November 20th, 1917. My dear M. Allier : Mrs. Roosevelt and I were greatly touched by your letter. Our four boys are now across the water, fighting in the same spirit with which your son fought. With high regard for you and for [Madame?] Allier, Believe me, Very faithfully yours, M. Raoul Allier, 282 Boulevard Raspail, Paris , France. 991 November 20, 1917. To the American Bible Society, Astor Place, New York City. Gentlemen: I send my earnest good wishes to you in your efforts for launching a nation-wide campaign to put the church behind General Pershing and the American Army abroad. Christianity is not a milk-and-water teaching; it is not a teaching for those who shrink from what is rough and evil and terrible in life. There is no other book in the world that teaches courage, obedience, integrity and self-sacrifice as does the Bible. I earnestly hope that you will succeed in putting a Bible into the hands of every soldier of our army, and that you will inspire the American people to put the spirit of the Bible into themselves; and when this is done they will make their men in the trenches feel that the entire American nation stands loyally behind them, and that our people are unflinchingly received to see that this war is waged until overwhelming victory comes, no matter how long the time required, no matter how great the sacrifice must be. This is a great world fight for righteousness. Every particle of strength and I- 2 - courage we [have] possess should be used [in it] to bring victory; and in no way can we help better than by adding to the moral purposes of the men in the trenches . With all good wishes , 5506 Faithfully yours ,Women war workers November 20 , 1917 . My dear Miss Baird : The demand upon me for speeches have become so numerous ,and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy , that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time . I am very sorry , but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing . Thanking you and expressing my regret , I am Faithfully yours , Miss Mabel Rogers Baird , Penn . State Chairman , St. Martins , Philadelphia , Pa . 1181 5507[*2484*] November 20th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Bennett: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mrs. William H. Bennett, 15 Wadsworth Avenue, New York City.[*5888*] November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Bernard: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. A. W. Bernard, Secy., 18 Irving Place, Summit, N.J. November 30th, 1917. My dear Mr. Bernard: That's mighty nice of you. I greatly appreciate the photograph. I shall not need any others, and i look forward to seeing it appear in the papers. Faithfully yours, Mr. Herman Bernard, Foreign Feature News Service, Woolworth Bldg., Suite 4601, New York City. 2601 November 30, 1917. My dear Mr. Blitz: I am extremely sorry that my engagements are such as to prevent accepting your very kind invitation. I wish you all success, and greatly regret that it is not possible for me to be present. Sincerely yours, Mr. Samuel Blitz, Secy., The Zionist Rail, 44 East 23rd Street, City.[*5626*] November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Botsford; The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Samuel B. Botsford, Chairman, War Service Committee, International Assn. of Rotary Clubs, Buffalo, New York.2508 November 20th, 1917. My dear Lieutenant Brown: That's a capital photograph. I congratulate all your officers and men. I am very glad that Mr. Scott had his photograph taken with you four. I made a special point of visiting the colored regiment at Camp Upton the other day. Faithfully yours, Lt. Vanderbilt Brown, N.R.C 92nd Div., Camp Funston, Ft. Riley, Kans.1877 [*Bullock*] November 20, 1917. Dear Douglas: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I am glad that so far you have been getting on so well. I hope you see your two distant cousins, my sons. With hearty good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Douglass E. Bullock, U.S. Army P.O. 706, via New York, France.3145 November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Canture: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, I have no influence whatever with the Administration. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Emila J. Canture, c/o L. La Bey, 1764 Hoe Avenue, Bronx, N.Y. 6083 (inverted) 31456083 November 20, 1917. Dear Cornell: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to apologize for the delay in sending a reply to your very courteous letter of October 11th. There has been such an avalanche of work that it has been impossible to get to it sooner. Colonel Roosevelt says that he can only suggest that you communicate with the War Department at Washington. He has no influence whatever with the Administration. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. D. B. Cornell, Chamber of Commerce, Great Barrington, Mass. 8524 November 20, 1917. My dear Mrs. Chanler: I am very, very sorry but it just is not possible for me to undertake anything else at this time. You haven't an idea of the number of requests to speak that I receive, and to open entertainments, bazaars, meetings, dinners and the like. I sincerely wish it were possible for me to do as you request, but I simply cannot undertake anything additional just at present. With all good wishes, & great regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. William Astor Chanler, 141 East 19th Street, New York City. 64November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Christian: In the first place, let me congratulate you upon the record of your boy, and in the next place as to your young son, why don't you wait a year until he is twenty and then let him try for the Aviation Corps? Meanwhile, he can fit himself by studying for the Corps. Faithfully yours, Mr. E. D. Christian, Sandringham Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J. 965November 20, 1917. Dear Everett: Is the enclosed all right? Faithfully yours, Mr. Everett Colby, c/o [?] Club, 27 West 43rd Street, New York. 966November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Davant: I am more sorry than I can say, but I am absolutely powerless in such a case. Kinsfolk of my own have been disqualified for much less cause and as I think entirely improperly. But I am wholly unable to do anything. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. W. Davant, Roanoke, Va. 67[*Davis*] [*Mr. Theodore Roosevelt greatly regrets he cannot be at the dinner to Mr. John D. Sullivan and sends his best wishes to him.*] November 20th, 1917. My dear Mayor Davis: I want to congratulate you with all my heart on you re-election. Be sure if you ever get to New York to let me know, so that I may get you to lunch or dinner. With hearty good wishes, Faithfully yours, Hon. Harry L. Davis, Mayor, Cleveland, Ohio. 40968 November 20, 1917. My dear Mrs. de Morel: It is a great pleasure to hear from you. Unfortunately I shall not be in Washington for some time. If you come to New York, will you not let me know? Pray present my warm regards to your brother-in-law, the Chilean Ambassador. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mme. E. de Morel, c/o Chilean Embassy, Washington, D.C. [??969] November 20th, 1917. My dear Miss Dills: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy, that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Miss Anna Carey Dills, Secy., Room 2222, #2 Rector Street, New York. 970November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Dingley: I am really sorry, but if I accept at all for Boston, it must be at the request of the Chamber of Commerce and the Puritan Advertising Association. And I don’t want to come to a dinner. I want to make a speech at a meeting. I try to avoid all dinners at this time. I am really sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. Edward N. Dingley, American Defence Society, 262 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 971November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Dixon: I thank you for your very interesting letter. Of course, I am absolutely powerless in the matter. I have myself felt that it is [perfectly] possible altho probable that [the English] even our allies in such matters as this did not wish us to get the start we undoubtedly would get by efficiency in ship construction. In similar fashion I have felt that at times the English have desired that we should not get large armies on the other side; and have praised Wilson precisely because they thought he would not get large armies over there; for naturally and properly they would prefer to see England do better than America. If our people were properly led they would of course understand that the delays, the shufflings and inefficiencies of the last three and a half years have tended steadily to put America in a [backwards] back place, compared to other nations. If we let England suffer the losses & win the victories the honor will all be hers. Pray treat this letter as confidential. Faithfully yours, Mr. Joseph K. Dixon, Educational Bureau, John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa. 972 November 20th, 1917. Private Dear Mr. Dyer: I thank that editorial all straight except that you have been altogether too generous about Tasker Bliss. He is wholly unfit to be Chief of the General Staff, or to represent us at such a Conference. Faithfully yours, Mr. George C. Dyer, The Censor, Wright Bldg. St. Louis, Mo. [??973]November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Eckels: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I thank you for it with all my heart. I would not venture to take that Copperhead pin, because I think it is too valuable. Will you give my special regards to your son when you write him. It is not likely that I will be able to go over to Camp Mills but if I do I shall certainly try to look him up. With high regards, Your fellow American, Mr. James Eckels, Lock Box 325, Forsyth, Mont. 974 November 20th, 1917. Dear Egan: I was immensely touched at receiving your letter, written at the close of your long and painful sickness. My dear fellow, Mrs. Roosevelt and I are deeply devoted to you and all your family, and fortunately you are one of the friends whom we not only love but admire! The only trouble about your letters is that it is a perfect shame they cannot be published. They are the very best thing of the kind that I have ever known. You keep up worthily that side of the American diplomatic tradition which was embodied in Notley and Lowell and Bancroft and Bayard Taylor and Hay. I am immensely amused at what you say about the Kaiser's attitude toward me personally. Right at the outset of the war a representative of his from the German Embassy, but I think not officially a member of its staff, came to me saying that he was the bearer of a special personal message from the 975- 2 - Kaiser; that his Majesty had directed him to tell me that he was unfortunately forced into the war; that had had the keenest memory of the pleasure it gave him to receive me and entertain me at Pottsdam and Berlin, and that he was glad he could be sure that I would understand Germany's position. I answered that I greatly appreciated his Majesty's kindness in sending me the message, that I should never forget the courtesy which his Majesty had shown in receiving me at Pottsdam and Berlin, and that also I should never forget the courtesy King Albert had shown me when he received me at Brussels. He looked me straight in the face, clicked his heels together and bowed. I bowed. Neither of us said a word; and he left. You have had most painful and distressing times, not only physically but diplomatically. Yours has been an exceptionally delicate and difficult task and you have performed it admirably. The other day I met the delegates of the three Scandinavian nations. [Of course] I feel that our people, having gone to an improper extent on behalf of neutral rights a couple of years ago -- and even a year ago -- now tend entirely to disregard neutral rights. I feel that these small nations should be kept 976- 3 - out of the war at all costs. It is quite enough to have seen Belgium, Servia and Roumania destroyed, without asking or permitting other small nations to share their fate. Moreover, I think that while we must of course prevent their being used merely to benefit Germany, yet that in bringing economic pressure to bear upon them that we must always weigh on the one side the damage we do Germany and on the other side the suffering we cause the neutral, and the antagonism we thereby justly arouse. We ought to make a kind of working compromise between the two conflicting [nations] needs. My four sons and my son-in-law are now all of them across the water. It was the most bitter regret imaginable to me that I was not allowed to go myself. I do not know how long I could have lasted, but I do know that while I lasted I would have rendered good service; and at my age there would be nothing sad in death, and very little sadness [that was sad] in suffering, while doing that kind of work for such a cause; whereas there is [a] dreadful heartbreak in death and suffering for [of] the gallant young souls whose future ought to be all ahead of them. I need hardly tell you that Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughters and daughters-in-law have born themselves wonderfully through these trying months, and will bear themselves equally well 0977- 4 - during the far more trying months that are ahead. The pacifists and pro-Germans, the I. W. W. and Germanized Socialists and all the creatures of the stamp of Hearst and La Follette, are evil traitors to this nation and to all mankind. With love to dear Mrs. Egan and wishing greatly we could see you both, I am Ever your devoted friend, Hon. Maurice Egan, Ambassador to Denmark, American Legation, Copenhagen, Demark. [??978]November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Everest: You did not send me the copy of the editorial of which you spoke. I have asked The Monitor to give me copies of the letter I wrote to them on the subject and I will send you one of them. Sincerely yours, Mr. J. G. Everest, 6611 Yale Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 0979November20, 1917. My dear Mr. Farrar: I wish I could accept your invitation to the Lambs Gambol, but it just is not possible. I appreciate your courtesy to the full, and regret greatly that I cannot be with you. I am really sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. Herbert Farrar, The Lambs, 130 West 44th Street, New York. 40980November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Farson: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, I have no influence whatever with the Administration. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. William Farson, 39 So. La Salle St., Chicago, Ill. 81November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Florinsby: I delivered your message to Colonel Roosevelt the other day, and as his under an extraordinary pressure of work at this time, he asked me to communicate with you and ask you to be a little more explicit as to what it is you would like to see him about. There are so many things just now that he cannot possibly do that it is necessary at this time to save all the time possible. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. D. Florinsby, 11 West 47th Street, New York. 82November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Gabriel: That’s such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. Harry Gabriel, 46 Kearny Street San Francisco, Cal. 83November 20, 1917. Dear Miss Gran: If you will telephone me at about 10 o’clock Thursday morning of this week and remind me of this letter, if Colonel Roosevelt has a moment to spare, I will ask you to come in and shake hands with him some day before the end of the week. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Miss Valborg Gran, Hotel St. Andrew, Broadway at 72nd St., New York. 84November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Grismer: I wish I could accept, but it just is not possible. You have no idea of the multitude of requests I receive. If I could come to the Lambs Gambol I certainly would for I have the liveliest appreciation of what they stand for in this nation and of their attitude toward me personally. Believe me, I would come if I could. With heartiest good wishes Faithfully yours, Mr. Jos. R. Grismer, The Lambs, 130 West 44th Street, New York. [P.S. I wish the Gambol was on Saturday evening! I have to welcome the French Ambassador that evening; and if only the Gambol had been then I would have defied fate + come to it anyhow!] 5November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Harrison: I can only suggest that you communicate with the War Department at Washington. I have no influence whatever with the Administration. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Thos. B. Harrison, 7410 J. Street Fox Chase, Phila., Pa. 6November 20, 1917. Dear Miss Henderson: We haven’t a print or a picture of any kind of Colonel Roosevelt. I am very sorry. But, Pach Brothers, 570 Fifth Avenue, New York, have a very good plate, and many people procure this picture from them. If you should care to place an order with them, they will send it down to the Metropolitan Magazine office, and Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to autograph it for you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Miss Addie L. Henderson, c/o L. & T. Dept., T. & P. Ry. Co., Dallas, Texas. 87November 20, 1917. Dear Hinshaw: I send the enclosed for the American Bible Society with pleasure. Very truly yours, Mr. David Hinshaw, Bible House, Astor Place, New York City. 88[Hopkins] November 20, 1917. My dear Comrade: Your letter gives me the greatest possible pleasure. I thank you for it from my heart. You did your part in the great days and you have nothing to regret. But I never had the chance to take part in a great crisis as you did, and I have been denied the chance to take part in the this one. Faithfully yours, Mr. Thos. S. Hopkins, Hibbs Bldg., Washington, D.C. 0989November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Hornaday: Colonel Roosevelt has dictated to me a telegram to be sent to Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts on the 25th in compliance with your request of November 16th. Sincerely yours, Mr. Wm. T. Hornaday, New York Zoological Park, New York. 0990November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Hurley: I wish I could accept your invitation to the Lambs Gambol, but it just is not possible. I appreciate your courtesy to the full, and regret greatly that I cannot be with you. With best wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Arthur Hurley, The Lambs, 130 West 44th Street, New York. 991November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Hussey: I am very sorry, but I have no influence in such matters. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. William C. Hussey, 2336 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. P.S. I return herewith your enclosures. 92November 20, 1917. My dear Ickes: Not only are rumors like that not worth my [hearing] heeding, but they are not worth your [hearing] heeding. Everyone joined in telling me not to say anything about Thompson, because he had been inclined to [?] ["]back water["] on his previous pro-German attitude, and I told them that I had never yet mentioned him in any speech and hadn't the slightest intention of mentioning him anyhow. I did not mention the Mayor of Minneapolis, who is a pro-German Socialist. I don't speak of men unless they have a national reputation; and it would not be a particle more idiotic to say that I intended to make a deal with that Socialist Mayor of Minneapolis than that I intended to make a deal with Thompson. The people who circulate such a rumor or believe it are such prize jackasses that they would believe anything anyhow! Faithfully yours, Mr. Harold L. Ickes, 120 West Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. 0993[*Japanese Consulate*] November 20, 1917. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt greatly regrets his inability to accept the courteous invitation of The Consul General Yada and the Resident Financial Commissioner Den to dinner to meet His Excellency Baron Negeta and the other members of the Special Finance Commission of Japan. Secretary, Japanese Consulate, 165 Broadway, New York. 94 November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Kelley: Three cheers for you! That’s simply fine and I am really delighted to know the practical way in which you gave recognition to those men. Faithfully yours, Mr. David J. Kelley, Manhattan Oil Co., Rialto Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 995DAY LETTER November 20, 1917. Mr. Irwin R. Kirkwood, Kansas City Star, Kansas City Mo. My close personal friend Robert Perkins by request of the government sails a week from Saturday to be head of the Red Cross work in Italy. He wants the best man in the country to go with him. I eagerly desire to suggest your name to sail with him a week from Saturday and to be over there with him for six months. You will probably have the rank of Major. I believe you would do a very great service! He is an exceptionally fine man. I earnestly hope you can go. If not can you recommend a first class business man or railway man from Kansas City or the states round about? I wish to see a first class man from the west on the commission. Telegraph answer. TTHODORE ROOSEVELT. 6 Charge to Met. Mag.November 20, 1917. CONFIDENTIAL Dear Mr. Lansing: I thank you for your courteous letter of November 8th. Mr. Caracristi, who was an officer in the National Guard, wrote asking to serve in my division against Germany, and wrote in the most ardent anti-German terms. At intervals during the past two or three years he has written me about outrages upon Americans in Mexico, taking the view that Senator Fall of New Mexico took and that I have taken, which I need hardly tell you is the reverse of the view the Administration has taken. My letter referred to the Mexican policy. The fact that he published it and that you feel that you have reason to believe that he is acting in the interest of the Central Powers of Europe would go to show that I was deceived in him - much as President Wilson was deceived in William Bayard Hale, when he sent him as his personal representation to Mexico. As your letter is marked confidential I do not know whether I am at liberty to write Mr. 97- 2 - Caracristi about it, but I enclose copy of the letter which I should like to send to him if you approve. Sincerely yours, Hon. Robert Lansing, Department of State, Washington, D.C. [?]998November 20th, 1917. PRIVATE. [*Personal*] Mr. dear Mr. Lockwood: That editorial interested me greatly, and so did two of the other editorials on the same page. I thank you for sending them to me. I need hardly say that I sympathize in the strongest manner with your views about the Administration, as you have expressed them in this editorial. Faithfully yours, Mr. George B. Lockwood, Muncie Evening Press, Muncie, Ind. 99November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Marti: Under the terms of Colonel Roosevelt’s contract, it is not possible for him to comply with your request. With regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Sebastian Marti, 93 Nassau Street, New York. 000November 20th, 1917. Dear Mr. MacArt: No one has more emphatically emphasized the good work of the Y.M.C.A. than I have; but I shall do everything in my power to induce the Y.M.C.A. not to permit any young man of fighting age to take a Y.M.C.A. position at the front or near the front. It is a thoroughly bad thing from every standpoint and no one should defend it. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. A. MacArt, N.J. War Work Council, 1005 Wise Bldg., Newark, N.J. 001November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. McDevitt-Wilson: I am extremely sorry to advise you in response to your letter of November 9th, that Colonel Roosevelt finds it is not possible for him to go into such a matter. Sincerely yours, Mr. Otto E. McDevitt-Wilson, Hudson Terminal Bldg., New York. 02November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. McElroy: I do not think that greetings of that kind do any real good. I think they amount to nothing. If I felt good would come, I would do as Miss Burke requests, but as a matter of fact, I think it would be merely flat and cheap to send the greetings suggested. Faithfully yours, Mr. R. M. McElroy, Educational Director, National Security League, 31 Pine Street, City. 3November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. McKaig: Senator La Follette’s reputation is such that it is utterly impossible for any organization to ask him to speak and not expect to be held responsible for what he says. You say that "wealth and power" are against you. That is not the trouble at all. You put the American people against you when you gave Mr. La. Follette, at such a time, the chance to commit you as he did by his speech. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Ray McKaig, Mandan, N.D. 004November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. McKay: I am sincerely sorry to learn of the death of Judge Burns. He was a most able and upright man, an honor to the bench and to Texas. I mourn his loss. Faithfully yours, Mr. S. A. McKay, Laredo, Tex. 1005November 20th, 1917. Dear Miss Moore: If you will write to the Lincoln Memorial Association, they will probably be able to furnish the speech in question. Sincerely yours, Miss Fannie B. Moore, 315 Tenth Avenue, Charlotte, N.C. 06November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Morin: I thank you for your letter, and appreciate your sending me the Bill. I feel that all the young men of the country between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one should be called out and put into training just as soon as the draft camps are ready to receive them. Faithfully yours, Hon. John M. Morin, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 07[*Murray*] November 20, 1917. Dear Joe: This is to introduce my old friend, Mr. Herman Hagedorn. He is an American of our type! They want him to write a Life of me, and I would rather have him do it than anyone else I know. I told him that you could tell him more about me in politics than anyone else, except possibly Billy Loeb; and of course Billy Loeb can only tell him about the last years, while you can give him the inside facts from the time we first met in Morton Hall right along to the present day. Tell him everything - good and bad - about me. I want him to know just exactly how things were, what I did, how I behaved and all the rest if it. Ever yours, Mr. Joseph Murray, 120 Broadway, City. 008November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Nicolson: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy, that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you, and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank W. Nicolson, Secy., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 9DAY LETTER November 20th, 1918. Mr. Fremont Older, The Bulletin, San Francisco, Calif. I have received a telegram from Benjamin E, Lamborn stating that his brother was murdered by the anarchists and that it was Fickert's action against the murderer of his brother which is the cause for the present movement to recall him. I have received an abusive telegram of protest from a man who couples my action in support of Fickert with my action against the various leaders of the Western Federation of Miners at the time of the assassination of the Governor of Idaho which if true would go to show that Fickert is right. As for your statement that my telegram will influence the appeal of a man of whom I have never heard it cannot possibly influence it to the extent that you and your paper have been seeking to influence it. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Charge to Met. Mag. 10[*Preston*] November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Osborn: If you will refer to my books “Fear God and Take Your Own Part” and the “Foes of Our Own Household,” you will find my position set forth in such a manner that no human being can misunderstand it. Faithfully yours, Mr. Z. T. Osborn, American Sunday School Union, Jamestown, Ky. 11[*Preston*] November 20, 1917. My dear Madam: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with his sincerest thanks the greetings extended by you on his Birthday. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. J. M. Preston, 552 Oakwood Blvd., Chicago, Ills. 12November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Preston: That’s fine! I hope Brown telegraphs you his approval. I have written him myself. You can’t imagine what a pleasure it was to meet you and Mrs. Preston the other evening. Now don’t forget that we want to see you both at our house the next time you are in New York and have a few hours to spare. Won’t you let us know in advance? Faithfully yours, Mr. T. J. Preston, Jr., Princeton, N.J. 3November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Ranck: I have just returned from a short vacation, the first I have had in two years, and find your letter together with some very interesting and amusing cartoons. That particular letter is buried in a great pile of stuff at this moment, so I cannot answer it definitely just now, but if you are passing the office any time in the near future, do stop in and I will gladly go over the matter with you at once. In the meantime, in answer to your letter of November 11th, Colonel Roosevelt wants to know if you will go out to Sagamore Hill for lunch a week from Saturday, December 1st? Luncheon at 1 P.M. Sincerely yours Mr. Edwin Carty Ranck, 15 West 12th Street, New York.November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Randolph: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. H. F. Randolph, Ninth and Washington Sts., Wilmington, Del. 015November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Rathom: Are you ever in New York? If so, it will be a very great pleasure to me to have you out to Sagamore Hill to lunch or dinner if you can spare the time. Sincerely yours, Mr. John R. Rathom, Providence Journal, Providence, R.I. 016November 20, 1917. My dear Mrs. Robins: I am very much obliged to you. I shall read those letters with the utmost interest. Will you be sure to let us know in advance when you come to New York? We particularly wish to see you out at our house. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Raymond Robins, 1437 West Ohio Street, Chicago, Ill.November 20th, 1917. My dear Miss Robinson: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you, and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Miss Marie R. Robinson, c/o Emergency Aid, 1428 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 18November 20th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Rose: I have time to send you but a line of acknowledgment and thanks and of fellow feeling because we have sons in the war. But it is not possible for me to go into any new organizations at present. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mrs. H. Durant Rose, Dante League of America, National Arts Club, New York City. 19[*Root*] November 20th, 1917. Dear Elihu: Major Sargent wants you to see the enclosed. I think there is a good deal in it. His address is Major H. H. Sargent, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Will you be willing to send them back to him after you have read them? Give my warm regards to Mrs. Root. Faithfully yours, Hon. Elihu Root, Washington, D.C. 0[*Sullivan*] November 20, 1917. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt greatly regrets he cannot be at the dinner to Mr. John L. Sullivan and sends his very best wishes to him. Mr. Clarence W. Rowley, Treas. J.L. Sullivan Banquet Committee, 638 Old South Bldg., Boston, Mass. 21November 20th, 1917. Dear Mr. Russell: You have been making capital speeches. Would there be any chance of my seeing you some time? Faithfully yours, Mr. Isaac Russell, c/o Evening Mall, New York. 22November 20th, 1917. My dear Major Sargent: I am greatly interested in your article and what is more I am inclined to agree with it in principle. I am not competent to discuss military strategy from the purely military standpoint. I am, however, competent to say that for the allies to alternate between ill prepared, or rashly under[?] enterprises (such as those associations with the name of Winston Churchill), and a sodden acceptance of German initiative, is to insure ultimate defeat. Moreover, I am absolutely prepared to say that constant[?] is the key of the situation. I feel however that we should instantly declare was on all of Germany's allies and that nothing but harm can come from failure to do so. I have sent your letter to Mr. Root as you suggest. That's a capital article by Clark and he is evidently right. What we need is strategy, and it is [?] you, my dear Major, and not men like poor Tasker Bliss, who can be trusted to show an understanding of what great strategy means. Faithfully yours, Major H.H. Sargent, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. [?]3November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Sheehan: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Dan J. Sheehan, 143 Ellison St., Patterson, N.J. 24Colby November 20, 1917. My dear General Sibert: This is to present to you Mr. Everett Colby, who as one of Mr. Hoover's officials is going abroad for Mr. Hoover to get in touch, as regards certain matters, with the English and French governments. Mr. Colby is a citizen of New Jersey, of exceptionally high standing and character, a leader along many different lines of work, and I count myself fortunate in giving him this letter to you. He is very anxious to see our troops and to get as near to the front with them as possible. If with entire propriety you can do anything for him I shall be glad. My dear General, I take keen pride in all I hear about you and your admirable work. I wish to thank you most warmly for the kindness you have shown my two sons. You have no two more devoted and loyal admirers. Ted, by the way wrote, as various other men have written me, that you will be one of the big factors in this war - I think Ted already sees you riding in triumph through Berlin. With high regard and all good wishes, Faithfully yours, [?]. General Wm. L. Sibert, American Expeditionary Forces, France. [25] November 29th, 1917. My dear Mr. Smith: That’s such a very nice letter of yours, that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgement. Faithfully yours, Mr. Lyndan P. Smith, 27 Jefferson Road, Princeton, N.J. 26November 20th, 1917. Dear Dr. Smith: In reply to your recent night letter to Colonel Roosevelt, I am enclosing herewith for your information, copy of his telegraphic answer to Fremont Older in reply to a telegram from him. Sincerely yours, Rev. Paul Smith, Central Methodist Church, San Francisco, Calif. 027November 20, 1917. My dear General Squier: I have begun to feel that any letter from me will awaken in you the liveliest feeling of weary distrust and boredom; and i have told the bearer of this, Mr. Reginald Ronalds, that such is the case. But I shall ask you to read what Captain Ralph M. Parker has said in the accompanying note about Mr. Ronald's service under him at Plattsburg. I am able to state of my personal knowledge that in actual service Mr. Ronalds showed exactly the qualities which Captain Parker commends so highly in him at the time when he was in the Plattsburg Camp. Mr. Ronalds was an enlisted man in my regiment during the Cuban campaign, being one of eight or ten men including Woodbury King, Will Tiffany, Henry Bull, Craig Wadsworth, Joe Stevens and other Harvard and Yale football men and crew men and pole men who joined me from the Knickerbocker Club. All of these men were entitled to commissions by the time they got through the service, but there were not the commissions to give them. They served in the ranks with an efficiency, loyalty, zeal and of course entire [*[?]28*]-2- courage which is beyond praise. Mr. Ronalds was conspicuous among them for alert energy, intelligence and uncomplaining performance of duty. He comes exactly in the class of Hitchcock, La Farge, David Gray and the others to whom I have given letters to you. His heart is set on getting into the army in this war. He would most likely to get in a fighting position, but if he can't be given that then any position in which he could render useful service. I can guarantee that he will do every duty assigned him and will even go out of his way or go to any inconvenience to assist in doing any other duty, or for anyone else if the opportunity comes for him to render service. Very faithfully yours, General Squier, Chief Signal Officer, War Department, Washington, D.C. [?]029November 20, 1917. Dear Strachey: It was the greatest pleasure to receive you letter, and i am to see Honey this afternoon at the Harvard Club, and look forward to the interview. Kermit has an honorary position as Captain in your Army in Mesopotamia. My other three sons and my son-in-law, Dick Derby, are now with Pershing in France. I wish you could have seen McCormick, who is an awfully good fellow. I am very sorry to hear that you have been the weather. I have always felt in your case that there was just a little danger of the sword wearing out the scabbard. Like you, I occasionally have a slight attack of malarial fever which I honestly earned in Cuba, Africa and South America. I was much pleased with your article "Under the Ban." Recently I read [?] book on the [?] Alliance and was greatly interested to find that Castleneagh had behaved so admirably. I gained a [?] new idea of him. Now, as to my experience with the Germans. I thought it entirely proper to set forth the Venezuela incident, so as to make American understand just what Germany's [?]030 -2- attitude had been toward the Monroe Doctrine, and South America and the Canal - also as a hint to the persons in power as to the proper way to deal with Germany, for my statement appeared in Thayer's "Life of Hay" some months before we went to war. I at first told Thayer that I had no corroborative evidence. But I had forgotten that of course Dewey could corroborate it which the fine old fellow promptly did, and I had a totally unexpected corroboration from a first class fellow and neighbor of mine named Callissen. He is a son of a Schleswig immigrant, but as straight an American as I am. The most powerful German agent at the time was their Consul General Buns, a Holsteiner who spoke with the utmost freedom to Callissen, as he knew three of Callissen's first cousins in the German Army. He repeated to him in detail how the German Ambassador first though I was bluffing, and cabled Berlin accordingly; and then had to eat his words forcing Berlin to turn a somersault. The German Ambassador was [?] recalled in [?]. I knew of Hay's remark about the Islands to the German Ambassador in England at the time of the Spanish War. But my memory is that Prince Henry and his suite, one of whom by the way von [?], made no special requests while here. His visit was after I had [?]031 -3- stood Germany on its head over the Venezuela business, and represented a desire, not to get anything new, but to placate me and the American peoples to assure us of Germany's friendship, and at the same time, underneath to work for the establishment of close relations with the German-Americans of the stamp of the Ridders and such like people here. In other words, what Prince Henry and his people mean to do was on the surface to make a favorable impression on the American people, and to underneath establish relations with the professional German-Americans. I was perfectly friendly to Germany at the time, although about as little taken in as any man could be, and I both spoke pleasantly with them and let them see that I carried a big stick! I has one amusing experience with a German, the Editor of a German paper in Milwaukee, I think the Germania. I had know him fairly well and he asked to go down with out fleet that met prince Henry. He came back filled with bitterness and the comments to which he had listened among the enlisted men about the arrival of the "sauerkraut Prince" as they amiably styled him. He had a vague idea that some how or other the matter ought to be taken up by me. I told him that this was all nonsense; that I would guarantee a perfectly correct reception to Prince Henry, and that I personally liked him and personally like the German people, (I was innve[?] than) [?]32 -4- but that Germany's conduct had been such as to excite very great hostility among our sailors, and this he would have to accept. At the time, by the way, the German Ambassador, von Sternberg, was one of my best friends. He was an upright and loyal gentleman. I am really glad that he died before this war broke out. With warm regards to Mrs. Strachey and earnestly hoping to see you some time, I am Faithfully yours, Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey, Newlands Corner, Merrow Downs, Guildford, England. P.S. Show just seen Henry, spent the afternoon with him then greatly [?] with him. He showed me our [?] Capital Speech of [?]. [?]3 November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Sweigert: In reply to your recent night letter to Colonel Roosevelt, I am enclosing herewith for your information, copy of his telegraphic answer to Fremont Older in reply to a telegram from him. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Charles A. Sweigert, San Francisco, Calif. 34November 20, 1917. My dear Mr. Thorgan: I am very sorry, but it is impossible to do anything whatever in such a matter. I have no influence with the Administration. I will not ask favors, and moreover I could[*,*]not in any event, ask the waiving of rejection in certain cases when I do not know the facts. I very strongly feel that there has been undue severity in rejecting very many men. Faithfully yours, Mr. Floyd W. Thorgan, New Orleans, La. 5 November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Towne: I wish I could do as you and Mrs. Chanler request, but it just is not possible. If I began making speeches of that kind, I would do nothing else. In the mail today I think I have from twenty to thirty requests to speak. You have no idea how the acceptance of a single invitation entails literally countless others. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles H. Towne, McClure’s Magazine, 25 West 44th Street, New York. 036November 20, 1917. Dear Mr. Wanzer: I am very sorry, but I am not a business man, and therefore I am not in a position to comply with your request. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. C. M. Wanzer, Urbana, Ohio. 37November 20th, 1917. My dear Comrade: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours[*,*] but I am sorry to say that I am not to be allowed to raise troops. [* With all good wishes*]. Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles W. Waterman, 1725 – 17th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 038November 20th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Whaley: I really could not overstate how pleased I am with your letter, and how proud I am of you and your husband and your four boys. I am sending you a copy of my Autobiography, for you and your husband are the kind of Americans in whom I most believe. I am taking your letter home to show to Mrs. Roosevelt. With heartiest good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mrs. D. E. Whaley, 305 Bryan Shore Road, Port Chester, N.Y. 039November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. White: I am very sorry, but it would waste your time and mine for me to try to discuss such a matter with you. If it is a Governmental matter you must deal through the Governmental authorities. If it is private business matter I can have nothing to do with it at the present time. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. F. Wallace White, 115 Broadway, City. 40 Day Letter November 20th, 1917. Mr. Pearl Wight, New Orleans, La. Can you suggest to me a first class New Orleans business man or railway man whom I can recommend to Robert Perkins who by appointment of the President goes to Italy a week from Saturday as head of American Red Cross there. I would like to see a good Southern Man with him. He ought to stay about six months. If he can speak French and Italian it would be well but this not necessary. Telegraph answer. Theodore Roosevelt Charge to Met. Mag. 41 November 20th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Wilcox: Is not that the Bazaar about which I have already made arrangements with my sister, Mrs. Robinson? Faithfully yours, Mrs. T. Ferdinand Wilcox, 118 East 54th Street, New York. 42 November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Wile: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Sol. Wile, Secy., Natl. Boot and Shoe Mfrs. Assn., Rochester, N.Y. 043 November 20th, 1917. My dear Mr. Woods: I thank you very much for the private car “Whitney”. There will only be Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. Now, as for the request from Hamilton. It seems to me that it would be better if I limited myself to one speech. I of course wish to do whatever your people desire. I have refused invitations from Ottawa, Montreal, and all kinds of other places. However, I wish to do what will be most helpful to your people, and I shall fellow their wish as to my movements on the day in question. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. W. Woods, Room 1735, Equitable Bldg., New York City. 044 C O P Y. Sagamore Hill, Nov. 21st, 1917. Dear Senator Bourne: I thank you for the very kind invitation to lunch, extended on behalf of yourself and Messrs. Galling, Weeks, Curtis, and Madden. Unfortunately it is not possible to me to accept; but it would be a great pleasure if you five gentlemen could come out here to lunch, at one, on Wednesday the 28th. Hoping that you can come, and heartily thanking you for the pears, I am, with best wishes, Sincerely yours, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Washington, D.C. ?November 21st, 1917. My dear Dr. Darlington: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Rev. Henry B. Darlington, St. Barnabas Rectory, 384 Sussex Avenue, Newark, N.J. TELEGRAM November 21, 1917. Mr. James S. Chambers, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa. COLONEL ROOSEVEL REGRET IT IS NOT POSSSIBLE FOR HIM TO VISIT CAMP DIX. J.M.STRICKER Secretary. COLLECT. 46 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Donovan: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Alfred W. Donovan, c/o E.T. Wright and Co., Inc., Rockland, Mass. 047 November 21st, 1917. Dear Mrs. Gilderson: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with his sincerest thanks the greetings extended by you on his Birthday. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. K. Gilderson, 962 Sixth Avenue, New York. 048 [*[1917 Nov21?*]] November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Gordon: That’s such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. Samuel Gordon, 106 Lexington, Avenue, New York. 049 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Griffith: I appreciate to the full your very courteous invitation, and greatly regret it is not possible for me to attempt anything additional at this time. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. E.L. Griffith, Pres., Canadian Club, Niagara Falls, Ont. Can. 050 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mrs. McLean: I appreciate to the full your very courteous invitation, and greatly regret it is not possible for me to attempt anything additional at this time. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Donald M. McLean, Pres. Women’s Canadian Club, London, Ont., Canada. 41051 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. McNeill: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Robert H. McNeill, Pres. Calvary Church Brotherhood, Washington, D.C. 2 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Pendleton: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. E. J. Pendleton, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. 3 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Shillady: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. John R. Shillady, 414 Court House, White Plains, N.Y. 41054 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Springer: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. R. D. Springer, Secy., Commercial Club, Sioux Falls, S.D. 55 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Sweeney: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Faithfully your, Mr. W. A. Sweeney, Pres. N.J. Press Association, Red Bank, N.J. 66 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Trowbridge: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expending my regret, I am. Faithfully yours, Mr. Alex. B. Trowbridge [Alex R. Trowbridge], Pres., 25 West 44th Street, City. 7 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Wallace: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. A. Wallace, Pres. Fall River Teachers Assn., Fall River, Mass. 058 November 21st, 1917. My dear Mr. Williams: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Rev. A. S. Williams, Camp Curtin Memorial M.E. Church, Sixth Street near Camp, Harrisburg, Pa. 059 November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Anderson: I am extremely sorry for the necessary delay in answering your first letter of the 8th. Late in October I took a short vacation and then my secretary was away for her vacation. My mail is extremely heavy, and it just was not possible for us to begin to cover this work. I remember that just a few days ago your letter was passed on for my attention and I was obliged to send a regret. I am sure that you have received it are this. Sincerely yours, Mr. Frederick E. Anderson, 128 Broadway, New York. 707 TELEGRAM November 22nd, 1917. Mayor T.L. Church, Toronto, Ont., Canada. Many thanks. All arrangements for Colonel Roosevelts stay Toronto in hands of Sir John Hendrie J.M. Stricker, Secretary. COLLECT. 060 November 22nd, 1917. My dear Major Deans: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your very kind invitation. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Major Harry Deans, Bushwick Gold Cross Nurse Corps, Brooklyn, N.Y. 61 November 22nd, 1917 My dear Mr. Hawes: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am Faithfully yours, Mr. James Anderson Hawes, Secy., Delta Kappa Epsilon, 30 West 44th Street, City. 62 November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Ittleson: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your very kind invitation. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Henry Ittleson, Chairman, American Red Cross, 920 Broadway, City. 3 November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Johansen: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your very kind invitation. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. J. A. Johansen, Treas., 3634 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 4 November 22nd, 1917. Gentlemen: I am extremely sorry, but the demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. Believe me, I am very sorry, as I should like very much to be with you on the occasion. Thanking you and expressing my great regret, I am Faithfully yours, M. Henry Lansburgh, Mr. Hubert G. McLean, Masonic Organization, Washington, D.C. 65November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Livingstone: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your very kind invitation. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Colin H. Livingstone, Pres. Boy Scouts of America, American National Bank Bldg., Washington, D.C. 66November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Powell: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your very kind invitation. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. E.A. Powell, Pres., Onondaga Farm Bureau Assn., 112 Court House, Syracuse, N.Y. 67 November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Rhodes: I wish I could do as you request, but it is utterly impossible. With great regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Harrison Rhodes, Hon. Secy., Hero Land, The League of the Allies, 360 Madison Avenue, City. 68November 22nd, 1917. My dear Mr. and Mrs. Rickman: We are so much obliged to you for the Grape-Fruit. They are delicious. Good luck always! Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. P.O. Rickman, Rickman’s Grove, Punta Gorda, Fla. [?]69November 22nd, 1917. Dear Mr. Wall: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with appreciation and thanks your courteous letter of November 20th together with an Cleogravure reproduction of Marshall Joffre. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. H. Wall, Secy., Rocky Mountain Club, 65 West 44th Street, New York. 0November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Ackerman: I am extremely sorry, but it just is not possible for me to do as you request. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Percy S. Ackerman, Robinson Tourniquet Co., 24 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine.November 23, 1917 My dear Mr. Allen: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. James C. Allen, Chairman, Red Cross Membership Campaign Committee, Springfield, Mass.November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Beck: You cast me into utter alarm. I did not realise that you would wish me to prepare my speech. in advance; an I fear you will be disappointed in my work if you regard it as something thus prepared . If I give out too many speeches to the Associated press they will not carry them; and I can only, at this meeting, pay the warmest kind of a tribute to France and to Jusserand himself, and then so far as I have power! pledge us to see this war through. Is there anything special that you would like me to say or that you think I ought to put in a thousand words, (I don't think I ought to prepare more ) that can be given to the press if they wish it? I am very glad that Judge Gerard accepted. I will speak in any place you wish, before or behind anyone, just as you think best. Put me last or anywhere else! Ever yours, Hon. James M. Beck, 32 Liberty Street, New York. November 23, 1917. Dear Colonel Bingham: I was immensely pleased with that school for Military Aeronautics. Major Crissy is a fine fellow; he is doing admirable work, and the men seem first class. I am sure that school is doing you credit in every way. More power to your elbow! I admire and envy you, my dear Colonel. Faithfully yours, Lt. Col. Hiram Bingham, Signal Corps, War. Dept., Washington, D.C. ?November 23rd, 1917. [*Brown*] Gentlemen: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to be with you this year. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank J. Brown, Mr. A .M. Fox, Mr. Leslie L. Smith, Court House, Dayton, Ohio. ?November 23, 1917. [*Bunn*] Dear Paul: That’s really interesting information, and will be of use to me if these Commissioners come. Good luck to you, and to all your family! Faithfully yours, Mr. Paul V. Bunn, Chamber of Commerce, St. Louis, Mo. 5002November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Cameron: That’s fine! Nothing would give me greater pleasure them to include you if I were permitted to take troops abroad, but my dear sir, there isn’t the slightest chance that the President will permit me to go. Faithfully yours, Mr. A.G. Cameron, Princeton, N.J. 6477TELEGRAM November 23, 1917. Miss Alice Carpenter, Chairman, Woman’s Naval Service, Inc., 289 Madison Avenue, New York. Innumerable like demands are made upon me and it just is not possible to comply with them with regret Theodore Roosevelt Collect. 6278November 23, 1917. My dear Dr. Clarke: That’s fine! With all good wishes for my young namesake, Faithfully yours, Dr. Charles R. Clarke, 9th and Main Ste., Auburn, Ind. 8489November 23, 1917. My dear M. Clemenceau: This is to introduce to you Mrs. Ralph Sanger, the daughter of Henry Fairfield Osborn, who is the head of the American Museum of Natural History. Mrs. Sanger, like her father, Mr. Osborn, has taken a very prominent part from the beginning of this war on behalf of the Allies. They are particularly interested in the French Heroes Fund. May I ask of your courtesy that you will let Mrs. Sanger put the matter she has at heart before you? [*With high regard*]. Faithfully yours, M. Clemenceau, Paris, France. 6728November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Curtis: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and a mighty nice editorial. I thank you for both. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. O. Curtis, c/o Albert H. Wetten and Co., 108 So. La Salle Street, Chicago, Ills. 105November 23, 1917. My dear General Bell: Mr. David Mannis is one of they very best Americans and one of the finest fellows in all New York. He is a wonderful musician. I am sure he will do a great work at Camp Upton and I most earnestly commend him to your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Major-General Bell, War Department, Washington, D.C. 71Western Union Day Letter November 23, 1917. Hon. Walker F. Brown 1007 Nicholas Bldg., Toledo, Ohio. Col. Roosevelt wishes us to advise you regarding his address in Ohio that we do not plan to have any other speaker at the meeting he will address, except a shot explanatory address of say twenty minutes [*probably*] by member of the State Committee of which President Thompson Ohio State University in Chairman This address will simply explain the purpose of the meeting in detail to delegates National Security League, Charge N. S. L. By T. J. Preston, Jr. 41072November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Chance: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours. In spite of your telling me not to acknowledge it, I must send just this work of thanks to you. Faithfully yours, Mr. Wade Chance, Gramercy Park, 73 New York.November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Davis: I am really touched and pleased by your letter, and thank you for it. Sincerely yours, Mr. Nathaniel P. Davis, 262 West 121st Street, New York. 74November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. De Weese: I am in receipt of a letter written on letterhead containing your name and address, but unsigned. In reply ??? to advise that it is impossible for me to go into anything new. I am sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. F. Earl De Weese, 30 Winder St., Detroit, Mich. November 23, 1917. My dear Judge Dunne: I very greatly appreciate your telegram, and I am more than pleased that you approved of what I did. Faithfully yours, Judge Frank H. Dunne, Superior Court San Francisco, Calif. [*Dunne*] November 23, 1917. Dear Peter: McNutt's article appealed to me exactly as it did to you, It is a really remarkable article, and I will gladly write as you suggest. But first I would like to ask if McNutt won't take out the name of Perkins, or else put in a little that will show his belief that Perkins is doing his duty with entire modesty, without any thought of publicity. I visited Yaphank last Sunday but it never occurred to Perkins, or anyone else, that he should come up to see me. The Y.M.C.A. did their best to get him to apply for exemption, so as to go on with their work, but he flatly refused. I think he took exactly the right attitude. Most certainly it is not necessary that he should be publicly praised. But I don't think anything should be said that would make him uncomfortable merely because some vulgar sensationalist chose to write about him, If McNutt does not want to leave his name out, I can make an allusion in the preface (that I think will be right along McNutt's lines,) that I am sure will make unmistakable his attitude, which I think might de a little misinterpreted at present. I wonder- 2 - if you could bring McNutt to lunch with me some day, when I haven’t too many thank town heroes.” Faithfully yours, Mr. F. P. Dunne, Colliers Weekly, 416 West 13th Street, New York. 78 November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Edmunds: Just at this moment Colonel Roosevelt is overwhelmed with work, so I am sending this acknowledgment to you and beg to advise that your letter will be passed on for Colonel Roosevelt’s attention the very first opportunity. However, I do not believe there is anything he can do in the matter, as he has no influence with the Administration. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. H. M. Edmunds, 810 Chestnut St., St. Louis, Mo. 9November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Elder: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter with enclosure. As you probably know, but has always taken great interest in the negroes and has done an immense amount of work through the Tuskegee Institute. At this time it is not possible for him to attempt anything additional, as the war has thrown many additional burdens upon him. With regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. John Clifton Elder, 22 East 50th Street, New York. 80 November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Evans: Three cheers for your son! Will you give him my heartiest regards and good wishes? I hope he meets my sons. I am sending him a little pamphlet containing my Detroit speech with this letter. Faithfully yours, Mr. William E. Evans, Armstrong Cork Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 81November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Flood: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. N.B. Flood, Chairman, North Adams, Mass. 2November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Gardner: That’s mighty nice of you. I look forward to receiving the sketches and I know I shall enjoy them. [*Good luck!*] Faithfully yours, Mr. Herbert Gardner, 315 Hageman Bldg., Colorado Springs, Colo. 3 November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Garnsey: That's an awfully nice letter of yours. However, my dear sir, my point was only that the young men of fighting age should not go across the seas to the front with the Y. M. C. A. or with the Red Cross or any kindred organization. About this I am certain I am right. If I has y way, I would have all of the Quartermasters positions and similar positions in the army[*,*] filled by men who already served in the line and who had first stood their chance of death. I would not let anyone escape [*such*] service. After he had done this [*,*] I would appoint him elsewhere if it were deemed wise. Faithfully yours, Mr. John H. Garnsey, Joliet, Ill. 84November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Germond: My Secretary has explained in full your mission. I thank you for your courtesy, but I am unable to go into anything additional at this time. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Philip Germond, 600 West 192nd Street New York. 85November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Groszmann: I am very sorry, but I cannot possibly go into anything additional now. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, 44 Walnut Street, Newark, N.J. 086 November 23, 1917. Dear Mrs. Hamann: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter of the 7th, and to express his regret in not being able to comply with your request. So may similar requests are received that he has been obliged to make a general refusal. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. C. A. Hamann, 2036 E. 89th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 87 Telegram November 23rd, 1917. Mr. Richard D. Harlan, 147 Bishop Street, Montreal, Canada. Extremely sorry it is not possible to accept your invitation Theodore Roosevelt. Collect. 88November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Harris: I have only been able to come to your letter of the 10th owing to vacation times and a usual amount of mail. I am extremely sorry, but it is not possible for me to make such a statement. Faithfully yours, Mr. Emerson P. Harris, 171 Madison Avenue, New York. 089November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Harrison: That’s very good of you. I am much obliged for the poem. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Russell B. Harrison, 708 Newton Claypool Bldg. Indianapolis, Ind. 090 November 23, 1917. My dear Dr. Hart: There is nothing I can say in addition to what has already been published in the Metropolitan Magazine on that matter. They published in full my correspondence with the War Department and President Wilson. I could not say more. Wishing you all success, Faithfully yours, Dr. Aubrey W. Hart, 64 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Mass. 091 November 23rd, 1917. My dear Colonel Hawkins: It is not possible for me to do that under my contract with the Star. With regret, Faithfully yours, Lt. Colonel E.P. Hawkins, Governor’s Military Staff, Connersville, Ind. 092November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Holt: I am very sorry, but I am absolutely powerless to be of assistance. There is nothing whatever I can do. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. B. C. Holt, Holt Mfg. Co., Spokane, Wash. 093November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Hunt: If you are following my published articles you will see that I am doing everything I can. I thank you for your letter, and greatly appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry D. Hunt, 18 Harrison Street, Providence, R.I. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Hurst: Colonel Roosevelt desires me to acknowledgment with thanks your very courteous letter of November 8th. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. George J. Hurst, Editor, Financial America, 40 Stone Street, City. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Hutton: I am very sorry, but I have no influence whatever with the Administration. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. H. Hutton, Box 458, Sapulpa, Okla. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Sir: I greatly appreciate the honor conferred upon me by the Board of Trustees of the American Museum of Natural History. I need hardly say I gladly accept the Honorary Fellowship. Again thanking the Board, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Adrian Iselin, Secy., American Museum of Natural History, New York City. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Jones, That’s very good of you. I thank you for your letter, and I thank you for the editorial enclosed. Faithfully yours, Mr. H.T. Jones, Wake Forest, N.C. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Larrabee: I wish I could advise you, but unfortunately, I cannot. I can only suggest that you communicate with the War College at Washington. Sincerely yours, Mr. George E. Larrabee 394 Main Street, Reading, Mass. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Lyon: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter of November 9th. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Karleen S. Lyon, 746 Park Avenue, Weehawken, N.J. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Mackay: I am extremely sorry, but under the terms of my contract, it is not possible for me to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert Mackay, Asst. Ed., Peoples Home Journal, 76 Lafayette Street, New York. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Mannis: Is the enclosed all right? If not, I will make it any shape you wish. Faithfully yours, Mr. David Mannis, 154 East 70th Street, New York. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mrs. McDowell: I am very sorry, but the demands upon Colonel Roosevelt are so great that it is not possible for him to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Emma E. McDowell, 16 Harnett Ave., Union, S.C. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Miss McGrayson: I am extremely sorry, but it is not possible for Colonel Roosevelt to comply with your request. You have no conception of the immense amount of important mail he received that needs his daily attention. Very truly yours, Secretary. Miss Dorothy McGrayson, 163 Home Avenue, Rutherford, N.J. November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Menken: I know well how admirably disinterested the work of the National Security League has been, and I know the amount of money it has cost you. But don't you think it would be well to have a statement made at the end if the year of just what the expenses and receipts were, so that we could publish it? Some of these patriotic Societies have gotten into awful scrapes financially and I think [?????] there is a little danger of the public getting confused between those that are good and those that are bad. It seems to me that such a statement would be a good thing from every standpoint. Faithfully yours, Mr. S. Stanwood Menken, National Security League, 31 Pine Street, City. 05 November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Newell: Three cheers for you! That’s is a splendid letter. I have a little book coming out consisting of my Princeton address which I shall send you. I am awfully obliged to you. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. C. Newell, 206 Piedmont Bldg., Charlotte, N.C. 106November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Noel: That’s very good of you. I thank you, and appreciate greatly your kind suggestion. Sincerely yours, Mr. Clyde F. Noel, Snohomish Rifle Club, Snohomish, Wash. 107 November 23, 1917. My dear Miss O’Reilly: It has been my good fortune to listen to some of the stories, which as I understand it, you are now telling in your war talks. I am more than glad that you are telling them publicly. I hope they will teach [*the needed*] lesson to our people. We are in this war to win. We are standing for liberty and justice exactly in the spirit in which your illustrious father stood for liberty and justice. You are rendering a great service and all my earnest good wishes go with you. Faithfully yours, Miss Mary Boyle O’Reilly, Copley Square Hotel, Boston, Mass. 8 November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Pape: I wish I could help you, but surely you know I have no influence with the Administration; and as I am not a business man, I am not able to help you that way. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. Fred A. G. Pape, 216 No. 80 Wall St., New York. 1109November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Paxson: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours. I look forward to seeing “The Cow Country” and I look forward even more to having you out to my house whenever you come on to New York. [*Do let me know when you are to be here*] Faithfully yours, Mr. Frederic L. Paxson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 1110November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Payne: In reply to your telephone request of several days ago, there was an article in the New York Times of two or three weeks ago last Sunday, relating to this matter. You will probably be able to get full information about the book from The Times. Sincerely yours, Mr. W. H. Payne, McClure Book Co., 76 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 1111November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Pearson: That’s very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy to the full. Faithfully yours, Mr. Samuel H. Pearson, Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Peirce: That’s a mighty letter of yours. I thank you for it, and appreciate it; but it is not possible for me to do anything with poems. You have no idea of the multitude of similar request. I receive. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Philip O. Pierce, Barstow, Texas. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Perkins: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. M.G. Perkins, Chairman, New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., Fall River, Mass. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Perry: That information should be communicated to the War Department at Washington. I have no influence whatever. Sincerely yours, Mr. W.L. G. Perry, Charlotte Hall, Md. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Phillips: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it. I hope your boy meets my four boys. Faithfully yours, Mr. F.L. Phillips, American Bank of Commerce, Scranton, Pa. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Phillips: The enclosed letter explains itself. Major General Wingate is the head of Government at Cairo. I have known of Mr. Knabenshue although I do not remember appointing his father to Belfast, as General Wingate says I did. Of course General Wingate’s opinion is of first rate importance, and I suppose if possible that the State Department would like to have this information. Will you do me the kindness of writing General Wingate direct in this matter? Sincerely yours, Mr. William Phillips, Asst. Secretary of State, Washington, D.C. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Momo: That’s a noble poem. I am very glad you sent it to me. You can’t imagine what a pleasure it was seeing you again and how we appreciated hour spent with you and Mrs. Pyne that morning. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. H. Taylor Pyne, Drumthwacket, Princeton, N.J. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Richmond: If you enclosed postage for the return of the sketches, they went back to you promptly. Otherwise, it was taken for granted that you probably had copies and ??? want them returned and so they were destroyed. Of course, it would be impossible to provide filing space for things of that nature received by Colonel Roosevelt. I am very sorry if we did not return them and you meant that we should. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Ad. Richmond, Santa Barbara, Calif. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Miss Roberts: I am sorry to say that the quotation from me about Mr. Barnard’s statute is entirely inaccurate. I wrote Mr. Barnard about the statute, speaking very strongly of it, but not in the hysterical language with which I am credited. If you don’t mind, I wish you would get that letter from Mr. Barnard and then if you think it worth, publish it. Personally, I think it is stronger than the alleged letter (which I never wrote) – just because it is not hysterical. Faithfully yours, Miss Mary F. Roberts, Editor, The Touchstone, 118 East 30th Street, City. November 23, 1917. Dear Rowell: I am very much touched by your telegram. Together with it came telegram from Judge Frank H. Dunne and from J. S. Tobin. I don't think I know Dune, but Tobin is as straight and clean a man as I ever met. It does not seem to me that as things are now that the recall of Fickert can fail to be accepted throughout the United States as an endorsement of the anarchist elements. I also enclose you copy of a letter from the Foreman of the Grand Jury of the City and County of San Francisco. Francis Heaney is against Fickert. Of curse I am very fond of Heney, and I need not say, my dear fellow, that what you say commands my heartiest respect. On the other hand, I have grown to regard Fremont older than almost as much distrust as I feel for [*rensz*] La Folate and Amos Pinchot. Faithfully yours, Mr. Chester A. Rowell, Fresno Republican, France, Calif. 121 [*Rucker*] November 23, 1917. Dear Ole Nissou: Good for you. More power to your elbow! Faithfully yours, Mr. L. V. B. Rucker, The Des Moines News, Des Moines, Iowa. 122 November 23, 1917. My dear Mrs. Seaton: Your letter appealed very much to both Mrs. Roosevelt and myself. Believe me, we sympathize with your both in your trials and in the joy we know is yours, in spite of all your trials[*, *] with your children. I am sending you herewith the volume I wrote called “The Foes of Our Own Household”. Look at the least two chapters and you will see what I have said in these matters. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Seaton, 310 E. Wyandotte St., Stockton, Calif. 123November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Seymour: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, surely you must gather from the newspapers that I have no influence whatever in the matter. I am really very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. James M. Seymour, 51 Lawrence Street, Newark, N.J. 1124November 23, 1917. My dear Dr. Shaffer: I was simply fine to hear from you. But my dear fellow, I am wholly unable to get them to give me anything at Washington[*,*] and so I think it is quite hopeless to expect them to give you anything; most certainly they won’t do it upon my recommendation. Believe me, my dear Dr. Shaffer, you have the warmest possible place in our hearts. Ever your friend, Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, 31 East 49th Street, New York. 125November 23, 1917. My dear General Sharpe: That’s mighty nice of you. I thank you, and I need not say I appreciate your unfailing courtesy. Faithfully yours, General Henry G. Sharpe, War Department, Washington, D.C. 6November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Snyder: Colonel Roosevelt is sorry he is unable to give you the information you desire. Nor is he able to think of anyone who might be helpful to you at this time. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Charles A. Snyder, Overly, N.D. 41127 November 23, 1917. Dear Miss Solomon: All right, I will stop all further investigation of the matter. But instead of meeting me personally I will ask you to meet my sister to whom I have sent your letter. Faithfully yours, Miss Mamie Solomon, 318 East 8th Street, New York. 1128November 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Spreck[*els*]: I very greatly appreciate your telegram, and I am more than pleased that you approve of what I did. Faithfully yours, Mr. John S. Spreckels, Jr. Foreman, Grand Jury, San Francisco, Calif. [*best*] 29November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Stainer: Colonel Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter, and to assure you of his appreciate of your kindness. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. John Stainer, Leonard Lodge, Folkstone, England. 80November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mrs. Taylor: I am very sorry, but the demands upon Colonel Roosevelt are so great that it is not possible for him to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Emily R. Taylor, 534 West 124th Street, New York City.November 23rd, 1917. My dear [*Mr.*] Tobin: I have no intention whatever of recalling or changing my statement with regard to the recall of Fickert. [*Good luck!*] Sincerely yours, Mr. J.S. Tobin, San Francisco, Calif. [*list*]November 23rd, 1917. My dear Miss Townsend: I am sorry I am unable to be of any assistance in that matter, but evidently you have been misinformed. With regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Ketunah A. Townsend, 295 – Roslyn, N.Y. 3November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Urquhart: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. A. Urquhart, c/o J.H. Turner, Stahlman Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. November 23rd, 1917. Dear Mrs. Van Dyke: I am very sorry, but Colonel Roosevelt is unable to give you any advice in that matter. Accordingly I return the letter of recommendation enclosed. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Madeleine Van Dyke, Hotel McAlpin, New York. November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Van Santwood: That’s mighty nice, but I just cannot come, and my dear fellow I think, of the Holland Society, can say that our Americanism does not need any proof! Faithfully yours, Mr. Seymour Van Santwood, Public Service Commission, Albany, New York. November 23, 1917. Dear Mrs. Webster: I really like those books, but you have no idea of the multitude of requests i receive to say something in favor of different books. I doubt gravely whether it is worth while to quote me. But you can, if you wish, [?] that I regard these four volumes of the "Nature Lovers Library" as capital; I [?] they are just what the general reader interested in and out of [?] needs. Sincerely yours, Mrs. J.E.B. Webster, University Society, Inc., 44 East 23rd Street, New York. [?]37November 23, 1917. My dear Senator Weeks: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Hon. John W. Weeks, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 138November 23rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Wheeler: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Harry M. Wheeler, 25 Park Avenue, Wakefield, Mass. 9November 23, 1917. My dear Captain Weiner: You are very kind, but I need not impose upon your good nature. I am just going to speak at Toronto and may not be in New York for some time. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am Faithfully yours, Captain C. Wiener, Hotel St. Regis, New York. 40Telegram November 23rd, 1917. Mr. Pearl Wight, New Orleans, La. Perkins has made other arrangements. Many thanks for your help Theodore Roosevelt. Charge To Met Mag. November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Wilson: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thank your courteous letter of the 12th together with enclosure. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Louis R. Wilson, Bureau of Extension, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 142 November 23rd, 1917. My dear General Wingate: You are doing great service. I am doing nothing[*,*] but it is not my fault[*,*] and at least my sons are at the front. I have written to a fiend of mine in the State Department at once, forwarding your letter and earnestly asking that the request be granted. I hope it will be; but you don’t need to be told that I have less than no influence with the Administration. [*With high regard, and heartiest good wishes*.] Faithfully yours, General R.W. Wingate, The Residency, Cairo, Egypt. 1143 November 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Wrightson: If it is a request to speak, my dear sir, it would be useless for you to spend your time and mine discussing the matter, because my engagements are such that I can not go into anything additional at this time. I have no influence with the Administration, and there is very little I can do. If you could be more explicit by letter, I think it would be better. But [*if*] you cannot, and you still feel it is necessary to see me, if you will write my secretary, she will make an engagement for you in the near future. Faithfully yours, Mr. Sydney Lloyd Wrightson, 1228 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C. 44 November 23, 1917. My dear Dr. Wood: I am very much touched and pleased by your letter. I thank you most warmly for it. Faithfully yours, Rev. Isaac L. Wood, 2095 East 93rd Street Cleveland, Ohio. [?]145November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Abbott: With reference to your letter of the 14th. I am extremely sorry that I cannot comply with the suggestion contained in your first paragraph. Ever yours, Mr. Lawrence Abbott, 381 Fourth Avenue, City, November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Ackerman: Colonel Roosevelt appreciates your courtesy in submitting for his inspection the Robison Tourniquet. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Percy S. Ackerman, 24 Forest Avenue, Portland, Maine. ? November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Adams: Indeed, if such a chance as mentioned in your letter occurs, it would be a pleasure to include you. In that event, will you kindly communicate with you? Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry R. Adams, Western States Life Ins. Co., 310 Baker-Detwiler Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif. ? November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Alber: I thank your cordially, but just at present I cannot undertake anything additional. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. L.J. Alber, 1101 Hippodrome Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio. 305November 24, 1917. [*Anderson*] Dear Comrade: I would suggest that you take the matter up with your Senator and Congressman. They ought to be able to help you. Sincerely yours, Mr. J.E. Anderson, Jeffersontown, Ky. ? United Military Order of America November 24, 1917. My dear Colonel Andrew: I thank you for your very kind invitation, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to be with you on the occasion mentioned. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Colonel Henry H. Andrew, 507 West End Avenue New York City. 723November 24, 1917. My dear Miss Andrews: I can only suggest that you communicate with the War College at Washington. Sincerely yours, Miss Andrews, 296 Orchard Street, New Haven, Conn. 2275November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Beebe: Colonel has such innumerable requests to endorse movements that it just is not possible for him to comply with one in a hundred of them even when they are very good. He is extremely sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. E.P. Beebe, 239 West 39th Street, New York. 547November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Bennett: I would suggest that you communicate with the very large publishing houses. They will be able to supply with a list of books relating to the subject. The subject has been treated so generally in newspapers and magazines, that this the best advice I can give you in the matter. Sincerely yours, Mr. G. Clinton Bennett, 1-5 Haller Bldg., Seattle, Wash. 2896November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Birtwell: I have just been able to get to your letter of that month and in reply beg to state that similar requests were so very many that Colonel Roosevelt was obliged to give up trying to comply with them. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. Frances M. Birtwell, Atlanta University Library, Atlanta, Ga. 5872November 24, 1917. Dear Mrs. Blair: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter of the 14th. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Florence N. Blair, 311 Gardena Avenue, Tropico, Calif. 1119November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Buerger: I think very well of the American Defense Society and of the work it is doing. Faithfully yours, Mr. Paul A. Buerger, 630 Adams Street, Wausau, Wis. 3571November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Burke: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to extend to you his thanks and appreciate for your very kind letter. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Eva M. Burke, 427 West 9th Street, Dallas, Texas. 5017November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Corwin: I am doing all I can, but I have no influence whatever in the direction you mention. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles E. Corwin, 228 Wayne Street, Highland Park, New Brunswick, N.J. 5054 8501November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Costello: I sympathize with your views about the condition of affairs; but I have so much on my hands now that I don’t believe I can undertake anything additional at this time. It is a pleasure to hear from an American of your stamp. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. W. Costello, Supt. of Schools, Lyons, Ill. 0November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Deming: That’s a really fine letter. I do wish you would tell Mr. Ward how touched and pleased I am. It was mighty good of you to send it on. Bring him in to see me, sure! Whenever the chance comes. Faithfully yours, Mr. E.W. Deming, Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Drake: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter of November 23rd with enclosure. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Herbert A. Drake, Blake Bldg., Camden, N.J.November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Fallows: I desire to acknowledge with thanks your courteous note of the 13th with enclosure. With best wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Edward H. Follows, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York. 48November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Fetherstonhaugh: I desire to acknowledge with thanks your very courteous letter of November 9th to Colonel Roosevelt. I am sorry, but so many similar requests are made of Colonel Roosevelt that it is not possible for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Fred B. Fetherstonhaugh, National Progress, Toronto, Canada. 9November 24, 1917. My dear young friend: I sympathize most warmly with your father. Evidently he has the right kind of American spirit; and so has his ??? daughter! But I am utterly powerless to help him. I have not been able to help myself. Faithfully yours, Miss Martha G. Freeman, Box 654, U.S. Engineer Office, St. Paul, Minn. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Garbutt: I appreciate your courtesy to the full. I wish I could be of assistance to you, but my dear sir, the war has added so many burdens that it is not possible for me to undertake anything additional. I am really sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. William R. Garbutt, 29 Beech Street, Springfield, Mass. November 24, 1917. My dear Dr. Gignoux: I am sorry, but I cannot possibly undertake anything additional at this time, and I do not wish my name to appear on committees unless I can take at least a small active part in the work of the committee. With regret, Sincerely yours, Dr. J.E. Gignoux, Medical Military Aid Assn., 616 Madison Avenue, New York. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Gilbert: I thank you and greatly appreciate your courtesy, and look forward with pleasure to reading the book. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank B. Gilbert, c/o Sturgis and Walton Co., 31 East 27th Street, New York. November 24, 1917. Dear Dr. Gilbert: In reply to your letter of November 14th in which you enclosed letter from the editors of the Ladies Home Journal, I beg to state that Colonel Roosevelt is entirely satisfied that you should use quotations from his article and let him suggest I think in your flyers you should so state the fact. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Rev. W.M. Gilbert, 41 Temple Street, Boston, Mass. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Hamilton: That’s such a very nice letter of yours that I must send you this line of thanks and assure you of my sincere appreciate of the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Frank P. Hamilton, 109 North Broad Street, Trenton, N.J. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Harvier: I shall do my best to get the Republicans to take that exact position! Sincerely yours, Mr. Ernest Harvier, 1193 Broadway, City. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Holland: I wish I could be of service, but my dear sir, I have no power whatever. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W.H. Holland, 26th Co. C.A. Fort Andrews, Mass. November 24, 1917. My dear Miss Jacobs: I am extremely sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Miss Aileen Jacobs, Chairman, Hero Land, 33 West 42nd Street, New York City. November 24, 1917. My dear Mrs. King: I am not in a position to bring any influence to bear in such matters. You have no conception of the multitude of similar requests made of me. I am extremely sorry I am unable to be of service. Faithfully yours, Mrs. E.W. King, 17 Hemlock Place, New Rochelle, N.Y. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Kittredge: I wish I could accept, but I am in the hands of the Governor. I can only refer you to him. That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Mr. R.E.L. Kittredge, Trinity College, Toronto, Canada. November 24, 1917. Gentlemen: I wish I could come. Believe me I am very sorry it is not possible for me to be with you. With very real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry Lansburgh, Pres., Mr. Hubert G. McLean, Chairman, Masonic Organization, Washington, D.C. November 24, 1917. Dear Mr. Leary: Colonel Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of the 9th with enclosure. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. John Leary, Waldorf Astoria, New York. November 24, 1917. Dear Cabot: That’s a capital letter of yours. I agree with evert word you say about Wilson and the men under him. Harry Garfield, Walter Lipman, Bainbridge Colby and Lincoln Seffens are so utterly unfit for governmental appointment as any human beings can be. Felix Frankfurter can do good work along certain lines, but very bad work along other lines. Can you tell me exactly what the conditions are at this moment as regards San Domingo and Hayti? We still have our forces down there busily engaged in making democracy safe from the nations, have we not? Ever yours, Hon. H.C. Lodge, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Loth: I thank you and greatly appreciate your courtesy, and look forward with pleasure to reading the book. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. Sindey A. Loth, 349 McGregor Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Marcosson: Three cheers for you! Yes, I got your letter and I wish to congratulate you upon the work you are doing. Do give me the chance of seeing you. Faithfully yours, Mr. Isaac F. Marcosson, 18 West 25th Street, New York. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Marshall: There is no truth to that report. However, should anything of the kind occur, be sure to communicate with both Captain Greenway and myself. Sincerely yours, Mr. V.W. Marshall, Box 2339, Bisbee, Ariz. November 24, 1917. Dear Miss Mathews: Such Miss Mathews: Such information could be communicated at once to the War Department at Washington. I trust you will do this. Sincerely yours, Miss Caroline A. Matthews, St. Hubert, 120 West 57th Street, New York City. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. MacAyeal: That’s a very nice letter of yours. Believe me, I appreciate it. Very hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. H.S. MacAyeal, 26 South Union St., Akron, Ohio. November 24, 1917. My dear Mrs. McAlley: I am sorry not to be able to answer your question. Will you not take the matter up wit the War College at Washington? Sincerely yours, Mrs. Margaret T. McAlley, Clinton, Conn. November 24, 1917. My dear Commander Millais: I am very much pleased that you are going to write that Life of Selous. But to my great regret I doubt if I am able to give you his letters. I have received so many hundreds of thousands of letters during the years since I first knew Selous that I have little [not] made little [any] attempt to keep any, and I am afraid that the very few I did keep includes none of Selous. I am really sorry. Would you care to have me send you a few lines about the time he stayed with me at the White House, when I was President, and also about his going out on the ship with me to Africa? I heartily congratulate you on the safety of your boy Geoff . I am glad the gallant fellow is not seriously hurt. I am also glad to know about Selous' oldest boy. I think you know that my four sons and one son-in-law are already across the ocean. One son is with your forces in Mesopotamia and the others are with Pershing in France. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Commander John G. Millais, Crompton Brow, Horsham, Sussex, England. November 24, 1917. My dear Comrade Mills: Three cheers for you! I am very much obliged to you. Lord, how I wish I had been able to abroad with Jack Greenway[*!*] Faithfully yours, Mr. C. E. Mills, Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., Miami, Ariz. 1171November 24, 1917. My dear Mrs. Palmer: I am extremely sorry, but I have no influence whatever with the Administration. You should ask the help of your Senator and Congressman. I return your enclosure herewith. Sincerely yours, Mrs. E.L.D. Palmer, 513 – 5th Street, New Brighton, Pa. 172 November 24, 1917. My dear Miss Pardon: I thank you for your letter, and appreciate your courtesy. I never saw the article mentioned. Sincerely yours, Miss Eva M. Pardon, 112 Sherman Avenue, New York City. 3November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Peterson: I am really obliged to you. You are doing admirable work. Both you and I are fighting the German propaganda in every way that it possible. Faithfully yours, Mr. Elmer T. Peterson, The Wichita Beacon, Wichita, Kans. 74November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Phillips: That’s a mighty nice of you. I wish I could accept, but it is a physical impossibility. I cannot go into anything more at this present. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Joseph E. Phillips, Clearfield, Pa. 175 November 24, 1917. Gentlemen: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of October 27th, together with the patriotic tie enclosure. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Pollak and Bloom, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York.November 24, 1917. Dear Franklin: I autographed the cared instantly and sent it along. Give my love to Eleanor and the children. I do wish I could see her and you. I continually hear how well you are doing. With love, Faithfully yours, Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Asst. Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. 1177November 24, 1917. Dear Mrs. Ross: I am extremely sorry, but so many similar requests are received by Colonel Roosevelt that it is not possible for him to attempt such matters. In accordance with your request, I am returning herewith your manuscript. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Lillian Cole Ross, Almo, Idaho. November 24, 1917. Dear Dr. Saunders: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter and to express to you his appreciation. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Dr. Annetta A. Saunders, 919 No. La Sallle St., Chicago, Ill. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Schulz: I wish I could help you, my dear sir, but I do not know of anyone to whom I could send you for that particularly kind of work. I return herewith your enclosures. Sincerely yours, Mr. Walter E.C. Schulz, 33 – 17th Street, Elmhurst Heights, N.Y. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Scott: Of course those papers should be suppressed. I thank you for sending me the clipping. Sincerely yours, Mr. Walter E. Scott, 206 Broadway, City. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Sindt: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, I have no influence whatever. I am really very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert R. Sindt, 806 West 3rd Street, Davenport, Iowa. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Smyth: I am extremely sorry, but so many similar requests are made that it is not possible for me to comply with them. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. L.J. Smyth, Navy League of the U.S. 110 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Spurgeon: There is some foundation for that story. I will tell you the exact facts but of course not for publication, because it might do damage to the Admiral[.] in question - whose name, even privately, it is not necessary to give. He was taking lunch with me out at my home, being an old friend, and said he had been expecting to ask me to lunch but supposed that in view of my being an officer of the Navy League I was barred; and a young Navy Officer who afterwards [?] suggested with a grin, that in order to comply both with the regulations and with the Secretary of the Navy's letter it would be necessary first to fire a salute of twenty-one guns in my honor and then to order me off the ship! The Admiral felt bitterly mortified over the almost inevitable folly of Daniels; but the younger officer treated it as a huge joke - which it was. Under no circumstances would I pay any heed to the story, as to do so might possible cause some trouble to the Admiral, and this is merely for your own private information. Sincerely yours, Mr. John J. Spurgeon, Public Ledger, Philadelphia,Pa. [*[?]84*]November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Stockwell: I thoroughly appreciate what you are doing, and wish I could be of assistance, but it it’s a physical impossibility at present. Sincerely yours, Mr. A. M. Stockwell, New York Community Chorus, 130 East 22nd Street, City. 1185November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Storey: I thank you for the information contained in your letter of the 13th. I will govern myself accordingly in the future. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thomas A. Storey, College of the City of N.Y. New York. 86 November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Stuart: I thank you for your very courteous letter, but my dear sir, I have no influence whatever and it would only be taking up your time and my time to no advantage for me to go into the matter. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Glenalwyn Stuart, Suite 716, 52 Broadway, New York. 87November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Sundstedt: I am extremely sorry, but I am not a business man and I have no influence with the Administration, so it would be using your time and mine to no advantage to discuss your plans. I can only suggest that you communicate with the War Department. Sincerely yours, Hotel Earle, 103 Waverly Place, New York. November 24, 1917. My dear Mrs. Taylor: That’s mighty nice of you. Mrs. Roosevelt and I thank you. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Robert C. Taylor, 155 West 58th Street, New York. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Walters: I am very sorry but you understand that I have no power whatever. There is no use of my parking recommendations, for they will receive no attention. Therefore, it is useless for me to try to look up the facts in this case. Sincerely yours, Mr. J.M. Walters, Syosset, L.I. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Willoughby: That’s a capital editorial sermon! I am delighted with it. Your cousin was a fine fellow. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. J.E. Willoughby, Amsterdam Evening Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y. November 24, 1917. My dear Mr. Young: I take pleasure in sending the enclosed to you with Colonel Roosevelt’s compliments. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Master Cecil Theodore Young, Gladbrook, Iowa. Copy. Sagamore Hill, Nov. 25, 1917. Dear Mr. Hornaday: I heartily approve the effortto secure the dismissal of all teachers who refuse to sign the loyalty pledge or who in any way have shown the slightest symptoms of disloyalty to this nation or of sympathy with Germany and the other foes of this nation at this time. A public school teacher should stand in loyalty and Americanism precisely where we expect an officer of the Army or Navy to stand, and should be held to any equally rigid accountability for the slightest symptom of disloyalty or of failure in thoro-going Americanism. Sincerely yours, (Singed) Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. William T. Hornaday, New York Zoological Park, New York. Telegram November 25, 1917. Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts, c/o New Mexico Educational Assn., Santa Fe, New Mexico. Permit me as an American citizen interested in the conversation of our wild life to thank you, and through you, your association for having given the subject so prominent a place on your Convention Program. With best wishes. Theodore Roosevelt. Paid. November 25, 1917. Dear Mrs. Robinson: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with his sincerest thanks and the greetings extended by you on his birthday. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. O. Pomeroy Robinson, 2 West 33rd Street, New York City. November 26, 1917. My dear Captain Bailey: That’s one of the very nicest letters I have received and I thank you heartily. Good luck to you and your son! Faithfully yours, Captain W.T. Bailey, Reserve Officers Training Camp, Ft. Logan H. Roots, Arkansas. November 26, 1917. Dear Warren: It will be a great pleasure to autograph that photograph; but I do wish you would send on which has both you and myself on it! I will be in town Tuesday, December 4th. Can’t you lunch at the Harvard Club with me on that day, at 1:30? Faithfully yours, Mr. Warren Barbour, The Linen Thread Co., 96 Franklin St., New York. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Battreall: That’s mighty nice of you. I am sending the shoes as you request. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. C.A. Battreall, St. Joseph, Mo. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Beattie: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours. Write to Jack Cooper’s health farm at Stamford, Connecticut. Sincerely yours, Rev. R.B. Beattie, 1st Presbyterian Church, East Orange, N.J. November 26, 1917. Dear Beebe: All right, I will see whether the Bulletin cares for the article. I think Grant is less prejudiced than you and Hornaday are! We must soon arranged for that little dinner. Ever yours, Mr. William Beebe, New York Zoological Park, 185th St. and Southern Blvd., New York. [*Bklyn. Eagle*] November 26, 1917. My dear Sir: This is a private letter and not for publication, but I do wish to thank the writer of the admirable editorial in your issue of November 23rd called “A Job for the Foo[?] Killer”. I am a warm admirer of General Pershing and I have three sons in his army, and I feel that the Washington dispatch you condemn and the similar dispatches are outrages upon the American army and the American General. Faithfully yours, Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N.Y. P.S. I cannot help feeling that if President Wilson had been willing to accept my offer last February or even last April there would have been at least two, and perhaps four American divisions in this British drive, and we would not have been merely on-lookers. I hope I need not say that any personal chagrin I may have had is completely swallowed up in the larger regret from the standpoint of the country.(74)? November 26, 1916. My dear Bryce: It was a very great pleasure to get your letter and I thank you [?] our more than kind invitation for my sons. But they are all abroad already. Three of them are with Pershing's Army in France, two having just been in the trenches while the third is in the Aviation Corps. The fourth is with your forces in Mesopotamia. I have a son-in-law with Pershing in France also. You are quite right, the things we were writing about a year ago are like snows of last winter. Thank Heaven America has come into the war. In my judgement we are not as united nor as enthusiastic as if we had come in immediately after the sinking of the Lusitania; and curiously enough one of mr. Wilson's Presidential Electors from California who was out to see me the other day, volunteered this statement himself. Still we are in and I believe the feeling is growing stronger month by month. I am much pleased that you say you wish that I were in the war in France. I am going to indulge in the boastfulness of saying that if Mr. Wilson has accepted my offer when I made it on February 22nd last, 5617 - 2 - I would have had at least two divisions doing their part in the great and splendid British drive that has just taken place, and we Americans would have had the proud honor of spending our blood in the joint effort of the joint armies, instead of merely looking on while you do the work. I am interested in your saying that you wish the American troops were along side of yours; and perhaps you will be interested in knowing that my two sons, Ted and Archie, (the former of whom is a Major and the latter a Lieutenant in the 26th Infantry, and who have just been with their regiment in the trenches,) have written me to the same effect. They say that they think they could learn more from the English than the French, and though they like and admire the French, they would have more understanding of the English. I heartily agree with your view that it would be far better if our army were put in with yours - and as I said above, had we shown proper energy we would have had two divisions and perhaps four divisions, or over one hundred thousand men additional, in the drive you have just made. I am pretty despondent about Russia. However I still hope and I am inclined to believe, that they can not make a really separate peace, and therefore Germany will5618 -3- not get any food from them. I am a little melancholy about Italy also. The French people I admire as much as you do, and I abhor their politicians as much as you do. As I grow older I confess I am greatly puzzled and perplexed at the undoubted fact that certain peoples do not, under democratic conditions, get the government they unquestionably deserve. As for the Germans, I do not know whether most to admire their efficiency or to abhor their hideous moral degeneracy. You will be interested to know that I am perfectly certain that the great majority of Americans of German descent are exactly as loyal as any other Americans. Indeed, it is my belief that if our Government had taken the right stand from the beginning there would never have been any pro-German agitation here. I am not sure but what there will be almost as great political changes here after the war as in France and in Britain. I sometimes wonder whether there is not a small silver lining to the Russian cloud, in the shape of the object lesson taught by the antics of the Bolsheviki. I cannot help hoping and believing that England, France and America, with the Russian example before them, will show some reluctance to try any experiment that-4- will tend to produce anarchy. I am a very radical democrat, and I grow more, rather than less radical, as I grow older; but I am equally radical in the insistence on orderly liberty, and upon efficiency - efficiency in the interest of the man who toils, but not in the interest of the man who wishes the reward of toil without toiling. Here in the United States what we need is resolute leadership to secure justice for the laboring man and the farmer, and this we cannot have without vision; but we also need equally resolute insistence that there shall be no disorder and none of the crack brain action, which under the pretense of lifting the lowly merely smashed the man on top and brings down everybody under the ruins. My dear Bryce, I hope you realize how much I appreciate your letter. Mrs. Roosevelt found it as interesting as I did. I need hardly say that we always think with affectionate regard of you and Lady Bryce. I wish I could see you to talk over the things of such lamentable interest in the world at present - although I think it would take aeons to talk it all over satisfactorily! Ever faithfully yours, Lord James Bryce, House of lords, London, England. November 26, 1917. My dear Dr. Bull: That’s mighty kind of you, and I very much appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Dr. Titus Bull, 430 West 116th Street, New York. ?November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Cameron: I am awfully sorry but I have to make an invariable rule not to write about people I do not know. You are probably aware that in the papers submitted, the writer is required to state his personal knowledge of the man recommended. I am really sorry not to be able to do as you wish. Sincerely yours, Mr. Alexander Cameron, 15 Dey Street, City. 479 November 26, 1917. Dear Mr. Coles: Colonel Roosevelt asked me to send the enclosed for your information. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Russell J. Coles, Danville, Va. 6November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Collier: I do not care to be quoted publicly because I am engaged in enough things as it is, but it seems to me that such an oath might very well be demanded of every man before he is allowed to vote, whether we are or not. Faithfully yours, Mr. Frederic J. Collier, 609 Warren Street, Hudson, New York. November 26, 1917. My dear Mrs. Ely: Don’t you think it would be better not to call it by the name of a man who necessarily excites a great deal of hostility? For a good many years, but especially during the last three years, I have had to strike without mercy at the men who I thought failed to do their duty in this Republic. I really think you had better take the name of some man whose name would excite less animosity than mine. With hearty thanks and all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mrs. Augusta L. Ely, 938 St. Nicholas Ave., New York. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Fitzgibbon: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. F.C. Fitzgibbon, Chamber of Commerce, Sharon. Pa. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Florinsky: I have your letter of November 22nd, contents of which have been noted. If you will call at the Harvard Club Tuesday afternoon, December 4th, at 3:30 Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to see you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. D. Florinsky, 11 West 47th Street, New York City. November 26, 1917. My dear Mrs. Hickok: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Ida May Hickok, 454 Riverside Drive, New York. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Holden: I am not surprised at what you tell me. I hope it is not son. However, there is of course nothing I cand now do. Faithfully yours, Mr. B.M. Holden, Military Emergency Board, Hartford, Conn. November 26, 1917. Dear Mr. Hornaday: In going over Colonel Roosevelt's mail Saturday afternoon he asked me to send you a note to-day saying he is heartily in favor of the action you propose to take, but that he thinks the wording of the declaration is unhappy, and suggests, That in view of the foregoing, we the undersigned, declare that every American citizen who is asked to sign a pledge, such as that approve by the Board of Education and mentioned above, should be glad to sign it and that any refusal to sign it must cause grave suspicion as to the loyalty of the person so refusing. It is particularly important that every teacher should be eagerly and zealously loyal to our country, therefore we feel very strongly that the best interests of the school children of New York City require that the services of the teachers who have signed the protest against the pledge of loyalty should be dispensed with. Colonel Roosevelt also suggests that inasmuch as he is not a resident of New York City it would hardly be proper for him to sign the petition. I am enclosing postage to the amount of 75¢. The cost of the telegram to Dr. Roberts was only $2.25. Sincerely yours, Mr. William T. Hornaday, N.Y. Zoological Park, New York. [?]202November 26, 1917. My dear Mrs. Junkermann: I very much appreciate the calendar and thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Clara E. Junkermann, 229 West 83rd Street, New York. 1203November 26, 1917. Dear Mr. King: I am enclosing herewith for your private information, copy of a letter Colonel Roosevelt sent in response to a telegram, attacking him for having backed the movement of the Knights of Columbus with regard to recreation centers for the soldiers and sailors of all creeds, at the various army cantonments. Inasmuch as there was some disposition to attack him through the press and the sender of the telegram in question is a member of the staff of a paper disposed to criticize the Colonel for what he had done, he was surprised when they advised him they thought they would not print his reply. Of course there was nothing to be gained by asking the other newspapers to take the matter up, so it has been allowed to drop but he thought that you would be interested in seeing the enclosed copy of his reply. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. John T. King, Bridgeport, Ct. 5November 26, 1917. Dear President Luther: Three cheers! I will come with pleasure and I am so much obliged to you about Coles. I am very sorry you should be having a hard time; but my dear Doctor, as you say we are all of us having a hard time now. Faithfully yours, President F. S. Luther, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 206 November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Mathews: I think that is very amusing about Lowery. I look forward to having that interview with you. Faithfully yours, Mr. Jerry A. Mathews, Colorado Bldg., Washington, D.C. 07November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. McKay: I have already written you but I must write again to say how much I appreciate your having sent me those tributes to Judge Burnes. He had a most honorable and useful career, and I greatly regret his death. Faithfully yours, Mr. H. A. McKay, United States Courts, Houston, Tex. 208November 26, 1917. Dear Alex: That’s all right. I enclose copy of a letter I am sending. Faithfully yours, Mr. Alexander P. Moore, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Wagle: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours and I deeply appreciate it. Are you ever in New York? I should like to meet you and I should like to have you meet the Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, Mr. John King. Nobody is speaking for me “with authority” in Minnesota! Looking forward to seeing you, I am Faithfully yours, Mr. John News Tribune, Duluth, Minn. [*Nowlin*] [*file*] November 26, 1917. My dear Sir: I am greatly interested in your telegram. You state that you were Chairman of the County Central Progressive Committee of San Francisco, a member of the California delegation to the National Republican Convention of 1912, and also a member of the California delegation to the Progressive Conventions both of 1912 and 1916. You state that you and the Progressives who think like you have never hitherto supported Mr. Fickert for the office of District Attorney. But you add that in the present struggle you and they stand strongly for him because of the fight he is making against anarchists, because in your opinion the issue is simply patriotism against anarchy. You say that the friends of the bomb-throwers and anarchists are using every means of deception and intrigue to secure the recall of Mr. Fickert and that the issue is naked between sedition and patriotism. Information I have is to the same effect. That there are good people who have been misled into taking the other view I do not question, but there is in my judgment also no question that all the opponents of law and order, all the pro-Germans and all the men who are against straight United States sentiment will be exult[ed]ant if Mr. Fickert is recalled. 11- 2 - I think there is not a pro-German, or anarchist, or I. W. W. in the United States who will not be given heart by such a result. I have already received telegrams and letters from anarchist agitators and rabid Germanized - Socialists foully attacking me, for the frankly avowed reason that the writers of these letters and telegrams disapprove[d] of my action against the McNamaras; of my former action against Moyer and Haywood and the Western Federation of Miners, and of my condemnation of the I. W. W., and wish Fickert to be recalled precisely because they feel that the issue against him is primarily an issue on behalf of the anarchist elements which I have always opposed, and which these writers support. There are of course in addition very good men who have written me against Mr. Fickert on other grounds. But I am convinced that the real underlying reason for the move against Mr. Fickert has been his prosecution of the bomb-throwers, his efforts to detect and bring to justice the assassins who murdered ten persons in the Preparedness Day Parade and wounded fifty others. A gentleman in whom I have great confidence Judge Henry E. McGinn, of Portland, Oregon wired me as follows: "Fickert recall is instigated by the supporters of the defendants in the San Francisco Preparedness Parade Bomb cases. I have investigated this matter very carefully and am convinced that Fickert is right and that opposition to him comes primarily from the sympathizers of accused bomb-throwers. As Between Fickert and the bomb-throwers I am with Fickert. " 12-3- Mr. Charles F. Hanlon, the President of the Pacific Coast Defense League, was the first man to have the matter called to my attention. The Foreman and Secretary of the Grand Jury wired me as follows,- "On the third day of May ninetten seventeen the following resolution was adopted to the public. After a careful and conscientious investigation covery every phase of the charge of subordination of perjury preferred against F.C. Oxman conducted by this jury under the able direction of Robert M. Clarke, Assistant Attorney General, we the Jury find no cause for criticism of the district attorney's office in connection with the bomb cases and we unanimously commend Charles M. Fickert for the able and fearless manner in which he has performed his duties to the people of the state of California in connection with these cases. John D. Spreckels, Jr. Foreman, Thomas J. Dillon Secretary and the sentiment of that body is far stronger to-day." The Judge who tried the case wired me as follows,- "You have truly sensed the situation in the bomb cases. Do not permit the paid enemies of good government to deceive you by cunningly devised misstatements. They are not for us, they are moved and handled by an organization and paid propoganda which is trying to sabottage the courts and fas the defenders of the law. Two of these cases were tried in my court and one in the defendant Billings convicted before Oxman. The much abused was dicovered as a witness so I know whereof I speak your firm stand for the right. They as supported by overwhelming consenses of opinion by the best American thought of this City and State. A vilinous and well financed and publicity bureau has poisoned the national with lies and libel." Mr. Goldborough, who is personally much attached to Mr. Fickert's opponent, sent the following,- "I note in the local press that Mr. Sweigert asks you by telegram to withdraw your recent letter in support of Mr. Charles M. Fickert, District Attorney of this City who has [?]213-4- in the performance of his sworn duty gotten the ill will of the bomb throwers and other criminal element and has to stand for an election recall in December. If you will pardon the suggestion you should ask Mr. Sweigert to withdraw his candidacy for his popularity may hide the real issue in this recall election which is shall San Francisco be in the hands of anarchists or law abiding citizens. Mr. Fickert is a man of courage and ability and has risked his life in the prosecution of this gang of criminals and no decent man should run against him as a recall candidate. Make the bomb throwers put up a candidate out of their own ranks and then the electorate may have a fair square issue to vote upon. Have written." The Civic League of Improvement[s] Clubs and Association has wired me as follows: - "The Civic League of Improvement Clubs and Association of San Francisco comprising seventy six organizations with combined membership of over seventeen thousand directed its board of governors composed of Chairmen of its thirty active committees to make searching investigation of proposed recall of District Attorney Fickert and vested such board of Governors with full power to act in subsequent meetings. The Board of Governors passed unanimously the following resolution, Resolved that the Civic League of Improvement Clubs and Association strenuously oppose the Fickert recall and that the executive officers be and are hereby directed and authorized to use all available means to defeat such recall. The Civic League desire to assure you as per your telegram to District Attorney Fickert that you have an absolute correct conception of the situation out here and that behind the recall are life forces of anarchy against law and order." Let me in closing thank you for your telegram and say that I appreciate it, and that I agree with you as to the course we should follow in this matter. Faithfully yours, (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Thomas W. Nowlin, 68 Post Street, San Francisco, Calif. 214November 26, 1917. Dear Mr. O’Brien: In response to your letter of November 21st to Colonel Roosevelt if you will call at the Metropolitan Magazine office Tuesday, December 4th at about 12 o’clock, Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to see you. Sincerely yours, Mr. E. C. O’Brian, 8 West 40th Street, New York. 215November 26, 1917. My dear Professor Paxson: I am greatly pleased with the “Cow Country.” Are you ever going to be in New York? I really wish to see you. Faithfully yours, Prof. Frederick L. Paxson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 2116November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Perkins: The demands upon me for speeches have become so numerous, and indeed the demands upon me for every kind of service and action have become so heavy that it is a physical impossibility for me to undertake another engagement at this time. I am very sorry, but it is not possible for me to do more than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. M. G. Perkins, Quequechan Club, Fall River, Mass. 1217 November 26, 1917. My dear Mrs. Robins: I hate to answer you as I must, but I just cannot come at this time to Philadelphia. I have an engagement that I have put off year after year, to speak at Miss Peirce’s school, and finally in desperation I have appointed January 9th. Frankly I hate doing so and I would not speak if it was not an engagement I had made while I was in the White House, and which I have never been able to fill. On that day let me take luncheon with you [*(*] or with Tom![*)*] and do anything you say [*and much allow how wish to have.*] I suppose it would be too late to defer this particular luncheon until then. Faithfully Yours, Mrs. Thomas Robins, 1719 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 218 November 26, 1917. My dear Dr. Sullivan: That is a very touching incident and I beg to assure you of my deep sympathy with you in your loss, and the pride I share with you in the action of your remaining son. I wish I could speak as you request, but it is a physical impossibility. I have literally hundreds of invitations to speak and I cannot do more than I am now doing. With regret, Faithfully yours, Rev. Dr. Joseph Sullivan, 3rd Congregational Church, Chicopee Falls, Mass. November 26, 1917. My dear Mr. Sunday: I have just received the enclosed letter in response to the one which I had written to the Secretary of War. I would not venture to advise you distinguished father in that matter. I told him that of course he was welcome to use that article of mine, “Put the Flag on the Firing Line” and in any way that would help patriotism. But the request made of your father is entirely different and I would not venture to make any suggestion about it. Faithfully yours, Mr. George Sunday, Y.M.C.A. Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. November 26, 1917. My dear Mrs. Van Rensselaer: Of course I sympathize heartily with your attitude about the war, but it is not possible for me to attend that meeting or undertake extra at this time. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 134 East 95th Street, New York. November 26, 1917. Dear Mr. Wilson: If you will call at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island Wednesday afternoon of this week at five o’clock, Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to see you. Of course you understand he cannot give you an interview. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Huntington Wilson, Public Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa. November 26, 1917. Dear Major Woodward: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge wiut his sincerest thanks the greetings extended by you on his birthday. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Major James Otis Woodward, Commanding Burgesses Corps, Albany, N.Y.