May 8th, 1911.
Dear Senator:
I do not know enough about that subject to advise
you, and I do not even know whom to refer you to. Root was
not in the least a "dollar diplomacy" man, but of course he
is a very strong Regular and Conservative. If I were in
power I should feel that he is just the man I would like to
consult on such a point as this Honduras loan, not
necessarily that I would be guided by what he said, but that
the views he presented would be sure to be worth consideration.
Would you be willing to talk with him, and
then if you are able to come over sometime to New York, run
out and take lunch with me at Oyster Bay, I will go over
the whole matter with you.
Faithfully yours,

The Hon. W. E. Borah,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
6179
[*Brewster*]
                                                                                                        991
May 9th 1911.

My dear Mr Brewster:
            Your letter gave me real pleasure. If you would send me "The Birds
of the Cambridge Region", I should greatly appreciate it.
           As Samuel Baker's "Nile Tributaries" is to my mind, with the sole
exception of Selous' books; far and away the best book on African big
game hunting, I am naturally very much pleased at what you say of my "Game
Trails". But I am really more pleased because you praise it for what I
regard as most important in it, that is, for the natural history -- to use
an old term of which I am fond. It is not that I showed any unusual
powers in making the observations on big game; it is simply that they are
usually seen only by hunters, and hunters as a rule seem to have their
minds in horned cases so far as any observation is concerned that does not
relate purely to killing the animal. Do you know that even on such a
simple point as the actions of the honey guide I could not find one
instance of a man writing at length just what the bird did as he himself
saw it !
             I have of recent years led so busy a life that I have not been able
to pay heed to any of these natural history studies. [Now] I am 
comparatively free, and at the moment I am engaged in writing a pamphlet
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which will cause my political friends, if they ever learn of its existence,
to think I have become an out-patient of Bedlem. Thayer must be a very
good fellow and a useful citizen, and yet it is impossible to discuss his
book seriously without seeming to be offensive. I must say I am a little
surprised that sober scientific men should so generally accept it as a 
weighty contribution. In this pamphlet I am writing I lay great stress
upon that I myself observed about big game, just because the big game
animals are so big that we are able to observe them on much the same terms
that a weasel, for instance, must observe a mouse, or a lynx or a fox
observe a rabbit. When, or if, I publish the pamphlet, I will send you a
copy at once.
Do you ever come to New York ? If so, I wish very much you would
run out to Oyster Bay for lunch. There are many points of natural history
I would like to talk over with you, and I would like to show you the very
few trophies I have in the house.
Again most heartily thanking you,
Sincerely yours,

William Brewster, Esq.,
145 Brattle Street,
Cambridge, Mass.
                                                                                                          5408 [inverted]5408


                                                              Mina M. Bruere


                                              May 8th, 1911:

My dear Miss Bruere:
                       I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
                                      Faithfully yours,




Miss Mina M. Bruere,
Music School Settlement,
55 East 3rd Street,
New York City



                                                                                             5260 [inverted]May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he thoroughly
appreciates the kindness which prompts you to confer honorary
membership of your association upon him, but he wishes me to
say that he would much prefer if you did not press him to
accept. He is already a member of thousands of societies,
and as he is now a private citizen, he wishes as far as [possible]
to withdraw from such memberships. He wishes me to add, [however]
that this is not because he does not approve of what you are
trying to do, but simply for personal reasons.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary.
Mr. Lewis W. Clemons,
Canadian Travel Club,
Toronto, Canada.
8225[*E.E. O' Brien*]
May 8th, 1911.
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt of 
your letter, and to say that since he left the White House
he has not spoken on behalf of a single person with regard
to securing an official position or promotion of any kind
or sort. If he were to do so in one case he would be compelled
in common fairness to do the same thing in hundreds
of similar cases about which he is apporached. He feels
sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible it is
for him to help you. He is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Miss Elizabeth E. Brien,
120 Inman Street,
Cambridge, Mass.
12336May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret
that unfortunately it is utterly impossible for him to
accept another invitation of any kind, sort, or description.
During the past few months he has been compelled to decline
literally thousands of invitations, some of which he would
really like to accept but is physically unable to do so.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Brinton B. Davis,
Louisville Commercial Club,
Louisville, Ky.
12337May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I beg to
say that you have not got the report of his speech quite as
he said it. It was when he spoke at Spokane, Washington, and
he said "I am not an aspirant for anything, because I have
had everything. I am ahead of the game. No man alive has had
as good a run for his money as I have had." At the time Mr.
Roosevelt was not thinking of the translation of those lines
of Horace, but was merely stating what he himself felt. He
was much interested in receiving your letter.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. William Dillon,
1321 Lent Ave,
Rogers Park,
Chicago, Ill.
12338May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your 
courtesy in placing his name upon your list. It was very
kind of you, and he greatly appreciates it.
Faithfully yours
Secretary
Mr. James A. Drain,
"Arms and the Man"
Washington, D. C.
12339May 8th 1911.
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he thoroughly
appreciates the kindness which prompts you to confer honorary
membership of your association upon him, but he wishes me to
say that he would much prefer if you did not press him to
accept. He is already a member of thousands of societies,
and as he is now a private citizen, he wishes as far as
possible to withdraw from such memberships. He wishes me to
add, however, that this is not because he does not approve
of what you are trying to do, but simply for personal reasons.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mrs. J. M. Khrlich,
540 West 143th Street,
New York City.
12340May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to tender to you his thanks
for your letter. He would write you a personal note of 
acknowledgement, but he is almost overwhelmed by the floods
of correspondence from his friends. He very heartily
appreciates what you say.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. A. C. Faust,
Burlington, N. J.
12341May 8th, 1911.
My dear Lieut. Garwood:
Indeed it would be a pleasure to tell you anything
in my power, but I am sorry to say I know nothing of such
a regiment. I do not think it exists.
Good luck to you.
Faithfully yours,

Lieut. H. G. Garwood,
624 Metropolitan Building,
Denver, Colo.
12342May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be
very glad if you could take lunch with him at Oyster Bay
on Monday next May 15th. He has already asked Mr. Coffin
and Mr. Seton Thompson to come to lunch on the day and
they have promised to do so, and he would like you to be
there to. I hope you will let me have word if you will
be able to come. The best train leaves the Pennsylvania
Station at 11 o'clock that morning.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. W. T. Hornaday,
New York Zoological Park,
Bronx, N. Y.
12343May 8th, 1911.
Gentlemen:
In accordance with a request received from Senator
Lodge I am herewith sending you proof of the introduction
of the book of poems by Mr. Lodge corrected by Mr.
Roosevelt.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Messrs H. C. Houghton Co.
River Side Press,
Cambridge, Mass.
12344May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
courtesy in letting him see the enclosed letters. He was
greatly interesting in all that you had to say although of
course he can express no opinion on the subjects you discuss.
I am returning the letters herewith as you desire.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Elijah E. Knott,
Washington, D. C.
12345May 8th, 1911.
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt is really very sorry, but it
is quite impossible for him to do as you desire. Your best
plan is to get into communication with the White House
itself as of course it would not do for Mr. Roosevelt to
write letters with such an object in view. He is extremely
sorry that he has to send you this unfavorable reply.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Miss Nina Leavitt,
548 Franklin Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
12346May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I think
your best plan would be to go to some library and look up
some books on Municipal Ownership. There have been quite
a number of good books issued on this subject.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. William H. Locke,
19 Home Street,
Oil City, Pa.
12347May 8th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Maxon:
I shall read your article on the decision
of the Supreme Court with great pleasure. I am very
glad the Civil Service law was sustained. As regards
the referendum, I have spoken on it again and again.
Faithfully yours,

Glenway Maxon Esq.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
12348May 8th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Meskins:
I thank you very much for letting me see a 
copy of that article and of course if I was of any use
to you I am more than glad. It was indeed kind of you
to write me such an interesting letter, and I thank you
for doing so.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Lynn R. Meskins,
2418 North Charles Street,
Baltimore, Md.
12349May 8th, 1911:
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge
receipt of your letter and to say that unfortunately he will
not be in New York on Wednesday next, but it will be a great
pleasure for him to see you if you can call on this office
on Friday morning next say about 12 o'clock.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. J. B. Miller,
Century Club,
New York City.
12350May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to tender to you
his very cordial thanks for your kindness in sending him
a copy of your new book. He looks forward with pleasure
to reading it.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. John T. Moore,
Nashville, Tenn.
12351May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt 
of your letter and to express his regret that unfortunately
he is unable to be of any service to you. He himself is
unable to lend you money and he does not know anyone to
whom he could refer you. He is very sorry as he heartily
appreciates all the circumstances.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Carl Olsen,
Nadeau, Mich.
12352May 8th, 1911.

Dear Fairfield:
I am very glad to hear from you. I am pegging away at the article,
but it is taking up much more time, and therefore much more space, than I
had anticipated; and it may well be that it will not be the kind of
thing you would care to publish. I am not looking up books much about it,
except certain of the books of my fellow hunters in Africa, because I want
it to be mainly based upon what I have myself seen and what I myself
believe. Necessarily it must in part be controversial in character, but
I think that toward the end I shall be able to sum up in a series of
conclusions, which will not be controversial as regards any one man,
although doubtless they will be vigorously controverted by various men.
When I get a little further on, I shall wish to visit the museum to talk 
with you and J. A. Allen, and probably to look at certain books. How 
long will you be in New York? I mean, would it do for me to see you a
month hence?
A good deal of what is needed is the more application of commonsense
and disinterested industry. I was always immensely impressed by my
experiences with cougars as illustrating how much new information can be
contributed by a perfectly simple application of ordinary observation
where it has not hitherto been applied. The cougar has been one of our

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longest known beasts. Hundreds of naturalists and sportsmen have written
about it, and yet until I made my cougar hunt in Colorado ten years ago
there was no certain information on such points as to whether, like
wolves, the male and female cougar remain together to bring up the young,
as to whether there was a dichromatic red and gray phase of coloration,
as to how great the the individual variation in size in the same locality
etc. In the same fashion, it seems to me that in this question of
protective coloration, the men have overlooked some very obvious facts
which it is really astounding that they should have overlooked.
Faithfully yours,




Henry Fairfield Osborn, Esq.,
American Museum of Natural History,
New York City.
[*12354*]May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to tender to you his
thanks for your letter. He would write you a personal note
of acknowledgement, but he is almost overwhelmed by the
floods of correspondence from his friends. He very heartily
appreciates what you say.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Max Peacht,
Treasury Department,
Washington, D. C.
12355May 8th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Rosewater:
I thank you for that editorial. Now, my dear fellow,
I hate to have to say "no" to your request, but you have no
idea how many similar requests I receive from other first
class newspapers. I have had to refuse them all. If I
should make an exception now, I should give just offence to
many good men who have asked him in the past.
With all good wishes,
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Victor Rosewater,
Omaha Daily Bee,
Omaha.
12356
May 8th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Rossiter:
I highly approve of that paper in the Atlantic.
Now if you are able when you get ready, why cannot you come
on to New York, come out to Oyster bay, take lunch with me,
and stay two or three hours so that we can talk over the
matter at length?
Faithfully yours,

Mr. W. S. Rossiter,
Brookline, Mass.
12357May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and he wishes
me to say that he never gives his opinion upon public question
in letters to friends for quotation. The only way you can
obtain his views upon the question you put to him is by referring
to his published speeches. He feels sure on thinking
it over you will see how impossible it would be for him to
answer in personal letters all the queries that are put to
him by correspondents. If he were to try to do so it would
entail such a drain upon his time and energy that would be
simply unbearable. He is very sorry that he cannot comply 
with your request.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. James B. Sheridan,
Buenos Aires,
Argentine Republic.
12358May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for
your very courteous letter, and to say that he is however
unable to take advantage of your offer as he is already
satisfied with the court he now has at this home in Oyster
Bay.
With thanks for your writing,
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Joseph S. Whittaker,
Paterson, N. J. 
12359May 8th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to say that he greatly
appreciates your courtesy, and he wishes me to thank you 
for your very kind remembrance.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Charles G. Willson,
Reading, Pa.
12360May 8th, 1911.
My dear Mrs. Wright:
I have just received the memorial to your husband.
I thank you for sending it to me. I need not tell you how
I esteemed him as a friend, how I valued him as a great
public servant. Few men came nearer to fulfilling the idea
of what the true servant of the public in the highest sense
should be. I thank you and appreciate what you have done,
and assuring you of my very profound sympathy, I am,
Sincerely yours,

Mrs. Carrell D. Wright,
c/o Dr. Harris G. Wadlin,
Librarian Boston Public Library,
Boston, Mass.
12361May 8th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Young:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to me
without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. B. L. Young,
Porcellian Club,
Cambridge, Mass.
12362May 8th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Youngs:
In your letter you state that to see the naturalization
in full operation Mr. Roosevelt should be "here" about 10.30 [a.m.]
on May 19th. Will you kindly tell me where "here" is, so that
Mr. Roosevelt will be able to motor to the place on his way
from Oyster Bay to New York.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
William J. Youngs Esq.,
United States [Attorney]
Brooklyn, N. Y.
12363May 9th, 1911.
Dear Senator:
I do not know enough about that subject to advise
you, and I do not even know whom to refer you to. Root was
not in the least a "dollar diplomacy" man, but of course he
is a very strong Regular and Conservative. If I were in
power, I should feel that he is just the man I would like to
consult on such a point as this Honduras loan; not
necessarily that I would be guided by what he said, but that
the views he presented would be sure to be worth consideration.
Would you be willing to talk with him? Then, if you are able
to come over sometime to New York, and can run out and take
lunch with me at Oyster Bay, I will go over the whole matter
with you.
Faithfully yours,

The Hon. William E. Borah.
P. S. 
I do hope that in the amendment to provide for the
popular election of United States Senators you will limit
yourself to changing the method of election, and will not
surrender one particle of power of the Federal Government over 
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the elections. I think it would be a very grave mistake to
change in even the smallest degree the present control by
the United States of the election of Senators and members
of the Lower House. There is not the slightest need of it.
All that should be done is to change the method of election
so as to have it by popular vote and not by the legislature.
                                     Faithfully yours,

                                                                  5717 [inverted]May 9th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Brainerd:
I do not know what Senator Rayner refers to. As
far as I recollect I never published any separate pamphlet
about the Monroe Doctrine, but of course I have alluded to
it in messages to Congress, in speeches I have made, and
very possibly in articles I have written.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Evastus Brainerd,
The Post-Intelligencer,
Seattle, Wash.
4202May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Unfortunately it is quite impossible for Mr.
Roosevelt to accept any further engagements of any kind
or sort, and so he is quite unable to respond favorably
to the one sent to him by the officers and men of the
First Kentucky Infantry Regiment, inviting him to come
to Louisville. He already has one hand as much as he
can well manage, and it is with regret that he has had
to refuse.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. James F. Buckner, Jr.,
Louisville, Ky.
4373May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand.
At the first opportunity I will take pleasure in calling
Mr. Roosevelt's attention to the matter which you mention.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. G. M. Burlingame,
1695 N. Fair Oaks Avenue,
Pasadena, Cal.
4313May 9th, 1911.
My dear Senator Clapp:
Cannot you come on here some Tuesday or Friday?
Then I will get you to take lunch with The Outlook. Do let
me know a few days in advance, however, so that I may be
sure not to have another engagement.
Faithfully yours,

The Hon. Moses E. Clapp,
United States Senator,
Washington, D. C.
8153                                                     May 9th, 1911.
Dear Daisy:
          I am really obliged to you for those very interesting
sketches. What a charming writer he is! He takes exactly [the]
opposite view from Murray on certain points, but this does
not interfere with his being one of the very best I have come
across. I cannot tell you what a real pleasure it was to see
you and Winty out here. Cabot has just been spending a night
with us together with General Ian Hamilton.
                           Love to Winty and renewed thanks,
                                                         Ever yours,

[HKB
[Mrs.]
Miss Winthrop Chanler,
       11 East 67th Street,
        New York City.



12364May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand,
but unfortunately he does not know anything regarding the
Rural New-Yorker, and therefore is unable to give you the
advice which you ask. As far as I myself know I believe
it would be all right for you to send them that account
for collection, that is if they do such things as this.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. W. D. Cerwin,
153 Cannon Street,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
12365May 9th, 1911.

Dear Senator Dixon:

      I very earnestly hope that the amendment providing for
popular election of United States Senators will be passed; but I
no less earnestly hope that every proposal which by any possibility
could diminish the power of the National Government over those
elections will be rejected.  To my mind it will be a most serious
mistake if we make any change whatever beyond that necessary to
make the election popular instead of legislative.  There is no
reason whatever for making such a change.  Any argument that the
proposed change really will not diminish the power of the United
States must be insincere, because that can be the only reason for
making for the change.  I understand that Clark of Arkansas, who
is an exceedingly good man, does not approve of diminishing the
power of the Federal Government.  I hope that the change will be
limited purely to making the election by popular vote instead of
by the Legislatures, and that any further amendment will be
rejected.
          Faithfully yours,

The Hon. Joseph M. Dixon,
      United States Senate,
          Washington, D. C.


12366
May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your second letter, if you will
call at this office on Friday next say at 12.30, I believe
it will be possible for Mr. Roosevelt to see you.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Ignats J. Elisou,
Republican League,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
12367May 9th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Elsbree:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to me
without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. George W. Elsbree,
Oxford Class of Young Men,
133 West 4th Street,
New York City.
12368May 9th, 1911.
Dear Madam:
Your letter to Mrs. Roosevelt has been received,
and in reply she begs me to say that unfortunately she is
quite unable to attend the musicals to take place in Carnegie
Hall. She now lives in the country and very seldom comes to
town.
With thanks for your writing,
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mrs. J. P. Falk,
16 at Tatham Place,
Whitestone, L. I.
12369Mr. C. c. Gaver,
Prohibition and Evangelical Association,
Hillsboro, Va.
May 9th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Gaver:
I wish I could accept, but itis a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to me
without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. C. C. Gaver,
Prohibition and Evangelical Association,
Hillsboro, Va.
12370May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt asked me to telephone to you to-day to
see if you could take lunch with him at The Outlook office. I
found however that you were away and informed Mr. Roosevelt
this. He now asks if it would not be possible for him to
lunch with you somewhere on Friday next. He hopes that you
will be able to make some such arrangement, as he would very
much like to have a talk with you. In case you are able to 
do so, he trusts you will make the place for the lunch near
The Outlook office, as he has an appointment here early in
the afternoon.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Major General F. V. Greene.
12371May 9th, 1911.
Dear Hill:
It is good to hear from you. As soon as I get back
the only copy of that letter that I have, which I have sent
to Harry Stimeon, I will gladly send it to you. No, I did
not see the article in the Evening Post on Loch. I am glad
it was appreciative, but I really cannot read the Evening
Post.
Good luck always,
Faithfully yours,

Mr. George Griswold Hill,
New York Tribune,
Washington, D. C.
12372May 9th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Himmelmann:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically 
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. J. M. W. Himmelmann,
Greenpoint Sunday School Union,
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
12373
May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
              In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I am sorry
to say that he is unable to give you any expression of [opinion]
regarding opportunities for a young colored man in Liberia.
He does not know that country well enough to speak of such
a matter.
                With regret,
                                 Faithfully yours,

                                                                        Secretary
Mr. Rolla S. Huston,
Columbus, Ohio.




12374May 9th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of
your letter and to express his regret that it is quite impossible
for him to do as you desire. He is approached in
hundreds of similar cases, and of course it would be physically
impossible for him to respond favorably in each such case, as [he]
has not the time to read the books, besides which it would be
very undesirable for him to comment on all those he is asked
to comment on. He is very sorry that he cannot do as you wish.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary
Mr. Edward Smyth Jones,
29 Holyoke Street,
Boston, Mass.
12375May 9th, 1911.
My dear Knox: 
That is a fine editorial of yours. Yes, I saw the
other editorial, and Van Valkenberg the editor of the North
American was on to see me the other day. He takes just the
view that I do of my nomination, by the way, and says it must
not be made. I tell you this because your last letter rendered
me rather nervous.
Give my warm regards to Mrs. Knox.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Frank Knox,
The Evening News,
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
12376May 9th, 1911.
My dear Lee:
I am more than pleased with the news. Will
you present my very warm congratulations and best wishes
to the bride? As for you, my dear fellow, I congratulate
you with all my heart, and wish you every good fortune.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Joseph J. Lee,
Needwood Forest,
Knoxville, Md.
12377May 9th, 1911.
Dear Leupp:
How really fine that is!  My dear fellow, I had totally
forgotten the incident, but now I remember it.  Of course it was
that kind of conduct that gave me a feeling of satisfaction in
dealing with you that I had with only a few others of the very
best men under me-and unlike some of my very good men, you never
got me into a fight if it could legitimately be avoided; so that I
never had to think twice about backing you up.  Of course in this
instance you stood the whole weight of the battle and all I had
to do was to say ditto to Mr. Burke.  Yes, you saved half a million
to the Indians, who were entitled to it, and declined to allow the
solid [blank space] in the House, the Senate and Cabinet, to badger
you into doing what you ought not to do.  I like your letter so
much that I shall keep it permanently.  Give my love to everybody,
and especially to Constance.  Hurrah! for the two grandchildren!
They will be a month or two ahead of the California grandchild
which I also expect.
Faithfully yours,

Hon. Francis E. Leupp.

12378

May 9th, 1911.

My dear Mr. McClenahan:

      It is a pleasure to hear from you, but the news you
give me causes me real concern.   Of Course it is nothing as
to which I can do anything, or even with propriety can
express an opinion. I hope all my friends in connection
with the American Mission are well.
Wishing you all good luck,
Sincerely yours,


Mr. R. S. McClenahan,
Assiut Training College,
Assiut, Egypt.

12379May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

           Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and also
the enclosures.   He has read the copies of the letters from
and to Mayer Garnor, but he feels that he himself can do
nothing to help in such a matter.  He is already so fully
engaged with work of various kinds that it would be physically
impossible for him to take up anything further of any kind or
sort or even to discuss any new matter with anyone who wishes
his advice upon any new subject.  If you come in to see Mr.
Abbott and Mr. Abbott thinks that Mr. Roosevelt could be of
any assistance to you, I hope you will both see Mr. Roosevelt
together.  He is generally here on Tuesdays and Fridays.

                            Faithfully yours,

                                               Secretary

Rev. V.A. M. Mortensen,
         Inner Mission and Rescue Work.

12380May 9th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Muson:

      Before receiving your letter the book had come and
I had studied it -- that is of course, studied it as a layman
would.   Really, my dear sir, you don't know how pleased I am
to have such a book written by an officer of our army, on to
feel that our army is seriously taking up these matters.  Will
you thank Major Morrison from me for what you and he have done?
       With regard,

                   Faithfully yours,


Major Edward L. Munson,
      Army Service Schools,
             Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.


12381May 9th, 1911.


My dear Sir:

               Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt of
you letter and to say that since he left the White House he
has not interfered in any way whatever with regard to bills
pending before any of the committees of either branch of
the Legislature, or in any way tried to use his influence in
such matters.  If he were to do so in one case he would
create a feeling of resentment in all the other cases where
he has had consistently to refuse.  He is very sorry as he
certainly appreciates the circumstances in your case.

                 Faithfully yours,

                                   Secretary

Mr. Holmes E. Offley,
      Hamilton, Va.



12382May 9th, 1911.


Gentlemen:

        Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to write to say that he
would like to have some evening fireworks on the 4th of July,
such as he had except during the two years when he was away.
You will remember Captain Zelinsky got those fireworks for
him.  Mr. Roosevelt does not want any water fireworks, but
simply land fireworks put off near the house in the evening
by some competent men of yours, exactly as before.  He will
want the fireworks to last about three-quarters of an hour.
He paid $45 for them on former occasions, but would be
willing to pay from $50 to $60 this time if necessary.  Will
you please let me hear from you?

                                  Faithfully yours,

                                                       Secretary

Pain's Fireworks,
   12 Park Place,
       New York City.

12383May 9th, 1911.

My dear Mrs. Rhodes:

      It was time to get your letter and to hear all
about your little boy.  I thank you for writing.
        With all good wishes to both of you from
                      Your friend,


Mrs. Elizabeth Rhodes
        Stirling Station,
             Cabool, Mo.


12384May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and wishes me to say that he does not know about the pony you speak of, and that he has always found Mr. Rintoul thoroughly satisfactory in every way.
     Faithfully yours, 

Secretary

Mr. W. Cary Sanger,
     10 Montague Terrace, 
          Brooklyn, N. Y.

12385May 9th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Sergel:

         I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
                      Faithfully yours,



Mr. Charles H. Sergel,
     Press Club,
         Chicago, Ill.


12386May 9th, 1911.


Friend William:


      I wish I could do as that poor girl requests.  Naturally
she thinks hers is the only case, but of course if she really would
think about it she would realize that I left in the Government
service literally thousands of people who had been brought into
contact with me in some way, and each one of those thousands has
just the same right as she has to ask me to help them to get promotion.
If I did it in one case, I would have to do it in all the
thousands of other cases; and as it would be a perfect impossibility
for me to try to look up records, it would mean simply that I was
asking favoritism to be shown to those thousands of people, and it
would put me in a position not only improper but rididiculous,  While
I was President I did my level best to prevent any attention to
outside pressure in the cases of appointments or promotions.  SInce
I left the Presidency I have had to make an invariable rule to refuse
to interfere with appointments or promotions.  It simply cannot be
done.
       Give my warm regards to all the Sewall family.  Indeed
there are few things I would like more than to come up and visit
your camp, but it is not possible at present.  I find by actual
experience that there is only one place where I can really be quiet,

123872


and that is here in my own home.

                           Faithfully yours,




Mr. W.W. Sewall,
      Island Falls.




12388

May 9th, 1911.


Dear Sir:


        Herewith I beg to send you the $3.   I cannot
understand the mistake at the hotel.    I certainly left the
money for you, but as they say they did not receive it I
am sending it to you herewith.  Please acknowledge receipt.
                          Faithfully yours,


                                              Secretary

Mr.  Ellis Sisson,
      6520 Fourth Avenue No.
            East Lake, Ala.



12389May 9th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Smith:

                        I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.   I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a hundred
of theses invitations. I deeply appreciate the courtesy
and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but you have
no conception of the drain it is upon me even to accept
the very limited proportion that I am physically able to
accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to me without
absolutely abandoning all thought of any other work.
               Faithfully yours,


Mr. Albert Edwin Smith,
    Ohio University,
        Ada, Ohio.


12390May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

       Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that it will be 
a great pleasure to him if you can call at this office on
Friday next May 12th at 12 o'clock.  He will then have
time to have a full conversation with you.

                  Faithfully yours,


                                       Secretary


The Hon. Herbert Knox Smith,
      Bureau of Corporations,
             Washington, D.C.


12391May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

      I have received your futher letter and also copies of
the letters which you enclosed.  As I explained to you in my
former letter Mr. Roosevelt does not wish to join any further
societies for the simple reason that he is already connected
with thousands of similar societies, and he wishes to do his
best to withdraw from such memberships.  As you will readily
see it would be absurd for him as long as he has this object
in view to join any further societies of any kind at all.
He is very sorry that it is quite impossible for him to
accede to your very courteous request, much though he appreciat[es]
the circumstances in this particular case.
                Faithfully yours,

                                  Secretary

Mr. J. M. Spencer,
       44 Astor Court Building,
               New York City.


12392
May 9th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Stoddard:

      I am really pleased that you enjoyed that article,
and I genuinely enjoyed the glimpse of you the other day.
                  Faithfully yours,


Mr.  Henry L. Stoddard,
     The Evening Mail,
               New York City.


12393May 9th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Stone:
     
          I wish I could accept, but it is  a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to me
without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

                    Faithfully yours,

Mr. Arthur F. Stone,
    St, Johnsbury Academy,
       St, Johnsbury, Vt.

12394May 9th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

      Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand, 
and the diploma has also arrived.  Mr. Roosevelt has asked
me to return the diploma to you and as if you will be kind
enough to draft him a letter of thanks which might be sent
in acknowledgement to the people at Quito.

                         Faithfully yours,

                                             Secretary

Mr. Ernest H. Wards,
        Department of State,
               Washington, D.C.

12395May 9th, 1911.

Dear Whitney:

You are absolutely right.  That picture is a 
fake, and a pure fake.  I am sorry that Foran should have
sent it to you.  He is himself misinformed about it.  He
is a very good fellow, and would not knowingly submit any
picture that was a fake.  I do not believe he is very much
of a hunter.
                  Faithfully yours,



Mr. Caspar Whitney,
        Colliers.

12396May 9th, 1911.


Dear Mr. Young:

             Mr. Roosevelt was very pleased to get your letter
and also the cards showing the care you are taking that the
meeting shall be absolutely private with no reporters present,
and that no report of it shall be published.  I see that the
meeting is to be held in the Assembly Hall of the Metropolitan
Life Building at 18 East 24th Street.  I will see that Mr,
Roosevelt gets across to that Hall just before four o'clock,
and you need not trouble about the automobile.
                   Faithfully yours,

      
                               Secretary



Rev.  S. Edward Young,
       1035 Prospect Avenue,
              Brooklyn, N.Y.


12397May 10th, 1911.

My dear Captain Barrett:

     I am so pleased that you are on this side of the
water.  Is Mrs. Barrett with you?  It would give us great
pleasure to have both of you come to take lunch with us at
Oyster Bay.  Moreover, if it happens that your team -- Captains
Cheape, Lloyd, Wilson, and Lieutenants Palmes and Edwards --
cared to come over with you to take lunch, at any time during
your stay here, it would be a great pleasure to see them; and
I should ask Augy Belmont to pilot you over here,  But I
understand entirely that you will be in training until after
the matches, and that you will have many engagements; and
this invitation is distinctly not to be regarded as a burden
or is anything obligatory to accept, my dear fellow, but merely
if you care to come sometime it will be a great pleasure to
see you, and if the other members of the club care to come
with you it will also be a real pleasure to see them.
      With all good wishes,
                    Faithfully yours,



Captain F.W. Barrett,
    Rockaway Hunting Club,
        Cedarhurst, L.I.

May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

      I thank you for your letter giving me the full particulars
regarding the movements of the car between New York and White River
Junction.  I note that it will be attached to the train leaving
Grand Central at 9.03 Wednesday morning June 7th, and arriving at
White River Junction at 4.20 p.m.  I also notice that Mr. Roosevelt
will be met by the band of the Tenth Cavalry, and presumably from
the station he will go to some hotel so that he may dress in time
for the reception which will begin at 6.30 to be followed by the
banquet.  The program you have outlined is very satisfactory.  I
suppose Mr. Roosevelt will be able to get back to the car by 10.30 
that night.  This car should then be attached to the train leaving
White River Junction at 3.30 Thursday morning June 8th, in order
to arrive in New York at 11.27.  The attaching of the car to this
train will help Mr. Roosevelt considerably, as it will enable him
to be at the office most of Thursday.
       The invitations which you have submitted are all in
order.  I shall be glad to hear from you if there is anything
further you would like to know.
         Faithfully yours,


Wallace Batchelder, Esq.  Secretary



3221 [inverted]

May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Boungartner:

       I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoing all thought of any other
work.
                            Faithfully yours,


Mr. J. P. Boungartner,
      National Editorial Association,
                 Santa Ana, Cal.



3885 [inverted]
May 10th, 1911.


My dear Sir:

          I am sorry that there has been such delay in
answering your letter regarding the pictures of Mr. Roosevelt
which you wish to obtain.  If you will write to Underwood &
Underwood, 3 West 19th Street, New York City, I am sure they
will be able to supply you with quite a number of good
pictures, and just such as you wish.
                     Faithfully yours,

                                 Secretary


Mr. E.D. Brown,
122 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.


5315
May 10th, 1911.


My dear Sir:

         In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt, I am 
sure it will be quite convenient for him to see you if you
and Mr. Eggleston will call at this office on Friday morning
next at about 11.30.
                      Faithfully yours,



                         Secretary


Mr. Robert W. Bruere,
     39 1/2 Washington Square,
             New York City.  



5258 May 10th, 1911.

My dear SIr:

         Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your
courtesy in sending him that little booklet of clippings.
He much appreciates your kindness and was much amused.
                     Faithfully yours,


                                                  Secretary


Mr. Alfred Bull,
     3652 N. 42nd Street,
            Irving Park, Ill.



4374 May 10th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Clark:

Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to write and enquire
when you think he will be able to get the remainder of
his trophies.  He hopes you will be able to let him have
them soon.

               Faithfully yours,


                            Secretary

Mr. James L. Clark,
494 Home Street,
Bronx, N.Y.



8226


Hebrews


                                                          May 10th, 1911.



My dear Sir:


            Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt
of your letter, and to express his regret that unfortunately
he is unable to send the message you desire.  He is approach[ed]
in so many hundreds of cases for messages to be read at
meetings, that if he were to comply in one case he would be 
compelled in common fairness to do so in all the others, and
this would mean such a drain upon his time and energy that 
it would become simply unbearable.  Besides this, the message[s]
by reason of their being so numerous, would utterly fail to
achieve the object desired.  He feels sure on thinking it
over you will see how impossible it is for him to comply.

                   Faithfully yours,

                        Secretary

Mr. Max C. Baum,
21 East 125th street,
12398May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Beaman:


           I wish I could accept, but it is a simple 
impossibility.    I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

                     Faithfully yours,





Mr. J. L. Beaman,
       Colorado State Fair,
               Pueblo, Colo.





12399May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Calder:

      I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

                          Faithfully yours,


The Hon. William M. Calder,
       Fourteenth Regiment Anniversary,
              Brooklyn, N. Y.


12400
May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Cooper:

        I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility,  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physicially
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

                            Faithfully yours,


Mr. J.E. Cooper,
     National Baraca-Philathea Convention,
                 Kansas City, Mo.



12401
May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:


       Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he thoroughly
appreciates the kindness which prompts you to confer honorary
membership of your association upon him, but he wishes me to a[?]
say that he would much prefer if you did not press him to
accept.  He is already a member of thousands of societies,
and as he is now a private citizen, he wishes as far as possible
to withdraw from such memberships.  He wishes me to add,
however, that this is not because he does not approve of
what you are doing, but simply for personal reasons.
                      Faithfully yours,

                                                        Secretary

The President,
     DeWitt Clinton Health League,
             New York City.

12402May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

        Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of 
your letter and to express his regret that he is unable to do
anything in the matter which you bring to his attention.  He
himself is already undertaking as much as he is able, and I
am sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible it
would be for him to try to use his influence with other
people in such a matter.  If he were to do it in one case he
would have to do it in the hundreds of similar cases which
come to his notice.  Sometime age he did approach one or two
people on behalf of one or two very worthy objects, but in
not one single case did it result in anything being done, or
any help being rendered.  He regrets that he cannot do anything
for you and that he has to send an unfavorable reply.
                                    Faithfully yours,

Mr. Will Ward Duffield,
          Harlan, Ky.


12403May 10th, 1911.


My dear Madam:

         Mr. Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge receipt of
your letter and the enclosure, and to say that he is a Contributing
Editor to The Outlook and does not decide upon
what articles shall be accepted for publication in that
magazine.  Your best plan is to get into communication with
the Managing Editor, who is in charge of that department.
I am returning the enclosure herewith.


                               Faithfully yours,

                                        Secretary


Mrs.  Annie R. Dyer,
      Delhi, N.Y.

12404May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

       Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and he
wishes me to express his regret that he is unable to
recommend you to anyone to might be interested in the
project you bring to his attention.

                   Faithfully yours,




                                    Secretary


Mr. P. Corning Edwards,
      Mystic Light,
          45 John Street,
              New York City.



12405
May 10th, 1911.

My dear Madam:

        Mr. Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds of
people to read manuscripts and to give advice as to publicatio[n]
that if he were to respond favorably in each case it would
become a burden too great for him to bear.  As you will readil[y]
realize on thinking it over, if he granted one such request h[e]
would be compelled in common fairness to respond to all the
others.  He is very sorry that he cannot help you in the way [you?]
wish, though he much appreciates the circumstances.

                            Faithfully yours,
                              
                                           Secretary

Miss Virginia L. Fraser,
        93 Madison Avenue,
                New York City.

12406
May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

       Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and he wishes
me to say that he never gives his opinion upon public questions
in letters to friends for quotation.  The only way you can
obtain his views upon the question you put to him is by referring
to his published speeches.  He feels sure on thinking
it over you will see how impossible it would be for him to
answer in personal letters all the queries that are put to him
by correspondents.  If he were to try to do so it would entail
such a drain upon his time and energy that would become simply
unbearable.  He is very sorry that he cannot comply with
your request.

                          Faithfully yours,

                                              Secretary

Mr. Almon F. Gates,
         Waterloo, Iowa.

12407May 10th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Gearhart:

      I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
                                 Faithfully yours,


Mr. G. A. Gearhart,
    54 Ketchum Place,
             Buffalo, N. Y.

12408May 10th, 1911.

Gentlemen:

        Mr. Roosevelt has no copies of photographs of himself
or otherwise it would give him much pleasure to send one to
you.  By writing to Messrs Harris A. Ewing, Washington, D.C.,
I am sure you will be abe to secure just such a photograph
as you wish.  They have a number of photographs of Mr.
Roosevelt some of them very good indeed.  There is one good
one in which Mr. Roosevelt looks directly into the camera,
but has his body slightly turned to the left and the picture
shows just a little more than his head and shoulders.
                                   Faithfully yours,

                                             Secretary



Messrs Ginn and Company,
     29 Beacon Street,
         Boston, Mass.


12409May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he thoroughly
appreciates the kindness which prompts you to confer honorary
membership of your association upon him, but he wishes me to
say that he would much prefer if you did not press him to
accept.  He is already a member of thousands of societies,
and as he is now a private citizen, he wishes as far as
possible to withdraw from such memberships.  He wishes me to
add, however, that this is not because he does not approve
of what you are trying to do, but simply for personal reasons.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. Jack Gordan,
Oriental Hotel,
Dallas, Texas.

12410
May 10th, 1911.


My dear Miss Griswold,

        It was indeed good of you to send me your
kind letter.  I sincerely appeciate all that you say
and thank you for writing.
                  Faithfully yours,



Miss Ruth Griswold,
         Philadelphia, Pa.


12411May 10th, 1911.


My dear Sir:

       Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt
of your letter and to say that since he left the White House
he has not spoken on behalf of a single person with regard to
securing an official position or promortion [sic] of any kind or
sort.  If he were to do so in one case he would be compelled
in common fairness to do the same thing in hundreds of similar
cases about which he is approached.  He feels sure on thinking
it over you will see how impossible it is for him to help
you.  He is very sorry.

                              Faithfully yours,

                                          Secretary

Mr. V. M. Hill,
 Reno, Nevada.


12412May 10th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Hill:

      It was indeed good of you to send me your
kind letter.  I sincerely appreciate all that you say and
thank you for writing.

                      Faithfully yours,


Mr. Walter C. Hill,
     155 Montague Street,
                 Brooklyn, N.Y.


12413
May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your
letter and to express his regret that it is quite impossible
for him to take up any further matter of any kind at the
present time as he is almost overwhelmed with the work he
already has on hand.  He much appreciates the courtesy of
your letter.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. D.C. Imboden, 
115 Broadway,
New York City.

12414May 10th, 1911.
My dear Miss Jarvis:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Miss Anna Jarvis,
Mother's Day Association,
Philadelphia, Pa.

12415
May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt, if you
will call at this office on Friday next at about 12.30, I
think it will be possible for Mr. Roosevelt to see you for
a minute.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. Walter A. Johnson,
243 Sumner Avenue,
Brooklyn, N.Y.

12416May 10th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Jones:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of those invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. W.L. Jones,
English Congregational Sunday School,
Lansford, Pa.

12417


May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has no copies of photographs of
himself or otherwise it would give him much pleasure to send
one to you.  By writing to Messrs Harris & Ewing, Washington,
D.C., I am sure you will be able to secure just such a
photograph as you wish.  They have a number of Mr. Roosevelt
some of them very good indeed.  There is a good one in which
Mr. Roosevelt looks directly into the camera, but has his
body slightly turned to the left and the picture shows just a little
more than his head and shoulders.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. W.J. Kimbrough,
Richmond, Va.

12418May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand and
he was very much interested in what you had to say.  If you
are in New York on any Tuesday or Friday morning about 12.30,
I am sure it would give Mr. Roosevelt much pleasure to see
you for a moment.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. Edwin Matteen,
United States Post Office,
Breckenbridge, Minn.

12419May 10th, 1911.
Dear Mr. O'Brien:
It was indeed good of you to send me
your kind letter.  I sincerely appreciate all that you
say and thank you for writing.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Charles O'Brien,
126 West 44th Street,
New York City.

12420May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand,
and in reply I am sorry to tell you that it is quite
impossible for him to express and opinion upon the hymn
which you have mailed to him.  He is approached in hundreds
of instances to express opinions upon books and manuscripts
of various kinds, but of course he is quite unable to do
so.  If he were to oblige in one case he would be compelled
in common fairness to oblige in all the others and such a 
proceeding would become ridiculous.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Miss Martha J. Opie,
The Williamstown Times,
Williamstown, Pa.

12421

May 10th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your
letter and to express his regret that it is quite impossible
for him to take up any further matter of any kind at the
present time as he is almost overwhelmed with the work
he already has on hand.  He much appreciates the courtesy
of  your letter.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. O.J. Parker,
LeSueur, Minn.

12422





                                                                                          May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Prendergast:
              I wish I could accept, but it is a simple impossibility. I have received literally thousands of similar requests and with the best wishes in the world it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion or accept more of the invitations that come to me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other work.
                                                  Faithfully yours,




The Hon. W. A. Prendergast,
              Knights of Columbus of Brooklyn,
              New York City.




12423


                                                                                        May 10th, 1911.


My dear Sir:
              Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand and I am sure that if you call at this office of Friday next about 12.30, it would give Mr. Roosevelt much pleasure to see you for a minute.
                                                   Faithfully yours,

                                                    Secretary



Mr. H. B. Sands,
              Court House,
              Chambers Street,
              New York City.



12424


                                                                                       May 10th, 1911.


Gentlemen:
              Will you please obtain for Mr. Roosevelt a copy of the English translation of Chamberlain's "Foundations of the Nineteenth Century". If it is impossible to secure it in this country, perhaps you could get it from your agent in London. I do not know anything further regarding which translation as this is all the information we have concerning the book.
                                                  Faithfully yours,
   
                                                  Secretary



Messrs Charles Scriner's Sons,
              153 Fifth Avenue,
               New York City.



12425


                                                                                        May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Shaffer:
              I wish I could accept, but it is a simple impossibility. I have received literally thousands of similar requests and with the best wishes in the world it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion or accept more of the invitations that come to me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other work.
                                                   Faithfully yours,




Mr. Charles Grant Shaffer,
              Elliot Street School,
              Newark, N. J.



12426


                                                                                           May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mrs. Shaw:
              I wish I could accept, but it is a simple impossibility. I have received literally thousands of similar requests and with the best wishes in the world it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion or accept more of the invitations that come to me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other work.
                                                  Faithfully yours,




Mrs. J. P. Shaw,
              Woman's Club,
              Brockton, Mass.



12427


                                                                                      May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Stites:
               It was indeed good of you to send me your kind letter? I sincerely appreciate all that you say and thank you for writing.
                                                  Faithfully yours,




Mr. John Stites,
              Louisville, Ky.



12428
 


                                                                                          May 10th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Tremelling:
               I am very sorry, but it really is not possible for me to get to Boston at the present time. I already have as much on hand as it is possible for me to do, and greatly though I appreciate your courtesy in sending such an attractive invitation, I am sorry it is quite impossible for me to accept.
                With renewed regret and all good wishes for the success of the movement.
                                                 Faithfully yours,




Mr. G. F. Tremelling,
             Association of Manufacturers' Representatives,
             Boston, Mass.



12429
May 10th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Van Slyck:

It was indeed good of you to send me your kind
letter.  I sincerely appreciate all that you say and thank
you for writing.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. W. D. Van Slyck,
Hudson, N. Y.


12430

May 10th, 1911.

My dear Dr. Whiton:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the 
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to me
without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Dr. James M. Whiton,
New York State Conference on Religion.


12431




                                                                                       May 19th, 1911.


My dear Sir:
                Under separate cover - I have sent you a copy of the New Nationalism, autographed by Mr. Roosevelt.
                As regards the manuscript which you wish to submit to Mr. Roosevelt, I am sorry to tell you that even were you to do so it would be physically impossible for him to go over it as he already has as much work on hand as he can well manage. Besides which it would not do for him to express an opinion upon it as it would only cause annoyance to the hundreds of other people whom he has already had to refuse similar requests.
                                                  Faithfully yours,

                                                   Secretary



Mr. Theodore F. Wolfe,
              Succasunna, N. Y. 



12432May 1oth, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your
letter asking him to contribute an article for publication
in "Hints for the Home".  He is very sorry he is quite
unable to do as you desire as anything he writes now is
for publication in The Outlook, and if he were to contribute 
one article outside of this arrangement it would
be the signal for a stream of similar invitations to do
the same thing in numerous other cases.  He has been compelled 
to refuse all such invitations, as if he were to 
make an exception it would simply cause annoyance to all
those when he has already refused.

With regret,

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Theodore Irving Wood.


12433





                                                                                         May 10th, 1911.


My dear Sir:
              Mr. Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and the enclosure, and to say that he is a Contributing Editor to the Outlook and does not decide upon what articles shall be accepted for publication in that magazine. Your best plan is to get into communication with the Managing Editor, who is in charge of that department. I am returning the enclosures herewith.
                                                  Faithfully yours,

                                                  Secretary



Mr. Herbert J. Wrightson,
              1537 Texas Avenue,
               St. Louis, Mo. 



12434May 10th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret
that unfortunately it is utterly impossible for him to 
accept another invitation of any kind, sort, or description.
During the past few months he has been compelled to decline
literally thousands of invitations, some of which he would 
really like to accept but is physically unable to do so.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Mark Nyland,
19 W. Superior Street,
Chicago, Ill.


12435




                                                                                        May 11th, 1911.


Gentlemen:
             In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I beg herewith to send you the consular invoice received from Mr. Stein. I shall be glad if you will have the picture addressed and shipped to The Hon Theodore Roosevelt, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L. I. , and let me have a bill of any charges that may be due.
                                                 Faithfully yours,

                                                  Secretary



Mesers Tice & Lynch,
              16 Beaver Street, 
              New York City.



12436May 11th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt was very much interested in the 
paper which you submitted to him.  He desires me to thank
you for your courtesy in doing so.  As you may wish to 
have it back I am returning it to you herewith.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. M. Zeele,
Yonkers, N. Y.



12437May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
very courteous letter and to say that although he is very
much interested in what you write he fears that the
pressure upon him at the present time is such as to make it
impossible for him to spare the time to see the souvenir
which you have.  I am sure you will well understand how
very difficult it is for Mr. Roosevelt to get through all
the work he has on hand.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. F. N. Barrett,
90 West Broadway,
New York City.



2747

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Miss Beal:

It was very kind of you to send me on the
picture of your family.  I hope you will tender to your 
father, and especially to your mother, my hearty congratulations.

With best wishes to you all,

Faithfully yours,


Miss Nancy Beal,
Gary, Ind.


3430

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand
and in reply I beg to say that if you still get into
communication with the Hon. George Shires 3rd., Marquette,
Mich.  I am sure he will be able to give you the information
you wish.  Mr. Roosevelt would give you the information
himself if he were able to.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. D. S. Beasley, Jr.,
The University Society Inc.,
New York City.


2756[Boutreaux]

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Boutreaux:

I am obliged to you for sending me your
volume upon my lamented friend William James.  I
studied under him at Harvard, and I value having
this little volume of yours.

With assurance of my high regard and 
appreciation,

Faithfully yours,


1551

[Nina M. Bruere]

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Miss Bruers:

All right, I will be in or near 11 o'clock  as
possible on Sunday May 28th.  Mrs. Roosevelt cannot come.

Faithfully yours,



Miss Nina M. Bruere,
55 East Third Street,
New York City.


5259

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Cheshine:

Will you tell Mr. Himmelmann how sincerely sorry I
am that I cannot do as he asks me to.  As I need not tell you 
I have to spend a large part of my time declining invitations
each one of which I would like to accept because of the worth
of the cause, but which nevertheless it is absolutely
impossible to accept because if I began accepting them I
should do nothing else.

With real regret,

Faithfully yours,


Mr. A. Burnside Cheshine,
Oyster Bay, L. I.


8258

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for
your courtesy in sending him a copy of that very interesting 
editorial.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Byron Calkins,
1255 South Vine Street,
Richmond Hill, N. Y.


12438

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I beg to
say that it will give him much pleasure to see a couple of
your representatives at this office on Friday next May 19th
at about 12.30.  He hopes they are not calling to tender
him an invitation of any kind or sort as at the present
time he is physically unable to undertake anything further.
If this is the purpose of your call he trusts you will not 
waste either your own or his time in coming.  On the other
hand if you simply wish to see him for a minute on some 
entirely different matter of course he will be glad to
see you.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. J. M. Campbell,
Long Island City, L. I.


12439

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to tender to you his 
cordial thanks for your courtesy in sending him that
paper which you have written.  He appreciates all that
you say, but as he does not know what use he can put it
to he has asked me to send it back to you.  He remembers
with pleasure his visit to the Hamilton Club in Chicago.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Mr. Stephen A. Day,
859 The Rockery,
Chicago, Ill.


12440

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Donaldson:

I am very sorry, but it really is not possible for me
to write letters on behalf of institutions, no matter how worthy
those institutions may be or how much I may be interested in
their welfare.  Nor is it possible for me in any way to approach
the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, or of any other fund, asking
assistance for such institutions.  You have no conception of the
number of demands that come to me.  In the same post with your
letter were several others making similar requests to yours, and
I am sure, my dear sir, you will understand that if I were to 
comply in one case I should have to do the same thing in innumerable 
other cases; and to do this would mean my writing such
a large number of letters that none of them would have the
slightest effect.  It is with real regret that I have to send you 
this reply.

Faithfully yours, 



Rev. J. S. Donaldson,
Tillotson College,
Austin, Texas.

441May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sirs:

Mrs. Roosevelt has handed to me your letter and
wishes me to say that she regrets greatly that she has found
by actual experience that it is impossible for her to send
special messages.  Both she and Mr. Roosevelt receive
innumerable requests for such special messages, and if they
yielded in one case they would have to do it in so many other
as to make it not merely useless but undesirable to send any.
Mrs. Roosevelt is very sorry as she is in hearty sympathy
with the purpose.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Mr. Elmer E. Eagen,
Trenton, N. J.


12442

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Edgar:

I would be more than pleased to accept, but 
unfortunately I am not going to the meeting.  I wish I
could go.

Faithfully yours,



Mr. W. C. Edgar,
66 Groveland Terrace,
Minneapolis, Minn.



12443

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Minister:
It is fine to hear from you!  I will have a 
copy of the Willard letter made and sent to you.  I am
really pleased that you like it, because it says what I 
think ought to be said.  If you happen to see my article
"Murder is Murder" I hope you will like it also.  Tell
Mrs. Egan that fond though we are of you both we shall 
find it difficult to pardon you if you do not both spend
a night with me next time.  I shall at once see if I 
cannot get a translation of St. Bernard's "Contemptu
Mundi"  Good luck to you always!

Faithfully yours,


The Hon. Maurice Francis Egan,
2308 19th Street,
Washington, D. C.



12444

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
letter and to say that it is not a question of price or
of anything else save the physical impossibility of his
undertaking anything more.  He is already doing all that
he possibly can and cannot go into anything further.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Rev. George M. Elsbree,
133 West Fourth Street,
New York City.



12445

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

If you will let me know exactly what you wish
to see Mr. Roosevelt about I will see if it is at all
possible for Mr. Roosevelt to make an appointment for
you to call.  I am sure that you will understand the
calls upon Mr. Roosevelt are so numerous that it is
physically impossible for him to see all the people
who wish to see him. 

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Gabriel Esso,
109 Perry Street,
Newark, N. J. 



12446

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Garland:

It gave me real pleasure to hear from you.  I
think very highly of Fisher, and naturally I was very much
pleased by that decision of the Supreme Court.

Give my warmest regards to Mrs. Garland.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. Hamlin Garland,
6427 Greenwood Avenue,
Chicago, Ill.



12447

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Jack:

I was glad to get the telegram from you.  Apparently
Dave Goodrich is with you.  Of course you must not quote me,
but I am absolutely unable to understand what the administration
means by permitting the killing of Americans on American soil
to go on.  Personally I would have handled the whole thing
differently from the way it has been handled.  I would not 
have mustered the troops in a way that looked threatening.  I 
would have put a couple of regiments on the border and after
one unheeded warning I should have promptly taken possession
of any town from which shots had been fired that killed
Americans and have warned the gentlemen on the other side to
keep their hands off.

Faithfully yours,


John C. Greenway Esq.,
Warren, Arizona.


[?]48May 12th, 1911.

My dear Professor Hollander:

I am sincerely obliged to you for your very
interesting "Study of Ricardo".

With regard,

Sincerely yours,


Professor Jacob H. Hollander,
John Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md.


12449

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Kellogg:

When next you come on let me know in advance
and come out to take lunch with me.

Faithfully yours,



The  Hon. Frank B. Kellogg,
St. Paul, Minn.


12450

May 12th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Koenig:
Mr. Roosevelt asks me to write and say that
he would be very pleased if you could come to lunch with
him at The Outlook office on Tuesday next at 1 o'clock.
He greatly wishes to see you and have a talk with you,
and he hopes that this will be quite convenient. Will
you please let me have a telephone message to-morrow
saying whether or not you can come.
Faithfully yours,


Secretary

The Hon. Samuel S. Koenig,
115 Broadway,
New York City.
12451May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Lark:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple 
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of 
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world 
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but 
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even 
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically 
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to 
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other 
work.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. H. Wilson Lark,
Shamokin, Pa.

12452

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to send on to you
the enclosed letter from Senator Dixon.  This is merely
for your private information, and he would like to have
the letter back after you have read it.

Faithfully yours,

Secretary


The Hon. Cabot Lodge,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.


12453

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Governor Noel:

I am anxious to secure full newspaper reports
of Mr. Roosevelt's speeches in Jackson on his last visit.
Would it be troubling you too much to have someone procure
copies and send them to me?

With thanks,

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


12454

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. O'Hayer:

Many thanks for the Pullman Company's check
for $18 for Mrs. Roosevelt.  Whenever you are able to 
settle up regarding the return of the tickets for the
Western trip I shall be very glad to hear from you,
as I am anxious to clear the whole thing up.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. E. J. O'Hayer,
New York Central Lines,
1216 Broadway,
New York City.


12455

May 12th, 1911.
My dear Governor Osborn:
You have done much for the public weal, but I
do not think anything you have done has been finer than
your Mothers' Day proclamation. It is admirable to have
in high office a man whose courage, insight, wisdom, and
high feeling are such as to inspire him to write such a
proclamation. I heartily congratulate the people of
Michigan and of the United States upon what you have done.
Faithfully yours,


The Hon. Chase S.  Osborn,
Governor of the State of Michigan.

12456May 12th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Parsons:
Mr. Roosevelt asks me to write and say that
he would be very pleased if you could come to lunch with
him at The Outlook office on Tuesday next at 1 o'clock.
He greatly wishes to see you and have a talk with you,
and he hopes that this will be quite convenient. Will
you please let me have a telephone message to-morrow
saying whether or not you can come.
Faithfully yours,


Secretary

The Hon. Herbert Parsons,
52 William Street,
New York City.

12457May 12th, 1911.

My dear Dr. Peters:

It is always a pleasure to hear from you!
I thank you for having sent me your little book on.

I confess I had not 
known about him as I should have known.

Faithfully yours,




Dr. Madison C. Peters.



12458

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Pinschot:

Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed
letter to you and to ask if you think anything can be done
regarding the matter.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


The Hon. Gifford Pinchot,
Washington, D. C.


12459

Mr. Roosevelt presents his compliments and
thanks to the Polo Association of American for their very
kind invitation and has pleasure in accepting for Wednesday,
May 31st and Saturday June 3rd.  He probably will met be 
able to come on June 7th.  He will be in Mr. Hitchcock's 
box on May 31st, and in Mr. Henry Bull's on June 3rd.

May 12th, 1911.



12460

May 12th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Prendergast:
Mr. Roosevelt asks me to write and say that
he would be very pleased if you could come to lunch with
him at The Outlook office on  Tuesday next at 1 o'clock.
He greatly wishes to see you and have a talk with you,
and he hopes that this will be quite convenient. Will
you please let me have a telephone message to-morrow
saying whether or not you can come.
Faithfully yours,


Secretary

The Hon. William A. Prendergast,
Finance Department,
New York City.

12461May 12th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Pringle:
That is fine! You put the case in a nutshell
when you say that you are a trades' unionist, but a trades'
unionist after you are a citizen. I am a trades' unionist,
and a strong one; and in the interests of trades unionism
I put citizenship first. Good for you!
Faithfully yours,



Mr. John D. Pringle,
Treasury Department,
Pittsburg, Pa.

12462May 12th, 1911.

My dear M. Reineck:

I appreciate greatly your having sent me that
genuinely interesting volume of Major Fry's.  I have
enjoyed reading it.  I shall always remember, my dear
M. Reineck, the pleasure I owed to you in Paris, but
indeed my whole stay in Paris was a delight.

Faithfully yours,


M. Salamon Reineck,
Institute of France,
Paris, France.

12463May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would 
be glad if you would bring out the Sirdar to Oyster Bay
on Monday.  He trusts that you will be able to do this
as he wants to have the horse on that day.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. D. S. Rintoul,
130 West 56th Street,
New York City.



12464

May 12th, 1911.
Dear Comrade Robertson:
There is no way that I can help you, except
suggest that you send this letter to the Civil Service
Board. Your discharge paper, which I re-enclose, shows
your services in my regiment. You were actively engaged
in Cuba, but judging from the papers you send me, you
were not discharged on account of disability and therefore
I fear would not be given a preference.
Faithfully yours,


Mr. George W. Robertson,
Kansas City, Mo.

12465May 12th, 1911.

Gentlemen:

Will you please obtain for Mr. Roosevelt a 
copy of Peeble's translation of St. Bernard's "Contemptu
Mundi", and send it to me at this office.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Messrs Charles Scribner's Sons,
153 Fifth Avenue, 
New York City.



12466

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Miss Schuyler:
I have just received your note. Edith loved being
with you, and I am looking forward eagerly to lunching with 
as soon as you get back to New York. I doubt if I shall leave
Oyster Bay this Summer. I firmly believe that many of the 
men who last year left the Republican party when it was at its
best, and voted for Murphy and Dix, do regret that they did.
The trouble is that they have started a movement for evil
which will not be hard to control; for by their action they not
only put Murphy in command of the State, but they put Barnes
in command of our own party. Yes, I was very proud of Franklin's
fight. You know I am rather a woman suffragist. From all I
have seen in Idaho and Washington for instance, woman suffrage
has not brought about the evils the people said would follow
from it, and it has done a small amount of good. Indeed, my
dear Miss Schuyler, it is a great pleasure always to hear from
you.
Faithfully yours,


Miss Louise Lee Schuyler,
37 Madison Avenue,
New York City.

[*467*]May 12th 1911.

PERSONAL

My dear Mr. Shotwell:

I thank you for your letter, and very sincerely appreciate
your good feeling.  You say that you do not wish to embarrass
me.  Any such movement as that you suggest would very deeply
embarrass me, and I must insist that you and any other friends
I have shall do all in their power to prevent any such 
embarrassment.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. Franklin A. Shotwell,
Secretary of the Progressive
Republican League of Nebraska,
Omaha, Neb.



12468


May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Smith:

I appreciate your courtesy, but, my dear sir,
do not send me on that manuscript.  The mere fact that
it is written about me would prevent my being willing
to express any opinion about it.  An article that might
be entirely proper and even desirable if written by an
outsider about me, might be entirely improper to have
written if it could be thought to be in any way authorized
by me.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. Lewis Worthington Smith,
Des Moines, Iowa.


12469

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mrs. Roosevelt has handed me your very courteous
letter.  She wishes me to say that she has great sympathy
with the purpose of the movement, but it is not possible for
her to go into anything more at present.  The demands made
upon her are infinite, and it is simply physically out of the
question for her to do anything more.  She is very sorry to 
have to send this reply.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. J. M. Spencer,
44 Astor Court Building 
New York City.



12470

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Thompson:

I am much obliged to you for your letter and the 
interview, but I count on you to see that nothing is done
to make me a candidate in 1912.  It would be a disaster to
me, and as things are now it would do no good to anyone.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. George Thompson,
Saint Paul, Minn.


12471

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your
very courteous letter and to say that he is much interested
and obliged to you.

Faithfully yours,

Secretary


Mr. Joseph Van Denburg,
523 West 121st Street,
New York City.


12472

May 12th, 1911.

Dear Dr. Walcott:
Yes, I got that letter, but when I trenched on the subject
with Carnegie I found at once that he felt that in
view of what he had been doing about the African expidition,
he did not welcome any advice from or further information by
me on the subject of art!
I think the conversation with Hammond was one in
which I referred to a statement published in the press as
coming from the Smithsonian which rather gave the impression
that the Smithsonian did not need much money for mounting
the specimens, and I know it was so accepted by certain Senators
and Congressmen. I am extremely pleased that you are having
the giant eland and the white rhino mounted. I think you have
done marvelously well in accomplishing as much as you have; and
nobody but a man of your extreme energy and power of achievement
could have accomplished so much. If you are to be here again
before you leave for the Rockies cannot you arrange to come to
take lunch with me at Oyster Bay?
I should love to have Mrs. Walcott if she were with 
you.
Faithfully yours,

Dr. Charles W. Walcott.

12473May 12th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of
your letter and to say that although he appreciates very
heartily the work you are doing, the calls upon him are so
numerous that it is utterly impossible for him to undertake
more than he is at present doing. He is not a rich man
and I am sure you will well understand that the demands
made upon him are far in excess of what he is able to do.
He is very sorry that he cannot send you a favorable reply.
Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Mr. Frank T. Warburton,
1 State Street,
New York City.

12474May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Werlein:
I am anxious to secure full newspaper reports
of Mr. Roosevelt's speeches in New Orleans on his last
visit.  Would it be troubling you too much to have 
someone procure copies and send them to me?
With thanks,
Faithfully yours,

Secretary


Mr. Philip Werlein,
New Orleans, La.

12475May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Wilmarth:

I entirely agree with you.  What I would like
to see is a very heavy tax on the celibate and the childless
and given to the mothers of large families.

Faithfully yours, 


Mr. W. H. Wilmarth,
8 rue Cronstadt,
Nice, France.



12476

May 12th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Wolcott:

 I sincerely thank you for sending me the two 
volumes of the life of your brilliant brother.  Few men
left such vivid memories that he left among all these 
associated with him in public life.  It is touching to hear
the way his old friends speak of him.  I always look back
upon the many years association with him with very genuine
pleasure.

With hearty regard, believe me,

Sincerely yours,


Mr. Henry R. Wolcott,
c/o Thomas F. Dawson,
Washington, D. C.



12477

May 15th, 1911.

My dear Captain Barrett:

Can you come over Thursday or Friday of this week, or 
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday of next week, to dine
and spend the night?  If these dates are in any way inconvenient 
do not come, but let me know if there are any days
you are apt to have free after the close of the matches.
If you are at Rockaway perhaps they could arrange to have you
motor over, otherwise let them give you a timetable and tell
me what are the convenient trains for you.  then if the rest
of the team care sometime to come over to lunch it would be 
a real pleasure to have them.  But there is nothing particular
for them to do here and they must not think of accepting
unless they happen to have ample time and some day on which
there is nothing better on hand.

Faithfully yours,



Captain F. W. Barrett.

May 15th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Your telegram to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand,
but Mr. Roosevelt does not quite understand to what celebration
you refer.  As far as he knows he has had no invitation to
attend such a celebration and knows nothing at all of what
has proposed to be done.  Perhaps you could let me hear
further regarding it.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Danenburg,
Baltimore Sun,
Herald Building,
New York City.



12478

May 15th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Earl:

Herewith I beg to send you proof of the Sunday
lecture by Mr. Roosevelt in which will be found the correct
quotations from Huxley.  Mr. Roosevelt is very anxious that
these quotations as corrected shall be put into the book
which you are issuing.

Faithfully yours,



Secretary


E. T. Earl Esq.,
Los Angeles, Cal.



12479

[*May 15, 1911*]

P. L. A. FERGUSON, FORT PITT HOTEL, PITTSBURG, PA
CANNOT YOU COME ON TO THE OUTLOOK OFFICE TUESDAY NEXT AT
TWELVE THIRTY.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

COLLECT

480May 15th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Hamilton:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even 
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Rev. T. S. Hamilton,
Grace Church,
Bluefield, W. Va.



[12481]

May 15th, 1911.

My dear Mr. President:

Those clippings were fine.  I was really glad to 
see them.  My dear sir, I cannot say how disappointed I am
that I am unable to come to make the address as you request
but it just is not possible for me to make another engagement.
I am so sorry.  I believe in you with all my heart
as representing the best type of American citizenship.  May
good fortune attend you always!

Faithfully yours,



President G. J. Kellen,
Hope College,
Holland, Mich.



12482

May 15th, 1911.

Dear Sir:

Herewith is a letter which has been sent to 
Miss Ethel Roosevelt.  It is evidently from a person
with a weak mind, and as we do not desire to sign for 
the letter on the card I am sending both the letter
and the card back to you.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


The Postmaster,
Leslie, Wis.



12483

May 15th, 1911.

My dear Colonel Nelson:              
What a trump you are!  That is a very attractive 
invitation, but I just cannot accept any invitation now, not 
even yours.  I am no yachting man in the first place, and 
in the next place I feel that I am at last making up long 
arrears by being at home with Mrs. Roosevelt.  You are 
awfully good.  I hope you can stop off at Oyster Bay and 
take lunch with me.                                                 
Faithfully yours,


Colonel W. R. Nelson,             
Kansas City Star,             
Kansas City, Mo. 

12484May 16th, 1911.

Dear Governor:             
Indeed I shall be very glad to have that 
little book.  My letter in which I thank you for your 
admirable proclamation must have crossed yours.  I 
thought it was one of the finest things you have done, 
and you have done many admirable things.                                                 
Faithfully yours,


The Hon. Chase S. Osborn,             
Lansing, Mich.

12485


                                                                                          May 15th, 1911.


Gentlemen:
              Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to tender to you his cordial thanks for your courtesy in sending him that very kind remembrance.
                                                  Faithfully yours,

                                                   Secretary



Messrs Githens Rexsamei, Co. ,
             Philadelphia, Pa.



12486


                                                                                           May 15th, 1911.


My dear Sir:
              Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter and to say that he was very glad to help Judge Pritchard in the way he did. But it is not possible for him to do anything more. I may say he that he did more in your case than he has done in the case of any other institution of the kind.
                                                  Faithfully yours

                                                   Secretary



Mr. James E. Shepard,
             Durham, N. C.



12487May 15th, 1911.

My dear Sir:               
I wish I could do as you desire, but it is not 
possible.  I have more work on hand now than I can attend to 
and even though such a purpose commands my entire sympathy 
it is not possible for me to write another article.  More-
over, in any event, I could not write such an article for 
any paper but the Outlook.                                                  
Faithfully yours,


Mr. L. C. Sutton,              
The Labor World,               
366 Broadway,               
New York City.

12488May 15th, 1911.

My dear Sir:               
        The simple and absolutely conclusive answer to what you say is that 
the conditions of which you speak differ in no way from those obtaining, 
for instance, in Germany, or obtaining in sections of our own country 
where the birthrate has not diminished.  The German small business man and 
small professional man do not have as easy conditions as their American 
compsers, but the Germans have up to the present time continued to have 
families.  At the present time I am sorry to say they are beginning to 
show the same tendencies that the Americans show, and to advance the same 
excuses to cover their selfishness and lack of sense of duty.               
          There is no need of another answer, but if there were it would be 
the simple fact that, on the average, increase of means in a class does 
not mean increase of children, but on the contrary it is generally 
accompanied by a decrease.  The people who will not have children under 
pretence that they are too interested in seeing them rise in the world, or 
in securing better economic conditions for them, are almost without 
exception people who when these better conditions come still refuse to 
have children because they would like to get better conditions still, and 
because they always see ahead of them the chance for a still further rise. 
The native American or Revolutionary stock in New England is dwindling in

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numbers.  Whatever may be true of exceptions, this means that as a rule in
ninety per cent of the cases the causes are purely moral, and not in the 
least economic.  The conditions of life in New England today of the classe[s]
of which you speak are better than the conditions of life were in
Scotland half a century ago; but the Scotch were then increasing in
numbers, and the New Englanders are now decreasing in numbers.  Thrift,
foresight and a proper appreciation of economic conditions might make a 
great difference in reducing the number of improvident marriages, and in
preventing the multiplication of enormous families of squalid children;
but when these qualities are carried to a point which means cool
selfishness and a deification of what people are pleased to regard as
their "position" and social standing in the world, and an entire
willingness to sacrifice all that is highest and holiest in the life of
the individual, the family and the State, to false and vicious conventions,
then it is just as well to speak plainly and not to make what I
must frankly state are false and hypocritical pleas in the effort to give
some fine name to what is fundamentally merely cold and selfish
immorality.  If we were dealing only with one individual, or a few
individuals, we might allow for exceptional economic conditions.  But when
a great body of people like the New England and New York Americans of
Revolutionary descent show a tendency which if unchecked means not

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figuratively but literally the extinction of the race by suicide, then it 
is not merely foolish but wicked to mince words, and to try to shift 
responsibility by saying that the causes are economic and not moral.  No 
change in economic conditions would favorably affect the mass of those who 
have thus abandoned the performance of their primary duties unless hand in 
hand with it went a change in moral attitude.                                                
Faithfully yours,


Mr. J. F. Twombly,              
34 Green Street,              
Brookline, Mass.

12491May  15th, 1911.


  Dear  Mr.  Veiller :    

              I  will  read   that  chapter  at   once,  and   then  
let   you  know   about   it.     You  do   not   know   what   a   pleasure    
it   was   to   see  you   the  other    day.


                                                                                       

                                                                        Faithfully   yours,







   Mr. Lawrence  Veiller,
   National   Housing   Association,
   105  East  22nd  Street,
    New  York  City.


 


12492
May  15th,  1911.


Gentlemen :
   
            Mr.  Roosevelt   wishes   me   to    tender    to   you   his   cordial   thanks
   for   your   courtesy   in  that    very   kind   remembrance .





                      

                                                                                   Faithfully  yours ,


                                                                                  Secretary





      Mossrs  Warrock  &  Co . ,
       Jackonville ,  Fla .


 



      12493

      


       
              [ May 16, 1911 ]


                                                                     FW
                                                        Captain Barrett, Rockaway Hunting Club,
                                                         Cedarhurst, L. I


EXCEEDINGLY GLAD YOU ARE COMING TO LUNCH SATURDAY NEXT.  HOW
MANY WILL THERE BE! WILL YOU ALL COME IN AUTOMOBILES OR HOW?
LUNCHEON WILL BE AT ONE O'CLOCK.

                                         THEODORE ROOSEVELT


2745 [inverted]May  16th, 1911.

Dear  Senator  Beveridge :
Mr. Roosevelt will not be in town again this week   
until Friday next, and if you can call at this office on   
Friday afternoon it will give him much pleasure to have a     
talk with you.  He hopes this time will be quite convenient    
to you and that you will be able to come .                                                                                                   
Faithfully  yours ,
                                                                                                    
Secretary

         
The Hon. Albert J. Beveridge,         
Waldorf Hotel.         
New York City .

5335May 16th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Braun:              
Mr. Roosevelt will be very glad to see you 
and Commander Ben Lazar Van Straaton on Friday May 
26th if you will call at this office about 12 o'clock.                                                  
Faithfully yours, 
                                                  
Secretary


Mr. Marcus Braun,               
229 East 68th Street,         
New York City.

5360[*W. G. Brougham*]

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt
of your letter, and to express his regret that unfortunately
he is unable to send the message you desire.  He is approached
in so many hundreds of cases for messages to be read
at meetings, that if he were to comply in one case he would 
be compelled in common fairness to do so in all the other
cases, and this would mean such a drain upon his time and
energy that it would become simply unbearable.  Besides this
the messages by reason of their being so numerous, would
utterly fail to achieve the object desired.  He feels sure
on thinking it over you will see how impossible it is for 
him to comply.
Faithfully yours,

Secretary,


Mr. W. G. Brougham,

5234[*J. E. Bryne*]
                                                                                      
May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Bryne:               
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple 
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of 
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world 
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the 
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but 
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even 
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically 
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to 
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other 
work.                                                  
Faithfully yours,


Mr. J. E. Bryne,              
Escanaba Business Association,               
Escanaba, Mich.

5264May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt is having the English polo players
out to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday next at
1 o'clock, and he wishes me to ask if you will give him the 
pleasure of your company at lunch at the same time.  He
hopes you will be able to come.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Mr. Henry W. Bull,
Sweetwater Farm,
Hauppauge, L. I.


4377May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and 
wishes me to say that he knows nothing whatever of the
case to which you refer.  Probably it is one that occurred
in the routine of duty.  As you state the case it is
certainly inaccurate.  If you will give the full names 
and full particulars of the case, Mr. Roosevelt will see
whether he remembers anything about it; but he is able 
to tell you in advance that there is no truth in the 
statement as you have now made it.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Z. T. Butler,
Washington.


4314

May 16th, 1911.

Dear Collier:

That is awfully nice of you, but I am already
booked for Tommy Hitchcock's box.  Are not Mrs. Collier and
you, and if possible the Hapgoods and Mark Sullivan, coming 
out here to Oyster Bay for lunch sometime?

Faithfully yours,



Robert J. Collier Esq.,
416 West 13th Street, 
New York City.


7182

May 16th, 1911.

Dear Churchill:

I know Judge Aldrich well, and highly esteem
him.  But, my dear fellow, I am sure you will understand 
it is out of the question for me to write recommending
anyone to any place.  It would open an endless vista of
interference on my part if I interfered in any one case.
I am very sorry.

I had such a nice time with Bess the other 
day.

Faithfully yours,


The Hon. Winston Churchill,
Harlakenden House,
Cornish, Vt.


12494

May 16th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Courtalyou:

It is fine to hear from you!  I know I shall
like the book, and after the middle of June I shall look
forward to seeing you and yours.

Good luck to you all!

Faithfully yours,



Mr. George B. Cortelyou,
4 Irving Place,
New York City.



12495

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt is having the English polo players
out to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday next at
1 o'clock, and he wishes me to ask if you will give him the
pleasure of your company at lunch at the same time.  He
hopes you will be able to come.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


J. E. Cowdia Esq.,
126 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.



12496

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Devine:

This is to introduce to you Mr. Patrick Egan,
who was Minister to Chile under Harrison and while there
rendered very real and marked service to the American
name.  I take pleasure in introducing him to you.

Sincerely yours,


Mr. Edward T. Devine.



12497

May 16th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Finley:

I find that Mr. Roosevelt will not be able to 
get to the office on Friday morning next until between
12 and 12.30.  Will you therefore call at that time 
instead of at 11.30?

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


President John Huston Finley,
College of the City of New York,
New York City.


12498


May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt has received your telegram, but
he cannot interfere in any official matter of any kind or
sort.  All he can do is to forward your telegram to Mr.
Stimson, the new Secretary of War.  This he has done and now
would be glad if you would get into communication yourself
direct with Mr. Stimson.

Faithfully yours,

Secretary

Mr. Miller Freeman,
Seattle Harbor Association,
Seattle, Wash.


12499

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Hamilton:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have resisted literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.  

Faithfully yours,



Mr. Peter J. Hamilton,
Mobile, Ala.


12500

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge
receipt of your letter and to say that since he left the 
White House he has not spoken on behalf of a single person
with regard to securing an official position or promotion
of any kind or sort.  If he were to do so in one case he
would be compelled in common fairness to do the same thing
in hundreds of similar cases about which he is approached.
He feels sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible
it is for him to help you.  He is very sorry.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. B. De Hart,
248 West 15th Street,
New York City.


12501

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Haskett:

I wish it were possible for my friends to realize my
position, not for my own sake, but because then they would understand
just why it is that to accept the invitations sent me would 
mean completely to end my usefulness.  You are a man I genuinely
like and respect, you have done admirable work, and the Institution
you have asked me to address has done admirable work.  But, my dear
Mr. Haskett, you yourself know that in this State there are hundreds,
in all probability thousands, of first class organizations doing 
excellent work of prime importance, along many different lines -
philanthropic, ethical, civic and the like.  To address any one
of these institutions merely means that hundreds of others feel
that they have a right to expect me to make similar addresses.  To 
attempt to address each institution which I thought was doing
admirable work, and to which I wish well, would result in my turning
myself into an itinerant lecturer, and losing every particle of 
power to do good to any institution.  During the last ten months 
I have tried to speak in all the different sections of the country,
and in as many different States as possible, though there are still
a few States - Vermont and Kentucky for instance among them - where
I have not yet been able to speak.  I tried to divide up the type

12502

2

of speech as much as possible, and make my main address in one
State at a Y. M. C. A., in another at a Chamber of Commerce, in
another an organization for the betterment of child welfare, in
another at a farers' meeting etc. etc.  It is a mistake for me
or for any other ex-President to speak often to the same type
of organization, and of course it would mean that I could only
do so by neglecting other organizations.  Now, for ten months I 
tried my best to accept as many invitations as it was possible for 
me to do, distributing by locality and by type of organization as
I have above outlined.  I have finished, or very nearly finished,
this program.  There is a question in my mind whether I did not
do too much, but there is no question at all that to have me continue
with the program would be utter folly, and would cause me to
forfeit all power and usefulness.  If I should do as you and hundreds
of other kind friends ask me to do,  you yourselves at the end of
the year would all be shaking your heads and wondering why I had
frittered away all power to be of worth.  From now on I wish to 
avoid making any speech that I possibly can avoid.  I do not wish
even to speak on occasions of only State importance, where it can
be avoided, because that by itself would mean making several hundred
speeches a year; and to visit each city or town where there is
a movement with which I deeply sympathize, would mean that I would

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3

be on the move every day.  My dear Mr. Haskett, I am sorry, but I
like you so much that I do not wish to send a merely perfunctory
answer; and I do wish you to understand why it is thoroughly
impossible for me to do as you request.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. Walter F. Haskett,
Yonkers, New York.



12504

[*[May 16 1911]*]

THOMAS HITCHCOCK, 8 EAST 29TH STREET,
NEW YORK CITY.

ENGLISH POLO PLAYERS' LUNCHEON AT OYSTER BAY POSTPONED FROM
SATURDAY TO MONDAY NEXT.  CAN YOU COME THEN?  HOPE YOU WILL 
BE ABLE.  PLEASE WIRE CARE OUTLOOK NEW YORK.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT.May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt is having the English polo players
out to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday next at
1 o'clock, and he wishes me to ask if you will give him the
pleasure of your company at lunch at the same time.  He
hopes you will be able to come.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Thomas Hitchcock, 
8 East 29th Street,
New York City.



12509

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Huff:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world 
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the 
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Rev. Elbert H. Huff,
Taylor, Pa.



12510

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Kent:

You did not send me the remarks.  I hope soon
to get them.

I wish that you and your mother and father could come
out here to see us sometime at Oyster Bay.  Cannot you take a 
motor from New York and come out here for lunch?  It is a 
pleasant motor ride.  When are you likely to be in New York?
Of course I cannot advise you on the Presidency!

Faithfully yours,


The Hon. William Kent,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C. 



12511

May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Miller:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically 
able to accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. Frank Miller, 
Army and Navy Club, 
Bridgeport, Conn.


12512

May 16th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt is having the English polo players
out to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday next at
1 o'clock, and he wishes me to ask if you will give him the
pleasure of your company at lunch at the same time. He
hopes you will be able to come.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

E. D. Morgan, Esq.,
Westbury, L.I.

12513May 16th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Moriarty:
I was extremely surprised at that clipping. Mr. 
Baldwin has been a great backer of Mr. Seymour's. I do not
remember ever seeing the editorial. In conversation with
me I told him that I entirely agreed in his high opinion
of Mr. Seymour, but not a word was said about Mr. Seymour's
opponent; I expressed no opinion to him, and I was not asked
to. As you know and say I was most careful not to express
myself in any way publicly or privately about the election
while I was in Tacoma. As far as I know, I saw as many of
the friends of one candidate as the friends of the other.
I will ask you not to publish anything from me, or to say
anything more about it. Mr. Baldwin was indiscreet in
writing as he did, and of course entirely unintentionally
misrepresented me when he gave the impression that I was

12514criticising any man.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. E. L. Moriarty,
Editor,
Tacoma Times.

12515May 16th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Robinson:
Mr. Roosevelt is to have several of the English
polo players out to lunch with him at Oyster Bay on Saturday
next at 1 o'clock. He wishes me to say that if you are in
town and would care to come he will be glad if you will
lunch with him at Oyster Bay too.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. Theodore Douglas Robinson,
Henderson House,
Mohawk, N. Y.

12516May 16th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Sheffield:
I am as pleased as you are with the appointment.
It is one of the best things that has been done.
With all good wishes,
Faithfully yours,

Mr. James R. Sheffield,
52 William Street,
New York City.

12517May 16th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Stimson:

Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed
letter from Mr. Allen to you.  He has told Mr. Allen
that he cannot interfere in any way with such matters, but
that he would forward his letter to you.

I am also enclosing by Mr. Roosevelt's request
a telegram received form Mr. Miller Freeman of the Seattle
Harbor Association.  Mr. Roosevelt has asked Mr. Freeman
to get into communication with you direct.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


The Hon. Henry L. Stimson,
Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.


12518

May 16th, 1911.
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret
that unfortunately it is utterly impossible for him to
accept another invitation or any kind, sort, or description.
During the past few months he has been compelled to decline
literally thousands of invitations, some of which he would
really like to accept, but is physically unable to do so.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mrs. Frank Taylor,
Johnson City, Tenn.

12519May 16th, 1911.
Dear Judge:
That is mighty nice of you to write, and I
sincerely thank you. Let me see you if you ever come
here.
Faithfully yours,

William H. Thomas Esq.,
Montgomery, Ala.May 16th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Thorpe:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Rev. Walter Thorpe,
Wallingford, Vt.

12520May 16th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt has no photographs of himself
and he has been nearly overwhelmed with requests for them.
All that he can do is to promise that if you will send him
one of his photographs, with stamps for return, he will
gladly autograph and return it.  He is obliged to make this 
answer to very many people, and regrets his inability to 
send each of them a photograph as desired.  You could 
obtain one from Messrs Harris & Ewing, Washington, D. C.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary

Mr. Charles A. Valverde,
Schenectady, N. Y. 


12521

May 16th, 1911.
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt is approached by so many hundreds
of people to read manuscripts and to give advice as to
publication that if he were to respond favorably in each
case it would become a burden too great for him to bear.
As you will readily realize on thinking it over, if he
granted one such request he would be compelled in common
fairness to respond to all the others. He is very sorry
that he cannot help you in the way you wish, though he
much appreciates the circumstances.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mrs. J. Van Roos,
132 State Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

12522May 16th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Von Briesen:

Indeed I have not forgotten or thrown
aside the Legal Aid Society.  I think it is simply
admirable.  My dear fellow, if you realized the interminable 
pressure I am under, you would know it is not
lack of interest on my part not to be able to do for
each worthy object what I gladly would do if there were
not so many worthy objects.  This High School business
I went into because it was an international affair and
Mosely had represented the English educational people
here when I was President.

Good luck to you!

Faithfully yours,


Arthur von Briesen, Esq.,
25 Broad Street,
New York City.


12523

May 16th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Walsh:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. M. B. Walsh,
956 East 14th Street,
Brooklyn, N. Y.

12524May 16th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Youngs:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of 
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the 
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to 
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. M. W. Youngs,
Hancock Function,
Calumet, Mich.


12525

Boas

May 17th, 1911.
Dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt will not be at the office on 
Thursday next, but if you would care to call in in Friday
at about 12.45, I am sure Mr. Roosevelt would be glad
to see you for a minute.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mrs. Harriet H. Boas,
Bonniecrest,
Greenwich, Conn.

2808May 17th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Diggs:

I wish I could accept, but it is a simple 
impossibility.  I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.  I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but 
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even 
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically 
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion 
or accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.

Faithfully yours,


Mr. D. W. Diggs,
103 Walker Street,
New York City.


12526

May 17th, 1911.
Dear Mr. Hill:
Herewith I am sending a copy of the letter
which Mr. Willard wrote to Mr. Roosevelt and a copy of
Mr. Roosevelt's reply. They are both so you know simply
for your personal information. After you have read them
will you please send them both on, saying that you are
doing so at the request of Mr. Roosevelt, to the Hon.
Maurice Francis Egan, American Minister, Copenhagen,
Denmark?
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. George Griswold Hill.

12527May 17th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt is having a number of the English polo
players out to lunch at Oyster Bay with him on Saturday next.
He wishes me to say that if you can join him at that time
it will give him much pleasure.  The luncheon will be at 
Sagamore Hill at one o'clock Saturday May 20th, and you could
leave New York at 11 o'clock from the Pennsylvania Station,
arriving at Oyster Bay in plenty of time.  Perhaps you will
telegraph Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay as soon as you receive
this letter whether or not you can come.

Faithfully yours,



Secretary 


Major Robert Howes,
West Point, N. Y. 



12528

May 17th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Poe:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the 
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physically
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to 
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Clarence H. Poe,
Literary and Historical Association of North
Carolina,
Raleigh, N. C.

12529May 17th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received the very courteous
invitation of the City of Hancock, but unfortunately he
has had to send a negative answer. It is not possible for
him to accept any further engagements of any kind or sort,
and much though he appreciates the circumstances of this
particular case he is unfortunately unable to come.
With regret,
Secretary

Mr. G. L. Price,
The Evening Copper Journal,
Hancock, Mich.

12530May 17th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
courteous letter and to say that it gave him much pleasure
to read about your little baby boy.  He sends him his
cordial wishes for the future.

Faithfully yours,



Secretary


Mr. John L. Schoenfeld,
85 East 10th Street,
New York City.


12531

May 17th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt is very sorry, but it is quite
impossible for him to send you the article you wish.  Anything
he writes necessarily has to appear in The Outlook
as he is now officially connected with that magazine.  If
he were to make an exception he would instantly be approached
in hundreds of similar cases for articles of various kinds.
He is very sorry to have to send you this unfavorable reply.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Howard Swiggett,
New Haven, Conn.


12532

May 17th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
With reference to your letter I am sorry to
tell you that Mr. Roosevelt will not be here on Tuesday
May 30th. That is Declaration Day in this country and
Mr. Roosevelt has to go to Newark in the morning, and to
speak at Grant's Tomb in the afternoon. If you can call
at the office on the Friday proceeding May 30th at about
12.30, I am sure Mr. Roosevelt will have much pleasure in
seeing you.
Faithfully yours,
Secretary

Mr. Raymond Unwin,
Hotel Belleview-Stratford,
Philadelphia, Pa.

12533May 17th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for
your courtesy in sending him that pass on your ferry.

Faithfully yours,


Secretary


Mr. Fred. A. Wanck,
Oakland Steamboat Co.,
Rye, N. Y. 


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