is a republican of an old republican family, a most gallant soldier, a man of trained mind and of high character. I earnestly hope you can drop a line for him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt39 Oct. 10th, 1899 Mr. Sylvester V. Thompson, Tulsa, Ind. Ter. My dear Mr. Thompson:-- I have yours of the 4th inst. You did not enclose me your discharge. I send you back your pension certificate, but for Heaven's sake don't never again send such a paper through the mails. Send a copy always, and keep the papers by you. I hope you will find that you did not enclose the copy of your discharge and that you have it in your possession. At any rate it did not come. Of course, I will do everything I can for you. I enclose you a copy of a letter I have sent to they Attorney General, and I enclose you a letter to the Judge of the Northern District of Indian Territory. It would be utterly useless to write to the President as he would simply refer the letter to the Attorney General. I do not know that any heed will be paid to what I say, but I will make the effort. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt40 PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. Oct. 9th, 1899. Hon Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. My dear Root:-- One word of congratulation for your altogether admirable speech. No speech that has been made will serve us better. It must be circulated as a campaign document. By the way, I hope that you are seeing that my letters to you are not kept in your ordinary files. As requested I wrote you with minute and absolute frankness about all the officers, so that you should know exactly what my observations were. Of course, this means that the feelings of some of the officers would be hurt if they ever became possessed of a knowledge of what I have written you; while in the case of Wood and Young's letters and of what Lawton and Funston said, there are obvious reasons why no one but yourself should know the facts. Is there any way I could write to you and be sure that nobody but yourself saw the letter? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt41 CONFIDENTIAL Oct. 10th, 1899. Mr. H. L. Nelson, c/o the Galt House, Lousville, Ky. My dear Mr. Nelson:-- Your letter of the 8th inst puts me in a quandary. I would do what you suggest at once if I thought I would accomplish anything. But I do not think I would accomplish anything. On the contrary, I think Secretary Long would resent any interference by me. I have been exceedingly careful in view of what has been said by Dewey as to my sending him to Manila, and by various people about my preparing the navy, not to interfere in any way with the Navy Department. I cannot imagine that he would pay the least heed to a suggestion from me, as to forcing Schley out. If I were the Secretary I should pay heed to professional advisers, but to no others in such a matter. Does it not seem to you that it would look like the most unauthorized meddling in what was not my business? He knows, and I guess everyone does, that I think Sampson all right and Schley all wrong. But I do not know what steps he ought to take in such an affair as this. I should have to find out all about it before advising. At present my advice would be worthless. But above all it seems to me to be a most doubtful business as to whether I should interfere. I have written to Root what I thought ought to be done with Otis in the Philippines, because Root asked me to. If Secretary Long will express the slightest desire to hear from me as to what I would advise in the Sampson-Schley matter, I will advise him at once; but I really hardly see how I could take the steps suggested, and I do not think any good would follow if I did. With very real regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 42 Oct 10th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- Is it true that Daly will take the place? The slate is then, Holls, Daly, Dewey, Ainsworth, Wilkinson, Emerson, and some seventh man whom I have forgotten. I hope the Barrett business is all right. I have followed your advice in the matter and kept my mouth shut. I see quite a body of the Bar Association is out for him. Write me anything you think I ought to know and give my love to Brander when you see him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 10th, 1899. Hon. Fredk. W. Holls, 120 Bway, N. Y. City. My dear Holls:-- I learn that Judge Daly will accept. What do you think of Wilkinson? Do you still wish him? Then will the committee stand with you, Daly, Wilkinson, Dewey, Ainsworth, and Emerson? Ought you not to have another man? I have a vague impression that you spoke of one or two more. McMillan, I understand, is a candidate for judgeship. I wonder if he would take a place on the committee? Perhaps it would be better not to put on another Buffalo man if Emerson is all right. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt43 October 10, 1899 Mr. John T. Bramhall, 106 Madison Street, Chicago, Ill. My dear Sir: Unfortunately I have only the enclosed photographs of two of my Indians, which please return to me after using it. I think in my Scribner's articles you will find one or two other photographs. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt44 October 10, 1899 Hon. Elihu B. Hayes, President The Republican Club of Massachusetts, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Hayes: Anything that you do is convenient for me. I will come on the morning of the dinner. I suppose there is some train leaving here about nine or ten o'clock which will enable me to get to Horticultural Hall as you describe. Won't you have the time tables looked up? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 10, 1899 Hon. M. A. Gunst, San Francisco, Cal. My dear Mr. Gunst: The pipe has just come. It is a beauty and I thank you for it most heartily. I am really very much touched that you should have sent it to me and greatly appreciate the gift. I am still carrying the knife you gave me some four years ago. I earnestly wish I could see you again. With warm regards, Very sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt46 October 10, 1899. Mrs. Tilden R. Selmes, Grant P. O. Boom Co., Ky. My dear Mrs. Selmes: About a month ago Bob Ferguson told me that the Cutcheons were in New York. As soon as we get fairly settled down here after election, I am going to try and get them up here to visit us. We have just returned to Albany after what I hoped to be a summer of rest, but which did not prove such. Still, during June and the first part of July I got most of my afternoons to myself and occasionally a day, when I would usually take Mrs. Roosevelt in a row boat, with a basket of lunch and a couple of good books, and we would row for six or seven miles down the Sound and come back at dark, or later if the moon was right. Throughout the Dewey celebration in New York I kept thinking of you. He is a man you would like to meet for he has the real stuff in him, the timber out of which to make a Nelson or a Farragut. Mrs. Roosevelt is really well and so are all the children. My big girl is a very big girl indeed now, almost grown up, and yours must be, too. I wish they could be together. Alice, I am sorry to say, does not show any abnormal activity, but is a good rider, walker and swimmer, has an excellent mind and I think I could say that she is by no means47 bad looking. As for the other children about all there is to say is that they have certainly had a lovely time in life so far. I have greatly enjoyed being Governor, in spite of the work and the worry. I have succeeded fairly well in getting what I wished done and I have not swerved one hand's breadth from the theory of public life which I always believed. Of course, as I look back, I now and then see things which I would have gone different, but in every case I have striven to be both decent and practical. I get no exercise of any kind, and regret to say am becoming a most orthodox middle aged individual. I could not climb up a butte at any speed to save my neck, and I should regard a bucking horse with unaffected horror. When you see your father tell me that I was much interested in the clipping showing Minnesota's attitude in the Alaska business. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt48 Oct. 11th, 1899 Captain C. H. Davis, Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. My dear Davis:-- I have read the life of your father with the greatest interest, and I congratulate you most heartily upon it. I enjoyed it all, and there were paragraphs over which I fairly laughed because they were so characteristic of you that the very tones of your voice rang in my ears. I was much interested to see that the Admiral felt of the Port Royal expedition just as I did when sailing south with the fleet of warships and transports to Santiago. More and more I agree with you as to the proper kind of education for an officer to have. No wonder the attitude of Congress in following that foolish and designing craven, Senator Hale, about monitors, caused you a feeling of angry contempt. The Sampson people have wanted me to take a hand in the Sampson-Schley controversy by telling Long he must push Schley out of the navy. I have declined, because I should have to make a study of existing conditions before give advice. I should have smashed Schley at once for his acts before the fight and in the fight had I been in control of the Department; but after practically condoning his offences and waiting for over a year, the question presents a much more serious aspect. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Roosevelt sends hers to both of you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt49 Oct. 11th, 1899. Rev. Endicott Peabody, Groton School, Groton, Mass. My dear Cotty:-- Next fall is the time Ted is to enter Groton. He will then be 13, and I want him to enter the Second Form, if possible. He is in the class at the Albany Boys Academy from which, as the teacher tells me, they do enter them second form. I believe him to be a manly, straightforward little fellow, who will do no discredit to your school. Will you have be sent the papers of admission for the first and second forms? I have gotten on fairly well -- indeed, I think a little more than fairly well with the Governorship so far. At any rate, I have been able to carry out practically exactly the policy which I had hoped to carry out. I have been practical, and yet there is not one step I have taken in appointments or legislation which I should not be delighted to have laid in its minutest details before any friend whose good opinion I valued. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt50 Oct. 11th, 1899. Mrs. Mary L. Marshall, Box 153, Warrenton, Va. Mary:-- Mrs. Roosevelt showed me your letter. I send you the enclosed to the Commissioner of Pensions. It may possibly help you, although of course I cannot tell for certain. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 11th, 1899. Hon. H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. My dear General Evans:-- This will introduce Mrs. Mary L. Marshall, or her Agent. Her husband, Edwin Marshall, was my body servant throughout the Santiago campaign. He was one of the most trustworthy, faithful, brave and loyal men I ever met. He was an old soldier, having served against the Indians in the 9th Cavalry. The exposures in the Indian campaigns had weakened him, and during the Santiago campaign he sickened under the fresh hardships and died soon after the regiment was disbanded. I most earnestly hope that her pension claim may be speedily allowed. If it can be taken up at once I shall regard it as a personal favor. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt51 Oct. 11th , 1899. Charles M. Harvey , Esq. , c/o The Atlantic Monthly , Boston , Mass. My dear Mr. Harvey:-- I have been so much pleased with your article in the October Atlantic Monthly that I must write and tell you so. It is always refreshing to see a historical student capable of getting the proper perspective in contemporary events. Too many of our men who praised expansion in the past , shrink in terror from it in the present. By the way , I may mention that he view you take of the whole Louisiana expansion is exactly the view I took in a book I wrote called "The Winning of the West". Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt52 Oct. 11th, 1899. Mr. Jacob A. Riss, Richmond Hill, L. I., N. Y. Dear Jake:-- Have you come home yet? If not, I hope this will be opened by your dear wife, of whom Mrs. Roosevelt and I are so fond. I want to see you just as soon as possible, and hear everything-- about your trip and how your boy is getting on, and whether there is anything I should know about the drug clerks or the factory inspectors, &c., &c. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 11th, 1899. Hon. William McKinley, President of the U. S. My dear Mr. President:-- Ex-Senator Amass J. Parker, the President of the Albany Law School informs me that you have said you will try to come to the Commencement of that school. If you come, I of course, shall feel more than honored to have you as my guest. With great regard, and assuring you how much I enjoyed the Dewey dinner, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt53 Oct. 11th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N. Y. City. My dear Butler:-- Your letter of the 10th crossed mine. McMillan is being pushed for a judgeship to which I shall probably not appoint him. This will complicate matters. So would it not be better to leave Emerson in his place? Who is Cole? I never heard of him. Do you vouch for him? I wish you would get into communication with Holls and write me immediately at Oyster Bay where I shall be for two or three days, and I will make the announcement. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 11th, 1899. Hon. Don M. Dickinson, Union Trust Bldg., Detroit, Mich. My dear Mr. Dickinson:-- I have yours of the 10th inst with enclosures. I shall write to the Secretary at once. I think that will be more effective than writing to the President who would merely turn it over to Long, while the latter would then not have the feeling that I had written to him personally. It is a great pleasure to me to do anything you wish. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt54 PERSONAL Oct. 11th , 1899. Hon. John D. Long , Secretary of the Navy , Washington , D.C. My dear Secretary Long:-- The enclosed letter explain themselves. I know that Robison was a man of excellent record. Dickinson was one of our mast valuable allies in teh McKinley election. I only ask that you look into the matter yourself and decide what is wise and best. It was delightful to get a glimpse of you , but I was not able to speak of one-tenth of what I wanted to say. Is there no chance of your coming through Albany on your way to Boston sometime and spending a night with us? We should both be so much pleased , and then I could have an evening for a real talk with you. By the way , is not Root doing well? I am sure you must like him. I think we have about a strong a team in the War and Navy Departments now as men could have. Faithfully yours , Theodore Roosevelt55 Oct. 11th, 1899. Douglas Robinson, Esq. 55 Liberty St., N. Y. City. Dear Douglas:-- Many thanks for yours of the 10th. If the Steamer is sighted before Friday night, send word to Oyster Bay, but not otherwise, as I shall come in from Oyster Bay by the 8.50 A. M. train. Won't you arrange with Anna to have you and Corrine lunch with us and the Lodges on Saturday? I should like very much to see you with Cabot. I think your idea is right on the investment business. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 11th, 1899. Mr. Brander Matthews, 881 West End Ave., N. Y. City. Dear Brander:-- I have yours of the 10th. As soon as I had written Butler I realized that Peter might keep you off. I hear excellently of him. Alas! I do not know when I shall get to New York for an evening, or most certainly the box at Wallacks would yawn no longer. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt56 CONFIDENTIAL. Oct. 11th, 1899. Mr. George E Matthews, Ed. The Express, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Matthews:-- I have yours of the 10th with enclosed clipping. I am not yet prepared to say what I shall do in the matter. You may rest assured that I will appoint to the judgeship no mere machine man-- no one but a man of the very highest character as a man and a lawyer thoroughly fit for the position. More than that I cannot say at the moment. I shall weigh territorial considerations, but I know you would not expect me to regard them as controlling. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Oct. 11th, 1899. Hon. S. Fred. Nixon, Westfield, N.Y. My dear Mr. Speaker:-- Mrs. Roosevelt wants to thank you as much as I do for the grapes. They are delicious. It was exceedingly thoughtful of you to send them to us. With hearty thanks, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt57 Oct. 11th, 1899. Hon. Elias Goodman, Board of Aldermen, City Hall, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Goodman:-- Replying to yours of the 10th, most emphatically you are welcome to use that letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt58 Oct. 11th, 1899. My dear Lord Minto:-- You could not have enjoyed your visit more than we enjoyed having you. I only wish it could have been under more favorable circumstances as regards having you meet some of the men whom I wanted you to meet. You would have liked General Greene. Indeed if it is possible I shall certainly go to Canada, if only for a day or two. There will be much to talk over with you of wars past and I fear of wars present. Lady Minto wrote to Mrs. Roosevelt. You must pardon my saying that I and Mrs. Roosevelt agreed that she was one of the most charming women we had ever met. With great regard, and assuring you what a real pleasure it was to have had even so hurried a visit from you, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Lord Minto, Governor General of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.59 October 17, 1899. Mr. Charles Carey, C/o N. Y. Times, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Carey:- The Times has recently spoken of me several times in a way that I really appreciated. I should like to meet you just for the pleasure of going over with you my course as Governor and telling you the inside of everything. And if you thought Mr. Ochs would care to meet me, I should be very glad to meet him. Do you think you could bring him to the Century Club on Friday next at 11 A. M. and there take a late breakfast with me, as I go on the one o'clock train to Cincinatti? Sincerely yours,60 October 17, 1899. General Frederick Funston, % Mr. W.A. White, Emporia, Kansas. My dear General Funston: All Hail: And a thousand congratulations. I send this to you in care of your good friend White of the Emporia Gazette. I am very anxious to see you. Can't you come on here and be my guest ? Bring White with you. There are very many things military and civil, which I am anxious to talk over with you. i hope you received the letter I wrote in answer to your very kind letter to me. Faithfully yours,61 October, 19, 1899. Mr. Henry Einstein, C/o N.Y. Press, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Einstein, On Friday next at ten A. M. could you meet with me at the Century Club, & West 43rd Street? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October, 19, 1899. Mr. W. A. White, The Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas. My dear Mr. White: Will you kindly forward the enclosed to General Funston? I don't know his address. I have asked him to come on here and pay me a visit. Can't you come with him? There are so many things i should like to talk over with both of you. Faithfully yours, 62 October, 17, 1899. Hon. William Maybury, Mayor, Detroit, Mich. My dear Mr. Mayor. Your very kind letter of the 10th instant is received. I wish I could accept but it is an absolute impossibility. I simply cannot go into anything more. I am awfully sorry. It it were not that I am simply overwhelmed with invitations, I would particularly like to accept. sincerely yours Theodore October, 17, 1899. Mr. A. H. Pugh, Piccadilly Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Mr. Pugh: I have most cordial invitation of the 14th instant and thank, but I fear i cannot accept any invitations at present. I can only refer you to Judge Taft and Mr. Cushman. With renewed thanks, I am Very sincerely yours T. Roosevelt 63 October, 17, 1899. Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, 27 West 76th St. New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Slicer, I feel exactly as you do about Barrett. I shall simply allude to him. What a ridiculous attitude the Evening Post and the Independent of its stand are in, thanks to their support of him. I will see you Thursday. Faithfully yours. Theodore Roosevelt.64 October 17, 1899. Rev. Robert I. McBride, 266 Hamilton Street Albany, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I have your very kind invitation of the 13th instant and with greatly that I could accept but absolutely out of the question. I dare not go into another engagement now. You have no conception of the multitude of calls upon me. With great regret, believe me Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Hon. Lemuel E. Quigg, 100 Broadway , New York. My dear Mr. Quigg:- Your letter of the of the 12th instant. I think everything will come out right. I am sorry that Fulton cannot be endorsed in Fallows' district. I am trying to help Slater all I know how. I shall come down on the 2:35 P.M. train on Thursday and will go to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Could you leave word for me there what to do? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt65 October, 17, 1899. Mr. I. T. Langlois, Power Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Mr. Langlois: Your kind letter of the 13th instant. I wish I could accept , but it is an absolute impossibility, I cannot accept another invitation. do you know that I have spoken to four Methodist bodies already this summer and fall? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October, 17, 1899. Mr. Franklin Mathews, C/o N. Y. Sun. New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Mathews: Your letter of the 13th instant. Until after election I shall be very little in Albany, but if you can come here next Monday I will talk with you just as long as I can. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 66 October 17, 1899. Mr. Addison Rayman Pulitzer Building New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Ryman:-- Yours of the 12th instant. I thought you had that speech. I have not got it. With regret, I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Mr. Robert Bridges, 153 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Bridges:-- Your letter of the 12th instant received. I wish I could accept but it is an absolute impossibility. I cannot go into another dinner. With great regret, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt67 October 17[?] 1899, Mr. Eliot Spalding, Harvard Football Assn. Cambridge, Mass. Your letter of the 16th instant with enclosures. that is something that I appreciate. I will be on to the Cambridge Game at any rate. I only wish I could see the Indian game too! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Alfred Marling, 64 Cedar Street, New York N.Y. My dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th instant received. I regret extremely that it is absolutely impossible to accept. I wish I could, but simply I cannot do it. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. October 17, 1899, Mr. J.A. Crandall, 258 Washington Street, New York N.Y. My dear Sir: I thank you for your courtesy. I know you would not expect me to give any opinion upon the game as it is a kind of thing that I never do. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899, D. Castillo, Esq., The Gilson House, New York N.Y. My dear Sir: It will give me very great pleasure to see you here. Unfortunately, I leave day after to-morrow for this week. Could you stop here next Monday, if convenient, and take lunch with me? With great regard, believe me Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt69 October 17, 1899, Mr. Thomas A. Fulton 150 W. 94th St., New York My dear Mr. Fulton:-- Upon my word, I wish I were a dictator for about a moment! It seems to me that the Citizen Union act badly in one district and their opponents in another. I feel that there is nothing whatever I can do, but I will gladly try. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Mr. George H. Lyman, Collector's Office, Boston, Mass. My dear George:-- Yours of the 12th instant. Cabot would break his heart if I did not stay with himand I will have to do it. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt70 October 17, 1899 Captain James D. Bullock, 70, Cunning Street, Liverpool, ENGLAND. Dear Uncle Jimmy: You are most kind. I shall appreciate that letter and shall keep it most carefully to hand to small Archie. Yes, I knew lots of the facts you mention, but it is good to have them corroborated at his hand as it were. He was a fine old fellow, our ancestor, and I am proud of him. This work has been very absorbing and at times very worrying, but most interesting. I can conscientiously say that I have done nothing of which I do not think father would approve if he were alive. Don't believe any allusions about my career, Uncle Jimmy. I am on the crest of the wave at present, but the hollow always follows the crest, and I expect to be thrown down. There is no more chance of my being made President than of my being made Czar of Russia, but I am very glad to have won the Governor-ship, and I am proud at having commanded a good fighting regiment in the Spanish War. One of the things I especially liked in connection with the regiment was that I had in it so many sons of those who wore the blue as well as those who wore the gray. I am sorry that you should feel ailing and I wish that you were here with Edith and the children. With warm love to all, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt71 October 17, 1899. Lieut. Col. Alexander G. Brodie, Crown Pointe Mine, Briggs, Arizona. My dear Colonel: I have written to Secretary Root and I send you my letter to the President. I have also written about you for the Spanish War Veterans Association. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Hon. Matthew P. Breen, 71 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Breen: I have greatly enjoyed your book. I wish I could see you and talk over some of the matters with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt72 October 17, 1899 Mr. John Fox, Jr, Big Stone Gap, Va. My dear Fox: It was very good to hear from you. I am not surprised that some of the war matter was cut out. I wish I had seen you and Tom Page on election day. I have spoken twice at public meetings here specially called in the interest of some colored association. In each case I have made the type of speech of which you would entirely approve, dwelling upon the fact that at all hazards the brute who committed rape must be hunted down: that his own race who did not take the lead in hunting him down is practically an offender himself; and then going on to say that the crime was [more?] aggravated if avenged by another crime, and that the whites should put down lynching because it was a crime against their own race. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt73 October, 17, 1899. Mr. T. St. John Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Gaffney:-- I wrote at once as you requested congratulating them and wishing them success in their effort to build a monument to Mr. Parnell. I asked that the Lord Mayor and Mr, Redmond should come up here and if possible give me a chance to get them to dinner. Now, wont you see them and if possible arrange to come up here and take dinner with them at the same time? I was greatly interested in your letter from the Aberdeens and have just been reading Mrs. Gaffney's piece in the 19th Century. I have much to talk over with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt74 October 17, 1899. Mr. William T. Emmet, 52 Wall Street, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Emmet:-- I greatly wish I could be with you at your meeting but as that is impossible, I write to express my cordial good wishes and to trust that you will be successful in raising the monument to Mr. Pernell. Will you present my compliments to the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Mr. Redmond, and say how sorry I am not to be able to meet them in New York, and that I earnestly hope that they will give me the pleasure of coming here to Albany. I should like much to have them at dinner. Will you not let me know when they think they can come? I would like a choice of dates as I shall be much away from Albany during the next month. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt75 October 17, 1899. Hon. S. C. Croft, 101 W. 127th St., New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Croft:-- Permit me to express my great gratification at the fact that Mr. Slater and Mr. Goodman have been renominated for assemblyman and alderman in your district. I am pleased not merely as a Republican but as a good citizen. It happens that I have been into peculiarly close relations with both of these gentlemen and I cannot too strongly say that they are entitled to the vote of every man who believes that fearlessness, integrity and good judgment give a public servant a claim upon those of his constituents who believe in civic righteousness. With Mr. Goodman I was thrown intimately in contact while I was police commissioner and he always stood by me and supported me in every way in the hard and difficult work of that time. Mr. Slater was among the assemblymen with whom I was thrown into particularly close contact last year and I gained the highest opinion of him. It would be a real misfortune for good government to lose him from the Legislature. His work in connection with the franchise tax bill and the teachers' salary bill was especially good. I earnestly hope for the success of both. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt76 October 17, 1899 The Honorable William McKinley, President of the United States, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. President: Lieut. Col. Alexander O. Brodie, formerly of my regiment, who was wounded leading his men in action at Las Guasimas, and one of the most gallant and honorable men it was my fortune to meet, would like to be on the Board of Visitors for West Point this year. He is, as you know, from Arizona, and was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for delegate for the territory at the last election. I most earnestly hope that his appointment can be made. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt77 October 17, 1899 Mrs. Clara U. Frazier, Syracuse, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Frazier: It gives me the greatest of pleasure to wish you all success in your work. I think that most all of us have a very warm spot for the newsboys. They are so plucky: so self-relying; so cheerful, that they always seem to me to embody the very traits we like to speak of as being American. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt78 October 17, 1899. Miss Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead, 51 Second Street, West, Lexington, Ky. My dear Miss Kinkead:-- Any letter written as yours must appeal most strongly to me and I thank you for your courtesy. I am now a very busy man with but a little time to myself, but most certainly as soon as I get the opportunity I shall go over what I said or implied about Governor Shelby. In the Campbell matter, it did seem to me that no cause was shown against Campbell. As I recollect it, the positive testimony in his favor was overwhelming. Since writing, however, I have been in battle with myself and can well understand how hopelessly honest witnesses might contradict one another. I used the terms "backwoodsmen" and "mountaineers" as terms of admiration and Shelby lived in the back woods; they were leaders of the backwoodsmen. Don't you think that because now-a-days you associate mountaineer with poor white that you are inclined not to give the word its true value when used a century and a quarter back? Again thanking of you cordially, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt79 October 17, 1899, Mr. W.C. McCurdy, 935 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. McCurdy: I cannot find any record of a Schuyler who was shot while in my regiment. I am afraid there is something wrong in the story. sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 80 October 18, 1899 Mr. Benjamin Miller, Binghamton, N.Y. My dear Sir: You are extremely kind. I have received the pamphlet and have greatly enjoyed it and I thank you for your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Lieut. W. J. Sears, U.S.S. New Orleans, Navy Yard, New York. My dear Mr. Sears:-- I wish I could help you but I dont see how I can apply again. The people at Washington do not like my applying and the first time showed me so very plainly. I am awfully sorry. Lieut.-Colonel Alexander C. Brodie wants to become a member of the Spanish War Veterans Association. Will this be possible? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 81 October 17, 1899. Mr. F. G. Campbell Cherry Valley, N.Y. My dear Sir:-- I thank you most cordially. Elbert Roosevelt is not my grandfather. I presume he belongs to the Westchester branch, but they are all my kinsmen. You are exceedingly kind to have sent the letter and I much appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 17, 1899. Mr. Wm. J. Boies, C/o Evening Post, Box 794, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Boies:-- It gave me great pleasure to do as you requested. I enclose the photograph. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt82 October 18, 1899. Mr. J. Monroe Willard 19th and Spring Garden Sts., Philadelphia Pa. My dear Sir:-- Your very kind letter of the 13th instant. I wish I could accept but it is absolutely impossible. I simply cannot make another engagement of any kind, sort or description now. With real regret, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. John T. Bramhall, Press Club, 106 Madison St., Chicago, Ill. My dear Sir: Your letter of the 12th instant received. Pollock was a Pawnee and Meagher a Cherokee. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt83 October 18, 1899. Mr. Guy Murohie, 101 Milk St., Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Marohie:- You are awfully good. I shall certainly be on for that Yale game on the 18th. By the way, I hope our men beat Carlisle. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. A. B. Dunn, Gonzales, Texas. My dear Mr. Dunn:- Your letter of the 8th instant. I understand that you are entitled to two months extra pay. Will you send this note with yours to the War Department asking for information and I think you will get it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt84 October 18, 1899. Hon. S. W. Pennypacker, Court Common Pleas #2, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Judge:- Your very kind letter of the 12th instant. You are more than kind. I only wish that I could accept, particularly as I would be your guest, but it is absolutely out of the question. I am physically unable to make any engagement. With real regret, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. General Avery D. Andrews, Adjutant General, Albany, N.Y. My dear General:- Your letter of the18th instant. I will gladly speak to General Henderson for Clayton. That will be the proper way to go about it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 85 October 18, 1899. Mr. William J. Cassidy, Bennignton I.T. My dear Sir. Your letter of the 13th instant with enclosures. I am exceedingly sorry but I do not see how I can interfere in any way. With regret, I am Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Chauncey N. Dutton, 11 Broadway New York, My dear Sir: Yours of the 17th instant. I thank you for your consideration. whether I shal be able to accept or not, I dont know. I am very busy at the moment and there seems to be little likelihood of a let-up. What is the day that you go? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October [?] Miss S. J. Colburn, 125 W. 34th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Miss Colburn:- Your letter of the 17th instant. I hardly know how to advise you. This would be a case of criminal law I presume and I know very few criminal lawyers. I have never employed a lawyer myself except my cousin, John E. Roosevelt. I am awfully sorry not to be able to give you the advice you wish. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. Harry B. Fox, c/o Middletown Journal, Middletown, Pa. My dear Comrade:- Your letter of the 16th instant. I dont know whether I can be of any assistance but I will most gladly try. I will send you a general letter, or if you will find out the name of the Public Printer I will send you a letter to him in person which I think would be better. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt.87 October 18, 1899. William J. Anderson, Esq., Private Secretary, Madison, Wis. My dear Sir:-- I take pleasure in sighing the photograph and herewith return it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mrs. Donald McLean, 186 Lenox Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. McLean:- Your letter of the 13th instant received. I thank you cordially for courtesy. I am looking forward to my visit to Maryland greatly. Sincerely yours, Theodore RooseveltMr. Samuel W. Frost, C/o Phoenix Club, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Mr. Frost:- You are most kind. Will you consult Judge Taft and Mr. Cushman. I am in their hands. Sincerelyyours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. Nathaniel N. Davis, Allen Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Nat:- All right, I willarrive at 10:45 A. M. Saturday and be at your disposal and that of the Judge, Sam and Frank. Will you notify them? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I am very anxious to get back to Albany Sunday afternoon if possible. Can I do it?October 18, 1899. Hon. William H. Taft, U. S. Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dear Judge:- That suits me to a "T." Whatever you and Nat do will be agreeable to me, but dont make any arrangements for a public meeting without consulting Cushmanand the local people. I think that the Phoenix Club would be the best. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. John H. Allen, Pres., Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Sir:- Your very kind letter of the 10th instant. I wish I could accept but I can only refer you to Judge Taft and Mr. Cushman. I dont believe it will be possible for me to sayeven a word before the meeting. I dont think that the managers of the meeting would think that I was treating them justly if I did so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 90 October 18, 1899. Mr. W. R. Corwine, Merchants' Association, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Corwine:- Your letter of the 11th instant with enclosure. Could you come up here next Monday or Tuesday? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. William Barnes, Jr., C/o Albany Evening Journal, Albany, N. Y. My dear Mr. Barnes:- Your letter of 13th instant. It will give me great pleasure to see you about that very soon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt91 October 17, 1899. Mr. R. W. Folder, Century Magazine, Union Sq., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Gilder:- Here is the second of my articles. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. Charles Dick, Rep. State Executive Committee, Columbus, Ohio. My dear Colonel Dick:- Your letter of the 9th instant. I shall not accept anything save as Kushman approves. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt92 October 18, 1899. Rev. J. Lenn Parks, Cavalry Church, 4th Ave.& 21st St., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 16th instant. I wish I could accept but it is an absolute impossibility. I am unable to make another engagement to speak. With deep regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Norton Goddard, Esq., 98 Bleecker St., New York, N. Y. My dear Captain Goddard:- I wish I could accept but it is a simple umpossibility. In the first place, on the 25th I speak in Baltimore; in the next place, I could not speak in your district without speaking also in Slater's, Henry's, Post's, and a dozen others were I have been asked. It would not be fair. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt93 October 18, 1899. Mr. John Henry Livingston, Clermont, Tivoli-on-Hudson, N. Y. I wish I could help you but it is an abso- lutely impossibility. I never give a recommendation unless I personal- ly know the person. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Col. Charles Dick, Rep. State Executive Com. Columbus, Ohio. My dear Colonel:-- All right I will be in Cincinnati by 10:45 Saturday, starting from New York at 1:00 P.M. Friday by Southwes- tern Limited. With great regard, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 94 October 18, 1899. Mr. F. C. Tanger, 23 Richard St., Rochester, N. Y. My dear Sir:- If I can accept any invitation, it will be yours, but I am in a real quandary as to whether I can accept even that. As you know, I have had to speak a great deal this fall. As soon as the campaign is over I will have to start in to get my ready and to prepare for the Legislature. It will not be possible for me for some months to go into anything in the way of an engagement. If I could go to anyone, it certainly would be to yours, but I simply dare not make a promise now. Believe me, I appreciate your kindness. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. S. R. Wharton, 79 Clark St., Room 10, Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Wharton:- I think the wise thing is to drop that business. You see I have about all my time coupled with trying to make a middling good governor, and sufficient unto the day is the job thereof. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt95 October 18, 1899. Mr. Frederic C. Howe, Cleveland Ohio. My dear Sir:-- I was greatly interested in your pamphlet. I have just put it before my board of tax assessors, inviting their careful study of it. Sincerely you, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Hon. Walter L. Brown, Oneonta, N. Y. My dear Senator:-- I take great pleasure in returning your the letter endorsed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 96 October 18, 1899. Hon. L. M. Quigg, 1 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Quigg:- Yours of the 17th instant. All right, I will be at the Fifth Avenue Hotel and suppose you will want to call for me about a quarter past eight. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. Francis C. Lowell, U. S. Courts, Boston, Mass. Dear Frank:- I wish I could accept but I am to be with Cabot. Perhaps I have been going it rather too strong against the anti-imperialists, chiefly because they have been wading into me and I did not feel it necessary to withhold my hand from uniting them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 97 October 18, 1899. General Charles King, Milwaukee, Wis. My dear General We were greatly disappointed, both of us. I only hope better luck in the future. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr? Nathan Bijur 34 Nassau St. New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Bijur:-- You are a trump! I took exactly your view in the Mazet-matter, the Barrett matter, and indeed all others. I do with I can soon see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 98 October 18, 1899. F. W. Fuger, Esq., 100 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. My dear Lieut. Fuger:- You need no introduction to me; I remember you very well and would most gladly help you. The trouble is just here; I have recommended a dozen men of the cavalry division and finally the Secretary requested me not to recommend any more but to select from those whom I had recommended an eligible list in the order of merits so to speak. This I did. Now I cannot recommend any more. It means that if I do recommend any more, while doing no good to the new men, I hurt the old. I trust you will understand exactly why I do not back you up. If the secretary will ask me about you, I will back you up with all possible pleasure. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 99 October 18, 1899. Mr. H. L. Nelson, St. Nicholas Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Nelson:- Your letter of the 12th instant. My great difficulty is that I do not know enough of the facts to be sure that a move which would be eminently proper thirteen months ago, would be proper now. Pray dont print this in any way, but it looks to me as though the President and the Navy Department and Sampson himself had all in effect condoned Sohley's offenses by not taking action at the time. I understand that Sampson even recommended his promotion. If this is the case, a court martial now would be a widely different matter from a court martial at the time. Do you recollect the battle of Lake Brie? Perry had a just grievance against Millett. In his joy at the victory and his desire to smooth things over he committed himself to a pressure of Elliott's conduct. He regretted this afterwards but it was then too late and Elliott was, and is to this day, backed up by certain people just as with Sohley. I would like to see you and go over the whole matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 100 October 17, 1899. Hon. Samuel S. Slaterm 206 Lenox Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Slater:- Will you hand the enclosed to Croft? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 12, 1899. General Avery D. Andrews, Adjutant General, Albany, N. Y. My dear General:- Your letter of the 15th instant. I will gladly speak to General Henderson for Clayton. That will be the proper war to go about it. Sincerely yours, 101 October 18, 1899. My dear Mr. Allen:- I telegraphed you to look at my letter to the Secretary about Robinson. Since then I have learned that the case is one of the following out the regular routine of the department which ought not to be varied. In other words, that it is against the public service to grant special favor to this young fellow and that no such favor is ever granted. Of course if this is the case I want to withdraw my request as I should never make any save on the understanding that it was compatible with the interest of the service. my sole interest was as explained in my letter to the Secretary. With great regard, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Captain W. S. Cowles, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. Dear Will:- I am so glad you wrote me for I had in a mild way feared on the wrong side, not knowing what the circumstances were. Will you hand the enclosed to Allen? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 102 October 18, 1899. My dear General Wilson:- Permit me to introduce you to Mr. Thomas B. Lawler, a reputable and well-known business man, interested in the book trade. He is a thoroughly trustworthy man and I bespeak every courtesy for him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. General Leonard Wood, Military Governor, Santiago, Ohio. My dear General:- Permit me to introduce you to Mr. Thomas B. Lawler, a reputable and well-known business man interested in the book trade. He is a thoroughly trustworthy man and I bespeak every courtesy for him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 103 October 18, 1899. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 107 Dunn St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Travers:- I take the greatest pleasure in enclosing you the notes. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mr. R. E. Roosevelt, Jr., The Lilacs, Sayville, L. I. Dear Bertie:- I have not received the letter from Mr. Hammersly. Did you enclose ie? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt 104 October 18, 1899. General Bradley T. Johnson, The Woodlands, Amelia, C.H., Va. My dear General:- You are more than kind. Send it to Albany, at the Executive Mansion as I am now here. I have been so busy that I haven't been able to write you before, but I want you to realize what I am sure you do realize, that one of the pleasantest incidents of all the past year, was your visit here. You know how greatly I respect and admire you and it was a very real pleasure to have you as my guest. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. My dear General Draper:- Permit me to introduce to you my cousin, Mrs. C. R. Leaycraft, who may be in Rome this winter. I heartily commend her to your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 105 October 18, 1899. Mrs. Charles Russell Leaycraft, 142 Pearl S.t, New York, N. Y. My dear Leontine:- I send the enclosed letter with great pleasure. I trust the business was not an omen? I dont know the Ambassador at Vienna, but I gladly send you a letter to our Italian man. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Butler:- There is a certain grim humor in comparing what Barrett has done and the attitude of the Evening Post to the Independents for him, with their attitude toward other people who are straight. I will make that committee out as you have suggested unless I find that I cannot put Emerson off without causing too much damage to feelings. Would [?????] of Albany be a better man? Very sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt 106 October 16, 1899. Miss Florence Locke, 2193 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Florence: I have just received your letter. Unfortunately I shall not be in New York for several weeks, save to pass through it in the course of my political engagements, when I really shall not have a minute. I thoroughly sympathize with your purpose and I am at my wits end how to advise you. You say it depends upon your own capacities and tastes, upon what you think you can do. I don't know the lines which you wish to enter. Even if I did the chances are slim that I should give you advice with having. But unless we know definitely what it is you propose to do, there is'nt any way I could advise. I am awfully sorry. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Mrs. Richard Crowley, Niagara, N.Y. My dear Mrs. Crowley: Not only have I been delighted with your book but Mrs. Roosevelt also; indeed she took it away from me and has been reading it with the greatest of interest. We have really enjoyed it so much and we think it most characteristic of the writer! Pray, present my warm regards toyour husband and all your family. With regards from Mrs. Roosevelt, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt107 October 18, 1899. Lieut.-Col. John H. Beacorn, 42nd Infantry, U.S.V., Fort Niagara, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- You are most kind. Indeed I remember meeting you well. I greatly wish I could be present but every day is taken for the next three weeks. I am more sorry than I can say. Will you express to the regiment for me my deep gratification at the fact that so many of its members are from this State, my entire confidence in the honor they will confer upon our country, and my great regret that I cannot be present in person at the giving of the Colors. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. Major Lewis, Chairman, Reception Committee, 1st Tenn.Regt., Nashville, Tenn. My dear Sir:- I onlywish that I could be present at the reception to the First Tennessee Regiment. Tennessee herself can be no prouder of it than we of New York and all good Americans must be. When they by their courage so gallantly upheld the Honor of the Flag, they rendered all Americans their debtors. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. Mr. Thos. R. Creed, C/o S. E. Howard's Sons & Col., 21 Mercer Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Creed:-- I thank you foryour letter. If the enclosed is all right, will you send it out? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. Mr. H. H. Humphreys, 50 Clinton Bildg., Columbus, Ohio. My dear Sir:-- Your letter of the 17th instant. I thank you very much and appreciate your courtesy in sending the family a token. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 109 October 19, 1899. Captain Ira Harris, Supt. Transportation, U. S. A., Army Building, Whitehall Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Captain Harris:- I enclose a copy of memoranda made by General Wheeler and myself with reference to Captain George McDonald. He did excellently as master of the transport while I was aboard. Yours very truly, Theodore Roosevelt[*110*] October 19, 1899. Henry C. McCook, Esq., 3700 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. McCook:- I dont know where you could get an account of my life unless it is in the Encyclopedia of American Biography which I suppose is an abstract. By the first of November I will dig out my Scotch-Irish ancestors and send them to you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. My dear General:- I wish I could accept, but unfortunately I shall not be in New York on that day as I speak at Boston. You are more than kind. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I thought the Mintos very nice. General F. V. Greene, 33 East Thirtieth St., New York, N. Y.111 October 19, 1899. Colonel Charles Dick, Columbus, Ohio. My dear Colonel:-- I have your very kind invitation of the 16th instant to attend the anniversary banquet of the Garfiled Club, but regret exceedingly that it is absolutely impossible for me to attend. Thanking you for your courtesy and deeply re- gretting my inability to be present, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. Mr. Charles M. Harvey, C/o St. Loius Globe-Democrat, St. Loius, Mo. My dear Mr. Harvey:-- Of course I now recollect your perfectly. I didn't connect you with the writer of the Servier letter at first. I wish I might see you here at some time. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 112 October 18, 1899. Prof. S. P. Langley, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Langley, Indeed you are not forgotten by Tad or by Mrs. Roosevelt or any of us. We speak of you very frequently and so wish we could see you. Hurried though I am I have already read through the book. It is delightful! Thompson's writings almost always are. I shall take the book home and Mrs. Roosevelt and Tad will enjoy it to the full. With hearty well wishes and hoping you understand how really touched I am at yourthoughtful remembrance of Ted, believe me, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 18, 1899. Captain William Crozier, Sandy Hook Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, N. Y. My dear Captain Crozier:- In view of your note I send the enclosed which I wish you could present to the Secretary in person. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 113 October 19, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary:- I am anxious that this note should be presented to you by Captain Crozier in person. I do not know whether you have yet read that communication by a certain foreign officer. I beg to say that it is a literal presentment of facts and it shows with startling emphasis the need of reorganization. Although I was in the army less than five months, they were pretty active months during which you could learn more than in five years of peace, and the breakdown of the system was complete. We most urgently need a reorganization. Captain Crozier is singularly well fitted to speak on the subject. He wants me to give any help I can if the Department votes for a reorganization. Of course I stand ready to do so but I do not wish to do anything save in the way of backing up what you advocate and in accordance with your suggestion or desire. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt114 October 19, 1899. Hon. W. R. Chandler, Waterloo, N. H. My dear Senator:- I will look up that letter at once but I am very doubtful if I can find it. You will notice that I have said absolutely nothing about sending Dewey to the Philippines. All that appeared with reference to myself is what Dewey said. My understanding at the time was that you favored Howell for the Asiatic squadron, not that you were against Dewey but because you had great regard for Howell. I have no recollection of gaining this impression from any letter of yours. It came up in the Department while I was pressing Dewey and stating that in my judgment Admiral Howell, though a man of great character and force, would not be the man forthe peculiar needs of the Asiatic station. The answer was made to me that you who had been Secretary of the Navy had a very high regard for and appreciation of him. I think it was then that I suggested to Dewey that it would be just as well to have Proctor on his side. I have not seen anything about the thing in the papers in which there was any mention of your name. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt115 October 19th, 1899. General George Moore Smith, 5th Brigade Hdquarters, 71st Regt. Armory, New York N. Y. My dear General Smith:- Did you ever send that message or my note to Colonel Appleton? By the way, I much want to see you at your convenience and talk over some National Guard matters. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 19, 1899. Hon. Regis H. Post, Bayport, N. Y. My dear Post:- I have not seen the reporter. Will you ask your friend to give out thefollowing interview: "as for Mr. Post, he was one of the most valuable men in the Legislature. I very earnestly hope that he can be sent back. On every matter affecting the interests of Long Island I consulted him and placed peculiar reliance upon his judgment. Nowcoming back for a second term, he would be literally invaluable to his constituents and invaluable to me for he would give me as no one else could the exact feelings, opinions and desires of those whom he represented. It is a pleasure to deal with so high minded, upright and courteous representative as Mr. Post." Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt116 October 23, 1899. Mr. O. G. Palmer, Alva, Oklahoma. My dear Mr. Palmer:-- I of course know nothing of the merits of the came but I have at once forwarded your application to the Secretary of the Interior stating that I had the utmost confidence in the judgment and wisdom of yourself. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Master Raymond Cheseldine, London, Ohio. My dear Young Friend:-- I received the picture of you on your pony just as the train was pulling out. I liked it very much. I have four little boys myself, and one pony which the two oldest ride. The younger ones own seven guinea pigs. Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt 117 October 23, 1899. Mr. Samuel B. Donnelly, Pres., International Typographical Union, Indianapolis, Ind. My dear Mr. Donnelly:- I will write at once to Mr. Sturgis, one of my appointees on the ElmiraBoard, and I think its president, and see if Mr. Gallagher's son can be released. I will certainly ask for the release unless it creates a precedent which would be mischievous. In that case I know you would not want me to ask for it Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Hon. Hiram R. Steele, District Attorney, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Mr. Steele:- I thank you for sending me that clipping, but I did not need to have it. Nothing has given me more satisfaction than my appointment of you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt118 October 23, 1899. Mr. R. W. Gilder, Century Magazine, Union Sq., New York, N. Y. My dear Gilder:- I am very glad you like the article. It represents deep conviction on my part but I was not sure that it was articulate. I would not be able to write for you at all if I didn't choose subjects in which I was deeply interested and about which I had already thought much. My other article will be "Expansion and Peace." In it I shall approach the expansion question from a side which curiously enough seems to be new, and yet which is to my mind the most important of all. Alter the titles in any way you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. My dear Butler:- I think I will put on Mills. Both Alnsworth and Dewey have begged me in the strongest terms to put him on, and when they are both a unit and when you think he is really a stronger man, I think it would be wise to make him the odd number. McLean will be beaten in Ohio unless I am greatly mistaken. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt119 October 23, 1899. Mrs. Anna E. Ashbaugh, Springfield, Ohio. My dear Mrs. Ashbaugh:-- I want to thank you for the flowers. I really appreciated it. them very much Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Mr. Frank A. Lewis, Ebbitt House, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Lewis:-- I send the enclosed letter to Colonel Weston as I think it more likely that I can do good through him that in any other way. As in every case, I require the production of the certificate of discharge with my letter. I have had one very unpleasant exper- ience from a letter getting out of the hands in which it properly be- longed. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt120 October 23, 1899. My dear Colonel Weston:- This is to introduce to you Mr. Frank A. Lewis of my command. He followed me down to Santiago to enlist in the trenches. He did his duty well and while with the regiment was entirely trustworthy. He is a correspondent of certain San Francisco papers and wishes to get to Manila in the commissary or quartermaster's departments. If this is a proper request, I should be very glad to have it granted. I have a very strong feeling for my men and I do like to help them where possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Mr. D. L. R. Dresser, 568-574 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Dresser:- Your kind letter of the 20th instant. I only wish it were possible for me to accept, but I fear I shall not be in town on Saturday. I saw Columbia beat Union with the utmost ease and cheered the victors lustily. You are awfully kind to have thought of me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt121 October 28, 1899. Mr. Max H. Elbe, 105 Falls Street, Niagara Falls, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 21st instant. I am really at a loss how to advise you at present. Several different organizations are in the field. I have been greatly puzzled. I wish I could give you advice but I fear to try to do so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899 Mr. Daniel M. Stimson, President U.C.A.A. of N.Y. 11 West 17th Street, New York City. My dear Sir: In reply to your letter of October 21st permit me to say that while I deeply appreciate the courtesy shown me, it will be absolutely impossible for me to accept your kind invitation for the reason that at the time you mention I will be busily engaged in writing my annual message to the Legislature. I am very sorry indeed that I can not be with you. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt122 October 23, 1899. Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 301 Mulberry St., New York, N. Y. Dear Jacob:- I had read your letter and was delighted with it. Didn't I tell you where to breakfast? It was at the Century Club; I waited for you quite a time. It was awfully stupid of me. Well old fellow, we very much want to get both you and Mrs. Riis up here but if that is impossible then after giving you two weeks to get a little better, when you get well, I may want you to help me a little if you will, about the drug clerk shorter hours bill. If they employ a blackguard like Thimme they simply hurt themselves. They ought to understand that about the last way to appeal to me is by the course that particular blatherskite is following out. I will not have them think they can get anything through intimidation. I cannot tell you how delighted Mrs. Roosevelt and I were to catch even a glimpse of you the other day. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt123 October 23, 1899. Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, 27 West 76th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Slicer:- Your letter of the 21st instant received. I shall reach Albany late Friday. Cannot you come up here and dine with me? Do write to Mr. Moot. I shall write to Wilcox direct and I want to have him favorably disposed to take up the case. If he does not do it, I wonder if Milburn would? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Colonel Francis G. Ward, 676 Seventh Street, Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- Your letter of the 19th instant received. I am afraid the vacancies have all been filled. Otherwise I should most gladly help you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 124 October 23, 1899. Mr. Louis Kempner, Dept. of Posts, Havana, Cuba. My dear Mr. Kempner:- I do not think you ought to ask me to keep writing. It puts me in an undignified position. I gladly did for you what I have refused to do in almost every other case, because of my personal knowledge of what you have done. Can you not simply refer to my letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Mr. William E. English, 102 Monument Place, Indianapolis, Ind. My dear Captain English:- I could not do as you request from the simple fact that I had no personal knowledge of the matter. In my book for instance, I spoke of the gallant conduct of certain officers on hearsay. This hearsay is just as good as my own eyesight so far as historical writing is concerned, but in recommending for a brevet or anything of that kind nothing but direct testimony should be admitted. I have made this rule with regard to every application of suggestion that has been made to me and of course I could not vary it in one case. With regret, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. 125 Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, 120 East 30th Street, New York City. My dear Mrs. Lowell: This will introduce you to Mr. Franklin Matthews, who is trying to get at the causes that have lead to the increase of fallen women in New York. He would like to get at any statistics about them, of the classes from which they were drawn, of the causes that bring them to ruin, etc, etc. If you can't help him, will you not advise him to whom to go in the Children's Aid Society or in the other charitable organizations who ought to know. With great regard, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 23, 1899. Hon. Elbridge T. Gerry, 261 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Gerry: Permit me to introduce to you Mr. Franklin Matthews. He is interested in trying to get at the statistics showing the increase of prostitution in New York, and the classes in the country and city from which it is drawn, the causes that lead up to it, etc, etc. I should think you might put him on the line of getting information of this type. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 126 October 23, 1899. Hon. H. C. Lodge, 31 Benson St., Boston, Mass. Dear Cabot:- The enclosed is for your private reading, then return it. I do hope your dear mother is better. Always yours, October 23, 1899. Mrs. Douglass Robinson, Jr., Orange, N. J. Dearest Corinne:- I send the enclosed to Wood. I thought it was exceedingly kind of him to write. Have Douglas read it first. Devotedly, T.R.127 Personal October 23, 1899. C. E. S. Wood, Esq., Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Portland, Oregon. My dear Mr. Wood:- You are exceedingly kind to have written me and I shall write you with absolute frankness in return. I wish you would tell Senator Simon how I appreciate his interest and tha ti very much wish he would speak with Senator Lodge as soon as the Senate meets. lodge is my closest friend and he would do anything possible for me. I absolutely agree with what Senator Simon say says as to the fact that my chance would come now if at all. This was a very small war and two years is the absolute outside limit of duration for any reputation made in it, nor is there anything whatever to be expected by me, or by anyone else for that matter, from McKinley crowd in the way of support after his second term. By that time the kaleidoscope will have shifted completely and the odds are that an entirely new set of men and set of issues will be at the front. Moreover, to change the metaphor, the chances are strong that the pendulum will have swung back and that a Democratic victory will be in order. By that time the weshall either have failed definitely or have succeeded definitely in the Philippines. If the former, we shall be swept out because of our failure; if the latter, they will cease to be128 C. E. S. W. #2. an issue and room will be made for some other issues. If I hadn't happened to return from the war in a year when we had a gubernatorial election in New York, I should probably not now be governor. If, on the other hand, I had returned at the end of the second instead of the first term of the existing President, I should have had a fair show for the nomination. But as things are now it does not seem to me as though there was a show. I have no Hanna; there is no person who could take hold of my canvas and put money in it and organize it, and the big corporations who supply most of the money vary in their feeling toward me from fear to tripod dislike. I have never won any office by working for it by the ordinary political methods and if I should try now I should probably merely fail and be humiliated. I dont think I can play the game that way. The result would be that my usefulness would go. From Tom Reed down and up, how many men have I seen ruined by getting the presidential bee in their bonnets? I have confined myself to trying to be a middling decent governor. Of course I should like to be renominated and reelected and I shall be very glad if this comes about. If not, why I have had a first class run for my money anyhow. I am not in the least taken in by the present wave of enthusiasm for me for I know that such waves always mean that the crest is succeeded by the hollow. Senator Simon's words are among the very few indications that there would be serious talk of making me President in the middle west, and while there is immense shouting for me it almost always takes the form of "1904," which means in the first place that at C. E. S. W. #3. present they want McKinley;and furthermore means nothing whatever as shouting for a date five years ahead is the veriest waste of lung power than can be imagined. I think the organization has put up the cards for McKinley's nomination in all of the big states and of course many of the southern delegations and it has never lookded to me as if any other outcome were possible unless there is a complete change between now and next spring. I have managed my own course absolutely without regard to the McKinley people as a Govenor, and before that time, save in so far as I have acted as a good Republican. My course has been shaped to suit myself and I believe that in any great crises it is often necessary not merely to follow but to lead. In consequence you will not find the machine favorable to me. I would not know how to organize a canvass for myself. If I did start doing it I should probably fail and I should certainly cease to be of much use as a public man. Whatever good I can accomplish is largely accomplished because I am not nervously calculating the chances as to my future. Do let me say how really touched I am by the interest you have shown me. I deeply appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt130 October 24, 1899. Mr. William H. Rideing, C/o Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Rideing:- Your letter of the 23rd instant. That seems to me an admirable suggestion. I will try, and let you know if I can do it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. Williams O. McDowell, 160 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 23rd instand is received. Just at the present time I am trying hard to fix matters in New York State. I would not venture to express an opinion offhand. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 131 October 24, 1899. William N. Cohen, Esq., 22 William Street, New York, N. Y. Dear Mr. Cohen:- Your very kind letter of the 23rd instant. I am awfully sorry but I cannot accept another invitation of any kind. I have had to stop on all. If I could come to any I would come to yours. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. E. G. Blankman, Canton, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 23rd instant is received. I am sorry to say that we have not Pointer in the family. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 132 October 24, 1899. Mrs. Mary Scott Brower, 304 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Brower:- I am very sorry that you did not receive the answer I sent to your other letter. Mrs. Roosevelt simply cannot accept these invitations. If she begins to act as patroness it will be never-ending. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. William J. Smith, 674 Third Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I thank you most heartily. I would not venture to select another name. I send you a photograph for my young namesake. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Miss Jessie Landwer, 48 South 11th St., Richmond, Ind. My dear Miss Landwer:- Your letter of recent date, received. I thank you heartily. I shall see if there are any of my speeches and send them to you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 107 Duane Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Travers:- Yours of the 23rd instant. Three cheers for Miss Gertrude! I congratulate her and you. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltOctober 24, 1899. Mr. Richard S. Collum, 201 St.Mark's Square, Philadelphia, Pa. My dearMajor:- I have your very kind invitation of the 23rd instant, and regret exceedingly that I shall not be able to accept. I could not accept another invitation at the present time. If I could, it would be a great pleasure to be with you. With real regret, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. Harry Lee, Chairman, Riverhead, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I have your kind letter of the 21st instant. I wish I could accept. Nothing would give me greater pleasure, but it is absolutely impossible. I have now made all the engagements I possibly can make. With regret, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt135 October 24, 1899. Mr. T. DeQuiney Tully, 357 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear sir:- Your letter of October 21st has been received and will have careful consideration. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. Dwight, F. Davis, Alpha Delta Phi Club, Cambridge, Mass. Dear Brother Davis:- If I can come on the night of the Yale game, I will, but I am not perfectly certain whether I shall be able to. You se I belong the laboring classes. I will be with Dave Goodrich. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 24, 1899. Mr. William T. Emmet, 52 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Emmet:- I cannot say yet whether I shall be here on those days. You see my time is not my own. Perhaps the best way will be for you to write me in the course of a week or ten days when things will have cleared a little, what time the Lord Mayor and Mr. Redmond will be in Albany and then I will try to suit the dinner to their convenience. As yet, I cannot be certain of the dates I shall be here in November. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899 Miss Pollie Dann: It will indeed be an outrage if your fataher is declared insane, but if he is he will be down in Matteawan, of some other state hospital. I shall do my best to have him kept there as long as possible. I only wish there was some way my preventing the insanity plea at all. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Miss Pollie Dann, Oyster Bay, L. I.137 October 28, 1899. Frances M. Haynes, Wilkes Barre, Pa. My dear Madam: I am exceedingly sorry but you apparently do not understand that I have nothing to do whatever with the War Department. I have no power in the case of your nephew and it would be simply impertinent for me, knowing nothing of the case, to interfere in the War Department and for a boy from another State. I am exceedingly sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Edward T. Devine, Charity Organization Society, New York City. My dear Mr. Devine: Of course it is the greatest pleasure to write in your behalf and I have done so at once. You are the very kind to be in the Century Club. I am glad to hear about Mazet. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt138 October 28, 1899. To the Committee on Admissions, Century Club, 7 West 43rd street, New York City. Gentlemen: I understand that Mr. Edward T. Devine has been proposed for membership in the Club. I wish heartily to en- dorse him. He is a gentleman who has been of the ulmost use in charitable and philanthrope work. He will be a genuine addition to the Club. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899 Mr. John A. Sleicher, 110 Firth Avenue, New Yok City. My dear Mr. Sliecher: Hearty thanks. I thought Dr. Harvey altogether admirable and I am very much pleased at your thought- fulness in writing me. I wish I could see you and et you know from the inside how things are going on. Yes, I am an A[?]lha Delta Phi man. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 139 October 28, 1899 Mr. Thcs. Jeweit Hallowelf, Tuxedo, Madison Ave. and 59th St. New York City. My dear Sir: I shall be delighted to have you had the list with my name. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899 Mr. George J. Smith, Kingston, N.Y. My dear Mr. Smith: I should suggest your writing directly to Civil Service Commissioner Collier, but the arguments must be made not as to the girl's need of a position but as to why the positions needs special qualifications and out to be excepted. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. R. W. Gilder, The Century Magazine, New York City. 140 My dear Mr. Gilder: All right. I will give you another one, although I think the Expansion and Peace as distinctly the best and most original. More over, it is very difficult to say anything worth saying that will not encounter opposition. However, I will try so far as I conscientiously can. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. L. A. Havens, Factory Inspector's Sub Office, New York City. My dear Sir: I thank you for your letter. I have heard from Mr. Wilkie myself meanwhile. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt141 October 28, 1899 Mr. John Winfield Scott, 100 Broadway, New York City. My dear Sir: I thank you very much for your courtesy. I wish you all success. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Hon. Joseph M. Deuel, 118 W.48th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Judge:- Will the enclosed do? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 142 October 28, 1899. Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy. My dear Admiral Dewey:- This is to introduce Judge Joseph M. Deual of the city of New York, who wants to ask you to appear at the Lincoln Club's banquet next winter. This has become the great banquet of the year in New York and the one at which it is the mosy honor to appear and best worth while appearing. I have said I would make no speeches, but if you will come I will break through my rule and have the pleasure of introducing you. I greatly wish you could come. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Alfred Chasseaud, St. James Building, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 24th instant to Mrs. Roosevelt has been received, and I regret exceedingly to inform you that it will be impossible for her to comply with your request. She has had so many invitations of a similar nature that she has been compelled to establish a rule from which she cannot deviate. It would entail endless duties upon her which she would not be able to perform. With regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt143 October 28, 1899. Douglas Robinson, Esq., 55 Liberty Street, New York, N. Y. Dear Douglas:- I gave you those two drafts on the Putnam's, didn't I? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Ludwig Englander, C/o Marcus Braun, Esq., 156 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- You are more than kind. I wish I could have seen you. I deeply appreciate your courtesy and trust to see you upon your return. Wishing you all success, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt144 October 28, 1899. Mr. Marcus Braun, 156 Second Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I am deeply touched and pleased. Permit me through you to thank my Magyar friends most warmly. I appreciate the gift of the saddle. Nothing could have pleased me more than this remembrance on my birthday from the Hungarian Republican Club. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. H. H. Bender, Supt. Public Buildings, Albany, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 26th instant. I do not think there could be anything in that criticism, but I will give the matter my careful attention. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 145 October 28, 1899. Mr. M. E. Davis, C/o Supt. C.M.& St.P.Ry., Milwaukee, Wis. My dear Mr. Davis:- It will be a great pleasure to see you. I do not quite know my movements during November, but give me the chance to get you at any rate to lunch with me here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. T. St.John Gaffney, 290 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Gaffney:- I could not preside at the meeting for the simple reason that if I did it would open an endless vista of presiding at similar meetings. I wish I could have seen Lady Aberdeen, but it was not possible. The hitch about making a positive engagement on the dates mentioned, is just this; if I am in town any one of those four nights I shall want to see both the Lord Mayor and Mr. Redmond at my table but it is possible that during that week I shall be in the Adirondacks. I will let you know as soon as I found out definitely. I am awfully sorry that the dates I did have definitely free were impossible ones. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt146 October 28, 1899. Mr. P. T. Sherman, 59 Wall Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Sherman:- I do not quite understand your letter. Pardon my saying that it seems to show a little temper. I certainly am favoring expansion. I do not know what you mean by "pouring praise on the President," unless you interpret as such my statement that we have got to stand by him on national issues. I have gone only to states where there is a governorship contest on hand. I happen to know that the organization is vitally and deeply interested in winning this fall. Quigg, for instance, believes that his future political life depends in part upon how good a showing he can make in the way of electing assemblymen and aldermen in New York this fall. You say you think of joining the the mugwumps. Is this because they are helping Tammany against Mazet? Or because they have started to run a candidate against Slater, or becaue they hesitate about endorsing Davis and Weeks? As a matter of fact this fall, the machine's conduct on the whole has been excellent. I think they behaved badly in your district in opposing Gherardi Davis and as you know I promptly took part against them. In every other district they behaved admirable, renominating the men who deserved renomination and in the other case putting u p far better men, and though in one or two cases I think they might have done a little more toward conciliating the outsiders, the citizens 147 Union, etc, yet where they committed one fault, the Citizens Union committed ten. In short, I do not understand your letter at all and I wish you would write me a little more explanation. You surely cannot expect me to speak in each assembly district. I made the opening speech of the campaign in New York City at the special request of Quigg and the county committee. If they are not straining every nerve to win I simply misunderstand the whole case. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Marcus Braun, 154 World Bldg., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Let me thank you personally for your kindness and say how much I appreciate it. I dare not promise now. If I get a chance, I will most gladly accept your invitation but I cannot say now what I shall have on hand. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 148 October 28, 1899. Mr. Charles W. Pickett, C/o The Evening Leader, New Haven, Conn. My dear Sir:- I wish I could accept but it is an absolute impossibility. I cannot do so. I cannot accept another invitation of any kind, sort or description, much though I should like to. I am simply up to my ears in engagements and after election day I shall not make a single speech save where I have already been committed. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Miss M. E. Hibbard, C/o Office Surgeon General, U.S.A., Washington, D. C. My dear Miss Hibbard:- Of course I cordially sympathize with any effort to give the same honor to the nurses as was given to the soldiers, but I do not feel at liberty to write to the Secretary of War, not knowing what the facts of the case are. You are most welcome to show this letter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt149 October 28, 1899. Mr. B. P. Mimmack, 1410 G Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. My dear Sir:- I am very much obliged to you for your letter. I promptly made an investigation and found the photograph. I had wondered what had become of it. Pray present my warm thanks for it though I have already written my thanks at the time the promise was made me. I am deeply grieved to see the death of Commander Mason. With great regard, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Captain William E. Horton, Brigade Quartermaster, U.S.V., 1st Brigade ,1st Div., 8th Corps, Manila, P. I. My dear Captain Horton:- It gave me the greatest pleasure to endorse your application and forward it. I am not perfectly certain though what course that Spanish War Association will take. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt150 October 28, 1899. Lieut. W. J. Sears, 17 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Mr. Sears:- I think we ought to get the enclosed applicant a number of the order as soon as possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Hon. K. L. Collier, 100 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Collier: It gives me the greatest pleasure to say that I found you a staunch supporter in every way, a constant friend of honesty and decency in the Legislature, and one whom I relied upon to black up all good measures. I learned to depend much upon you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 151 October 28, 1899. Mr. F. W. Mack, The Associated Press, New York City. My dear Sir: I am very sorry to say that I don't think I can write that address out in advance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Joseph Lee, Needwood Forest, Knoxville, Maryland. My dear Mr. Lee: I got your letter too late. How I wish I could have seen you! You were awfully good to write me. Be sure and let me see you if ever you come anywhere near us here. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt152 October 28, 1899. Mr. T. J. Hayward, Maryland Club, Baltimore, Md. Dear Mr. Hayward: Permit me through you to thank the Maryland Club and to say how sorry I am I could not take advantage of their hospitable offer. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Fillmore Smith, Editor of the Industrial Watchman, 46 Ann St Paterson, N.J. Dear Sir: I do not know what you refer to. By turning to my book or to the articles in the magazine you will see all that I have said on the subject. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt153 October 28, 1899. Miss Grace L. Davidson, The Criterion, New York City. My dear Miss Davidson: I did not understand. I thought that Mr. Clarke's interview covered the matter. Of course it will be the greatest pleasure to me to see you. I shall take opportunity next time I am in New York. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. Elihu B. Hayes, 18 Milk Street, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Hayes: I really write out an address in advance and don't want to now if it can [????] be avoided. I am coming on Tuesday morning. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt154 October 28, 1899. Ansley Wilcox, Esq., Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Mr. Wilcox: First let me ask you to read the enclosed and return to me. It seems to me rather important. In the next place, let me express my great gratification at hearing from Mr. Moot that you may consent to act as referee in the trial of the charges against District Attorney Gardiner. Do you wish me to send them on to you so that you may see them before you decide? I hope to have them in two or three days, but on Tuesday I leave Albany and shall not return until the day after election. I want you to serve because I want exactly the measures meted out to the Tammany district attorney that, for instance, I noted out to the Republican Treasurer up in Chautauqua - a trial exactly on its merits, acquitted if he deserves it, and, if not, then removed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt155 October 28, 1899. Hon. Lucius N. Littauer, Gloversville, N.Y. Dear Lucius: I will write to Dr. Wise at once. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Hon. Hamilton fish, Garrison, N.Y. My dear Mr. Fish: I am delighted to learn of the nomination of Mr. Everett. I earnestly hope he will be elected. The way to get good government is to send men like Mr. Everett to the Legislature. I personally hope very much for his success. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt156 October 28, 1899. David K. Watson, Esq., c/o G.P. Putnams' Sons, 27 W 23rd St New York City My dear Mr. Watson: I am very much obliged to you for the History of American Coinage which is just the little book I wanted to have and I thank you extremely. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt157 October 28, 1899. Mr. R. H. M. Ferguson, 55 Liberty Street, New York City. Dear Bob: I was delighted to get your letter and I understand exactly your feelings about everything from " drooping under excessive excitement at Orange to the Transvaal War". The redeeming feature is the splendid courage and soldiership that has been show. The Boers offer a much tougher proposition than did the Spaniards, though, as yet, the losses have not been as great as we had in the San Juan fighting. But, thank Heaven, the generalship is much above Shafter's! I send back Ronald's note. It interested me greatly. No doubt what he says is just and I think that this fight had to come, and now the main thing is to have it over with, thoroughly and completely, as rapidly as possible. Inside of a fortnight, as I understand it, Sir Redvers buller will be in Africa with ample forces to insure success and unless the Boers score some decisive triumph before that time the end will then be in sight. Next Saturday don't you want to come out to Sagamore and stay over election day and have an entirely simple play with me? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt158 October 28, 1899. Mr. Lewis S. Welch, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. My dear Mr. Welch:- Your letter puts me in a great quandary. I do not want to make any speech of any kind, sort or description and above all not another speech for publication. I have refused every invitation without exception for after election and I cold not make a public speech. Furthermore, I have got to go to the Yale-Harvard game at Cambridge and I do not believe I could get off so soon afterwards. It would be easier for me after the Yale-Harvard game, say the following day, to go down to New Haven. Will Jack Greenway be on at the Yale-Harvard Game? I may stay with Dave Goodrich and I will make him come down with us. Do let me know about this. [For?] me. If [?] will come. I'll go to New Haven Monday the 28th, speak [fast?] in [full?]; just to the college boys or [graduates?]) & go to New York that evening or [next morning?]. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899 Mrs. Bellamy Storer, United States Legation, Madrid, Spain. My dear Mr. Storer, I did receive your previous letter and nobody but myself has seen it. As for your last one, it was as delightful as your letters always are and Edith and I enjoyed it equally. The very reason why I like that picture of Edith is that it does give the goddess side instead of the Mrs. Commodore Hull side. What Browning says of the two soul sides of men is true of women, too; and, in turn, one can be a lover as well as a Commodore Hull, or even a Governor. You persist in thinking that I am an advo- cate of blood-shed. I am not. I very earnestly desire peace, but I think that peace often comes only as the result of labor and strife. Something was done fore peace at the Hague last year, but our influence was due to the fact that we came in as a strong man and not as a weakling. Just at present I am very tired. It has been extremely hard work here and on the whole I have had far more difficulty with the professional independents tha with the machine men, though the former were in honor bound to support me. I spoke at Cincinnati recently and stayed with Will Taft of whom I am extremely fond. I have also taken a great fancy to young Jim Garfield, who seems to be a man of much the same stamp. The children are having a very happy time here in Albany. Ted and Kermit have been into the business of breading guinea pigs, which at first struck us with horror, but the little guinea pigs are really to cunning that we have become quite reconciled. Edith is will and just as pretty as she ever was. Alice is a great handsome girl nearly as tall as I am. Quentin is a delightfully baby and little Archiekins a most pattable small per- son, while Ethel is a real little mother, and Ted and Kermit just a couple of brownies. With love to Bellamy, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October28, 1899 Hon. Alton S. Parker, Court of Appeals, Albany,N.Y. My dear Judge Parker: I have sent the letter, of which the enclosed is a copy, to the Civil Service Commission. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 161 October 28, 1899. Dr. Peter M. Wise, Luncy Commission, Albany, N.Y. My dear Doctor Wise: The enclosed will explain itself. If Dr. Palmer stands highest I suppose he will get the appointment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mrs. Annah S.T.Halcomb, Rochester, N.Y. My dear Mrs. Halcomb: I thank you most cordially. Mr. Mills has just been to see me. I told him that of course I would back you up in making that place excepted. Mr. Mills seems to fear another out-break. If so, my only belief is that you most treat the matter as an emergency and use any measures that may be necessary to stop the more violent patients. Unfortunately, we can not transfer them. Sincerely yours, Theodore RoosveltPersonal October 28, 1899 Hon. Adelbert Moot, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Moot: I thank you heartily, and at Boston I shall speak along the lines you suggest. I think about the only thing that would make me come out and attack the administration even in this crisis would be if it should turn those Islands over in any shape or form to the carpet-baggers or spoilsmen. Meanwhile, you have done me a great service by speaking to Mr. Wilcox, and I am very much obliged. I shall write to him as you suggest just as soon as I get the charges, but I don't know whether I can see him or not. Perhaps I can send the charges to him for him to look them over. I have always had a very high opinion of him but it has been even heightened by the way he has done [?]Reformatory work. In this matter of the district attorney I should want him to act just exactly as I acted in the case of the Republican Treasurer of Chautanqua County. I am a good party man; but in the first place I think that [?] party [?] must be [?] by decency, and in the next place I decline to' consider party when the question is as to the misconduct of a public officer. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 163 October 28, 1899. Hon. Philip Keck, Johnstown, N. Y. My dear Judge:- Your letter of the 27th instant. I hate to interfere with places under my subordinates. I should like to do anything you desire, but if I once begin it is endless. I wish you would write personally. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, C/o Sir Wilfried Laurier, Ottowa, Ont. My dear Lady Aberdeen:- It was a great pleasure to hear from you. I am very sorry that I am not able to see you in person. I have forwarded the letter to Bob as you requested. I do not know anything about the Association of which you speak, but I have a very great regard for and believe in my friend Gaffney. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt164 October 28, 1899. Mr. F. C. Inglehart, Newburgh, N. Y. Dear Friend:- That is all right. I am delighted, and will keep the engagement. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. General Avery D. Andrews, Adjutant General, Albany, N. Y. My dear General:- All right, I will approve that when it comes up, though I want t stop all this granting away of land in perpetuity. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. W. A. Wadsworth, Esq., Genesec, N. Y. Dear Austin:-- The exact truth about running up is, that I must get absolute rest. If I could come up sometime where you are entirely alone, and Mrs. Roosevelt and I would see nobody but your self, I should be only too delighted, but I am in no trim for vio- lent exercise and if there is one thing which I do not want to go to it is a hunt dinner or hunt supper or any assemblage of "jolly fellows." I am feeling about as sociable as a gut-shot bear. I will see about Whitney.. Yours ever, Theodore Roosevelt Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. My dear Butler:- The enclosed explains itself. Would you mind saying a word about Whitney, if you will, at the meeting? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 166 October 28, 1899. Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 301 Mulberry St., New York, N. Y. Dear Jake:- Your letter of the 27th instant. The trouble is just this; so many hundreds of applications are made to me that I have had to make an invariable rule that I would speak for no man save from personal knowledge of his fitness for the office. If I vary from that rule then I have no good excuse for refusing the requests from Republican congressmen, country chairmen and the like. I am so glad Mrs. Riis and you will visit us up here. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Hon. Oliver P. Temple, C/o Robert Clarke Co., Cincinatti, Ohio. My dear Judge Temple:- I have just received your book. I have not had time to read it, but you touch upon what is to me one of the most interesting bits of our history in the civil war. I shall read it with the greatest interest and I very deeply appreciate your courtesy in sending it to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt167 October 28, 1899. Mr. W. A. White, Emporia Gazette, Emporia, Kansas. My dear Mr. White:- I think the "Men on Horseback" almost your strongest bit of work. There is a certain iron grimness about the tragedy with its mixture of the sordid and the sublime that made a very deep impression on me. I wonder how much it will be appreciated by those cultivated excellent people who do not really know at first command the actors in such tragedies. Every touch was delightful. I was especially pleased, by the way, among the minor incidents with the way the poor head of the house stripped the castle of all the gingerbread superflueties when the wave of austerity in fashion came over her. I have seen a good deal of the Joab type. The horrid business is that their careers have been by no means fraught with unmixed evil to the communities. The street car lines which they make and open, and the like, cannot be put through or successfully operated save by strong men who are able to overcome great obstacles but who often are unscrupulous as well as strong, indeed are unscrupulous as part of their strength and who feel that they deserve great prizes as an offset to their work and their risks. All this helps to make up the puzzling problem with whim I am now dealing with the franchise tax. I am continually on edge in trying to decide how far for the sake of the future we have got to168 punish innocent men upon whom stock has been unloaded by the original offender whom I would like to get at but cannot. Do come here, alone if necessary, but bring General Funston if you can. I am exceedingly anxious to see him. I should have been out in Nebraska this year had it been physically possible. General Funston will of course come to Washington. Come on with him and then pay me a visit here with him. . I will have Lodge on to meet him. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 28, 1899. Mr. C. Grant La Farge, 101 E.19th St., New York. Dear Grant:- I have had half an idea of going up to your place in the woods on the 10th or 11th of November. I do not think I can go, but write to know whether you can go and whether you think I could get enough "not too violent amusement," (for I am in no trim for hard work) in three or four days up there to warrant my going. How long would it take to get into that Club? What is the chance of a shot at a deer, and when does the season end? With best love to the madam, I am Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 169 October 28,1899 Rev. THomas R. Slicer, 27 West 76th Street, New York City. My dear Mr. Slicer: I learn that Mr. Wilcox will accept; it delights me and I thank you very much for what you did. You have been a true friend. Need I tell you that Mr. Payn's reconciliation with Senator platt will not affect me one least little particle. I agree with you that as things are now it would probably be better for me to refuse to appoint him than to try to remove him, especially as McAneny gave me the impression that what he had done in the civil service cases was only what the various other officers had done. I shall pay no heed to the insurance people making for his reappointment. I do not think it would be necessary for the civil service people to write me in advance of my action,but I shall need their help and the help of every other good citizen when I send in the nomination of his successor, for I think it more than doubtful whether I can get him confirmed. Tammany Hall doubtless will be for him and the Republican majority is so narrow that he needs to get only a couple of Republican votes to keep him in. I have a genuine regard for Hotchkiss but I must say I wish he had not conducted his campaign the way he has. During my entire administration I have had no such pressure, so to speak,as in this case in his behalf. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt170 October 30, 1899. Captain William E. English, 102 Monument Place, Indianapolis, Indiana. My dear Sir: I want to thank you for your kind letter of October 28th and also for the enclosed clipping which has been read with much interest. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Internal Revenue Agent, Atlanta, Ga. My dear Sir:- The bearer, Mr. Warren C. Crockett, is an applicant for the position of Special Deputy Collector under you. Mr. Crockett was in my regiment and was wounded at the extreme front in the San Juan fighting. He was one of the bravest and most useful men I had, and I singled him out for special mention because of the qualities he showed. I trusted him absolutely and would trust him absolutely now in any position. It would be a very great favor to me to have him appointed and I should esteem the Government more than fortunate to get his services. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt170 October 30,1899 Cpatain William E. English, 102 Monument Place, Indianapolis, Indiana. My dear Sir: I want to thank you for your kind letter of Ooctober 26th and also for the enclosed clipping which has been read with much interest. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Internal Revenue Agent, Atlanta, Ga. My dear Sir:- The bearer, Mr. Warren C. Crockett, is an applicant for the position of Special Deputy Collector under you. Mr. Crockett was in my regiment and was wounded at the extreme front in the San Juan fighting. He was one of thebravest and most useful men I had, and I singled him out for special mention because of the qualities he showed. I trusted him absolutely and would trust him absolutely now in any position. It would be a very great favor to me to have him appointed and I should esteem the Government more than fortunate to get his services. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 171 October 20, 1899. Mr. Marcus Braun, 156 Second Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Braun:- Since writing you I have seen the saddle and bridle and I am so much overcome at finding how very handsome they are that I must write you again. Really I dont know when I have seen more beautiful horse-gear. It is almost too beautiful for the descendants of Arpad to send to a Rough Rider! But the Rough Rider accepts them very thankfully. Again expressing my cordial appreciation, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Miss Helen R. Gardener, C/o R. F. Fenrio & Co., 9 & 11 E. 16th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Miss Gardener:- I thank you very cordially and I shall read your book with interest. I am greatly indebted to you for sending it to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 172 October 20, 1899. Mr. Warren O. Crockett, Merietta, Ga. My dear Mr. Crockett:- You did not give me the name of the officer to whom you wished me to write, so I have had to put the enclosed letter in this form. Please write me at once the name of his immediate superior or his cabinet superior in Washington and I will write them personal letters. You were one of the best and most gallant men in my command and I want to back you in every way. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Mr. G. H. Putnam, 27 & 29 W. 23rd St., New York, N. Y. Dear Haven:- All right, I will give you the reference. Do tell me just how long it ought to be. I particularly want as the frontispiece that picture by Rockwood of myself, in frock coat standing up. It is a three-quarters picture and I regard it as the most satisfactory picture of me in civilian dress that has ever been taken. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt173 October 30, 1899. Mr. Michael Mulligan, 331 East 31st St., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I am extremely sorry that I cannot get you a position. I have countless requests for places and it is simply not in my power to grant them. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. James MacNaughton, Esq., 1 West 30th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. MacNaughton:- Unfortunately I am at Albany and not at Oyster Bay. How long a trip would it be necessary for me to take? The shooting season comes to an end November 15th, does it not? If I did not try any shooting couldn't I have a week's good trip in December? I am delighted to hear of the luck of Pionhot and Stimson. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt174 October 30, 1899. Mr. Edward Marshall, C/o S. S. McClure Co., 141 E. 25th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Marshall:- That is just like you and I thank you for it. Perhaps I may be a candidate next year and then you can doubtless be of great help to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Mrs. J. J. Mabb, North Ontario, Cal. My dear Madam:- That is certainly a most worthy purpose. I of course do not know enough of the details to say more than that. With the purpose I have the heartiest sympathy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt175 October 30, 1899. Mr. Warren C. Browne, 102 Fulton Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I cordially sympathise with your purpose to publish a paper showing how protection, sound money and arbitration benefit the wage- worker. I wish you all success in your effort. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. Mr. W. C. Sprague, Editor American Boy, Detroit, Mich. My dear Sir:- You are very kind, but I would not know what sentence to write of. I dislike extremely writing anything simply to have my name attached to it. I never do write unless there is something definite to say. Very truly yours, Theodore RooseveltOctober 30, 1899. 176 Corp. Frank McDonald, Co.L., 21st U.S. Infantry, Billifid, Manila, P. I. My dear Mr. McDonald:- I am very much concerned over your letter, but I have not the slightest idea what I can do. I can hardly believe that any one of my men would have been guilty of such conduct, yet I have no possible method of prooing your innocence and do not know what can be done. What view did your captain and lieutenant take of you? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. General Bradley T. Johnston, Amelia, C. H., Va. My dear General:- The children are looking forward with unmixed delight, and Mrs. Roosevelt and I with a mixture of apprehension and delight, to the advent of the possum and the coon. Tell the hunter who caught it that I appreciate his message and even though he is a Democrat and I a Republican, we are both Americans and that it is not necessary to go any further than that. I had a great time in Maryland. Did I tell you that I got your young namesake, Gordon Johnston, a commission? The only other Marylander for whom I got a commission was, like Gordon, a son of a confederate officer. Good bye, my dear General. It is always so great a pleasure to hear from you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt October 30, 1899. 177 October 30, 1899. Rev. F. B. Cunz, 326 East 82nd St., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 28th instant received. Most certainly no such tendency exists. There is no imperialism. Remember that Carl Schurz criticized and attacked Lincoln just as he is criticising and attacking McKinley. I should obtain no help from him in the effort to do away with any improper influences of plutocracy, for he was against the declaration of war against Spain, which was emphatically and absolutely a peoples war and was begun in spite of the violent opposition of nine-tenths of the "money-power" of the country. If we ought to leave the Philippines now, then we ought to leave Alaska; indeed we ought to leave this State to the Indians. I have been doing my best during my term as Governor to show that the man and not the dollar was the force which I was striving to yield. uphold. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt178 October 30, 1899.. Hon. David B. Henderson. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. My dear Colonel Henderson:- I am, as you know, greatly interested in the army. I feel we have got to have a thorough reorganization of the War Department especially of the staff bureaus, and that we must have an adequate force. Next year, the army, the navy and our colonial policy together will make up perhaps the most important work of the House. I therefore write you to ask if it is not possible to put on as the Democrat member from New York for the committee on military affairs, Colonel Bartrom T. Clayton of Brooklyn? Colonel Clayton was captain of a troop of New York Cavalry in Porto Rico and bore himself so well that he has since been made colonel of one of our regiments. He is sincerely devoted to the interests of the army and feels that the question of the upbuilding of the army and of putting the War Department upon a proper footing is on elf national and therefore of far more than party importance. He is far and away, in my judgement, the best man in his party to go on from New York State. I know that Mr. Sulzer was on, but Mr. Sulzer has not had the military experience of Colonel Clayton; and this military experience obtained as it was under modern conditions will enable Colonel Clayton to be of invaluable service. I feel that it would strengthen your hands to have him on, for the proper handling of the army question will be a feather in your cap179 Hon. D. B. H. #2. and will add to the success I know you will achieve besides being of the utmost benefits, and above all, to the country. I very earnestly hope that Colonel Clayton can be given the position. I am writing purely because of my anxious interest in upbuilding the army and of seeing this administration, of which you are now next to the President the most important figure, succeed in the task before it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt180 November 6, 1899. Mr. E. H. Seehusen, West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. My dear mr. Seehusen:- I want to thank you andcompliment Mr. Dresser on the sketch you sent me. It is very kind of you to have been so thoughtful and I greatly appreciate it. With high regard, I am Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. G. H. Putnam, 27 West 23rd St., New York, N. Y. My dear Haven:- Mr. Viereck came to me and I told him I could do nothing forhim. I dont know what he is driving at or why he should want to write such a biography in German and English. I have no more to do with it than I had with the biography recently published of me by a man named Will Clemmons. Unfortunately I cannot stop any of them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt181 November 6, 1899. Mr. George McAneny, 54 William St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. McAneny:- Will you put the address on the enclosed and give it to Mr. Cooley? If this is not strong enough, I authorize you to make it stronger! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. My dear Mr. Cooley:- I drop you a line just to say how earnestly I wish for your success. I cannot say how delighted I was at your nomination. Nothing speaks better forour political health than that men of high character and trained capacity should be put into political position. I most earnestly hope for your election. I have done some work with you, not merely in political but in what for lack of a better word I may call philanthropy, but you hose those qualities of belief in an ideal fo energy and determination and of disinterested devotion to duty which are to be prized beyond all others in a public man. I earnestly hope for your success. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt182 November 6, 1899. Mrs. T. W. Punnett, Dobb's Ferry, N. Y. My dear Gertrude:- You are more than kind to ask me to stop off at Dobb's Ferry but it is simply out of my power. You have no conception how busy I am. Now I am going to get you to write me explicitly what it is you need. I cannot make out from your letter. I want to know the names of the two individuals, the man and the woman, to whom you refer and specifically what it is you want me to do. Then I can tell whether it will be necessary to have an interview or not. I cannot get any idea from your letter. Of course it would not be possible for me to interfere in the domestic relation of any couple, I dont care who. I dont think you meant this but there were one or two expressions in your letter which looked as if you might. Remember me warmly to Mr. Punnett, and with high regard, believe me Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. Simon B. Harris, Room 22, State House Annex, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Harris:- I thank you for the theme and I thank you for your letter. I appreciate them both. What a splendid meeting we did have! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 183 November 6, 1899. Mr. Edwin Morgan, 1015 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Morgan:- Your letter gave me real concern. What is there that I can do? Could I make some public allusion to the invaluable work that Sternberg and Tripp did, and how sure I am that the United States can work hand in hand with Germany to their mutual advantage if such men are chosen as their representatives? What would you advise? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Lieut. Fred. W. Bugbee, Highland Farm. Bonner Springs, Kas. My dear Lieut. Bugbee:- I have just received the wedding cake. Pray present my warmest regards to Mrs. Bugbee. Few things give me more pleasure than when your appointment was up to write as strongly as I knew how, on behalf of the gallant man who was shot beside me on Kettle Hill and who continued fighting all day. I had the good fortune to meet your father for just a minute while going through Texas. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 184 November 6, 1899. Mr. Bartlett S. Johnston, 239 E. German St., Baltimore, Md. My dear Mr. Johnson:- You are very good to write me. I do hope I shall see Gordon soon. Now, my dear Sir, you really make me uncomfortable when you talk even jokingly of my running for President. I am under no allusion as to my present position. By a combination of accidents I am where I am. Probably at the end of my present term of office I shall go out. If the luck favors me I may have another term as Governor; certainly nothing more. My own party machine would of course never put me up for President and only the chance of my being in the Spanish war procured me the nomination for Governor, but I can assure you I am going to make a middling decent Governor. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. C. S. Barrows, 76 Exchange St., Rochester, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 28th ultimo just received. I alluded to a little story called, "The Revolt of Mother." I think it is in a collection of stories called "A New England Night and Other Stories." Doubtless any book store could tell you. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt185 November 6, 1899. Hon. Wm. A;den Smith, Grand Rapids, Mich. My dear Congressman:- Yours of the 30th ultimo. I wish I could accept but it is simply out of the question. I have hundred of requests, scores of which I should like to accept, but from now on until I am through with the Legislature I shall have to devote myself strictly to my business as Governor. I am awfully sorry for I hate to refuse anything that you ask. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, 101 E. 19th Street, New York, N. Y. Dear Grant:- I shall have to put off my trip to the woods. Perhaps I can get up for a week in December. When I get back to Albany next Thursday I shall have a week's work on hand and would not venture to try to get away during that time, and on the 18th to the 22nd of this month I have engagements. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt186 November 6, 1899. Mr. Casper Whitney, C/o Harper & Brothers, Franklin Sq., New York. My dear Whiteney:- It is a great chance and I only wish that I wanted the head, but the only heads with one exception that are not of my own shooting that I have, were shot by my personal friends, such as your musk - ox head, and the Wood Bison I should really rather prefer to see in the museum. If your friends show any reluctance about buying it, I earnestly suggest that you write to Mr. Morris K. Jessup and find out if the American Museum of Natural History would not desire the head. It surely ought to be obtained. I am going to have one perquisite of the Governorship which I shall appreciate, for I am going to be allowed on the side lines at the Yale- Harvard Game on the 18th instant. Is there any chance of your being there? Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mrs. Leonard Wood, The Richmond, Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Wood:- Your letter of the 1st instant just received. I telegraphed at once to Lodge and Wolcott. I only hope some good will come of it. I have just the feeling you have about anticipating any possible Philippine war. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt187 November 6, 1899. Mr. Lewis S. Welch, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. My dear Mr. Welch:- All right, on Monday, the 20th I will be with you but do remember that I do not want if it can be avoided what you might call a public speech. I just want an informal conversation with my friends. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. E. W. Johnson, Shawnee High School, Shawnee, Okla. My dear Mr. Johnson, If Flynn wants that sale postponed, I will gladly help him. Now about getting the 20th Kansas and the Nebraska regiments, I would suggest that your committee and the Governor take the initial steps stating that I will cordially agree with you and will write a letter or do anything else that you suggest. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt188 November 6, 1899. Mrs. Annie Day Storrs, 282 W. 92nd St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Storrs:- Where is Askinson now? It may be that I even get in town about the 20th of this month and if so, I should like to call on him and see him in person. I think that would be better than writing. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. General Daniel Sickles, 23 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. My dear General:- How would next Wednesday on my way through New York do? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt190 189 November 6, 1899. Mr. Leopold Freund, 850 Second Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I have received your letter of the 31st ultimo. I treat each pardon absolutely on its merits. I know nothing of the case to which you refer and so I could not possibly make any statement about it. Very respectfully, Theodore Roosevelt Nove,ber 6, 1899. Mr. O. P. Temple, Knoxville, Tenn. My dear Judge:- I have already written you a note but probably you have not received it. I have glanced at your book already in spite of the burden of work and am immensely interested in it. You represent that feature for which perhaps I have more respect than for any other. Now, my dear sir, I would gladly write you the opinion for publication were it not for the fact that I have had to make an iron-clad rule on account of the hundreds of such requests that I receive, not to do it. If I violate in this one case, I have to in all others. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 191 November 6, 1899. Mr. Andrew Boyd, 250 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, N. Y. My dear Mr. Boyd:- I thank you very much for your kindness. Do not make this public. That my Thanksgiving Proclamation did not contain the name of the Almighty, is pure accident, but as I was appointing a day for thanksgiving it seemed to me so perfectly obvious that the thanks but be given to the Creator, that it never occurred to me to put it in. I appreciate your writing. Very sincerely, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. Merton E. Lewis, 19-21 Elwood Building, Rochester, N. Y. My dear Mr. Lewis:- I am very sorry to say that I have already asked a man to accept that position and I think he will, although it is not yet certain. There was a second name that I had in mind. I am sorry not to be able to do anything you request. I am delighted to hear that the chanes are looking favorable for you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 192 November 6, 1899. Hon. T. L. Woodruff, 94 Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Governor:- Your letter of the 1st instant. If you think that is wise, doubtless I shall too. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. Charles Stewart Smith, Chamber of Commerce, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Smith:- Your letter of the 31st ultimo. All right, I will come without fail. I didn't know whether you really wanted me or not. I suppose you desire me to make a few remarks, do you not? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt193 November 6, 1899. Mr. James MacNaughton. 1 W. 30th Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. MacNaughton:- I guess I will have to go up in December. I have got so many things to do in Albany that I could not get away in time to have any shooting now. You are awfully kind. I wish you and LaFarge and Pinchot could come up with me when I do go. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Hon. Charles A. Schieren, 5 & 6 Times Building, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Schieren:- Your letter of the 31st ultimo. Can you not come next Friday to Albany? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt194 November 6, 1899. Mr. William C. Warren, C/o The Buffalo Commercial, Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Mr. Warren:- I have your letter of the 1st instant. I do not believe I have anything to do with that. I think it is to be provided for. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 6, 1899. Mr. T. St. John Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Gaffney:- I have your kind letter of the 1st instant. I wish I could come but it is an absolute impossibility. I have only just got yout note this minute. Now, when I have the Lord Mayor and Mr. Redmond, cant you come up and be at the dinner too? I will let you know the exact date later. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt195 Nov. 9th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:- Do you think it is worth while your writing a brief answer to the enclosed? Of course, I shall not. Am I to see you a week from Tuesday at lunch at the City Club with Mr. Slicer? By the way, if you care to answer the enclosed, you may state that I had to drop educational experts, from the simple fact that I could not get one really first class man to whom one side or the other did not object. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Nathan A. Bijur, Esq., 34 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bijur: -- I am very much obliged to you for your telegram and greatly appreciate it. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt196 Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. Elon R. Brown, Watertown, N.Y. My dear Senator: -- I have yours of the 4th inst. All right, I will hold open every decision until you come. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. A. M. Coville, Box 852, Galena, Kansas. My dear Comrade:-- Replying to yours of the 3rd inst., I take the greatest pleasure in sending the enclosed. I only hope it will be of value. As you know, anything I can do for any member of the regiment, I want to do. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure.197 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Henry W. Cannon, The Chase Nat. Bank, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Cannon:- Replying to yours of the 8th inst, permit me to say, of course I will come, with the greatest pleasure. My Military Secretary was in error in staing otherwise. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Richard Reeves, Mut. Reserve Bldg., Bway & Duane St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Deeves:-- I thank you heartily for your letter of the 8th inst, and assure you I very much appreciate it. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt198 Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. Charle T. Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D. C. My dear sir:- I take great pleasure in recommending NATHANIAL POE, formerly of my regiment, for the position of MESSENGER in your Department. Poe was an excellent solider who was wounded before Santiago. He is not a man of high education, but he is not only brave, but industrious and trustworthy, of good habits, and not a drinking man. He has just been married. He is at present working steadily in a mine, but the damp gets into the bullet wound and tends to lay him up. He would do excellently as a Messenger and I most earnestly recommend him. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt199 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Richard Harding Davis, Marion, Mass. My dear Davis:-- I have your note in reference to the loving cut for Lee. I thank you for giving me the chance. Enclosed find my check for $15. I am very proud to have my name put on the cup. I wish there was any chance of Mrs. Davis and yourself being in Albany this winter! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. John C. Davies, Attorney General, Albany, N. Y. Sir:-- Referring to the enclosed charges against General Roe, Will you please give me your opinion on the same? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure.200 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. A. P. Gardner, Hamilton, Mass. Dear Gus:-- Many thanks for yours of the 2nd. I think I can be at that dinner. When will it take place and where? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Austen G. Fox, Esq., NO. 45 W. 33rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Fox:-- I have yours of the 6th inst and thank you very much for the two volumes of Tilden. I had a long talk with Fairchild the other day. You know he was in the thick of the canal business in Tilden's time, and where they could get no convictions when the offences were literally a hundred fold greater, it is no wonder we could not. Greene has told me how much you helped him in matters of legislation. I shall probably embody some of your suggestions in my message. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt201 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. David M. Goodrich, 1 Hubbard Park, Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass. Dear Dave:-- Many thanks for yours of the 5th. I shall come with pleasure. Mrs. Roosevelt and the children cannot, though this decision caused unutterable woe to poor Ted and Kermit. Probably I shall arrive on Saturday afternoon and go to the crew dinner. If I take the ten oclock train from here I shall reach Boston at four. Where and when is the crew dinner? Shall I come straight out to your house, or shall I wait until after the dinner to come out? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. James K. P. Garrison, 3047 Third Ave., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 30th ult., would say that it will give me pleasure to meet a committee of your Association. But I am not certain just when that will be. Now that I am in Albany, my visits to New York are very hurried. In the interest of speed, therefore, I would suggest that if you could write me what the subject you wish to speak to me about is, it might facilitate matters. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 302 PERSONAL. Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Joseph L. Gitterman, 43 W. 46th St., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 4th inst., would say that I am not in favor of licensing houses of prostitution. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. To the Honorable, John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Sir:-- The enclosed three letters explain themselves. I of course know nothing of the case, but as it is seemingly one of the life or death of an American citizen, I venture to call your attention to its urgency. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt The203 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mrs. Th ad E. Horton, C/o N. Y. Times, N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Horton:-- I am greatly concerned at learning that your husband has typhoid. I know how anxious you must be. I do hope he will soon be out of danger. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. President Arthur T. Hadley, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Dear President Hadley:-- Your letter of the 7th inst had given me very great pleasure. I will most gladly dine with you and spend the night. I have been immensely interested in what you have been doing, and incidentally have particularly studied your article on trusts. You are very good to have asked me. Thanking you again, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt204 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Bartlett S. Johnston, 239 E. German St., Baltimore, Md. My dear Mr. Johnston:-- I have yours of the 7th inst. I do wish I could see Gordon, and I wish I could see you to talk over all kinds of matters. But now, my desr sir, do not get into your head the idea that I am going to go on in politics, because I do not want you to feel disappointed, and that it is my fault that I am thrown down, as I surely will be sometime soon. It is not only the machine, it is what I may call the irrational independents with whom I have difficulties. I can say with all sincerity that there is nothing I have done as Governor concerning which I would not be pleased to have all of the minutest details laid before, say yourself, Bonaparte and Rose; yet the Evening Post style of independent attacks me in season and out as if I were a criminal. Now I shall probably be thrown out next year; possibly, but not probably I may stay in for a couple of years more; but that is all. However, when I do go out I shall have the satisfaction of knowing that I have been straight and decent. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, Beekman St., N.Y. City. Dear Grant:-- Your note of Thursday at hand this morning. Very possibly I may not be able to go myself, after all; and I am half inclined to put it off a year or two until I am out of office and can go off with you on some trip when we both have the time. I must see you soon, however, to go over a great many things. With love to the madame, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt205 Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. George H. Lyman, Collector of the Port, Boston, Mass. Dear George:-- Can I come in from Cambridge on Sunday the 19th inst and spend that night with you? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. A. Lawrence Lowell, 171 Marboro St., Boston, Mass. Dear Lawrence:-- Many thanks for yours of the 2nd. I wish I could accept, but I am already engaged to George Lyman. You are awfully good to ask me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt206 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Frank Moss, 93 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Moss:-- I have yours of the 8th inst. I understand just how you feel. I am bitterly chagrined at the result in New York myself. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. The Journal, Milwaukee, Wis. Gentlemen:-- I am very sorry your telegram of the 4th inst reached me too late to answer. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt207 Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. John T. McDonough, Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. McDonough:-- Referring to the attached, Would you like to go on with this Committee? I think it might be a very good thing. Please let me know if you can go. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure. Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Newburgh, N.Y. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I want to congratulate you most heartily. I think that the trouble of which Tammany complains up the State was less due to their lack of organization than to the magnificent way you handled matters. There is much I should like to talk over with you. Would it be possible for you to come up and spend a night with me here in Albany? If so, come up next week any time prior to Friday. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt208 Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. T. C. Platt, 49 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I congratulate you very heartily. Outside of Mr. Croker's own bailiwick the party has certainly done well at this election. In consequence of a promise made a year ago,I have got to speak at the Chamber of Commerce dinner on Tuesday, the 21st inst. Will you take breakfast with me, or can I take breakfast with you the following day, Wednesday the 22nd? I had a very pleasant and satisfactory talk with Frank the other day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. Alton B. Parker, Esopus-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. My dear Judge,-- I have yours of the 6th inst. I shall take no step in the designation of those justices save after full consultation with you. How would it do for me to meet the entire court and talk the matter over with them? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt209 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mrs. Fanny Monroe Robinson, 109 E. 31st St., N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Robinson:-- I have at once sent all the letters to John Hay, asking him to look into the matter. There is nothing else I can do., but I believe he will take any action possible. I wish I could do more. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mrs.Eleanor Roosevelt, Tarrytown, N.Y. My dear ellie:-- I have yours of the 2nd. It was very little for me to do, and I am only too delighted if it availed anything. I hope Harry passed well. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt210 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Geo. J. Smith, Kingston, N. Y. My dear Mr. Smith:-- I have yours of the 8th inst. I heartily congratulate you on the result in Ulster County. You have done most admirable work. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Hon. James M. Varnum, Surrogate's Court, N. Y. City. My dear sir:-- In answer to your letter I wish to state what profound satisfaction your administration of the office of Surrogate of the County of New York has given me. I wish that all the appointments I have to make were capable of as satisfactory a solution as yours. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt211 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. John Woodbury, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Woodbury:-- Replying to yours of the 9th, I am rather at a loss to know how to answer. I would of course infinitely prefer that that biography of me was not published. A man named Will Clemens has published one of me already. I knew nothing about his work until a copy of it was placed in my hands. I positively declined to have anything to do with the biography referred to in the circular attached to your letter, telling the editors I preferred it should not be written, and while powerless to forbid it, I should not take the slightest part in it, as it would tend to render me responsible. I am very much obliged to you for writing me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mrs. Leonard Wood, The Richmond, Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Wood:-- I have yours of the 8th. I have had most satisfactory telegrams from both Governor Wolcott and Senator Lodge. Both of them have telegraphed the President as strongly as possible. Whether it will have the right effect or not I do not know. I begin to agree with the proverbial Indian that "white men are mighty unsartin". I am sure that Secretary Root favors Leonard. Of course, he wont tell me so outright, but what he does tell me admits only of that interpretation. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt212 Nov. 9th, 1899. Dear Leonard:-- I have yours of the 27th ult on my return here to Albany. I have been having a sketchy correspondence with Mrs. Wood over your transfer to the fighting line. Lodge has come back and I have had both him and Wolcott telegraph and write the President. While the President and Secretary of War have not said to me in so many words that you shall have the next vacancy, yet the President very strongly gave me that impression, and I know that the Secretary of War is very heartily in your favor. I do not know what else to do, but whatever I can do I most certainly will. The President got me to speak in Ohio and in Maryland, and as he was asking me a favor, I took the opportunity of again putting in a word in your behalf. I cannot but believe that you will get the position. A year ago (at the time you wrote me and asked me to do so) I had written on behalf of Lawton, but I have no idea that that letter is even remembered, and in my letters for you I have explicitly stated that they stood in lieu of any preceding recommendation. You are doing a very great work, I wish to Heaven the Administration would put you in complete control, allow you to raise your Cuban regiments, and send most of the present army of occupation in Cuba to the Philippines. The other day in a public speech in Boston, when Lodge and Wolcott were present, I stated that we could surely govern the Philippines if we would trust them to the administration of a man like yourself, and the audience responded in a way that would certainly have gratified you. As for my own political business here, it is rather disheartening. I have my difficulties with the machine, but I have worse difficulties with the Independents. The bulk of the decent people who ought to stand by me, either give me a luke-warm support, or else under the lead of the Evening Post savagely attack me, because I am an Expansionist; and not only criticise me as such, but carry their animosity to the point of trying to break me down even in my administration of the State. One of the pleasantest features of the Dewey parade business was the way in which Mrs. Roosevelt grew to like and admire Mrs. Wood. I have always been sure that she would as soon as she got the chance, and I was so glad that the chance came. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Major General Leonard Wood. U. S. V., Santiago, Cuba.213 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Lewis L. Welch, Ed., Yale Alumni Weekly, Newhaven, Conn. My dear Mr. Welch:-- Many thanks for your letters. I have just received a request from President Hadley that I dine and spend the night with him, and, of course, I feel I ought to accept. I shall take the ten A. M. train from Boston on Monday, which, as I understand, gets to New Haven a little after one. Shall I lunch on the train or lunch with you at New Haven? I will try to get Dave Goodrich to come with me. I will speak in just as large a hall and to just as many students as you wish, but I do not want any reporters present except the reporters for the college papers, because I want to make my talk very informal, and I do not care to have it spread abroad to a miscellaneous world. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Dear Austin:-- Many thanks for yours of the 31st ult. You gave me just the information I wanted. I believe that Mrs. Roosevelt and I will be able to come up, although probably not for a month. It would be a delight to meet either Milburn or Watson, or both; but a steady junket would be apt to be too much for me. When are you apt to be at home in December? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mr. W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo, Liv. Co., N.Y.214 Nov. 9th, 1899. Col.Francis G. Ward, 66 Seventh St., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Colonel:-- I have yours of the 7th inst. Most emphatically I should be delighted to have you appeal to the President, or to the Secretary of War direct, and I will cheerfully back you. I do not like to take the initiative myself in view of my past correspondence with Washington, not with reference to you, but to the subject generally. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt215 Nov. 10th, 1899. My dear Gertrude:-- I have just received your two letters. I very much fear there is nothing whatever for me to do. I would of course not interfere in a matter of that kind save at the request of one of the two parties; and then, to be frank, I should think exceedingly little of whichever made the request. Moreover, there is not any way that I can see where I could interfere even if I thought it right. I have lost track of Jimmy Jones. If he is in the army it is not necessary to say that I could not have him assigned somewhere for duty on the chance of his being able to see his lady love, and he can write to her just as well from a distance of three thousand miles as from a distance of thirty. If he is not in the army, I would of course be utterly unable to write him that I wanted him to move around somewhere where he would have a chance to talk to Miss Ward. You know the facts and I do not. If you feel sure of your ground and believe that they will not resent your interference, then I should simply tell one or the other of them that they were unwise to be fools any longer, and make whichever one you deem right get into communication with the other. Then if the affair can go right at all, it will have to go right under their own supervision. I regret very much that there is obviously no way whatever in which I Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Perry F. Taylour, Room 405, Columbian Bldg., Washington, D.C. My dear Buck:-- I have yours of the 7th inst. How will the enclosed do? Now remember just one thing. You have always been an excellent man, but you must not touch a drop of liquor. Remember that in the Commissary Department if you drink and get mixed up in your accounts in consequence, the damage you might do to yourself and others might be irreparable. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt216 could interfere in the matter. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. T.W.Punnett, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Nov. 10th, 1899. Bro. Anselm, N. Y. Catholic Protectory, West Chester, N.Y. My dear Bro. Anselm:-- I have yours of the 4th inst and will do my best. Whether I can accomplish anything or not, I do not know, but I will try. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 216 could interfere in the matter. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. T.W.Punnett, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Nov. 10th, 1899. Bro. Anselm, N. Y. Catholic Protectory, West Chester, N.Y. My dear Bro. Anselm:-- I have yours of the 4th inst and will do my best. Whether I can accomplish anything or not, I do not know, but I will try. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt217 Nov. 19th, 1899. To the Chief of the Commissary Bureau, War Department, Washington, D.C. Sir:-- This letter will be handed to you by Mr. PERRY F. TAYLOUR. formerly of my regiment. He served with credit and was one of the men upon whom I relied. In any business needing nerve and determination I should particularly like to have him under me. Since leaving the regiment he has been under the Superintendent of the Census, and I have received excellent reports of the work he has done. He now wishes to be into the Commissary Department, and I back him most cordially. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt218 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. M. McCann, 232 President St., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mrs. McCann:-- Herewith enclosed find my check for $5.00 in payment of the tickets. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Genl. Anson G. McCook, 303 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I am greatly interested in that book. I had a very pleasant experience with your brother down in Santiago, and of course the book is extremely interesting to me. You could not have pleased me more than by sending it to me. With many thanks, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt219 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. F. C.. Dorn, Point Rock, Oneida Co., N.Y. My dear madam:-- Replying to yours of the 6th inst., I am very sorry to say that there is nothing I can do. I can only suggest your getting your Congressman interested in the case. I have absolutely no power in the matter at all. Regretting that I am unable assist you, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. W. Christopher Liller, Adjt. Genl., Spanish War Veterans, Washington, D.C. My dear Col. Liller:-- Replying to yours of the 7th inst would say that Delaigne had charge of the wagon train that was part of the time with the regiment. I believe he did his duty acceptably in that position: but I was brought in contact with him hardly at all, as he was not in Cuba with me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 220 Nov. 10th, 1899. Jos. W. Clarke, Esq., Leadville, Colo. My dear Mr. Clarke:-- Replying to yours of the 31st ult., would say that the only organizations I know anything about are the Naval & Military Order of the Spanish-American War, Lt. W. J. Sears, Secy. His address is U. S. S. New Orleans, Navy Dept. Washington, D. C.; and the Spanish War Veterans, W. Christopher Liller, Adjutant General, Washington, D.C. I understand there are a lot of these different organizations that have been started. I earnestly wish that someone would devote the time and trouble to unify them and make one organization to take in all of the Spanish and Philippine war veterans. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. Cornelia C. Myer, Crugers Island, Barrytown, N.Y. My dear madam:-- I have yours of the 3rd inst with enclosure. I am sorry to say that the State has nothing whatever to do with St. Mary's Schoolship. I am not positive as to the exact details of the arrangements, but I think she is the property of the City and commanded by a detail from the navy under the national government. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt221 Nov. 9th, 1899. Maj. John H. Parker, 39th Inf. U. S. V., C/o War Dept., Washington, D.C. My dear Major:-- I am delighted to hear from you, and especially pleased to learn that you are training your men in open order fighting. If men can shoot, can fight in open order and can take care of themselves in the field, any other shortcomings can be treated as minor. Of course, I will help you, if I can, at any time; but remember there is only a little that I can do. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Thos. Ewing, Parliament House, Sidney, N.S.W. My dear Mr. Ewing:-- I have yours of Oct. 5th and am very glad indeed to hear from you. I suppose the ranch book that you refer to is the one called "The Wilderness Hunter". How in the world I got mixed up in that quotation I really do not know, for of course it was from MacCaulay, and like everybody else I have read MacCaulay, and he happens to be a special favorite of mine. I am glad you like the book. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt222 Nov. 9th, 1899. Mr. Joseph Wheless, St. Louis, Mo. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 4th inst and it was a pleasure to hear from you. I am glad you like the work. You know I always felt that in fighting in Cuba I was carrying to a completion what had been started over a century ago by the Kentuckians and Tenneseeans. Yes, I know of that lapeus. Of course, it is on its face an error. Many thanks to you for pointing it out. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 9th, 1899. Mother M. of St.Peter, Convent of the Good Shepherd, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mother St.Peter:-- I was greatly touched by your gift and shall keep it and prize it. The children had such a lovely visit too. Mrs. Roosevelt and I think you are very good to have kept us in mind. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt223 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Juan Felix Brandes, 21 W. 32nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Brandes:-- I have yours of the 9th inst with enclosures which I return to you. I fear there is absolutely nothing more I can do about Cassi. I wrote so frequently about him as to expose myself to the criticism of straining to the utmost the courtesy of those to whom I wrote, and only owing to the fact of my former connection with the army and that I had been Cassi's Colonel saved me from being politely told this. Now, my dear sir, I should be delighted to do anything I can for a fellow Harvard man, but I am obliged not to write any letters from the simple fact that if I write any I should write innumerable ones. With real regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Nathan Bijur, Esq., #34 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bijur:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. If I can help, I will; but I am very sorry to say that my experience is that we shall need an immense amount of education before there is the slightest chance of legislation on lines that will be satisfactory to both sides. I have been deeply struck this year by the antagonism between the two sides. It is foolish and it ought not to exist, and both sides are to blame, but at present I confess I feel very hopeless. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt224 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. Lillia A. Batchelder, 349 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. My dear madam:-- Replying to yours of the 8th inst, I would gladly help you if I could, but of course unless you know the name your son enlisted under, and unless you are absolutely certain that the Rough Rider to whom you vaguely allude was indeed your son, there is nothing whatever that I could do. If he died in Cuba I do not believe that you could have the remains disinterred now. For the most part the soldiers have been brought back to be buried in Arlington Cemetery at Washington. I am very sorry that I cannot give you more definite information. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Wm. Allen White, Emporia, Kansas. My dear Mr. White:-- It is a delight to have your book, and this copy I shall always keep because of the inscription.I think I shall begin to read it to my offspring at once, although my eldest small boy needs no education in the way of example of amateur wickedness. My second small boy has undoubted points of resemblance to Nealy Jones. I wish I could see you soon. Faithfully yours, Sincerely yours,225 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. George W. Newitt, Corporal, Co. C., 26th Inf. U. S. V., Manila, P. I. My dear Corporal:-- I thank you for the photograph. I wish you all possible luck, and I am sure you will deserve it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, Headquarters Volunteer Army, N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Booth:-- You are extremely kind to have thought of send- ing me the book. I shall take it home to my children at once. It was such a pleasure to catch a glimpse of you that even- ing. Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt You 226 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Henry H. Guernsey, President, New Haven, Conn. My dear sir:- I thank you for your very kind invitation of the 7th inst. to meet the members of your Retail Merchants Association. I wish I could accept, but it is out of the question. I fear that every moment of my time is engaged already. I am sorry and deeply appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Capt. T. Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker St., N.Y. City. My dear Captain:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. I think you are absolutely right. You are acting just as I should. Pray remember me warmly to Mrs. Goddard, and say that sometime this winter I hope to call on her, if I get the chance. Meanwhile, wont you see Mr. Slicer and try to arrange to have yourself present at the lunch at the City Club which he is to give me next Tuesday. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt227 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. Agnes K. Capron, 489 Ocean Ave., Flatbush, N.Y. My dear Mrs. Capron:-- Replying to yours of the 8th inst., can you come to the Fifth Avenue Hotel at 6 p.m. Tuesday 21? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Chares F. Cole, 153, Willis Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Cole-- I thank you very much for sending me that photograph. It is excellent. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 228 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Ernest F Greene, 1008 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I thank very much for sending me the Life Books, which I very much appreciate, coming as it does from a follow hunter. Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10ty, 1899. Hon. Clarence D. Clark, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Sir:-- In answering to yours of the 2nd inst. I enclose a statement of date Aug. 31ft by the Colonel of the N. Y. Regiment in question. At that time I made a full and detailed report of the whole matter to the War Department which was presumably satisfactory as nothing since has been heard of the matter. Of course, as the troops were volunteers in the service of the national government, and not of the State of New York, and as the regiment has now been disbanded, there would be absolutely no way of collecting the debt, even were the debt proper. But it appears that the account are not just and correct and that they should not have been paid either before or after the regiment returned from Honolulu. Most certainly I should do anything for the honor of our service that was possible, but it is not possible to make an adjustment which will be "at least partially satisfactory to Mr. Lycurgus", When the claim of Mr. Lycurgus is without merit. You will note that the Colonel says that nothing companies save one used the bathing privileges, and that all of the company save one used the baths one month, paid for their use, and notified Mr. Lycurgus that they would pay no longer. It further appears that the reason the bathing houses were no longer used was because they were infested with vermin and were otherwise unclean. The statements made as to the methods of Mr. Lycurgus in connection with M. S. Mcgue of Co. c. shows the impossibility of accepting his claims at their face value. Very truly, Theodore Roosevelt228 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Ernest F Greene, 1008 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I thank you very much for sending me the Life Book, which I very much appreciate, coming as it does from a fellow hunter. Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Hon. Clarence D. Clark, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Sir:-- In answer to yours of the 2nd inst I enclose a statement of date Aug. 31st by the Colonel of the N. Y. Regiment in question. At that time I made a full and detailed report of the whole matter to the War Department which was presumably satisfactory as nothing since has been heard of the matter. Of course, as the troops were volunteers in the service of the national government, and not of the State of New York, and as the regiment has now been disbanded, there would be absolutely no way of collecting the debt, even were the debt proper. But it appears that the accounts are not just and correct and that they should not have been paid either before or after the regiment returned from Honolulu. Most certainly I should do anything for the honor of our service that was possible, but it is not possible to make an adjustment which will be "at least partially satisfactory to Mr. Lycugus", when the claim of Mr. Lycurgus is without merit. You will note that the Colonel says that nothing is due to Mr. Lycurgus for bathing privileges, and that all of the companies save one used the baths one month, paid for their use, and notified Mr. Lycurgus that they would pay no longer. It further appears that the reason the bathing houses were no longer used was because they were infested with vermin and were otherwise unclean. The statements made as to the methods of Mr. Lycurgus in connection with M. S. McGue of Co. C. shows the impossibility of accepting his claims at their face value. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt 229 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mrs. Tilden R. Selmes, Grant P. O., Boone Co.,Ky. My dear Mrs. Selmes:-- Just a line to say I received Isabella's picture. I am so pleased with it. How pretty she is! Alice is pretty too. The rest of my children do not show much signs of growing up with the blessings of good looks; but I like them all the same! Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899 My dear Col. Mills:-- I thank you for yours of the 9th. How I wish we could accept, but it is absolutely out of the question. It is most kind and characteristic of Mrs. Mills and you to have thought of us. But the only game I shall be able to see this fall is the last and greatest game of my old college Harvard-- the one against Yale. By the way, it seems to me rather bad luck that West Point could not have played Annapolis any one of the last three years when her team was undoubtedly superior. Now it looks as if there would be a close fight. Yes, I have written and congratulated Lee. He seems very happy. With warm regards to Mrs. Mills, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Col. A. L. Mills, West Point, N.Y.230 Nov. 10th, 1899. Capt. Wm. Flanagan, 262 10th Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Capt. Flanagan:-- How are you getting along? I hope you soon will be all right. Mrs. Roosevelt and I have appreciated very deeply you constant and thoughtful consideration of us. With warm regards to Mrs. Flanagan, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. Edwin Morgan, 1015 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Morgan:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. All right, I will take the first opportunity of speaking of that. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 10th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, 5th Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have your two favors of the 9th inst. I never heard of Cassidy or Smelzer and do not know whether I have any means of [?] firing them out", but I will look it up at once. As for the Dewey matter, I do not know what has been said to you. I have been in consultation with Senator White who had the educational bill last year in charge, and on the suggestion of the School Teachers' Convention and with his approval, I nominated a Committee composed of one man representing the Regents, Dewey; one man representing Skinner, Ainsworth; and five laymen, three repub- licans and two democrats, to try and draft a bill on the lines of White's bill to unify the systems. The Chairman is Frederick W. Holls. The other two republican members are Wilkinson of Poughkeepsie and McMillan of Buffalo. I have not heard a suggestion by anyone that Dewey's powers should be increased by one hair's breath. You probably got my letter of yesterday. I should very much like to see you on very many different matters. Can't you get [?} here [?] [?} for a night? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 232 Nov. 10th, 1899. Hon. John C. Rose, 628 Equitable Bldg., Baltimore, Md. My dear Rose:--- I have yours of the 8th. I am glad I was with you, win or lose, for you were fighting on an absolute straight basis. Fundamentally you had to deal with just the same difficulties that I have to deal with here. For instance, in New York City, the Citi- zens Union actually turned in with Tammany to beat Mazet. This was not only bad in itself, but it irritated the machine republicans to turning in and beating Homer Folks, the Citizens Union man whom the Republicans endorsed in my old district. They ran a candidate against Slater, one of our best republican members, and it seems likely that they have beaten him. As for me personally I have my hands full in keeping the machine up to the proper level, and at the same time, instead of being backed as I would have the right to expect, by the independents, I am attacked with malignant mendacity and slander by the Evening Post and its crowd. The Evening Post of course lies deliberately, simply because Godkin, Bishop, Garrison and the rest of the crowd have grown accustomed to use deliberate lying and slander as their ordinary weapons. Heaven knows, I do not trust too much some of my political associates, but I wish to say in all seriousness that there is no man with whom I work at all whom I do not respect more, and do not regard as a better citizen than Godkin, Bishop, Garrison or any of their crowd. They have been very nearly as bad for the City of New York as Croker and his crowd, and have done I think quite as much against good government. There is a difference between theft on the one hand and lying and slander on the other, just as there is a difference between murder and arson. But that difference is small compared with the great gulf that divides either from upright and manly dealing. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt233 Nov. 10th 1899. Mr. Roe, Linen Dept., John G. Myers, No. Pearl St., Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Roe:-- I thank you very much for the souvenir. Mrs. Roosevelt handed it to me a day or two ago. It was extremely kind and thoughtful of you, and coming from an old soldier I doubly appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Genl. L. P. de Cesnola, 109 E. 57th St. N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I have yours of the 10th. I wish I could accept, but I am sorry to say it is an absolutely impossibility. I have the very pleasantest memory of the time I was at dinner with your before. I am sure, my dear General, I need not say how deeply I should appreciate an election to honorary membership in your organization. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 234 Nov. 11th, 1899. Mr. A. M. Railey, 24 West St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bailey:-- I think you for your letter of the 10th inst. I am very doubtful if it would be best for the State to act rather than the nation. I agree with every word you say as to the need of building up our navy. If you seen the last number of The Century you may have noticed the strong plea I there made for it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. James R. Sheffield, 120 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Sheffield:-- I have yours of the 10th and agree with all you say. Now, I am to be the guest of President Hadley of Yale on the 20th. Cant you get up there then? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 235 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. Celora, E. Martin, Judge Court of Appeals, Albany, N.Y. My dear Judge:-- I am receiving a number or requests in reference to the assigning of Supreme Court justice to the Court of Appeals. I want to see you before going into the matter; and also it seems to me it would be well to meet the judges of the Court of Appeals in a body and talk a little with them on the subject. Does this not strike you as all right? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, 7 Beekman St., N. Y. City. Dear Grant:-- I have yours of the 10th . At any rate I am glad you think you can come up here for a night, and I hope that when you do come you can bring Mrs. Grant. I am going to meet with great opposition in the effort to get a single headed commission. I do not think there will be anything like as much opposition to a complete remodeling of the present board. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 236 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. T. C. Platt, #49 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 10th. I should particularly like to have Mr. Odell at the breakfast, but I did not like to suggest it. I have been racking my brains to think what it was I said to Frank to which you allude. Indeed I realize how vital our success was in the rural districts, and I cannot sufficiently appreciate the splendid management of Mr. Odell-- and of yourself! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Col. Michael C. Murphy, Department of Health, N.Y. City. My dear Colonel:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. You are extremely kind and I appreciate very much your courtesy. Mr. Skinner is an old college friend of mine and when he asked me concerning the smoke business, I told him that at the head of the department in New York(though politically my opponent) was an old personal friend, to whom I could give him an introduction without the slightest hesitation. I thank you for your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt237 Nov. 10th,1899. Chares Dudley Warner, Esq., 57 Forest St., Hartford, Coon. My dear Mr. Warner, I have yours of the 10th. A request from you is very hard to refuse, but I simply have to adamantine. I cannot accept another engagement of any kind or sort at present. Is there any chance of my seeing you up at Albany? I should like to have the opportunity. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Mr. George McAneny, #54 William St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. McAneny:-- I have yours of the 10th. Few things in the election pleased me more than the triumph of Cooley. I have just asked him up here. I want to see him. Sometime this Winter I want to get all of the surviving republican members from New York, including Cooley, and have them meet you and Reynolds and one or two others. They are all men of decent instincts and much can be done with them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 238 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. John A. Sleicher, 110 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Sleicher:-- I have yours of the 10th inst. I wish I could accept, but it is absolutely our of the question. I have been forced to refuse every invitation after the legislature meets, and I have accepted but one before that time. Cant I see you up here sometime? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. T. E. Ellsworth, Lookport, N. Y. My dear Senator:-- Do write me just as soon as possible about those Western House of Refuge appointments. I am so afraid that some out- break or other will occur. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt239 Nov. 10th, 1899. Mr. George Wilson, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Wilson:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. Yes I will be at the banquet on the 21st. Will you please tell me what time the dinner will take place and where? I shall be at the Fifith Avenue Hotel that day. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. Alfred Warriner Cooley, Westchester, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Colley:-- I have ours of the 10th inst. Can you come up there Tuesday or Wednesday or next week and take lunch with me? I really want to see you and talk matters over with you. From New York City, though the republicans con- tangent is small, it is very select. I believe they are all men with whom you can work. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 240 Nov. 11th, 1899. Col. Franklin Bartlett, Headquarters 22nd Inf., N.G.N.Y. Bway & 68th St., N.Y. City My dear Colonel:-- Replying to your invitation to review your regiment, would say that I think I shall undoubtedly be able to come about the middle of December. I want to arrange a date when I can review the 13th in Brooklyn the following night, and it may be impossible for me definitely to answer for a few days as to the time. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. T. L. Woodruff, Lieutenant Governor, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Governor:-- I have yours of the 10th. Here is just the point: I have consistently refused every invitation to speak of every kind, sort and descriptions. A year age I promised the Chamber of Commerce of New York and I shall have to make a brief speech for them, but I do not want to make another speech of any sort. Now, if I went to your dinner I fear I should be expected to speak. I am going to review the 13th regiment some time in December. If I come to your dinner formally I shall be expected to make a set speech. Wouldn't it perhaps be possible for me to go the evening I review the regiment and then simply get up and say a word about you and set down? Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt P. S. Do not treat this as a definite proposal. I could not come down t a set and formal dinner in order to make a set and formal speech. I am simply casting this out as a suggestion for you and I to discuss. I want to do any thing you ask, but I cannot make any more speeches at present.241 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. B. B.. Odell, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have just received a line from the Senator in which he says he is going to get you to meet me at breakfast on the morning of the 22nd inst. At the end of his letter he says of you: "He is the best Chairman we have ever had". Need I add how thoroughly I sympathize with this! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- The enclosed letter from the Adjutent General about the case of Lieut. Dodge explains itself. I have looked up the papers and seen his written resignation which has been accepted. I question very much whether it would be legally possible to undo the acceptance of the resignation now. It would certainly be most undesirable, as he would have to be put on trial at once for unofficer like conduct, for non-payment of debts, &c.,&c., and it is practical- ly certain that he would be dismissed from t he service. Not only all of his superiors regard him as a man whom it was imperatively necessary to get out of the service, but Colonel Hoffman who was sent especially to investigate the matter, made the same report. Do you think in view of this showing that that it is worth while stirring up the matter any more? Of course make any use of this letter you think best. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt242 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. Pardon C. Williams, Watertown, N.Y. My dear Judge:-- I have yours of the 10th inst and thank you for your courtesy. I have already had your name before me. Of course, I do not yet feel at liberty to say what I will do. Sincerely ours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11, 1899. Mr. David B. Sickles, 100 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Sickles:-- Replying to your note, I will be pleased to see your, although not for a very long time, as I am very much pressed with work, on either Tuesday or Wednesday or next week. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 243 Nov. 11th, 1899. Mr. H. D. Lockwood, The Merchants Asso, N.Y. Life Bldg. N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Lockwood:-- I tried to get Secretary of State McDonough end found he was subpoenaed before a Grand Jury, and Attorney General Davis and found he is kept here by some election cases. I am telegraphing to Col. Archie E. Baxter who is a good speaker. Bu I do not know whether he can go or not. I am awfully sorry. I have done everything I could. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 11th, 1899. Mr. G. H. Putman, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- What is the first name of our Gary of the Times? I will send you on the Foreword in a day or two. I have signed it with the date of Jan. 1st, 1900. If it is to be issued before that date, the change must be made. By the way, under my name on the title page, ought we not to have Colonel 1st U. S. V. Cavalry? I have sent you the only picture taken in the Executive Chamber which I think worth while. But I rather like the Rockwood one in the frock coat best. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 244 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have gone all over that Health Board business with my Appointment Clerk and Mr. Youngs. Cassidy's term expires in 1901 when the terms of four of the six members expire. They elect the Secretary to hold office at their pleasure. I have absolutely no power to turn any of the Commissioners out except after a trial on charges preferred, the same as in the case of the Superintendent of Insurance, the Superintendent of Prisons, the Tax or Fish Commissioners etc. The Secretary I cannot turn out at all. I will see you about this either next week or the week after. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S.The Sheriff of Putnam Co. has resigned. Will you please consult with Mr. Platt as to what your opinion is as to the appointment of his successor. Also, there is a County Judge to be appointed in Monroe Co. Also, a Justice of the Supreme Court in Erie County. November 12, 1899. Mr. Frank A. Conklin, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- Enclosed please find check for $10.00, to aid the Odd Fellows in procuring a new carpet for their Hall, as desired. I wish them every success in the undertaking. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt244 Nov. 11th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have gone all over that Health Board business with my Appointment Clerk and Mr. Youngs. Cassidy's term expires in 1901 when the terms of four of the six members expire. They elect the Secretary to hold office at their pleasure. I have absolutely no power to turn any of the Commissioners out except after a trial on charges preferred, the same as in the case of the Superintendent of Insurance, the Superintendent of Prisons, the Tax or Fish Commissioners etc. The Secretary I cannot turn out at all. I will see you about this either next week or the week after. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S.The Sheriff of Putnam Co. has resigned. Will you please consult with Mr. Platt as to what your opinion is as to the appointment of his successor. Also, there is a County Judge to be appointed in Monroe Co. Also, a Justice of the Supreme Court in Erie County. November 12, 1899. Mr. Frank A. Conklin, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Dear Sir:- Enclosed please find check for $10.00, to aid the Odd Fellows in procuring a new carpet for their Hall, as desired. I wish them every success in the undertaking. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt245 Nov. 13th, 1899. To the Fox Optical Co., 41 E. 42nd St., N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Will you please repair and return the enclosed glasses to me at the earliest possible date, and greatly oblige, Yours very truly, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. John H. Finley, c/o Harpers Weekly, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Finley:-- Owing to something that I have heard, I should like very much to go over the whole canal matter with you. I should be pleased to have you know all the facts,-- everything that I have done in connection with the mismanagement of the past, and everything that has been done to secure the excellent management of the present which has actually been secured. Thanks to the absolutely unscrupulous mendacity of papers like the Evening Post, I find that there has been no little misunder- standing even by honest and intelligent men on the subject. I shall dwell upon it at length in the opening paragraphs of my annual message to the legislature, but I want you to know the whole thing from the inside, both for the sake of Harpers Weekly, and because, my dear sir, you are the type of man with whom I wish to work. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt245 Nov. 13th, 1899. To the Fox Optical Co., 41 E. 42nd St., N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Will you please repair and return the enclosed glasses to me at the earliest possible date, and greatly oblige, Your very truly, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. John H. Finley, C/o Harpers Weekly, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Finley:-- Owing to something that I have heard, I should like very much to go over the whole canal matter with you. I should be pleased to have you know all the facts,--everything that I have done in connection with the mismanagement of the past, and everything that has been done to secure the excellent management of the present which has actually been secured. Thanks to the absolutely unscrupulous mendacity of papers like the Evening Post, I find that there has been no little misunder- standing even by honest and intelligent men on the subject. I shall dwell upon it at length in the opening paragraphs of my annual message to the legislature, but I want you to know the whole thing from the inside, both for the sake of Harpers Weekly, and because, my dear sir, you are the type of man with whom I wish to work. Very sincerely your, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Low:-- I have yours of the 11th. You have asked me a difficult question. Would it be possible for me to see young Curtis? I should like to look at him and have a talk with him before giving advice, for I do not want to give it until I have some reason for thinking it worth receiving. I shall most gladly dine and spend the night with you. But if you will allow me, I will make it sometime in December. May I do so? I have absolutely refused to commit myself in favor of the State Constabulary bill, and I shall commit myself to nothing without the fullest conversation with you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899.sa Willis Cummings, M.D., 156 St. James Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 10th inst, I am sorry to say that I have no possible means of obtaining the information you desire. I do not know that General Wood will be Civil Governor or anything about his plans. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 247 Nov. 13th, 1899. Maj. A. VonHaake, Topographer's Office, P. O. Dept., Washington, D.C. My dear Major:-- I have yours of the 11th inst. How will the enclosed do. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. C. M. Depew, U. S. Senator. My dear Senator:-- This is to introduce my personal friend Major A. Von Haake who served with distinction in the Civil War, who is an upright gentleman and a trained and most competent public servant. Major VonHaake is one of the few men whom I am willing to back in every way, and I commend him to your courtesy most warmly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 248 Nov. 13th, 1899. Hon. James S. Sherman, M.C., Utica, N.Y. My dear Congressman:-- This is to introduce my personal friend Major A. VonHaake who served with distinction in the Civil War, who is an upright gentleman and a trained and most competent public servant. Major VonHaake is one of the few men whom I am willing to back in every way, and I commend him to your courtesy most warmly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. Charles C. Harrison, Provost, University of Penna., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Provost Harrison:-- Replyingto yours of the 11th inst, Would Thursday of this week do for the conference? Do let me suggest, however, that you better write me first as to what the conference is about. I should hate to have the two trustees come on here on a useless errand. It was a great pleasure to catch a glimpse of you, though only for a moment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 249 Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. D. Turner, 1915 H. St., N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Turner:-- I thank you cordially for yours of the 9th inst. It is a pleasure to hear from you, especially in so pleas- sant a way. With great regards, believe me, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. I return you the letter enclosed with your communication. Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. Franklin, O. Case, Secretary, The National Memorial Bureau, Cor. F. & 9th Sts. Washington, D.C. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 9th inst, permit me to say that offhand I should be inclined to favor that petition, but I should not want to answer definitely with my present knowledge. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 250 Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. E. deL. Slevin, Orange, NJ. My dear Mr. Slevin:-- I have yours of the 10th and am very sorry to learn what you say. I fear that if the regular army strength is made 100,000 the first choce will be given to the men now in the volunteer service. I am greatly disappointed. Of course, if you decide to go to Cuba, I will recommend you to Wood just as strongly as I know how. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. David M. Goodrich, 1 Hubbard Park, Brattle St., Cambridge, Mass. Dear Dave:-- I am in trouble. I enclose a badge sent to me in response to my inquiry to know if I could be on the side lines during the Yale-Harvard game. They answered in the affirmative and sent me the enclosed ticket which I now see is not good for the Yale game. The Yale men offered to give me a ticket, but of course unless it is absolutely necessary I do not want to get it from them instead of my own college. I feel as though I would rather stay away. Will it bother you too much to take this badge and note to Eliot Spalding or to Dibblee, ask them if I can have a badge to give me a place on the side lines, and if so, whether you could be given it for me? Then will you wire me the answer so that I may shape my movements accordingly. There is no danger of our men being over-confident is there? Yale has taken a great brace. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt251 Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, Beekman St., N.Y. City. Dear Grant:-- Is a Dr.Sandord, of New Haven, on the list for membership in the Boone-Crockett Club? If not, would you mind writing to Dean Sage who wants to propose him for membership? I wish I was to be at the theatre with Mrs. Roosevelt. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt 252 Nov. 13th, 1899 Hon. Joseph H. Choate, U. S. Ambassador, London, England. Sir:-- It gives me pleasure to introduce Mr. Gregor Lang of Yule, North Dakota whom I knew when I was in the ranch business on the Little Missouri. Mr. Lang is a reputable and worth citizen. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. W. Laird Clowes, Esq., C/o Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., London, England. My dear Clowes:-- I congratulate you on the fourth volume. I wish you would tell Mr. Wilson how pleased I was with the summary he gave as to the results of the single ship fights in the war of the American Revolution and the war of the French Revolution. It suggested an idea to me which I should like to embody in my article, if it is not too late. Can you tell me whether it is too late to see the article and make an addition or insertion, or whether it is so that it would be difficult for me to see it? I could send you four or five hundred words which you might be willing to insert, making the necessary changes to permit of an insertion, without giving a look of violent dislocation to the article. I want to point out that when we deal with the fighting races, though there may be some slight difference in fighting capacity, the real difference comes in in the training and preparation. Heavy guns and good ships wont avail without good seamanship and good gunners. Where the gunnery and seamanship nearly equal, then the best ship will win; and the best natural seaman and the best natural fighters alive will be beaten if they have not taken the trouble to prepare their opponents have; while success by sheer pluck and luck against a disorganized foe must not be taken as a warranty of success under similar circumstances against a first rate antagonist. I hope that you are better. I see that you are unable to leave Switzerland, but I trust you are more easy and comfortable there. With great regard and sincere congratulations, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt252 Nov. 13th, 1899 Hon. Joseph H. Choate, U. S. Ambassador, London, England. Sir:-- It gives me pleasure to introduce Mr. Gregor Lang of Yule, North Dakota whom I knew when I was in the ranch business on the Little Missouri. Mr. Lang is a reputable and worth citizen. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 13th, 1899. W. Laird Clowes, Esq., C/o Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., London, England. My dear Clowes:-- I congratulate you on the fourth volume. I wish you would tell Mr. Wilson how pleased I was with the summary he gave as to the results of the single ship fights in the war of the American Revolution and the war of the French Revolution. It suggested an idea to me which I should like to embody in my article, if it is not too late. Can you tell me whether it is too late to see the article and make an addition or insertion, or whether it is so that it would be difficult for me to see it? I could send you four or five hundred words which you might be willing to insert, making the necessary changes to permit of an insertion, without giving a look of violent dislocation to the article. I want to point out that when we deal with the fighting races, though there may be some slight difference in fighting capacity, the real difference comes in in the training and preparation. Heavy guns and good ships wont avail without good seamanship and good gunners. Where the gunnery and seamanship nearly equal, then the best ship will win; and the best natural seaman and the best natural fighters alive will be beaten if they have not taken the trouble to prepare their opponents have; while success by sheer pluck and luck against a disorganized foe must not be taken as a warranty of success under similar circumstances against a first rate antagonist. I hope that you are better. I see that you are unable to leave Switzerland, but I trust you are more easy and comfortable there. With great regard and sincere congratulations, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt253 Nov. 13th, 1899. Mr. John H. Finley, C/o Harpers Weekly, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Finley:-- In addition to my other letter of today, would you not like to come up here and see the whole administration of the State Government from the inside with a view to writing an article upon it? You shall see the head of every department and as much of the work as you want to, and shall be enabled to form your own judgment as to how things are going. If you wait until the legislature is in session, you shall meet the Senators and Assemblymen from whom I get most support and with whom I am most intimately thrown. I can say with absolute conscientiousness that during the eighteen years I have been in public life there has been no such high average standard of legislative and executive fidelity to the public weal as we have succeeded in ensuring for the past year, and there is nothing I so much desire as to have the inside facts known. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt254 Nov. 14th, 1899. Hon. J. S. Vanduser, Horseheads, N.Y. Dear Van:-- Replying to yours of the 11th inst would say that if I can give you that I will. As you know Billy ONiel has first claim upon me as I have already been speaking to him over it. I would like nothing better than to appoint you, but I could not say yet, for I do not know what shape the matter will take. I believe you would be an excellent man for the position. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 14th, 1899. Hon. Thomas R. Slicer, #27 W. 76th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Slicer:-- I have received your letter of the 11th. and am in a great haste. I will try to get the Attorney General to lunch with us on Tuesday at one. Wish practically everything you say I agree. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt255 Nov. 14th, 1899. Mr. C. H. Putman, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- Replying to your of the 13th, would say that I do not think that either "late" or"ex" are necessary. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 14th 1899. Mr. Thomas S. Townsend, 224 W. 52nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Townsend:-- Replying to yours of the 12th inst, would say that you are entirely welcome to make those quotations as your suggest. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt256 Nov. 14th, 1899. Darling Bye:-- All right, I will be glad to see your friend, though of course I wont be able to do anything for him. Send anyone like that or give them a letter of introduction. It does not embarrass me in the least. I am very glad that cunning little curley-headed Sheffield is better, even though still not well. Edith has just gone down in a fit of unwonted gayety to see Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in New York, leaving Miss Young and myself with the six children. I am very glad that the Philippine campaign seems to have begun in good earnest with apparently excellent prospects of success. That is a very ugly story by Father Matthews of the Dublin Fusileers, by the way. It looks as if there had been a panic and a somewhat shameful surrender at the time of General White's disaster. Give my warm love to Will. I cannot help wishing that Dewey was still single and that he did not seem to have such kindly affection for Croker. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. W.S.Cowles, 1733 N. St., Washington, D.C. Nov. 14th, 1899. Mrs. Fanny Robinson, 109 E. 31st, St., N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Robinson:-- I am sorry to have to send you the enclosed. Apparently nothing can be done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt257 Nov. 14th, 1899. Hon. Thomas C. Platt, #49 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I have your of the 13th. On thinking over your former letter I had just about come to the conclusion that what you referred to were my remarks about the State Constabulary bill. There is much concerning that bill that I would like to talk over with you. I have been rather appalled by the number and weight of the protests I received against it ever since the legislature adjourned; protests which have made me feel apprehensive whether it was expedient to pass it, coming as they did from republicans of great weight and influence. However, I will discuss it all with you next Wednesday at breakfast. With regards to Mrs. Platt, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt258 Nov. 14th, 1899. The Secetary, Sons of the Revolution, 146 Bway, N.Y. City. Sir:-- I am greatly indebted to you for copy of the book and really appreciate your having sent it to me. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. H. B. Chapin, Union Club, Boston, Mass. Dear Harry:-- I have yours of the 14th. I do not know whether Dave Goodrich has made another engagement for me. I have an awful feeling that I am going to a Porc. dinner that evening. If not or if I can get out of the engagement, I will certainly come. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 259 Dec. 15th, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, 7 Beekman, St., N.Y. City. Dear Grant:-- I have yours of the 14th with enclosure which I return herewith. Could you and Pinchot come up here and spend the night with me? Bring Mrs. LaFarge of course with you. How would Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of the week after next do; that the 27th, 28th or 29th? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. John C. Davies, Attorney General, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Davies:-- Do not forget that on Tuesday, the 21st inst you lunch at one oclock at the City Club, #19 W. 34th St., N.Y. City. Yours sincerely, Theodore Roosevelt261 Nov. 15ht, 1899. Mr. C. H. Chapman, No. 11 St. James Ave., Boston, Mass. My dear Chapman:-- I have yours of the 13th. I wish I could help you, but I have not the slightest idea what to do. In the first place, my experience has been that there is not the least use in ever trying for anything but a definite place. In the next place, I have literally hundreds of applications, and it is the rarest thing in the world for the chance to come where I can get the job and the man together. I always have to know the job the man can do, and then I will try, but I cannot guarantee success. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff, Lieutenant Governor, Waldorf-Astoria, N.Y. City. My dear Governor:-- I have yours of the 14th. Friday I shall be on my way to the Yale-Harvard game. I will try to find out at once about the date for the review. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt262 Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. J. Harsen Rhoades, #66 Beaver St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Rhoades:-- Can you let me know within a couple of days whether Dewey is to come to that dinner? I have got to make my plans about the review of the regiments. It was a great pleasure to catch a glimpse of you the other day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. John S. Kenyon, Railroad Commission, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Kenyon:-- Replying to yours of the 14th inst, would say that I have not the vaguest idea what you refer to. I have held no interview with The World man, do not know him and certainly have never seen a representative of the World save together with all the other reporters. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I have just seen the interview, and I wish to state that it is absolutely a falsehood; that I never had any interview of any kind, sort or description about Mayor McGuire.Nov. 15th, 1899. 263 Ansley Wilcox, Esq., 816 Ellicott Sq., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Wilcox:-- I thank you for yours of the 14th. How the newspapers got hold of that matter I do not know, but it may have leaked out through several channels, as the Comptroller and one or two subordinates from his office and two or three members of the State Board of Charities were present at the interview between Sturgis and myself. Of course, you are entirely right in saying that I have never stated I was against corporal punishment. On the contrary I regard it as a matter of expediency. If best results can be obtained through corporal punishment, then I want it; otherwise not. Mr. Sturgis described to me methods of corporal punishment which of course I am against, as you would be, and stated that a doctor should be present during corporal punishment to find if it was excessive, with which of course I agree. But the whole talk was informal, and I certainly did not, and I do not believe he did, commit myself to anything definite. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. John B. Holland, Chm. House Com., Hamilton Club, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Holland:-- Your invitation is very attractive, but it is absolutely impossible for me to accept. I must devote myself to my work here and cannot undertake another engagement, much as I should like to accept yours. With hearty thanks, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt264 Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. Horace White, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- Replying to yours of the 14th inst, my opinions will remain absolutely open until I see you, of course. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. William D. Leonard, 141 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Williams:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 14th. I wish I could accept, and as I like real tea, the temperance proclivities of the hosts and guests would not frighten me in the least, but it is out of the question for me to come. I simply cannot accept another engagement, much though I should like to. I must devote myself to the many pressing matters here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt265 Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. James Roosevelt, Hyde Park on-the Hudson, N.Y. Dear James:-- I have yours of the 14th. Of course, I will re-appoint Miss Newbold. I wish I could get that Constabulary bill applied all over the State! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. Celora, E. Martin, Binghamton, N.Y. My dear Judge:-- I have yours of the 14th. I suppose that one man who will have to be given the designation is Judge Smith. I guess that you and I are under contract with him, so to speak. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 266 Nov. 15th, 1899. Hon. A. R. Conkling, 170 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Conkling-- I thank you for yours of the 14th inst. I shall doubtless adopt your suggestion. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. George W. Schurman, #6 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Shcurman:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 14th inst inviting me to be present at the dinner of the Cornell Alumni on the evening of Jany. 26th, but It will be absolutely impossible for me to accept. I cannot undertake another engage- ment of any sort or description, and have not accepted one for after Jany. 1st when the legislature begins its session. With regret, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 267 Nov. 15th, 1899. Mrs. Ellen W. Russell, Detroit, Mich. My dear Mrs. Russell:-- I have yours of the 14th inst with enclosed pwtition which I have signed and therewith return. I wish I could accept your very kind invitation. I should like to speak out of the question to think of going there, as I have more work on hand than I can begin to accomplish. With real regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Thomas Kennedy, Priv. Secy. Lord Mayor Tallon, Hoffman House, N.Y. City My dear Mr. Kennedy:-- I thank you very much for your book It looks most interesting. It was a great pleaser to meet you. Pray present my regards to the Lord Mayor and Mr. Redmond. I have directed that a copy of my book "American Ideals" be sent you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 268 Nov. 15th, 1899. G. P. Putman Sons, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Please send a copy of American Ideals to Thomas Kennedy, Esq., Private Secretary of Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hoffman House, N.Y. City and oblige, Yours very truly, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 15th, 1899. Mr. Adolph Rundquist, Troop I., 8th Cav, Puerto Principe, Cuba. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of Oct. 24th, I am extremely sorry, but the request you make is one that is impossible for me to grant. It is not a matter in which I can interfere. The War Department does not desire outside interference in such matters, and I never do it. With regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 269 Nov. 15th,1899. Darling Corinne:-- I have yours of the 14th. I had a vague idea you stayed in the country until Christmas and so arranged to go next Tuesday night to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. I now could not break my engagements there, which include an 8 oclock breakfast with Senator Platt, a dinner at the Chamber of Commerce, meeting Mrs. Allyn Capron, &c., &c., without uprooting everything. It is not necessary to say that the next time I am in New York I shall come trooping up to 422. Every yours, T. R. To Mrs. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. Nov. 15th, 1899. Lt. Edward Oliver, Co. C., 10th Battalion, Albany, N.Y. My dear sir:-- In reference to your application for appointment as Lieutenant in the Volunteer service, I am exceedingly sorry, but there is absolutely nothing I can do. I have been informed by the Secretary of War that there are no more vacancies. At any rate, I cannot make any further recommendations in justice to several men I have endorsed and who have note been appointed, and there is very little liklihood that will be, because as I have said, there are no vacancies. Mr. Loeb has told me about you, and I am very sorry that I can do nothing for you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I return your endorsements. 270 November 15, 1899 Mr. Warren E. Crockett, Marietta, Ga. My dear Mr. Crockett: I enclose you a copy of the letter I have just sent to the Secretary of the Treasury. I only hope it will do good. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt271 November 15, 1899. Mr. Eugene Fliedner, Secretary Protective League of Salt Water Fisherman, 20 Bond Street, New York City. My dear Sir:-- I heartily approve that suggestion, but the only way it can be brought into effect is to have proper legislation. I wish such legislation could be obtained. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 272 November 15, 1899. To the Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Gage: One of my Rough Riders, who was wounded while behaving with the utmost gallantry at San Juan Hill and who was an excellent soldier and trust-worthy in every way, was Warren E. Crockett of Marietta, Georgia. He is an applicant for the position of special deputy collector under the Internal Revenue at Atlanta, Georgia. I suppose he would be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue but I am not certain and so I write to you direct, although I know Mr. Davis very well. I should greatly like to do anything I could to help Crockett. He is a first class man in every way and was formerly in the Internal Revenue service. I would trust him entirely myself for any work of responsibility, especially if there was an element of danger. Is it possible for him to be given the place? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt273 November 15, 1899. Mr. George G. Street, (Address?) Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Sir: I am very sorry to say it would not be possible for me to give you the endorsement you desire. I have had to make an invariable rule not to endorse books in that way. If I do it in one case I could not refuse to do it in others and the applications would literally be endless. With great regard and cordial sympathy for your purpose, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt274 November 15, 1899. Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, Sangerfield, N. Y. My dear Colonel: I wish I could come but it is absolutely out of the question. I ought not to accept another invitation. I must work at my message and invitations come in literally by the hundreds. Can you not stop here for dinner some night soon? I am going on to see the Yale game next Saturday. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt275 Nov. 16th, 1899. Martha C. Wetmore, Cor. Sec., 113 Lake Ave., Albany, N.Y. Dear madam:-- I have your note. All right, I think I can get around there Monday evening the 27th. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Charles Upson, C/o Hotel Worthy, Springfield, Mass. My dear Mr. Upson:-- You are at liberty to use this leter in any way you wish. I most earnestly hope that the D. K. E. Chapter will be established at the University of Pennsylvania. It seems to me that we have the right to have the Chapter established at one of the most prominent Universities-- a University of the age and standing of Pennsylvania. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt276 Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Chas. Dudley Warner, 57 Forest St., Hartford, Conn. My dear Mr. Warner:-- Replying to yours fo the 15th, I wish I could accept, but I simply dare not. You do not know the hundreds of invitations I receive. I cannot accept any more. I have two years old promises: One to go with some of the Yale men of my regiment to Yale, and another to deliver the Grant Birthday address at Galena; but I am not able to accept another engagement out of the State. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Eliot Spalding, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Spalding:-- I have yours of the 14th with enclosed field badge. You are more than kind. I will certainly be there. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt277 Nov. 16th, 1899 Mr. T. St.John Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Gaffney:-- I have yours of the 15th and thank you for the books. I have already glanced through them and taken a great interest in both. I do not believe I shall be able to do much more than perhaps supplement one or two of the facts I get from Lecky and Walpole. One of the six chapters of my Life of Cromwell will be devoted to the Scotch and Irish campaigns. It was a great pleasure to see you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Dean Sage, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Sage:-- I have yours of the 15th. All right: of course I can be put down as a seconder. Do tell Mrs. Sage how thoroughly I enjoyed the other evening at your home! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt278 Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. M. E. Davis, Hotel Margaret, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Davis:-- I have yours of the 15th. I am exceedingly sorry, for next week I shall be away. I hope to be at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the afternoon of Tuesday the 21st inst, and shall be very glad to see you there. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. John A. Sleicher, 110 Firth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Sleicher:-- I have yours of the 15th. Of course I do not mind the cartoons. On the whole State Constabulary bill seems to me a righteous measure. As to its expediency I am not certain. It has been only that that has ever caused me to doubt. This information is for your own private ear, of course. Do come up and let me see you! I heard nothing from my Alpha Delta Phi letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt279 Nov. 16th, 1899. Hon. James R. Sheffield, 120 Nway, N.Y. City. My dear Sheffield:-- I have yours of the 14th. I am awfully sorry but I have to be here the entire week after next as I shall be away next week. Would there be any chance of your bringing up Senator Allison to spend the night with me? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Messrs Tiffany & Co., N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Instead of sending me that watch before Christmas I would like to receive it on Thanksgiving day. Send it to the Executive Chamber and not to the Mansion, so that I get it November 29th. Many thanks. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 280 Nov. 16th, 1899. My dear Mrs. Booth:-- Of course I do not mention your name in any way. I have been trying to find out about those two Wardens, but so far entirely unsatisfactorily. As you know the Superintendent of State Prisons was not my appointee. Would not some of the societies who are interested in prison work be able to co-operate in getting the information. It will always be a pleasure to hear from you about anything. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Maud B. Booth, No. 1 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. George E. Matthews, 276 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Matthews:-- I have yours of the 15th. Have just seen Mr. Hotchkiss. I have answered to all the candidates most emphatically each can be heard before me. Of course, this is not a public hearing. It is merely that I appointed one day for convenience, inasmuch as there were nine different candidates for the position, and as the friends of all of them had special reasons which were controverted by the friends of others. I have not decided whether I shall make the appointment in or out of Erie, and I have of course not decided who the man will be and shall keep my mind entirely open until I have all the men here before me. It is not necessary to say that no Executive Committee or any other organization can foreclose on my decision or can prevent my taking into account the claims of any upright and capable man well endorsed by the bar and the judiciary. With great regard, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Personal & Confidential.280 Nov. 16th, 1899. My dear Mrs. Booth:-- Of course I do not mention your name in any way. I have been trying to find out about those two Wardens, but so far entirely unsatisfactorily. As you know the Superintendent of State Prisons was not my appointee. Would not some of the societies who are interested in prison work be able to co-operate in getting the information. It will always be a pleasure to hear from you about anything. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Maud B. Booth, No. 1 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. George E. Matthews, 276 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Matthews:-- I have yours of the 15th. Have just seen Mr. Hotchkiss. I have answered to all the candidates most emphatically each can be heard before me. Of course, this is not a public hearing. It is merely that I appointed one day for convenience, inasmuch as there were nine different candidates for the position, and as the friends of all of them had special reasons which were controverted by the friends of others. I have not decided whether I shall make the appointment in or out of Erie, and I have of course not decided who the man will be and shall keep my mind entirely open until I have all the men here before me. It is not necessary to say that no Executive Committee or any other organization can foreclose on my decision or can prevent my taking into account the claims of any upright and capable man well endorsed by the bar and the judiciary. With great regard, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Personal & Confidential.281 Nov. 16th, 1899 Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Low:-- I have yours of the 14th. In reference to my coming to you, will you wait just a day or two until I hear from a very improbably possibility of my having to preside at a dinner to Admiral Dewey. I do not think that this will conflict with the week you mention anyhow. I will let you know as soon as I can find out. I have telegraphed you to have your nephew join me on the ten A. M. train tomorrow. Yours faithfully, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. It may be that I should like you to have that dinner earlier because of the State Constabulary matter. As you know, last winter I favored the measure very heartily. I am still convinced of its righteousness and I do not want to turn around unless there is excellent ground on the score of legitimate political expediency. It does seem to me that if we can get the police fairly taken out of politics, we ought not to hesitate. I know that there are drawbacks connected with the State administration of the police, but it has certainly worked well in Massachusetts and Baltimore compared with the old local or homerule administration, and I cannot help but thinking that on the whole it would be better here. However, I am keeping my mind open and avoiding committing myself until I can see you. T.R. Nov. 16th, 1899 Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City My dear Low:-- I have yours of the 14th. In reference to my coming to you, will you wait just a day or two until I hear from a very improbable possibility of my having to preside at a dinner to Admiral Dewey. I do not think that this will conflict with the week you mention anyhow. I will let you know as soon as I can find out. I have telegraphed you to have your nephew join me on the ten A. M. train tomorrow. Yours faithfully, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. It may be that I should like you to have that dinner earlier because of the State Constabulary matter. As you know, last winter I favored the measure very heartily. I am still convinced of its righteousness and I do not want to turn around unless there is excellent ground on the score of legitimate political expediency. It does seem to me that if we can get the police fairly taken out of politics. we ought not to hesitate. I know that there are drawbacks connected with the State adminis- tration of the police, but it has certainly worked well in Mass- achusetts and Baltimore compared with the old local or homerule administration, and I cannot help but thinking that on the whole it would be better here. However, I am keeping my mind open and avoiding committing myself until I can see you. T. R. 282 Nov. 16th, 1899. Hon George H. Lyman, Boston, Mass. My dear George:-- Do you think there is any chance of my seeing Bob. Grant or Frank Lowell that Sunday afternoon? I will come to your house as soon as I get through the lunch at the Wolcotts. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 125 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Allie:-- I am to be at Yale Monday afternoon and evening next with Jack Greenway. I am to stay at President Hadley's. Cant you get there? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt 283 Nov. 16th, 1899. Mrs. Thad. E. Horton, C/o The Times, N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Horton:-- It was with sincere grief that learned of Mr. Horton's death. Pray accept my deep sympathy. I had grown to know and value him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Lewis L. Welch, Editor, New Haven, Conn. My dear Mr. Welch:-- I have yours of the 15th. You are more than kind. That will be delightful. As I say if you can only keep out the reporters I do not mind how many other people you have. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt284 Nov. 16th, 1899. Dr. W. G. MacDonald, 27 Eagle St., Albany, N.Y. My dear Dr. Macdonald:-- Replying to yours of the 14th, I go away tomorrow morning for a week. The week after will you come any day, at any hour(by preference in the morning) and present this letter as your credentials? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mrs. G. L. Davidson, C/o The Criterion, 156 5th Av. N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Davidson:-- Replying to your telegram of today, Could you call and see me at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Tuesday evening at six oclock? That is, Tuesday the 21st inst. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt285 Nov. 16th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- I thank you for yours of the 15th. Will you let me wait a day or two before answering? I will do that some how. Will you allow me to suggest that you have the Westchester man, Cooley, as well as our four Assemblymen and the two Senators? I want especially to talk over the State Constabulary bill with you. Of its righteousness I am firmly convinced; of its expediency I am as yet doubtful; and on the other hand where I have so many fights with the Organization on points on which they are wrong, I am in doubt how far to do in fighting them where I deem them right, and where they know I deem them right. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt286 Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. A. M. Mills, Little Falls, N.Y. My dear Mr. Mills:-- Will you give me any information in your possession as to the case of Lieut. Dodge in his connections with his captain? On the face of the papers it appears that Lr. Dodge has resigned and he has made no claim to the contrary. It also appears that he has not paid his debts and Inspector General Hoffman reported very emphatically against him. I should like any information bearing in any way upon the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899. Rev. Dr. Henry G. McCock, The Manse, 3700 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Doctor:-- I laughed heartily over the article and have no suggestions to make. I have had difficulty in getting at the genealogical tables. My grandmother was Margaret Barnhill. She was descended from the Barnhills and Potts of Pennsylvania and originally from the neighborhood of Londonderry. The exact names and two or three of the other strains I think I can give you in a week or so. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt287 Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. Hubert Cillis, Pres., 20 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Cillis:-- Sometime when I am in New York could I see you and talk over insurance matters? If you and Mr. Goepel would take me around to the Liederkranz and Arion some evening I should be really obliged to you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt, 33 Wall St., N.Y. City. Dear Emlen:-- What do you and Adrian Iselin know of H. E. Bowers, formerly manager of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company? He has been suggested to me as a good man, and I know nothing whatever about him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 16th, 1899. Prof. Woodrow Wilson, University, Princeton, N.J. My dear Prof. Wilson:-- Just a line to say how delighted I was with your address last night! It was admirable in every way. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899. Mr. H. B. Delaigne, The Times, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Delaigne:-- I have yours of the 15th. That was all right. I knew there had been some mistake and simply wrote them the exact facts. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 289 Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. Henry D. Purroy, Central Bank Bldg., 320 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Purroy:-- I have yours of the 15th inst. I appreciate your entire position and understand thoroughly all that you feel. I will gladly see you here in Albany almost any day, by preference, however, early in the week, after the 25th of this month. With great regard, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899 Mr. Paul L. Dunbar, Box 263, Harman, Colo. My dear Mr. Dunbar:-- I have just received yours of the 1st inst. This is the first I have heard of this matter. From what you say I should judge that you had been simply blackmailed. If any attack is made upon you,of course I shall defend you, and if you come to Albany again, let me know and I will take the matter of the reception to you into my own hands-- at any rate, to the extent of seeing that thoroughly reputable people take hold of you. I hope your health is improving. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt290 Nov. 17th, 1899. Mr. Perry F. Taylor, Census Office, Washington, D.C. My dear Buck:-- I have yours of the 15th. I guess the enclosed will fill the bill, which you can present together with my letter to the Chief of Commissary. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure. Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. Francis Hendricks, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hendricks:-- I have yours of the 15th inst. All right; of course I will do nothing until I see you and go all over the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt291 Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- I sent the enclosed letter to the Commissary General on behalf of my former trooper, Perry F. Taylour. Taylour was an excellent soldier who did his work up to the handle. If I had a regiment now I would take him in at once. He has been in the Census Department for the last year and his supporters speak to me very well of him. I presume he will show you letters from them. He now wants to get into the Quartermaster's department. If the chance can be given him I am sure he will do excellently, and I hope it can be given him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899. President Arthur T. Hadley, New Haven, Conn. My dear President Hadley:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 16th inst. Probably it will not be until about six oclock that I shall get to your house. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt292 Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. John R. Hazel, Eagle, Pearl & Niagara Sts., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hazel:-- I have yours of the 16th. I was sure that there had been a misapprehension as to what you said. Meanwhile you cant imagine the tempest it called down on my devoted head! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899. Provost Chas. C. Harrison, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Provost Harrison:-- I have yours of the 16th inst. You are more than kind. As I had one of your men in my regiment, young Wortesque, formerly the quarterback of the University football team, it would give me peculiar pleasure to lay the cornerstone, but December 2nd happens to be the one day on which I could not possibly get out of the State. If I could get away from Albany I should come to you, but it is simply impossible. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt293 Nov. 17th, 1899 Dear Gertie:-- Replying to yours of the 15th, all right, I will put it that way. I cannot possibly do anything for them, and do let me say that they do not need to have anything done for them. They are both of age. If she thinks something should be done, she can write; and as for him, if he is worth his salt, he will get a furlough somehow and come and see her, provided he is really in love with her, and there has been a misapprehension as to which he receives information. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. T.W.Punnett Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Nov. 17th, 1899 Darling Corinne:-- Your note of the 16th received. I will get in to see you Tuesday afternoon without fail. Wednesday morning I take the 10.50 train out to Oyster Bay. I have much to tell you and much to tell Douglas. I shall see you Sunday afternoon with Fanny at dinner. Always yours, To Mrs. Douglas Robinson, 422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. Dictated by Gov. Roosevelt before leaving for [?]. He had no offer [?} [?] to sign it. {???] Nov. 17th, 1899. Hon. Edward T. Bartlett, Judge, Court of Appeals, Albany. N.Y. My dear Judge:-- I have just received your letter of the 16th. Will you send this letter to Mr. Crook. I know nothing of Mr. Manchester's company and have never had any dealings with him in a business way. My acquaintance with him has been purely politi- cal, and in all respects he has shown himself to be a gentleman upon whose word I could rely, and seemingly a man of upright and honorable character. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 17th, 1899. Fifth Avenue Hotel, N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Please reserve a room and bath for me. Will arrive Tuesday afternoon. Keep my mail that may come for me before that time Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, November 21, 1899. Mrs. Allyn K. Capron, 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Capron:-- Indeed I understand entirely. A little later I shall have many things to tell you about the most gallant soldier I ever met-- your husband. Of course I shall back up you and Mrs. Capron in every way. I am to see her to-night at six o'clock. With warm regards, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated atNew York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. John J. Wilson, Iroquois Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Mr. Wilson:-- I have yours of the 18th instant with en- closed clipping. It was the greatest pleasure to meet the Lord- Mayor and Mr. Redmond. I really enjoyed it very much. They are delightful men. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, November 21, 1899. Mr. J. D. Dunwoody, Chairman Road Com'n., Atlanta, Ga. My dear Sir:-- I have yours of the 15th instant with enclosed clipping. That is extremely kind of you and a matter of great interest. I have a letter of Governor Archibald Bulloch which I have had framed and am keeping for my small son when he grows up. With renewd thanks and assuring you I appreciate your courte- sy, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt . Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Fifth Ave Hotel, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have yours of the 18th instant in refer- ence to the case of Miss Merritt of Ulster County, and will do my best in the matter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 297 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Albert Phenis, Commercial Tribune, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Mr. Phenis:-- I thank you most heartily for yours of the 16th instant. I return theclipping and am really touched at what you say. I remember the speech very well, and I am glad to be able to say that I have kept my word as I said I would. I would like to have you see all of my administration from the inside out. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. John Paul Bocock, 391 West End Ave., New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Bocock:- Replying to yours of the 12th instant which I have just received, would say that the trouble is that I have been obliged to make an invariable rule of recommending no one whom I do not know personally. If I vary from this it means that my recommendations cease being of value. I am awfully sorry. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt298 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Franklin Matthews, The Sun, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Matthews:- I thank you heartily for yours of the 19th instant with enclosure. Those seemed to me very practical suggestions. I shall see whether we cannot act on them. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Edgar Williams, Orange, N.J. My dear Mr. Williams:- I thank you very much and appreciate your letter of the 18th instant, but I do not know how to help your friend. I am asked to back so many people that I have had to make an invariable rule of never writing save from personal knowledge. If I break this rule in this case, I shall have to break it in others. I hope you will understand how I hate not doing anything you request. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt299 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. C. Dana Gibson, Esq., 1424 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I thank you most cordially for the invitation to join The Strollers but I belong to so many clubs that I cannot accept even so attractive an invitation as yours. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Lebkuecher & Co., 28 Prospect St. Newark, N. J. Gentlemen:- Will you please send to Mr. Tony Gavin, 1st Police Precinct, Buffalo, N. Y., one of the Rough Rider Medals, for Mrs. Adsit, the mother of Nat. D. Adsit, formerly a member of the regiment, and charge the same to me. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt300 Dictated atNew York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Tony Gavin, 1st Police Precinct, Buffalo, N. Y. My dear Comrade:- I have just received yours of the 18th inst, and will gladly get you that medal at once. Pray present my warm regards to Mrs. Adsit. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Hon. Frederick W: Holls, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Holls:- I have yours of the 20th instant. Good! Come up and spend next Sunday night with us at Albany. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt301 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, 17 Beekman St., New York, N. Y. Dear Grant:- I have yours of the 18th instant. Alas, I shall have to wait until Monday, but I shall see you and Pinchot then at Albany. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New Yotk, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. John B. Holland, Hamilton Club, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Mr. Holland:- Replying to yours of the 17th instant, I wish I could accept, but it is absolutely out of the question. Alas, I am asked to so many dinners that so far from being a relax-ation, they are the heaviest work that I have to do-- much heavier than my official work. I would most gladly do them anyhow, if I were able without doing injustice to my official work, but I sim-ply cant do any more now. With heartfelt thanks, I am Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt302 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Paul Goepel, 290 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Goepel:- Many thanks for yours of the 18th instant. Unfortunately, next Sunday I have an engagement with Frederick W. Holls, in Albany. I will let you know just as soon as I return there when I cn come down. I have written Mr. Cillis to the same effect. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. Hubert Cillis, 20 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Cillis:- Many thanks for yours of the 18th instant. Unfortunately, next Sunday I have an engagement with Frederick W. Holls, here in Albany. I will let you know as soon as I return to Albany when I can get down. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt303 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Hon. J. S. VanDuzer, Horseheads, N. Y. Dear Van:- I have yoursof the 16th instant. Cant you come to Albany to see me some time next week? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. General Alex. S. Webb, 17 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear General:- Of course I will back Andrews up in any way in that matter, if I can. I have been awfully pressed for time to-day and do not know just when I will be here again. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt304 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Hon. William E. Chandler, Concord, N. H. My dear Senator:- Thanks, Oh most delightful of men! In the dreary waste of my ordinary official and unofficial correspondence, any letter from you is always a veritable oasis, even if it is about armor plate! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Robert Sturgis, Esq.,. 152 East 30th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Sturgis- Your note received. I am very sorry that I have not literally one moment. Can you not write me? I am so pressed for time when in the city that I always have to make my engagements beforehand. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Hon. Joseph Poole, Magistrate's Court, New York, N. Y. My dear Judge:- Can you support Moses M. McKee as clerk of the Magistrate's Court? I understand that Healy has been retired by a decision of the Appellate Division. I hear the very highest accounts of Mr. McKee, he being vouched for to me by men in whom I have entire confidence, both as regards to his ability and integrity. In other words, he is all right in every respect. I earnestly hope that you can see your way clear to support him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. Mr. W. Emelyn Roosevelt, 33 Wall Street, New York. Dear Emelyn:- Your telegram was forwarded to me at Boston. I will call at your mothers about twelve o-clock Sunday next, the 26th. I go to Albany on the one o'clock train. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 306 Dictated at New York, Nov 21, 1899. General Bradley T. Johnson, Ameila Court House, Va. My dear General:-- The possum arrived all right and Archie re- ceived it with such loving admiration that I gave it to him, a little to the jealousy of Ted and Kermit. In spite of your as- surance that it is tame, Archie does not venture to pet it, and its only intimate acquaintance with him is when I take it up by the nape of the neck, and on such occasions it always opens its jaws like an alligator. Archie still regards it with unqualified re- spect. It has utterly unsettled the nerves of the terrier who sits in from of its cage for hours, showing the most eager, but I fear unfriendly desire, to get in. I have just some back from witnessing a corking good football game at Harvard. With warm regards, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt307 November 27, 1899 Mr. H. G. Colton 311 Chamber of Commerce, Portland,Oregon. My dear Sir: I desire to thank you most kindly for your letter of November 20th . It was indeed a pleasure to me to have you write as you do and if you were pleased with the writing you mention I am delighted. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Confidential. Nov. 27th, 1899. My dear Quigg:-- Thanks for your note of the 23rd. There is opposition enough to the State Constabulary bill. If it was a Metropolitan District bill the opposition in New York would be even stronger. Outside of men who are in active politics, I know of but one man in New york who favors it, and I know a large number of men who are in active politics who are against it. As you know, I think such a bill is entirely proper in the abstract, but I am doubtful as to the wisdom of passing any bill, if it has to be jammed through against the wishes of good citizens, no matter how mistaken they may be. Understand me; I do not say that I have made up my mind. I merely say that I am doubtful. There are very real reasons why the bill should be passed, and very real reasons against it. I do not care to have this letter made public. I agree with you on the commission matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Lemuel E. Quigg, #100 Bway, N.Y. City. Nov. 27th, 1899. Douglas Robinson, Esq., 55 Liberty St., N.Y. City. Dear Douglas:-- I enclose letter and check from Sylvane for $367. Will you attend to this and send out the check and bill of sale he wants? Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. S. M. Ferris, Medora, North Dakota. My dear Sylvane:-- I have yours of the 20th inst enclosing check for $367. It is entirely satisfactory. You did exactly right about the ranch house. I will tell Mr. Robinson to send out the tax and the bill of sale. Will you ask Joe to send me to Oyster Bay, New York, my old saddle? As for Sorrel Joe, Muley, Wirefence and Spear Fish, I wish you or Joe would just keep them and use them. They are old now and I hate to sell them just to be knocked about and ridden to death. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Sylvane and also to Mrs. Joe and the children. I am getting on well here, but I never get any exercise and it is work and worry all the time. How I wish I could come out and take the boys for a hunt! But I do not see any prospect of it for a year or two, at any rate. My children are all in fine health. Always your friend, Theodore Roosevelt 308ours, and though this was an exaggeration, it had in it an element of truth. At Santiago the ccourage of our enlisted men and the good conduct of the junior officers could not be surpassed, but after what I saw of the higher officers, and the utter breakdown in administration, I am most heartily thankful that we did not have against us so formidable an enemy as General White has encountered at Ladysmith. In great haste, Ever faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Baron H. S. von Sternburg, C/o German Embassy, Washington, D.C. Nov. 27th, 1899. My dear Speck:-- I have just received yours of the 3rd on my return to Albany after several days absence. I send this to the German Embassy at Washington as you say you will be there so soon. I am perfectly delighted that you are to be on this side. We are not in the country this year, so I do not suppose you would care to come to us for Christmas; but we would be delighted to have you if you could come up here to Albany. What you say about the Kaiser is most interesting. He is far and away the greatest crowned head of the present day. He is a Monarch--a King indeed as well as in name, which some other Kings are not. He is a fit successor to the Ottos, the Henrys, and the Fredericks of the past. I take just the view you do of the Boer war. I have great sympathy for the Boers and great respect and liking for them, but I think they are battling on the wrong side in the fight of civilization and will have to go under. I have not been a bit surprised at the English defeats. You had told me wha you thought of their practical military knowledge of the present day, and in reading of their Indian campaigns by their own best critics, I had been struck by the fact that they nearly encountered disaster again and again under circumstances which would have meant, if pitted against a formidable foe, just exactly the disasters that actually happened. Their victories seem to me to have been won by their disciplined courage, their numbers, and perhaps their artillery, in spite of the superior individual fighting, and for the matter of that, fighting as a whole, of the Boer riflemen. I had been told, moreover, that their military organization was only a little better thanNov. 27th, 1899. My dear Countess de Goetzen:-- Your letter of the 22nd inst has just been received by me on my return to Albany. I wish I could help you. You know how much I think of your husband; but I am sorry to say it is absolutely out of my power to render any assistance to you in the matter mentioned. There were very many who served with me before Santiago who since have been applicants for positions in the army and navy, and scores of them have asked for my endorsement. Scores of others also whom I do not know have also asked for it. I have been obliged to make an invariable rule that under no circumstances while my own comrades are applicants for those positions will I endorse any man whom I did not personally see in service. If I broke it in one case I should have to break it in hundreds of others. I am very sorry. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt La Comtesse de Goetzen, C/o Mrs. Wm. A. Hammond, Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. Nov. 27th, 1899. Darling Rye:-- That was a very sweet note of the Secretary's, and I appreciate it, and still more, your letter. I agree exactly with what you say about Dewey. His action was unwise, and indeed, foolish. But I do not think it called for any public comment, and it counts as nothing compared with the debt we owe him for what he has done. I felt that the clamor about it was worse than undignified. I wish I could meet young Booth. He must be a fine fellow. Give my love to Will. How I wish I could see you both! I have just got a glimpse of Corinne and Douglas at dinner last night. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. W. S. Cowles, 1733 N. St., Washington, D.C. [*311*] November 27th, 1899. My dear Admiral Dewey:-- Is there any chance of Mrs. Dewey and yourself passing through Albany this winter? If so you must surely stop over and be our guest at the Executive Mansion. Pray present the warmest regards of Mrs. Roosevelt and myself to Mrs. Dewey, and remember that in all the United States, though every good American must feel that he is forever your debtor, yet that you have no warmer friend than Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Admiral George Dewey, Washington, D.C. Nov. 27th, 1899. Dear Austin:-- God may or may not dispose, but the devil does. I simply cant come to you. I wish I could, but my trip toHarvard and to Yale has exhausted every bit of spare time I shall have. I cannot get off as I had hoped with Grant LaFarge for a week in the woods. I cannot get off even to see you. Wont you at any rate spend a night or two with us here whenever you are passing through Albany? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mr. W. A. Wadsworth, Geneseo, N.Y.Nov. 27th, 1899. Hon. Walter Lloyd Smith, Elmira, N.Y. My dear Judge Smith:-- Judge Martin has just been in to see me to explain to me exactly what it was he and you had gone over together. I did not quite understand from your letter what it was he had said. He explains that he feels you should have the first vacancy in the Third Appellate Division; that he should not feel justified in backing you for the Court of Appeals; and that he knows you did not so understand his conversation. With great regards, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899 Dear Leonard,-- I am very much pleased with your photograph, and, of course, with the inscription. I have had it framed and hung in the Executive Mansion where I hope you will see it if you are able to visit me while you are now in the United States. Of course, come any time you wish. I have been utterly at a loss to know what you desire about this Civil Governorship and so have not done anything to alter the recommendations of Wolcott and Lodge for you for Brigadier General in the Regular Army. You now stand so completely alone, and your own reputation is so unique before the public, that I do not suppose you need any aid whatever from me. If you do, you have simply got to point out the direction in which you think I could be of use. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Maj. Genl. Leonard Wood, U. S. V., Governor, Santiago, Cuba. 312 313 Nov. 27th, 1899. Hon. T. C. Platt, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- A week from Saturday remember you are to take breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave with Ben. Odell. Shall we have the breakfast at eight? I shall have much to talk over with you. I confess I am very seriously disturbed at the protest against the State Constabulary bill. I fear that even if the Senators could be gotten to vote for it, that the general opinion among persons not immediately connected with politics is so strong against the bill, that it will be a dangerous thing to disregard their views. I could not say how many letters I receive protesting against the bill being as they term it "jammed through", when there is no demand for it. Perhaps if besides meeting the Senators we could have an interview with 20 or 30 prominent New York republicans-- Weth Low, Charles Stewart Smith and men of that type, who are not actually connected with politics-- we might get a better feeling about it. But I hope you will not definitely commit yoursel to any policy until I have a chance to see you. I have not said a word about it, as you have doubtless seen, but I am industriously collecting all the facts I can in private to lay before you. By the way, I find that Charles Stewart Smith and the rest of them insist that Quigg definitely promised that there should be a commission on the charter amendments, and are very indignant at what they think is a failure to keep the promise. They insist that it was incorporated in the Republican County platform, but I do not know whether this is true or not, because I have not a copy of the platform at hand. Undoubtedly, however, they were told in effect that they should have their commission. Here again I wish you would wait until I see you before definitely making up your mind as to any policy. I have already seen Judge Martin and will see him again about the Judge business, and will have all that to lay before you when we come together. With warm regards to Mrs. Platt, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt The opinion against the constabulary bill, among the men whose opinion deserves careful consideration men though tough they are not in active political life, seems to be practically unanimous against the bill.213 Nov. 27th, 1899. Hon. T. C. Platt, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- A week from Saturday remember you are to take breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave with Ben.Odell. Shall we have the breakfast at eight? I shall have much to talk over with you. I confess I am very seriously disturbed at the protest against the State Constabulary bill. I fear that even if the Senators could be gotten to vote for it, that the general opinion among persons not immediately connected with politics is so strong against the bill, that it will be a dangerous thing to disregard their views. I could not say how many letters I receive protesting against the bill being as they term it "jammed through", when there is no demand for it. Perhaps if besides meeting the Senators we could have an interview with 20 or 30 prominent New York republicans-- Seth Low, Charles Stewart Smith and men of that type, who are not [*closely*] connected with politics-- we might get a better feeling about it. But I hope you will not definitely commit yourself to any policy until I have a chance to see you. I have not said a word about it, as you have doubtless seen, but I am industriously collecting all the facts I can in private to lay before you. By the way, I find that Charles Stewart Smith and the rest of them insist that Quigg definitely promised that there should be a commission on the charter amendments, and are very indignant at what they think is a failure to keep the promise. They insist that it was incorporated in the Republican County platform, but I do not know whether this is true or not, because I have not a copy of the platform at hand. Undoubtedly, however, they were told in effect that they should have their commission. Here again I wish you would wait until I see you before definitely making up your mind as to any policy. I have already seen Judge Martin and will see him again about the Judge business, and will have all that to lay before you when we come together. With warm regards to Mrs. Platt, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt The opinion against the Constabulary bill, among the men whose opinion demands careful consideration even though [though] they are not in active political life, seems to be practically unanimous against the bill. 314 Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. John Barrett, The Waldorf Astoria, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Barrett:-- I have yours of the 26th. You are more than thoughtful. I have just telegraphed you toknow if you can come for Friday night. On Thursday I find that Mrs. Roosevelt had planned for going off for an expedition into the country. Heartily thanking you for your consideration, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Dr. Alex Lambert, 125 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Alex:-- I promptly wrote the letter you requested for McIl- henny. I am afraid I cannot get down to the Boone-Crockett dinner this year. I shall have to be up here pretty steadily. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*315*] November 27, 1899 Messrs. G. P. Putnam Sons, 27 West 23rd St New York City. Gentlemen: The English Historian Lecky has just gotten out a book of essays that are said to be very good. Will you send it to me? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. Felix Simon, 235 E. 80th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Simon:-- I have yours of the 21st on my return to Albany. The practical way to go about that is to call at once upon Mr. Odell. I wish you would consult him about the naming of the league and the position in the legislature. Call upon him at once. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 316 Nov. 27th 1899. Hon. William E. Werner, Justice Supreme Court, Court House, Chambers St., N.Y. City. My dear Judge:-- Replying to your note of the 23rd, I am sorry to have missed you when you called at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. When can you come up here and see me? Any time this week or the fore part of next week it will be a great pleasure for me to see you. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Hon. Elon R. Brown, Watertown, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I would like very much to see you not later than the early part of next week, if you can be in Albany without inconvenience. Let me know what day you can come. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltNov. 27th, 1899. Messrs Tiffany & Co., Jewellers, N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Can you have that watch sent to me here at the Executive Chamber, Albany, so that I may receive it on Wednesday the 29th inst, if possible, as the department will be closed on Thursday(Thanksgiving). Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Messrs Charles Scribners Sons, 155 Fifth Ave, N.Y. City, Gentlemen:-- Please send me to the Executive Chamber, Albany, two(2) copies of my Rough Riders, and oblige, Yours very truly, Theodore Roosevelt318 Nov. 27th, 1899. Clinton H. Smith, Esq. Arsenal, Central Park, N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 24th inst, Will you come here next Monday Dec. 4th at 12 oclock? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. Louis Stern, #993 Fifth Ave. N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Stern:-- Replyingto yours of the 23rd inst, would say that it will give me the greatest pleasure to dine with you at your house Saturday evening, Dec. 9th. You are more than kind. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt319 Nov. 27th, 1899. Hon. John Williams, Factory Inspector, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Williams:-- I have your very kind invitation of the 27th inst to attend the annual festival of the Cambrians Society of Utica Jany. 1st, and am extremely sorry, but on New Years day we have a reception at the Executive Mansion, so that it is impossible for me to leave Albany. With real regret, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. F. G. Fincke, Esq., 30 Genesee St., Utica, N.Y. Dear Fred:-- Replying to yours of the 25th inst, Come here and lunch with me Wednesday the 29th at one oclock. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*320*] Nov. 27th, 1899. Austen G. Fox, Esq., 45 Wzll St., N.Y. City. My dear Fox:-- It will be very difficult for me to get down town, but I am very anxious to see you, Macfarlane, Greene & Co. Now cant you come in and breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., New York, any time you say on Friday the 8th of December? If you can, then let me know at once by wire, and I will write Greene, McFarlane and whomever elese you say. I shall have the canal portion of my message before you at that time. I want you and MacFarlane to go over it carefully as to what I say about both Aldridge and Adams and be entirely free in your comments. I now want to make up the record of the case and to show what has been done beyond the possibility of honest criticism. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Rev. T. R. Slicer, 27 W. 76th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Slicer:-- I have yours of the 22nd. That investigation will go on at once, and it will be thorough. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt321 Nov. 27th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- I have your note of the 26th. Weeks will be an admirable man. Press him, by all means. If you have the time, will you during this week draw out for me a couple of paragraphs about education? I had intended to wait until I saw what the educational committee was going to report, but if you will give me a skeleton draft advance, it may help me much. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. Hubert Cillis, 20 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Cillis:-- How late could I go to the Arion and Liederkranz? I am going to review the 22nd regiment on Dec. 7th. If I were able to take the Arion and Liederkranz in after the review I should very much like to. I want to discuss insurance matters with you. Could I lunch with you somewhere down town on Friday the 8th? Would it be agreeable to you to have Mr. Goepel there at the same time? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt322 Nov. 27th, 1899. Mr. Paul Goepel, #290 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Goepel:-- How late could I go to the Arion and Liederkranz? I am going to review the 22nd regiment on Thursday Dec. 7th. If I were able to take the Arion and Liederkranz in after the review I should very much like to. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. George McAneny: 54 William St., N.Y. City. My dear McAneny:-- Replying to yours of the 23rd inst which I have just received on my return here, Will the enclosed note do? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt323 Nov. 28th, 1899. My dear General Henderson:-- This is to introduce to you Mr. George McAneny of the New York Civil Service Reform Association. He has been a good friend of ours. He wants to urge upon you to put really good civil service reform men on the civil service committee, especially in the chairmanship. I earnestly hope you can see your way clear to do this. It would help us more than you would believe here in the East. Do try to do it! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Genl. D. B. Henderson, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Nov. 28th, 1899. Capt. T. Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker St., N.Y. City. My dear Captain Goddard:-- I have yours of the 27th. Can you come up here to lunch either next Saturday or next Monday? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt324 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. George V. S. Michaelis, 123 Oxford St., Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Michaelis:-- I have yours of the 23rd inst which I have just received on my return to Albany. If I still had my ranch most certainly your brother should go there, though I have only a dim remembrance of our meeting: but unfortunately I have disposed of my ranch, and have not been out there for four years. It is a great disappointment to me to have to write you this. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Evert J. Wendell, Saint Nicholas Society, 1286 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Evert:-- I have yours of the 26th. I do not know whether I shall be able to go as I have already made other engagements for the sixth. Still if I can I certainly will. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt325 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Anthony Fiala, Troop C., N.G. S. N. Y., My dear Mr. Fiala:-- I thank you very much for your book, and shall enjoy reading it greatly. It was exceedingly kind of you to have thought of me. I have always regretted that I could not have had the New York squadron with my regiment down in Cuba. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. N. Curtis Lenihen, 124 E. 128th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Lenihen:-- The picture has been received and I thank you heartily for it. Please convey my regards to Mrs. Lenihen, and believe me Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 326 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Lewis L. Welch, Yale Alumni Weekly, New Haven, Conn. My dear Mr. Welch:-- I have yours of the 22nd inst with enclosed check. I had no idea of your paying my expenses at all, and the $30. cover them. It was a very real and great pleasure to be with you, and I thank you for giving me the chance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Walter E. Gardner, Editor, The Post Standard Co., Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Mr. Gardner:-- I have read and re-read not only your letter but your editorial. The situation in Syracuse has given me grave concern. Are you ever in Albany? Could I have a chance to see you? With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt327 Nov. 28th, 1899. Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, Sangerfield, N.Y. My dear Colonel:-- I have just received your note of the 25th. Can you lunch here Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday or next week? Let me know what day you will come. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Gehl. W. Christopher Liller, Lancaster, Pa. My dear General:-- I appreciate very much your courtesy, but I confess that at the moment I do not see how I can go into anything new that is going to need my time. Has Admiral Dewey accepted? Who will have the active running of the Association? I simply cannot assume any more work at present. You do not know how pressed I am. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt328 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Clarence W. Bowen, The Independent, 130 Fulton St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bowen:-- Replying to yours of the 23rd isnt, I think I can give you that article before Dec. 11th. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th,1899. Mr. Henry Lee Prescott, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Prescott:-- I have yours of the 21st. You know Reed and I have been entirely out on all national political questions for the past two years, so I fear I cannot help you. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt329 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Benj. R. curtis, Harvard Club, 27 W. 44th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Curtis:-- I have your note of the 22nd. If only I can be of assistance to you I shall be delighted. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899 Rev. James Dobbin, D.D., Faribault, Minn. My dear sir:-- Yours of the 18th inst has just been received by me after an absence of several days. Young Meagher was in my regiment and did well. I thought extremely well of him. I wish I could help him myself, but such an infinity of claims are made upon me that it is a simply physical impossibility for me to honor one-tenth of them. I have to reserve for my assistance the cases that are really serious. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt330 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mrs. Theodore W. Birney, 1182 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Birney:-- Replying to yours of the 20th inst which I have just received after an absence of several days from Albany, permit me to say that I do not think it is probably I can meet with you. I have not been able to devote any time to more than one meeting of any institution this year, and you know that when I consented to go on the Advisory Council, I told you chance to do any work while Governor was small and that I must take the position with that distinct understanding. If I can see you I gladly will, but I doubt if I have the chance now as I am overwhelmed with work. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Columbus O. Johnson, Esq., 30 Broad St., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 22nd inst would say that I am very sorry, but I could not give such a letter to Col.Astor. It would not be right for me to do so. I have literally hundreds of such applications. With regret that I am unable to oblige you, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt331 Nov. 28th, 1899. Edward B.Moor, Esq., 873 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 22nd inst, and am very sorry that I cannot advise you, but I know nothing about the ranches now. It has been several years since I have been out there. No one could earn a dollar on a ranch unless he knew the business, any more than he could as a bookeeper if he did not know that business. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. [*Capt*] C. H. Davis, U. S. Naval Observatory, Georgetown Heights, Washington, D.C. My dear Davis:-- I have just received yours of the 17th, having been off for a week. I am very much afraid that interference from me would do more harm than good. I will do whatever Cabot thinks wise. I do not want to hamper him by acting unless he deems it best. I take exactly your view about the Schley business. Of course, I will try to help Jewell. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt332 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Charles H. Bingham, Cleveland, Ohio. My dear Mr. Bingham:-- I have just received the book of Perry's Hunting Trips and am immensely interested in them. That is a fine picture of Perry with the Elk antlers in the frontispiece. If you wont think I am looking a gift horse in in the mouth, wont you permit me to suggest, if you ever(as I hope you will) print the book for public circulation, that you change some of the illustrations. On page 5 that is a fallow buck, a European deer. On page 16 the hedge hog is a European hedge hog. The American hedge hog of which Perry speaks is the porcupine. It is such a good book that I wish on the outside cover there was either one of our buck heads or elk heads, and not a European stag head. I am as you know an enthusiastic devotee of American hunting, and I am very proud that a book like this is published-- so proud that I want to see it absolutely perfect. With great regard and many thanks, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt333 November 28, 1899. Mr. F. P. Dunne, (Mr. Dooley) C/o Harpers Weekly, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Dunne:- I regret to state that my family and intimate friends are delighted with your review of my book. Now I think you owe me one; and I shall exact that when you next come east you pay me a visit. I have long wanted the chance of making your acquaintance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Dean Sage, Menands, N.Y. My dear Mr. Sage:-- You have done me two real favors: In the first place, in sending me the South African Hunting book, which I greatly like, and for which I heartily thank you; and in the next, for getting me Perry's book. I am very much pleased with it, but I do wish to Heaven that the pictures had some of them been better chosen! The publisher has put in the picture of a fallow buck, a European hedge hog, and on the outside cover, the head of a European stag. Why could he not have put in the heads of American game? Do you think he would be hurt if I pointed this out? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt333 November 28, 1899. Mr. F. P. Dunne, (Mr. Dooley) C/o Harpers Weekly, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Dunne:- I regret to state that my family and intimate friends are delighted with your review of my book. Now I think you owe me one; and I shall exact that when you next come east you pay me a visit. I have long wanted the chance of making your acquaintance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Dean Sage, Menands, N.Y. My dear Mr. Sage:-- You have done me two real favors: In the first place, in sending me the South African Hunting book, which I greatly like, and for which I heartily thank you; and in the next, for getting me Perry's book. I am very much pleased with it, but I do wish to Heaven that the pictures had some of them been better chosen! The publisher has put in the picture of a fallow buck, a European hedge hog, and on the outside cover, the head of a European stag. Why could he not have put in the heads of American game? Do you think he would be hurt if I pointed this out? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt334 November 28, 1899. Mr. M. Ezekiel, 247 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Ezekiel:- I have yours of the 3rd instant. You are more than kind. I have just been looking at the photographs of your statue, and it seems to me that it is the very finest thing of the kind that has yet been done in America. Now, my dear Sir, I deeply appreciate your request, but it would not do for me to accept. You should have a Kentuckian in any case, by preference the Governor, but in no circumstances should you have a Governor of an outside state. Even were I in private life, I would not regard it as advisable, but it certainly would not do, that I am Governor of New York. It would probably cause you great trouble, and it would case me great trouble. I am very sorry and I deeply appreciate your request. [*Can I not hope to see you here?*] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt335 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Curtis Guild, Jr., 124 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass. Dear Curtis:-- Replying to yours of the 25th, I wish I could come, but it is a simple impossibility. I cannot possibly leave the State now. I have got to prepare my annual message, and I have been away more than I ought to have been already. It has caused a little grumbling. I cannot go away again now. If I could go, I would go to your dinner, of course. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 28, 1899. Mr. T. St.John Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, New York, N. Y. My dear Gaffney:- I send you back the two volumes. They came just as I was finishing my chapter on the Irish War. Of course, I only go into it in outline, but I got one or two valuable hints though in the main the facts do not differ from those shown by Walpole and in Lecky's second volume. In as much as it was Lecky that made me a home-ruler, I have never been able to understand how he himself turned up on the other side. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt336 November 28, 1899. Mr. William P. Heyl, Dunkirk, N. Y. My dear Mr. Heyl:- The apples will appear on my Thanksgiving table, and I thank you for them; but I thank you very much more for the note that came with them. I can say in all sincerity that there is no one thing at this Thanksgiving time that pleases me as much. It is not an easy thing to be Governor, for there are so many conflicting interests, and it is necessary to be efficient and make things go, as well as to be straight. But I can say that to the best of my ability I have kept every pledge I have made, and that above all, I have insisted upon absolute and rigid honesty in every one under me. Whether I go out of politics for good and all next year or not, it is a keen satisfaction to me to feel that I have in good faith striven to go my best as a decent man should for the State, and it is a satisfaction only less keen to realize that men like yourself-- the men for whose opinion and good will I care most-- are satisfied with what I have done. Believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt337 Nov. 28th, 1899 Genl. S. S. Sumner, Military Atache, American Embassy, London, England. My dear General:-- I received yours of the 9th inst. I have only time for a line as I am up to my ears in work, but I must tell you how I appreciate your letter. I do not suppose that the people in Congress will pay any heed to the ?, but surely they ought to! I agree with every word you say about reorganization, especially in the matter of the staff. The Crimean lesson was learned by England, but it does not look as if we had learned the lesson of the Spanish-American war here. Present my warm regards to Mrs. Sumner. I am looking forward to seeing you again. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 28, 1899. Hon. James R. Sheffield, 120 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Sheffield:- I have yours of the 25th instant. I wish I could come, but it a simple physical impossibility. I could no more come than I could fly. I very much want to see you. What do you hear about the State Constabulary Bill? Is the outside independent Republican [*contingent*] for or against it? Write me absolutely frankly. You know that you are one of the men upon whom I depend. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 338 Nov. 28th, 1899. Rev. Peter MacQueen, Somerville, Mass. My dear Mr. MacQueen:-- I thank you very much for your book "Campaigning in the Philippines" and I anticipate reading it with much profit. I always remember with pleasure your association with the Rough Riders before Santiago, and I trust to have an opportunity of renewing my acquaintance with you soon. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Genl. Avery D. Andrews, Adjutant General, Albany, N.Y. My dear General:-- When it comes to the review of the regiments, I want it understood that I can accept no hospitality from the regiments, as I am so pressed for time that I will simply be able to do the review, meet the officers and leave. What time do I go and how long will it take in each case? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt339 Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. W. K. Post, C/o G. P. Putnam Sons, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Post:-- I am very much obliged to you for sending me a copy of your novel. As you know, I was extremely pleased with your Harvard stories, and I have no question but that I shall like the novel equally as well. By the way, did you ever see Flandr?'s Harvard Episodes? They were disagreeable but realistic, and undoubtedly gave a small corner of Harvard life. Whether it was worth giving is another question. Your brother is one of my standbys in the legislature. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt November 28, 1899. Prof. E. K. Rawson, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. My dear Prof. Rawson:- I have just received the two handsome volumes. I am genuinely looking forward to the chance to read them, and I know I shall greatly enjoy them. You are exceedingly kind to have thought of me. Sincerely yours, Theodore RooseveltNovember 28th, 1899. Rev. Father Sylvester Malone, St. Peter & St. Paul's Church, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Father Malone:-- I have reappointed Mr. Gallagher on the State Embalming Board in accordance with your request. I am more sorry than I can say, but I fear now that I have got to put off my speech at your library opening. I am in the midst of the preparation of my annual message, and in addition am overwhelmed with other work, and I find it a practical impossibility to get off. How long will the ceremonies take? Would it be possible for me to combine it with another engagement? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. My dear Governor Woodruff:-- I find that I cannot hold my review of the Brooklyn regiment yet for some time to come; so I wont be able to take in that dinner. I want you to understand just how it is. I should like nothing better than to go to a dinner of yours, but I have made an invariable rule that I would accept now nothing to which I was not already committed. I cannot make an extra special engagement, and I would not want to make any set speech; yet if I came to the dinner, unless I just dropped in, I could not avoid making the speech. I hope to see you soon in person. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Lt. Gov. T. L. Woodruff, Brooklyn, N.Y. 340 341 Nov. 28th, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Low:-- Replying to yours of the 24th inst, you are more than kind, but I am going to stay with my sister that night. How would Brayton Ives do as a a guest? Outside of that I leave everything to your discretion. I wish we could have men moderately interested in politics, however. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Thos. Sturgis, 42 E. 23rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Sturgis:-- Have you taken any steps to see if Sheffield or anyone else like him would serve? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt342 Nov. 28th, 1899. Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook, 3700 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Dr. McCook:-- I have yours of the 21st on my return to Albany after an absence of several days. You are more than kind. I am not perfectly certain about getting the addresses. You know, mine was a very wandering regiment, and the men have gone all around, but if you will write to Lr. Col. Alex. C. Brodie, of Phoenix, Arizona, the President of the Rough Riders Asso' you will get from him, if from anyone, what you desire. Permit me to thank you most cordially. I am delighted that there should be a chance of the kinsmen of the dead receiving your admirable book. For the 71st regiment, will you write to Col. Bates of that Regiment? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. Dwight S. Bobb, 28 Mellen St., Cambridge, Mass. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 20th inst on my return to Albany after several days absence. I wish I could give you the dvice you desire, but I do not know what to say. We need just such work as you desire to do, but unless I knew all about you, and about all the conditions around you, I could not advise you what course to follow, as regards making your own way in the world. It would be too heavy a responsibility. I hate not to give you the advice, for I am pleased at your writingme, and I admire the spirit with which you are facing life, but I should be afraid of telling you exactly in which direction was the best outlet for your energies. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt343 Nov. 28th, 1899. Provost Charles C. Harrison, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Provost Harrison:-- I have yours of the 24th inst on my return to Albany after an absence of several days. I hate to have to write you as I must, but I simply cannot leave the State now, or in the immediate future. I must devote all my attention to the preparation of my annual message and my other official duties. I have had to leave the State three or four times recently in consequence of engagement made about a year ago. I cannot leave again at present. I have more work on hand than I can do, and it is a simple physical impossibility to go into anything extra. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1899. Mr. H. E. Scudder, C/o Houghton, Miflin & Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. Scudder:-- Replying to yours of the 27th inst, I wish I could accept, but it is absolutely out of the question. I have not got a moment to myself and could not possibly engage in any new work. You do not know how run to death I am. I am awfully sorry not to be able to oblige you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt344 Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. E. H. Gallagher, 529 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 27th would say that of course I can only work for all, not for one particular battallion. That I have been trying hard to do. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Wallace MacFarlane, Esq., #32 Liberty St., N.Y. City. My dear MacFarlane:-- Messrs Fox, Witherbee and Greene are going to breakfast with me at DOuglas Robinson's #422 Madison Avenue, Friday Dec. 8th at 8.30. I earnestly hope you can be one of the party. I want to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt345 Nov. 29th, 1899. Austen G. Fox, Esq., #45 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Fox:-- Your telegram received. All right, I will have you and Greene, Witherbee and MacFarlane to breakfast at No. 422 Madison Ave at 8.30 Friday, Dec. 8th. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Genl. F. V. Greene, #11 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear General:-- Messrs, Fox, MacFarlane and Witherbee are going to breakfast with me at Douglas Robinson's #422 Madison Avenue, Friday Dec. 8th, at 8.30. I earnestly hope you can be one of the party. I want to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt346 Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. F. S. Witherbee, 56 Pine St., N.Y. City. My dear Witherbee:-- Messrs Fox, MacFarlane and Greene are going to breakfast with me at Douglas Robinson's #422 Madison Ave, Friday, Dec. 8th at 8.30. I earnestly hope you can be one of the party. I want to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt PRIVATE. Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. William Archer, C/o Chas. Scribners Sons, 155 Fifth Ave., N.Y. My dear Mr. Archer:-- I want to thank you for having sent me a copy of your book America Today. I have seen most of it already, so that I can say with a clear conscience that I shall greatly enjoy re-reading it. Two years ago this nation would have been frantic on behalf of the Boers. The genuine friendliness felt and displayed for England on [by] this side when it is [was] thought she is [was] in trouble, is I think in no small part owing to England's attitude during the Spanish- American war. Remember that I trust to see you if you ever come to this side again. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt347 Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. Marcus T. Hun, 25 No. Pearl St., Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hun:-- I have yours of the 28th in reference to Judge Herrick. What I said has been misrepresented. I had questioned the advisability of putting upon the court a judge who is also an active political leader. I do not like to see judges active political leaders, no matter how high an opinion I may have of them personally. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Hon. Nathaniel A. Elsberg, 50 E. 79th St., N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- Will you be in Albany the early part of next week? I should like to see you either Monday or Tuesday. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt348 Nov. 29th, 1899. Col. J. P. Fyffe, C/o The News, Chattanooga, Tenn. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 27th and greatly appreciate the honor conferred upon me by the Spanish American War Veterans Asso', but I have not yet determined whether my many duties will permit of my acceptance. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Paul Goepel, Esq., 290 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Goepel:-- If I were able to get around to the Liederkranz and Arion on the evening of Thursday the 7th, how would that suit you? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt349 Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. C. Douglas Bolles, 400 W. 20th St., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 27th, would say, that Whiskey Jack is one of the innumerable names given to the bird scientific men call the Canada Jay. At the American Museum you will find him under that title. I am glad you like the book. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. Arthur T. Vance, Editor, 99 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 28th, I regret to state that the pressure of official and other work make it absolutely impossible for me to undertake anything new. I simply cant. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt350 No. 29th, 1899 Rev. Charles H. Jones, 525 Orange St., Newark, N.J. My dear sir:-- i thank you for your letter of the 28th inst and genuinely appreciate it. I feel greatly honored by my election as Senior Vice Commander in Chief of the Spanish- American War Veterans Association, but have not yet determined whether my many duties will permit of my accepting. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt351 Nov. 29th, 1899 Mr. Lawrence Godkin, 56 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Godkin:-- I have yours of that 28th and thank you for the suggestion. It has, however been made to me before. It is a case of first catch the rabbit though. If it should become necessary to fill the place, I shall consider primarily getting a thoroughly good man. It is then a matter of political expediency whether the man is to be a democrat or a republican. there are arguments on both sides and I shall consider them most carefully. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899 Prof. J. W. Jenks, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. My dear Prof. Jenks:-- Can you come here next Monday morning, Dec. 4th, spending next Monday night with me? I want you to meet certain gentlemen of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the Senate and Assembly and consult with them about tax laws. I also want to consult you about that part of my annual message relating to taxation and trusts. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt352 Nov. 29th, 1899. Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Prof. Seligman:-- Can you come to Albany and lunch with me Monday, Dec. 4th, to meet certain gentlemen of the Joint Tax Committee of the Senate and Assembly, as I want to have them consult you about tax matters? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. Robert Bridges, 155 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Bridges:-- I thank you for the suggestion contained in yours of the 27th. I have included Gordon, Havelock, and still, more Lee were of a different type; personally I think of a higher type,-- but still different. I shall be in to see you at the end of next week. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I return the galley herewith.353 Nov. 29th, 1899 Mr. G. H. Putnam, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- Have you ever sent me a list of the pictures in my new volumes of the Winning of the West? When are they going to be out? Will you send me back the photograph you did not want? Mrs. Roosevelt has enjoyed so much seeing Mrs. Putnam, and we are perfectly delighted to know how happy you and Mrs. Putnam are-- as happy as you both deserve to be. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 29th, 1899 Mr. George Wilson, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Wilson:-- I take pleasure in re-enclosing the proof of my speech herewith. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure. P. S. Will you be good enough to send a copy of the corrected proof of the speech to Mr. Thos. Newcomb, Appointment Clerk, Executive Chamber?354 Nov. 29th, 1899 Hon. Walter Lloyd Smith, Justice, Supreme Court, Rochester, N.Y. My dear Judge:-- I have yours of the 28th. The fault was mine. When I received your letter I misunderstood it, and thought that Judge Martin had said on my behalf that you were to go on the Court of Appeals. Inasmuch as I had told Judge Martin that when the chance came I intended to make good to you the sacrifice I had exacted from you, I jumped to the conclusion that Judge Martin had interpreted this as meaning a promise which I did not see very well how I could avoid keeping. In consequence I saw him as soon as I could and wrote at once to you, so there should not be any misunderstanding in the matter. As I say, the fault was entirely mine. With great regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt355 Nov. 29th, 1899. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Clarke University, Worcester, Mass. My dear Dr. Clarke:-- I must write you to thank you for your sound common sense, decency and manliness in what you advocate for the education of children. Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact, washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail. I am particularly glad that you emphasize the probable selfishness of a milksop. My experience has been that weak and effeminate men are quite as apt to have undesirable qualities as strong and vigorous men. I thoroughly believe in cleanliness and decency, and I utterly disbelieve in brutality and cruelty, but I feel we cannot too strongly insist upon the need of the rough, manly virtues. A nation that cannot fight is not worth its salt no matter how cultivated and refined it may be, and the very fact that it can fight often obviates the necessity of fighting. It is just so with a boy. Moreover when it comes to discipline, I cordially agree with you as to the need of physical punishment. It is not necessary often to have recourse to it, but it is absolutely necessary that the child should realize that at need it will be resorted to. With my own children(who I think I can say, are devoted to me, and who are close and intimate friends) I invariably have to punish them once physically so as to make them thoroughly understand that I will unhesitatingly resort to such punishment if they make it necessary. After that by treating them with justice, which implies firmness as well as mercy, I hardly ever have to proceed to extremities again. Mrs. Roosevelt is as much pleased with what you say as I am. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt356 Nov. 29th, 1899. Mr. Caspar Whitney, C/o Harper & Bros., Franklin Sq., N.Y. City My dear Whitney:-- I have been perfectly dumbfounded at the correspondence you enclose with your letter of the 28th. A more absurd thing than putting Las Guasimas on the ring of the 71st I never heard of. I suppose it is some technical ruling of the absolutely astounding idiots at Washington, to the effect that all regiments who might have been called on are to be considered as taking part in the battle. It is possible that the 71st heard the firing, though I doubt it. They were certainly no where near the firing line at any time during the fighting. I greatly wish that some one would ask the War Department about this. I hesitate simply because I have been in such a muss with the 71st that I do not want to go into anything more unless it is necessary. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt P. S. I return the enclosures.357 Nov. 29th, 1899. Austen G. Fox, Esq., 45 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Fox:-- I send you herewith the draft of what I intend to say on the subject of the canals. I wish you and MacFarlane would go over it, especially in reference to what I say as to the kind of condemnation to be visited upon the former Superintendent of Public Works and State Engineer and Surveyor. I shall welcome any criticism and any suggestion in the way of addition or of elision. Faithfully yours, 358 [*Private*] Dec. 1st, 1899. My dear General Corbin:-- My attention has been called to the fact that the War Department permits the 71st Regiment to put Las Guasimas on its flag. May I ask what regiments are entitled to this? I ask simply from curiosity to know what construction the War Department gives to the right of putting a battle on a flag. Neither the 7st not any other infantry regiment, nor any cavalry regiment of General Sumner's division had anything whatever to do with the Las Guasimas fight, or was present at it, even constructively. As you know, one squadron of the First Cavalry, one of the Tenth and two squadrons of the First Volunteer Cavalry were the only troops that took part in the fight, and the last shot had been fired and the Spaniards had left the field before the first troop of the Ninth Cavalry arrived, the Ninth Cavalry being the first on the field besides those who took part in the fighting. Pray do not make this letter public. I only want to know for my own benefit as to what rules govern the department in treating regiments as present at an action. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Genl. H. C. Corbin, Adjutant General, War Department, Washington, D.C. Dec. 1st, 1899. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- I have yours of the 28th ult with enclosures which I return herewith. Judge McLennan is one of four candidates from the Fourth Department. He is an excellent man. I fear that the general opinion of the Bench and Bar, so far as I have been able to get it, hardly puts him abreast of at least two of his competitors. But I shall go all over the case again. I shall ask you not to state this to Judge Russell, but merely that I will go into the whole matter most carefully. I saw Judge Van Brunt two days ago. When are you apt to come to New York, if at all? It is often impossible for me to get down there, but if I knew in advance when you were coming, I should make every effort to meet you. There is much I continually want to consult you about. I wish I could get to the football game on Saturday, but I cannot. I fear I should have to yell impartially! Will you ask your clerk to hand the enclosed to General Corbin! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Elihue Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.359 PRIVATE. Dec. 1st, 1899. Hon. Lemuel E. Quigg, No. 100 ,Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Quigg:-- I thank you very much for yours of the 29th ult and for those extremely interesting papers of Van Duesen. I talked over the matter with Governor Wolcott. He says that the State police is admirable, but that the passage of the measure was undoubtedly one of the causes that contributed to Russell's election and re-election as a democratic Governor, though in Massachusetts the republican majority was so large that they could afford to lose a good many thousands of votes during the period that the act was making itself understood. It is not a bi-partisan commission,though there is minority representation. By the way, you may be interested to know that the ultra-civil service reformers of Maryland, headed by Charles L. Bonaparte ardently champion exactly the Massachusetts system for Baltimore, favoring a bill which in its essence is such a bill as ours of last year, only limited to one city and with a three headed commission. There is no question as to the abstract right and justice of the matter to my mind, but I am very gravely in doubt as to the political effect in this closely balanced State, until we can get into a position where instead of forcing the bill upon a reluctant public, we enact it as the fruit of the convictions of the best portion of the public. I will have to talk with you over the Vice Presidency. It is about the last office that I personally care for, but Senators Lodge, Chandler and others have been badgering me continually about it. My present feeling is that there is no justification for asking me to take it. But this is only for yourself. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt360 Dec. 1st, 1899 My dear Leonard:-- How long do you stay in the country? Is there any chance of my seeing you here? The enclosed letter from one of our old troopers explains itself. By the way, a number of our Patriotic League people are very anxious that Mr. Wilson L. Gill, the President of that League, should have a chance to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Brig. Genl. Leonard Wood, U. S. V., C/o War Dept., Washington, D.C. Dec. 1st, 1899. Rev. T. R. Slicer, #27 W. 76th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Slicer:-- I have yours of the 28th ult. I will gladly drop the line to Wood that you suggest about Gill, but as I have to write to Wood continually, he will pay more attention to a letter coming from some new man. If, for instance, you could get Bishop Potter, President Low, President Eliot or President Hadley to write a line, that would be the best course to take. I think that some of your Brooklyn City Club men should send a statement to the Brooklyn Eagle which is behaving with scoundrelry dishonesty in the Gardiner matter. That paper accuses me with being in collusion with the City Club by having a secret conference with them. The letter should state emphatically the facts, viz: That the Attorney General and I came to meet your Committee to see whether or not you had sufficient facts to warrant our going on with the investigation. We followed precisely the course followed in reference to the Republican Chatauqua County Treasurer, where I had the accusers at my house and went over the proof to see whether I was warranted in going on with the charges. In this case, as a matter of convenience I saw your Committee in New York instead of Albany. That Tammany should try these tactics of attempting to show collusion is not wonderful, but that any semi-reputable man should endorse them is an infamy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt361 Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. A. P. Wright, C/o Genl. Leonard Wood, Santiago, Cuba. My dear Wright:-- I have yours of the 21st ult and it is the greatest pleasure to have heard from you. You are one of the men of the regiment whose career I follow with peculiar interest. I wish I could have been with you at the Guasimas visit. I suppose there is no chance of my getting to Santiago for some time. I hope to see General Wood here. Remember me to all my comrades,-- to Messrs McMasters, Davis, Gutilius, Johnson, Nicholson, Langford, Nevill and Maxey, and with warm regards to yourself, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt PRIVATE. Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. R. C. W. Wadsworth, Yale Club, 17 Madison Sq., North N. Y. City. My dear Mr. Wadsworth:-- Many thanks for your note of the 30th ult. As to those two reports, remember that one is a report of what I said, and the other, a report of what somebody who knows nothing whatever about me, says I will do! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt.362 Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, 7 Beekman St., N.Y. City. Dear Grant:-- Replying to yours of the 29th ult, Unquestionably Mr. Kernan is entirely disinterested, and I was favroably [sic] impressed by his guides. They strike me as a good crowd. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. Hubert Cillis, 20 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Cillis:-- Many thank for yours of the 29th. All right, I wont [sic] visit the Arion or Liederkranz on the evening of the 7th. Will you let me know at what hour I shall meet you for lunch on Friday? Shall I go direct to the Hardware Club? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt363 Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. E. deL. Slevin, Orange, N.J. My dear Mr. Slevin:-- I have yours of the 27th and I wrote to General Wood at once, enclosing your letter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. Warren E. Crockett, Marietta, Ga. My dear Mr. Crockett:-- I send you the enclosed letter which may be of interest to you. When you are through with it, return it to this office for file. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure364 Dec. 1st, 1899. Arthur F. Crosby, 62 William St., N.Y. City. My dear Cosby:-- Replying to yours of the 29th ult,, could you get the men together for Thursday Dec. 7th next? I am afraid there is not another evening that I would have, and I may have to go away during that. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. Clifton George, Cor. Secy., Oklohoma [sic] City, O. T. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 27th ult, I send you my photograph, and suggest that you write to Chas. Scribners Sons, 155 Fifth Ave N.Y. City, enclosing this letter of mine, asking permission to reproduce some of their pictures. I hope that ever [sic] effort will be made to get the Kansas and Nebraska regiments to come to Oklahoma and have a triple reunion at that time. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt365 Dec. 1st, 1899. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 16 Thomas St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Travers:-- I have yours of the 29th with enclosed clipping. That is splendid. I hope the Lieutenant gets his reward. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 2nd, 1899. Messrs Brooks Bros., 22nd St. & Bway, N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- That shirt was all right. Send me up eleven more like it. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt366 Dec. 2nd, 1899. My dear Judge Adams:-- I thank you for yours of the 30th ult. I am sure that you feel from my past course that all I am anxious to do is to get what is best for the court, and I shall be deeply obliged if you and your associates will tell me what you think I ought to do in the matter. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Honorable Wm. H. Adams, Rochester, N.Y. Dec. 2nd, 1899. My dear General Hale:-- Replying to yours of the 28th-- I have not accepted the Senior Vice Commandership, and have been in great doubt whether I ought to accept or not. I want to see a war veterans association, but I want to be sure that it is the right war veterans association. I have not the time to devote to it myself. Any association of which you, or somebody like you, were chosen to take charge, I would join at once, but I do not know anything about the people joining this association. You are very good to have written me. If you ever come here to New York State, pray give me the chance to see you! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Brig. Genl. Irving Hale, Denver, Colo.367 Dec. 2nd, 1899. Rev. William H. Tole, 125 East 105th St., N.Y. City. My dear Father Tole-- Your letter of the 27th just received. My advice to you would that you write direct to Secretary Root, enclosing this letter of mine, and perhaps a line form Mr. Odell to identify you. The War Department alone can give you the information you desire. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 2nd, 1899. Mr. Michael Kelly, 42 Park Row, N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 29th ult, The last information I had of McMasters was that he was in Santiago, Cuba. You can address him care of A. P. Wright, Santiago, Cuba. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt368 Dec. 2nd, 1899. Rev. Endicott Peabody, Croton, Mass. Dear Cotty:-- I have been anxious for Ted. to enter the second form at Groton next year, as he will be thirteen, but I doubt if he will know enough Latin by spring. Is it permitted for him to pass in the fall instead of the spring? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 2nd, 1899. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 1st inst. On Saturday at eight oclock [sic] I will break- fast with you at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. I have sent your son's letter to Judge Martin and asked him to give me his views about it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Senator T. C. Platt, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City.369 Dec. 2nd, 1899. My dear Judge Martin:-- The enclosed letter from Mr. Frank E. Platt explains itself. Will you give my your views about it? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Hon. Celora E. Martin, Judge, Court of Appeals, Albany, N.Y. Dec. 2nd, 199. Paul Goepel, ESq. 2350 Seventh Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Goepel:-- I have yours of the 1st. Mr. Cillis advised so strongly against Thursday evening for the Liederkranz and Arion that I told him I would give it up, but I wish very much that we could go, if possible, as I do not know when I will be down in New York again with and evening free. I will meet you at lunch on Friday at the Hardware Club as you suggest. Meanwhile I am in your hands for Thursday evening, and if you think it feasible I should much like to go around to the two clubs that evening. I think your suggestion excellent about having some of our friends meet us there. But the main thing is I want to see you yourself, and see Mr. Cillis. I am so sorry you have been sick. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt370 Dec. 2nd, 1899. My dear Mrs. Storer:-- Of all the correspondents we have, there is no one who in any way comes up to you. Your letters are so delightful that we keep every one, and we only regret that they are not of a character which warrants our reading them to any save the most discreet friends, and not always to those. Will Taft is a very fine fellow. I wish there was someone like him here in New York, for I am very much alone. I have no real community of principle or feeling with the machine. so far I have gotten along very well with them, but I never can tell when they will cut my throat and the very success which they gained through me, makes them feel all the more able and willing to ride over me. The things that I am interested in are matters I think will benefit the State, such as the taxation of franchises, getting an absolutely square judiciary, trying to secure the proper administration of the Forestry Department &c., &c. None of these things really interest the machine in the least. They tolerate my being for them so long as they do not seem to interfere with carrying elections and primaries. But the machine itself cares for very different things. Where I can I help them to get these things, but when what they want is in my judgment noxious to the people, I cannot help them, and in fact am obligated [naturally] to oppose them. In consequence I never can tell when I shall be forced into a break. On the other hand, the irrational independents and the malignant make-believe independents of the New York Nation type are much worse than any machine men I have ever been brought into contact. Senator Platt has so far treated me very squarely, and has taken with good humor sharp differences of opinion where I had feared we would have open breaks. He is as far above Godkin, and Godkin's successor, Bishop, as light is above night, for Godkin and Bishop and the shoals of other s like them are deliberately and maliciously untruthful and are utterly untrustworthy. The are not so very much better than Corker. I do not like a thief, but neither do I like a liar and slanderer. In point of morals there is a difference between them just as there is a difference between arson and homicide; but the difference is far less important than that between either [of them] and uprightness and honest dealing. Of course, Bellamy ought to be made an Ambassador. It is disagreeable work in Spain, but I cannot help feeling that it will pave the way for say the Ambassadorship to France. For Heaven's sake, do not get it into your head that I have a political future! Every man who does anything is always spoken of as a man with a future. If I am lucky I [will] have another two years as Governor here in New York, but I think the chances are against even that. If I am not lucky I shall [will] be thrown out next fall. The only job which I think should really like to do is not a job I shall be offered, viz: the Governor Generalship of the Philippines with a freehand. That would be worth while undertaking, but it would not be pleasant, for I should have to cut myself off from my family. Today (Dec. 2nd) is the 13th anniversary of our wedding, and so I gave Edith a really beautiful little watch. This year we are prosperous, and as it is the first time I have ever been so situated [so] that I really could give her a handsome present she would like, I took advantage of it. She is looking very well and is in even better health than last winter. Ted. is stiff today, the result of playing tackle in a football match yesterday, in which, as he remarked to me, "there was a good deal of slugging", and as he was the smallest and lightest boy on either eleven, he got his fair share of the knocks. Kermit is so chivalrous and tender and protective towards [of] his mother that you would [will] be pleased to see it.371 Ethel is a real little mother. Archie and Quentin are as cunning as they can be, though they as yet do not know any more than the innumerable Guinea pigs which the little boys are at present breeding in the cellar. With warm regards to Bellamy, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Bellamy Storer, American Legation, Madrid, Spain.372 December 2, 1899. Mrs. C. G. Ayres, 17 E. 41st St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Ayres:- Shall I keep that record or send it to you? You ought to have it, and you ought to have some one put it before Secretary Root. I am greatly interested in your husband and am inclined to think that the letter I wrote for him was stronger than that I wrote for anyone else for whom I made a similar request. At any rate, it was about as strong as I could put it; and I do not write what I do not mean. I am amused at what you tell me about the Medal of Honor. Give my warm regards to your husband. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt December 2, 1899. Darling Corinne:- On Saturday I find Senator Platt wants me to breakfast with him at the Fifth Avenue. On Friday at half past eight, General Greene Mr. F. S. Witherbee, Mr. Fox and Mr. Macfarlane will give you the unexpected pleasure of breakfasting with you. If this all right? Edith was delighted with her watch. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt373 December 2, 1899. My dear Major:- I take pleasure in sending you the certificate and will be glad to see you at any time. I fear the State cannot purchase Mausers, but that I can go over with you later. With kind regards, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Major M. S. Schiemangk, in Staupitz, bei Finsterwalde, N/L Germany. December 2, 1899. I hereby certify that I know Major M. S. Schiemangk and have know him for nearly two years, at the time when he was raising a regiment to be used if the need arose, in the Spanish-American War, and later. In all his dealings with me, he has shown himself to be honest and faithful to his adopted country. Theodore Roosevelt374 December 2, 1899. Mr. H. Loewenthal, Managing Editor, N.Y. Times, New York City, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I have yours of the 29th ultimo and am exceedingly sorry, but it is absolutely out of the question for me to do as you request. I am simply burried [sic] in work just at present., and will be for some time to come. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 2, 1899. Miss Katherine Roberts, The Marlborough, 358 W. 58th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Miss Roberts:- I have yours of recent date and hate to have to answer you as I must. I do not want to give an interview of any kind or sort at present. I do not like to give interviews and there is nothing I particularly care to say now. Regretting that I cannot oblige you in the matter, I am Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt375 December 2, 1899. Mr. Carl Holtzschue, Oklahoma City, Okla Terr. My dear Sergeant:- Replying to yours of the 28th ultimo. Of course I will write for you at once. I do not know whether I can accomplish any- thing but I will most gladly try. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 2, 1899. Mr. Adolphus Lewis, New Zealand Bldg., B'way & 37th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Replying to yours of the 1st instant, I thank you very much for your courtesy, but I am afraid I would hardly use the machine you suggest. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt376 December 3, 1899. Mr. B.F. Cronkrite, Room 426, 62 B'way New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Cronkrite:-- Replying to yours of the 30th ultimo, if you can call at #422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City, at 6 o'clock Friday afternoon December 8th, I will with pleasure see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 2, 1899. Mrs. Teresa Clearwater, Brownsville, Texas My dear Madam:-- Replying to yours of the 26th ultimo, I have gladly written at once to the Commissioner of Pensions and will do all I can to aid you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt377 December 2, 1899. Hon. H. Clay Evans, Pension Commissioner, Washington, D. C. My dear General Evans:- The enclosed letter explains itself. It is from the mother of one of my troopers, Frank Clearwater. Is there any way in which I can help the poor young fellow's mother to get her pension? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 2, 1899. Hon. H. Clay Evans, Pension Commisisoner, Washington, D. C. My dear General Evans:- The enclosed letter from Carl Holtzschue, formerly sergeant of Troop A of my regiment, explains itself. He is suffering and in want. Can you tell me if there is any chance for a pension for him? Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltDecember 2, 1899. Hon. H.C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Dear Cabot:- To-day I gave Edith the little blue watch and she was perfectly delighted with it. I have never seen her like a present so much. She was immensly [amused from?] that, I had chosen you as my companion in the purchase intead of Anna or Corinne. She is perfectly well as are all the children. I wish to Heaven I could see you and talk with you, for I have had very ugly times here politically recently! What an admirable report Root has made. He was a genuine God-send to the administration. Give my warm love to Nannie. Always yours, T.R. December 2, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Sec'y. of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:- After reading your report, I feel I must write and thank you. It does look as if at last light was breaking for the army now that you have charge of it! [I'm looking up all slower judge me lessons?.] Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 378379 December 2, 1899. Hon. John D. Long, Sec'y. of Navy, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-I think it was too kind of you to remember Ted. The guinea pig which you gave him still exists in peace and comfort under the name of Admiral Dewey, and is the grandfather or great grandfather of a great many other guinea pigs. How is Pierce? Does he play football? Ted does and is much the worse for wear to-day in consequence. But he is in good health now, as are all my family. Mrs. Roosevelt and I are genuinely concerned to hear about Miss Helen. We hope she will find the southwest as good for her as it has proved for so many others. In moments when things seem to get in very much of a tangle here, I feel positively homesick for you. With you I was always certain of dealing with a man whose single purpose was to do the best that could be done with the public service. Now I have to take into account a multitude of little mean motives, and of some desires that are worse than being merely mean, and to reckon with the folly of men who arrogate to themselves [the title of] a peculiar virtue; and to deal with the very many others with whom it is useless to talk from any but a rather low standpoint, because they not merely disbelieve in but do not understand any reference to things high. Still, all I can do I am doing, and on the whole so far things have gone fairly well. Heaven keep you ever. Always yours, Theodore RooseveltDec. 4th, 1899. Mr. John A. Butler, 2238 7th Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Butler:-- I have yours of the 3rd inst and will write at once to Mr. Croft and find out if that can be done. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1899. Hon. B.B. Odell, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have yours of the 1st inst in reference to the case of James Brazee, Inspector of Grade Crossings, R.R. Com., and of course, I will take it up at once and see what I can do. I got through the case of Miss Merritt for Geo. J. Smith of Ulster Co. in reference to which you wrote me some days ago. I do not know what I can accomplish in Brazee's case, but I will try. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 380381 Dec. 4th, 99 My dear Mrs. Lowell:-- Will you write me three or four lines embodying the suggested change in the laws to make the men who keep disorderly houses equally punishable with the wretched inmates. I will be very much obliged if you will do this at once. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, 120 E. 30th St., N.Y. City. Dec. 4th '99. Hon. Silas C. Croft, Surveyor of Customs, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Crofts:-- Will you read the enclosed letter from Mr. John A. Butler and tell me whether or not it is a proper request? I should like to oblige Butler. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt382 Dec. 4th, 1899. Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 301 Mulberry St., N.Y. City. Dear Jake:-- I think your Atlantic article simply admirable except in its reference to me. I am particularly pleased with what you state about the quality of human feeling which makes the local boss so formidable an enemy of the reformers. Remember next Saturday at 1.30 at the Century Club. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 199. Mr. C. E. Marshall, 1110 5th., N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Marshall-- I thank you most heartily for yours of the 1st inst. I have written to Mr. Dawes at once. He certainly has been most kind. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltDec. 4th, 1899. Capt. Chas. G. Ayres, 10th Cav., Holguin, Cuba. My dear Captain:-- I have yours of the 23rd ult in reference to Lt. Robert G. Paxton. I can make no recommendations save on my personal knowledge. To do so would make useless the recommendations I have already made. I am sure you will see how necessary this is. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 383 Dec. 4th, 1899. Mr. Jackson H. Misner, Whatcom, Washington. My dear Mr. Misner:-- Replying to yours of the 27th ult, I am very sorry to say I know nothing about those Spanish-American War Associations, and do not know which one to join myself. If you will write to Lt. Col. Alex. O. Brodie at Phoenix, Arizona, he will be able to tell you all about the Rough Rider Association. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 384 Dec. 4th, 1899. Mr. Grant Wright, Cold Spring, N.Y. My dear Mr. Wright:-- I have yours of the 2nd inst. I will see you here at any time, but it is perfectly useless for me to try to get you a position in the legislature. I have never gotten anyone a position there, though I tried hard for one man. I do not think you understand that I do not have any of the subordinate appointments and have not asked and cannot ask for them in any case. If I did I should have everything filled up from the Rough Rider regiment alone, not to speak of the hundreds of others who were of service to me politically or at some other time. Now, in your case, I very earnestly advise you not to try to go into politics. You could not be a good Game Warden unless you were physically in first class trim, and if you got the position and could not fill it satisfactorily, you would have the ignominy of being turned out. What I earnestly advise you to do is to find some position in civil life which you think you can fill, and then let me know and I will try to get it for you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1899. William P. Kenibbs, Esq., Commander, #724 Wash. St., Boston, Mass. My dear sir:-- I have your very kind invitation of the 1st inst to be present at the entertainment given by the Legion of Spanish War Veterans on the evening of the 12th inst, and regret extremely my inability to be present. It is a simply physical impossibility for me to leave this State at that time. With regret, and wishing you a successful time, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt385 Dec. 4th, 1899. Mr. James Cook, Cherokee City, Ark. My dear Mr. Cook:-- I have yours of the 30th ult. I will help you in any way I can, but I must know the facts about your case. What do you mean by an additional bounty? Write me fully and I will see if I can do anything. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt386 December 2, 1899. Hon. Cecil Spring Rice, British Legation, Teheran, Persia. Dear Cecil:- I was delighted to get your letter. But it is very tantalizing, for it makes me feel that there is so much to tell you, and so much that I should like to hear from you which cannot be satisfactorily put on paper. I wish you could be here during my brief moment of greatness; for it is certainly soon to pass, of course. What I should really most like to do would be to be Governor General of the Philippines; but I do not suppose I could leave New York, and in any event, it would not occur to the President to appoint me. I have been absorbed in interest in the Boer War. The Boers are belated Cromwellians, with many fine traits. They deeply and earnestly believe in their cause, and they attract the sympathy which always goes to the small nation, even though the physical obstacles in the way may be such as to put the two contestants far more nearly on a par than at first sight seems to be the case. But it would be for the advantage of mankind to have English spoken south of the Zambesi just as in New York, and as I told one of my fellow Knickerbockers the other day, as we let the Ouitlanders of old in here, I do not see why the same rule is not good enough in the Transvaal. The Boers are marvellous387 fighters, and the change in the conditions of warfare during the past forty years has been such as to give peculiar play to their qualities. Mere pluck in advancing shoulder to shoulder no longer counts for as much as skill in open order fighting, in taking cover and in the use of the rifle, and as power of acting on individual initiative. A brave peasant, and still more, a brave man who has been bred in the garret of a tenement house, needs years of training before he can be put on a par with the big-game hunter accustomed to life in the open. In our congested city life of to-day the military qualities cannot flourish as in a mounted pastoral population, where every male is accustomed to bearing arms, and, what is quite as important, is accustomed from his youth up to act under a rough but effective military organization. My regiment was composed of men much like the Boers, but who had not had their military organization; though this had been partially offset by the experience of many of them as deputy sheriffs and deputy marshals. Such a regiment was at the outset worth any three from our big cities, and even from our purely peaceful farming districts, although there was no difference of race. The same thing is true of the Boers; and the fighting will be hard and bloody beyond a doubt. But the end is inevitable. I am amused at the cordial hatred felt by France toward both England and America. In the Philippines, where we have blundered for a year in a way that would have cost us dearly had we been matched against Boers instead of Tagals, we at last seem to have things pretty well in hand, and I guess there will be no388 3. trouble of any serious kind save in administering the islands hereafter. My own business goes on fairly. At any rate, for this year I have had an absolutely honest administration from top to bottom in this State, and an absolutely efficient one too. To-day is the thirteenth anniversary of my marriage, and I have just given Mrs. Roosevelt a really handsome little watch. Having a good many children, and not being in any remunerative business, this is the first year when I felt that I really could afford to give her something handsome, and I grasped the opportunity! What a wreck Gengis Khan and the Tartars made, from China to Muscovy, and south to the Persian Gulf. They were able to make the wreck because they struck people who could not fight as well as they could, and the feelings inspired in them by getting the upper hand made them irresistable [sic]. The idiot peace-at-any- price individuals, if they were capable of reasoning at all, might learn something from this. The experience of the Greeks with the Turks, of the Italians with the Abyssinnians, and of the Spaniards in Morocco proves perfectly clearly that if the northern races were not still fighting races, the Mahdists would have overrun the Mediteranean [sic] litteral [sic] as their lighter skinned Arab kinsmen overran it twelve centuries ago. I believe in the expansion of great nations. India has done an incalcuable [sic] amount for the English character. If we do our work well in the Philippines and the West Indies, it will do a great deal for our character. In the long run I suppose all nations pass away, and then the great thing is to have left the record of the nation that counts,-the record left by the Romans-the record that will be left by the English speaking peoples.- Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt389 Dec. 4th, 1899. Hon. John Laughlin, 1212 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Senator Laughlin:-- I thank you most heartily for yours of the 2nd inst. I have been very much puzzled what to do in that judge business. You made a very strong case for Clinton, and I did not think Kruse's friends could answer you; but I am bound to say that they made an equally strong case for Kruse; while if nothing but geography is considered, Niagara seems entitled to it. I can only say I shall go into the matter with most sober desire to do what is best. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1899. Hon. John G. Milburn, 1168 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Milburn:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 3rd inst. I think very highly of Judge McLennan. I appreciate very much your invitation to stop with you in Buffalo and wish I could bring Mrs. Roosevelt there. You are one of the people to whom she has taken so genuine a fancy that I always want you to stay with us when you are in Albany. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt390 Dec. 4th, 1899 Hon. George W. Ray, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. My dear Congressman Ray:-- I take the liberty of writing to you on behalf of an increase in the pensions of the wife and mother of Captain Allyn Capron of my regiment, killed while leading the advance in the first fight before Santiago. Captain Capron was the fifth in line from father to son who had served in the United States armies, and both he and his father died in the Spanish-American war; so that both his wife and his mother are now before you for pensions. They are ladies of the highest character and standing, and the services rendered, especially by the younger Capron were far above the ordinary. Young Capron was without exception the most valuable man in my regiment in point of proficiency-- in every soldierly duty and quality. He rendered extraordinary service in getting the regiment in trim and putting it to the front. I earnestly ask your favorable consideration of these claims. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt391 Dec. 4th, 199. Hon. Charles G. Dawes, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Dawes:-- I have just been informed of your kindness to N. M. Poe and James Douglas, two of my troopers. I want to thank you most heartily. Believe me I appreciate what you have done for my men. I do not ask you to do anything but judge them on their merits once they are in, but I cannot express sufficiently my obligation to you for giving them the chanc. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1899. My dear Mrs. Capron:-- I have just received your letter of the 1st inst and have written at once to Congressman Ray. I was only too glad of the chance. Let me know if there is anything more I can do. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Agnes Kissam Capron, Fort Myer, Va.392 Dec. 5th, 1899. Mr. Dwight F. Davis, Alpha Delta Phi Club, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Mr. Davis:-- I thank you for yours of the 2nd inst and greatly wish I could come, but it is absolutely impossible. I fear the people of this State believe I have been rather too much at Harvard, as it is. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1899. Hon. L. H. Humphrey, Warsaw, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- Your note of the 4th inst is characteristic of you. It may be necessary for me to see you; but I do not know yet. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt393 Dec. 5th, 1899. Mr. Caspar Whitney, Harper & Bros., Frank. Sq., N.Y. City. My dear Whitney:-- I have yours of the 4th inst. I am glad you are going to do that. I finally made up my mind to write to Corbin myself, and I will let you know when I hear from him. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1899. Mr. G. H. Putnam, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- I have yours of the 4th containing list of illustrations. I will try to get in to see you sometime the end of this week. As regards those illustrations, I have only got to say this: Is it wise to put in illustrations of the Prairie Indians, such as the Crows, for instance, which have nothing whatever to do with the volumes in which they are placed? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt394 Dec. 5th, 1899. Dear Low:-- I have yours of the 4th. The drug bill last year came through in bad form and was opposed by the most reputable drug clerks themselves. I have Jacob A. Riis at work now trying to get the bill in good form. You can back with safety whatever he says, but have nothing whatever to do with Thimme. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. Dec. 5th, 1899. Dr. Rush S. Huidekoper, Hotel Chamberlin, Washington, D.C. My dear sir:-- Captain Kane has forwarded me your communication of the 3rd inst with enclosures. I am very sorry to say there is no way I can help you about the matter. I have gone too little into the subject to make my views of value, and of course, I have no time now to study up anything, or speak unless I am already familiar with the matter. With regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt395 Dec. 5th, 1899. Mrs. Clara A. Mercer, 337 Lafayette Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Dear madam:-- I have yours of the 1st inst and am exceedingly sorry and wish I knew how to advise you, but all I suggest is that you write to Hon. John R. Proctor, Civil Service Commissioner, Washington, D.C. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1899. Dear Woody:-- I have yours of the 4th. It is always pleasant to hear from you. I fear I cannot help Huidekoper. I do not know enough about the man, and I have so much on hand that I do not want to meddle with anything I do not know about fully. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Capt. Woodbury Kane, Knickerbocker Club, 319 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City.396 Dec. 5th, 1899. Capt. Frank E. Rollins, Dover, N.H. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 2nd inst. I have not accepted the position of Senior Vice Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish-American War Veterans Asso. I am so over-burdened with work that I cannot undertake anything more. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1899. Mr. George A. Benham, 803 Main St., Houston, Texas. My dear Mr. Benham:-- I greatly appreciate your two letters of the first inst. I dont [sic] suppose I shall have any influence on behalf of Chenworth, but what I can do I will. Emphatically I do not want the Vice Presidency. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt397 Dec. 5th, 1899. Hon. James R. Sheffield, 120 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Sheffield:-- I thank you most warmly for your letter of the 4th inst. Believe me I appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 5, 1899. Mr. Frank H. Platt, Wall Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Platt:- Herewith I send you letter of Judge Martin in reference to the matter about which you wrote your father. When you have done with it will you please return it to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt398 December 5, 1899. Mr. W. F. Derflinger, 16 Chambers Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Derflingers:- I have yours of the 4th instant. It will give me great pleasure to see you and Mr. Dumar at half past five on Friday afternoon at 422 Madison Avenue. But I do not think it possible for me to do what you request. I have in the course of my legitimate official duty enough hard questions to keep me more than busy, and if I begin to take up matters outside of my legitimate business, I do not know where it would lead me. With great regard believe me Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 5, 1899. Hon. L. N. Littauer, House Representatives, Washington, D. C. Dear Lucius:- I have your telegram. Please write me about the successor to Judge Putnam. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt399 December 5, 1899. Mr. J. W. Pond, Chief Game Protector, Albany, N. Y. My dear Mr. Pond:- Please give me as soon as possible the recommendations for the improvement of our forests and game laws so as to put an effective stop to emptying sawdust, dye-stuffs, etc., into steams [sic]. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 5, 1899. Darling Corinne:- Can I take dinner with you on Thursday evening? I will have to go out a little later in the evening. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt400 December 5, 1899. Mr. Paul Goepel, 290 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Goepel:- I have yours of the 4th instant. Shall I say 9 o'clock at the Liederkranz? If this is not convenient, please notify me what hour will be convenient. I have forgotten the street the Liederkranz clubhouse is on. Will you send me a line so that I may receive it at 422 Madison Avenue New York, when I arrive there on Thursday. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1899. Mr. Homer Folks, #122 East 22nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Folks:-- Would you mind having the case of the enclosed correspondent looked into and let me know about it? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt401 December 5, 1899. General Leonard Wood, 1716 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D. C. Dear Leonard:- I have yours of the 3rd instant. I will speak to Senator Platt at once, and I believe he will write for you. How long do you stay here? Is there any chance of your getting any where near Albany or New York? With warm regards to Mrs. Wood, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 5, 1899. Prof. Mike Donovan, N.Y. Athletic Club, Central Park South, N. Y. City. My dear Professor Donovan:_ I have yours of the 4th instant. You are more than kind and I shall greatly appreciate the gloves and bag. My small boys are using the gloves you sent them. Do come and see me when you are in this neighborhood and show me how the bag works. I want to see you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt402 December 5, 1899. Mr. W. Christopher Liller, Lancaster, Pa. My dear Comrade:- I have yours of the 4th inst. I appreciate more than I can say your kindness. I hate to have to answer as I must, but it is absolutely out of the question for me to accept the position of commander. I was doubtful about being vice- commander even under Dewey; but I could not accept the commandership unless I was prepared to do a great deal of active work and that I cannot do. It is not possible for me to undertake an extra burden beyond what I already have. It is out of the question for me to do any more work. Regretting greatly my inability to take advantage of your most flattering offer, and again heartily thanking you, I am Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1899. Hon. Shackelford Miller, Louisville, Ky. My dear Judge Miller:-- I have yours of the 1st. Alas! I can only respond in Dr. Johnson's words: "Ignorance, Sir; pure ignorance". I meant to use Boon all the way through. I am not certain whether I ought to have put on the final "e" or not; but of course I should have adhered steadily to one spelling. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt403 Dec. 6th, 1899. Mr. Walter E. Gardner, The Post-Standard, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Mr. Gardner:-- I thank you for your letter of the 5th inst, and appreciate all you say. But as for myself, I feel that if I can get through this term of the Governorship in good shape, I shall be lucky. If I am renominated I shall be glad, but it must be on the understanding that I am going to do exactly as I have done. It was the greatest pleasure to have you here. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1899. Hon. William A. Fricke, 46 Cedar St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Fricke:-- I have yours of the 5th inst. It will be a very great pleasure to have you call, and I thank you for wanting to see me. Let me know when you expect to come, so that I may be sure to see you. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt404 Dec. 6th, 1899. Mr. Edmund Wetmore, 343 Lexington Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Wetmore:-- I have yours of the 5th. I guess I shall have to attend that dinner. Unless something unforseen turns up I shall be there. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1899. To the Editor of The [*Independent, 130 Fulton St*] N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I herewith send the article on Expansion and Peace. I am paid at the rate of $100. per 1000 words by the magazines &c. With great regard, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt405 Dec. 6th, 1899. To the Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- The Bellamy Storers are old and dear friends of mine, and so though I have no business to write you, and least of all about a man from another State, I am going to ask whether he cannot be kept in mind if a vacancy in the Embassies at Paris or Rome should arise? Madrid is hard on Mrs. Storer's health. Storer has made a good record, has he not? What a corker Root is! It seems to me that the President has got about an ideal Cabinet now. I thought his message excellent. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1899. Mr. Leonidas Ellington, C/o Hubbard House, Herkimer, N.Y. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 5th inst, I regret to say I can only refer you to my book on the Rough Riders. I have not the time to prepare a sketch on any subject. I have my hands more than full with official work at present. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt406 Dec. 6th, 1899. Mrs. J. S. Lowell, #120 E. 30th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mrs. Lowell:-- I cannot get at that pamphlet of yours. It is out in the country, I shall embody the substance of the bill you enclose in my annual message. Meanwhile, could you not get someone interested in introducing it in the legislature? As doe the State Constabulary bill, I think it is a righteous measure, but I question its expediency in view of the feeling there seems to be against it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1899. Col. A. L. Mills, West Point, N.Y. My dear Colonel:-- I want to congratulate you and the Army on the victory of West Point on the foot ball field. It was splendidly done. By the way, do you know of any young officer who is retired from the army who would be available as Assistant Superintendent, with an idea of his ultimately becoming Superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory? It is a job I should like to have a cool headed, resolute, energetic man in, one accustomed to the management of men, and I have naturally turned towards ex-army officers in my mind. With warm regards to Mrs. Mills from Mrs. Roosevelt and myself, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt407 Dec. 6th, 1899. Maj. Genl. Leonard Wood, U. S. V., #1716 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. Dear Leonard:-- An unexpected ally has turned up who may help me very much in getting at Platt. It is Hon. Issac V. Baker of Comstocks, N.Y. who has a son under me in the administration here. He has another son, Captain Lawrence Baker who has been under you and is an enthusiastic admirer of yours. So I have requested the father to go to Senator Platt and get him to back you for supreme command in Cuba. He was more than delighted to do it, and is quite disinterestedly anxious to push you in every way. I think if you wrote him a line of thanks that it would be a good thing. I will see the Senator in person on Saturday morning. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt408 December 6, 1899 To the Commanding Officer of the Watervliet Arsenal Watervliet, N. Y. Sir: This letter will serve to call your attention to William J. Rapp of Troy, N. Y., an honorably discharged sailor of the United States Navy, who is anxious to secure some employment in some suitable capacity in the Watervliet Arsenal, in view of the fact that he carries, and has presented to me, papers showing a long continuous services on the United States vessels, amounting to over nine years, which bear testimony to his sobriety, obedience, seamanship and health such as few discharged soldiers are able to hold. This is the kind of service upon which I believe a premium should be placed and is the kind that should attract more than ordinary and careful attention, and some recognition at the hands of the authorities in such cases should be made wherever it is practicable. I take very great pleasure in going further in this matter than I have ever done under previous conditions in sending my Military Secretary to you with this man, hoping that in this manner I will emphasize this particular case. I am, Sir, Very respectfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt409 Dec. 7th, 1899. My dear Mr. Leonard:-- I have just received a copy of your very handsome book on Wrestling. I do not know whether you sent it to me or not. At any rate I want to thank you for it. In my younger days I used to box a good deal, but I never wrestled at all. Now I have taken up wrestling on the advice of one of your pupils who is on my staff, who told me I could get more concentrated exercise in less time in this way than in any other. I am delighted with it and would not miss it for anything. Thanking you again for the book, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Hugh F. Leonard, Instructor, N.Y. Athletic Club, N.Y. City. Dec. 7th, 1899. Prof. F. J. H. Merrill, Director, State Museum, Albany, N.Y. My dear Prof. Merrill:-- Is Gerritt S. Miller,Jr. around Albany? I am greatly interested in his publication on the New York Mammals. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt410 Dec. 7th, 1899. Alexander C. Noyes, Edwards, N.Y. My dear Mr. Noyes:-- I have yours of the 8th inst with enclosures which I return. I hardly know how to advise you. All I can do is to let you find the place, and then if I can help you get it I will. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1899. Mr. William H. Rideing, 55 E. 76th., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Rideing:-- I have yours of the 6th. You are very good. I have you mind and will not forget you. I am not able just now to prepare anything, but I shall later on. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt411 Dec. 7th, 1899. My dear Mrs. Storer:-- I fear I am only a broken reed, for I do not think the slightest attention will be paid to my recommendations. In no single instance has any attention been paid within the past year. Nevertheless I will of course try as hard as I can, and possibly through John Hay I may have some influence. I have written him at once. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Bellamy Storer, U. S. Legation, Madrid, Spain. Dec. 7th, 1899. Hon. William H. Hotchkiss, 319 Main St., Buffalo, NY My dear Mr. Hotchkiss:-- I have yours of the 6th inst and enclosure. It was a great pleasure to have you here. I shall go through all that brief carefully. I think you have misunderstood me on one point, however. The withdrawal of either Clinton or yourself would relieve me of my embarrassment as between you two, but it would not in any way effect the embarrassment I feel as between either of you and Kruse. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt412 Dec. 7th, 1899. Hon. Horace White, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 6th. Please come to Albany Monday or Tuesday of next week. I may want to decide that quite soon. I think I ought to explain that in the matter of the Judiciary I have got to act with less reference to political considerations, and least of all with reference to my own future, than in any other matter. I have a very high personal regard for Judge Hiscock. I know him better and care for him more than for any other man on the bench. I should be unworthy of my position as Governor if I permitted this to be the determining factor in my action. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1899. My dear Mrs. Goodrich:-- I cannot say how much I enjoyed and appreciated my stay with you. Apart even from the pleasure of being with Dave and of seeing the game, I should have been delighted to have taken the trip just to be your guest. I do hope you may be in Albany some time this winter, and Miss Goodrich too. With great regard, and love to Dave, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt413 Dec. 7th, 1899. Brig. Genl. McCoskry Butt, Union Club, 5th Av. & 21st St., N.Y. City. My dear General:-- You are exceedingly kind to have sent me that splendid book on wrestling. It is as handsome a book as I have seen. In spite of what the papers have said, i k now nothing about wrestling. I took it up this year because I found I have to get my exercise in concentrated form, and I know too well that unless I find the exercise interesting I will neglect it. Half an hour gives me all the work I can stand at wrestling even if I work pretty slowly. I am as stiff as I can be from my week's work, but I am thoroughly enjoying it. Do let me know whenever you can come up here and either lunch or dine with me. With great regard, believe me Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1899. Mr. H.A. Garfield, Garfield Bldg., Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Garfield:-- I thank you very much for yours of the 5th inst with the enclosed document which I shall read with interest. I greatly appreciate your invitation, but, my dear fellow, it is a physical impossibility for me to come. Until after the legislature is adjourned I am not going to be able to go out of the State. Some little dissatisfaction was created by my going out as much as I did during the campaign. I simply can't come, much though I should like to. How earnestly I wish that you and Will Taft were New Yorkers! I should so like to have your advice and assistance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt414 Dec. 7th, 1899. Hon. George H. Lyman, Boston, Mass. Dear George:-- I thank you heartily for years of the 6th. You have given me the exact information that I want to know. When you see Murray Crane will you thank him cordially for me, or would it do for me to write him a line of thanks myself? I should like him to know that I appreciate his kindness. Heavens and earth, if I only had you and he in this State, how much better off I should be! I will let you know any further developments. Pray give my warm regards to Mrs. Lyman, and do tell her how much I appreciate her kindness while I was your guest! I need not tell you how I enjoyed it. It was so good to catch a glimpse of you, Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1899. Genl. Henry Edward Tremain, 146 Bway, N.Y. City My dear General:-- I have been greatly interested in your article on Franchises or Monopolies. It is very suggestive. I have gotten one or two valuable hints from it. Faithfullyyours, Theodore Roosevelt415 Dec. 7th, 1899. Maj. Genl. Leonard Wood, 1716 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. Dear Leonard:-- I am rather puzzled by what I see. I have been fighting to have you made a Brigadier General in the Regular Army. I assume that this is a long step in that direction, but thought I would keep up the pressure for it. If I am not right, let me know. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1899. Mr. A. G. Riddle, 1116 13th St., N. W., Washington, D.C. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 6th inst, I am very sorry, but I cannot interfere with the War Department in those cases. It is not proper for me to do so. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt416 December 7, 1899. Prof. J. W. Jenks, Murray Hill Hotel, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Jenks:- Herewith I send you a copy with your corrections and emendations. Beside looking through it yourself, I would be greatly obliged if you would submit it to Mr. James B. Dill, but if possible I should like it back here by Tuesday next. I need not tell you, my dear sir, how much I appreciate your aid and assistance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt417 417 December 7, 1899. President Arthur T. Hadley, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. My dear President Hadley:- I send you herewith a rough draft of so much of my report as will deal with taxation and trusts. Any suggestions in the way of addition, elision or alteration that you can make, I shall be very thankful for. If possible I should like the paper back by Tuesday or Wednesday. Acting on your advice, I have had Professor Jenks up to see me. Pray present my warm regards to Mrs. Hadley. I am under very great obligations to her and you for my very pleasant stay at your house. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt418 December 7, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:- I send you a rough draft of that part of my message which is to deal with taxation and trusts. You are doing so much, and such wonderful, work, that I hesitate to send it to you; but you are not only a State but a National leader now and moreover, I feel that when I touch such a delicate matter as trusts I should be in some kind of relations with the National administration. If you have not time to go through it, would you mind asking Attorney General Griggs to look over it if he feels so inclined and if he does not, will you just send it to your partner Mr. Clarke, the counsel of the Tax Commission. As I am also asking add from Professor Jenks of Cornell University and President Hadley of Yale, as well as Mr. James B. Dill, the lawyer who is said to know a great deal about trusts, I would be very much obliged if you would have me the copy returned as speedily as possible, say by the middle of next week. I could not [resist?] singing a little pean over your report in "The Outlook." Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt419 Dec. 11th, 1899. Hon. C. M. Depew, U. S. Senator. My dear Senator:-- Captain Allyn Capron was I think on the whole the very best man in my regiment. He was killed at the outset of the war as he gallantly led the advance at Las Guasimas. No finer man or better soldier ever served in the American army, and he was the fifth in line from father to son who had thus served. His father also died in the Spanish- American war, so that he leaves not only a widowed wife, but also a widowed mother. Is there any way in which they can be helped in their application for an increase in pensions? I want to assist them in every way I can. I presume there will have to be special bills put through for them. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Mrs. Agnes K. Capron, Fort Myer, Va. My dear Mrs. Capron:-- I have yours of Dec. 8th. The enclosed letter from Congressman Ray explains itself. I have at once written Mr. Loudenslager and Senator Depew. Senator Galiger I am afraid I cannot get at. I want to help you all in my power, and it is no trouble to me at all. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt420 Dec. 11th, 1899. Frank H. Platt, Esq., 35 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Platt:-- I have yours of the 9th inst and am just going to see Mr. McDonough, and probably afterwards Mr. Bond and one or two other members of the Land Board. So far the only criticism to which I have been inclined to attach weight is as to the price charged. Of course, I have not gone over the matter at all carefully yet and do not know the facts; but this is my first blush impression. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Hon. H. C. Loudenslager, Member of Congress, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Loudenslager:-- Captain Allyn Capron was I think on the whole the very best man in my regiment. He was killed at the outset of the war as he gallantly led the advance at Las Guasimas. No finer man or better soldier ever served in the American army, and he was the fifth in line from father to son who had thus served. His father also died in the Spanish-American war, so that he leaves not only a widowed wife but also a widowed mother. Is there any way that they can be helped in their pension matter? I want to assist them in every way I can. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt421 Reg. Let. Dec. 11th, 1899 Darling Corinne:-- I enclose the key which I had thoughtfully carried off in my pocket. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed my visit, for all the fact that our conversations were so "scrappy," they were conversations. Now, I have asked Charles Stewart Smith, John Harsen Rhoades, Nicholas Murray Butler, Genl. F. V. Greene, Dr. Albert Shaw, Fredk. W. Holls and Captain Norton Goddard to breakfast at your house Saturday, Dec. 23rd at 8.30. I hope you do not think that I have gone too far. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave.,N.Y. City. Dec. 11th, 1899. Mr. G. J. Putnam, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- The enclosed photograph of Jim Bridger ought later to be used in the Winning of the West; so I send it to you. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltDec. 11th, 1899. Hon. Fredk. W. Holls, 120 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Holls:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., Saturday, Dec. 23rd at 8.30 A.M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. I particularly want you to come, because I think the ideas of some of our friends need straightening out as to the work of your commission. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Capt. T. Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker St., N.Y. City. My dear Captain:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., Saturday Dec. 23rd, at 8.30 A.M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 422423 Dec. 11th, 1899. Dr. Albert Shaw, #13 Astor Place, N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Shaw:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., Saturday, Dec. 23rd, at 8.30 A.M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. I am exceedingly anxious that you should come for more than one reason. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Genl. F V. Greene, #11 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear General:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., Saturday Dec. 23rd at 8.30 A. M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. I hope you can come! I have something to say to you in private on the first opportunity about the matter we talked of in the cab. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltDec. 11th, 1899. Mr. John Harsen Rhoades, 559 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Rhoades:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., On Saturday, Dec. 23rd, at 8.30 A.M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Ave., Saturday, Dec. 23rd at 8.30 A.M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. Come without fail! Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 424425 Dec. 11th, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, #30 E. 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Low:-- I have yours of the 7th. How wise I was not to make suggestions! I could not have thought up unaided a body of guests so exactly the men whom I wanted to meet. I have just received your letter about the long term for the Mayor. No one has spoken a word to me-- certainly no machine man-- about it. I confess I felt a little shaky about the long term. I shall have to consult you soon as to who shall be put on the commission for the charter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Charles Stewart Smith, Esq., 25 W. 47th St, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Smith:-- Will you breakfast with me at my brother-in-law's, Mr. Douglas Robinson, #422 Madison Avenue, on Saturday, Dec. 23rd at 8.30 A. M.? Senator Platt is to be present and I want to go over various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt426 Dec. 11th, 1899. My dearMrs. Storer:-- I have just received the enclosed reply to my note to John Hay, and send it to you. Will you return it to me when you are through with it? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Bellamy Storer, U. S. Legation, Madrid, Spain.427 Dec. 11th, 1899. Dear Cabot:-- I have yours of the 7th inst. In the first place, do you not think that Beveridge would be a good man on the Committee on Foreign Affairs? He seems to be sound on these matters. Now, about the Vice Presidency, it seems to me that the chance of my being a presidential candidate is too small to warrant very serious consideration at present. To have been a good Colonel, a good Governor and a good Assistant Secretary of the Navy is not enough to last four years. If McKinley were to die tomorrow, I would be one of the men seriously considered as his successor-- I mean that and just no more. But four years hence the Spanish war will be in the very remote past and what I have done as Governor will not be very recent. Nobody can tell who will be up by that time. Of course, I should like to feel that I would still be in the running, but I do not regard it as sufficiently probably to be worth receiving very much weight. There therefore remains the question of what each office is by itself. The Vice Presidency is a most honorable office, but for a young man there is not much to do. It is infinitely better than many other positions, but it hardly seems tome as good as being Governor of this State, which is a pretty important State. Then while it is very unlikely that I could be President, there is a chance of my being something else-- Governor General of the Philippines, or a Cabiney officer, or perchance in the remote future, Senator. Mind you, I do not think that any of these things are likely, but at least there issufficient chance to warrant my taking them seriously, while I do not think the chance for the presidency is sufficient to warrant our taking it seriously. If I am Vice President I am "planted" for four years. Here I can turn around. Platt told me definitely that of course he was for me for a renomination-- that everybody was-- and though we shall have a good deal of friction from time to time, I do not believe it very likely that he will come to a definite break with me, because I like him personally, I always tell him the truth, and I genuinely endeavor to help him, if I can, with proper regard for the interest of the State and party. The upshot of it is that it seems to me that I had better stay where I am. The great argument on the other side is, as I have said before, your judgment, which on the whole I have found better than my own. Some of the Western men are wild to have me go on to strengthen the ticket, but it scarcely seems to me that the ticket needs strengthening. Root would be an admirable man. Give my best love to Nannie. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Senator H. C. Lodge, Washington, D.C.428 Dec. 11th, 1899. Mr. H. L. Nelson, C/o Harpers Weekly, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Nelson:-- Unfortunately on Thursday night I find I am to dine with the Judges of the Court of Appeals. Could you come here on your way back, say Saturday or Sunday? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Hon. Wm. Miller Collier, Auburn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Collier:-- I have yours of the 8th. for which I am greatly obliged I have recommended that increase of salary, but I doubt if I should specify the way they should come. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt429 Dec. 11th, 1899. Rev. Father A. P. Doyle, The Catholic World, Box 2, Sta. G., N.Y. City. My dear Father Doyle:-- I have done what I believe I have done in no case before-- sent for Mr. Lyman and told him personally that I could vouch not merely for your integrity, but for your judgment, and that he could bank on anything you said. He will send down a special agent who will call on you, and I very earnestly hope the matter can be stopped. Let me explain one thing: The Raines law has, I agree with you, many grave defects, in which I most earnestly wish it could be amended. It is an excellent revenue raising measure, and incidentally it has reduced by nearly six thousand the number of saloons in the State. But it is still the police boards that have the right to suppress any disorderly places. Billy McGlory could not run his place a day, save as every other place ought to be run, without the connivance of the police. Now, Mr. Lyman is going to take this matter up, and I most earnestly hope that we shall be able to do what you desire, for I know that you never desire anything that is not right. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Rev. Endicott Peabody, Groton, Mass. Dear Cotty:-- I thank you for yours of the 5th. That suggestion is excellent and I will adopt it. June 27th will not interfere with Harvard Class Day, will it? I suppose not. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt430 Dec. 11th, 1899. William H. Hotchkiss, Esq., 319 Main St., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hotchkiss:-- I have your two letters of the 10th.I am going to wait a couple of days to see Mr. Hazel and Mr. Milburn who want to visit me. As I told you, I have been in the utmost embarrassment over this whole matter. I do not know Judge Potter well, but the other three of you I do know, and any one of you would be a first class man. If I decide for either Kruse or Clinton instead of you, I shall certainly state both that you had privately requested me to appoint Clinton if you were not to be appointed, and that of course you have a perfect right not to appear before the Executive Committee. I do not want to say that I advised your not appearing, for you must remember that I so advised you on your statement that you felt that they were not behaving squarely in the matter, and had made up their minds to turn you down, and I then told you that in that case I should not go before them and that I would give you the exact showing that your merits demanded whether you went before them or not. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Frank Moss, Esq., #93 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Moss:-- I have yours of the 8th. I know your report will do good. When I see you I want to go over many matters with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt431 Dec. 11th, 189 Mr. T. StJohn Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, New York City. My dear Mr. Gaffney:-- I received your not of the 8th too late to be able to call you up. When you want to see me in New York, please write me in advance so that I may arrange a time, for once I get down there I have such a multitude of letters, cards and telegrams that from sheer lack of time they get scant attention. I wish I could go to that dinner, but I cannot. It is out of the question. I have more on my hands now than I can attend to. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1899. Hon. George H. Lyman, Boston, Mass. Dear George:-- I have yours of the 8th. Good! I shall wait until I see Crane. By the way, do you think that when he is Governor, I could get him to come here and spend a night with me? Then I would make you come too. Yesterday Senator Platt told me that he was of course for my renomination-- that everybody was. We have gotten through the Constabulary crisis all right. We shall have other troubles of course, but just at the moment nothing that I see is of immediate danger. I cannot thank you sufficiently, old man, for your great interest. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt432 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. Geo. J. Corey, Deputy Naval Officer, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Corey:-- On going over the matter with Mr. Odell I found that he was most strongly of the opinion(in which I fully concurred) that I could not accept vice presidencies of such clubs. You see it would result in endless such acceptances. With regret, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Hon. Daniel S. McElroy, 105 E. 37th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. McElroy:-- I genuinely appreciate your letter of the 10th inst. I remember you well and what a pleasure it was to sit with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt433 Dec. 12th, 1899. A. B. Seay, Esq., Ardmore, I. T. My dear Mr. Seay:-- Replying to yours of the 5th inst, I wish I could interfere, but it is absolutely impossible. The President would not pay the slightest attention to my recommendation in such a matter. I speak from knowledge, for I have tried again and again. I can only suggest that you go to the Judges of the Territory or whoever your proper local officers are. I am absolutely powerless. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. M. J. Lamson, 31 W. 34th St., N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- I have yours of the 5th inst and thank you most heartily. I shall read the book with the greatest interest, and I appreciate your courtesy in sending it to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt434 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. James W. Mayo, 35 Grant St., Redlands, Cal. My dear Mr. Mayo:-- I have yours of the 2nd inst and am very glad to hear from you. I take substantially Leeky's view and I believe you will find that I am in entire sympathy with your position as to Cromwell in Ireland, and for the matter of that, with the English in Ireland. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Miss Julia Bulger, C/o Williamsburgh Trust Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear madam:-- My dear Miss Bulger:--I have just received yours of the 6th inst. You are very kind, but I think the publishers think the boys would not care to read my books. There is nothing I would like more than to be sure they would. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt435 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. J. F. Garlocke, 603 Hancock St., Brooklyn,N.Y My dear Mr. Garlocke:-- I have yours of the 7th inst. Indeed I will assist. General Cassius M. Clay is a man to whom I take off my hat. It was his type in the border states that was entitled to more credit than any man in the North proper during the Civil War. Just point out to me how I can help. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. W. Bayard VanRensselaer, 25 N. Pearl St., Albany, N.Y My dear Bayard:-- I have yours of the 7th. Do not put that Harvard dinner down so definitely. If I am in Albany I will come around to the dinner for at any rate a part of the time, but it is not possible for me to guarantee that there will be no official engagement to interfere. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt436 Dec. 12th, 1899 Mr. Frank C. Travers, 59 W. 74th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Travers:--I have yours of the 6th inst. Now, I want to do anything you ask, but you know yourself my experience with the Secretary of War in making such requests as that you suggest. He does not like them. He will not grant them, and he will hold it against me that I make them. I hate not to do anything you ask, but my very intimacy with the Secretary of War makes me unwilling to make requests of him which I know he does not want to have me make. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. Wm. I. Buchanan, Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Buchanan:-- I have yours of the 9th inst. Nothing gives me more pleasure than to have you even temporarily a resident of my State. Do let me see you if you ever get the chance to come down here to Albany. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt437 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. R. H. Gwynne, 1 University Place, East Orange N.J. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 9th inst I wish I could help you, but I have now been several years out of the ranch business. It is a hard and rough work. A man must begin at the bottom and if he is prepared to rough it, can work up in it; but the conditions shift so rapidly that I can only make the general statement that if you are persevering and thoroughly fit physically, you can make your way at it. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. My dear sir:-- I write most earnestly in behalf of Trooper Ed. Culver formerly of my regiment, who was wounded on San Juan Hill. He wishes to be a constable. I earnestly hope you can give him the appointment. He was an excellent soldier, wounded in the discharge of his duties. I found him trustworthy in every way in the regiment, and everything I can say for him I want to say. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Judge Gill, Muskogee, Ind. Ter.438 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. Ed Culver, Vian, Ind. Ter. My dear Mr. Culver:-- Replying to yours of the 6th, I hope the enclosed is all right. If so, send it on. Trust it will do you some good. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure. Dec. 12th, 1899 Mr. Thornton H. Simmons, 95 Washington St., Boston, Mass. Dear Thorn:-- Hearty thanks for your letter of the 9th. In reference to Adamson, I have only been able to land two men in the Marine Corps. Those were men whom I had seen in action and could vouch for. I am awfully sorry I can not assist your man. With best regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt439 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mrs. Fannie B. Snitjer, Westside, Santa Clara Co., Cal. My dear Mrs. Snitjer:-- I have yours of the 5th inst. First, let me say that I have been introduced to the "Flying Dutchman" and admired his play. I had no idea that he was connected with Armstrong. I have ordered a medal sent you for Armstrong's family, which I will take the responsibility of issuing, but pray have his name engraved on it at once. I am very much grieved that you have been unable to get the effects. Of course I am powerless in the matter. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Captain D. H. Boughton, War Department, Washington, D.C. My dear Captain Boughton:-- I am very much interested in the map that you made of Santiago, San Juan-Caney. It is just the kind of thing I wanted to see. Is there any chance of your ever getting in this neighborhood? There is so much that I would like to talk over with you. With great regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt440 Dec. 12th, 1899. H. A. Garfield, Esq., Garfield Bldg., Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Garfield:-- Many thank for yours of the 8th enclosing publication. Did you not get my last letter? I wrote you saying I could not accept. I only wish I were able to. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. J. V. E. March, Esq., Alton, Ill. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 7th inst enclosing affidavit, I am sorry to say I cannot make out the affidavit in such detailed form. I saw many men that day. I saw nobody carrying any wounded to the rear, for I should have stopped it at once, as no trooper had any business to leave the ranks to take a wounded man to the rear. I should like a letter from one of Lentz's immediate superiors that day to show that he was doing his duty. Very truly yours,441 Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. Franklin Matthews, The Sun, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Matthews:-- Thanks for your note of the 9th. I hope the article can appear some time. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Messrs Lebkruecher & Co., Newark, N.J. Gentlemen:-- Please send to Mrs. Fannie B. Snitjer, Westside, Santa Clara County, California, one of the Rough Rider medals for the family of Trooper Armstrong, deceased, and charge same to me. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt442 December 12, 1899. Miss Greta Bjorksten, 28 West 59th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Little Miss Greta:- I was very glad to hear from you about the pony that is to be called after me. I send you herewith my photograph and I am glad not only to send it to you for your own sake but because I enjoyed so much meeting your father. With many thanks, I am Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Mr. Matthew P. Breen, 71 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Breen:- I thank you most cordially for your letter of the 11th instant. You ought to be proud of the reception of that book. I should very much like, my dear Sir, to do what you desire but I have not been able to accept one of the invitations to write reviews of books requested. I only wish I could. Sincerely yours, Theodore RooseveltDecember 12, 1899. Frank D'W. Armour, Pres., 275 Classen Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. dear Sir:- I have your letter of the 9th, [in]stant. I would not venture to interfere in [t]hat matter. You will find that Secretary Long is readily accessible to civil service reform advocates. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Mr. J.A. Goulden, 171 Broadway, New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Goulden:- Your letter of the 11th instant is received. I will carefully look through that. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt444 December 12, 1899. Mr. Morris W. Krauss, 814 Chew Street, Allentown, Pa. My dear Sir:- I have your letter of the 10th instant and in reply I regret to state that you are in error. I do not know about it. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Miss Marg't. P. Pascal, 576 Lexington Ave., New York, N. Y. My dear Miss Pascal:- I have your letter of the 11th instant. You are more than kind and it seems churlish of me to refuse, but you do not realize the multitude of requests I receive. Now there are scores of charities in New York managed by friends for whom I have the deepest respect each of whom has put in a call for me to visit them. Should I visit yours twice when I have not visited others even once, they would feel genuinely aggrieved. I have not the time or the physical ability to make these calls, much though I should like to. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt445 December 12, 1899. Mr. Marcus Braun, 154 World Building, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Braun:- I have your very kind letter of the 11th instant. I wish I could definitely accept but it is not within my power. What time are you going to hold the ball? It may be that I can get down there, but I am sure you understand the tremendous pressure on my time. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, 119 East 30th Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Butler:- How can I help Slicer for membership in the Century? Shall I write for it? Is there anything I can do? I am very anxious to have him put through. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt446 December 12, 1899. Grant Wright, Esq., Cold Spring, N. Y. My dear Mr. Wright:- I have the greatest pleasure in handing you the enclosed. Can you suggest about making them any stronger? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Mr. Cushing Stetson, C/o Harvard Club, 27 W. 44th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Stetson:- Your letter of the 10th instant. Will you come to # 422 Madison Avenue, at 4:30 P.M., Friday, December 22nd ? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt447 December 12, 1899. Rec. Henry C. McCook, 3700 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Dr. McCook:- Your letter of the 11th instant. I simply have not got my family tree. It has been put up somewhere and I cannot find it. As a matter of fact, however, I have more Scotch-Irish blood in me even than Dutch. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Mr. Hamilton Holt, 130 Fulton St., New York, N. Y. My dear Sir:- Your letter of the 8th inst. Check for $150 is entirely satisfactory in view of what you say. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt448 December 12, 1899. Mr. H.H. Vreeland, Pres., Metropolitan Traction Co., New York, N.Y. My dear Mr. Vreeland:- The bearer, Mr. Grant Wright, was one of the men of my regiment. Not only was he a thorough soldier in every way, always brave, trust-worthy, energetic and obedient but he bears an excellent reputation in private life and has been well spoken of to me by all those who have had dealings with him before. He desires a position as "investigator" in the law department of the Metropolitan Traction Co. I earnestly hope you will look into the matter and if possible give him the appointment. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Mr. Harry A. Robinson, C/o Metropolitan Traction Co., New York, N.Y. My dear Sir:- I understand that you have under you in the law department individuals known as "investigators." I very cordially recommend to you for one of these positions Mr. Grant Wright and earnestly hope that he can be appointed. Mr. Wright was a trooper in my regiment in Cuba. He showed himself exceptionaly faithful, brave and competent and I have had the heartiest commendations from all those who knew him in his own village. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt449 December 12, 1899. Captain T. Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker Street, New York, N. Y. My dear Goddard:- I have written as strong as possible to both Odell and Nixon. I have written as strong as possible for Slicer. I do not believe the navy would take back your friend on his statement without giving him punishment. I will try if you say so. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Odell:- There is one thing I should like very much to see done, and that is to see Johhn [sic] Shea given a good clerkship in the Legislature, either the Senate or the Assembly. I shall write to Mr. Nixon about it. You know how excellently Goddard has done as a leader in New York. He is the type of a man we ought to bring into the party and I should like to see some recognition given to him and the men who have stood behind him. Cannot this be done? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt450 December 12, 1899. Hon. S. Fred. Nixon, Westfield, N. Y. My dear Mr. Nixon:- There is one thing I should very much like to see done, and that is to see John Shea given a good clerkship in the Legislature, either the Senate or the Assembly. I shall write to Mr. Odell about it. You know [*what*] excellent [*work*] Goddard has done as a leader in New York. He is the type of a man that we ought to bring [*forward*] into the party and I should like to see some recognition given to him and the men who have stood so straight behind him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 12th, 1899. Mr. J. W. Jenks, Hotel Wellington, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Jenks:-- Will you,if you possibly can,come up here to spend the night with me, Saturday or Sunday? I thank you most heartily for all your suggestions and shall try to embody them, except so far as my inability to be epigrammatic interferes. You have been of such assistance and service to me that I wish you would crown the work by coming up and going over the matter for the last touches. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt451 December 12, 1899. Mr. C. Grant La Farge, Temple Court, 7 Beekman St., New York, N. Y. Dear Grant:- Your letter of the 11th instant has ben received. I am inclined to think that this commission idea is the best but of course my commission would have to serve without pay unless I could get legislative action, which would be exceedingly doubtful. I got it on the canals because there was an immense public interest in them; I could not get it on the school question and had to appoint a committee off my own bat; and on the taxation question, I had to take a legislative committee. I shall have to ask for a commission on the Greater New York charter. If I crowd the mourners I will be apt not to get anything. Talking with some of the forest men here I find that they feel that though a single head would be better than five men, yet that a reorganization in the work of a commission in the matter of the duties of the experts who deal directly with the forests, etc., is what we really need. Do you know Fox? He says he knows Pinchot and he talked as if he was a first class man. Could you come in at 422 Madison Avenue, at 5 P.M. on Friday, December 22nd ? Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt452 Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. G. H. Putnam, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City. Dear Haven:-- Replying to yours of the 12th inst, I guess that picture of Bridger will have to go in Vol. V. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. G. A. Tod, 343 N. Park Ave., Austin, Ill. My dear Mr. Tod:-- I have yours of the 10th inst and am delighted to hear from you, and very much pleased to know that you are married. Wont [sic] you write to Messrs Lebkruecher & Co., Newark, N.J. for the medal, sending them this letter as your authority. It is always a pleasure to hear from you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt453 Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. Ernest F. Greene, 1008 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 12th inst from Newport, R.I., I am sorry to say that I have been obliged to refuse to give any opinions of the kind you suggest in reference to any book, although I am continually requested to do so, and if I did so in one case, I should have to do it in all. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 13th, 1899. Rev. John T. Greene, Rosendale, N.Y. My dear Mr. Greene:-- I have yours of the 12th inst. Unfortunately I am already pledged to a first appointment and an alternate in the way of chaplains, men with whom I was brought in contact during the war and whom I grew to have personal knowledge of and regard for. For me to endorse more than two men would be simply to hurt their chances without benefiting any one else, and in consequence, with great regret, I have been obliged to refuse a number of requests like yours. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt454 Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. Edward Murphy, 626 Third Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Murphy:-- I thank you very much for writing me, but are you sure the case is a genuine one? Of course, it may be, but I feel that I would recollect the case of three brothers serving in my regiment, one being killed and one wounded. No man in my regiment was disabled by being struck on his head with a rifle. If Behrman will write to me I will at once take up his case. If you are willing you might ask to see his certificate of discharge and that will enable us to identify him at once. Meanwhile, my dear sir, let me thank you for the disinterested kindness of heart which you have shown. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. Harry Ellard, Box 363, Cincinnati, Ohio. My dear Mr. Ellard:-- Many thanks for the book. I shall read it with interest, for I am devoted to the plains and in keen sympathy with those who love them. I thank you for your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt455 Dec. 13th, 1899 My dear Clowes:-- I do not like the idea of your being sick in bed. I hope the fever has by now left you. I have just received the poems which had remained at my country place, and I thank you very much for them. I really enjoyed them. I send you herewith the addition. I think you can make it come in as a paragraph at the end. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Wm. Laird Clowes, Esq., Hotel Victoria, Davos, Switzerland. Dec. 13th, 1899. Mr. James B. Reynolds, #184 Eldridge St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Reynolds:-- I thank you heartily for the suggestions. I shall adopt most of your recommendations. I have just asked Williams to see you and Riis and have you two act with his deputies as volunteer aids, in any matter where abuses are charged now to exist. I understand that Mrs. Kelley made such charges. Why didn't she write to me if she has any grievances? What are her grievances any way? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt456 Dec. 13th, 1899. Dear Leonard:-- From what I hear and see I guess it is all right about the supreme command in Cuba. I am overjoyed for your sake, and more especially for the sake of the country. Now, I shall be in New York from Thursday afternoon the 21st inst until Saturday afternoon the 23rd, and on Saturday morning General Greene, Senator Platt and some others, including Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, breakfast at my sister's house #422 Madison Avenue. If you are in New York at that time, let me know the particulars, so that we can be together as much as possible. It would of course be even pleasanter if you could get up here for a night or two, because I would have more chance to talk over many things with you. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Maj. Genl Leonard Wood, #1716 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. Dec. 13th, 1899. My dear Captain White:-- I have yours of the 11th. I am in as much of a quandary as you are. After some correspondence with Admiral Dewey and General Hale I declined membership in the organization referred to, simply because I was utterly unable to make out whether it was the right one to join or not. My idea is that we shall soon have to get a meeting of thoroughly representative and responsible men to undertake and organization for all the Spanish-American war veterans. But I think that it should be undertaken by men who have both leisure and a national reputation. If General Hale of Colorado could undertake such an organization, it would be the best thing possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Capt. John Baker White, Charlestown, W. Va.457 Dec. 13th, 1899. Col. Arthur H. Lee, British Embassy, Washington, D.C. My dear Lee:-- I was awfully sorry to miss Miss Moore. (Tell her, by the way, that the small "buttons" showed a sudden and most unexpected inclination to mix me up with you.) I can only hope for better luck in the future. I shall write to General Hutton at once. I should give a great deal to see him. I wish very much I could see you, for there is much I should like to talk over, especially in connection with the South African war. It makes me very sad. I wish you were able to place an overwhelming force in South Africa at once and get the thing over as soon and with as little bloodshed as possible. I thank my stars that it was not Joubert and his Boers who held Santiago. Much that goes on I am entirely unable to understand and I should like hints from you about it. Am very glad you like Root. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt458 Dec. 14th, 1899 Genl. McCoskry Butt, Union Club, 21st St. & 5th Ave., N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I thank you for yours of the 12th. I wish I could find the time to dine with you when in New York and go to the Athletic Club, but it is impossible. You dont [sic] know how busy I am when there. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 14th, 1899. Capt. T. Norton Goddard, 100 Bleecker St., N.Y. City. My dear Captain Goddard:-- Referring to the attached from Mr. Odell, how will this do? Please return Mr. Odell's letter with your reply. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt459 Dec. 13th, 1899 Hon. T. C. Platt, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I was exceedingly sorry to see that my intention to appoint Hendricks got out in New York. Hendricks has refused to accept, of which I am sorry. [?] interference into the [?] seems to send [?]. There is a strong feeling among the Judges and the leading members of the Bar that Judge McLennan ought not to have Judge Hiscock jumped over his head, and I do not see my way clear to doing it. I am very fond of Hiscock, [?] but it seems to me that it would be hardly wise or proper to cast so deliberate a slight upon McLennan. If I did, I would have again to take up the consideration of Russell and Werner. I am inclined to think that the solution I mentioned to you is the one I shall have to adopt. I have attempted to [?]. Remember the breakfast at Douglas Robinson's at 8.30 on Saturday the 23rd; the other guests have accepted. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt460 Dec. 14th, 1899 Dear Cabot:-- Many thanks for yours of the 13th. Of all things I should like to be Secretary of War, if Root should decide to take the Vice Presidency. By the way, I want to congratulate you on the triumph in Boston. That was first rate. Yes, I saw Dooley's article and enjoyed it immensely. It is really exceeding bright. How he does get my joint in the harness! What an awful time the English are having in the Transvaal. I should think they would feel pretty melancholy. Is there any chance whatever of my catching a glimpse of you? Are you going to be in New York at all? Ever yours, T. R. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Dec. 14th, 1899. Hon. George R. Bidwell, Collector of the Port, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bidwell:-- My sister-in-law, Miss Emily Carow, is a passenger on the Hamburg Line Steamer Furst Bismarck which is expected to arrive in New York on Sunday. I shall be very greatly obliged to you for any proper and consistent courtesy which the Customs officials may show her. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt461 Dec. 14th, 1899. Hon. StClair McKelway, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. McKelway:-- I have just received the editorial and it is perhaps needless to say that I should have recognized the author if I came on his works in the Sanscrit Veddas. Let me see you when you are next in Albany. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 14th, 1899 Hon. John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- The enclosed from Paul J. Dashiell explains itself. If anything can be done for him I should be very glad. You know what a fine fellow he is. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt462 Dec. 14th, 1899. George Stone, Esq., President, National Rep. League My dear Mr. Stone:-- I have yours of the 13th. I guess I will have to capitulate. Unless something unforseen [sic] turns up I will gladly attend on the 17th of July next. You of course would not want an absolutely definite promise so far in advance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 14th, 1899. President J. G. Schurman, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. My dear President Schurman:-- Would it be possible to have my Secretary, Mr. W. J. Youngs, made a trustee of Cornell? He does not know that I am writing and never has spoken or hinted anything to me about it, but I know that a number of the young men are very anxious he should have it. I have the very highest opinion of him. He has been not merely a most efficient Secretary, but a most faithful and devoted friend. I trust him in every way. Can anything be done to help him? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt463 Dec. 14th, 1899 My dear Sternburg :-- I was delighted to get your letter of the 12th. For Heaven's sake, get the Ambassador to let you come here! Would it do any good for me to write him? I hope we will have skating, but we will do something anyhow. What a terrible time the English are having! I have always believed they would win by sheer force of numbers and money, but their extraordinary inferiority to the Boers in fighting capacity where both sides seemingly display equal gallantry, makes me for the first time feel some little question as to the ultimate result. If they send me in driblets to South Africa instead of throwing in at once 90,000 more, they may have a very difficult job indeed, and failure would mean disaster to their whole empire. I do not feel inclined to throw stones at their lack of skill, for our own blunders in the Spanish war loom up before my eyes. The Boer losses seem to have been really light. Unless I am greatly mistaken their numbers are much over-estimated by the British. I read the British reports in the light of the statements sent out about our Santiago fighting. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Baron H. Sternburg, Imperial German Embassy, Washington, D.C.464 December 15, 1899 Mr. W. E. Gardner, Editor Post Standard, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Mr. Gardner: I thank you for your letter. I don't think you need be nervous as to my getting down in the dirt, as you phrase it, and when you know me better you will realize this yourself. I never seek trouble and always avoid it if possible, but I never avoid it a moment longer than I deem right in the interests of good government. You need have no fear of my flinching, and I shall try and keep as cool a head as possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Hon. Francis Hendricks, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 14th. I did not see the dispatch, but White told me of it. Inasmuch as it was a physical impossibility for any human being to have communicated with you on the subject save by some species of special ambassador, you need not have taken the trouble to tell me you reached the decision on your own initiative. Seriously, my dear fellow, I am almost annoyed that you should have thought it necessary to say so to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt465 Dec. 15th, 1899. Mr. Paul J Dashiell, Naval Academy Club, Annapolis, Md. My dear Dashiell:-- I have yours of the 14th. I wrote to the Secretary as soon as I received your telegram. I have written him so often that I am very much afraid my welcome is thread bard. I only hope I can accomplish something. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Dear Austin:-- If I can get down to the Boone & Crockett dinner I will, but it is not possible for me to promise. My work is about all I can attend to; so I should not dare to suggest a date. Probably the 18th would be better for me than the 20th, but I might not be able to come then. I wish I could come up for a ride on the snow, but I see no chance of getting away from Albany now. Yours, T.R.466 Dec. 15th, 1899. Mr. William E. Connelley, Topeka, Kas. My dear sir:-- I thank you for the copy of Wyandot Folk Lore. These Indian folk tales always interest me greatly and I look forward to reading it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Hon. J. W. Wadsworth, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Wadsworth:-- The enclosed letter explains itself. General Henry was a trump. Can anything be done for Mrs. Henry? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosure.467 Dec 15th, 1899. Wm. R. Corwine, Esq., N. Y. Life Bldg., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Corwine:-- I have yours of the 14th and I will write to Congressman Wadsworth at once and will be only too glad to do anything I can for General Henry's widow. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Rev. Father F. H. Wall, 444 E. 119th St., N.Y. City. My dear Father Wall:-- I have yours of the 14th inst. It can never be anything but a pleasure to hear from you. Now, all I can suggest is this: That your young friend through you write me for just what position he is eligible-- under what officer-- then I will write to the officer and find out how he stands. At least this will enable us to know definitely how the thing is. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt468 Dec. 15th, 1899. Mr. John H. Huyck, Jr., Late Corp. Co. I 1st Inf. Ill Vols., Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Huyck:-- I value your letter of the 12th inst very much. I did not want to say anything in my book that would look as if I was puffing up my own men, and indeed all I thought of was showing by vivid example the shortages of supplies. If I can help you about your genealogy I gladly will as we are fellow Dutchmen, but I am afraid if the genealogical society is unable to aid you that I wont [sic] be of much use. You do not give any address on your letter and I am not entirely sure that this will reach you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Hon. Elgar T. Brackett, Saratoga, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I deeply appreciate your letter of the 14th and thank you for having written me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt469 Dec. 15th, 1899. Mr. J. F. Garlock, 603 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I re-enclose the letters. I am afraid you are right, and that the General's mind is failing. If Senator Lindsay will write me I will do the best I can. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 15th, 1899. Rev. Father John I. Barrett, 367 Clermont Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Father Barrett:-- I have yours of the 13th inst. Of course I will write at once to the Secretary. I do not know that he has any sets left, but I will appeal as strongly as I can. What a trump Father Belford is! Upon my word, I do not what I will do if he is taken from Oyster Bay. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt470 December 15, 1899 Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. My dear Elihu: If the several hundred pages you did'nt [sic] write had contained the same doctrine as the three you so kindly did write, I should have remodelled my entire message. I will make both the changes you suggest at once - both that in relation to the franchise tax and that under the head of "Modern Industrial Conditions". I see entirely the danger of carrying a suggestion to the community such as my phrase might carry. I think that for it I shall substitute some of the sentences you write in your letter. There are, however, certain features [persons] which also seem to me to be unfortunate in their effects with the country. Take for instance C. P. Huntington. I would not say this publicly, but he comes to my mind because some of the best men I have ever seen from California have told me that his methods of handling his railroads and of handling the Legislature had been more potent than any other one cause in demoralizing the public conscience and in making it ready to accept even anarchy as better than that for which he stood. Oh Lord! I wish there were more of you. I think I have made a pretty good Governor, but I am quite honest in saying that I think you would have made a better one for in just such matters as trusts and the like you have the ideas to work out whereas I have to try to work out what I get from you and471 men like you. However, as Secretary of War at this particular crisis, you are doing more than you could possibly do even in the Governorship of New York. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec.18th, 1899. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- The enclosed letter on behalf of the Right Reverend Bishop of Brooklyn explains itself. Is it possible to get a copy of the official records desired for the Diocesan library? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt he other side he managed to see most of Ireland, something of England, and Paris on a Sunday afternoon to say nothing of an argument which472 Dec. 16th, 1899. Mr. John G. Skipworth, 1229 Prytannia St., NewOrleans, La. My dear Mr. Skipworth:-- I have yours of the 12th inst. I do remember you, and I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed, but I have not the slightest idea whether it will do good or not. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 16th, 1899. Hon. William E. Merriam, Director of the Census, Washington, D.C. My dear Governor Merriam:-- This will introduce to you Mr. John G. Skipworth of 1229 Prytannia St. New Orleans, La., who will show you a certificate of honorable discharge from my regiment. He did excellently as a soldier. He is a graduate of Tulane University and when he enlisted was in the law office of his uncle the late Percy Roberts of New Orleans, for whom I had a great regard. He has passed an examination for your department. Senator Caffrey has I believe spoken to you about him. I earnestly hope that he can be appointed. Commending him most warmly to your courtesy, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt473 Dec. 16th, 1899. Hon. John T. McDonough, Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. McDonough:-- Will you go out with me to the House of the Good Shepherd. Mother St.Peter sent me word by my small boy that she would like me to visit out there, and I would like you to take me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Mr. Charles G. Bush, C/o N. Y. World, New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Bush:- I have just received the picture with your card and compliments. Let me thank you heartily. My children enjoyed it as much as I did. If you will permit me to say so, you have the knack which is also possessed by some of the best English caricaturists-- that is of making thoroughly telling and effective points, and yet keeping your work emphatically the work of a gentleman. Again thanking you, I am Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt474 Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Colonel Arthur H. Lee, 11 E. 65th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Lee:- I have your note of yesterday. If it had been next Saturday instead of this I would have come in. I am very anxious to see Miss Moore and very anxious to see you. I have written to General Hutton but of course have not yet heard from him. I want to see you very much. Is there no chance of your getting up here if only for a night? Believe me, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Hon. G. H. Lyman, Collector of Customs, Boston, Mass. My dear George:- I have your note of the 15th instant. Things here are always a perfect kaleidoscope and New York politicans[sic] shift around marvelously. Anything may happen, but so far as a positive promise goes I have it. The trouble of course is that on the one hand, the Mugwumps are such utter idiots that I can get no help from them, and on the other hand, the machine, as in the case of Lou Payn, too often demand what no self-respecting and upright man can do. When you see Cabot I suppose you will find him feeling rather injured because I do not want the Vice-Presidency. But it does seem to me to be about the last thing for which I should care.475 December 16, 1899. Hon. C. C. Kohlsaat, U.S.District Court, Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Kohlsaat:- I thank you vordially for your letter of the 14th instant. I do not agree with your premises, because, my dear fellow, I am not able to take myself seriously as a Presidential candidate; but I absolutely agree with your conclusion. The last thing I want to be is Vice President. I would ratherbe renominated forthe Governorship. The Vice President has nothing to do, whereas the Governor has a big job on his hands. I hope you will like that part of my message in which I deal with taxation, trusts, industrial development, etc. Mr. H. H. Kohlsaat will probably recognize a good many of the ideas formulated in our talks on the way to and from Las Vegas last summer. Give him my regards, by the way. I wish I could see both of you. Is not Root doing splendidly? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Lt.Com. W. W. Kimball, The Bancroft, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Kimball:- I have yours of the 15th instant. There are few things I can do with better heart than to write as I shall immediately to the Secretary of the Navy on your behalf. I shall state that I do it not for you, but for the service. I do not suppose I shall accomplish anything, but I will try. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt476 December 16, 1899. Captain Richard Wainwright, U.S.S. Santee, Anapolis, Md. My dear Captain:-- I have your note of the 15th instant in reference to Paul Dashiell. I had already written about him, but I wrote again on receipt of your letter. I am afraid the Secretary gets rather bored with my continually writing him, and can only hope that I will do some good. My dear fellow, I wonder if you know what a constant pleasure it is to me to think of my having been associated with you? I do hope some time to catch a glimpse of you again. All this South African business has made me very sad. The Boers are a fine manly people, and on the other hand, after the English attitude toward us during the war with Spain, I shall always have a very strong feeling for them. And moreover I believe that were England's Empire to be shattered, the United States would be in grave danger from the great European military and naval powers. Of course they could not conquer us [?], but some time we would [will] suffer [and] humiliating defeat at their hands. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt477 December 16, 1899. Hon. John D. Long, Secretary of Navy, Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary:- Even your long suffering patience will give out some time if I keep on writing to you; but you need to answer my letters, and I only [*want*] you to take them at exactly their face value. I do not write you about any man with whom I was not brought into personal contact, and my letters are simply to be taken as testimonials such as I would give to any man who served with me-- such as I have given about men in my own regiment and the other cavalry regiments to the Secretary of War. I learn that Captain Sigsbee has applied for Lieut-Commander Kimball for the Intelligence Dept. During my year of service in the Department, Kimball was one of the men with whom I was thrown into intimate contact. He did invaluable work, not merely with the torpedo-boat squadron, but in formulating and preparing plans of action for the war with Spain. He has a rather rare combination of executive capacity in practice, and of knowledge of the theory of war. This makes him peculiarly fitted for such an office as the Bureau of Intelligence, for he neither disregards books and learning, nor on the other hand fails to understand the necessity of practical training. I would regard him as a peculiarly valuable officer for the place. I enclose a letter from gallant Dick Wainwright on behalf of Paul Dashiell. You note what he says of how invaluable Dashiell is to the Naval Academy. I have the utmost confidence in his word. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt478 December 16, 1899. Col. J. H. Dorst, 45th Infy. U.S.V., Manila, P. I. My dear Colonel:- I have yours of November 30th dated at Honolulu. I am sure that the War Department told you the exact truth, and that your appointment was literally on merit. When Root came in and asked me if I had any recommendations to make, and if so, if I would put them down in their order, I put you at the head of the list and explained my previous efforts. Three or four on the list were appointed-- for instance, Andrews, Brown and Parker. Howze had been appointed before, with two or three others. Two or three like Stevens were not appointed. You were. Root wrote me back that it was a pleasure to appoint you. I dare say my suggestion had nothing whatever to do with it. In any event, all I did was to give the reasons why from what I had seen of you, I judged you to be particularly fitted for the place of work. When I made another plea for Stevens, I was met with the statement that enough had been done for the men with General Wilson, and they reminded me of your appointment, &c. I firmly believe you have yourself to thank for the appointment, and can only say that if I have been of any assistance whatever I am glad. I believe you will find most of my Rough Riders pretty good men. Naturally I am very fond of them. Moreover, unless I am mistaken they will be better the more serious the emergency is. Wishing you all good luck. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt479 December 16, 1899. Mr. Gaston R. d'Humy, Santa Rita, N. M. My dear Comrade:- I have yours of the 9th instant and with pleasure send theenclosed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The bearer, Gaston R. d'Humy, who will show his certificate of Honorable Discharge from my regiment, the First U. S. Volunteer Cavalry, , was in the Rough Riders during the War with Spain. He behaved well as a soldier and I believe will do well as a citizen. [*I? am?? command?*] Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt480 December 16, 1899. Mr. John M. Mickle, Holley Springs, Miss. My dear Mr. Mickle:- Replying to yours of the 12th instant I would say that young Capron was from Florida, but his father was a New Englander who served on the Union side. In my regiment about two-thirds of the men, I think, were of Confederate origin and had fathers who fought in the Confederate Army. The only captain I promoted to major was Jenkins of So. Carolina, the son of a Confederate Brigadier General, and I can give no higher praise to the son than to say,that like the other sons of Confederate soldiers in my regiment, he showed himself worthy of his fighting ancestor. With great regard believe me Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Dr. Albert Shaw, 13 Astor Place, New York, N. Y. My dear Dr Shaw:- I have yours of the 15th instant returning Senator Lodge's letter. I would be afraid to speak so broadly about the Vice-Presidency [*but?*] Mr. Root. I think the best men want him and I think he is willing to go on the ticket, but beyond that I would not be willing to say. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt481 December 16, 1899. John Allison, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. My dear Mr. Allison:- I have yours of the 14th instant. It is never anything but a pleasure to hear from you, and I am in cordial sympathy, it is almost needless to say, with your proposal. I do not suppose I need to say that such a multitude of demands are made upon me that I am quite incapable of meeting a tenth of them, and being a man of very moderate income with six children and so many calls upon my purse, I could not go into anything new. If Col. Astor would go into it it would be a first class thing. Like every man of wealth, he has, however, such a multitude of requests made of him that his first impulse is certain to be to say no. My relations with him are very cordial. So far I have always refused to say anything to him in reference to the numerous charities concerning which I have been asked to approach him, for from buying a newspaper to founding a hospital I doubt if there is anything which I have not been requested to ask him to aid. For me to speak to him out of the clear skies as it were, would be utterly useless. In some way or other he has got to grow to take an interest in the matter himself. If he had been on Wheeler's staff instead on Shafter's it would have been easier. Do you happen to know any son of an ex-Confederate who served with him? I would like to get some such men "on him" as it were. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt482 Dec. 16th, 1899. Nicholas Murray Butler, Esq., Columbia University, N.Y. City. My dear Butler:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 15th inst about the Superintendent of Insurance. It is excellent. I hope what you suggest can be brought about. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Rev. E. P. Johnson, #2 First Street, Albany, N. Y. My dear Dr. Johnson:- Will you use the enclosed $50.00 in any way you see fit for the poor of our parish at Christmas? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt483 December 16, 1899. Irving l'Hommedieu, Esq., Medina, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I have yours of the 15th instant. Senator Ellsworth will give you the inside facts of all the matters in reference to which you write. Now about Dr. Emily M. Swett-- can you give me the names of some thoroughly reputable medical men and others who will vouch for her, and can you tell me whether the commissioner of the State Board of Charities for your district would recommend her or speak well of her? I wish you would find out about this at once. I have desired to scatter these appointments in as many different judicial districts as possible, and the recommendations originally sent me by Senator Ellsworth practically all came from one judicial district. Also, I want to keep the boards as free from politics as possible. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 16th, 1899. Hon. Horace White, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I have yours two letters of the 15th. Do you know I beleive that a majority of the Bar and the great majority of the bench favor McLennan as against Hiscock. I have been talking with a lot of lawyers and judges here and I am convinced that this is there feeling. They speak very highly of Merwin whom I think very seriously of appointing. Your name shall not appear at all. The suggestion about Persons is a good one. I have been thinking very seriously about your man Hancock. Hendricks would be most [?]. That is a corking good suggestion of yours about Delehanty, and I will try it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt484 PRIVATE. Dec. 16th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell Jr., Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I send you the enclosed letter, emphatically not for you to follow the advice, but just to show you that Nicholas Murray Butler is a pretty good organization man. For Heaven's sake, do not misunderstand me! I am very far from sure that it would be wise for you to make a statement at all, and certainly not until we had gone all over the matter together, but I think Butler's letter so nice, and the way it appreciates the great desirability of the organization and myself being together, and of his understanding my desire in the matter, that I thought I would send it to you. I have been very careful to tell no one what I thought was the Senator's or your feeling toward Payn, except that I did say in [?] that I believed that you felt I should have an appointe with whom I was in sympathy. I thought Payn's statement an unwise one from his own standpoint. I wish to do the thing quietly; but if I am forced to it, of course, I will send to the Senate the reasons why he should not stay in, in a way that will make it unpleasant not only for him but for any Senator that supports him. An amusing feature of his interview was that the day before the piece appeared in The Sun about the Hendricks appointment, Payn had called on me here, and in the presence of a stenographer expressed the most fervent admiration of me and wild desire for my renomination, and assured me that no power in the party could possibly prevent it-- the inference which he plainly intended me to infer being, that whether the organization happened to be for me or not, he, the excellent & upright public official, felt with the rest of the upright public that I was the Heaven-sent leader to whom everybody owed fealty! I think I deserve some credit for having kept a perfectly straight face during my answer. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt485 December 16, 1899. Col. David E. Austen, 125 W. 95th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Colonel:- I have yours of the 14th instant. I fear it would be out of the question for me to call and see the armory. I feel also that I am bound to say that it is very late in the day to take the action you suggest about the armory. The law was passed last year with the entire acquiescence of all the authorities in the Brooklyn Guard, and in its final shape was exactly as they requested it should be and was passed for this express purpose. There will be a strong feeling that there has been bad faith should the purport of a law not now be carried out, as in its final form it received, as I say, the approval of all those who were before me representing both sides. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Mr. Justice Wm. H. Adams, Canandaigua, N. Y. My dear Judge:- Replying to your of the 15th instant. Can you come here next Wednesday, the 20th instant with Judge Spring? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt486 December 16, 1899. John J. Fischer, Esq., Utica, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your communication of the 12th instant enclosing a petition in the matter of the charges against Factory Inspector Williams and will investigate the matter at once. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 16th, 1899 Dr. Harold Emory Jones, 1103 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Dr. Jones:-- If you think it will help you to dedicate the poem to me, of course, you can. But I am very much afraid that you will not find that it makes any difference. I had more than one Englishman of just your type in my regiment, and fine fellows they were too. Now, I do not know anything about you, but it seems to me almost a pity that you have left the West. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people doing literary work. My own experience is that editors want to get any good article and would like to read a ms of promise, but they cannot accept any ms from sympathy. Now, if you take this letter, for instance, to Mr. Scribner of Scribners Sons, or to Mr. Gilder of The Century, I believe you would find that they would take and read through any piece you had to submit. But they would judge the piece absolutely on what they thought its merits. Nothing that I or anyone else said would affect them in the least. Scores of times, indeed hundreds of times, I have had friends and even strangers write to me to submit their pieces to certain popular magazines, and I have done so, but of them all, only two were accepted, and I think these two would have been accepted just as freely if they had not been sent through me at all. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt486 December 16, 1899. John J. Fischer, Esq., Utica, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I am in receipt of your communication of the 12th instant enclosing a petition in the matter of the charges against Factory Inspector Williams and will investigate the matter at once. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 16th, 1899 Dr. Harold Emory Jones, 1103 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Dr. Jones:-- If you think it will help you to dedicate the poem to me, of course, you can. But I am very much afraid that you will not find that it makes any difference. I had more than one Englishman of just your type in my regiment, and fine fellows they were too. Now, I do not know anything about you, but it seems to me almost a pity that you have left the West. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people doing literary work. My own experience is that editors want to get any good article and would like to read a ms of promise, but they cannot accept any ms from sympathy. Now, if you take this letter, for instance, to Mr. Scribner of Scribners Sons, or to Mr. Gilder of The Century, I believe you would find that they would take and read through any piece you had to submit. But they would judge the piece absolutely on what they thought its merits. Nothing that I or anyone else said would affect them in the least. Scores of times, indeed hundreds of times, I have had friends and even strangers write to me to submit their pieces to certain popular magazines, and I have done so, but of them all, only two were accepted, and I think these two would have been accepted just as freely if they had not been sent through me at all. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt487 December 16, 1899. Civil Service Commission, Albany, N. Y. Gentlemen:- I send you the enclosed from Pres. Herbert E. Mills of the Hudson House of Refuge for Women. I very urgently request that the position of superintendent be excepted. There has been great trouble in the institution, and we do not want to have the civil service law in any way seem responsible for the condition of affairs/ Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Mr. Herbert E. Mills President, Hudson, N. Y. My dear Mr. Mills:- I am in receipt of your communication of the 8th instant in reference to the exemption of the position of Superintendent of the House of Refuge for Women, and have at once taken the matter up with the Civil Service Commission. Very truly yours, Theodore RooseveltDecember 16, 1899. Rev. Charles Pelletreau, Ballston Spa., N. Y. My dear Sir:- I thank you much for your letter of the 15th instant in reference to Mr. Verbeck. I should like to see Mr. Verbeck personally. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 16, 1899. Rev. Clarence H. Beers, 105 E. Houston St., New York, N. Y. My dear Dr. Beers:- I have yours of the 15th instant. The trouble is I am absolutely powerless in the matter in reference to which you write. When I was Police Commissioner I could deal with the dif- ficulty. Now I cannot. I fear I could be of no assistance to you. I am going to have the vagrancy law amended more stringently this year on the sugges- tion of Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell. But there is no use of having any law if the city authorities wont en- force it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 488489 December 16, 1899. Hon. John Williams, Factory Inspector, Albany, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I enclose herewith a communication signed by the president and recording secretary of the Utica Trades Assembly transmitting a petition which is also herewith enclosed, setting forth charges in reference to an alleged non-enforcement of the eight-hour law by you and requesting your removal from office. Will you please give me the facts in this matter at once? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. Mr. Charles T. Andrews, Seneca Falls, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 16th enclosing article. I agree entirely with your view of General Wood, but I am sorry to say I am perfectly powerless to get such an article published, as there is no way I would know how to set about it. Again thanking you and assuring you I appreciate what you have done, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt489 December 16, 1899. Hon. John Williams, Factory Inspector, Albany, N. Y. My dear Sir:- I enclose herewith a communication signed by the president and recording secretary of the Utica Trades Assembly transmitting a petition which is also herewith enclosed, setting forth charges in reference to an alleged non-enforcement of the eight-hour law by you and requesting your removal from office. Will you please give me the facts in this matter at once? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. Mr. Charles T. Andrews, Seneca Falls, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 16th enclosing article. I agree entirely with your view of General Wood, but I am sorry to say I am perfectly powerless to get such an article published, as there is no way I would know how to set about it. Again thanking you and assuring you I appreciate what you have done, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt490 Dec. 18th, 1899. Hon. Hamilton Fish, Grand Hotel, Beau-Rivage, Geneve, Switzerland. My dear Mr. Fish:-- I thank you heartily for your letter of the 7th inst. I am going to do my best to get Mr. Payn out, and whatever the result is I shall make the fight. Whether I shall succeed or not I do not know. You are very good to show such interest. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. William H. Hotchkiss, 37 Oakland Place, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hotchkiss:-- I very deeply appreciate your thoughtful and manly letter of the 15th inst. There are a number of things I want to tell you in reference to what occurred at the end of the contest which I should like to do in person and not on paper. Can you not get on here sometime? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt491 Dec. 18th, 1899. Mr. E. D. Brandegee, Utica, N.Y. Dear Ned:-- Thank you very much, old fellow. I fear, however, that those expressions, though very pleasant, do not really mean anything serious. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. My dear Mr. Phelps:-- I thank you most heartily for your note in reference to Harry. I deeply appreciate your courtesy and the interest you are taking. Faithfully yours Theodore Roosevelt Wm. Woodward Phelps, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C.492 Dec. 18th, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Odell:-- I have yours of the 16th. All right, old man. I will see you on Friday and go over the whole matter. I do not believe you will find that Hendricks will be alienated by any act of mine-- for I wont [sic] take the act. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt493 Dec. 18th, 1899 Hon. T. C. Platt, Fifth Ave Hotel, N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 16th. The Payn matter was not stirred up from this end. I sent for Hendricks to come here and see me about Judge Hiscock, and I spoke to him about the Payn matter merely because of what had appeared in The Sun. As you will recollect, the statement that Hendricks was to be offered the place appeared in The Sun from the New York end. I supposed that either you or Odell gave it out. I certainly did not and it did not come from Albany. I am greatly relieved to find that you did not. Do you think it possible that Mr. Odell incidentally let Eddie Riggs know about it? I am really at a loss to understand how it got out from the New York end and only in The Sun. I did not want to write and ask either you or Ben about it, and I am very glad that you spoke of it so as to give me the opportunity to place myself right about it. The enclosed letter from Judge Vann will I think give you a clearer idea of my difficulties in the Hiscock matter. Please treat the letter as purely confidential, save of course you can show it to Ben Odell, and then return it to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt494 Dec. 18th, 1899. Hon. Francis Henricks, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I am sincerely obliged for your letter of the 17th inst. Of course, I shall now absolutely refrain from committing myself in any way to the gentlemen in question until I see you. I evidently misunderstood you. He was urged upon me by the Attorney General. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- The enclosed letter from Lt. Col. Alex O. Brodie of my regiment explains itself. Sullivan was an excellent man. I knew him in Montana before he joined the regiment. I believe he will be an entirely satisfactory appointe. He showed himself eminently brave, capable and trustworthy in the regiment. Do you not think something can be done for him? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Hon. Ethan A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C.495 Dec. 18th, 1899. Lt. Col. Alex. O. Brodie, Crown Point Mine, Briggs, Arizona. My dear Colonel:-- I have yours of the 11th inst. I will do everything I can for Sullivan, but I am continually applying for so many Rough Riders that I suppose the administration is pretty weary of me. There has been a split in the Spanish- American War Veteran Association and I have kept out of the fight, because I do not know which organization to join. I did help land one Arizona man, Bugbee, in a commission. Remember me to Mrs. Brodie. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 18th, 1899. Rev. Thomas R. Slicer, 27 W. 76th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Slicer:-- I have yours of the 16th with enclosed copy of letter to McKelway. I do wish you could come up here. There is very much I should like to talk over with you. I most earnestly hope that Mr. Wilcox will not defer that hearing any longer. I almost hesitate to write him for fear he might think I was influencing him to hurry. What would be your judgment? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt496 Dec. 18th, 1899. Mr. Jacob A. Riis, 301 Mulberry St., N. Y. City. Dear Jake:-- I thank you heartily for yours of the 16th inst enclosing drafts of the proposed drug clerks' bill. Will you give me the name of somebody in the recalcitrant body whom I can notify that inasmuch as they seem to make no effort towards a general agreement, we shall accept your bill. I would like to tell them that when the bill finally comes up that I will submit it to you and Seth Low, and if you two agree on it, I will sign it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899. Bishop Wm. Croswell Doane, Albany, N.Y. My dear Bishop:-- Few things give me more aid than to have affairs of state "meddled with" as you style it, by men of high character and intelligence. You have given me a bit of information which was precisely what I wanted. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt497 Dec. 19th, 1899 Mr. G. S. Corey, Office of the Naval Officer of Customs, Port of New York N.Y City. My dear Mr. Corey:-- I most cordially endorse the work to be done by the commercial travellers. No body of men deserves better of our party. I am deeply interested in the organization they are getting up. I pray you to extend to them my most cordial good wishes for success. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899. Mr. J. Kempthorne, C/o Thos. Cook Sons & Co., Cape Town, South Africa. My dear sir:-- Replying to yours of Oct. 15th, I am sorry to say that I have now nothing to do with the cavalry. I take it for granted you can join, but I do not know what the conditions are. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt498 Dec. 19th, 1899. My dear Nellie:-- I am awfully pleased about Harry. I am sure he will make you proud of him in every way. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Tarrytown, N. Y. Dec. 19th, 1899. Darling Corinne:-- On Thursday Dec. 21st, may I have dinner at seven oclock [sic]? If you are going out, do remember that seriously I am quite as happy with bread and milk as with anything else. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Mrs. Douglas Robinson, 422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City.499 Dec. 19th, 1899. Mr. Paul Eve Stevenson, C/o J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, Penn. My dear Mr. Stevenson:-- I have just received the book and thank you cordially for it. I hope I will have a chance to glance at it, for I no doubt will enjoy it greatly. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899 Mr. Lawrence Godkin, #56 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Godkin:-- I have yours of the 18th. I think that is an admirable suggestion of yours, and I shall take steps to sound Judge Saxton at once. But pray speak of it to no one at present. Publicity might prevent his acceptance. Have you any influence you could bring to bear upon him to make him consent to stand for you place? In deciding whose name to send in to the Senate, I shall of course first consider that the man is straight and clean; but almost equally important is it that he shall have to strength to enable me to get him confirmed. Mr. Cillis has said he would not accept the place; but after what you say I shall certainly consult you before offering it to him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt500 Dec. 19th, 1899. Senator T. C. Platt, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- Herewith I send you a proof of my message. All the important parts I have had gone over by various experts. Thus the entire canal matter has been laid before General Greene, Supt. Partridge, State Engineer Bond, and Fox and MacFarlane. The part on taxation, franchise tax, public utilities, industrial conditions and trusts has been laid before Stranahan, Elihu Root, President Hadley of Yale and Prof. Jenks of Cornell, as well as in part before Prof. Seligman of Columbia and Judge Cohen, and that lawyer, James A. Dill of New Jersey, who is in partnership with Attorney General Griggs and who is a big corporation lawyer. The part about labor I have put before Secretary of State McDonough, Prof. Jenks and in part before Holls. The Agricultural part has been before Assemblyman Witter of Tioga Co. The part about National Guard has been before Major General Roe and Brigadier General Oliver, &c., &c. So you see I have tried to get all the advice I could and have endeavored to make it a satisfactory document! I need not say that I want you to make suggestions and criticisms with the utmost freedom. I hope you can get it back to me so that I can send it definitely to the printers by Tuesday of next week. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt501 Dec. 19th, 1899. Mrs. M. E. Rose, 732 S. Olive St., Los Angeles, Cal. My dear madam:-- I have yours of the 12th inst. It can never be anything but a pleasure to hear from the mother of one of my men, but I am sorry to say that I can give you but little advice. You could not get your boy's money unless he made an assignment to you. You will have to write to him and get him to assign his pay to you. The let him apply to Col. Alex. O. Brodie of Prescott, Arizona for authority to get the medal which can be obtained from Lebkruecher & Co., Newark, New Jersey. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899. Messrs P. A. & H. Swartz, 130 Madison Ave., Albany, N.Y. Gentlemen:-- Will you please send a nice 15 lb. turkey by express prepaid to Mr. Frank G. Geahle, Piqua, Ohio, sending with it the card I enclose here with and charge same to me. Please forward it so he may receive it Xmas. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt502 Dec. 19th, 199. Mr. G. Bielle, Comptroller of Customs, Havana, Cuba. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 15th inst. If my understanding is correct General Wood has complete control of matters in Cuba. If I was in his place I should hold it very much against a man if he sought to obtain outside political influence. I believe that General Wood will treat the people under him in official positions purely on their merits, of which he must be a far better judge than any man outside of Cuba. If he does not do this I would be greatly disappointed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899. Hon. Cushman K. Davis, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 16th inst. I think I can go to St Paul next July. I should like to, because we can start the campaign so to speak. I told them that of course I should not go unless you wanted me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt503 Dec. 19th, 1899 Melvil Dewey, Esq., Secretary, Regents, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Dewey:-- Replying to yours of the 18th inst, I should prefer to have you write your reasons. There is no point in giving them to me verbally. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899 Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Abbott:-- Will you return me this letter from Secretary Root after you have read it? I have marked the part about the army business. I wonder if anything could be done to start such an agitation as that he speaks of? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt504 December 19, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, 30 E. 64th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Low:- Will you please let me know (at once!) the hour that you have set for the dinner, Friday, the 22nd instant? I shall leave Albany Thursday afternoon. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 19th, 1899. Mr. William H. Theobald, U.S. Treasury Dept., Custom House, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Theobald:-- I want to thank you heartily for your courtesy to my sister-in-law. Believe me I appreciate it. Sincerely yours,505 Dec. 19th, 1899 Hon. John D Long, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- I have just received your thoughtful and kind letters. Unless you especially want it I wont send that letter to Kimball; because unless I said I did so at your suggestion, it would look as though I was trying to be unpleasant with him. I understand perfectly about Dashiell. Now, I think I am going to adopt this rule about the Navy Department-- the same rule as about the War Department-- that is, tell those people who write me (and you have no conception of how many do write me) that I will with pleasure testify to whatever I know at first hand about any man who served with me, but that I will make no request and do nothing of any kind further than speak about matters of which I have personal knowledge. Meanwhile, my dear sir, do let me assure you that I appreciate your patience and kindliness. Faithfully your old friend, Theodore Roosevelt506 Dec. 19th, 1899. My dear Lee:-- Let me congratulate you most heartily. Miss Moore must be all that you describe, and I am proud of her, and can well understand your feeling toward her. Let me also say that I think she is doing exactly right. One of the things about my regiment that I most keenly regretted was the fact that young Tiffany (whom you doubtless remember) left his sweetheart without making her his wife, and when he died the broken-hearted girl had not the consolation of bearing his name and of having the right to sorrow for him. Had I been in your place I should have asked Miss Moore to do just what she has volunteered to do, and Mrs. Roosevelt in Miss Moore's place would have volunteered just exactly as she has done. If the powers of continental Europe menace your people, I believe, and certainly I hope, this country will promptly give them the notice507 [inverted] "hands off". But I think your navy will guarantee [*you*] against interference; and France is really the only power which seems to threaten it. I am delighted that Roberts and Kitchener are going to the Cape, and I hope you will put at least 150,000 more men there. The spirit with which England has risen to meet the disaster is admirable in every way. From what I have read I should think men like those of my regiment, and organizations like that regiment, would do excellently for just this type of fighting. The Boers are terrible fighters and that is the reason I hope now once for all you will put such a force in the Cape as to ensure overwhelming success. There is much about the fighting that I have not understood and I should liked to have talked it over with you. It would be the greatest pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt and myself if you and your bride could visit us. I was exceedingly sorry that General Hutton could not come. By the way, I have just received news that gallant Lawton has been killed. Two of my officers have been killed in the Phillipines! Good luck be with you always. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt Col. Shaw, the Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, has just been in; I read him what I had written you as regards our attitude in the men of the Continent menacing England, and he said "Tell him I agree with every word; we're for England."507 "hands off". But I think your navy will guarantee you against interference: and France is really the only power which seems to threaten it. I am delighted that Roberts and Kitchener are going to the Cape, and I hope you will put at least 150,000 more men there. The spirit with which England has risen to meet the disaster is admirable in every way. From what I have read I should think men like those of my regiment, and organizations like that regiment, would do excellently for just this type of fighting. The Boers are terrible fighters and that is the reason I hope now once and for all you will put such a force in the Cape as to ensure overwhelming success. There is much about the fighting that I have not understood and I should liked to have talked it over with you. It would be the greatest pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt and myself if you and your bride could visit us. I was exceedingly sorry that General Hutton could not come. By the way, I have just received news that gallant Lawton has been killed. Two of my officers have been killed in the Philippines. Good luck be with you always. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt [*Col. Shaw, the commander of the Grand Army of the Republic , has just been in; I read him what I had written you as regards our attitude in the war of the continent menacing England, and he said "Tell him I agree with every word; we're for England"*]508 Dec. 20th, 1899 Hon. Thomas H. Carter. Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- The enclosed letter explains itself. It is from one of the best men in my regiment, whom I also employed on my ranch at one time. He is as honest, faithful, brave, and loyal a fellow as ever walked the earth and I have tested him thoroughly both in civil and military duties. There is no position of trust to which I should not be delighted to see him appointed if it was in his line. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 20th, 1899 Mr. Fredk. Herrig, Kalispell, Montana My dear Fred:-- I will write to Senator Carter at once and back you in every way. I only hope that he will pay attention to what I say. I enclose copy of my letter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt509 Dec. 20th, 1899. Hon. Horace White, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I have yours of the 18th. I Thank the Lord I was able to appoint Kruse for Higgins! If I had to disappoint both you and he I think I should have felt like resigning the Governorship. Surely you must know how I feel towards you and the double purpose I had in view in wanting to get Hendricks as Superintendent of Insurance. I have received a letter from Judge Vann which as it is not marked private I regard myself at liberty to show, although of course only for your personal information, and I will do it when you come on here. I will take no steps about the Superintendent of Insurance without your knowledge. You can be sure that it will not be distasteful to you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 20th, 1899. Dr. Frank J. Ives, Major & Surgeon U. S. Vol. Matanzas, Cuba. My dear Doctor:-- I have yours of the 14th inst with enclosure. No, I have not forgotten you and I will gladly back you. Whether I will be able to be of service or not I do not know, but all that I can do I will most gladly do. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt510 Dec. 20th, 1899. Hon. Seth Low, 30 East 64th St., N.Y. City. My dear Low:-- Replying to yours of the 19th inst-- Did you not receive my last letter? I am to spend the night at my sisters No. 422 Madison Avenue, and I wrote you yesterday asking what time the dinner was? I will stay with you just as late as you will put up with me after the dinner is over, as I want to give you a complete account of all that is impending. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 20th, 1899. Maj. W. H. H. Llewellyn, C/o D. M. Goodrich, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Major:-- I have your letter of the 19th. Be sure and get Admiral goodrich and stop here. We want to see you very much and have you as our guest at the Executive Mansion. Give my love to Dave and especially to Mrs. Goodrich. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt511 Dec. 21st, 1899. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- I have yours of the 20th about Howell. That is a very ugly showing. It rather unsettles my belief in abstract civil service reform. You may recollect I kept Howell on the urgent personal request of McAdoo whose Private Secretary he had been and who said he could trust him thoroughly. Just at the time the civil service people were raising a row about private secretaries. LeGare did tell me that there was a leak, I think; but I am also very strongly of the opinion that he said it was not in our office. I always thought he and Howell were great friends together. I am going to write to McAdoo about the matter. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Honorable John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. Dec. 21st, 1899. Hon. William McAdoo, #15 Wall St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. McAdoo:-- I think you should see the enclosed letter from Secretary Long and the extract from Howell's testimony, and after you have read them, please return them to me. I am disagreeably surprised that Howell should do anything of the kind, and I thought you had better know about the matter. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Enclosures.512 Dec. 21st, 1899. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. Dear Cabot:-- This is to introduce the Rev. Dr. W. T. Rainsford of New York. He is an old friend of mine, a sportsman and a keen philanthropic worker. I commend him to your courtesy in every way. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 22nd, 1899. Rev. Dr. W. T. Rainsford, 209 E. 16th St., N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Rainsford:-- Complying with your request of the 19th inst, I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Enclosure.513 Dec. 21st, 1899. Hon. B. B. Odell, Chairman, Fifth Avenue Hotel, N.Y. City My dear Mr. Odell:-- Many thanks for Ainsworth's letter which I herewith return. Dewey has served me notice that he will oppose the bill, and I suppose the regents will; so I suppose we shall get nothing out of it, though I hope we can. Let me see you without fail on Saturday morning at 8.30 at my sister's house No. 422 Madison Avenue. I have much to tell you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec.21st 1899. Miss Belle C. Sabin, North Harney, Ill. My deay Miss Sabin:-- I thank you heartily for the little book which I shall no doubt enjoy reading. Will you please also convey my thanks to Miss Huleutte? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt514 Dec. 21st, 1899. Mr. John H. Huyck, Jr., 1301 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. My dear sir:-- I have yours of the 19th. I understood your former letter entirely and thank you for the generous spirit that made you write. I am sorry to say that I know of no higher genealogical authorities than those to whom you have already written to. If I can find out anything on the subject I will let you know. As I understand it there is no charge for certification by the Adjutant General's office. If you think it would facilitate matters any for you in obtaining information from that office, you may forward them this letter to vouch for you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 21st, 1899. Mr. Paul J. Dashiell, Naval Academy Club, Annapolis, Md. My dear Dashiell:-- I have yours of the 19th. I a sorry to say I fear my bolt has been shot to. The Secretary's letter in response to mine was most discouraging, and indeed I think he was a little put out at my writing. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt515 Dec. 21st, 1899. Mr. John B. Olmsted, The Saturn Club, Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Olmsted :-- I have yours of the 20th inst and thank you heartily. I should particularly like to come, but I am a little uncertain about my New York engagements. They have been asking me to speak at three or four different places the night before in New York. What morning train from New York could I take and reach Buffalo in time for your dinner? Do not take this for a definite acceptance, because I have got to see just what they want me to do in New York. I should particularly like to accept the invitation of your club, if it is possible. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 21st, 1899. Mr. E. A. L. Johnston, c/o Mills Hotel, Bleecker St., N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- Replying to yours of the 19th inst, I regret that I can only refer you to the British Embassador or the British Consul. Truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt7-608 V 20 306 343 391 418 435 439 456 Indiced in full. Executive Personas From Oct 7 1899 toA B [Column 1] A Abbott Lyman 5, 503, Aberdeen Lady 163 Adams Wm H. 366, 485 [Column 2] E [Column 3] I Andrews A. D. 84, 164, 338 Anderson Wm J. 87, Allen Chas H. 101 Anslem Bro. 216, Allesin John 481 Andrews Chas T. 489 [Column 4] O Astor J J 2 Ashbough Anna E. 119 Archev Wm 346 Armour F. D'w. 443, [Column 5] U Austen Danl E. 485 [Column 6] Y Ayres Mrs. C. G. 372 Ayres Capt C. G. 383A Brazier Miss M. H. 26 Bramhall J. T. 43, 82 Barnes Wm Jr. 90 Blankman E. G. 131 Braun Marcus 144, 147, 171, 445 Barrows C. S. 184 Brandes Juan F 223 Batchelder Mrs L. A. 224 Bailey A. M. 234 Bartlett F. 240 Bartlett E. T. 294 Barrett John 314 Barrett John I. Rev. 469 E Breen Mat. P. 71, 442 Beacorn J. H. 107 Bender H H 144 Benham Geo A. 396 Beers C. H. 488 I Bridges Robt 32, 66, 352, Bijur Nat. 97, 195, 223 Birney T. W. 330 Bingham C. H. 332 Bjorksten Miss Greta 442 Bidwell Geo R. 460 Bielle G. 502 O Brandegee E. D. 491 Brackett E. T. 468 Brodie Alex O., 71, 495 Boies Wm J. 81 Brown W L. 95 Brower Mrs. M. S. 132 Braun Marcus 144, 147, 171 Browne Warren C. 175 Boyd Andrew 191, Brown Elon R. 196, 316, Booth Mrs. M. B. 225, 280 Bocock John Paul 297 Bowen C. W. 328 Bobb D. S. 342 Bolles C. D. 349 Brooks Bros. 365 Boughton D. H. 439 U Butler Nich Murray 20, 42, 53, 105, 118, 165, 195, 285, 321, 424, 445, 482, Bulloch James D. 70 Bugbee F. W. 183 Butler John A. 380 Butt McCoskry 413, 458 Buchanan Wm. I. 436 Bush C. G. 473 YC D A Carey Chas. 59, Crandall J.A. 68, Castello D 68, Campbell F G. 81 Cassidy Wm T. 85 Chassaud Alfrid 142, Cannon H.W. 197 Clarke Jos W. 220 Capron Mrs. A. K. 227, 295, 391, 418 Clarke C. D. 228, Case F. O. 249 Chapin HB. 258 Chapman C. H. 261 Carter Thos H. 508 E Creed Thos R. 108 Century Club 138 Cesnola LP de 233 Clearwater Teresa Mrs. 376 I Clarke J. H. 3 Chandler W. E. 114, 304 Chiseldine Raymond 116 Choate J. H. 252 Citlis Hubert 287, 302, 321, 362 Civil Service Com. 487 O Connelley WE. 466 Collier Wm Miller 428 Cook James 385 Corbin H. C. 358 Colton HB. 307 Conkling AR. 266 Crozier W. 22, 112, Corwine Wm R. 27, 90, 467, Croft S. C. 75 Colburn S.J Miss 87 Cowles W. S. 102 Crowley Mrs R. 106 Cohen W. W. 131 Collum R. S. 134 Collier E. L. 150 Crockett W. C. 170, 172, 270, 363 Cooley A W. 181, 239, Coville A. M. 196 Cole C F. 227 Conklin Frank A. 244 Clowes, W Laird 252, 455 Cowles Mrs. W.S. 256, 310 U Croft Silas C 381 Cosby A. F. 364 Cronkute B. F. 376 Corey Geo J. 432, 497 Curry Geo. 26 Cunz F. B. 177, Cummings Willis 246, Curtis B R. 329 Culver Ed. 438,[Column 1] A Day R. C. 4 Davis N. H. 30, 90, Davis C. H. 48, 331, Davis D. F. 135, 392 Dawn Pollie 136 Davis M. E. 145, 278, Davidson G. L. Mrs. 153, 284, Dawes Chas. T. 198, Davis Rich Harding 199 Davies John C. 199, 259 Dawes Chas. G. 391 Dashiell P. J. 465, 514, Davis Cashhman K. 502 [Column 2] E Dresser D. L. R. 120 Devine Edw T. 137 Deuel J. M. 141 Dewey George 142, 311, Deeves Rich. 197 Depew C. M. 247, Delaigne H. B. 288, Derflinger W. F. 398 Depeu Crn. 419 Dewey Melvil 503, [Column 3] I Dick Chas. 21, 91, 93, 111, Dickinson Don M. 53 [Column 4] O Donnelly S. B. 117 Dorn F. C. Mrs. 219 Dobbin Jas Rev. 329 Donovan Mike 401 Doyle A. P. Rev. 429 Dorst J. H. 478 Doane W. C. 496 [Column 5] U Dunn A. B. 83 Dutton C. N. 85 Dunbar Paul L. 289, Dunwody J D. 296 Dunne F. P. 333 [Column 6] YE F [Column 1] A [Column 2] E [Column 3] I Einstein H L 12, 61 Emmett W. T. 74, 136 Elbe Max H. 121, English Wm. E. 124, 170 Englander Ludwig 143 Ellsworth T. E. 238 Ellington L. 405 [Column 4] O Elsberg N. A. 347 Ellard Henry 454 [Column 5] U Evans H. C. 50, 377 Ewing Thos. 221 [Column 6] Y Eziekel M. 334[Column 1] A Flanagan Wm L. 23, 230 Frazier Mrs. Clara U. 77 [Column 2] E Ferguson R. H. M. 157 Fleidner Eugene 271 Ferris S. M. 308 [Column 3] Fish, Hon. Ham. 155, 490 Finley J. H. 245, 253 Fincke F. M. 319 Fiala A. 325 Fricke Hon Wm A. 403 Fischer John J. 486, [Column 4] O Fox John Jr. 72 Fox Harry B. 87, Frust S. W. 90 Freund Leopold 190 Fox Austen G. 200, 320, 345, 357 Fox Optical Co. 245 Folk Homer 400 [Column 5] U Funston Fredk 60 Fulton Thos A. 69 Fuger F. W. 98 [Column 6] Y Fyffe Col. J P. 348G H [Column 1] A Gaffney T St. J. 73, 145, 194, 277, 335, 431, Gardiner Helen H. 171 Gardner A. S. 200 Garrison J. E. P. 201 Gage Secy 272 Gavin Toney 350 Gardner W. E. 326, 403, 404, Gallagher E. H. 344 Garfield H A 413, 440 Garlocke J. F. 435, 469 [Column 2] E Greene F. V. 100, 345, 423 Gerry E. T. 125 Greene E. F. 228, 453 George Clifton 364 Greene John T. 453 [Column 3] I Griggs J. W. 38 Gilder Rev 91, 118, 140 Gitterman J. L. 202 Gibson C. Dana 299 Gill Judge 437, [Column 4] O Goulden J. A. 19, 443, Goodman Elias 57 Goddard T. Norton 92, 226, 323, 422, 449, 458 Goodrich D. M. 201, 250, Gospel Paul 302, 322, 348, 369, 400 Goetzen Countess 310 Godken L. 351, 499 Goodrich Mrs. 412 [Column 5] U Guernsey R. S. 30 Gunton Geo. 31 Gunst M. A. 45 Gremsey H. H. 226 Guild Curtis Jr. 335 Gwynne R. H. 437, [Column 6] Y[Column 1] A Hanna M. A. 20 Hayes J. A. 33 Hale Wm A. 34 Hayes Elihu B. 44, 153 Harvey N. M. 51 Harris Ira 109 Harvey C. M. 111, Haynes F. M. 137 Hallowell T. J. 139 Havens L. A. 140 Hayward T. J. 152 Halcomb Mrs. A. S. 7, 161 Harris Simon B. 182 Hay John 202, 405 Hadley A. N. 203, 291, 47 Harrison C. C. 248, 292, 343 Hazel J. R. 292 Hall or G Stanley, 355 Hale Genl Irving 366 [Column 2] E Healy Joseph P. 37, Henderson D. B. 178, 323, Hendricks Francis 290, 464, 494 Heyl Wm P. 336 Herrig Fredk. 508 [Column 3] I Hill, Hy N. 63 Hibbard M. E. Miss 148 Hitchcock Ethan A. 494 [Column 4] O Holls F. W. 42, 300, 422 Howe F. C. 95 Horton Wm E. 149 Holland J. B. 263, 301, Holtschne Carl 375 Hotchkiss Wm H. 411, 430, 490 Holt Ham, 447 Hommediers I. L. d' 483 [Column 5] U Huson Willis O. 36 Humphrey H. H. 108 Hortin Mrs. Thad. E. 203, 283, Hun M. T. 347 Humphry L. H. 392 Hurdekoper Rush S. [394?] Huyck John H. Jr. 468, 514 Humy Gaston R. D. 479 [Column 6] YA E Inglehart, F. C. 164 I Independent The 404 O U Ives Frank J Dr. 509 Y A E Jenks JN. 351, 416, 450, I O Jones J. Wesley 34 Johnston Chas E 35 Johnson B. T. 104,176,306 Johnston Bartlett A. 154 204 Johnson E. M.187 Johnson C. O.330 Jones C. H. 350 Johnson Edw P. 482 Jones Harold Emory 486, Johnston E. A. L. 515. U YK L [Column 1] A Kane Woodbury 395 [Column 2] E Kempner Louis 124 Keck Philip 163 Kenyon J. S. 262 Kennedy Thos. 267 Kelly Mich 367 Kenibbs Wm P. 384 Kempthorne J. 497 [Column 3] I Kinkead Miss E. S. 78, King Chas. 97 Kimball W W. 475 [Column 4] O Kohlsaat H. H. 14, Krauss M. W. 444 Kohlsaat C. C. 475, [Column 5] U [Column 6] Y[Column 1] A Langlois I. T. 65 Langley S. P. 112 Landwer Miss Jessie 133 LaFarge C. Grant 168, 185, 204, 301, 235, 251, 259, 362, 451, Lang Gregor 251, Lambert Alex 282, 314 Langhlin John 389 Lamson M. J. 433 [Column 2] E Lee A. H. 22, 457, 474, 506 Leavitt J. B. 24 Leaycraft C. R. Mrs. 105 Lewis Major 107 Lewis F. A. 119 Lee Harry 134 Lee Jos. 151, Lewis Merton E. 191 Leonard W. D. 264 Lebkruecher & Co. 299, 441 Lenihan N. C. 325 Lewis A. 375 Leonard Hugh F. 409 [Column 3] I Livingston J. H. 93 Lettauer L. N. 155, 398, Leller W. C. 219, 327, 402 Llewellyn W. H. H. 510 [Column 4] O Low Seth 12, 246, 281, 341, 394, 424, 425, 504, 510 Long J. D. 54, 379, 461, 477, 505, 511, Lowell F. C. 96 Locke Miss Florence 106 Lowell J. S. Mrs. 125, 381, 406, Lodge H C. 126, 378, 427, 450, 572 Lowell A. L. 205 Lockwood H. D. 243 Lewenthal H. 374 Loudenslager, H C. 420 [Column 5] U [Column 6] Y Lyon E. N. 23, 282 Lyman Geo H 69, 205, 414, 431, 474M Mc A Macy R.H. Co. 5 Manderson C.F. 28 Marshall Mrs Mary L. 50 Matthews B. 55 Matthews Geo. E. 56, 280 Maybury Wm C. 62 Matthews F. 65, 298, 441 Marling A.E. 67, Mack F.N. 151 Marshall Edw. 174 Mabb JJ Mrs. 174 Martin Alna E 235, 265, 369 Malone Rev. D. 340 Marshall C.E. 382 March J.V.E. 440 E Merritt Nealey 9 Mead S.C. 33 Mercer Mrs. Clara A. 395 Merrill T.J.H. 409 Munson W.E. 472 I Miller J. DCN. 4 Miller Chas. 17, Manto Lord 58 Miller Benj 80 Mimmack B P. 149 Milwaukee Journal 206 Mills A.L. 229, 406 Mills A.Mc. 286, Michaelis G. VS. 324 Misner J.H. [313?] Milburn J.G. 389 Miller S. 402 Mickle John M. 450 Mills H.E. 487 O Mortimer Mrs. Stanley 3 Moss Frank 11, 206, 430, Morgan Appleton 18, Moot Adelbert 162 Morgan Edwin 183, 230 Moor E.B. 331 U Murchie Guy 83 Mulligan Mich. 173 Murphy M.C. 236, Murphy Edw. 454 Y Myers Mrs. Cornelis C. 220[Column 1] A McBride Robt I. 64 McCurdy W. C. 79 McCook H. C. 110, 256, 342, 447, McDowell W. O. 130 McDonald Frank 176 McAneny Geo. 181, 237, 322, McDonough J. T. 207, 473 McCann Mrs MC. 218 McCook A. G. 218 MacDonald W. G. 284, MacQueen P. 338 McAdou Wm 511 [Column 2] E MacFarlane Wallace 344 McEhoy Dane S. 432 [Column 3] I McKinley Wm 52, 76 McLean Mrs D. 87 McNaughton James 173, 193 McKelway StClair 461 [Column 4] O [Column 5] U [Column 6] YNO A E Nelson H L 44, 99, 428, Newitt Geo W. 225 I Nixon S. F. 5-6, 450, O Noyes Alex O. 410 U YA Odell B.B. 207, 231, 241, 244, 296, 380, 449, 484, 492, 513 E I O Oliver Edw. 269 Olmsted John B. 515 U YP Q [Column 1] A Partridge John N. 18 Parks J. Lenn 92 Palmer O.G. 116, Parker Allen B. 160, 208, Platt T. C. 208, 236, 257, 311, 368, 420, 459, 493, 500 Parker J. H. 221 Platt Frank H. 397 Pascal Mrs M. P. 444 [Column 2] E Peabody Endicott 49, 368, 429, Pennypacker W 84 Phenis Albert 297 Pelletreau Chas. 488 Phelps Wm W. 491 [Column 3] I Pickett C. W. 148 [Column 4] O Post Regis H. 21, 115, Poole Jos. 305 Prescott H L. 328 Post W. K. 339 Pond J W. 399 [Column 5] U Putnam Sons 6, 268, 315, 393, Pugh A. H. 62 Putnam G. H. 172, 180, 243, 255, 353, 393, 421, 452 Punnett Mrs T. W. 182, 215, 293 Purrey H. D. 289 [Column 6] YA E I O U Quigg L. E. 64,96,307,359 YR S A Rawson E. K. 339 Ray Geo. W. 390 Rainsford W. T. 512 E Reynolds James B. 455 I Riis J. A. 52, 122, 166, 382 496, Rideing W. H. 130 Rice Cecil Spring 386 Rideing Wm H. 410 Riddle A. G. 415 O Rose Mrs M. E. 501 Roosevelt Mrs E. 498 Robinson H. A. 448 Rogers James T., 7 Robinson Douglas 9, 55, 143, 308, Root Elihu 10, 40, 113, 291, 358, 378, 418, 470, 471, Roosevelt Laura 10 Rose J. C. 25, 232 Roosevelt R B Jr. 103 Robinson Mrs. D. 126, 269, 293, 372, 399, 421 Roosevelt James 265 Robinson Fanny Monroe Mrs. 209, 256 Roe Mr. 233 Rhoades J. Harsen 262, 424 Roosevelt W. Emlen 287, 305 Roberts Kate 374 Rollins Frank E. 396 U Russell Mrs. Ellen W. 267 Rundquist A. 268 Y Ryman A. 66,[Column 1] A Slater S. S. 100 Scott J. W. 141 Sprague W. C. 175 Schieren Chas. A. 193, Schurman Geo W. 266 Sanger Wm Cary 274, 327 Sage Dan 277, 333 Scribners Chas Sons 317 Scudder H. E. 343 Schumanyk Maj. M. S. 373 Schurman J. G. 462 Sabin Belle C. 513 [Column 2] E Sharp H. G. 11 Steenstrup V. 27 Selmer Mrs T[lden R. 46, Scars Lt. W. J. 80, 150, Steele Hiram R. 117 Sleicher J. A. 138, 238, 278, Sherman P T. 146 Seehusen E. H. 180 Selmes Mrs T. R. 229 Sheffield J. R. 234, 279, 337, 347, Sherman J. S. 248 Slevin E. de L. 250, 363 Shut Geo G. 273 Selegman Edw. R. A. 352 Seay A. B. 433 Stetson Cushing 446 [Column 3] I Slicer T. R. 14, 63, 123, 169, 254, 320, 360, 495, Smith Geo. Moore 115 Smith W. J. 132 Smith Geo J. 139, 210, Smith Fillmore 152 Smith Wm Alden 185, Sickles Danl. 188 Smith Chas Stewart, 192, 425 Sickles David B Smith Walter Lloyd 312, 354 Simon Felix 315, Smith Clinton H. 318 Shaw Albert 423, 480 Simmons Thom H. 438 Snitzer Frannie Mrs. 439, Skesmith J. G. 472 [Column 4] O Spalding Eliot. 67, 276, Simson D. P.M. 121, Storer Mrs Bellamy 159, 370, 426, 411 Stoves Anne Day 188 St Peter M. 222 Stemburg S. 309, 463 Stern Louis 318 Stone Geo. 462 Stevenson Paul Eve 499 [Column 5] U Sutherland W. H. H. 2 Sturgis Robt. 304, Sumner S. S. 337 Stengis Thos. 341 Swartz P. A. & H. 401 [Column 6] YT U A Taft Wm H. 32, 89 Tanger F. C. 94, Taylour Perry F. 215, 217, 290, E Temple O P. 166, 190, Theobald W H. 504. I Thompson S. V. 39 Tiffany & Co 279, 317 O Travers F. C. 7, 29, 103, 133, 365, 436 Tripp Bartlett 19 Townsend T. S. 255 Tole Rev Wm H. 367 Tod G. A. 452 U Tully T. DeQ. 135 Turner D. 249A E I O Upson Chas. 275 U YV W A Van Rensselaer Howard 13 Vaughn Wm 28 Varnum J. M. 209, 210, Van Duzer Jonas 254, 303 Vance A. T. 349 VanRensselaer W. B. 435 E Vreeland H. H. 448 I O VonHaake A. 247, U YA Waddell R. J. 25 Wharton S. R. 94, Ward, F. G. 123, 204 Watson D. K. 156 Wadsworth W. A. 165, 213, 311, 465 Warren Wm. C. 194 Warner Chas Dud. 237, 276, Wadsworth R. C. W. 361 Watervliet Arsenal Wadsworth J. W. 466 Wall Rev F H. 467 Wainwright Rich 476 E Wharton S. R. 13 Webb W. S. 24 Weston Col. 120 Welch L. S. 158, 187, 213, 283, 326 Wheless Jos. 222, Wetmore Martha C. 275 Webb A. S. 303, Werner W. E. 316 Wendell Evert J. 324 Wetmore E. 404 I Wilcox Ansley 6, 263 White Henry 8 White W. A. 61, 167, 224 Willard J M. 82 Wilson Jas H 102 Wilcox Ansley 154, Wise P. M. 161 Whitney Casper 186, 356, 393 Wilson Geo. 239, 353 Williams Pardon C. 242 White Horace 264, 412, 483, 509 Wilson Woodrow 288 Wilson J. J. 295 Williams E. 298, Williams John 319, 489 Witherbee F. S. 346, Wright A P. 361 Wright Grant 384, 446 White John Baker 456 O Wood Leonard 15, 102, 212 360, 401, 407, 415, 456, Wood, C. E. S. 127 Mrs [Wood -] Wood, Mrs. Leonard 186, 211, Woodruff T. L. 192, 240, 261, 340, Woodbury John 211 U Y