258 Nov. 27th, 1900. Rev. W.T. Rainsford, #209 E. 16th St., N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Rainsford:-- Have you got a little pamphlet which you could send me here at Albany, showing the work of you church? I have now and then touched it in various outside ways, but I should like to know a little about it more in detail. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. John C. Davies, Attorney General. My dear Mr. Attorney General:-- What about Captain Goddard's request for a special term to try to policy cases? Very truly yours,259 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John S. Phillips, The S.S. McClure Co., 141 E. 25th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Phillips:-- Replying to your letter of the 24th inst., Riis, v. Briesen, Captain Goddard, James B. Reynolds, Homer Folks, Cleveland Dodge, Wm. Church Osborn, William R. Stewart and Eugene Philbin are names whom I shall mention. Also, Robert W. DeForest, Miles Tierney and Otto Eidlitz of the Tenement House Commission. I may want to put in Rev. Dr. W.T. Rainsford's picture. I will have the article sent you by Dec. 10th or 12th. I should like it used either in the February or March number so as to come out before I am Vice President. Sincerely yours,260 Nov. 27th, 1900. Franklin D. Locke, Esq., 344 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Locke:-- I am very much amused over that clipping, and I have put both it and your letter in my scrap book. Yes, that elephant does seem to have been having a strenuous time! Lansdowne has not answered to the charges yet, but promises to do so soon. Sincerely yours, Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr Frank E. Nevins, 4008 Morgan St., St. Louis, Mo. My dear Mr. Nevins:-- I have your letter of the 23rd and will write to Mr. Heath instantly. [I'll do all I can ?] Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt261 Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. Perry S. Heath, First Assistant Postmaster General, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Heath:-- The inclosed explains itself. Cannot something be done at once for Nevins? If there is a man to whom I feel grateful it is him. You are at Washington and I am not. Wont you use this letter in any way you see fit with any cabinet officer? I feel that it is a duty to the party and to the cause of decency to see that Nevins does not suffer for the way he stood up for the cause of truth and decency. Wont you let me know at once? Sincerely yours,262 Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Nebraska City, Neb. My dear Mr. Morton:-- I am very much obliged to you for your letter of the 24th. But oh my, you know just as well as I do that the Vice President has no power to do anything at Washington. Faithfully yours, Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. C.M. Hobbs, The Denver & Rio Grande R.R. Co., Denver, Colo. My dear Mr. Hobbs:-- I thank you most heartily for your letter of the 23rd inst. In any community there may be an occasional sporadic outburst of ferocity. But any community is all right when such a magnificent meeting takes a stand in the way in which the meeting you tell me you had called, did. I congratulate you, and I congratulate Colorado. Sincerely yours,263 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mrs. R.L. Hillier, 1614 4th St., North, Minneapolis, Minn. My dear Mrs. Hillier:-- I was most touched and pleased by the cunning picture of the little Rough Rider whose name I see is now given as Teddy. He is in age just midway between my two youngest boys. I think he looks very cunning indeed in his Rough Rider suit. Thanking you heartily for your kindness in sending me the picture, which Mrs. Roosevelt will appreciate as much as I do, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore RooseveltNov. 27th, 1900. Maj. A.W. Wadsworth, Genesee, N.Y. Dear Austin:-- Bring of a charitable nature, and enjoying a fuss, I instantly sent your formal answer to Mr. Sage. I cannot say for certain, but I have great hopes that it will irritate him. If he sends me merely a conventional answer, I shall not send it to you, but if he can be lured into sending anything offensive, it shall be sent to you at once with a request for further comments. I sent Lanedowne a copy of Locke's charges and he said he would answer them right away. As Locke said, when you and he and I were talking together, it is very doubtful if on the charges I can remove him,and if he is ugly and wont resign, I do not know much what I can do. Faithfully yours,Nov. 27th, 1900. Genl. L.P. di Cesnola, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Ave & 22nd St., N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I thank you most warmly for your invitation of the 2st inst. I only wish I could come to the banquet of the Eleventh Army Corps, but I have already had to refuse an invitation for December 12th to dine with Charter Commission. I am trying to get them to put it off until the 18th because I do not think I can be down from Albany on the 18th. I am awfully sorry, for I appreciate extremely the honor done me by making me a member of the Eleventh Army Corps. Permit me also, my dear General, to thank you for your kind telegram of congratulation. Faithfully yours,Nov. 27th, 1900. The Critic Company, 27 W. 23rd St., N.Y. City Gentlemen:-- I heartily congratulate the Critic on its twenty-first birthday. I am delighted that you have such deserved success. Sincerely yours,267 Nov. 26th, 1900. Mr. E.S. Martin, 1730 Bway, N.Y. City. Dear Dan:-- I shall write to Bangs and thank him. Now, about small Ted's fighting. I believe you will find that he is not quarrelsome, and that above all, he is not a bully. I think it has been in amicable wrestling and boxing bouts that in your boy's words he has "licked all the boys in his form". In a measure, I am responsible for some of his fighting proclivities, but most of them come naturally. For instance, my two youngest small boys are not in the least fighters like Ted, although I think I have succeeded in instilling into them the theory that they ought not to shirk any quarrel forced upon them. Now, do you want to know the real underlying feeling which has made me fight myself and want Ted to fight? Well, I summed it up to Ted once or twice when I told him, apropos of lessons of virtue, that he could be just as virtuous as he wished if only he was prepared to fight. Fundamentally this has been my own theory. I am not naturally at all a fighter, so far as any man is capable of analyzing his own impulses and desires, mine incline me to amiable domesticity and the avoidance of effort and struggle and any kind of roughness and to the practice of home virtues. Now,I believe that these are good traits, not bad ones. But I also believe that if unsupported by something more virile, they may tend to evil rather than good. The man who merely possesses these traits, and in addition is timid268 E.S.M. 2. and shirks effort, attracts and deserves a good deal of contempt. He attracts more, though he deserves less, contempt than the powerful, efficient man who is not at all virtuous, but is merely a strong, selfish, self-indulgent brue [?]. I was fortunate enough in having a father whom I have always been able to regard as an ideal man. It sounds a little like cant to say when I am going to say, but he really did combine [?] strength and courage and will and energy of the strongest man with the tenderness, cleanness and purity of a woman. I was a sickly and timid boy. He not only took great, almost [?] care of me-- some of my earliest remembrances are of nights when he would walk up and down with me for an hour at a time in his arms when I was a wretched mite suffering acutely with asthma-- but he also most wisely refused to coddle me, and made me feel that I must force myself to hold my own with other boys and prepare to do the rough work of the world. I cannot say that he ever put it into words, but he certainly gave me the feeling that I was always to be both decent and manly, and that if I were manly nobody would long laugh at my being decent. In all my childhood he never laid hand on me but once, but I always knew perfectly well that in case it became necessary he would not have the slightest hesitancy in do so again, and alike from my love and respect, and in a certain sense, from my fear of him, I would have hated and dreaded beyond measure to have him know that I had been guilty of a lie, or of cruelty, or of bullying, orof uncleanness, or of cowardice. Gradually I grew to have the feeling on my own account, and not merely on his. There were many things I tried to do because he did them, which I found afterwards were not in my line. For instance, I taught Sunday school all through college, but afterwards gave it up, just as on experiment I could not do the charitaE.S.M. 3. work which he had done. In doing my Sunday school work I was very much struck by the fact that the other men who did it only possessed one side of his character [?]. My ordinary companions in college would I think have had a tendency to look down upon me for doing Sunday school work if I had not also been a corking boxer, a good runner, and a genial member of the Porcellian Club. I went in for boxing and wrestling a good deal, and I really think that while this was partly because I liked them as sports, it was even more because I intended to be a middling decent fellow, and I did not intend that any one should laugh at me with impunity because I was decent. It is exactly the same thing with history. In most countries the "Bourgeoisie"-- the moral, respectable, commercial, middle class-- is looked upon with a certain contempt which is justified by their timidity and unwarlikeness. But the minute a middle class produces men like Hawkins and Frobisher on the seas, or men such as the average Union soldier in the civil war, it acquires the hearty respect of others which it merits. Well, I have wanted to pass on to my boys some of what I got from my own father. I loathe cruelty and injustice. To see a boy or man torture something helpless whether in the shape of a small boy or little girl or dumb animal makes me rage. So far as I know my children have never been cruel, though I have had to check a certain amount of bullying. Ted is a little fellow, under the usual size, and wears spectacles, so that strange boys are rather inclined to jump on him at first. When in addition to this I have trained him so that he objects strongly to torturing cats or hurting little girls, you can see that there are chances for life to be unpleasant for him when among other boys. Now I have striven to make him feel270 4. that if he only fights hard enough he is perfectly certain to secure the respect of all his associates for his virtues. I do not believe he is quarrelsome. I do not think your little boy has found him so. I do not think he oppresses smaller boys, but he does hold his own. When his aunt goes to see him at school, he flings his arms around her neck and is overjoyed with her companionship and has the greatest difficulty to keep from crying when she goes away. Now there are certain of his companions who would be inclined to think him a mollycoddle for betraying such emotion over a female relative; but they wont think him a mollycoddle if he shows an instantaneous readiness to resent hostile criticism on the subject. Of course, there are dangers in any such training. Every now and then Ted gets an attack of the big head and has to have it reduced, usually by his own associates, occasionally by his affectionate father. Moreover, I know perfectly well that all my training him will only amount to one element out of the many which will go to determine what he is in the future. As you say in your last article, the mother has much more to do than the father with the children's future. By the way, Mrs. Roosevelt and I laughed all the way down in the cars the other day over that article. I suppose "Jonas" is Ted's school fellow. Your account of the father's function in sickness so exactly reproduced our our experience that it made me feel guilty and Mrs. Roosevelt decorously exultant. So with my tendency to be a little late at meals, and the tuition of my wife towards the children on the subject. There I have written you much longer than I had any idea I was going to. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt271 5. P.S. I have just received you second note. I have rarely read a more touching letter than Mrs. Moore's. What a fine woman she must be and what a fine son she must have had! I return her letter herewith. If you think she would not mind it, I wish you would give her my most respectful and sincere sympathy. T.R. Nov. 26th, 1900. Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, St. Paul, Minn. My dear Mrs. Davis:-- I have been waiting to write hoping that affairs would take a turn in the right way. But my anxiety has grown so great that I must send you a line to tell you how deeply I sympathize with you. I not only feel towards your husband as a personal friend, but as a very warm admirer of one of our foremost American statesman. With warm regards and sympathy, believe me Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt272 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Guy Scull, C/o Outing, 239 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Scull:-- I have been very anxious to see you for a long time. Can't you spend a night with me either here at Albany or at Oyster Bay? I suppose Thanksgiving you will be away, but couldn't you come up here and spend Tuesday or Wednesday night of next week? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th,1900. Mr. Homer Folks, Secretary, 195 E. 22nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Folks: - Can you send me here at Albany any pamphlet showing the amount of work of the State Charities Aid Association and the methods of work during the past year or two? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt273 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Philip B. Stewart, C/o W.A. Otis & Co., Colorado Springs, Colo. My dear Mr. Stewart:-- I am very anxious to get out for a mountain lion hunt with you, reaching Colorado Springs somewhere about the tenth of January, and spending a month on the hunt or indeed six weeks if necessary. Of course, if we could get our fill of lions and bears before the month, well and good. Dr. Lambert says you can arrange for me. If so I shall be very glad. Will you write me the details and also especially what foot gear to get. Can I not get it in Colorado? New York is a poor place to get winter foot gear for the mountains, and my hunting of course has generally been done in the fall. I am all out of condition and you would have to make up your mind to my not being fit for very much for a week or ten days, but I would get into condition very soon. Shall I bring my thirty thirty Winchester? Is it worth while bringing a revolver? I am no use with one and hate to carry it unless it is necessary. Shall I bring bedding with me, or had I better get that out in Colorado? Let me hear from you as soon as possible. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt274 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, Editor, Harper's Weekly, 1730 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bangs:-- Let me, now that the campaign is over, thank you and Harpers Weekly for its great work. Is there any way I can show my appreciation of it? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Dr. Peter M. Wise, President, State Commission in Lunacy, I Madison Ave., N.Y. City Sir:-- The inclosed copy of letter explains itself. Please send me a full statement in reference to it. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt275 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Geo. S. Benson, 74 Tillary St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. He thanks you heartily for the invitation for Feby. 12th, but unfortunately he will be on a holiday in the Southwest at the time. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary. Nov. 27th, 1900. Mrs. James Griswold Wentz, 312 W. 82nd St., N.Y. City. Dear madam:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 26th inst and to say that he thanks you heartily and wishes he could accept, as he appreciate fully the work you are doing, but he is absolutely unable to accept any invitations during the month of December. During that month he will be exceedingly busy closing up the affairs of the Governorship, and in January and February will be off on a much needed holiday in the Southwest. He regrets exceedingly not to be able to write you more favorably. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary.276 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John H. De Russy, Clason-on-the Sound, West Chester, N.Y. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst and to say that he never recommends any one with whom he is not personally acquainted, and in any event he is already committed to an applicant for the position you seek. He regrets very much not to be able to write you more favorably. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary. Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John J. Smith, Battery E. 2nd Artillery, Fort Fremont, via Beaufort, S.C. My dear Corporal:-- Your letter of the 22nd inst gave me sincere pleasure. I have the very highest regard for the non-commissioned officers and enlisted men of the regular army and for the corresponding men in the navy. You may notice that I stand up for them always. With warm regards, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. G. Willett Van Nest, Esq., 20 New St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Van Nest:-- I have at once called the attention of the Factory inspector to your letter and inclosure. I hope he will put himself in communication with you at once.277 Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. John Williams, Factory Inspector, Albany, N.Y. Sir:-- I send you the inclosed letter and memorandum from G. Willett Van Nest, Esq., of New York City. Please call upon him at once. I shall expect you actively to co-operate with him the secure the abolition of the nuisance complained of. I continue to receive numerous complaints in connection with these sweat shops. It is evident to me that much greater rigor should be exercised in the withholding and cancelling of licenses and I desire to hear from you at length in regard to the matter. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. A.L. Love, Bozeman, Montana. My dear Mr. Love:-- I thank you heartily for that photograph. I enjoyed my trip through Montana very much. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt278 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Jos. H. Proctor, 2423 Ames Ave., Omaha, Neb. My dear Comrade:-- I have your letter of the 24th inst. I am very much afraid that in the event of the reorganization the men in the service will be those given the chance for the commissions. This I am informed by the Secretary of War. I am very sorry. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Master Floyd Lane, Cambridge, N.Y. My dear young friend:-- I received your letter of the 26th inst and was really pleased to hear from you. I liked the cry at the end of your letter, and I liked still more your thinking of sending me a letter at all. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt279 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Clarence A. Barrows, Union League Club, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Rooseveltto acknowledge the receipt of your invitation of the 26th inst to attend the dinner in honor of Congressman-elect Harry A. Hanbury, Wednesday evening, Dec. 12th, and to express his great regret that other engagements prevent his acceptance. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secy. Nov. 27th, 1900. Mrs. Adine McAlpin Elliott, 60 W. 51st St., N.Y. City. Dear madam:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge your letter of the 22nd inst and to thank you most cordially. He also directs me to send you his photograph which you will receive under another cover. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary.280 Nov. 27th, 1900. Tracy C. Becker, Esq., 163 Highland Ave., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Mr. Becker:-- I thank you for your letter of the 26th inst. You are very good to have written me. The reason I wanted to select you was because of the impression you made upon me when I saw you. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Wm. H. Hackney, 156 S. West Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th inst and to thank you cordially. He was very glad to hear from you. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary.281 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Lewis T. Barney, Hotel Arcadia, Santa Monica, Cal. My dear Mr. Barney, I am very much obliged to you for your thoughtfulness in sending me the clipping. I appreciate more than I can say the attitude of my old Western friends toward me in the late campaign. The first chance I get I am coming to the Pacific slope. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. S.F. Nixon, Westfield, N.Y. My dear Mr. Speaker:-- I have your letter of the 24th inst. If the vacancy occurs that you mention I will let you know at once. I could not pardon that young man. The appeal is always made to me to let up on a criminal for the sake of his relatives, and it is an absolute impossibility to do so. I am awfully sorry. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt282 Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. B.B. Odell, Jr., Governor-elect. My dear Governor:-- This is to introduce to you Howard Townsend, Esq., of the New York State Hospital for Tuberculosis. I commend him most warmly to you. He has a matter of great importance which he wishes to lay before you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. Howard Townsend #32 Liberty St., N.Y. City. Dear Howard:-- I have your letter of the 26th inst. There is absolutely nothing I can do with these Boards. You must remember that I am a "setting sun". I inclose letter to Odell. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Captain Luther S. Kelly, 40th Inf. U.S.V., Dapitan, Mindanao, P.I. My dear Captain:-- Your letter of Sept. 5th really pleased me. I have always taken a good deal of enjoyment out of your career. Give my warm regards to Lt. Bugbee. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt[283] Nov. 27th, 1900. Miss Edna Spencer, Cooper Memorial College, Sterling, Kas. Dear madame:-- I have your letter of the 22nd inst. You ask me to express offhand an opinion on all together too large a subject. I would not venture to give an off-hand judgment upon it. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. J. C. Prender, 148 E. 149th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Prender:-- I have read your ms. with interest and I herewith return it to you. I do not see quite how I can be of any assistance. It is a matter for Congress and I do not understand how I can do aught with them. With very much of what you say I entirely sympathize. There are other matters about which I am not competent to express an opinion. There are certain points on which I can hardly agree with you. For instance, there is not the slightest need for mounted infantry as a separate organization. What we need is to increase our cavalry, for efficient mounted cavalry is precisely like efficient mounted infantry. I served with the cavalry division at Santiago and know whereof I speak. The Boers fought just as our veteran cavalry fight. The English mounted infantry and the English cavalry alike were of use exactly as they both approached the model of our cavalry. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt[284] Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Fredk. B. DeBerard, The Merchants Assoc., N.Y Life Bldg., N.Y. City My dear Mr. DeBerard:-- I thank you very much for your letter of the 23rd inst with inclosures. I was sorry not to see you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. John R. Proctor, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. My dear John:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. It is out of the question for me to accept that invitation of the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs. I want to do just as little speaking as possible. I am going to try to say a few words to the National Civil Service Reform Association meeting in New York. Hope I catch a glimpse of you there. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt[285] Nov. 27th, 1900. Miss Emma C. Schoonmaker, Principal, Public School No. 5, 141st St. & Edgecombe Ave., N.Y. City. My dear madame:-- I thank you for your letter of the 26th inst and wish I could accept your invitation, for I believe with all my heart in the public schools, but it is simply physically impossible. Pray give my regards to your scholars and say how sorry I am not to be present at the exercises. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. David P. Ward, Pasedena, Cal. My dear Mr. Ward:-- Replying to your letter of the 20th, The Sunday school has certainly done great good. I wish I could answer your letter more particularly. In great haste, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mrs. Eliza Raybould Allan, 830 East Willamette Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. Dear madam:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst with inclosure. I am sure I do not need to say that everything I can do will be done to combat the prejudice that sometimes has such wicked results. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt [286] Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. W. C. Andrews, Rush Springs, Ind. T. My dear Comrade:-- I thank your heartily for your letter of the 18th inst. You know that there are no congratulations I prize as much as those from the men of my own regiment. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Edmond de Luce, 237 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. de Luce:-- I have your letter of the 26th inst. I shall be very glad to see you at any time I am in Putnams. But I understand that now all appointments are to be made from within the ranks. This is the answer that the Secretary has given to me when I have applied on several different occasions for the men of my own regiment. With regret, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[287] Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. T. St.John Gaffney, 41 Riverside Drive, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Gaffney:-- I have your letter of the 26th. I will return you those books at once. They have not yet come. It was a great pleasure to have you and Col. Lynch to lunch the other day. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt PERSONAL. Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Thos. J. Manning, Pres. McKinley League Schenectady, N.Y. My dear Mr. Manning:-- I have your letter of the 26th inst. I remember my small namesake in the arms of his mother very well. He happened to attract my attention I suppose because I have six children of my own. I now send a photograph with my autograph to him. Will you present it? Let me say how much I appreciate your letter and your support. I do not like to talk before election as if I were a demagogue, but I mean every word when I say that I would rather a hundred fold over have the support of the upright, honest working man than that of any other man in the community, save perhaps only the farmer, and that any legislation I regard as really for the benefit of either, will have my heartiest support. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [288] Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Thos. C. Hayes, City Editor, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Hayes:-- I have your letter of the 22nd inst. The Star shall have anything it wants. I think the best picture is to be obtained at Rockwood's, 1440 Bway, N.Y. City. It is copyrighted but all you will have to do is to write Mr. Rockwood for permission to use it and say you will acknowledge the copyright and he will certainly let you publish it. I wish very much I could be at the celebration, but I shall not be able to be present. Sincerely, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Joseph DuVivier, 441 W. 21st St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. DuVivier:-- I thank you heartily for your letter of the 15th inst and also thank your mother to whom pray present my regards Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt[289] Nov. 27th, 1900. Hon. Nathan C. Schoeffer, State Supt. Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pa. My dear sir:-- In reference to your invitation to address the Pennsylvania Educational Association, would say that it is simply out of the question for me to accept. On July Fourth I must be home. We always have a celebration in the village and also at my home and I just can't be away. With regret that I cannot write you more favorably, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. The Editor of the Montreal Herald, Montreal, Canada- Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 22nd inst and to say that he is very sorry not to be able to oblige you, but he never grants such a request as you make for any publication. Very truly yours, Willian Loeb Jr. Secretary. [290] Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Stanley Washburn, Box 6, Williamstown, Mass. My dear Mr. Washburn:-- Your letter of the 24th inst gives me real concern. I do not think that the editorials you sent me were wise. But it was most natual that young fellows who were rightly angered and shocked by what I must regard as conduct absolutely indefensible in a college professor, should have erred in form. But I think the offense of the students so much lighter than the offense of the faculty that there should be no arraignment visited upon them beyond a reprimand. I do not believe, however, that any possible good would come from an article or statement by me. On the contrary such a statement coming from one of the candidates on whose behalf the error was committed, would simply prejudice the case. I very earnestly advise you to write saying you do so at my suggestion, to Mr. Paul Dana of The N. Y. Sun and also write to your own graduates, the members of the Garfield family. I think this is the wisest course for you to follow. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Miss Viola B. Baker, 402 W. 46th St., N.Y. City. Dear madame:-- Complying with your request of the 23rd inst the Governor takes great pleasure in sending you the inclosed autographs, and wishes me to express the hope that you will have a most successful fair. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary. 291 Nov. 27th, 1900. President J. G. Schurman, Ithaca, N.Y. My dear President Schurman:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. All right, I will come in and speak. You will not expect a long speech will you? I agree with you entirely as to the importance of emphasizing the kind of rich man's work which this represents. What date and hour is most convenient to you? Wednesday or Thursday Dec. 12th and 13th would suit me best. Let me know as soon as you can about this. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. A. W. Johnson, Ed. The Banner, Warrenton, Mo. Dear sir: I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst and to thank you cordially. He regrets that he will be so busy closing up the affairs of the Governorship of this state that it will be absolutely impossible for him to undertake any further work, and immediately after the 1st of Jany. he leaves for the Southwest on a long holiday. I am sure that under that circumstances you will understand why he has to refuse. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary.292 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Garrett S. Brown, The Michigan Club, Detroit, Mich. My dear Mr. Brown:-- I have your letter of the 22nd inst. I am awfully sorry but I do not believe I shall be at home from my holiday in the Southwest on Feby. 22nd. It has been nearly six years now since I have had any let up, and if I can I want to spend my two months of private citizenship in the mountains of the Southwest. I really need some vigorous outdoor exercise. With regret that I am not able to accept your very kind invitation, I am Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John Hodgins, Bartow-on-Sound, N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. If you will give me the name of the riot relief fund committee I will write them and see if anything can be done for your father. The County Committee I very much fear, now that the campaign is closed, has no longer any funds at its disposal. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt293 Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. Thos. T. Wright, Union League Club, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Wright:-- I am sorry I did not have the chance of seeing you. I appreciate all you have been doing. I suppose you have written Senator Hanna yourself about the matter of the Commercial Congress. I received that laurel wreath all right and appreciated it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Geo. R. Sheldon, 4 Wall St., N.Y. City. Dear George:-- There was no need of a telegram from you. Frankly, I hope I can avoid having my portrait put here at all. But if we decide to have one, I will see whether Mr. Chartran cannot be employed. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt294 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. G. W. Reed, Lee, West. Va. My dearMr. Reed:-- I have your letter of the 19th inst. I will gladly help you if I can. But my belief is that post office inspectors are appointed by promotion from the postal service. I know that it needs a very special order of ability. You must look up the matter and find out what the facts are and then get me some testimony as to your special qualifications, and if I can help you I gladly will. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Wm. A Bloomer, St. Luke's Hospital, Cathedral Heights, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bloomer:-- I very greatly appreciate the New Testament you sent me with your name in your own handwriting. Will you tell your nurse also that I was so much obliged to her for writing me. Both Mrs. Roosevelt and I have often talked of you. I do hope I can get up to see you, but you have no conception of the way I am driven when I get to New York. I literally have not the time even for the things I must do. I am still endeavoring to make a chance to do two or three things which are really imperative in the City which I have not been able to do since election. With very real regard and best wishes and great appreciation of your kindness, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt295 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Lewis A Williams, 114 Fifth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Williams:-- I thank you very much for your letter of the 23rd inst. The letter you inclose is the kind that I esteem and value for all service and all worry. Now, my dear sir, you may rest assured that I shall do my best not to forfeit such regard as that. With hearty thanks and regards, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. John B. Conner, Govt. Printing Office, Bindery, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Conner:-- I am in receipt of your letter of the 24th inst and am very glad to hear from you again. I remember you very well. What a [t????] Dobbs is! I met his brother in Kentucky. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt296 Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. F. M. Kiggins, U. S. Philippine Commission, Manila, P. I. My dear Mr. Kiggins:-- I thank you for your letter of the 3rd of Oct. I am very glad to learn that you are out in the Philippines doing the very work you are most competent to perform. I am awefully glad to have heard from you. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1900. Mrs. Margaret Crabtree, 334 No. 5th Street, San Jose, Cal. My dear madam:-- I am very glad to have heard from you and thank you for your letter. I am not the son of Judge Roosevelt but the grandson of his brother. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt297 Nov. 27th, 1900. Lt. Arthur G. Duncan, 34th Inf. U. S. V., Vintar, Ilocos, Norte, P. I. My dear Lt. Duncan:-- I thank you for your letter of Sept. 25th. I am always glad to hear from you. I am very proud of the excellent service you have rendered and of the reports I hear about you. I do not like to mix up much in affa rs that are not my own, so I hestitate about bothering the War Department over much. I think they begin to understand the need of cavalry. If I get the chance I shall tell Secretary Root of what you say about the shoes and rubber ponchos. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Joseph E. Hayden, Consul General U. S., Castellammare, Di Stabia, Italy. My dear Mr. Hayden:-- I thank you heartily for your letter of the 3rd inst and appreciate your thoughtfulness. The way the Italians voted was very encouraging. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt298 Nov. 28th, 1900. Maj. Frank A. Grant, Salt Lake City, Utah. My dear Major Grant:-- I have your letter of the 21st inst. I remember you very well. The trouble about recommending you is just this: I have been asked to recommend a number of men for that identical position. I am already committed to one man I know in the 20th Kansas. If I give various recommendations none of them will be heeded. Frankly, if I was Secretary of War I would not pay heed to a single outside recommendation. To my mind much the most efficient thing you can do is to have an abstract of your services endorsed by your superior officers, and then I will take great pleasure in seeing that it reaches the President of the Secretary of War. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Arthur Lucas, Evening Journal, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Lucas:-- I thank you for that picture. Good Heavens! to think that that is the way some of my fellow human beings look at me! Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt299 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. L. H. Fletcher, Greencastle, Penna. My dear Mr. Fletcher:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. I feel very strongly that all these appointments which are in the nature of promotions should be made on the merits of the applicants. Now I am perfectly certain that your son is eminently fit for the place. All I could request is that justice should be done him, and it would be really an offense to suppose that Secretary Root would not do justice. If I were Secretary of War I should most strenuously object to any attempt being made to influence the promotion of men from outside. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. John W. Veigele, 176 Remsen St., Cohoes, N.Y. My dear Mr. Veigele:-- I thank you most heartily for you letter of the 23rd inst. It is just such letters as your's and the feeling that you express that makes it worth while being in public life. With great regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt300 Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. Wm. A. Ogden, Hancock Insurance Co., 28 Union Sq., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Ogden:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. If you come up here next Tuesday it would be a great pleasure to see you. Present this letter so that you may obtain access to me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Vincent Cody, #84 Greene Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Cody, I have your letter of the 25th inst. Now, there is just one way that you can reply to me, and that is to be just as straight as a string, no matter what temptation may come. You come out after 33 years, and now there will be many designing people who may try to lead you astray. Under no circumstances must you let yourself be led astray. Not only would it be bad for you, but it would prevent the exercise of mercy to other men under such circumstances as your's. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt301 Nove. 27th, 1900. Mrs. George E. Spencer, The Newport, Bway & 52nd St., N.Y. City. My dear madam-- I have your letter of the 22nd inst. I am very much afraid it would be impossible for you to see me in New York. I am not able in advance to say where I shall be at any given time when I am passing through. Last Saturday for instance, I had to make an engagement to see two or three gentlemen at a book store where I was able to stop. I must therefore, if you cannot write, request you to come up here next Tuesday. If it is a pardon case you wish to see me about, you should send me in advance of your coming a full statement of the case, so that it may be looked up in the meantime. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 28th, 1900. Mr. L. A. Schmieder, Pfaffendorfestr, 30, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. My dear sir:-- I thank you very much for your letter of the 12th inst. and I appreciate your congratulations. I agree with you absolutely that we need a thoroughly good navy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 302 Nov. 27th, 1900. Mr. Roland Burke Hennessy, Editor, 1286 Bway, N.Y. City My dear Mr. Hennessy:-- I have your letter of the 22nd inst. I am very sorry, but such a multitude of requests are made of me to give messages like that you ask for that it has proved absolute- ly impossible to comply with them. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 27th, 1900. Dr. J. G. Bulloch, Cherokee, N. C. My dear Joe:-- I thank you very much for your kind letter of the 22nd inst and appreciate your congratulations. Do not send me anything to read just for the moment as I am closing up my own work. Will you kindly wait until I get out of this office. Faithfully yours, Theodore RooseveltNov. 27th, 1900. Geo. A. Glynn, Esq., City Editor, The Herald, Syracuse, N.Y. My dear Mr. Glynn:-- I have your letter of the 23rd inst. I have had as you can easily imagine very many such requests as your's, some of them from men who served under me. Several times I have written to the Secretary of War and in each case he has responded with the utmost courtesy, but also with the utmost emphasis that when a man was in the ranks and striving to get a commission, he must decline to recognize outside recommendations, especially from any man who was not personally acquainted with the applicant's services (though I may explain that I have never yet written for the promotion in this manner of any man with whose services I was not personally acquainted). Now I do not think that such outside aid would do any good in this case. I am certain it would do him no good to have it come from me, even if it had not been my invariable custom never to make a recommendation for the promotion of any soldier whom I did not personally know, and even then only to ask that he be given a square trial in comparison with others. You will think this ungracious. But I have seen this soldier life from the inside. I had scores of requests from the outside for promotions in my regiment while I was its Colonel. I never paid the least heed to one. Indeed I held it against any man if he directly or indirectly procured aid from the outside. Such aid might be procured for a good man, but even if he was good the chances were that there was a better man who could not get the aid, and I most strongly feel that promotions from the ranks should go purely on the ascertained merit of the individual. I am sure you feel this way too. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 304 Nov. 20th, 1900. Miss Florence Illnex, 3103 Eads Ave., St Louis, Mo. My dear young friend:-- It was awfully good of you to write me such a nice letter. I am sure your papa must be very proud of you and you sisters and little brother. I have six children of my own and they have six guinea pigs and a pet bear. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. Stephen J. Gilman Everett High School, Everett, Mass. Dear Sir-- Your letter of the 27th inst has been received at the Education Department in the absence of Governor Roosevelt. He will not return here until next week, and his return will be after your debate takes place. I can only refer you to his St. Paul speech delivered July 17th last and published pretty generally in the papers at the time. You will find some references to the money question in it; also in his Detroit speech of Sept. 6th. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary305 Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr Madison Rogers, 157 W. 51st St., N.Y. City, My dear sir and Comrade:-- No letter of congratulation that I have received pleased me more than your's. I thank you heartily for writing me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. Chas. Meldrum, Secy. Bronx Rep. Club, 640 E 139th St., N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th inst, and to say that he is in receipt of such a flood of applications for endorsements, positions &c. that it is a physical impossibility for him to undertake to do anything in reference to them. He suggests that you consult your district leader and the local organization. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr.306 Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. W.H. Berry, Mt. Olivet, Robertson Co., Ky. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst just received here( it was directed to New York City) and to thank you most heartily for your congratulations which he appreciates. He regrets that he cannot avail himself of your offer of the horse as he is pretty well supplied in that line at present. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary. Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. W.R. Painter, Carrolton Democrat, Carrollton, Md. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst, and to express his regret that he cannot comply with your request. He has received a multitude of similar requests and if he complied with one he would have to do so with all, and this he cannot do as he is very busy closing up his work as Governor. He is very sorry not be able to oblige you. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary.307 Nov. 30th, 1900 Mr. S.C. Lobdill, Spring Valley, Minn. My dear Comrade Lobdill:-- I thank you heartily for your letter the 28th inst and was touched and pleased at your writing me. Believe me I appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. Frank DeYoung, Jamestown Centre, Ottawa Co., Mich. My dear Mr. DeYoung:-- I have your letter and was much touched and pleased at your naming your son after me. Believe me I appreciate your action and thank you heartily. With kind regards to Mrs. DeYoung, I am, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt308 Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. J.H. Ruskin, #361 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28th inst and to say that he was much interested in it and sympathizes with your aims and purposes. However, he is overwhelmed with applications like your's from men who have just the qualifications you possess. He has no position of any kind within his gift that he could offer you and knows of no one who requires such services at present. He regrets not being able to write you more favorable. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr. Secretary. Nov. 30th, 1900. Mr. W. Patterson Atkinson, Secretary, 169 Summit Ave., Jersey City, N.J. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 29th inst. and to express his regret that he is absolutely unable to make any more engagements. He will not have returned from his holiday in the Southwest on the date of your annual banquet. You have no conception of the multitude of invitations he receives, and how absolutely impossible it is for him to accept even a hundredth part of those he would like to. Very truly yours,309 Dec. 3rd, 1900. Dr. H. Holbrook Curtis, 118 Madison ave., N.Y. City. My Dear Dr. Curtis: Mr. Loeb has shown me your very kind and generous note to him. I want to thank you most heartily, especially for the flattery contained in the theory that when you attended to my throat you helped out the G.O.P. I am sure I need not say what great fun it was to have you with us for the thirty-six hours, aside from the fact that you put me on my legs again and enabled me to finish the campaign in great shape. If you see your brother, tell him I waived frantically at him as he passed by in the sound money parade. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt310 December 3, 1900. Charles Scribner, Esq., 155 Fifth ave., New York City. My dear Mr. Scribner: Baron Sternburg of the German Embassy has sent me the inclosed manuscript by a friend of his, Miss Violet M. Langham. He asks me if I will have it read by some good publisher? Miss Langham has been very successful in Paris as a painter and now she wishes to try her hand at a story. I shall write to Baron Sternberg explaining to him that all I can do is to have it read, and that then it will pass absolutely upon its merits, without regard to himself or to myself. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 3rd, 1900. Rev. Father Alfred J. Bader, Tuxedo, N.Y. My dear Father Bader:-- I was awfully sorry I did not receive word, from Mr. LaFarge until after Thanksgiving day. It would have given me the greatest pleasure to have presented the flag. Let me say, my dear sir, I know of your work and very heartily and deeply appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt311 December 3, 1900. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary: Mrs. McKee has written to me about the Russell Harrison case. I know nothing of it whatever. She asks me to use my influence to have him re-instated. I wrote back that I would lay the matter before you and ask for the facts. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt312 December 3, 1900. Mrs. E. Munro Ferguson, Assynt, Novar, Scotland. My dear Mrs. Ferguson: I have received your letter of November 15th and am so much pleased with it. It is awfully good and thoughtful of you. Bob is here at Oyster Bay with us at this moment, having been spending Thanksgiving with us. Do you know I doubt whether his own family can be much fonder of him than all of us are. Edith who is rather slow to form affections, has become more attached to him than almost anyone else. I do so hope that my boys will grow up like him. Give my love to Ronald. Both of our countries have difficult tasks ahead of them, but I suppose that in the live of a Nation as in the live of an individual, we have got to expect difficult tasks. With warm regards to al, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt313 December 3, 1900. Hon. Alexander E. Orr, 102 Remsen st., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Orr: I have your personal note of the 27th instant, and was most genuinely pleased to hear from you in the spirit in which you write. Let by gones be by gones. I know I need not tell you, My dear Sir, how heartily I appreciate the spirit in which you do all your work, and I am sure that the board is acting in your spirit too. I have also received the board's acknowledgment of my letter. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt314 December 3, 1900. Mrs. J.R. McKee, 178 Union ave., Saratoga, N.Y. My dear Mrs. McKee: I have your letter of November 28th. It is never anything but a pleasure to hear from you, and if there is anything I can properly do for my old comrade, your brother, I will gladly do it. I know nothing of the matter save what you tell me. Do not build upon my influence. Secretary Root, although invariably courteous to me and looking into any matter I ask him to look into, so far as I know always decides upon his own judgment. I will, however, lay the business instantly before him. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Dr. Stanton Coit Hotel Majestic N.Y. City My dear Dr. Coit: I have justreceived your letter of November 28th. It would be a great pleasure to see you indeed. Can you not lunch with me at the Executive Mansion Albany on Monday December the tenth? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt315 December 3, 1900. Mr. Thomas B. Connery, 103 W. 58 st., New York City. My dear Mr. Connery: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 27th. I would very much like to come, for I have the highest possible regard for Mr. Stedman, but it is a simple physical impossibility for me to get off on Thursday evening from Albany. With real regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Dr. Peter M. Wise, 412 West End ave, New York City. My dear Dr. Wise: In view of your letter of the 28th ultimo which has just been received, of course I recall my reprimand at once. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt316 December 3, 1900. Mrs. W. S. Cowles, 1733 N. st., Washington D. C. Darling Vye: It was awfully good of you to send Mrs. Ferguson's letter. I liked it greatly. I am much amused at Cabot's fear as to what I should do in my inaugural speech. As a matter of fact I am going to be a very punctual, decorous and cautious presiding officer. January and February I hope to spend in Colorado on a hunt. Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mr. E. J. Mullaly, 237 1/2 Wyckoff st., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Mullaly: It is very good of you to send me your telegram of November 28 which I very much appreciate. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*317*] December 2, 1900. Mr. J. A. Randolph, Waukomis, Okalahoma. My dear Sergeant: I am in receipt of your letter of the 24th instant and have written at once both to the postmaster general and delegate Flynn. I have done this most gladly and only hope that what I say will be of some assistance. I wish you all possible luck. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Postmaster General, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Smith: Mr. J. A. Randolph of Waukomis, Oklahoma is an applicant for the postmastership of that place. He was formerly sergeant of D troop of my regiment. He did most admirable work and showed all the qualities which ought to make him a good public official in civil live. I most cordially and earnestly recommend him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*318*] December 3, 1900. Hon. Bennie Flynn, Delegate H of R., Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Flynn: Mr. J. A. Randolph of Waukomis, Oklahoma is an applicant for the postmastership of that place. He was formerly sergeant of D troop of my regiment. He did most admirable work and showed all the qualities which ought to make him a good public officer in civil life. I most cordially and earnestly recommend him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 185 E. 36 st., New York City. Dear Aleck: Herewith I send you letter from Dr. Wise in reference to the Reed and Carnrick circular. Please return it to the Executive department when you are through with it. Will you also return the answer of Dr. Wise to the charges. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*319*] December 3, 1900. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 2008 Amer. Tract Society Bldg., New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt: I am just in receipt of your invitation of the 27th of November. I greatly wish I could accept but it is an absolute impossibility. I simply cannot go into anything else now. With real regret believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Room 614 - 105 E. 22nd st., New York City. My dear Mrs. Nathan: I am in receipt of your kind invitation of November 28th to address the annual meeting of the Governing Board of the Consumers League. I greatly wish I could accept but it is absolutely impossible for me to make another engagement to speak now. I simply cant do it. I send you herewith the correspondence had with Factory Inspector Williams which please return when you are through with it. Sincerely yours, 320 December 3, 1900. E. M. Townsend, Esq., 345 Broadway, N. Y. City. My dear Mr. Townsend: I am just in receipt of your letter of November 30th. I wish you know the multitude of people who bring up cases to me now during the closing weeks of my term. I have gone all over the Emmons case in connection with the others I have taken up. It may be that Emmons should ultimately be let out, but it certainly does not seem to me that he has served nearly as long as he should serve. He killed a woman with whom he had been having illicit relations. It was an atrocious type of crime. If I pardon him now I should be pardoning a criminal for a crime which I have never before excused or condoned, and I do not see how I could do it. I am awfully sorry for I want to do anything you ask, but I only wish you could understand how many of my friends - men whom I respect and love, - come to me each for some one thing which they regard as wholly exceptional.. I would not feel justified in pardoning Emmonds. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mr. Horatio C. Pollock, 1001 Professional Bldg., C/o D. S. Read, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Pollock: I have your letter of the 26th ultimo and enclose letter to Mr. Wilson. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt321 December 3, 1900. Hon. G W. Wilson Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Wilson: Mr. Horatio C. Pollock formerly of my regiment, left a position in the Internal Revenue Service to go into the Spanish-American war. He did well and I believe him to be also a trustworthy and competent man in private life. He writes me that he is now an applicant for office under you, and I gladly indorse him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Frederic Almy, Esq., Secretary, 165 Swan St., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Almy: Hearty thanks for you letter of the 26th. What you say about Mrs. Lowell interests me greatly. I am rather surprised at her change, but it is none the less interesting. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt322 December 3, 1900. Col. Arthur Lynch, Hotel Manhattan, N. Y. City. My dear Colonel: I have your letter of November 30th and thank you heartily for the extracts. I shall read them with a greatest interest and return them to you. I hope not long hence to have Mr. Root to dine with me, and then I am going to ask him frankly what can be done in your case, and if an exception cannot be made. I believe you could render very good service in just the kind of war that is going on now in the Philippines, from your experience in South Africa. Meanwhile I suppose that you could get letters from some of the Boer commanders under or with whom you served, could you not? I take it for granted that Mr. Root will ask me to give him some reasons for the faith that is in me about you, in addition to my own personal impression. Now remember, my dear fellow, that it is not possible for me to promise anything for I do not know what is possible, and I do not know whether if possible, the powers that be will look at things my way in the matter. But whatever I can do I most gladly will. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Henry Loomis Nelson, Esq., New Rochelle, N. Y. My dear Mr. Nelson: I have your note of the 27th. It is not that anything you would say would be inaccurate, but that I came to the conclusion that anything I would say would be indiscreet - and remember, old man, you are one of those who have been steadfastly preaching discretion to me. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt323 December 3, 1900. Mr. John C. Fisher, Spokane, Washington. My dear Mr. Fisher: I have received your letter of November 19. Of course I remember you very well and I am very glad to hear from you. I have often thought of you. About that Wadsworth matter, you need not be under the slightest concern. If the idiot wants to institute a suit, let him. Which Wadsworth is it:- the man who was tried for murder or his brother? I considered them guilty of extremely sharp practice in the linecamp matter, and if it had been worth while I should have sued them. This is a pure bluff on their part With warm regards, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt324 December 3, 1900. Mr. George T. Crusius, c/o Hon. Charles G. Dawes, Comptroller, Washington, D.C. My dear Crusius: I have your letter of November 30th and was very glad to hear from you. Mr. Dawes is one of the finest fellows I know. I have really been almost ashamed to write him, because no less than five or six times hehas been good enough to get some job for some member of the regiment. He writes me he is pleased with you and he is sure you will do well. I am sure you will do well too, for by doing good work you will make me feel repaid three times over for having tried to get you the position. With warm regards, I am, Faithfully your old Colonel, Theodore Roosevelt325 December 3, 1900. Hon. Edgar H. Cullen, Judge Court of Appeals, Albany, N.Y. My dear Judge: I have just received your letter of November 28th. Unfortunately this week I am up to my ears in work and dare not try to accept any additional engagements. My moves the week after are a little uncertain. Now, will you tell me frankly if what I am going to propose does not suit you? Would Thursday the 20th instant be a day on which I could come to you? Pray let me know. Mrs. Roosevelt was so very sorry she could not accept your sister's invitation to lunch. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt326 December 3, 1900. Hon. Andrew D. White, Embassy of the United States, Berlin, Germany. My dear Mr. White: Your letter of November 16th pleased me greatly. But for Heaven's sake do not think of me as a possible Presidential candidate. In the first place, the possibility is merely that of lightning striking; and in the next place, with the examples of Tom Reed and Dewey fresh before me, it seems to me there can be no more awful fate than for a man to get a Presidential bee in his bonnet. Moreover, when I think of the kind of life I have led, the marvel is that I have gotten as far as I have. I have always expressed my opinions with great freedom, and though I think I have grown fairly judicious now, this was certainly not the case ten or a dozen years ago. There are plenty of printed statement I have made, most of them absolutely true, some of them true from my standpoint, but expressed in such a shape as legitimately to give offence and which would operate against me at any rate among politicians and perhaps among some who are not politicians. While I did not want the Vice Presidency I am now entirely content to have taken it, for it enabled me to be of considerable use in a great campaign. Now all that there is for me to do is to perform with regularity and dignity the duty of presiding over the Senate, and327 2...White. to remember the fact that the duty not being very important is no excuse for shirking it. I shall do just as you suggest and wait on events for some little time before speaking about expansion or anything of the kind. Let me heartily congratulate you upon your speech which I have just been reading. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mr O. H. Wheeler, 483 - 20th st., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Sir: I have your note of the 29th ultimo. I am extremely busy now and it is difficult for me to see anyone. I trust you can out in writing what it is you wish to see me about. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt328 December 3, 1900. Hon. W. F. Wakeman, Appraiser of Merchandise, New York City. My dear Mr. Wakeman: I thank you for your letter of the 30th ultimo in reference to Adam J. Ackerman. Of course I do not want any man turned out who is a decent fellow and doing efficient work. And equally of course unless Mr. Ackerman does well when he is in, I do not want him kept. I very greatly appreciate your courtesy in saying that if the chance comes you will give Mr. Ackerman a trial. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Jacob A. Riis, Esq., Richmond Hill, L. I., N. Y. Dear Jake: The enclosed letter from Mr. Wakeman explains itself. If Ackerman gets the job you must make him understand that he is to do his work right up to the handle. With love to all your dear family, I am, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt329 December 3, 1900. Mr. J. A. Beardsley, 32 Fourth st., San Francisco, Cal. My dear Mr. Beardsley, In reply to your letter of the 24th ultimo I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Col. Long, Quartermaster's Dept., U.S.A., SanFrancisco, Cal. My dear Colonel Long: This is to introduce Mr. Joseph A. Beardsley of No. 32 Fourth street, San Francisco, Cal. He was formerly a member of my regiment, but will show you his discharge certificate therefrom. As I am in New York and he is in San Francisco, I cannot look into his case myself, but he is desirous of service under you. I beg from you the courtesy of an interview with him, and if his papers are satisfactory to you and there is a vacancy, that he may be given a chance to prove his worth. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt330 December 3, 1900. Master Ferris S. Hetherington, Secretary, 110 E. 56th st., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Secretary: Through you I want to thank the Patria club. I have always remembered your school and I am very glad to know the kind of boys it is bringing up and preparing for citizenship. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Miss M. P. Pascal, 576 Lexington ave., New York City. My dear Miss Pascal: I enclose you a note to the Patria club. I am very glad to hear from you. It is a real pleasure. With warm regards, and heartily thanking you, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt331 December 3, 1900. Mr. George C. King, 4010 California st., SanFrancisco, Cal. My dear Mr. King: I have your letter of November 20th and was very gladto hear from you. Let me congratulate you heartily. Give my warm regards to your wife. It was a great pleasure to hear of the other Rough Riders. Wishing you all good luck, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Rev. W. J. Gregory, "The Manse", Nichols, N.Y. My dear Sir: I have your letter of the 26th ultimo. I know too little of the matters of which you speak to be able to give you any judgment about them. As regards the saloons and houses of ill fame, I would very earnestly suggest that you write to judge Taft of the Philippine commission. If such evils do exist, most certainly every effort should be made to break them up. As regards the canteen, I am not familiar with the provisions of the law. I suggest your writing to Secretary Root in relation thereto. I am certain that the Secretary is doing his best to minimize drunkenness in the army. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt332 December 3, 1900. Mr. J. B. Shale, Publishers Press Association, 13 - 21 Park Row, N.Y. City. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo and will see what I can do in the matter you refer to. It would seem to me that you were entitled to the same privileges enjoyed by other press associations. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mr. Frank C. Brito, Silver City, N. M. My dear Sir: I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of November 22nd and to say that he regrets that he is not able to see his way clear to interfere in the mat- ter you mention. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary to the Governor333 December 3, 1900. Mr. Benjamin H. Miller, Ashton, Md. My Dear Mr. Miller: Many thanks to you for your letter of November 28th. On several occasions when interrupted by drunken men I have advised them to join the Prohibition party or to profit by the teachings of the W.C.T.U. Possibly this is what your correspond- ent refers to. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mrs. M. E. D. Wilcox, 1760 Corcoran st., Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Wilcox: I am in receipt of your letter of November 24th. I am awfully sorry but I do not know how to help you. I am utterly at a loss to know how to get any book into a public libra- ry. Regretting that I cannot write your more favorably, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt334 December 3, 1900. Hon. Edgar T. Brackett, Saratoga , N.Y. My dear Senator: I am in receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo with reference to Lieutenant Colonel Harrison. I am already look- ing that up. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mr. F. J. Stimson, 459 Marlborough st., Boston, Mass. My dear Stimson: I have just received your card in a lot of letters. I do not understand it. Did you call at Albany, or did you send it with something? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt335 December 3, 1900. Mr. Samuel Hill, University Club, 5th ave. & 54th st., New York City. My dear Hill: I have your letter of November 25th. I wish I could accept for I should particularly like to do anything you ask, but it is simply out of the question. I cannot now get away from New York and I cannot accept another invitation to dinner. I am aw- fully sorry. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. William R. Rideing, Esq., 55 E. 76th st., New York City. My dear Mr. Rideing: I have your letter of the 27th ultimo and shall try to send you that article before January first. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt336 December 3, 1900. Mr. Hilden Olin, 2nd Lieut. 26th Infantry U.S.V., Manila, P. I. My dear Lieutenant Olin: I thank you very much for those excellent cigars. They have quite made my reputation among my friends here. It was very thoughtful of you to remember me. With warm regards, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Hon. John. W. Vrooman, Union League Club, N. Y. City. My dear Mr. Vrooman: Your letter pleased and touched me and I thank you for sending it to me. Believe me, with warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt337 December 3, 1900. Mr. J. H. Johnston, V20 Marcy ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Johnston: I am in receipt of your very kind letter of the 28th ultimo, and thank you most cordially. I regret greatly that it is impossible for me to make another engagement this month as I shall be extremely busy closing up the affairs of the governorship, and immediately thereafter I start on a two month's vacation in the southwest. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Rev. L. W. Batten, 232 E. 11 st., New York City. My dear Mr. Batten: I greatly wish I could accept your very kind invitation of the 29th ultimo, but it is an absolute impossibility. I cannot undertake another engagement of any sort. You have no conception of the multitude of invitations I receive and how impossible it is to accept even an hundredth part of those I should so much like to. With real regret, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt338 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Edward Bok, The Ladies Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Bok:-- I am informed by my family that no picture that has been painted of me is a good one. I think you had better use the pictures that appear in the front of my books-- The Wilderness Hunter, The Strenuous Life and The Rough Riders. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. Henry C. Payne, Waldorf Astoria, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Payne:-- I have your note of the 2nd inst. Can you lunch with me at the Union League Club next Saturday in N. Y. at 1.30? I am awfully anxious to see you. Or can you spend Monday or Tuesday night of next week up here with me? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt339 Dec. 4th, 1900. Genl. Bradley T. Johnson, Amelia Court House, Va. My dear General:-- It was delightful to receive your letter of the 2nd inst. You shall have a copy of the Cromwell as soon as I get back to Sagamore, and I am really flattered that you should want it. One of the books in my library that I like most I owe to you-- Henderson's Life of Stonewall Jackson. I have been so pestered by invitations to speak, to dine, etc., that I made up my mind that my only chance for a holiday is to get where people cannot possibly reach me, and so this year I am going to forego the real pleasure of going down to see you, and as soon as I can get away from New York,-- that is, immediately after January 1st I am going out to Colorado for a hunt. There is a man there who has a pack of hounds with which he hunts mountain lions. That sounds formidable, but I understand that most of the time a horse carries you and that the mountain lion, if you catch him at all, stands still in a tree to be shot at. As I feel that I could not to save my neck walk a mile over rough country, and as I am positive I could not shoot anything unless it would stand very still within easy range, this is the kind of hunting to which I am now reduced. I hope that by next November when I am on in Washington I will be in trim to go down and take a share in the hardier sports around your place-- if you still want me. With love from all to all, I am, Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt340 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Morris Baer, Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, N.J. My dear Mr. Baer:-- I have your letter of the 1st inst and thank you heartily for calling my attention to the matter referred to. I hardly know how to get at men who make such scandalous misstatements. However, the whole article shows that Urban is not only a liar but a malevolent fool, and it seems difficult to try to correct him. Really I should think the best way to do would be for you to point out that the alleged quotation from me is an absolute lie; that not only I never said it, but that I never said anything remotely resembling it, or that could be twisted into it; and at the same time point out that all the other statements he makes are false. For instance, he speaks of my having attacked "a hill that was hardly defended". In fact, in that attack my regiment lost a fourth of its numbers in killed and wounded and a third of its officers. You should point out that Urban is himself the type of man that gives strength to Tammany and to the forces of national dishonor and civic decency. Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt341 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Wm. F. Long, President, 25 Third Ave., N.Y. City. Dear sir:- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 3rd inst., and to say that he does not see how he has any authority in the matter you refer to. The contract for the State Comptroller, the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. He has referred your letter to the State Comptroller with a request to look into the matter. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary. Dec. 4th, 1900. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, N. Y. Gentlemen:-- By direction of Governor Roosevelt I return to you today by express the books you kindly sent on approval. He wishes me to express his thanks for your courtesy, and to say that he does not wish to purchase any of them. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary.342 Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. Geo. J. Smith, Kingston, N.Y. My dear Mr. Smith:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst, and in view of your statement of course I shall gladly appoint Archibald McLaughlin to the vacancy. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Genl. T. L. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va. My dear General:-- I have your communication of the 1st. The first chance I get I will most gladly talk over the matter referred to with the President. I would particularly like to see prominent ex-Confederates who now stand for the Republican party honored in conspicuous fashion, so that their usefulness may be increased. With hearty thanks I am, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt343 Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. G. L. Rives, 14 W. 38 St., N.Y. City. My dear Rives:- I have just received your letter of the 30th ult and this morning the formal invitation came to hand. I take it that the 12th is satisfactory to Mr. Odell? I shall therefore be at the lunch at 1.30. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Homer Folks, 105 E. 22nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Folks:- Replying to your letter of the 3rd inst, Will you call upon Dr. Alexander Lambert, #125 E. 36th St., N.Y. City? He will give you the details in full. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt344 Dec. 4th, 1900. Rev. Dr. W. T. Rainsford, 209 E. 16th St., N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Rainsford:- I am very much obligated to you not only for the two volumes but for your note. I have been much interested in certain types of men doing philanthropic work (I hate the word "philanthropic" but I use it for lack of a better)-- men who act on as different lines as Norton Goddard and yourself, Jacob Riis and Arthur v. Briesen. Your church has appealed to me because of the way you have gone among the working people and the results that have followed. Do you know Goddard? He is the only man I have ever known who entered politics by the road of philanthropy. I really believe that twenty such men each in a down town or East side district would save New York from Tammany, and in the course of so doing would put the Republican Machine on a perfectly clean basis. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt345 Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. John Laughlin, #1212 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- Your note of the 3rd inst rather embarrasses me. I cannot ask a favor of Mr. Odell. I have had as I told you an understanding with him that if he wanted to know anything about any candidate I would be glad to give him my opinion, but that I should not endorse any candidate to him. I have declined in the case of one or two of my own appointes whose terms are out, and in the case of certainly fifty outside candidates. I simply cannot break the rule in any one case without breaking it in others. If Mr. Odell will ask me I will most gladly back up your brother for any [for?] any promotion [?] [?]. I think him a trump and will be only too glad to help him in any way possible. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Silas McBee, C/o Bishop Doane, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. McBee:-- I have just received your letter of the 30th ult. Will you note come in to see me on Thursday morning? Please present this note and you will be admitted at once. Faithfully yours,[*346*] Dec. [4th], 1900. Austen G. Fox, Esq., 45 W. 33rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Fox:-- Hearty thanks for your note of the 2nd inst. I should like much to meet Senor Sixto Lopez, but I am sorry to say that on Friday evening the 14th inst I am to be at the Dinner of the National Civil Service Reform Association. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. Wm. Call, 202 W. 80th St., N.Y. City. My dear Senator:-- I have just received your letter of the 1st inst. If you can come up here any day prior to Friday noon it will be a great pleasure for me to see you,--though you, with your experience in the Senate know how little a Vice President has to do with any matter of policy. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt347 December 4, 1900. Mr. Brander Matthews, 681 West End Ave., N. Y. City. Dear Brander: I have your letter of the 2nd and thank you heartily. I hardly know what to say about the lottery business. I think it is undoubtedly illegal, but then I think Church lotteries are also illegal, and yet nobody dreams of interfering with them. Where the line would be drawn it is difficult to say. I wish I could see you, but when I come to New York I stay at my sisters, No. 422 Madison avenue, which is a long distance from you. Do you think you could get there next Sunday morning at ten December 4, 1900. Mr. W. B. Osborne, Editor Daily Gazette, Schenectady, N.Y. My Dear Mr. Osbroen: I am in receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst. and am exceedingly sorry, but I never do the kind of thing you request. I am asked continually by different papers to do it, and if I once began it would be literally endless. Regretting that I cannot oblige you in the matter, I am, Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt348 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. John E. Phillips, Editorial Rooms, 141 E. 25th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Phillips:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst. which puzzles me somewhat. Of course, you understand that nothing would hire me to go into gossip. I am only concerned with the work that can be done by different people. In view of what you say I shall try and confine myself to Goddard, Rainsford, Riis, and v. Briesen. But I shall touch as lightly as possible upon the men personally, dealing purely with the work that they represent. Of course I cannot help touching upon them personally in a certain extent, but the last thing I desire is to do is to seem to be writing gossip and personal sketches. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 4, 1900. Mr. Cornelius Hardy, U. S. Commissioner, Tishomingo, I. T. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo and am very sorry but I cannot meddle with appointments such as you refer to. All I have ever done has been to state the facts where I know the men personally. With regret Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt[*349*] Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Charles Ware, 136 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Charlie:-- I have your note of the 2nd inst. If Mr. Wesson will come up before Friday noon of this week, I shall be very glad to see him. But I ought to warn you that it will be absolutely useless for him to come up to see me about a Consulship. I have nothing whatever to do with those appointments and no heed could or would be paid to a recommendation from me. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Hon. Alford Warriner Cooley, Westchester, N.Y. City. My dear Cooley:-- I have your note of the 2nd inst. Come up Friday morning and take lunch with me. [Now?], I shall probably go down that afternoon. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt350 December 4, 1900. Mr. Emmet Laird, Headquarters Department of Porto Rico, Chief Quatermasters Office, San Juan, P. R. My dear Sir: I have your letter of the 23rd ultimo. I would gladly try to help you, but I do not how to. I receive countless applications such as that of yours, and unless there is some particular vacancy in the quartermaster's department I would not know how to start to find one for you. You will have to find one definitely yourself, and then I will help you if I can. You have no conception of the number of the members of my regiment who make application to me. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Garrett S. Brown, Esq., The Michigan Club, Detroit, Mich. My dear Mr. Brown:-- I have your letter of the 1st inst. Hearty thanks for your consideration. How will the inclosed do? Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt351 I send cordial greeting to the Michigan Club. The peopl ov your State have made their State great by acting on the old American principle of self-help combined with help to others. We preach the gospel of hope and not of dispair, and we believe that while the laws can do much, yet that most must always be done by th men themselves. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roose Albany, N.Y. Dec. 4th, 1900. Dec. 4th, 1900. Rev. William Harmon Van Allen, 312 W. 1st St., Elmira, N.Y. My dear Mr. Van Allen:-- I thank you for your kind letter of Dec. 1 and for the study you send me. I am afraid, however, that you and I could not agree about King Charles. By the way, from your name you ought rather to belong to my church, the Dutch Reformed! With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosev352 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Marcus Braun, #58 Seventh St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Braun:-- I have just received your letter of the 30th ult. I am going away about the first of January for a two month holiday. I have not had any for years, and I think I deserve one. It is therefore impossible for me to undertake another engagement. With great regard, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Wm. C. Bull, The Globe Register Co., Indianapolis, Ind. My dear Mr. Bull:-- I am just in receipt of your letter of the 29th ult with attached clipping. I never received your former letter. I thank you and will take pleasure in sending a note to Master Moore: also my photograph. Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt353 Dec. 4th, 1900. Master Irwin Moore, 1624 Bway, Indianapolis, Ind. My dear young friend:-- I have been told of your devotion to the cause of Republicanism, and also I have learned of your accident. One of my own mall boys once had a similar accident to this knee, so I know just how hard it is for you. I send you my photograph with my best wishes for a Merry Christmas. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th 1900. Dr. P. F. Murphy, 36 W. 32nd St., N.Y. City. My dear Dr. Murphy!-- Your letter of the 29th ult has just been re- ceived, and I thank you heartily. I have taken pleasure in autographing those photographs and return them to you by this mail. I hope the fair will be a great success. With kind regards, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt 354 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Frank C. Travers, 16 Thomas St,. N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Travers:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst with inclosure which I return herewith. I am awfully sorry and wish I could accept, but it is a simple impossibility. You have no idea of the multitude of invitations I receive and it is utterly impossible for me to accept another one. I am going to leave for a holiday( which I think I deserve) as soon after January 1st as possible, to be gone two months. Until the 1st of January I shall me more than occupied closing up the work of the Governorship. I am awfully sorry for I dislike to refuse anything you ask. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. President Franklin Carter, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. My dear President Carter:--I have your very kind letter of the 1st inst. I wish I could accept definitely now, but I simply don't dare to. The date, June 24th, is the anniversary of the Guasimas fight and I may have to be at the reunion of my regiment on that day. I could not very well miss it just after I have been elected Vice President, though to be frank I have striven in vain to get them to give up reunions, I am awfully sorry not to be able to write you more favorably. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt355 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Robert J. Campbell, Jr., Potter Bldg., N.Y. City My dear Mr. Campbell:-- I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st inst. I take pleasure in sending you the photograph you request. I wish you success in your effort to found a clean, decent paper which shall stand for honesty and efficiency in municipal, state and national affairs. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4, 1900. Darling Corinne:-- Can you take me in for Friday and Saturday night and do you feel like reckless hospitality for Saturday morning at breakfast and Sunday at lunch? If so, would you ask James Barnes, #22 E. 48th St. and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler to breakfast on Saturday, and Mr and Mrs. John Proctor Clarke and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Bishop to Lunch on Saturday? Ever yours, Theodore Roosevelt The address of John Proctor Clarke is #29 Bway. " " " J. B. Bishop is Commercial Advertiser, #29 Park Row, N.Y. City Mrs. Douglas Robinson Jr., #422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City P. S. I have written Ted that letter. I think on the whole I had better not send a copy of it to you and Douglas. It might look as if I was doing a thing on a prearranged plan if I did.356 Dec. 4th, 1900. Miss Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman, 116 W. 43rd St., N.Y. City. Dear madame:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ult inclosing note of introduction from Dr. Lambert and to say that he will gladly sign the book when they come and return them to you. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary. Dec. 4th, 1900. Nathan Bijur, Esq., 172 W. 75th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr Bijur:-- I have just received your note of the 30th ult. You are awfully kind. I wish we could accept but it simply is not possible. Give our warm regards to Mrs. Bijur and tell her how much both of us appreciate your kindness. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt 357 Dec. 4th, 1900. Maj. W. H. H. Llewellyn, Las Cruces, N. M. My dear Major:-- I thank you very much and so does Mrs. Roosevelt for the mistletoe. It was extremely good of you to send it. I hope you are in fine health. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 4th, 1900. Dean Briggs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. My dear Dean Briggs:-- I thank you very much for your kindness in writing me about young Robinson. I take the liberty of sending you a copy of a letter I have written him. With great regard, Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt358 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dear Teddy:-- Will you excuse an exceedingly venerable Uncle writing to you on matters which but indirectly concern him? The Dean sent me a very pleasant note in reference to your studies. He evidently thinks that you have got to take a brace in at least two of them-- in fact in your studies generally. Now, I understand absolutely that the reason of this trouble has been your work at foot ball, and moreover, I cordially and heartily approve of your having sacrificed the studies to get on the Eleven. I think it was worth it. But I most emphatically think that it would be anything but worth while to let any athletics now interfere with your making up the lost ground. It is a good deal as with my campaign this fall. I spent seven weeks in the West outside of New York State, because I deemed it more important to do all I could to beat Mr. Bryan in the West than to be here in the Executive Chamber. I was absolutely right in this, and the event justified me; but it justified me largely because I have since the campaign stayed steadily at home and done the work of the office right up to the handle. I wish you would do the same thing now with your studies. As you know, I am a great believer in athletics; but I very strongly disbelieve in making them a business to the exclusion of everything else. I was really proud of your father being the best polo back in the United States in his time, but I should have been heartily ashamed if he had scamped his real estate business for the 359 2. polo. In my own case, big game hunting in the West has helped me in more ways than one, because I made it a servant and not a master. If I had sacrificed my serious work to it, instead of using it as a help and preparation for this work, it would have been better for me never to have handled a gun. I am going to spend January and February in Colorado on a hunt, because I think I am entitled to it, and there is nothing for me to do here. But after the Fourth of March I shall attend straight to my business as Vice President just as I have been attending to my business as Governor. As I say I think it well worth while to have played on the Eleven and am more than content that you should have paid the price of falling behindhand in your studies; but now I want you to catch up, and to sacrifice hockey or rowing or anything else if necessary in order that you may catch up. In my class there were several men I know, who were good fellows too, also in their freshman year who were dropped, and in every case but one it had a marked effect for bad upon their whole life. Now, old man, I hope you wont think I am preaching over much. I write to you, in the first place, because I am very proud of you and believe in you thoroughly; and in the next place, because I know the pride and anxiety with which your father and mother are looking at your career; and finally because I feel as though at Harvard you were in some sort my representative, and that I am concerned in having your record an honorable one, just as when little Ted gets there I shall be concerned in having his record an honorable one. We are looking forward to seeing you and the rest of the outfit at Sagamore on Thursday after Christmas. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt360 Dec. 4th, 1900. Genl. Joseph Wheeler, Army & Navy Club, N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I have just received your note. I am to be in New York next Saturday. Where are you to be on that day? I will be in rather hurly burly, but I must get a chance to see you and talk with you. If you could come up here and spend a night with us, this week, say either Wednesday or Thursday, we would be delighted. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 3, 1900. Mrs. Henrietta M. Bridges, Carlisle, Pa. My dear Mrs. Bridges: Your letter of November 14th pleased and touched me. I send herewith to little Miss Eleanor my photograph with my autograph on it. Will you tell her how I appreciate her interest in the election? Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt361 Dec. 4th, 1900. Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1339 V. St., Washington, D.C. My dear Madam:-- Governor Roosevelt has noted the request contained on your card, and has directed me to say that he does not care to have any more photographs taken of him. He remembers you very well and thanks you for your courtesy. Very truly yours, [?] Secretary Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Geo. B. Goodwin, 1358 Bway, N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ult and to thank you most cordially for your courtesy. He does not wish to have any more photographs taken. Very truly yours, [?] Secretary 362 Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Albert M. Post, 801 Irving St., Olean, N.Y. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst. He is very sorry but the matter you refer to is one in which he can do nothing. He suggests that you write to the Department or State Commander of the G. A. R. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary. Dec. 5th, 1900. Col. W. G. Bates, 128 Bway, N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- Governor Roosevelt is in receipt of your very kind invitation for the annual dinner of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and regrets greatly that he will be on his holiday in the Southwest January 9th and therefore utterly unable to accept. He thanks you most cordially. Very truly yours, William Loeb Jr Secretary.363 Dec. 5th, 1900. Mrs. James Griswold Wentz, 3[1?]2 W. 82nd St., N.Y. City. Dear Madam:-- The Governor directs me to acknowledge the receipt your kind letter of the 2nd inst, and to say that he would much like to attend your meeting, but Tuesday is an impossible day for him as he is obliged to be in Albany on that day attending to off[ic]ial duties. It is utterly impossible for him to make another engagement this month and right after the 1st of January he starts a two months' holiday. He regrets very much not to be able to ob[lige] you, for he sympathizes with what you are doing. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary. Dec. 5th, 1900. Messrs Austin & Woolverton, 1 Green St., Albany, N.Y. Gentlemen:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your note in reference to accident policy and to say that he does not wish to renew it. Likewise, I do not care to renew mine. I think it was the spirit of these policies that protected us from the rocks and clubs in the west. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary.364 Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Chas. Froed, President, Arion Singing Society, 11 to 27 Arion Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your very kind invitation for January 9th, and to express his great regret that he is unable to accept as he will be absent in the Southwest at that time. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary. Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Frank E. Wade, 1010 Mutual Life Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your kind invitation of the 30th ult and to express his great regret that during the months of January and February he will be absent in the Southwest, and therefore unable to do as you request. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary.365 Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Richard C. [Martin], [123] W. 129th St., N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ult, and to express his regret that he cannot undertake another engagement this month as his time is wholly occupied in closing up the affairs of the Governorship. Immediately after January 1st he starts on a two months' holiday in the Southwest. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary. Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. W. V. Cox, Secretary, 1225 Penns. Ave., Washington, D.C. Dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 30th ult in reference to day and time of arrival, and to say that the Governor sometime ago sent his regrets at not being able to be present at the Centennial celebration. Very truly yours, William Loeb, Jr. Secretary.366 STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY December 6 1900 Mr.William H. Gordon, Ellenburg Centre,N.Y. My dear Mr.Gordon: I have your letter and agree with you thoroughly. However,my term is so short now that I do not know as I can do anything further in the matter. Very truly yours, Mr.G.Prince, Penn.Ave and E 11th Sts Washington,D.C: My dear Mr.Prince: I have your letter of the 4th inst and regret to say that I will not be at the Centennial celebration. Thanking you for your courtesy,I am, Very truly yours, Mr.Putnam Drew, 71 Wall Street,New York City. My dear Mr.Drew: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 3rd inst. It will not be possible,however,for me to send my son to the encampment. With hearty thanks,I am, Yours sincerely Mr.H.A.Hammond, 36 Macon St,Brooklyn,N.Y. Dear sir : I am directed by the Govenor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th ult. and to express his regret that he does not see his way clear to aid you as you request. He has received a number of letters from employees of the collector of the port and he has had to make a rule to decline to interfere,becaise if he dodes it for one he will have to do it for all. Very truly yours,366A December 6(?) 1900. Mr. William H. Verdon, Ellenburgh Centre,N.Y. My dear Mr. Verdon: I have your letter and agree with you thoroughly. However, my term is so short now that I do not know if I can do anything further in the matter. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 5(?) 1900 Mr.S(?) Prince, Penn.Ave and E 11th Sts, Washington,D.C. My dear Mr. Prince: I have your letter of the 4th inst. I regret to say that I will not be at the Centennial ceremony(?). Thanking you for your courtesy, I am, Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt367 December 6 1900 Mr. Putnam Drew, 71 Wall St, New York City. My dear Mr. Drew: I thank you heartily for your letter of the 3rd inst. It will not be possible,however, for me to send my son to the encampment. With many thanks, I am, Yours sincerely, December 6 1900. Mr. H.A. Hammond, 36 Macon St, Brooklyn,N.Y. Dear Sir: I am directed by the govenor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th(?) ult. and to express his regret that he does not see his way clear to aid you as you request. He has received a (?) of letters from employees of the collector of the Port and he has had to make a rule to decline to interfere, because if it does it for one he will have to do it for all. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb Jr.368 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, Temple Court, Beekman St., N.Y., City. Dear Grant:-- Lansdowne has sent in his answer. On its face it is entirely complete. I am going to go over it with Locke and with Wadsworth. There must however be more than a mere general statement that Lansdowne is bringing in politics or not doing his work, before I can ask for his resignation. Remember that I have no power to remove him. He can only be removed by the Senate upon the request of the Governor, and I do not wish to get into a position where though the real facts would justify me, all the facts which are apparent would make me ridiculous. I hope that at least a moderately clear case can be made against him, for I feel sure that he is an undesirable member of the Commission. But most certainly I am not prepared to say that such a case has yet been made. In great haste, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt369 Dec. 5th, 1900 Mr. David A. Hadden. Willow City, Texas. My dear Mr. Hadden:-- I have your letter of the 27th ult and will gladly write to the Postmaster General on your account. I do not know whether it will do you any good or not. I can only hope it will. I inclose you copy of what I have written. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Hon. Chas. Emory Smith, Postmaster General, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Smith:- Mr. David A. Hadden of Willow City, Texas, served in Captain Miller's Troop of my regiment. He will show his discharge. He left his position in the office of the S. A. & A. R. R. to go to the war. While at the front he contracted typhoid fever and was at the point of death for months but finally recovered He did well in the regiment and will furnish the necessary referenc for his civil capacity. He was one of ten men from his county to enlist. He now desires the appointment of Postmaster of Willow City, Texas. He was formerly the assistant in the post office there. Do you think this can be done? Faithfully yours,370 Dec. 5th, 1900. Mrs. A. Francis Judd, Honolulu, H. I. My dear Mrs. Judd:-- I have just received your letter of the 19th of November. Of course I remember you very well. I am touched by your writing me and sincerely grieved to hear of Mr. Judd's death. With great sympathy, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. G. F. Allmandinger, Ann Arbor, Mich. My dear sir:-- I am in receipt of your letter of the 1st inst and thank you very much for your kind congratulations. The subject matter about which you write is of course entirely new to me, but it will give me great pleasure at the earliest oppor- tunity to look into it, and if I can to favor you. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt 371 Dec. ?th, 1900. Mr. Mason C. Hutchins, The journal Cc. Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Hutchins:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst and would be only to glad to help Mr. Re?ves, but I am already committed to a first appointment and an alternate. If I write another letter fo Mr. Reeves I think it would simply mean that no one of the three would stand any show whatever of receiving attention. With regret, Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. John w. Langley, Census Office, Washington, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Langley:-- I remember you well and thank you heartily for your letter of the 30th ???. You made a most gallant fight in Kentucky, but it was just not possible to win. Faithfully yours, T Roosevelt 372 Dec. 5th, 1900. Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, 1517 F. St., N. W., Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. MacVeagh:-- Hearty thanks for your's of the 1st inst.. How I wish I could accept, but it is simply impossible! I have got to stay in this state now until January 1st, and then I will be off for a two months' holiday in the Southwest. With warm regards, and renewed thanks, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900 Hon. Geo. W. E. Dorsey, Alta Club, Salt Lake City, Utah. My dear Mr Dorsey:-- Your letter of the 27th ult really pleased me and so did the clipping. I thank you for it most heartily. There was no state that I enjoyed visiting more than I did Utah. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt[*373*] Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. Leonard Wilson, Office of the Assistant Secretary, War Depart., Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Wilson:-- I have your letter of the 30th ult. I receive so many requests for letters of the kind you ask for that I have been obliged reluctantly to make an invariable rule that I could not give them. I am extremely sorry. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Mr. Alberto Bryan Barwis, Deputy Keeper, N. J. S. Prison, Trenton, N. J. My dear Mr. Barwis:-- Your letter of the 30th ult. pleased me greatly and I thank you hearty for the honor you have done me in naming your young son after me. Pray present my regards to your wife. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt374 Dec. 6th, 1900. Hon. John G. Long, Consul General, Cairo, Egypt. My dear Mr. Long:-- I thank you heartily for your congratulations. I did not want the Vice Presidential nomination, but I am entirely satisfied now to have been of service in a campaign that I regarded as vital to the interests of the United States. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. My dear Colonel Kitson:-- I see by the papers that you are to be sent to Washington. I do not know whether you have gotten there or not yet. Mrs. Roosevelt and I are so pleased at the news. We were very fond of the Pauncefotes and hate to think they are going away just as we got to Washington. We shall miss greatly different English friends we have had at the Embassy-- Cecil Spring Rice, [Michael?] Herbert and Arthur Lee. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt To Colonel Kitson, British Embassy, Washington, D.C.375 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. George McAneny, Secretary. #54 William St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. McAneny:-- As I have telegraphed you I shall come to the dinner Friday evening instead of the meeting Thursday night. It will be rather late when I come in to make my speech. I presume you have notified Mr. Bonaparte of my choice of evenings. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt December 5th, 1900. Rev. F. Butler Thompkins, #435 W. 33rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Thompkins:-- I am in receipt of your letter of the 3rd inst. If you will come here next Monday at twelve oclock I shall be very glad to see your Committee. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt376 STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY December 5 1900 Mr. James B. Reynolds, 184 Eldridge St, New York City. My dear Reynolds: I have your letter of the 3rd inst with enclosed statement. I have also received the report. You have given me exactly the information I want. I thank you heartily. Faithfully yours, Mr. T. St. John Gaffney, 141 Riverside Drive, New York City. My dear Gaffney: I send you back Lynch's books. I am really very much taken with them although there are certain points where I think I agree with you rather than with him. In reality as well as in government I am a democrat, not an aristocrat, using the phrases in their cant significance. I have written to Root to see what can be done about getting him into the army. Whether I can accomplish anything or not I have not the slightest idea but I will try. Sincerely yours,[*376A*] Dec. [?th], [1900?} Mr. James B. Reynolds, 184 Eldridge St., N.Y. City. My dear Reynolds:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst. with inclosed statement. I have also received the report. You have given me the exactly the information I want. I thank you heartily. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt [????] [???], [1900?] Mr. T. St. John Gaffney, [41?] Riverside Drive, N. Y. City. My dear Gaffney:-- I send you back Lynch's books. I am really very much taken with them, although there are certain points that I think I agree with you rather than with him. In reality as well as in government I am a democrat, not an [aristocrat?] -- using the phrases in their [??] significance. I have written to Root to see what can be done about getting Lynch [??] into the army. Whether I can [??] anything or not I have not the slightest idea, but I will try. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt377 STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY December 5 1900 Hon. B B. Odell,Jr., Governor-elect, Newburgh, N.Y. My dear Sir: During the months of August and September of this year there was a deficiency in the fund for the payment of the clerks and stenographers in the Executive Department. This deficiency arose from the fact that the salary of the legal adviser had been paid from the Executive Department fund, when it was supposed by all in the department that it was paid by the Statutory Revision fund insasmuch as Judge Lincoln was the head of the Statutory Revision Commission. To meet this deficiency the comptroller borrowed money from the bank. I desire to bring this matter to your attention in order that a proper item may be placed in the supply bill to reimburse the comptroller for the monies in this way advanced. The comptroller of course will give you the amount when the time arrives to incorporate the item in the supply bill. Sincerely yours,377 4 December 5 1900 Hon. B. B. Odell, Jr., Governor-elect Newburgh, N.Y. My dear Sir: During the months of August and September of this year, there was a deficiency to the fund for payment of clerks and stenographers in the Executive Department. This deficiency arose from the fact that the salary of the legal adviser had been paid from the Executive Department fund, when it was supposed [by] all the Department that it was paid from the fund of the Statutory Revision Commission [?] as Judge [?] was the head of the Statutory Revision Commission. The [?] this deficiency the Comptroller approved [?] the bank. I desire to raise this matter to your attention in order that a proper item may be placed in the supply bill to [reimburse?] the Comptroller for the [?] in the [?]. The Comptroller of course will give me the receipt when the time comes as to [incorporate?] this [?] the supply bill. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt378 Dec. 4th, 1900. Mr. John Albert Rydell, San Juan, Porto Rico. My dear Mr. Rydell:-- I send you herewith your discharge with my endorsement thereof. I hope it will be satisfactory. It would have been returned long ago had it not gone astray in the department. With you all success, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt[*379A*] Dec. 9th, 1900. Dr. Alexander Lambert, #125 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Aleck:-- There is nothing in the erasure of the name. I [?] that McGarr the secretary of the Lunacy Commission says that [?] have made the erasure himself, and the Comptroller testifies [?] the existence or non-existence of the erasure had nothing in [?] any payments made by him; that the Lunacy Commission had the [abso-] lute right to fix the terms upon which the payments should be [?] and to disregard Van Giesen's approval or disapproval. Unques[tion] -ably it was not the right way in handling their papers to make an erasure, but it is not an offense that would warrant more [?] a mild reprimand. The way the erasure was made shows that the [?] could have been no serious purpose to conceal it. Both the soliciting subscriptions and the borrowing mone[?] admitted, but the men who gave the subscriptions and loaned th[?] insist that they acted voluntarily and that it was a simple bu[siness] transaction. The case is by no means a clear cut one; the facts [?} an ugly state of things, but not one which [?] indisputably calls forward. Faithfully yours, Theodore R379 STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE CHAMBER ALBANY December 5 1900 Dr.Alexander Lambert, 125 E 36th St New York City. Dear Alex: There is nothing in the erasure of the name. I learned that McGarr the Secretary of the Lunacy Commission says that he may have made the erasure himself, and the comptroller testifies that the existence or non-existence of the erasure had nothing to do with any payment made by him; that the Lunacy Commission had the absolute right to fix the terms upon which the payment should be made and to disregard Von Gisen's approval or disapproval. Unquestionably it was not the right way in handling their papers to make an erasure, but it is not an offense that would warrant more than a mild reprimand. The way the erasure was made shows that there could have been no serious purpose to conceal it. Both the soliciting subscriptions and the borrowing money are admitted,but the men who gave the subscriptions and loaned the money insist that they acted voluntarily and that it was a simple business transaction. The case is by no means a clear cut one; the facts set up an ugly state of things, but not one whichindisputably calls for removal. Faithfully yours, 380 Dec. 5th, 1900. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. Dear Elihu:-- In the first place, I hope you can come to my dinner to J. Pierpont Morgan on the 29th inst at the Union League Club. A formal invitation will be sent you. You see it represents an effort on my part to become a conservative man, in touch with the influential classes, and I think I deserve encouragement. Hitherto I have given dinners only to professional politicians or more or less wild-eyed reformers. Now I am hard at work endeavoring to assume the Vice Presidential poise. Incidentally I may mention that I am getting altogether too much of it as regards habit of body, and have become so fat and stiff that after the first of January, when I am a private citizen, I shall take a two months' holiday in Colorado and hunt mountain lions, if the fates are willing. I could not do anything by staying here and I should be asked to interfere in every imaginable matter of appointment and legislation, not to speak of being urged to attend innumerable dinners. I do not want to keep talking, whether at dinner or from the end of a railway train. My idea of a proper canvas is the delivery of an occcasional speech like your's out in Ohio. I think that the dinner business has been run wildly into the ground. Next, is there any way in which Colonel Arthur Lynch, late of381 the Second Irish Brigade of the Boer forces could be given a commission in our army? Lynch has his commission and a letter from General Lucas Meyer containing, what letters from Boer Commanders very rarely do contain, some words of praise for the troops under him. The man is an adventurer, but the adventurer type produces mighty good soldiers; it happens to be one with which I have a very keen sympathy. He is a very cultivated fellow, a graduate of the University of Melbourne(he is Australian born) and later of the University of Berlin. He is an athlete and a gentleman, and his experiences in the South African war were of a kind which I should regard as invaluable. I believe he would do excellently in our Philippine business. Is there any chance for him? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, #219 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Morgan:-- Many thanks for your telegram. I will have the dinner at the Union League Club, Saturday, December 29th at 8 P. M. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt P.S. I inclose an invitation to your son. I have always known him as "Jack" and I am not certain whether he is J. Pierpont Morgan Jr. or not.382 Dec. 5th, 1900. Col. Arthur Lynch, Hotel Manhattan, N.Y. City. My dear Colonel:-- I have your letter of the 4th inst, and you have given me just the information I wanted. I shall write to Secretary Root first in the preparation to seeing him asI hope to do at a dinner I am going to give Mr. Pierpont Morgan. Remember, however, as I have told you already, that it may not be in his power to do anything, or that even if in his power he may have other obligations already entered into which will prevent his granting my request. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Mr. R. M. Appleton, 28 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Bud:-- I have yours of the 3rd inst. Now, of course I will give you such a letter, but I must state in it that it is given subject to its not interfering with two or three similar requests that I have made, notably for men in my own regiment. I want you meanwhile to give me your record in the Marines so that I may use that. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 383 December 5 1900 Mr. Stephen O'Meara, Boston Journal, Boston, Mass. My dear Mr. O'Meara: I have just read your oration of last Fourth of July and it preaches such admirable doctrine, so sound, so thoroughly American, that I can not refrain from writing you a line to thank you for having delivered it. It did me good to read it. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 5th, 1900. Dr. C. F. McDonald, Pleasantville, N.Y. Dear sir:-- Have you ever been solicited by Dr. Peter M. Wise to purchase stock in the Copper Hill Mining Company? I should like to hear from you on the subject. Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt384 December 5 1900 Capt.Arthur F. Cosby, 62 Williams St New York City. My dear Captain: I have your note of the 4th. I could see you Sunday at ten A. M. at my sister's 422 Madison Avenue. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt December 5 1900 Hon. John N. Long, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary: The enclosed two letters explain themselves. Captain F. Norton Goddard is the only man in New York who has made a success of politics by entering it through the door of philanthropy. He is a very fine fellow. Capt. Folger's recommendation weighs very much with me. This young Barry is an apprentice, who during his term won the Batley medal. He is very anxious to get an appointment to Annapolis. Is there any chance for him? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt385 December 5 1900 Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, 38 E 38th St New York City. My dear Dr. Shaffer: Mrs. Roosevelt has shown me your letter of the 3rd, I wish I could do as you request, but it is a simple physical impossibility. Every moment of my time is taken up. I am awfully sorry. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt December 5 1900 Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, DC Dear Cabot: I have yours of the 28th. I have written O'Meara with great pleasure. What was really a splendid address. Is there any way I can help about the foreign affairs committee. Ever yours, T.R.386 December 5, 1900 Major General Leonard Wood, The Palace, Havana, CUBA Dear Leonard: Your letter of the 30th ult. is just at hand. I wish I could come, but I can not. I am going to leave here right after the first of January and stay until March first in Colorado, partly because I think I need a holiday, and partly because I should be dirven to death during these two months by every species of politician who would feel that I had ample leisure and therefore no right to refuse to jabber at dinners, to worry Odell for offices, the legisla- ture for legislation, etc., etc.; besides,I have grown so fat and stiff that I really want to get into some place where I will have to work harder than I wish and won't be able to eat as much as I would like to. You may be amused to know that my coachman, Franklin Hall, who has a large family of small children ( in- cluding a small boy named after me ), has recently been presented with another small boy, and my little daughter Ethel, who acted as its god-mother, selected Leonard Wood for its name. This was done purely on her own account and I never knew of it until a few days ago. Tell Mrs. Wood.387 The other day at the dinner of the Union League at Philadelphia the President told me again, not in so many words, but in effect in almost the same language that he used before, that you would surely be appointed; but he did not tell me the time. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt December [6?], 1900 Mr. Jesse C. Dann, 435(3?) Ellicott Square, Buffalo,N.Y. My dear Mr. Dann: Many thanks for your letter of the 4th. Will you let me suggest one thing: I wish very much that you would keep in touch with Mr. Caspar Whitney; the editor of "Outing", 239 5th Ave, New York City. He has done an immense amount for clean sport here and I think his advice is peculiarly worth having. Can you not write him at once so as to keep a little in touch with him ? I wish he could be connected in some way with the Exposition. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt .388 December 5 1900 Edward T. Devine, Esq, 105 E 22nd St New York City. My dear Mr. Devine, I have your letter of December 4th and the copy of the annual report which you have been so good as to send me. I thank you very much and will read it with the greatest pleasure. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt December 5 1900 Mr. A. B. Carson: Asbury Park, N. J. My dear Mr. Carson: I received your letter of November 27th, enclosing the photograph, and thank you heartily for your courtesy. I regret greatly that the accident occurred to you and only hope that you have now fully recovered. With great regard, believe me, Sincerely yours, T. Rooseveelt389 Dec. 5th, 1900. Rockwood & Co., 1440 Bway, N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- Please send me 25 of my small cabinet photos in civil dress, to the Executive Chamber, Albany. Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt December 5 1900 Mr. Frank P. Hayes, 3rd Floor, 308 Ricks St. Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Lieutenant Hayes: I have your letter of the 3rd. I wish I could please you but I simply have not got a vacancy of any kind. You do not know the multitude of requests I receive from men of the regiment, from political friends, and from everybody for office[rs]. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt390 December 9 1900 Mr. Hal Reid, Le Grand Hotel, Kinzie and Wells Sts, Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Reid: Hearty thanks for your congratulations. It was great pleasure to meet you and Mrs. Reid at Ogden. It would seem to me that you would find the material you want in my book called "The Rough Rider" published by Scrinner's Sons. With regards to Mrs. Reid, believe me. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt391 Dec. 6th, 1900. Dear Emily:-- There is no particular excuse for my writing you except that as Christmas draws near Edith and I have been wishing so much that you were over here with us, and closer [?] to see the funny children open their stockings sitting on our bed before breakfast, and going upstairs to the gun room after breakfast to find the larger presents laid out on tables for them. This year even Quentin will be quite old enough to enjoy both the stocking and the table. Edith has been rather worried because she has gotten thinner, but as a matter of fact I think it has made her look prettier than ever and she certainly is as healthy as can be. I wish you could have been in my dressing room the other day and could have listened with me to a dialogue between Edith and Kermit. Towhead, now that Ted has gone, has distinctly felt his oats and has been a little difficult for his mother to manage, and on the occasion in question she fell on him with a heavy hand. It began by his coming into her room just before the time in the afternoon when she usually gives him and Ethel and Archie their bible lesson, and repeating an already refused unpalatable [?] request that he should be allowed to change his room, because he thought it too small, for a person of his size and social importance in the family. Of course this was an impossible request and when persisted in, with accents of injury, it aroused Edith's wrath, and also drew her unfavorable attention to other salient defects of character in Kermit, including the fact that his392 2. nails were not clean. After some preliminary remarks the dialogue grew heated and ran much as follows: Towhead. "Well, I wouldlike to change my room. It's too shmall. (subsides into a mutter of which only enough is audible to give a general sense of grieved protest against an unjust Providence). Edith. (with impassioned earnestness) "Change your room! of course not. It's a very nice room. I suppose you would like to change your parents too?" (This question would have been an unwary one if Ethel had been the offender, as in her moments of darkness that young lady would be quite capable of answering in the affirmative). Towhead. (Another mutter understood to contain an allusion to the fact that he was friendless and unappreciated as compared with the rest of the children). Edith. (strong in a sense of injury). "You're not Little Nobody's dog"! (A proposition under which Kermit collapses, but at that moment the condition of his nails attracts Edith's attention, and she continues with a sense of having already compared [?] him with Edithbits [?]) "Why it's only day before yesterday I gave you a nail brush!" The other day I listened to a most amusing dialogue at the bible lesson between Kermit and Ethel. The subject was Joseph, and just before reading it they had been reading Quentin's book containing the adventures of the Gollywogs. Joseph's conduct in repeating his dreams to this brothers, whom it was certain to irritate, had struck both of the children unfavorably, as conflicting both with the laws of common sense and with the advice gien them by their parents as to the proper method of dealing with their own brothers and sisters. Kermit said: "Well, I think that was very foolish of 393 3. Joseph. Ethel chimed in with "so do I, very foolish, and I do not understand hoe he could have done it". Then after a pause, Kermit added thoughtfully by way of explanation: " Well, I guess he was simple, like Jane in the gollywogs"; and Ethel nodded gravely in confirmation. It is very cunning to see Kermit and Archie go to the cove school together. They also come down and chop with me, Archie being armed with a hatchet l=blunt enough to be suitable for his six years. He is most industrious small chopper and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it "beavered down, a misshapen tulip tree which was about fifty feet high. Edith and I have had some lovely rides, but poor old Diamond is getting pretty old. Texas certainly gives me enough exercise, for he is the roughest pony of his size I have ever in my life bee on. I am entirely reconciled to have run for the Vice President, because I was really of assistance in winning the election. After January first I am going out to Colorado for a couple of months of genuine holiday. It has now been over six years sic I have had any, and during those six years I have rally worked extremely hard. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt 394 Dec. 6th, 1900. Mrs. Lydia P. Williams, President, Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, Minneapolis, Minn. My dear madam:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst. I am very sorry but I do not see in what way I can help you. There is nothing that I can do. It seems to me that you must work through your own representatives in some way or shape. In a great state like Minnesota there is certain to be jealousy of an attempt at outside interference. Cannot your Congressman be induced to move? Cannot you get some of your representative citizens to appeal direct to President McKinley? I fear you must work through your own citizens, but of course if I can aid them in any way, I should be most delighted. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900 Genl. McCoskry Butt, Union Club, 5th Ave & 21st St., N.Y. City. My dear General;-- That is a most interesting clipping and I thank you for letting me see it. How it reminds me of my own experiences! With a few exceptions the Santiago army was an army of tatterdemalions and our soldiers lost their blankets, haversacks &c, just as is here described. But on the other hand, they fought very much as your Indian correspondent describes also. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt395 Dec. 6th, 1900. Hon. N. D. Sperry, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. My dear Congressman:-- I wish I could do as you request, but it is absolutely impossible for me to accept the invitation of the Union Republican League of New Haven. I cannot leave New York this month for I am more than occupied closing up my work as Governor, and just as soon as I get through here I am going off on a two months' holiday in the Southwest. Regretting greatly that I cannot write you more favorably, I am, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Mrs. Abigail Lynch, Ypsilanti, Michigan. My dear Mrs. Lynch:-- I have your letter of the 2nd inst. It was not in the least a liberty for you to write me. It was a great pleasure for me to hear from you. I have the utmost regard for Mr. Skinner and I entirely agree with you in your estimate of the good work he has done. Remember, however, that I have nothing whatsoever to do with choosing his successor, and that it would not be proper for me to interfere with the legislature in the matter. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt396 Dec. 6th, 1900. Mr. Garfield A. Tod, 300 No. Pine St., Austin, Ills. My dear Mr. Tod:-- I have your letter of the 3rd inst. Evidently your telegram was mislaid, or it would have been immediately acknowledged by me. Now, I will do all in my power to get you whatever position you wish, but you must first make up your mind what the position is and then get the backing of your local people. Then when this backing has been secured I will write to the head of the department or bureau, or whatever it is under, and see if I can help you. I would suggest that you consult with Captain Meredith, showing him this letter. As soon as you have made up your mind, let me know, but do it before the 1st of January if you possible can as I shall be away for several months after that date. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Mr. James Wm. Foley, Bismarck, No. Dak. My dear Mr. Foley:-- Just a line to wish all happiness to you and to your bride. I only hope I may have the pleasure of seeing both of you at not too distant a day. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt. 397 Dec. 8th, 1900. Mr. G. Lillibridge, Fort Lewis Indian School Fort Lewis, via Hesperus, Colo. My dear sir:-- It will be a pleasure to me to testify to the very favorable impression you made upon me at the time of my visit to the Cheyenne River Reservation in 1882. I do not know quite to whom I should write. Will you kindly tell me? Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Homer Folks, Esq., Secretary, 105 E. 22nd St., N. Y. City. My dear Mr. Folks:-- I thank you heartily for your letter of the 28th ult and the published reports which came to hand. You gave me just the information I wanted. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt398 Dec. 6th 1900. Hon. T. E. Ellsworth, Lockport, N.Y. My dear Senator:- Now that I am going out of office there are two or three men here who have been very faithful employees for the last two years whom I should like to help. One of them is Amos M. Knapp of my own village of Oyster Bay. His Senator, Cocks, is going to do all he can to get him a place in the clerical force of the Senate. May I ask your assistance? I should be delighted to have you show this letter to Senator Platt. Knapp is a very capable and trustworthy man and one of the pillars of the party in our village. I suppose that Governor Odell will very properly desire to have around him in his office men of his own choosing, and so I do not wish to speak to him about Knapp. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Hon. John Gardiner Lothrop, Chairman, Commercial Club, Kansas City, Mo. My dear sir:-- I wish greatly I could be present with your Club at its banquet on the anniversary of the ratification of the John Jay treaty. That treaty (which produced such a storm of abuse at the time) nevertheless was one of the great steps in opening the West to our people. It is curious to think that you meet in a great city which at the beginning of this century was not only undreamed of but of which the very site was in Spanish territory and was unknown save to Indian nomads. I wish all good luck to your organization. The captains of industry who have built up the great West and whose work is being carried on to perfection by such organizations as yours, have made the American Republic what it now is. More than any other men the builders of the West have given definite shape to our national life. With hearty regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 400 December 6 1900 Mr.F.B.Baillie, Cleburne, Texas. My dear Sir: I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 26th uit. and to thank you cordially. He would not now venture to make any en-gagements, but if you will let him know definitely what time the meeting of the National Editorial Association is to be he would give you a definite answer as to whether he could come or not. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb, Jr. Secretary, Dec. 5th 1900. Mr. B. P. Turner, U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Turner:-- Hearty thanks for your congratulations. I am delighted at the good news and congratulate you heartily. Pray present my regards to Mrs. Turner. With all good wishes, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt401 December 8 1900 Mr. S. Gottschall, Chairman, Young Men's Hebrew Association, 92nd St and Lexington Ave, New York City. Dear Sir: I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of the 5th inst. and to express his great regret that he is utterly unable to make an engagement to lecture. You have no conception of the multitude of invitations he receives and how absolutely im-possible it is for him to do even a hundredth part of the things that he would so much like to do. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb Jr., Secretary. Dec. 5th 1900. My dear Mrs. Davis:-- I hate to intrude upon your great grief even by a line, but I must tell you, (what I am sure you know) that no man out of your own immediate family can feel a deeper and more sincere sympathy for you than I do. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, St. Paul, Minn.402 Dec. 6th 1900. A. B. Meyer, M. D., Director, Museum, Dresden, Zwinger, Germany. My dear Dr. Meyer:-- I thank you cordially for your letter of the 7th of Oct. I am very sorry to have missed you when you called in Albany. I immensely appreciate and admire your admirable work. With great regard, Very sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th 1900. Hon. Thos. Sturgis, President, 42 E. 23rd St., N.Y. City. My dear Sturgis:-- Hearty thanks foryours of the 4th. I shall read through the report with great pleasure and send you my opinion, which I am sure will be favorable. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt403 Dec. 6th, 1900. M. Allen Starr, M.D., 5 W. 54th St., N.Y. City My dear sir:-- I thank you for your letter of the 1st inst. I shall bring up into the matter you refer to in connection with the Charter Commission. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Mr. Chester S. Lord, Secretary, The Lotos Club, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Lord:-- I am in receipt of your invitation to the dinner to the Chinese Minister on Dec. 15th inst. Unfortunately I am already engaged for that evening and will be unable to be present. With real regret and hearty thank for your courtesy, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt404 Dec. 6th, 1900. Mr. Theo. E. Stidham, Muskogee, Ind. Ter. My dear sir:-- I have your letter of the 2nd inst. Were you not in K. Troop? Somehow I cant quite place you. I would like a letter from your immediate commanding officer testifying to your good con- duct at Guasimas and San Juan. Then I will gladly do what I can for you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Dr. M. W. Jewett, Ivanhoe, Va. My dear Dr. Jewett:-- I thank you for your letter of the 18th ult. The time allotted certainly seems insufficient and the ballots clumsy and utterly improper in form. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt405 December 6, 1900 Mr. William H. Owen, Jr., General Seminary, Chelsea Square, New York City. My dear Mr. Owen: I thank you for you letter of the 3rd and wish I could do as you suggest but it is an absolute im-possibility to accept another engagement. I can not do it. You have no conception of the multitude of demands made upon me. With regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th 1900. Mr. W. W. Davis, Jarrettsville, Md. Mr dear sir:-- I am directed by Governor Roosevelt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 4th inst and to thank you cordially for your courtesy. He regrets not to be able to do what you ask. He is overwhelmed with requests to make addresses and it is a physi-cal impossibility to accept a hundredth part of those he would like to. He is very sorry. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb Jr Secretary.406 December 6, 1900 Hon. N. R. Stewart, 31 Nassau St New York City. My dear Mr. Stewart: I have your letter of the 5th inst. and thank you for sending me that sermon. I was particularly pleased to see it. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6, 1900 Mrs. Nelson V. Titus, Box 25, Atlantic, Mass. My dear Madam: I send you herewith for your information letter just received from Charles R, Skinner, state superintendent of Public Instruction in reference to the subject matter of your letter of the 19th. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 407 December 6 1900 To the Civil Service Commission, Albany, N. Y. Gentlemen: The enclosed correspondence is respectfully referred to you for any further comment you deem advisable. Very truly yours, Mr. G. H. Wilson, Rockwill House, Glens Falls, N. Y. Theodore Roosevelt Dec 6 1900 My dear Sir: I am very, much obliged to you for your letter ofthe 3rd inst., but I have not one moment's time now to take up such a matter as that you refer to. I should suggest that you write to Mr. N. Austin Wadeworth, Chairman of the Forestry and Game Commission, Albany, N. Y. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt 408 December 6, 1900. Mrs. J.R. McKee, 178 Union Ave Saratoga, N.Y. My dear Mrs. McKee: Your note of the 4th inst. is received. There was no trouble about the matter whatever. I was only too glad to have tried to have been of any service to you. I have not yet heard in answer to any of the letters I sent. I suppose the reason is that the matter has been definitely decided. With regret that I could not do more, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt409 December 6 1900 Mr. N. Emlen Roosevelt 33 Wall St New York City Dear Emlen: Many thanks for your note of the 4th. I am much obliged to you. Poor powers! I am sorry he could not have lived. Faithfully yours, T. R. December 6 1900 Hon. A. M. Stevenson, Denver, Colorado. My dear Mr. Stevenson: I thank you most heartily for you very kind letter. It was very great pleasure to be in Colorado and I particularly enjoyed being thrown with you. With warm regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 410 Hon. Eugene A. Philbin, 111 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Philbin: I have your letter of the 5th inst. Indeed, it will give me peculiar pleasure to put my autograph on that picture. And, my dear sir, it is words like yours that make me feel that I have been amply rewarded being in politics. With hearty thanks and warm regards, Theodore Roosevelt 411 December 6 1900 Mr. J. B. Bishop, Editor Commercian Advertiser, 29 Park Row, New York City. My dear Bishop: I have your note of the 5th. Am I not to meet you and Mrs. Bishop at my sister's? Is the enclosed letter to Congressman Douglas all right? I have been unable to get Odell for a single evening when I could be in New York, so I have had reluctantly to give up for the present the effort to have you quietly at dinner with him. I know his engagements are genuine because I can judge them by my own. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt412 December 6 1900 Hon. William J. Douglas, Congressman, New York, New York City. My dear Congressman Douglas: I am informed that Francis Jackson Handy of No. 160 East 71st Street, New York City, is applicant for appointment to the Annapolis Naval Academy. The highest reports are brought to me of the young man's qualifications. I believe he is of the type fitted to uphold well and honorably the reputation of our navel services. I have been interested in the case of young Handy through my friend Mr, J.B. Bishop, the editor of the Commercial Advertiser. Very few men indeed have done better work both for Republicanism and for decent polities during the past two years than Mr. Bishop has done. He is one of the men upon whom I reply most to offset the malign influence of the New York Evening Post in certain circle in New York city. He deserves all proper consideration at our hands. If you can help the boy in this case you will not only be doing a good action for the young fellow himself but also gratify Mr. Bishop, whose motive, I may add, in the matter are entirely disinterested, he simply thinking that the boy would do well in the position. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt413 December 6 1900 Mr. Philip B. Stewart, c/o Wm. A. Otis & Co. Colorado Springs,Colo. My dear Mr. Stewart: I have your letter of December 2nd for which accept my hearty thanks. You have given me just the information I want. I have a fur cap which draws down over the ears. I gather that will be just the thing for one of those scampering rides. But if you at your outfitting store can get me a large leather coat, it is just what I want. I have a pair of cord trousers which I think will be all right. Shaps are dreadfully clumsy. My chest measurement is 42, but I suppose the coat should be larger to allow of putting the sweater, flannel shirts, etc., etc., of which you speak, on underneath it. For ordinary weather my light corduroy jacket would do, or a venerable buckskin shirt which does not look well, because I have swelled considerably since I used to wear it seventeen years ago, but which I think is as serviceable as ever. I wear a No. 7 shoe, but I ought to have I suppose the German socks rather larger than that, and the arctics large enough to go over everything. If it is not too much trouble I shall be only too grateful to you if you will order them for me. In New York I would not have the slightest idea where to get German socks, and the arctics are apt to be of a414 rather light type. Do I understand from your letter that I am to turn up at Colorado Springs on the 10th? If so, I shall urn up promptly . If possible, I desire to make the start just as quick as I can after leaving the train, for otherwise I should have to hurt the feelings of good people who want to entertain me, which is the precise thing I am most anxious to avoid, and am going to the mountains to get rid of. You are awfully kind about asking me to take friend. I can not hear anything from Dave Goodrich, but I may bring Major Austin Wadsworth, who is the head of my Forest, Fish and Game omission, and who served in the Philippines. He is the Master of Genesee Fox Hounds. How I wish I could wait and make the hunt in March and April, so as to get after the bear; but, of course, I have to be back in time for the Inauguration. I am overjoyed that there seems to be such a good chance for [?lion] and I feel under very great obligation to you, my dear Sir, for the kindness with which you are treating me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt415 December 6 1900 Hon.James S. Whipple, Salamanca,N.Y. My dear Mr. Whipple: I have your letter of the 5th inst. I remember entirely about our conversation and told the committee that I wanted them to consult you. The reason I did not consult you myself was simply because there was no time. The committee are simply to propose, if they can, in rather vague outline, some scheme which may perhaps work out the dissolution of the reservations and the giving of citizenship to the Indian. personally I have no idea that they can do more than call attention to the problem and give thinking men a chance by formulating some plan. Ex-Congressman Darwin R. James is at the head of the committee. I did not want to put on any one to represent any particular reservation. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt416 December 6 1900 Mr. James Kinney, Haspeth, Long Island, N. Y. My dear Kinney: I have your letter of the 4th inst. I think you ought to get letter from those who know you personally. I never give letters to any one unless I know the man personally and his qualifications. Some of the men whom you mention, speaking of their own personal knowledge of you, could write letters that would count a great deal more for you than anything I could write. Very truly yours, December 6 1900 Col. Joseph N. Kay, Room 2, Boro. Hall, Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Col. Kay: I have your letter of the 5th inst. In view of the Commissioner Found's letter I hardly think the Commission will alter its views, but I am going to call their particular question to the point you raise once more. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt 417 December 6 1900 Master Chares E. Van Riper, 7 Eldorado Place, Hoboken,N. J. My dear little friend: I was very glad to get your note of the 19th ulte. and the cunning Rough Rider photograph. I remember you very well and I am glad to have heard from you know. I send you one of my photos. With warm regard, believe me, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 6th, 1900. Mr. John S. Phillips, Editor, 141 E. 25th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Phillips:-- Herewith I send you the article on "The Field of Social Life in New York City". I hope it will please you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt418 December 6 1900 Major J. B. Pond, 218 4th Avenue, New York City. My dear Major Pond, I have your note of the 4th inst. I wish I were able to accept that box, but I am already engaged for the evening in question, December 12th. I am unfortunately obliged to make an invariable rule of declining to give my name to lectures of this kind. I am really sorry as I am a great admirer of Mr. Churchill's books, and should very much like to have a chance of meeting him socially. Is he now in New York? I should greatly like to have him take lunch or dinner with me if he is in Albany on Monday; or lunch if he is here Tuesday, of next week. Where shall I write him? Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt419 Dec. 6th, 1900. John E. Roosevelt, Esq., 46 Wall St., N. Y. City. Dear John:-- I have your letter of the 5th inst. Abut the Boone and Crockett Dinner, will you write to W. Austin Wadsworth at Geneseo, N. Y. ? Now, about the inauguration. I am as yet wholly in doubt as to my rights, in the matter. In the Senate Chamber I have but 12 seats which will be occupied by my six children, Edith and her sister and Anna and Corinne with their two husbands. I have been trying to vain to get two more seats for two of Corinne's children. I take it for granted, however, I shall have some outside tickets, and if I do you shall have three. Apparently the way the procession is ordinarily viewed is from rooms along the line of march, but there are in addition I believe these outside platform tickets, and I am now trying to get some through Lodge. I will let you know as soon as I get definite information. Ted is Captain of his Dormitory foot ball team and sings in the choir. He has also beaten every number of his Form at wrestling. So I guess his social position in the school is source. With love to Nannie, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt 420 Dec. 7th, Noah Seaman, C/) Theodore Roosevelt Oyster Bay, N. Y. Please immediately have sent in if possible by Kermit this afternoon otherwise tomorrow morning to four twenty two Madison Avenue my top hat, frock coat and suit, button shoes and buttonhook. Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1900. Hon. G. L. Rives, #14 W. 38th St., N. Y. City Am awfully sorry but President has urgently requested me to be present Wednesday at Washington Centennial celebration and as all other Governors are to be present I suppose I shall simply have to go. Have telegraphed Odell to know if he cannot have lunch Thursday or Friday but have not heard from him. Of curse the important thing is for you to have Odell. Meanwhile, can I see you tomorrow afternoon Saturday after half past three say at Century Club or any where else and go over matter either alone or with as many of Charter Commission as you can get. Am exceedingly put out at this unfortunate complication. Theodore RooseveltEXECUTIVE CHAMBER Albany December 7th, 1900. Mr. Peroy S. Lansdowne, Forest, Fish & Game Commissioner, Buffalo, N.Y. Sir:-- I have carefully considered Mr. Locke's letter and accompanying addidavit and your answer and accompanying affidavits; also the other matters brought before me which we discussed in our conversation. I regret greatly to have to say to you that I do not think you have behaved in your office as I had a right to expect you would behave. The reason I appointed an entirely new board of Forest, Fish and Game commissioners was because I felt that the old board as a whole had not been as efficient as it should have been; very largely because they permitted undue and improper prominence to be given to political and personal considerations, and also because perhaps as a consequence of this they, or some of them, did not devote themselves with the single minded energy that I deemed proper to further the work of the Commission. You remember that I had you and your four colleagues in my room when you were appointed and told you at that time that the way you could best serve the Republican party was by bringing the Commission up to the highest point of efficiency, securing the most ample protection for the forests, fish and game interests confided to your care, developing plans for the better management, of the forests, and above all by keeping the Commission above the stain of suspicion or scandal. Without going into details, it seems to me evident that you have not acted up to what I told you I should expect of you. Your conduct, and the notoriety given to it, largely through your own actions and utterance, has resulted in gross scandal. You have evidently entirely failed to understand (as shown by your conduct in reference to the so-called yatch and the fish protectors and other subordinates employed under your immediate supervision on the Niagara River and the adjacent region) my desire that the Commission should be managed, not as a patronage machine, but solely for the purposes for which it was created. There has been in my judgment downright inefficiency422 2. and waste of money in the employment of the Mr. Sloan and in the way in which it was used; and in addition the appointment and discharge of men in subordinate places, so far as you had control over them, seemed to me to have been undertaken, not with a view to the best interest of the service, but to the fancied political need of the moment. Under these circumstances I feel that your usefulness in the Commission is at an end, and that your further connection with it will be a disadvantage to it and of no advantage to you. It is not in my power to remove you, but as I was responsible for your appointment, I deem it my duty to say that I feel you should not longer continue in the office. Yours truly Theodore Roosevelt Governor. STATE OF NEW YORK Executive Chamber Albany December 7th, 1900. Dr. Peter M. Wise, #1 Madison Ave., N.Y. City Sir:-- I have carefully read your letter of November 24th, and since reading it I have seen Doctors Pilgrim, Mabon, and Packer, as well as hearing from Dr. McDonald in response to an inquiry of mine. I have further heard from Dr. Alexander Lambert of 125 E. 36th St., New York. I regard the misconduct you are charged with as exceedingly serious. It comes under three heads. In the first place, you signed, or in other manner assented to, what was in effect an agreement that in consideration of the increase in your salary you would not go into any outside business. You have since, however, accepted the presidency of the Copper mining company in question, and though you now say it was merely the nominal presidency, and that it was upon the express stipulation that it was not to take any of your time, yet in soliciting subscriptions for the stock, verbally and by writing, you have certainly given the impression, and sometimes made the outright statement that your interest in the matter was active. Furthermore, you have done outside profession work such as giving expert testimony for outside pay, although it is to be presumed that your salary was raised to compensate you for refraining from just much work. For example, Dr. Lambert writes me as follows: "In the case of Leopold Bernheimer, New York City, Marous Stein, Attorney, Dr. Wise attended court and gave testimony before Sheriff's Jury Feb 3rd 1897. In the Richardson will contest, New York City, Aug. 26th 1897 Dr. Wise attended a conference of experts, also attended at the surrogate's court between Nov. 4 1897 and April 22, 1898, about twenty days altogether, for which a bill of $7500 was rendered to W. T. Washburn, 39 Wall St. In the case of Dr. F. G. Winters, Dr. Wise examined Dr. Winters professionally at Taylors Hotel, Jersey City on Nov, 16. 1897 and testified in court in Brooklyn on or about Nov. 22nd, 1897. To be as literal as Dr. Wise, it is fair to remark that Dr. Wise went outside of New York State to transact private professional business. In the recent case of Georgina G.R.Wendell he examined Miss Wendell professionally at Irvington, N.Y. and subsequently attended court in New York several days and gave testimony 2. 424 before Sheriff's jury in Sept. or Oct. 1900. His testimony was stricken out by the Court on the ground that the patient being under his legal jurisdiction he could not properly testify. In the Samuel White case Brooklyn he offered to appear as expert witness before Sheriff's jury although the case was under his jurisdiction as Lunacy Commissioner the same as Miss Wendell.(see accompanying letter). This surely is outside business which Dr. Wise denies that he has done". Furthermore, in your letter you say: "There are some offenders in the State service, I understand who have an interest in this property, [ie Mining Company] but not upon my solicitation". If the statements made to me by Doctors Pilgrim, Mabon, Packer and McDonald are true, this statement of your's is more than disengenuous, and indeed your written letter to Dr. McDonald which has been put before me contains a direct solicitation from you that he purchase shares in the company. To Doctors Pilgrim, Mabon and Packer I put the following questions and they gave the following answers: Q. Do you own any stock in the Copper Hill Mining Company? All three answered yes. Q. Of whom did you buy the stock? All three answered, Dr. Wise; Dr. Packer adding that he had purchased additional shares from another party. Q. Did you ever hear of the Copper Hill Mining Company before Dr. Wise drew your attention to it? All three answered, no. Q. Would you have bought the stock of the Copper Hill Mining Company upon the open market if Dr. Wise had not been President of it? To which Dr. Pilgrim answered perhaps, and the other two, No. Q. Did you not buy the stock because solicited by Dr. Wise to do so? All three answered, yes, but Doctors Pilgrim and Mabor added that they might have done it any how as a matter of business Q. Is not the company at present in effect bankrupt and have you not received a circular calling for more money on the stock? All of them answered, yes.Your letter to Dr. McDonald runs in part as follows: "inclose you prospectus of the venture upon which I went to New Mexico. I actually believe the intrinsic value of this property will be shown to be its par value in a very few months. I have so fully believed this that I have strenuously opposed sellingthe stock and have advocated borrowing the necessary money for machinery. We have now determined to do this and I will probably be called upon for five thousand dollars within a month or two. If you can let me have this amount on six months' time, beginning with one thousand, In about a week or ten days I will give you a bonus of fifty shares of stock in addition to the interest. x x x x I hold proxies on majority of stock and the resident engineer is my man so I do not fear results." This letter is entirely incompatible with your statement that you had merely accepted the nominal presidency, and the opening sentence that I have quoted shows that you went to New Mexico not for your health as you alleged to me, but to look after thismine. Furthermore, it appears from the statement of Dr. Mabon that you got the latter, six other doctors and the Steward of the St. Lawrence State Hospital, to endorse your note for sixteen hundred dollars. As regards the first matter, the transaction of outside business, it seems evident therefore that whether it was right or wrong for you to go into such outside business, you did go into it after having agreed not to do so in consideration of the increase in your salary. It further appears that once your testimony had been ruled out of court because as a paid outside expert you were testifying in a case where in consequence of your position under the State you had official relations in connection with the person concerning whom you were testifying, and that one of the other cases mentioned by Dr. Lambert comes under the same head. It appears by your letter to Dr. McDonald that you solicited him, the Head of a private asylum and therefore under your jurisdiction, to take stock in the Copper Hill Mining Company and to help you out financially in connection with Asid(?) Company. It appears that you solicited subscriptions to the stock of the Company from, or borrowed money from, or got your notes endorsed by, other officials under you-- superintendents, doctors and stewards. It ought to be unnecessary to point out to you that you as head of the Lunacy commission occupy a position of peculiar delicacy and responsibility because of the interests under you and because of the helplessness of the beings whose special guardian you are. There is always a peculiar chance not only for cruelty and misconduct but for corruption in such institutions as those which come under the control of your commission, and in no other department is it more essential that the head should keep himself free from the slightest taint. It is out of the question to expect good results if the head permits himself to be put under obligations to his subordinates, and especially if hepermits himself to be put under obligations to the heads of the private asylums over which he should exercise vigilant control. On the other hand, to solicit subscriptions or a loan in any form from a subordinate or from the head of a private asylum, necessarily puts the man from whom the solicitation is made in an exceedingly awkward position which must in many instances amount to coercion. On Monday at ten A. M. as I have already notified you, I desire you to appear before me. I wish then to have your statement in full as to these matters. Yours truly, Theodore Roosevelt Governor.427 Personal. Dec. 7th, 1900. Hon. Joseph H. Manley, August, Meaine. My dear Mr. Manley:--- I have got a great affection for Senator Chandler of New Hampshire. He thinks it is in your power to help him in his re-election. Do you think you could properly do so? Pray keep this letter private. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Personal Dec. 7th, 1900. Hon. C. M. Depew, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. My dear Senator:-- I have got a great affection for Senator Candler. He thinks it is in your power to help him in his re-election. Do you think you could properly do so? Pray keep this letter private. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt428 December 6 1900 Mrs. Edward A. Greeley, Chairman 332 W 87th St New York City. My dear Mrs Greeley: Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your very kind invitation for December nineteenth. I wish very much we could be present but regret extremely that it is absolutely impossible. Thinking you heartily, I am, Sincerely yours, Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. J. G. Darlington, President, Union League, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear sir:-- i am directed by Governor Roosevelt to return to you herewith the corrected me. of his speech, and to thank you for your courtesy in sending it to him. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary. P. S. Will you please send me a copy of the speeches when they are printed as should like to preserve the same for the Governor?429 December 6 1900 Mr. George N. Jones, Secretary, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. My dear Sir, Governor Roosevelt thanks you heartily for your kind letter of the 27th ulto., but regrets that it is absolutely impossible for him to make engagement. He is overwhelmed with invitations of all sorts and cannot accept on in a hundred of those he would so much like to. He is very sorry. Sincerely yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary. December 6 1900 Mr. A. H. Parker, Duncan, Ind. Terr. Dear sir: I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 27th ulto. and to express his great regret that he is powerless to aid you in the matter in reference to which you write him. He does not expect to be in Washington until March 4th, as he expects to take a long holiday immediately after January first. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary.430 December 6 1900 Mr. R. D. Redfern, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. My dear Redfern, I have your letter of the 30th ult. and was glad to hear from you. I am sorry to say that the campaign completely exhausted the Governor's stock of photographs and there is not one left that I could send you. Perhaps when we get down to Washington we may have some more and that your wants can then be supplied. I expect to be down there with the colonel as his secretary. I hope you experienced no ill effects from the trip. Amos has been feeling a little rusty since he returned and is how alowly mending. With warm regards, and hoping to see you soon, I am, Sincerely yours, [???] Secretary431 December 6 1900 Miss Lulu Blackburn, Webster School, Kanas City,Mo. Dear Madam: Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 25th ulte. and requested me to say that she regrets very much that the campaign completely exhausted the Governor's stock of photographs. Otherwise she would be most pleased to send you one. She has never given her photograph to any one. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb Jr. Secretary.432 December 6 1900 Mrs.L.V.Stephens, Jefferson City,Mo. Dear Madam: Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your circular letter of the 26th and requested me to write that so many calls are made upon her donations to Fairs that she has been obliged decline all such requests. For a time she made several donations but the calls became so numerous that she had to make it a rule after December 1st to refuse. She is very sorry for she would very much like to oblige you. Very truly yours, Wm Loeb Jr. Secretary.433 December 6 1900 Miss Madeline Pierce, Editor Woman's Department, New York Tribune, New York City. Dear Madame: Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 37th ult. and requested me to say that she is very sorry not to be able to comply with your request for a contribution, but so many people ask her for similar contributions that she had had to decline in all cases. She is very sorry. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary. 434 December 7 1900. Mr. Thomas Sturgis, 42 East 23rd St. New Yok City. My dear Mr. Sturgis: The enclosed was handed me by Assemblyman Cooley. If the facts therein stated are true, an excessive punishment has certainly been imposed upon Sherman. May I have an immediate report on this. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt435 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. Manis McGurrin, Private Co. C., 20th Inf., Manila, P.I. My dear Mr. McGurrin:-- My small son is off at school and I do not know that I shall show him your letter, because I do not think it well for small boys to think themselves of importance. It is apt to result in their getting the big head. I have done everything I can to keep anecdotes of the children out of the papers for that very reason. At the same time he would be very proud to receive, and I should be very glad to have him receive, some memento from a soldier who has had such experiences you have had, who has been a fellow volunteer of mine in the Spanish-American war and is now with those who are doing such excellent work in the Philippines. If you send him any one relic picked up by yourself on some battlefield I know he would value it greatly. I am greatly interested in your account of your services. Often I have wished that I were out in the Philippine myself, for I look back upon the Santiago campaign with more pride than anything else I ever did. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt436 Dec. 7th, 1900. Capt. Thos. F. Ryan, Nueva Caceres, Luzon, P. I. My dear Captain Ryan:-- I have your letter of Oct. 16th in reference to Col. McGregor. The trouble is that in the first place the War Department will probably not want to hear from me, and in the next place, in order to make any thing I do say effective I have got to limit it to the men with whom I have had personal experience. You must remember that a Vice President has no right in the appointments at all and he must be mighty careful how he wears out the courtesy in the department. With real regret, Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. J. C. Prender, 148 E. 49th St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Prender:-- I have your letter of the 6th inst. Your former letter was answered by me personally and the ms. was inclosed with the letter and mailed to you Nov. 27th. I cannot understand why you have not received it. It has not been returned here. Sincerely yours, T. RooseveltDec. 7th, 1900. 437 Hon. Townsend Scudder, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Scudder:-- I have your telegram of the 6th. If I begin to send telegrams like the one you request, the task will be endless, and I have very grave doubts as to how much the Vice President ought to interfere. If you support the scheme I have no doubt but that it is all right, but I know nothing of it personal- ly. I'll have to look into it. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. F. C. Luther, Wayville, Saratoga, Co., N.Y. My dear sir:-- I am in receipt of your letter of the 5th inst and will take the matter up at once with the State Board of Health. Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt438 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. Geo. McAneny, Secretary, #54 William St., N.Y. City. My dear Mr' McAneny:-- I have your letter of the 6th. I will have to be a little late to the dinner. If convenient will you have a cab call for me at the Morton House at nine oclock that evening. I think I had better not be put on as Vice President now for several reasons which I will detail to you when I see you. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 7th 1900. Hon. John Proctor Clarke, #29 Bway, N.Y. City. Dear John:-- I have your letter of the 6th. Immediately after the New Year I am going out to visit a Yale man, Philip Stewart, who thinks he can show me some mountain hunting in Colorado, and if a merciful Providence is willing, I shall not return until about March 1st; so I cannot accept, old man. I wont say I am sorry not to go, but I am sorry to disappoint you! Always yours, T.R.439 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. R. H. M. Ferguson, #55 Liberty St., N.Y. City. Dear Bob:-- What is the address of Dave Goodrich's sister, Mrs. Breckenridge? Scull, the Rough Rider, a Harvard man who was out in South Africa dined here Wednesday evening. He was really very interesting. He said that Brooks Adams' theory, about the British having lost their resolution in driving home an attack, was all nonsense, and that the British officers and soldiers were as brave and resolute and indomitably tenacious as men could possibly be; and that it was astounding to see how finely they kept up their courage. He thought the younger officers, and especially those fresh from England, very deficient in initiative and in knowledge of their profession, and he also thought that the ordinary Tommy needed not training in parade maneuvers, but in handling his rifle and learning how to take cover. He said the Boers were great soldiers, and indeed as individuals or in small bodies, marvellous, but that there was a lack of cohesion among them when it came to acting in a mass, so that at Ladysmith, for instance, they never made one great resolute assault. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt440 December 7 1900 Mr. Fred Roosevelt, 583 5th Avenue, New York City. My dear Fred: I hate not to do anything you request but you have no conception of the multitude of officers who write me, and whose friends write me on their behalf. Now, in the first place, my influence avails next to nothing. This is not a flourish of speech on my part. I mean that Root very properly pays heed so far as he can get at it, to the worth of the man and tries to disregard outside pressure, just as I should in his place. In the second place, owing to the multitude of requests made upon me I have had to make it an invariable rule in the cases of these promotions to write no letter except from my personal knowledge of the man and in that case simply to send my letter as if I were his official superior, stating what I know about him. I am awfully sorry, old fellow, to have to write you in this way. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt441 December 7 1900 Dr. Alexander Lambert, 125 East 36th Street, New York City. Dear Aleck: After going over the matter very carefully I have made up my mind that on three counts I can make the matter stick. I shall have to mention your name only in connection with the expert testimony cases. I have come to the conclusion that in Dr. Wise's high and responsible position it is gross misconduct to borrow from his subordinate or have them endorse his notes or solicit subscriptions for stock from them. I do not know how many or how influential his friends in the medical profession are. I feel that you should do your part to see that the best doctors in New York support my position, but, of course, whether they do or do not support it, it will not alter my views. All this is, of course, upon the supposition that he can not make his record clear, and I confess that in view of his letter to Dr. McDonald I do not see how he can. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt442 December 7 1900 Major G Creighton Webb, 25 Nasalt Street, New York City. My dear Major: The enclosed letter explains itself. What ought I to do about it? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 7 1900 Col.J.E.Partridge, Superintendent of Public Works, Albany,N.Y. My dear Colonel Partridge: Will you mind having Mr. James Parsons, secretary of the Regents, and Prof. Wilcox of the State Board of Health, at that dinner also on the 31st ? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt443 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. John Kendrick Bangs, Editor, Harpers Weekly, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bangs:-- I do not know that you will regard the offer which I am about to make as one which you care to accept, and if you do not, for Heaven's sake, have no hesitation in saying so! My feelings wont be hurt a bit. My only desire is to try in some way to show that I appreciate what Harpers Weekly has done. Hitherto Mrs. Roosevelt and I have resolutely declined to allow any picture of her or of the children to be printed. Here and there a second hand copy more or less incorrect of a picture has been obtained, and finally Mrs. Roosevelt has come to the conclusion, that as there has been such endless pressure and such continual efforts to get at the children and her with snap shots, that it would be more dignified once for all to have a picture taken and let it be printed. Accordingly she has had a picture of herself taken and also of the six children. They have not yet been published, and if you care for them I will give them to you to have them first published in Harpers Weekly, provided you care to put them out by or very shortly after the New Year. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt444 Dec. 7th 1900 Mr. Joseph Lee, Needwood Forest, Knoxville, Md. My dear Lee:-- I have your letter of the 5th inst. I wrote first to John Hay and then saw him in person. He told me that if the chance came he would be only too glad too give you an appointment, but that there was not a vacancy at present; that there was a vast number of applications of first class men backed by the most prominent people in and out of Congress. He said he had put my application for you in this list; that he should try his best to give it attention but that he could not guarantee anything just now. I dare not try to encourage you, for I know the pressure for these places. At the same time I firmly believe that if the chance comes Hay will be glad to appoint you, unless the pressure for somebody else is overwhelming. I wish I could write more encouragingly. As for the escort of the Rough Riders, on March 4th, I simply had not thought about it. Now I shall take it up. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt445 Dec. 8th, 1900. Hon. William G. Holt, Kansas City, Kas. My dear Judge:-- I have your letter of the 5th inst. I remember you very well, of course. Now I do not know as yet what part I am expect- ed to take, or will be permitted to take, in recommending appoint- ments. I know the Vice President has to be exceedingly careful in those matters. From all I know of you I have thought very highly of you; but at the outset even if I am permitted to make suggestions I should have to learn something as to who the applicants are. I wish I could write you more definitely, but until I have a chance to get to Washington and have a talk with the President, Secretaries and Senators, I want to be very cautious as to what I do. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt446 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mr. Thomas J. Cummins, #65 First Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. Cummins:-- You have no conception of the flood of correspondence in which I have been emerged since election. I do not remember having seen your letter, for if I had I should have answered it at once. Can you repeat the substance of it to me? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 8th, 1900. Mr. Jerome W. Huiderleider, Saranac, Mich. My dear Huiderleider:-- Replying to your letter of the 28th ult., The only address I know is that of Dr. Church. You should address him "Dr. James Ross Church, 1st Lt. Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A., Manzanille, Cuba." Perhaps he could give you the address of Wilson, or perhaps Lt. Col. Alex. O. Brodie, Briggs, Arizona could give you the address of Wilson, or of Captain Alexander who I think knows Wilson's address. Sorry I cannot give you better information. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt447 Dec. 8th, 1900. Mr. S. W. Small, 221 Roebling St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear sir:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 3rd inst and requested me to say she would much like to respond to your appeal but so many demands are made upon her that it is absolutely impossible to undertake any new obligations of any sort. She regrets not being able to write you more favorably. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary. Dec. 8th, 1900. Miss Jennie E. Simpson, 351 W. 20th St., N.Y. City. Dear madame:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 24th ult and requested me to write you that such a flood of requests have come to her to donate articles to fairs that she finds it a physical impossibility to comply with them. For a time she gladly acceded but the calls became so numerous that she had to make a rule that after Dec. 1st she would have to decline. She is very sorry. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary.448 Dec. 8th. 1900. Mrs. W. C. Van Horn, Cedar Ave., Richmond, Hill, N.Y. Dear Madam:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 26th inst and requested me to write you that such a flood of requests have come to her to donate articles to fairs the she finds it a physical impossibility to comply with them. For a time she gladly acceded, but the calls became so numerous that she was obliged to make a rule that after December 1st she would have to decline. She is very sorry. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary. Dec. 8th. 1900. Mrs. Margret Hiker, 358 W. 28h St., N.Y. City. Dear madam:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 27th ult. and requested me to express her regret that she is unable to do as you request. She has been asked to send so many articles to fairs that she finds it is a physical impossibility to grant all the calls that are made, and she has therefore had to make a rule that after Dec. 1st she would have to decline in all cases. She is very sorry. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary.449 Dec. 7th, 1900. Mrs. O. P. Boardman, Olean, N.Y. Dear madam:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has requested to me acknoqledge the re- ceipt of your letter of the 26th ult with inclosed clippings and to thank you for writing her. Very truly yours, ? Secretary. Dec. 7th, 1900. Mrs. Mary B. Ryder, Westfield, N.Y. Dear madam:-- Your letter of the 30th ult to Governor and Mrs. Roosevelt is received. I return you herewith the inclosures, and regret to say that so many demands are made upon the Governor the it is abso- lutely impossible for him to do as you ask, much though he sympathis- es with what you are doing. You have no conception of the multitude of calls made upon him, and you must realize that he cannot do one- hundredth part of what he should so much like to do. Very truly yours, ? Secretary. 450 Dec. 8th, 1900. Mrs. Lew E. Darrow, Medford, Okla. Dear madam:-- Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your letter of the 24th ult and requested me to write you that it is absolutely impossible for her to comply with the innumerable requests she receives to make donations for fairs. These requests come from all over the country and while she at first attempted to give things to fairs, the mere fact of her complying in one case brought down a perfect avalanche from all directions. She was therefore obliged to make a rule that after Dec. 1st should would decline all. She is very sorry for she would much like to help your church. Very truly yours, [???] Secretary Dec. 8th, 1900. Dear Harold:-- Your letter of the 4th came to hand. I was sorry I had to be away when you were here and did not return until Tuesday. I am sure, old man, you know what a pleasure it would be for me to help you in any way I could. But we all have our limitations of influence. But if I see a spot either here, in York City or in Washington I will let you know at once. The Vice President is only allowed a Secretary and a Messenger. I havebeen appointed Secretary but I suppose that means that my knowledge of shorthand will come in handy. I only wish it were possible to employ a stenographer also, for if so I would get you with me in a minute. Perhaps when I get down there and get the lay of the land better, I may be able to rake up something or other for you. Meanwhile, let me know now and then how you get on and where you are to be. Faithfully yours, Wm. Loeb Jr.451 December 10 1900 Hon. George B. Priest, Tax Commissioner, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Priest: I thought that showing so admirable that I have made your letter public. I congratulate you heartily. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 10 1900 Dr. A. VanderVeer. 26 Eagle St. Albany, N.Y. My dear Doctor: Mr. Lech my secretary, has just told me of the death of your little boy, Ted's companion. I did not know of it when I saw you this morning. So let me say, my dear sir, what a real shock it is to me, and how genuinely I sympathize with you. With very high regards, believe me, Very faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt452 December 10 1900 Mrs.Douglas Robinson, 422 Madison Ave New York City. Darling Corinne: Could you get Jim Barnas to come around to breakfast this Saturday the 14th ? For your sins I am coming in to spend Friday night with you. If it is not possible for him to come around Saturday morning could he breakfast on Sunday the 30th, when I shall also be with you ? Will you hand the enclosed invitation to Douglas and ask him to address it to Mr. Stewart. I do not know his address. Ever yours, T. R. 453 December 10 1900 Miss Satt[e]rie, West Side Italian School, 24 Sullivan St New York City. My dear Miss Satt[e]rie: Could I call at your school next Wednesday morning, the 19th , at about eleven o'clock? I do want to see your scholars before I leave for Washington. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt December 10 1900 Hon. Whitlaw Reid, Ophir Farm, White Plains, N.Y. My dear Mr. Reid: Are you going to be in New York next Wednesday, the nineteenth? If so, could you lunch with me at the Union League Club at one o'clock. There are a number of things I have said that I very much desire to talk over with you. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt454 December 10 1900 Hon. Thurlow Weed Barnes, 860 Madison Avenue, New York City. My dear Mr. Barnes: I thank you for your letter of the [7]th inst. It will be a pleasure to see your friend Kersburg. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt December 10 1900. Mr. William D. Schier, 79 Becon St Boston, Mass. Dear Billy: I have your letter of the 8th. As I told you Sunday, it may not be possible. I was so glad to get a glimpse of you and your daughter. Faithfully yours, T. R.455 December 10 1900 General S. B. M. Young, Bigan, Luzon, P.I. My dear General: I thank you so much for the two boxes of cigars. It is awfully good of you to have thought of me. You can easily imagine how I have followed your career. I am very proud of what General Chaffee did in China, but it is no disloyality to him for me to wish my old commander had had the opportunity to advance on Pekin. In that case the one thing that would remain to have made me perfectly happy would have been the opportunity to have been under you. With hearty regards, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt456 December 10, 1900. Casper Whitney, Esq., 2[?]9 5th Avenue, New York City. My dear Whitney: I have your letter of the 6th. I shall see you at the Boon and Crocket Winner, January 4th. I shall try to give you a short article, probably upon the variability of the personaly factor in game observation before I go off on my hunt. About the trip itself I have not the slightest idea whether it will or will not yield material worth working up. I am going for the sake of getting away from politicians in general and my correspondence in particular and have some vigorous out-of-door exercise. The hunting will be purely secondary. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt457 Dec. 10th, 1900. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- This is to introduce to you Hon. Wm. Miller Collier one of my civil service commissioners. He is a thoroughly good fellow of just our type, a first class republican and a genuine civil service reformer. I commend him to your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 10th, 1900. Mr. J. B. Bishop, 29 Park Row, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bishop:-- I have changed the letter to Congressman Douglas and inclose it herewith to you to put the proper address on. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt Dec. 10th, 1900. Hon. William J. Douglass, Congressman, N.Y. City. I am informed that Francis Jackson Handy of No. 160 East 1st St., N.Y. City, is an applicant for ap- pointment to the Annapolis Naval Academy. The highest reports are brought to me of the young man's qualifications. I believe he is of the type fitted to uphold well and honorably the reputation of our naval service. I have been interested in his case through my friend Mr. J. B. Bishop, the editor of the Commercial Advertiser. If you can help the boy in this case you will not only be doing a good action for the young fellow himself, but will Mr. Bishop whose motives, I may add, in the matter are entirely disinterested, he simply thinking that the boy would do well in the position. Sincerely yours, Theodore roosevelt459 December 10 1900 Mrs. Jane [S.] A. West, 29 Ravine Ave. Rochester,N.Y. My dear Mrs. West: I am interested in your letter. I do not know whether I am to appoint that judge or not. I have heard nothing about it, but I am afraid I would have to take the advice of the leaders of the bar of the county in such a matter. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 10th, 1900. Hon. W. K. Chandler, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- Will you treat the inclosed letter from Senator Depew as purely confidential and send it immediately back to me. Of course, let no one else know the contents. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ seem to be singularly vindictive. I have seen several other interests which I understood were to oppose him, and have secured460 December 10 1900 Mr. D. LeRoy Dresser, 558 Broadway New York City. My dear Dresser: I have your letter of the 8th inst., in reference to Andrew J. Kiernan. Here comes in the hitch about that; I do not know Kiernan personally, so that a letter from me to Devery or any one else would be in the shape of asking a favor, and to do that means that I should be expected of reciprocate. I have steadfastly refused to write for any [?] man, save to tell my personal experiences, and that is to write simply such a letter as a Colonel writes about a man of his regiment who wishes promotion. I may add that I know of no single instance where even when I wrote in this way it has done the slightest good. With real regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt461 December 10 1900 Major W.H.H.Llewellyn, Las Cruces, N.Mex. My dear Major; Hearty thanks for your letter of the 6th. The reason I am going to Colorado is that a man out here has a pack of mountain lion hounds with which he says he can surely show me some good mountain lion hunting. I do not know whether it is all right or not, but I have a friend who recommends him very highly and who has been out with him . I never have killed mountain lion with dogs and it is an ex- perience I am anxious to have. If I find that the thing is a fake, I shall cut down and drop in with you and get you to steer me into some hunting place in New Mexico. I have heard the Upper Pecos Valley was a good country. Hunting mountain lions with hounds, as I say, is something new to me and I am very anxious to try it. Otherwise I should have started right in at New Mexico. In any event, it won't be long before I get my New Mexican hunt. I am delighted at what you tell me about Dave Good- rich. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt462 December 10 1900 To the President, Washington,D.C. Sir: Dr. John Palmer Mathews, a grandson of General John M. Palmer, who is a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, and at present a United States pension examiner, is desirous of being appointed an assistance surgeon in the United States Army. I do not personally know Dr. Matthews, and so I can not vouch for him professionally; but if he produces, as I am sure he can, proper testimonials of his professional capacity, I most earnestly desire to do what I can for a grandson of General Palmer who rendered such distinguished ser- vice to his country both during the war of the Rebellion, and again in the only less important crisis through which we have just been passing. I venture respectfully but earnestly to call him to your attention. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt463 December 10 1900 Dr.J.P.Matthews, Carlinsville,Ill. My dear Sir: I have your letter of the 8th inst. Indeed,it will give me the greatest pleasure to help you. I enclose you a letter to the President. Of course I can not speak for your professional qualifications, but granted that they are, as I have no doubt they are, all I can do for you will be most gladly done. Very truly yours, T. Roosevelt 464 Aug. 20th, 1906. ...al R.M. Dunbar? ? Washington, D.C. My dear Aramil?:-- ?I wish to you rather than to the ? because I promise ? ? remembered with ?, and I know that you are extremely ? in with Captain Ant...? ? and mainly backed him for promotion in the Spanish War. ?...do my ? Harvard? class of 1893 with a Cum Laude ? and was ? to the ? in New York in 189? becoming ? to the Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1888? joined my regiment as a trooper, served with distinction in military and ? office? until July 1st when ? shot at the battle of ? on his return to the United States he was promoted to be captain and Assistant Adjutant General and served with great credit on the staffs of Generals ?… and police? When the war was over he resumed? the practice of his profession in New York. During? my? administration he has been Deputy Attorney General on capital case? in New York City.? He is very desirous? of being ? one of the Judge Advocate Generals while I fundraise?? are protest? for. Mo is as fine a fellow and as natural a soldier as could be desired. He would make an admirable? Judge Advocate General and his appointment would be of soaring? advantage to the city. I earnestly hope it can be made. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt 466 Dec. 10th, 1900. To ?? ...the …? Sir:-- I write on behalf of Captain Arthur S. Cosby, ? of ? regiment, who you ? to ? after ? ? him when he returned wounded to the United States. Captain Cosby graduated from Harvard in the class of 1894 with a Cum Laude degree and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1896, becoming counsel to the Mutual Life Insurance company. In 1898 he joined my regiment as a trooper and served with distinguished gallantry ? ? ? until July 1st when he was shot at the Battle of San Juan in his return to the United States ? ? ? to a captain and Assistant Adjutant General ? ? with great credit ? the staffs of Generals Ames, Oaks and Wetling?, ? in one ?? the practice of his Professor in New York. During my administration he has had ? ? ? in certain ? in New York City. He is very ? of being ? as one of the Judge Advocate Generals which ? ? ? ? He is as fine a fellow and as natural a soldier as could be desired. He would make an admirable Judge Advocate General and his appointment would be of genuine advantage to the atty. I earnestly hope it can be made. With great ? Sincerely yours Theodore Roosevelt 468 Dec. 10th, 1900. Mr. Philip B. Steward, C/o Wm. A. Otis & Co., Colorado Springs, Colo. My dear Mr. Stewart:-- Your letters of the 5th and 6th have just come. Upon my word, I feel like a boy again and am just crazy to get out. Of course I would be only too delighted to wind up in the Pecos Valley for the ten days you describe. I will try to get one of those turn down hats here and if necessary I will use the handkerchief as you suggest . . On the morning of the 10th Major Austin Wadsworth and I will turn up as the Springs. We will take the Lake Shore Limited from New York on the evening of the 7th and then the Rock Island train at 10 P. M. on the 8th reaching the Springs on the morning of the 10th. I have one good qualification as a hunter, I am willing to work steadily for a limited amount of game. If we have any luck I suppose in time we are sure to get some mountain lion or something, and if so I shall be quite content. It will be delightful to end up in the Pecos Valley in New Mexico. By all means hire a rig to take us on that drive and let our luggage go by the stage, I [?] a stage. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt469 Dec. 10th, 1900. Mr. C. Grant LaFarge, 7 Beekman St., N.Y. City. Dear Grant:-- I have your letter of the 7th inst. After consultation with Wadsworth I sent Lansdowne a letter of which the inclosed is a copy. I also inclose my check for the $7.60 for my share of the Boone & Crockett dinner. Faithfully yours, T. R. Dec. 10th, 1900. Mr. Edward Bok, The Ladies Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear. Mr. Bok:-- That portrait came this morning. I do not like it at all and much prefer the Rockwood photographs such as are printed in my books. I return the portrait to you. The house where I was born still stands. It is 28 E. 20th St. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt470 Dec. 10th, 1900. Co. Silas W. Burt, President, State Civil Service Commissioner, #30 Broad St., N.Y. City. My dear Col. Burt:-- I would like a little explanation about these deputy sheriffs. What are the reasons in the matter? Sincerely yours, T Roosevelt Dec. 10th, 1900. Hon. Charles G. Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Dawes:-- If not too much bother will you address the inclosed note to General Black. He stood up for us so stoutly that I thought I would write him a line of personal acknowledgment. With hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt471 Dec. 10th, 1900. Genl. Edward S. Bragg, Fon du lac, Wis. My dear General:-- I must write you to say how greatly I appreciate the admirable and patriotic service you rendered to the whole country in the campaign that has just passed. I hope you will not deem me intrusive if I did that it was quite in keeping with the record you made in the civil war, not only for yourself but for all Americans who take pride in the valor of their countrymen. With great regard. Sincerely yours, Dec. 10th, 1900. Genl. John C. Black. My dear General:-- Nor that the fight is over-do let me say how keenly I appreciate the work you did. I cannot too highly express my appreciation. It seems to me of all other men the Gold Democrats deserve most credit in the campaign that has passed. With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt472 Dec. 10th, 1900. Hon. H. H. Lyman, Commissioner of Excise, Dear sir:-- The inclosed complaint from Alex Kenealy, N.Y. Journal, is respectfully referred you, by the Governor. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb, Jr. Secretary. Dec. 10th, 1900. Mr. Alec Kenealy, Ed. Rooms, New York Journal, N.Y. City. Dear sir:-- I am directed by the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th inst and to say that he has laid it before the Commissioner of Excise. Very truly yours, Wm. Loeb, Jr. Secretary.473 Dec. 11th, 1900. Hon. George L. Rives, Chairman, Charter Commission, N.Y. City. My dear sir:-- I have received the copy of the proposed Charter amendments drawn up by your Commission and have read them very attentively. It lies with this incoming Executive and Legislature to decide whether or not they shall be enacted into [*?*] but I desire personally to express to you my very high appreciation of the value of your work. The amount of hard and exacting labor entailed by your task was very great, the opportunity for disagree- ment equally great. You are to be congratulated because your com- mission have been able to come to a unanimous decision, and still more because this decision have received the hearty support of the far-seeing and thoughtful man of this community. Without committing myself on every specific change you recommend, I desire to say that in my judgment there can be no question as to the desirability of your scheme of amendments taken as a whole, and of the betterment they will work in our scheme of municipal government. Again heartily thanking you, and no less heartily congratulat- ing the city upon its good fortune in having obtained your services, for which I am sure all good citizens realize their heavy indebted- ness to you, I am, with great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt474 Dec. 11th, 1900. Hon. John Proctor Clarke, #29 Bway, N.Y. City. Dear John:-- I inclose you my letter to the Board of Managers of the Long Island State Hospital, in the Backus matter. That little business has been settled my way with a favorable balance [in] the score. Please return the letter when you are through with it. Always yours, T. R. Dec. 13, 1900. Hon. George L. Rives, 14 W. 38th St., N.Y. City. My dear Rives:---:-- I send the inclosed to you. If you like it, give it out to the press. If there is any change you or either of the gentlemen I not at your house the other day, have to suggest, send it back to me with the suggestion. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt475 Dec. 11th, 1900. Col. Gerald C. Kitson, British Embassy, Washington, D.C. My dear Colonel-- I with pleasure inclose the letter to Secretary Root. On the 19th inst I shall be alone at Albany, reaching here about seven oclock in the evening. Could you not come up here from New York on the 3.30P.M. train,(on which I shall be) and spend the night with me at the Executive Mansion on your way to Canada? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. To the Union League Club, N.Y. City. Gentlemen:-- I shall want to give a dinner to about 20 men on Saturday evening December 29th at 8 oclock. Sincerely yours, T. Roosevelt476 Dec. 11th, 1900. Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- This is to introduce to you COLONEL GERALD C. KITSON, the British Military Attache. Col. Kitson is not only [*surely*?] a very fine fellow and thorough soldier, but also a man in whom absolute trust can be placed, and both personally and officially genuinely friendly to the United States. I can assure you that you can treat him with entire confidence, and I venture to commend him specially to your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt477 Dec. 11th, 1900. General Bradley T. Johnson, Amelia Court House, Va. My dear General:-- We shall be at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. for Christmas and will be delighted to receive the birds. I have always firmly believed as regards the South on the applicability of the old fable. It would not bring the South to the Republican party at first, but it would prepare the way, and it would be a mightly healthy thing for the country. That is a most interesting plan of your's about going to Cuba. I do wish you could to the Philippines too. But then I also wish you could go to South Africa, for I should very much like to see a man who fought in the great war and yet retains so elastic a mind that he can appreciate new conditions, give us his views as to what has occurred in South Africa. Now, my dear General, I am sure I need not say that all I can do to get your grandson into Annapolis will be done. When do you want me to try? I want you, of course, to help me(for I do not admit the possibility,of which you so lightly speak, for many years to come). I presume you could get your Senators to endorse the boy and go with me to the President, could you not? How do you stand with your Congressman? The sure way, of course, is to get the vacancy from your own district. But if this is impossible I will do all in my power to get it for you through the President. I cannot, however, be certain of success. A Vice President has mighty little power. All I can do, most emphatically will be done. With hearty well wishes, I am, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt478 Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. Edward Bowditch, #40 Willett St., Albany, N.Y. My dear Bowditch:-- In that lion hunt I find I am sorry to say that I am to be the guest of Phil Stewart. As a matter of courtesy he asked me to bring one man with me in response to a letter of mine in which I tried to find out exactly where I stood. I was pledged to Austin Wadsworth before I spoke to you. I dislike to try to get him to take another man. I am awfully sorry for I should have par- ticularly enjoyed having you along. If the trip proves a success I shall do my best to make another trip, and then get you to go along. Always yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. Wm. Church Osborn, Esq., Lunacy Commission, 1 Madison Ave., N.Y. City. Dear Will:-- Can you come around to my sister's #422 Madison Ave., N.Y. City, at 11.30 A. M. Saturday the 15th inst? I should like to see you on a matter of importance. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt479 Dec. 11th, 1900. Dr. Alexander Lambert, 125 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Alec:-- Will you come around to my sister's house No. 422 Madison Ave. right after breakfast next Saturday the 15th inst.? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. Major J. B. Pond, Everett House, 218 Fourth Ave., N.Y. City. My dear Major:-- I thought my hat seemed to have a new lease of life. I will send it to you this afternoon. Just express mine to Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Theodore RooseveltDec. 11th, 1900. Mr. Walter Gordon-Cumming, Altyre, Forres, N. B. My dear G ordan-Cumming:-- I have your letter of the 29th Nov. It was delightful to hear from you. I wish I could write you a long letter, but I am driven nearly to death in closing up the work of my office. I agree with every word that you say about modern arms. The high power rifle has curiously enough wrought a reversion to the times when the individuality of the fighting man was of enormous consequence. The big game hunter in wild regions is nowadays the only man who is really trained for a modern soldier's duties. I do get awfully angry at some of the military pedantry. In the National Guard of this my own State I have just had to write to rebuke certain gentlemen who get absorbed in the question whether an officer should stand with his arms folded or hanging at certain periods in manouvers. So far as I am concerned he can hold them out at right angles if only he will drill his men in shooting, in taking cover and in living in the open. I should think that the South African business was about over. I hope so, and that now the two races can settle down and amalgamate there as they have amalgamated here. Remember, I count upon having you as my guest whenever you get on this side. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt481 Dec. 11th, 1900. General E. M. Hoffman, Adjutant General, Albany, N.Y. My dear General:-- I notice a newspaper account of a controversy in the Guard as to whether an officer should stand with his arm folded in certain ceremonies or at certain periods of drill. While we cannot afford to neglect the minutiae, I think it is also a mistake to insist over-much upon their importance. It is of infinitely more consequence that an officer should drill his men in shooting, in taking cover, in marching and living in the open, and should himself learn how to take care ofthem and command them, than it is of importance whether his arms are folded or not. Do not misunderstand me. It is entirely right to call the attention of officers to any minute shortcomings, but it is a mistake to lose sight of the relative importance of things. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt482 Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. T. StJohn Gaffney, #41 Riverside, Drive, N.Y. City. My dear Gaffney:-- To my very great regret Secretary Root writes me that there is not the slightest chance for Col. Lynch. He says that no man not already a citizen would be appointed any how. He writes me in addition that the pressure will be tremendous for the men now in the service or who have served in the Spanish war, and that there is no use of my thinking of getting Col. Lynch an appointment. His closing sentence is that heis pressed most strongly for men he will not appoint; that he can oppose these worthless men by backing good volunteer officers, but that he would have no chance in putting an outsider in competition with them. I am very sorry to have to write this. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt483 Dec. 11th, 1900. Major M. J. Jenkins, Bethel Military Academy, Va. My dear Major:-- I have your letter of the 10th inst. I shall speak to the President about you tomorrow when I expect to see him and I shall hold myself in readiness to forward to Col. Elliott a letter to the President as strong as I can put it, just as soon as he writes me. But will you tell him to write me before January 1st as after that date I am going west for a couple of months? I am sure I need not say that all I can do to aid you will be done. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt484 Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. Chas, T. Andrews, Senaca Falls, N.Y. My dear Mr. Andrews:-- I have read that article and like it greatly. Do you intend to sign it? What steps would you like me to take to get a chance of publication? Remember, as I told you, all I can do is to get a reading for it. The magazine people always exercise their own discretion. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. Hon. Wm. E. Chandler, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. My dear Senator:-- Will you treat the inclosed from J.H. Manley as purely confidential and return it to me? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt485 Dec. 11th, 1900. Maj. W. A. Wadsworth, Knickerbocker Club, N.Y. City. Dear Austin:-- No, our pack of hounds is owned by a man named Goff. I shall try to get all the outfit I can before leaving. We go direct to Colorado Springs and from thence to Rifle where we start on a wagon ride of 55 miles to Meeker where Goff meets us and from there on it is all horseback. Yours, T R Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. R. M. Appleton, 28 E. 36th St., N.Y. City. Dear Bud:-- I have your letter of the 10th and inclose you a letter to the Secretary of State. I prefer to write to the head of the department direct in a matter like this rather than to the President. With best wishes, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt486 Dec. 11th, 1900. To the Honorable, JOHN HAY, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Secretary:-- I have already written you a letter on behalf of Mr. Joseph Lee of Knoxville, Maryland, formerly of my regiment, requesting that he be given a secretaryship at Tokio, Constantinople, Vienna, Petersburg, or in some similar position. The letter for Lee stands first, but if I have any second choice I should like to endorse for a similar position Mr. R. M. Appleton of 28 E. 36th St., N.Y. City, a Harvard man who in the Spanish War served as a Second Lieutenant of Marines, having a very honorable record. I have been informed that no one of the volunteer officers in the Marine Corps showed to better advantage than Mr. Appleton. He is an old and valued personal friend of mine and in character, integrity, and ability as well as in education and military experience, is peculiarly fitted to render first class service in the position which he seeks. As I have said, I have already endorsed Mr. Lee of my regiment and this endorsement must not interfere with my endorsement of him, but I very much hope that Mr. Appleton can be appointed also. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt487 Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. Geo. R. Bishop, N. Y. Stock Exchange, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Bishop:-- Many thanks for your letter of the 10th inst. I agree with all you say about Schurz. I hope I shall see you Friday evening. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. Genl. O. O. Howard, #150 Nassau St., N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I have your letter of the 10th. Unfortunately on Monday I shall be at Oyster Bay. Could you come out there to lunch or come out there and spend the night? Or if this conflicts with your Boston engagement, could you come up to Albany Wednesday and spend the night with me at the Executive Mansion? Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt488 Dec. 11th, 1900. Mr. Henry H. Boyce, #71 Bway, N.Y. City. My dear Mr. Boyce:-- Hearty thanks for your letter of the 10th inst. Rifle is the town I am going to start from about the 11th of January. I do hope I may meet you. I am so pleased that you are now permanently a Westchester man. I must have a chance to see you and talk over old times. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th. 1900. Mr. John Moore, Seguin, Texas. My dear Mr. Moore:-- You are awfully good to think of us, and I thank you heartily. I laughed at the mention of "Jim Swinger." He will always recall to me our long buckboard ride and the barren looking mesquite prairie, Swinburne's poetry, and the delightful ride next day, with at the end the wild scurry after the peccaries. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt489 Dec. 12th, 1900. My dear Mr. President:-- This will be handed to you by Captain Arthur F. Cosby of New York, formerly of my regiment -- as fine a fellow and as excellent a soldier as I know. You have already received my letter about him. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Dec. 11th, 1900. Genl. McCoskry Butt, Union Club, 5th Ave & 21st., N.Y. City. My dear General:-- I have your letter of the 10th. You see I thought very carefully over our conversation, and I think it bore good fruit. I hope you like the two new members? Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt490 Dec. 11th, 1900. Capt. Arthur F. Cosby, 62 William St., N.Y. City. My dear Captain:-- You have already received copies of my letters. I now send you a letter of introduction to the President. Tomorrow is a day of a big function and the President will certainly be overwhelmed. I do not think there is the slightest chance of his receiving you, I would not like to ask him to take the time. I have no expectation that he will receive me alone although there are several things I wish to talk overwith him. If he does see me alone I shall speak to him first about your case. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt491 Dec . 12th, 1900. Hon. John Laughlin, 1212 Prudential Bldg., Buffalo, N.Y. My dear Senator:-- I have your letter of the 10th inst. I understand perfectly. Do not worry your head about the matter. Of course you can show this letter to Mr. Odell. Let me recapitulate: When you spoke to me I said I was told by certain judges that it was the intention of the constitution makers that there should be a rotation in those judgeships down in New York, and that if this were the case and if the appointments came to me I intended to appoint your brother and Judge Russell, as I had grown to have a steadily increasing opinion of both. On returning to Albany I found from the Attorney General that in all probability by law and certainly by courtesy, the appointments should come to the incoming Governor, I accordingly ceased to think about the matter. I ought to add, however, that certain of the judges of the court of appeals came to me and stated that as they had heard the question of rotation mooted, they wished to protest against the idea being adopted, holding that much the best work could be done by judges who stayed permanently in such places. I told them that as the matter did not come before me, I should not try to look into it. I am sure that you will agree with me that it is not just or wise for the outgoing Governor to intrude upon the incoming Governor, especially when as with Mr. Odell and myself, their relations have been close. The incoming Governor is to act upon his own best judgment, and he cannot but be hampered by requests which he may deem entirely unwise, but which came from a man who has just left or is just leaving the chair which he is to occupy. I have the most absolute confidence in Mr. Odell's judgment, and I also know that each man must play the game his own way. I have told Mr. Odell that if he wishes my judgment about any matter whether of appointment or of legislation, I am always at his command; but I do not want to volunteer advice. Your brother acted particularly well in connection with taking the Appellate Division at great inconvenience to himself I appreciate what he did and I would greatly like to serve him. With great regard, Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt492 Dec. 11th, 1900. Prof. Ernest von Halle, C/1 The City Club, [15?] E. [36th?] St., N.Y. City. My dear Prof. von Halle:-- I have your letter of the 10th inst. I was much amused at my puzzling you in the trolley car. No wonder you did not recognize me. I thank you very much for the pamphlet. I shall try to get a colored copy of my coat of arms, but I may have difficulty. It was a great pleasure to have you as my guest here. With great regard, Sincerely yours. Theodore Roosevelt493 December 12 1900 Mr. T. N. Allen, Olympia, Washington,. My dear sir: I have your letter of the 4th inst. I would indeed like to help any gold democrat as much as I should like to help any republican, but I am entirely powerless in the matters of appointment. Your own senators and congressmen will have to decide. All I could do would be, if I personally knew you, to testify to them on your behalf: but of course as we are strangers that I can not do. With regret, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt494 December 12 1900 Hon. James M. Gilbert, State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, Albany, N.Y. My dear Mr. Gilbert:-- What about the enclosed? Ought a member of your board to go? If not, how would it do for me to send Mr. McMackin? Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12 1900 Mr. R. M. Easley, 517 First National Bank Building, Chicago, Ill. My dear Mr. Easley: I an in receipt of your communication of the 9th inst. and will write at once to the President of the Board of Mediation and Arbitration and find out if one of the board can not go to your meeting. If not, perhaps Hon. John McMackin, commissioner of Labor Statistics, can go. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt495 December 12 1900 Mr. George L. Bugbee, Lordsburg,N.Mex. My dear Mr. Bugbee: I am in receipt of your letter of the 4th inst, and of course I will do anything I can for your brother. I hope we shall succeed. The only rock ahead- is the fact that so many of my old regiment apply for positions that the departments at Washington are getting a little impatient with me. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12 1900 Mr. James L. Frawley, Port Richmond, Staten Island,N.Y. My dear Mr. Frawley: I have your letter asking for a letter of recommendation to Commissioner Campbell. I do not know him but I take pleasure in sending you the enclosed. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt496 December 12 1900 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The bearer, Mr. James L. Frawley, is an old friend of mine. I at one time boxed with him for a season and I also knew him in competition with his trade. He was a sober, industrious and competent workman, and I had great confidence in him. He is an applicant for a position as inspector of buildings for the borough of Richmond, and I shall be very glad if he can be appointed. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt December 12 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Corwin, 263 Cooper Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Corwin: I was greatly pleased to receive your letter of the 9th inst. Believe me, you honor me greatly. I take pleasure in sending herewith my photograph for my young name-sake. With hearty congratulations and best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt497 December 12 1900 D.M. Sholars,Esq., 410 Hennen Building, New Orleans, La. My dear Sir:-- Your letter unsigned of the 8th inst. has just come to me. I should like much to help you but I an entirely powerless. The vice-president has nothing to do with appointments. My sole power - and that has to be exercised very sparingly - is in recommending men whom I personally know, and in your case I have not that pleasure. With regret, I am, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt498 December 12 1900 Mr. Francis D. Poole, Wells,Delta Co.,Mich. My dear Mr. Poole: I thank you very much for sending me the poem. I enjoyed reading it and it took me back to the days when I always liked to get either on the first or last relief - although in winter weather the last relief often meant a double time! With great regard, Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt499 December 12 1900 Mr. W. Y. Apitz, 218 Fourth St., N. W. Washington, D. C. My dear Comrade: I have your letter of the 9th inst. and would like very much to help you, but it simply is not within my power. Any man of the sixth infantry who was wounded at San Juan can be sure that if I can help him I will. But the vice-president has no say whatever as to those appointments beyond his own secretary and messenger, both of whom have been appointed. The senators control the appointments, I regret to say. Very truly yours, Theodore Roosevelt500 December 12 1900 J.W.Bell,Esq,Chairman, Minneapolis,Minn. My dear Sir: I have your communication of the 8th inst. with reference to the Minnesota National Park. All I can do I will gladly do. Speaker Henderson gave me no promise, but simply said that whatever he could properly do he would. Very truly yours, Theodore RooseveltA E I Indexed to 110 308 500 O U Y A E I Adler Chao J. 2f Arkell Nwj. 175 Adhnsm W. Ptterson 308 Abbott Rev Lyman 32 Addum, Avery D. 197 Apitz, W. F. 499 Adams John N. 235 Andrews L. C. 248 Allan, Mrs. E. R. 285 Andrews NC 286 Allmendinger G.F. 370 Appleton, R.M. 382,485 Andrewa, C.T. 484 Allen, T.N. 493 O U Y Ashmore Cmnie Townsenb 153 Austin & Woolverton, 363 Almy, Fred 321A B [Column 1] A Braun Marcus 25, 183, 220-1, 352, Bradley Thos W. 101 Bain Geo Grantham 166 Barney Mrs E. E. 231 Bangs John Kendrick 274, 443 Barrow Clarence A 279 Barney Lewis T. 281 Baker Viola B. 290 Bader, Rev. A. J. 310 Brackett, Hon. E. T. 334 Batton, Rev. S. W. 337 Baer, Morris, 340 Bates, W. G. 362 Barwis, A. B. 373 Baillia, F. B. 400 Blackburn, Miss S. 431 Barnes, T. W. 454 Bragg, Genl E. S. 471 Black, J. C. 471, [Column 2] E Beardsley Jas A. 38, 329 Betterton Mrs. R. S. 40 Belmont August 47 Bereau H. E. 151 Bellwill A. 222 Beardsley J. A. 224 Belts S. Tallman 228 Benson Geo S. 234, 275, Beck Col W. H. 245 Becker Tracy C. 280 Berry W H. 306 Bell, J. W. 500 [Column 3] I Bliss C. N. 2 Bishop J. B. 44, 113, 158, 411, 457 Briant John 62 Birkhauser Wm E. 140 Birdsall Mrs. C. A. 148 Briesin A. Von 160 Bridges Robt 211 Brito, F. C. 332 Bijur Nathan, 356 Briggs, Dean, 357 Bridges Mrs H. M. 360 Bishop, Geo. R. 487 [Column 4] O Bothwell A W. 1 Bourke Edw J. 108 Brother Ferd. 131 Bonaparte C. J. 142, 254 Bok Edw 171, 338, 469, Brown, H. S. 207 Brown James T. 237 Brodie Alex O. 241 Brown Garrett S. 292, 350 Bloomer Wm A. 294 Boardman, Mrs. I. P. 449 Boarditch, Edw. 478 Boyce, H. H. 488 [Column 5] U Buck Jos W. 29 Burbank Mrs J. B. 107 Buxton Edward North 120 Burtis Geo W. 139 Butt McCarthy 143 Butler Mrs A. R. 225 Bullock J. G. 302 Bull, Wm. C. 352 Butt, Genl McC. 394, 489 Burt, S. W. 470 Brigbee Geo L. 495, [Column 6] Y Byrd, Mrs. A S. 1,C D A Chanbulan, Eugene 73 Cane Frank 5, 48 Carter C B. 71 Cariman, Bliss 115 Clark C D 132 Chasseand Alfred 152 Carmichael Alphons 152 Catholic Club 206 Craftree Mrs. Margaret 296 Catt, Mrs. C. C. 319 Call Hon. Wm. 346 Carter Franklin, 354 Campbell R. J. Jr. 355 Carson, A. B. 388, Clark, Jno P. 438, 474 Chandler, Hon W. E. 459, 484 E Cliu Henry, 74 Cleveland Grover 178 Cesnda L Pde 265 I Circell Rich [?] NY State Civil Service [?] 99, 407 C Civil Service Com NY City 109 Cummins John D. 143 Childs Jno Louis 218 Crites Co 266 O Coombs Leslie 2 Corrigan M. A. 4 Copeland Thos. C. 36, 98 Corey W. W. 54 Connolly A. P. 74 Cole P. R. 76 Corbin Genl. H. C. 94 Collier Wm. Miller 103 Cooley A. W. 159, 349 Cook Willet F. 175 Cortelyou, Geo. B. 227 Conner John B. 295 Cody Vincent 300 Cork Dr. Stauton, 314 Connery, Thos. B. 315 Coroles, Mrs. W. S. 316 Cox, W. V. 365 Cosby, Capt. A. F. 384, 490 Corwin, E. M. 496 U Cunningham, H. H. 3 Curtin Jeremiah 119 Curtis F. H. Holbrook 207, 309 Crusilis, Geo T. 324, Cullen, Hon. E. H. 325 [Cummings] Cummins, Thos. J. 446, Cumming, Walter G. 480 Y C D A Darlington, F. G. 40, 111 Dana Paul 42, 176 Darby Mrs Chester C. 68 Davies Julian T. 82, 131 Daly Rev. W. F. B. 97, 220 Devery Wm S. 109 Davies John C. 132, 258 __ Danforth Wm H. 147 Dantz Wm T. 151 Daniels B F. 165 Dawes Chas G. 205, 470, Day R C. 247 Davis Mrs Cushman K. 271, 401 Dann, J. C. 387, Davis W. W. 405 Darling, J. G. 428 Darrow, Lew E. Mrs. 450 [Column 2] E DeBerard Fredk 6, 284, DeRoche F. B. 66 Deming Horace E. 132 Denham A. H. 134 Dechm Mrs C F 136 Dennett Arthur F. 171 Dees M. A. 194 DeRussy John H. 276 DeLuce Edmond 286 DeYoung Hank 307 Drew, P. 366 Devine, E. T. 388 Depew, C. M. 427 Dresser, D. Le Roy, 460 [Column 3] I Diehl Conrad 144 [Column 4] O Dodd Edwin M. 69 Dodge Cleveland H. 106 Doane W C. 137 Dorsey, Geo. W. E. 372 Douglas, W. J. 412, 458 [Column 5] U Duell C H. 5, 95 Douglas Curtis N. 6 Duckrey Rev J. Henry 68 Dunne F. P. 182 Dulhvier Joseph 288 Duncan Lt Arthur G. 297 [Column 6] Y Dyer G L. 249 A E I Easley, R. M. 494 Emerson W. C. 45 Elkins, D. B. 7 Ebert Chao W. 32 Ellsolt Dunean 246 Elliot Mrs. Adin Mea. 279 O U Y Ellsworth, T. E. 398 [????????] [????] [????????] [????]E F A Francis Chas S. 193 Flanagan R L 239 Flanagan Wm L. 254 Franley, Jas. S. 495,496 E Ferris Morris P. 110 Frewen Moreton 239 Fletcher L. H. 299 Ferguson, Mrs. E. M. 312 Ferguson, R. H. M. 439 I [Elkin, S B 7 Eliot C W 33] Fincke Fred. G, 73 Fisher JW. 84 Fifth Ave BK of NY 253 Fisher, J. C. 323 O Folks Homer 35, 272, 343, 397, Frothingham Theo. 37 Foulke Wm Dudley 215 Fox, A. G. 346 Froed, Chas. 364 Foley, J. M. 396 U Y Flynn, Hon. Dennis 318G H [Column 1] A Grant A W. 96 Garrett Philip C. 155-6 Grahame Lawrence 214, Gaffney, T St John 287, 376, 482 Grant Frank A. 298 [Column 2] E Greene Francis V. 34 Green Geo E. 53 Gregory Chas Noble 130 Greata H J. 161 Greene Mrs Ella B. 218 Gregory, W. J. 331 Greeley, E. A. Mrs. 428, [Column 3] I Gibson E. J. 62 Gindell Thos 102 Gibson Chas 192 Gilman S. J. 304 Gilbert, Jas. M. 494 [Column 4] O George Clifton 51 Goddard F Norton 67 G Gondy John K. 180 Goodwin, Geo. B. 361 Gottschall, S. 401 [Column 5] U Goulden J. A. 103 Guild Curtis Jr. 138 Gordon, W. H. 366, [Column 6] Y Glynn Geo A. 303GH A Hatch Rufus 7 Harper Wm R. 43 Haywood Mrs Caroline 49, 145 Halford JJ 63 Hall Nanen V. 75 Haig Capt Herbert 83 Hayes Frank P. 86, 389 Harvey W.K. 107 Hayes J. Noble 112 Hatten Geo. A. 225 Hackney Wm H. 280 Hayes Theo C. 288 Hayden J.E. 297 Hardy, G. 348 Hammond, H.A. 366 Hadden, J.A. 369 Hay, John, 486 E Heath, Perry D. 9, 261 Heitzmann C.F. 47 Henry Thos. 63 Hempstead D W. 64 Henniques A J. 226 Hempealdy WV. 233 Herin R. 235 Hennessey R.B. 302 Hetherrington, F.S. 330 I Higgins Thaddeus/ 416 Hillein Mrs RL 268 Hill, Samil, 335 O Hopley John 8 Hodgins Chas 95 Hollo F.N. 148 Hongstahing NR. 151 Howell Jos W. 153 Hobbs TM. 262 Hodgins John 292 Hoffman Miss. E.M. 358 Heolt, Wm. G. 445 Hoffman, Gen. 481 Howard, Genl O.O. 487 U Huntington Dr N.C. 8 Hunter Susan 105 Hughes Rev John J, 221, Hutchins, M.C. 371 Huiderleider, J.W. 446, Y Hylton E.J. 228 A E Jeland John 257 Jilner Mrs. Florence 304 I Iglehart F.D. 56 O U YI J A James Darwin R. 57 James Wm. F. 251 E Jerome Lovell H. 102 Jewett, M W 404 Jenkins, M. J. 483 O Jones, Wm. H. 61 Johnson Henry C. 175 Johnston Gordon 250 Johnson, A. W. 291 Johnston, J. H. 337- Johnson Genl B. T. 339, 477 Johnston, Miss F. B. 361 Jones, Geo. M. 429, U Judd, Mrs. A. J. 370K L A Kay Jos W. 99, 149, 416 E Kelley, Geo M. 10 Kennedy John I. 10 Kemp J V. 133 Kessler Wm I. 251 Kelly Luther I. 282 Kenealy, Alex . 472 I Knight Eastus C. 197 Kiggins F M 296 King, Geo. C. 331 Kitson Col. 374, 475 Kinney, Jas. 416 O Kohlsaat Ernst W. 222 U YK L [Column 1] A Lansdowne Percy I. 139, 421 Laughlin John 145, 345, 491 Lawton Mrs J. M. 165 Lambert Alex 170, 253, 318, 379, 441, 479 Lawler Wm H. 241 Lane Floyd 278 Laird, Emmet, 350 Lafarge, C. G. 368, 469, Langly, Jno. W. 371 Lyman, H. H. 472, [Column 2] E Lewis Mrs Virginia 11 Lewis Lsidor 12 Levi Arrnad Josephine 94 Lee Jos. 177, 444 Lee Arthur H. 208, Llewellyn, Maj. 357. 461 L [Column 3] I Lieponer Rev B. F. 13 Little Jos J. 69 Lippner J. A. 101 Lettauer L. N. 137 Sillibridge G. 397 [Column 4] O Locke O Trson 11 Long John D. 31, 384, Lothrop C. E. 35 Logan Maj T. H. 36 Lowndes Lloyd 38 Long Island State Hospital, Board of Mgrs of 88 Locke Franklin D. 138, 260 Lodge H. C. 195, 385, 457 Lloyd A. Parlett 237 Love H. K. 244 Love A. L. 277 Lobdill S. C. 307 Long, loel, 329 Long, W. F. 341 Long, J. G. 374 Lothrop, J. G. 399 Lord, C. S. 403 [Column 5] U Lutz John H 166 Lucas Arthur 298 Luther, F. C. 437 [Column 6] Y Lyman Geo H. 135 Lynch, Col. A. 322, 382 Lynch, Mrs. A. 395Mc M A McFadden Rev. E. M 12 McAlphin Mrs. Annie 46 McCarthy Justin Jr. 70 Macdougall C. S. 114 McAvery, Geo. 375,438 E McAneny M B. 50 McQueen Peter 152 McKee, Mrs. J. R.- 314, 408 McBee, S. 345 I 489 McKinley Wm, 22, 26, 216, 462 McMillan Wm, 39 O McDonald, L. F. 383 U McCullagh John 52 McChne S Sco 67 McGurrin, M. 435 YMc M [Column 1] A Matthews Grander 30, 112, 347 Masters H. B. 174 Marshall Eliot 177 Martin Edward S. 179, 267, Mantrus W. L. 192 Maxwell Geo C. 227 Manning Thos J. 287 Mann, Dr. E. C. 365 Mac Veagh, W. 372 Manley, J. H. 427 Matthews, Dr. J. P. 463 [Column 2] E Mercer David H. 61 Metcalf, Wilder S. 219 Meldrum, Chas 305 Meyer, A. B. 402 [Column 3] I Mills A L. Col. 14 Miller, Benj. H. 333, [Column 4] O Moncreiffe Wm 52 Morrison F. D. 56 Moen Leclanche 98 Montant A. P. 100 Moore, G. W. 150 Morton, Paul 184 Morton, J. Sterling 262 Montreal Herald Ed. 289 Moore, Irwin 353 Morgan, J. P. 381 Moore, Jno. 488, [Column 5] U Murphy Mrs. S. 85 Murchie Guy 154 Mullaly, E. J. 316 Murphy, Dr. P. F. 353 [Column 6] Y Myer Mrs Annie Nathan 173A National Irrigation Congress 77 Nathan Mrs. Frank 141, 319 Nally And. 146,162 E Nevins, F. E. 13, 260 Nelson, H L 45, 176, 256, 322 Nuv Mrs. Harry C 185 I Nixon, S. F. 281 O Nott James 230 U Nutzhorn F 14 YN O A E Odell BBJ 23, 24, 42, 44, 80 142, 169, 204, 209, 282, 377 Ogden Wm A. 300 O'Meara, S. 383 Owen, W. H. Jr 405 I Olin, Hilden, 336 O Orr Lincoln 59 Ohr A. E. 59 Oconnor Wm J. 181 Osborne Wm. [?] 234, 847 Orr, A. E. 313 Osborn, W. C. 478 U YP Q [Column 1] A Pavey Frank D. 15 Parker Dr. W. E. 84 Pach Bros 150 Platt Thos C. 202 Parker John H. 243 Painter W. R. 306 Pascal, Miss, M. P. 330 Payne, Hon H. C. 338 Parker. A. W. 429, Partridge, J. N. 442 [Column 2] E Peters Thos. P. 14 Peters Mrs Malcolm 86 Perry Mrs. Bettie E. 106 Prender J C. 283, 436 [Column 3] I Pinckney Henry 181 Phillips Mrs John B. 236 Phillips John S. 259, 417, Phillips, J. E. 348 Prince, G. 366 Philbin, E. A. 410 Pierce, Miss M. 433 Priest, Geo. E. 451 [Column 4] O Poole Emma C. 46 Police Com - NY Aty 50, 109, Proctir John R. 75, 284, Post Mrs. Aug. 85 Popence Wm E. 148 Potter Henry C. 164 Poundstone H C. 190 Proctor Jos H. 278 Pollock, H. C. 320, Post, A. M. 362 Pond, Maj. J. B. 418, 479 Poole, F. E. 498 [Column 5] U Pimmett Mrs Gertrude R. 41 Purroy Henry D. 55 [Column 6] YA Quartermaster Genbush 87R S A Rawle Francis 37 Rainsford Rev W. T. 70, 162, 258, 344 Radford Harry V. 233 Randolph J. A. 317 E Reid Whitelaw 48, 453 Reynolds James B. 257, 376 Reed G. W. 294 [Ryd] Reid Hal, 390 Redfern, R. D. 430 I Richardson Mrs. B H. 16 Rici Cecil Spring 124 Rideing, Wm H. 168, 255, 335 Riis, Jacob A. 172, 212, 328 Rives Geo L. 207, 343, 420, 473 474 Riker, Mrs. M. 448 O Rolph Wells D. 15 Robinson Edw Van Dyke Rev. 16 Root Elihu 21, 25, 219, 243, 311 380, 476 Robertson Miss Alice M. 41 Rosendale S. W. 97 Roland Reg. 100 Rhodes, Chas Dudley 108 Roosevelt Theo 111 Roosa Dr. D B St J. 133 Roosevelt Robt B. 134 Robinson Douglas 169 Roycrofters, The - 341 Robinson, Mrs Douglas 184, 355, 452 Rhodes Anna 217 Rodey B. S. 236 Rosser T. L. 238, 342 Rogers Madison 305 Robinson, T. D. 358 Rockwood & Co 389 Roosevelt W. E. 409 Roosevelt, J. E. 419, Roosevelt, Fred, 440, U Ruggles Jas. H. 105 Russell Lindsay 111, 196, Russell Mich 242 Ruskin J. A. 308 Y Rydell,, J. A. 378, Ryan, Capt. T. F. 436 Ryder Mrs. M. D. 449R S A Shaw A. D. 17 Staples O. G. 17 Shattuck Mary Strong 27 Smalley Geo. W. 43, 83, 176, 255 Sanger Wm Cary 58 Satterie Miss 60, 458 Schwan Fredk 72 Spratling Wm P. 73 Strachey J St. Lee 116 Sage Dean 135 State Bd of Health 140 Sartoris Algernon 191 Simmons Arthur 206 Stahl Wm 226 Shale, G. B. 332 Shaffer, N. M. 385, Small, S. W. 447 E Spence H. Tuthill 104 Sternburg Baron H 122 Spencer Mrs Geo E. 130, 301 Sheffield Jas. R. 144 Shepherd J. L. 195 Selous F. C. 200 Stewart Philip B. 273, 413, 468 Spencer Miss Edna 283 Sheldon Geo R. 293 Schneider L. A. 301 Sperry N. D. 395 Stewart, W. R. 406, Stevenson, A. M. 409, Seaman, Noah 420 Stephens, Mrs. L. V. 432 I Skinner Dr L O 18 Sleicher J. A. 18 Smith Chas Emery 58, 240, 317, 369 Smith Chas Stewart 60 Shields G. O. 71 Stirum Grafzu Limburg 82 Schick John M. 104 Slicer Thos R. 134 Scribner Chas. 149, 310 Simus Gardiner 167 Skinner Chas R. 232 Smith John J. 276 Stimson, F. J. 334 Smith Geo J. 342 Stidham, T. E. 404, Simpson, Miss J. E. 447 Schier, W. D. 454 O Scovel J. Matlock 55 Strong Josiah 110 Storrs Rev L. K. 147 Strong Bradlee Putnam 172-3 Stroughton Chas 194 Storer Mrs Bellamy 198 Stotesbury Edw T. 210 Sharp Wm S. 229 Sohn Joseph 230 Schoonmaker Miss Emma C. 285 Schoeffer N. C. 289 Scholars D. M. 497 U Sullivan Edw J. 39 Summerbell Martyn 96 Schurman J G. 168, 291 Scull Guy 272 Sturgis, Hon. Thos. 402, 434 Starr, M. A. 403 Scudder, Hon T. 437 YT U A Travers, F. C. 354 E Tebbetts, John S. 196 I Tiffany & Co. 29 Tellspaugh, Kettie 54 Twitchell, RS 164 Titus, Mrs. N. V. 232, 406 O Townsend, Howard 282 Townsend, E. M. 320 Thompkins, Rev. F. B. 375 Tod, G. A. 396 U Trufant, S. A. 19, Turpin, Mrs. Laura, 26, 242 Turner, B. P. 400 Y Tyler, Mrs. Helen B. 193 YA Urban GeoJr. 223 I Arniou League Club. 475V W A Van Voorhis John 57 Vanderlip F. A. 223 Van Nest Y. Willett 276 Van Allen, Rev. W. H. 351 VanRiper, C. E. 417 Van Horn, Mrs. W. C. 448 Vander Veer, Dr. A. 451 E Veigele John EV. 299 I Veiller Laurence 28 O Von Haake A. 229 Vrooman Hon. J. W. 336 Von Halle, Prof. E. 492 U YA Ward W. L. 20 Washburn C. G. 49 Wainwright Rich 65 Wadsworth A W. 136, 264, 485 Wakeman W. F. 146, 163, 213, 328 Ward David P. 285 Washburn Stanley 290 Ware, Chas, 349 Wade, F. E. 364 E Weddle R B. 51 Witt H C 238 Wentz Mrs James Griswold 275 363 Wheeler, O. H. 327 Wheeler, Gen. J. 360 Webb, Maj. C. C. 442 I Whiting Anna K. 67 Wilcox Ansley 72 Wilcox Mrs. M. E. D. 333 Wilson Miss Katharine 76 Williams John 81, 141, 277 Wilson, Leonard, 373 Wise Peter M. 128, 252, 274, 315, 423 Wilson James 131 Whitney Caspar 147, 456 Willis John 157 Whitmore Rev H. B. Wolryche 174 White Henry 187 Wilkinson Thos L. 231 Wright Thos T. 293 Williams Lewis A 295 Wilson G. W 321 White, Hon. A. D. 326 Williams Mrs. L. P. 394 O Wolcott E. O. 27, 138, Wood Leonard 182, 386 U YO Young, Genl SB. M. 455 VOLUME 27 December 11, 1900 to January 2, 1901 SERIES 2December 11 1900 Mr. Cal O'Laughlin, Herald Bureau, Washington, D.C. My dear O'Laughlin: Your letter of the 9th inst. give me a good deal of concern. I would like to do anything I can for you, and yet I think you will see that my first obligation is to the men who served with me and to the other men who have done well in the Philippines. You have no conception of the multitude who are writing me. It is very unlikely for instance that heed will be paid to more than one recommendation of mine. I have already given one recommendation and an alternate both to men who have rendered distinguished service in the Philippines. Now, if I try again for you, I will simply make all three letters of no consequence. I hope to see you tomorrow and explain this more at length. Faithfully yours, Theodore Roosevelt