Mississippi January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Battle: Your letter of the 14th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for a photograph has been received. Inasmuch as literally thousands of such requests are received during the year, I am sure you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for Colonel Roosevelt to supply the demands. However, Pach Brothers, 570 Fifth Avenue, New York have a very fine plate and most people purchase this picture from them. If you should care to place an order with them, they will see that it is sent down to the Metropolitan Magazine office, and Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to autograph it for you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Wallace A. Battle, Pres., Okolona Industrial School, Okolona, Miss.991 January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr Blewitt: 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. A. F. Blewitt, Claire City, S.D. 2360January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Brady: 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. Thos. Brady, 1547 Broadway, City. 5418January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Dunn I am sure Colonel Roosevelt will be only too glad to have you and Mrs. Bunn at breakfast if he is staying over in St Louis next spring. You know you are always welcome. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Paul V. Bunn, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, St Louis, Mo.January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mrs. Colgate: 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. Richard M. Colgate, Chairman, Girls Patriotic League, 399 Park Avenue, City. 7043January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Curry: Colonel Roosevelt is just departing for Washington for a week and directs me in his absence to thank you most warmly for your courteous invitation and to say that it is absolutely impossible for him to accept at present. He sends his best wishes to all the veterans. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Elgin Curry, Cuban Veterans of Independence, Havana, Cuba. 679[*Methodists*] January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mrs. Black[???]: 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. Wm. R. Black[???]: 239 East 237th Street, New York City. 70January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Dingley: I am very much interested in your letter. You must be sure to give me the chance to see you when I am in Bangor. Faithfully yours, Mr. F. L Dingley, Lewiston Journal Co., Lewiston, Maine. January 22nd, 1918. My dear Major Dwight: I very genuinely appreciate your Christmas greetings. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Major Arthur J. Dwight, Great Neck, L.I. 72NIGHT LETTER January 22nd, 1918. Mr. C.A. Gammons, 244 Main Street, Springfield, Mass. I am afraid Colonel Roosevelts time in Springfield will be too short for that kind of a luncheon. You know his time of arrival and the time he must get away and it is up to you to use his time in Springfield to the best advantage. My suggestion is one very successful and interesting meeting rather than accomplish half way things by making too many divisions in the time. J.M. STRICKER Secretary. COLLECT. 73January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Greene: I hate to have to refuse, but just at present it is an impossibility for me to undertake any additional burden. I really regret this. Sincerely yours, Mr. Jerome D. Greene, Harvard Club, 27 West 44th Street, City. 874January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Holt: 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. Erwin A. Holt, Burlington, N.C. 75January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Howe: 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. L. Howe, Ex. Secy., National Retail Dry Goods Assn., 33 West 42nd Street, City. 76January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mrs. John: The demands upon me for speech 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. H. John, Pres., The Baptist Temple, Broad & Berks Streets., Philadelphia, Pa. 77January 22nd, 1918. Dear Miss Lavell: I am extremely sorry, - but so very many similar requests are made upon Colonel Roosevelt that it is not possible for him to comply with them. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Edith Lavell, Director, Gir Scout Headquarters, 34 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 78January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Lawshe': I am extremely sorry, but it is not possible for me to undertake anything additional so I shall have to refuse to accept the election to the Advisory Committee. Sincerely yours, Mr. E. Lawshe", 360 Madison Avenue, New York. 79January 22, 1918. My dear Mr. Libby: The demands upon 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. Herbert C. Libby, Waterville, Maine. 80January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Lockwood: I thank you for your very kind invitation but on that day I shall be speaking in Milwaukee. With heavy thanks and real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles E. Lockwood, Secy., The Republican Club, Hotel Oregon, Portland, Ore. 81January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Loucks: I thank you for your very kind invitation, but on that day I shall be speaking in Milwaukee. With hearty thanks and real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. Harris Loucks, c/o Visscher, Whalen & Austin, 126 State Street, Albany, N.Y. 82January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Lowrey: 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 [?] than I am doing. Thanking you and expressing my regret, I am, Faithfully yours, Mr. Harvey H. Lowrey, Pres. Mich. State Teacher Assn., Ionia, Mich. 3January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Merrick: 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. H. Merrick, Pres., National Security League, Chicago, Ill. 84January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Moore: Colonel Roosevelt thoroughly agrees with you but he isn't sure whether or not this is the time for him to agitate that matter. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Alexander P. Moore, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa. 5January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Needham: Won't you quote from my writing? So many requests are made that U should only have to repeat. I appreciate your letter, and thank you heartily for it. Sincerely yours, Rev. William E. Needham, 710 Market Street, Marcus Hook, Pa. January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Parker: 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 arrangement 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. L. Parker, Camp Secy., Y.M.C.A. Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich. January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mayor Peters: Colonel Roosevelt asked me to submit the enclosed speech to you - the speech he is to deliver at Boston on February 6th next - and to ask you confidentially if you have any suggestions to make. Please understand that Colonel Roosevelt does not wish to place any responsibility upon your shoulders and no one will know that it has been submitted to you. If you have any suggestions to make will you kindly let me have them by Saturday next when Colonel Roosevelt will have returned from Washington, together with the enclosed copy of the special? Sincerely yours, Secretary. Hon. Andrew [*J*] Peters, Mayer Elect, Boston, Mass, [????8][*Roosevelt*] January 22nd, 1918. Gentlemen: Will you kindly place the enclosed check for $248.69 to the credit of Colonel Roosevelt's account? Sincerely yours, Secretary. Roosevelt & Son, 30 Pine Street, New Your City. [???9]January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Spencer: I shall be in Washington on the 25th, and I am afraid I must confine myself to one speech for New Jersey. To my mind, early in the spring is the best I can do. With hearty good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Bird W. Spencer, National Security League, Passaic, N.J. [???90]January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Spencer: I wish I could go to Grinnell College but it is a physical impossibility or me to attempt more at the present time. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Edward B. T. Spencer, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa. [???91]January 22nd, 1918. My dear Miss Stein: The demands upon me for speech 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 Rita F. Stein, Secy., Council of Jewish Women, 934 Mellon Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. [????2]January 22nd, 1918. Dear Miss Stevens: I do not think I had better make another public statement. I am going to see Senator Wadsworth and find out if I can get him to change. Faithfully yours, Miss Doris Stevens, National Woman's Party, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. [???93]January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Stratton: Colonel Roosevelt will be in his office on January 30th. Will call to see him at about 12 O'clock noon? Sincerely yours, Mr. Leslie A. Stratton, Coney Island Time, Stratton Bldg., Coney Island, N. Y. [???94]January 22nd, 1918. Dear Mr. Towne: In reply to your letter of January 17th, Colonel Roosevelt says 'All right". Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles H. Towne, McClures Magazine, 25 West 44th Street, City. January 22nd, 1918. My dear president Van Hise: I am really glad to see that, and I thank you for it. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles Van Hise, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. [?96]January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Wall: I thank you for your telegram and regret it is not possible for me to be with you on the occasion mentioned. Faithfully yours, Mr. Herbert Wall, Secy., Rocky Mountain Club. New York.January 22nd, 1918. My dear Mr. Wells: 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. John W. Wells, Menominee, Mich.July 23, 1918. Edward D. Ackerman, Esq., Hotel Continental, Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your letter, and to say that if the opportunity presents itself to advance your interests in the manner suggested he will be very glad to avail himself of it. Very truly yours, Secretary to Congressman Longworth. January 23, 1918. Mrs. A. M. Blair, 1830 16th Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Madam: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 23rd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours. secretary to Representative Longworth. January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Caswell: I am very much obligated for your interesting nd informing letter. I guess I had better not take any action on the [?] [?] matter in question. I don't think I could accomplish anything that would be advisable. I want to keep out of every kind of local trouble that I possibly can, and I don't want to make any fight on individuals if I can avoid it. I am really obliged to you for what you have written me. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. W. Caswell, 1319 Michigan Avenue, Hutnington, Ind. 6666January 23, 1918. My dear M. Chèredame: Your cable puzzles me very much. Believe me, I would come over instantly if I thought I could accomplish anything. May I write this letter confidentiality? The reasons I don't do so is that there is nothing I could accomplish, because of the attitude of the Administration. You need hardly be told that I sympathize absolutely with your views that the break up of the Austrian Empire is the essential feature in securing a peace that will make both democracy and civilization safe. I have said this in my writings and speeches. I cannot in this letter state as much as I would like as to, what I really believe the attitude of Mr. Wilson to be. I can only say that I do not believe I can render any useful service by going to France at this time. With real regret, Sincerely yours, M. Andrè' Cheredame, 11 Bis rue Berteaux Dumas, Neiully, Seine, France. 749January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Coles: In the first place let me thank you for your very interesting letter, I had not seen the clipping you enclosed. I entirely agree with you that I ought to have said [*"*]among the finest Americans[*"*], instead of putting it as "the finest Americans." Billy Loeb is not a Jew but an Episcopalian. You have done really admirable work in food conservation. Your little paragraph on the feeding habits of the brown pelican is so admirable that I wish You could write a natural history of the sea-birds and sea-fish[*!*] Faithfully yours, Mr. Russell J. Coles, Denville, Va. 46January 23, 1918. Dear Mr. West: It seems to me that Fawcett is hardly even a criminal; he is just a plain lunatic. I don't know whether his paper is published in the interest of free love, anarchy or what[:], but it is immensely to the interest of any decent citizen to have his enmity. Faithfully yours, Mr. James E. West, Boy Scouts of America, Fifth Avenue Bldg. City.,[*Boston Univ Law School*] January 23, 1918. My dear Dean Albers: I wish I could accept, for that is a fine thing you intend to do. Nothing can be better for the country than thus to honor the students who have entered the service of the United States at this juncture. But it is absolutely impossible for me to undertake another engagement. I am very, very sorry. Faithfully yours, Dean Homer Albers, Boston University Law School, Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.January 23, 1918 [*Private*] My Dear Mr. Cook: There is not one word of truth in that statement. It has never entered my head to make any such offer; [*, I never have thought of making such a campaign*] My opinion of Mr. Townley remains entirely unchanged [??] [*by*] what you tell me. Will you get my book called "The Foes of Our Own Household" and read the chapter on the farmer? I think it will satisfy you. I quite agree with you that President Wilson is doubtless trying to [secur?] the friendship of Mr. Townley, Mr. La Follette and others of the same type. Sincerely yours, Mr. Willis C. Cook, Sioux Falls, S.D. 2900January 23, 1918. My dear Miss Davis: That's very very nice of you. The sweater has come and we shall send it to one of our boys. Mrs. Roosevelt thanks you as much as I Do. Faithfully yours, Miss Jeanie Davis, 308 Rex Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. 901January 23, 1918. Dear Mr. Doran: That's fine. I am very much obliged to you and I fully understand the whole situation. Faithfully yours, Mr. George H. Doran, 244 Madison Avenue, New York. 2902January 23, 1918. My Dear Mr. Earle: I most heartily believe that the work done by the Nassau County Council of the Boy Scouts of America justifies its continuance. Therefore, I hope you will be able to obtain the finances you need. Already the movement has done good in Nassau County [?] very marked character and its field of usefulness is constantly extended. It is a movement that takes the whine out of the boys and puts the right stuff in them, and it tends to produce a thoroughly manly set of young men, who will turn out American citizens of the type we have a right to expect. Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry M. Earle, Boy Scouts of America, Mineola, N.Y. 903January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Easley: Surely, I don't need to tell you that I will go to any length against any German-American (that is any American of German blood) who is not an American through and through; and I gave no "blanket endorsement to German-Americans." I said that the bulk of the American citizens of German descent [any old] were straight. This I firmly believe; but I absolutely agree with you that the Administration has not been anything like severe enough on German-Americans. It [has] seems to have been making terms with Hearst and La Follette and the Ridders. There is no public speech I have ever made in which I have not taken the straightest ground against any man who is not wholeheartedly against Germany; and if you will give me any facts to which I can call attention about the alien enemies and the need of dealing with them harshly, I will in any way or shape act against them. But I think [?] is done and not good by any action that tends to drive loyal Americans of German blood into the same camp with their disloyal brethren. Who is that St. Louis man of whom you spoke? Faithfully yours, Mr. Ralph M. Easley, 1 Madison Avenue, City. 2904[*Personal*] January 23, 1918. My Dear Mr. Ferbrache: The clipping you enclosed was from [*a piece by*] one of the Administration's friends, engaged in helping the Administration "play politics." I have never "played politics" in any matter concerning the welfare of the country, [*or during this war*] I regret that the Administration has seen fit to play politics; and what you and all other good Americans should do is heartily to support men in calling attention to the shameful and scandalous shortcomings which interfere [so] [*with*] our efficiency in this war. I will support any man, Democrat or Republican, who at this crisis shows himself to be a first class patriot; but I will not be withheld from telling the truth when the truth is necessary, no matter whom it effects. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. S. Ferbrache, The Sturges Hotel, Albuquerque, N,M. 2905January 23, 1918. Dear Mr. Fosdick: Will you kindly return the letter that I enclosed to you so that a prompt answer can be sent? Sincerely yours, Mr. Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman, War Department, Washington, D. C. 2906January 23, 1918. My dear Dr. Goodhue: With reference to your letter of January 16th to Colonel Roosevelt, if you will call at Colonel Roosevelt's office, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York at 12 o'clock noon either January 30th or January 31th, he will be glad to see you. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Dr. E. S. Goodhue, New Cochran Hotel, 14th & K Streets, Washington, D.C. 2907January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Hackett: It is not possible for me to make such a request for anyone. I would not do it for one of my own sons and the General could not heed it if I did. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, Mr. James K. Hackett, 56 West 71st Street, New York. 2908January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Harlan: That's a fine letter of yours and I believe you are absolutely right in everything you say in your letter to Whitney. I met Major Bishop the other day and was deeply interested [also] in him. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Harlan. Faithfully yours, Mr. Richard D. Harlan, 394 Dorchester Street West, Montreal, Canada. 2909January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Hurd: Will you look over the enclosed letter by President Luther? If the book is as he descries, and I am confident that his quotations from it [is] are accurate, I quite agree with him that Mr. Thorstein Veblen ought to be in jail. Is there is anything that our society can do in the matter? Faithfully yours, Mr. Richard M. Hurd, American Defense Society, 59 Liberty Street, City. 910January 23, 1918. J. C. Ireland, Esq., 1246 East 40th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 21ft, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42911January 23, 1918. C. E. Knoeppel, Esq., 101 Park Avenue, New York City. Dear sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 22nd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42912[*Lee*] January 23, 1918. Dear Arthur: It isn't necessary to say that your letter gave me the very greatest pleasure. You told me all the things I wanted to know. There isn't any need for making excuses for not writing more often. Letters go infrequently now and suffer queer accidents and are often censored out of all shape; and besides one hasn't the heart to write much. I don't even know whether you got my last letter, in which I made a very earnest plea that Kermit should be put at the front in the fighting, if it be possible and proper. I need hardly say that I appreciate to the full that upon which you lay such stress - that time, and again time, is the essence of the problem, which once lost can never be made up. I am heart-sick at the delays and inefficiency of the Administration. I have incurred very great odium during the past four or five months by calling attention to these delays and inefficiencies and insisting upon their remedy. Hearst's papers are now the ardent supporters of the President simply because he is delaying and is a poor Administrator, and Hearst wishes to serve Germany. He is demanding that my mouth be closed, I presume by putting me in the penitentiary. I must say I should feel a certain grim enjoyment if they 13- 2 - tried; [and] - I think it really might help speed up the war. Gradually the people will come round to my views, just as they have gradually come round to all my views for the last three and a half years. But nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time; and so far we have at the outside never showed more than the one-tenth. Wilson is not an Administrator at all. He is purely a rhetorician and he is an entirely cold-blooded man who thinks only of his own political success. He would of course like to win the war, but he would also like to appear as the peace maker, who would [win] get us out of the war without any bloodshed and then wrap himself around in sonorous platitudes. I think he would like one triumph just as much as the other; and as the latter is much easier than the former he has not really made much genuine effort to get us into the fight. He has kept hoping that Germany would break down or that everybody would get tired and agree to a peace. For the last six months one of the mischievous elements we have had to contend with has been the politic admiration expressed for him and his deeds by so many Englishmen. Worthcliffe was fairly fulsome and was [his continual quoting] continually quoted against me when I tried to get Wilson to speed up the war. I suppose a hundred times 14- 3 - the Administration organs explained that my criticisms were obviously in bad faith, because the British were so delighted at everything Wilson was doing. It would of course never have done to attack him; but it was not only unnecessary, it was damaging, to praise him as doing well as regards the things he was either not doing at all or doing very badly. I believe the American people are now waking up; but it is only after a year of blind gratuity and boasting, and it will be a work of increditable difficulty to recover the lost ground. If you will turn to the opening part of the chapter in my autobiography called "The War of America the Unready", the part in which you may remember you helped me, you will find a description of practically what has occurred now; and now we have the great added misfortune that the President, instead of possessing McKinley's good nature and sincere desire to win, is a coldly malicious man, much more anxious to benefit himself [than] and to punish any real or fancied enemies than to give effective leadership to the nation. General Pershing wrote me that Ted is one of his most efficient battalion Commanders. He has recommended Archie for a Captaincy. Quentin is doing well in his flying. All three boys are bitterly disappointed that they are not allowed to take their troops into the battle line. Ted and Archie have been under fire 915- 4 - and have borne themselves well, but they have not seen any serious fighting. Kermit is delighted with his associations and experience. Belle Kermit has another son. Ethel is staying with us with her two babies, and it is not necessary to say how we enjoy them. I do some writing and speech making; of course always with the sole object of speeding up the war. But I haven't your satisfaction of feeling that I I have done work that counts. My dear Arthur, I congratulate you with all my heart on what you and Ruth have done and I am very proud of my friendship with you both. Ever faithfully, Sir Arthur Lee, 2 The Abbey Garden, Great College Street, Westminster, London, England. 2916January 23, 1918. My dear President Luther: I will see if there is anything I can do in that matter. Mr. Veblen ought not to be in jail, but to be shot. Faithfully yours, President F. S. Luther, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. 42917January 23, 1918. Jos. McCoy, Esq., Hotel Harrington, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 22nd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 43055January 23, 1918. My dear Commander Millais: Is the enclosed all right? The irritating thing is that I am sure I have several of Selous' letters; but they are in the enormous mass of my papers in the Congressional Library, and it would literally take months of effort before I could find them. I wish my boys could get over to see you but they don't allow them out of the training trenches for more than a day or two at a time, and [that is] then very infrequently. Just at present I am devoting every ounce of energy I have [in] to the effort to hurry up our action. If I ever meet you I will tell you some of the difficulties I have met with from your own people, who have unwittingly contributed to keep our Administration fatuously complacent and inactive. I grinned over Lloyd George's proposal to consult the natives about the government of the African possessions. Our President gladly followed suit, for it is the kind of preposterous fatuity that appeals to him - appeals to him as a matter of oratory only, for in practice at this time he is occupying Hayti, without the smallest regard to the wishes of the Haytians. 18- 2 - There never was a more ludicrous proposal than that of consulting those wild savages as to whom they love best. It would literally be quite as rational to get from them an expression of opinion as to the nebular hypothesis. Faithfully yours, Commander John G. Millais, Compton's Brow, Horsham, Sussex, England. 919[*Moore*] January 23, 1918. Dear Alex: Mrs. Ted is not at the head of the Officers Club; she is in the Y.M.C.A. and has sometimes been detailed to the Officers Club. She would be absolutely helpless to do anything. I did not get her the appointment, because as a matter of fact I was against her going, mistakenly, as it proves. Now, would you like me to try through the Y.M.C.A. for your niece? I will do so gladly. But I gravely question whether they will make the appointment for me. Will you let me suggest that Mrs. Martin first goes to the local Y.M.C.A. and tries to find out just what they are doing and just what she can accomplish? Then let me know and I will try in any way I can to help her. Faithfully yours, Mr. Alexander P. Moore, Pittsburgh Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa. 920January 23. 1918. A. P. Moore, Esq., Pittsburgh, Pa. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 22nd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42921January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Putnam: That is entirely satisfactory but of course must not be publicly placed as in any way "responsible" for the scenario. Faithfully yours, Mr. George H. Putnam, 2 West 45th Street, City. 923January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Rees: That's mighty nice of you. I appreciate your letter and I thank you warmly for sending me the poem. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Rees D. Rees, Suite 808 Symes Bldg. Denver, Colo. 42924January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Ross: I hate to seem churlish, but if you realized how driven I am you would not try to have me write a message that would necessarily be a repetition of what I have already said to the scouts. My dear Mr. Ross, I do not think it advisable for people to try to continually get duplicate messages on the same subject. At any rate I am sure I am not able to give them and do them any justice whatever! I think it most inadvisable to keep repeating messages on the same subject in cases of this kind. Won't you take some of the things I have already said to the Scouts? I sent a message about them to Mr. West some time ago that I thought covered the Scouts, and I have delivered one or two messages since. With real regret and all good wishes. Faithfully yours, Mr. F. J. Ross, Pres., 95 Madison Avenue, City. 925January 23, 1918. Dear Mrs. Rowell: Three cheers! I am as pleased as possible. Give my heartiest regards to the convalescent. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Chester Rowell, c/o Fresno Republican, Fresno, Calif. 42926January 23, 1918. Mrs. Juliet Barrett [Rubles] Rublee, 1957 Biltmore Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Madam: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your kind invitation for dinner tomorrow night, and to express his sincere regret that another engagement will prevent him from accepting it. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42927January 23, 1918. My dear Dr. Rudy: That's nighty nice of you. I appreciate the book and the enclosure and I appreciate your letter to the full. But you must not ask me to comment on the book. You have no idea how many such requests I receive. With heartiest good wishes, Faithfully yours, Rev. J, M. Rudy, c/o Virginia Hotel, Quincy, Ill. 42928January 23, 1918. Dear Mr. Ruffner: Three cheers for the "old Yukon Sour-Dough!" That's the kind of doctrine I believe in. Faithfully yours, Mr. J. M. Ruffner, 1009 Pioneer Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. 929January 23, 918. A. E. Scheble Esq., Toledo, Ohio. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 22nd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42930TELEGRAM January 23, 1918. Sir Frederick Smith, Attorney General of Great Britain, c/o The Bar Association, Toronto, Ont. Canada, Can you and your brother lunch with me at Harvard Club New York Thursday January thirty-first. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Charge to Met. Mag. 31January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Stein: I am genuinely sorry to learn of the death of Bill McDonald. He was a very fine man. Faithfully yours, Mr. Harry B. Stein, Little Rock, Ark. 932January 23, 1918. C. H. Stevenson, Esq., Price, Utah. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 23rd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Very truly yours, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42933January 23, 1918. Samuel H. Stratton, Esq., 1401 Girard Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt is so busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 22nd, and to thank you for sending it to him. Your very truly, Secretary to Representative Longworth. 42932January 23, 1918. My dear Mr. Upsher: That's mighty nice of you. I thank you and appreciate your letter, and I thank you for giving me the chance of seeing your poem. Faithfully yours, Mr. George L. Upsher, 1790 Broadway, New York. 35[*Welling*] January 23, 1918. Dear Dick: That's a capital letter of yours and you have stated Choate's character exactly. Always yours, Mr. Richard Welling, Section 4, 3rd Naval Dist., Montauk, N.Y. 936[*Wister*] January 23, 1918 Dear Owen: I agree with that letter but I think I have got on hand at present all that I can take charge of. I believe that Wilson is even more [?vul] on other points. I think that pale grey skunk is now appearing to the American people much more nearly as he is, than heretofore has been the case. Faithfully yours. Owen Wister, Esq., 191 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. 938[*White*] January 23, 1918. Dear W. A. I have already written to Kellogg who had sent me another volume. You are entirely right about the American people and I am going to see if I can't [make] write just such an editorial as you describe. Faithfully yours, Mr. William Allen White, Emporia, Kans. 2937[*Wood*] January 23, 1918. My dear Major: I look forward with real interest to getting that book. It is the kind of thing that always delights me. I wish particularly to thank you for the more than kind statements in your letter. With very hearty regards, Faithfully yours, Major Casey A. Wood, War Department, Army Medical Museum & Library, Washington, D.C. [* P.S. The book has just come, and in half an hour I shall be reading it with absorbed interest!*] 939January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Allist: 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. Peter E. Allist, 312 Paulison Avenue, Passaic, N.J.766 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Appleby: 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, that 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 D. Appleby, Okla. State Republican Committee, Oklahoma, City, Okla.509 [*Arkansas*] January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Bagley: The demands upon me for speeches have become to 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. C. Bagley, Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Ark.1124 [*Bailey*] January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Bailey If you will go to the Library and look over the files of the Metropolitan Magazines and the Kansas City Star editorials, together with Colonel Roosevelt's two late books - "Fear God and Take Your Own Part" and "The Foes of Our Own Household" - you will get all the information you inquire for. Colonel Roosevelt's mail is so extremely heavy that it is not possible for him to send you a fuller reply at this time. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. W. A. Bailey, Principal, High School, Kansas City, Kans.January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Barhite: Unfortunately I do not know of anyone who could be of assistance to you in that matter. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Jared Barhite, 270 Freeman Avenue, Long Island City, N.Y. ????3720 January 24, 1918. Dear Miss Barka: I am returning your manuscript herewith. I can only suggest that you submit it to the various magazines yourself. Sincerely yours, Miss Gertrude Marion Barka, 835 Courthouse Avenue, Merced, Calif. 3387 January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Beede: Because it was not possible to get a large enough hall in St. Louis, Colonel Roosevelt will omit that city on his trip and will fill the engagement next spring. His speech was already prepared for St. Louis and he did not intend to have a prepared speech for Detroit. He has now decided that he might just as well use his prepared speech for Detroit so he has made a few changes and about a week before his visit to Detroit will send you a copy of it. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. L. J. Beede, U. S. N. R. F. 161 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. [*I am leaving it entirely to you to keep Mr. Coleman and all others that should know about Col. Roosevelt's arrangements, informed.*]January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Bigot: I thank you heartily and like the book. It is very good of you to have sent it to me. Faithfully yours, Mr. George Bigot, The Delineator, Butterick Bldg., City. 4609 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Bird: Is the enclosed all right? I am not sure that Wood will have any choice in the matter, and you do not need to be told the attitude of the War Department toward him. I wish most emphatically to express my agreement with what you say about Wilson being solely responsible. Baker and Garfield and the others are merely tools, and it is a waste of time to condemn them. I have to use them to illustrate what I say; [and] but I am careful to put the responsibility on Wilson, where it belongs. Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles Sumner Bird, East Walpole, Mass.4633 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Boorman: That's a very nice letter of yours. I congratulate you about the boy, and all your family. Your fellow grandfather, Mr. T. Hugh Boorman, 1 Broadway, City.5971 January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Brown: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I thank you for it and I thank you for the clipping enclosed. Faithfully yours, Mrs. James A. Brown, 125 Vernon Avenue, Fergus Falls, Minn.1943 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Burdick: Your son should take that matter up with the Secretary of War, Pension Department, Washington, D.C. Sincerely yours, Mr. L. E. Burdick, Sauk Center, Minn.4970 January 24, 1918. Dear Miss Burt: I am sorry but the demands upon Colonel Roosevelt's time now are so great that it is impossible for him to attempt anything additional. With regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Miss Nellie C. Burt, 145 West 132nd Street, New York City.1177 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Chance: That's awfully nice of you. I appreciate your letter. What you say about [?] is absolutely true. But as regards myself I think it out of the question to expect the Administration to make use of me in any fashion. Faithfully yours, Mr. Wade Chance, The National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, City. 6705January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Clevenger: That's one of the nicest letters I have received. If more American had your fearlessness and efficiency in dealing with anti-American slanderers, this country would be better administered. With hearty thanks. Faithfully yours, Mr. E. C. Clevenger, Bowling Green. Ohio. 6950January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Caldwell: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of January 13th. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Harry Caldwell, 1725 Van Buren Street, St. Paul, Minn. 40January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Coleman: I return you those two very interesting letters. Is it not shocking that Secretary Baker should now be asserting that there is an ample supply of rifles in every camp, when your son showed that as late as the 10th of this month only one-third of his company had them? I congratulate you on the boy's record. I feel heartsick over the failures in Washington. Faithfully yours, Mr. S. S. Coleman, 1803 24th Ave., Meridian, Miss. 41January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Cookinham: I want to thank you most warmly for that letter. Without passing opinion upon your suggestion, I wish to say how much I appreciate the tone in which you write. Faithfully yours, Mr. H. J. Cookinham, White Bldg., Utica, N.Y. 42 January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Corell: 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. John J. Corell, 555 West 156th Street New York. 943TELEGRAM January 24, 1918. Mr. W. G. Cowell, Coldwater, Mich. Extremely sorry but I shall only be able to make one address in Michigan at his time. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. COLLECT. 44[*Cowsill*] January 24 1918. My dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt thanks you for your courtesy, but it is not possible to go into that matter. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Arthur Cowsill, 1424 Howard Street, Washington, D.C. [*46 page hand written letter. Can't make out what he wants. Destroyed it - too bulky!*] 945January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Deegan: Unfortunately, my life is so very busy that I have only to-day been able to send out the books to your various cantonments by American Express. Your letter of November 1st arrived during my vacation, and I was rather surprised to find upon my return that my individual offer had been misinterpreted by you. The first two men that talked to me on the telephone understood perfectly that it was my personal gift and also the first man that wrote me a letter about it. I have sent to each of the 16 cantonments a copy of "Hurrah and Hallelujah" by Bangs, "Fear God and Take your Own Part" by Roosevelt, and "The Foes of Our Own Household" by Roosevelt. It seemed to me that these books would make very good reading and were particularly appropriate at this time. I am attaching herewith copy of a paster which was attached to each book. Wishing you every success in your very admirable work, I am, Very truly yours, Mr. John F. Deegan, Knights of Columbus, 728 Woodward Bldg., Washington, D. C. 46January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Delcombre: I cannot accept another honorary position in any society, much though I sympathize with [it.] your purposes. I h[ave]old too many positions already. But it is a very real pleasure to wish hearty success to the Italian Auxiliary of the American Red Cross. I earnestly hope that you will be able to do all the work that you desire to do for the Red Cross. I regret that I do not know enough of the situation to make my words o[r]f commendation more specific. Faithfully yours, Mrs. Alfred Delcombre, Jr., Park Avenue Hotel, New York. 47January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Dougherty: That's fine. I thank you for your letter and I thank your for the clipping enclosed. Sincerely yours, Mr. James T. Dougherty, Colonial Hotel, Crum Lynne, Pa. 948January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Durkan: I thank you for your letter. Of course I remember you very well. My son is in Mesopotamia, so I would have no idea how to proceed to have your wishes met, to be detailed to serve under him. I regret that you should have been turned down in your efforts for a commission. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. P. Durkan,, Lee Ave. R. E. Topographical Section, VIII Corps, Hq. France. 49[hold out special] January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Ely: That's fine. I shall arrive at Madison at 12:50 noon, February 13th. I look forward with the greatest eagerness to my visit in Madison. Of course I agree entirely with you about La Follette and [at] the great importance of beating him. Faithfully yours, Mr. Richard T. Ely, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. P.S. I shall be leaving Madison at 5:40 in the afternoon of February 13th and shall only be able to make on address. 50January 24,1918. My dear Dr. Foxwell: That's such a very nice telegram of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks an acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Dr. Charles Foxwell, Windsor Hills, Baltimore, Md. 51January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Francis: That's a very interesting letter of yours. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. J. L. Francis, 319 Baum Bldg., Oklahoma City, Okla. 52January 24, 1918. My dear Miss Gaylord: I was sorry on Saturday no to have had the chance of a little talk with you, but since receiving your letter and reading the enclosures I am more sorry. Why Simons turned down your letter I cannot understand. It's one of the best things I know, and so is the "pitiless publicity" article. I am glad The Vigilantes is sending this out; but I wish they could sen[t]d out the letter to the Tribune as well; moreover what you said about loyal teachers and applying to them the Lusitania test is exactly right. Faithfully yours, Miss Harriet Gaylord, 204 West 94th Street, New York. 53 Faithfully yours, Miss Harriet Gaylord, 204 West 94th Street, New York. 53January 24, 1918. My dear Bishop Glennon: I deeply appreciate your courtesy in sending me the handsome copy of your Centennial Announcement of the arrival of Bishop Du Bourg at Saint Louis. With sincerely regard, Faithfully yours, Archbishop John J. Glennon, St. Louis, Mo. 954January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Goodner: At this time I think it is most important to speed up the war and fight it to a victorious conclusion. Faithfully yours, Mr. M. P. Goodner, Olympia, Wash.January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Graham: May I ask you to express my very warm sympathy and concern to Dr. Gladden? I am shocked at what you tell me. I earnestly hope that the Doctor will soon be better. with all geed Wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. George Graham, 419 East Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio. 6January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Greene: That's 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. J. A Greene, Jr., Jackson, Miss. 7January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Griffith: I thank you for your letter and I thank you for the clipping enclosed. Sincerely yours, Mr. John H. Griffith, Co. F, National Solg. Home, Virginia. 8January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Grove: 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. Herbert R. Grove, 809 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 59January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Hamilton: I wish I could advise you, but I am absolutely helpless. I have no power to do anything at all. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. A. Hamilton, 521 Magnolia Street, Toledo, Ohio. 60January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Harris: I think it was awfully nice of you to have sent me the beautiful book. Believe me, I appreciate it to the full. I know your husband is in the army but just where is he now? With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mrs. Julian Harris, 35 West 64 Street, New York. 61January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Harroun: Indeed, if I knew how to advise you I would most gladly. But I know nothing about any military school at Washington, although I am confident there must be good schools there for preparation both for the navy and the army. Will you not get your husband at once to ask your Congressman to furnish you the information? I think that is the easy way to go about it. Faithfully yours, Mrs. A. K. Harroun, 47 Lawrence Avenue, West Orange, N. J. 52January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Hartt: 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. O. W. Hartt, 3201 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, Ind. 63January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Hepburn: I am very sorry but it is not possible for me to examine manuscripts or pass upon their merits. It is a thing I never do and at this time I have not one moment to myself. With regret and best wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. R. H. Hepburn, 921 South 48th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [*returned Manuscript*] 64 January 24, 1918. My dear Dr. Hill: That's a awfully nice letter of yours. I need not say that I agree to the full with what you say about the present Administration. We are really in a dreadful situation. In the not distant future I must get the chance of seeing you. Faithfully yours, Dr. David Jayne Hill, 1745 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. 65January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Hogarth: I am doing everything I can, but of course you know I have no influence with the Administration. Sincerely yours, Mr. James B. Hogarth, 450 Surf Street, Chicago, Ill. 66January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Johnson: That's very good of you. I thank you and look forward with pleasure to reading the pamphlet. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. F. Johnson, Twin Falls, Idaho. 7January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Johnson: That's very good of you. I thank you for your letter and I thank you for the clipping enclosed. Faithfully yours, Mr. George B. Johnson, Spring City, Tenn. 8January 24, 1918 My dear Mr. Johnson: That's very good of you. I thank you and look forward with pleasure to reading the book Faithfully yours, Mr. James W. Johnson, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. 969January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Johnson: I greatly appreciate the beautiful book of poems. I have already looked at one or two and I can say truthfully that I genuinely anticipate reading them. You are more thank kind in your inscription. I thank you and I wish to congratulate you upon what you have done. Faithfully yours, Mr. James W. Johnson, 70 Fifth Ave. City 70PRESS RATES COLLECT. Jan 24th, 1918. Kansas City Star, Kansas City Mo. Title [Speed up the war effort] The Peoples War. Paragraph It is not agreeable to keep insisting on the need of doing better than we have done. It is not agreeable to keep pointing out our short comings. But to do so is the only way of remedying them and of securing better action in the future. The people some of them well meaning some of them anything but well meaning who denounce criticism and who object [the] to telling the minimum of truth necessary to correct our faults are the efficient allies of Germany and the foes of the United States. Actual events have shown that fatuous complacency on the part of our officials has resulted in inefficiency and delay which would have meant overwhelming disaster to this nation if we had not been protected by the fleets and armies of England and France. Paragraph. For the first eleven months of this war the inefficiency at vital points in our government notably in the matter of shipping and in the management of the war department was worse than anything Russia herself has ever seen. Nearly thirteen months have now passed since Germany went to ar with us and we broke relations with Germany and [then] afterwards timidly and helplessly drifted stern foremost into what we styled a quote formal unquote state of war. The Russo-Japanese war likewise began before there was any formal declaration of war. It only lasted sixteen months. We have been accustomed to hold out Russia's action[s] during that sixteen months as a miracle of inefficiency, but she showed herself far less inefficient than we have shown ourselves 1during the thirteen months that have just passed; and of course there was nothing in her conduct quite as bad as our criminal folly in utterly failing in any shape or way to prepare during the two and a half previous years. There is just one difference between the two cases. Russia did not have England and France to protect her from the effects of her folly. That we have been at liberty to indulge in our folly with impunity is due only to the fact that England and France have protected us with the blood of their bravest, while we have refused to prepare and then delayed and blundered and fatuously boasted after the war came on. Every pro-German of course heartily applauds these blunders and delays and bitterly object to their being pointed out. But every American with a particle of patriotism in him, every American proud of his country should learn the bitter lesson and should resolve that never again will we permit our great nation to be put in such an ignoble position. Paragraph. Our worst failure of course has been our failure to grapple with the shipping problem. But there have been many such failures. was the failure to equip Pershing's army. I do not believe a more gallant little army than Pershing's was ever sent abroad, but without abundant artillery, machine guns and airplanes a modern army is as helpless as if its men were armed only with stone-headed axes. Pershing's army has only the field artillery, machine guns and airplanes that the French have given it. And this although since our troops landed last June, a longer time has elapsed than covered the whole Franco-Prussian war. As regards the field artillery the fault is due to the blind refusal of the government to prepare in advance to build the guns. As regards the machine guns and auto-rifles that fault is due to 72what ought to be treated as a criminal refusal of the last thirteen months to utilize the Lewis gun. Paragraph. Steps have been taken [condemning] to remedy the worst of these evils in the war department. They have been taken only and purely because of the fearless exposure of inefficiency by Senator Chamberlain and his colleagues of the Senate Investigating Committee. Until this committee began its labor the war department rested fatuously complacent with its inefficiency, blundering and delay. There has been some improvement and this improvement is due solely to the Senate Committee. Paragraph. This is the peoples war. It is not the President's war any more than it is Congress' war - it is America's war. We are in honor bound in conducting it to stand by every official who does well and against every official who fails to do well. Any other attitude is a servile attitude. Congress on the whole has done well. Until Congress finally asserted itself the executive branch of the government did very badly. If Congress follows the lead outlined in the Chamberlain bill it will continue to do well; if it follows the lead outlined in Senator Overman's bill it will condone the inefficiency of the past and put a premium upon inefficiency in the future. Congress cannot shirk its duty to the people. To pass the Overman bill would be both a vicious and a silly act. Let the machinery of the government be modernized and above all let the machinery be manned by men of distinguished and demonstrated ability which will make the governmental conduct efficient instead of grossly inefficient as it was during the first year of the war. Paragraph. Let us quit being content with feeble mediocrity. Let us demand really first class efficiency in both preparation and performance. That is the only way to do what we must do and see this war through to a triumphant conclusion. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 73January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Koch: 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. C. Koch, 59 Fairview Avenue, Plainfield , N. J.January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Lamb: I appreciate your very courteous letter, but at present the demands upon my time are so great that it is not possible for me to attempt anything additional, no matter how much in sympathy I am with the work being done. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. R. Lamb, Eufaula, Okla. 75January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Libby: 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. Herbert C. Libby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. 6January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Marsh: That's such a very nice letter of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of yours and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Mr. E. T. Marsh, 196 N. Goodman Street, Rochester, N.Y. 7January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Massey: 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. Thomas G. Massey, Cedar Knolls, Bronxville, N.Y. 8January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. McClatchy: I am very much pleased with both of your letters; and now I must make a confession! I misinterpreted your first letter as being an expression on your part that it was desirable to have Chinese immigration; and as I believe so much in your general policies I felt a genuine regret to write you as I did. I am so glad to find the regret was not warranted, and that you and I occupy the same position in this matter. Faithfully yours, Mr. Charles K. McClatchy, The Bee, Sacramento, Calif. 9January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. McCormick: Your enclosures are interesting, but of course you know I have no influence with the Government, and there is nothing I can do. I deeply appreciate your courtesy none the less. Sincerely yours, Mr. W. M. McCormick, McCormick Block, Baltimore, Md. [?]980January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. McFayden: 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. W. T. McFayden, 463 Eighth St., Erie, Pa. 1January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Mead: That's a very nice statement by Munroe Furgeson. I greatly appreciate it. It was a real pleasure seeing you the other day. Faithfully yours, Mr. Elwood Mead, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 82January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Milbank: 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 F. Milbank, Freehold, N. J. 983January 24, 1918. My dear Miss Morrison: That's such a very nice note of yours that pressed for time though I am, I must send you this line of thanks and acknowledgment. Faithfully yours, Miss Florence Morrison, Shelbyville, Ind. 984January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Mott: I of course sympathize warmly with your attack on alcoholism, and I am wholly at a loss to understand your attack on England. Any attack on England, or any of America's allies, at this time, amounts to giving aid and comfort to Germany, and becomes unpleasantly close to moral treason to the United States. Faithfully yours, Mr. Lawrence Mott, Harmony Nook, 680 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan. 85January 24, 1918. My dear Mrs. Noakes: 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, Mrs. A. Noakes, R. #1, Johnson, Nebr. 86[*Oulcott*] January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Oulcott: Will you kindly communicate with Mr. Hurd of the American Defense Society? Sincerely yours, Mr. F. H. Oulcott, Chairman, Extension Committee, 4 Minute Men, 53 East 44th Street, City. 7January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Patten: I thank you heartily for your very courteous letter, but I have more on my hands now than I can well attend to. It just isn't possible for me to go into anything new. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. William Patten, Rhinebeck, N. Y. 988January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Reilly: I thank you for your very courteous letter, but the demands upon me are so great that it is not possible for me to undertake anything additional at the present time. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Frank C. Reilly, Woolworth Bldg., City. 89January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Reilly: I am very sorry, but my engagements are such that it is not possible for me to attempt any additional speeches at this time. With hearty thanks, and real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. James C. Reilly, Pres. Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell, Mass. 0January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Ridgway: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I am so glad you liked that review. Faithfully yours, Mr. Erman J. Ridgway, c/o Frank A. Munsey Co., 8 West 40th Street, City. 91January 24, 1918. My dear Colonel Robinson: I absolutely agree with your general propositions, and I agree with as much of the specific propositions as I am able to pass judgment upon. I am entirely able to pass judgment on numbers 7 and 8 for example. It is mere folly when we have the man power and only the man power, and when that is the one thing our allies [they] lack, that we should not supply it. I wish to Heaven I had any influence with the Administration, but of course I have none. Faithfully yours, Colonel J. P. Robinson, 318th Field Artillery, Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. 92 January 24, 1918. [*Robinson*] Dear Monroe: Will you thank the Lieutenant for me for the poem and tell him I appreciate it to the full? I am so glad you liked my speech before the Ohio Society. Naturally I am very much pleased about Archie's promotion. Lord, how I wish all of you (and I) were together in France! Affectionately yours, Captain Monroe Robinson, Camp Upton, L. I. 2993January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Rosebault: I thank you for your letter of the 19th. I shall carefully consider that matter. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles J. Rosebault, The Vigilantes, 505 Fifth Avenue, City. 2994January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Sanford: I have forwarded your letter to the Secret Service Department at Washington, D. C. Sincerely yours, Mr. W. A. Sanford, Canon City, Colo. 995January 24, 1918. My dear Dr. Schermerhorn: 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, Rev. L. S. Schermerhorn, Tucumcari, N. M. 996January 24, 1918. [*Secret Service*] Gentlemen: I enclose herewith letter from Mr. W. A. Sanford of Canon, Colorado, which was received in Colonel Roosevelt's mail. It relates to a matter seeming to require your attention. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Secret Service Dept., Washington, D. C. 997January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Sieber: I am extremely sorry but the demands upon my time are so great that it is a physical impossibility for me to attempt anything additional at this time. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Harry F. Sieber, 908 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 98January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Smith: If you will refer to Colonel Roosevelt's editorials in the Kansas City Star and his articles in the Metropolitan Magazine, you will find the data for which you ask. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. P. N. Smith, Hamill, S. D. 99January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Snyder: I have never heard of any relationship on my part with either General Grant or the Kacys. I congratulate you on the admirable showing of your family. Faithfully yours, Mr. W. C. Snyder, 374 State Street, Bridgeport, Conn. 000January 24, 1918. [*Confidential*] My dear Mr. Southard: That's a very nice letter of yours, but I simply don't know how to advise you. Confidentially, I think the situation in Washington is just as bad as it can possibly be. If the President had been willing to act as a patriot I should have held up his hands to the very limit of my capacity, wholly without regard to partisanship. It is not Mr. Baker who is to blame; it is Mr. Wilson. My kinsfolk in the service feel just as yours do. They don't wish to have to depend upon a foreign country for the implements that give them an even chance with their foes. Unless the whole country speaks out, condemning delay, inefficiency and partisan politics by those responsible for handling the war, and demand efficiency in concrete shape, I don't know what the outcome will be. Faithfully yours, Mr. T. B. Southard, Wilson Creek, Wash. 001January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Wallace: It will give me great pleasure to dine with you and it will be delightful to have the two Generals you mention to dinner. I hope I shall be taken out to visit the camp in the afternoon. Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry C. Wallace, Wallace's Farmer, Des Moines, Iowa. 002January 24, 1918. My dear Mr. Weekes: I am extremely sorry but unless I can take some active part in the work of the committee I do not wish my name to appear thereon, and at this time the demands upon me are so great that it is not possible to undertake anything additional. Sincerely yours, Mr. A. D. Weekes, Jr., 52 William Street, City. 003January 24, 1918. My dear Dr. Wolcott: 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, Dr. Claude Wolcott, Amarillo, Texas. 04January 24, 1918. My dear General Wood: I am writing in reference to Captain Charles S. Bird, Jr., of the 303rd Artillery now at Ayer, Massachusetts. He is a Harvard man, 34 years old, who was in business with his father after leaving College and did first class work as a manufacturing manager. In character and ability he is exactly the type we most need in our army. His father, on the whole, is one of the most useful citizens of Massachusetts; a very successful business man, who has never permitted his business interests in the slightest degree to interfere with his vision and patriotism as a devoted American citizen. The son has peculiar ability in staff and organization work. Is there any way you could see him and find out whether you could make use of his service? If I had the chance I would use him at once, simply on his merits. Respectfully yours, Major-General Leonard Wood, War Department, Washington, D.C. 005January 24, 1918. Dear Mr. Woolsey: You can get the book in question either through G. P. Putnam and Sons, or Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thos. G. Woolsey, Clayton School No. 2, St. Louis, Mo. 06January 25, 1918. Rev. C. S. Abbott, 509 I Street, N. E., Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Abbott: Col. Roosevelt handed me your letter to him of yesterday, and asked me to express to you his regret that he would be unable to make the address you suggest on Sunday night. As a matter of fact he is leaving Washington before then, and has engagements which would make it physically impossible. Very truly yours,89 January 25, 1918. A. A. Allen, Esq., N. D., 95 Narragansett Street, Edgewood, Rhode Island. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hoped you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary.472 January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Bacon: There has been considerable friction between the Secretary of the Navy and the Navy League and I believe there is great need for knitted garments. If I had a photograph, I would gladly send one, but long ago the demands become so great that it was not possible to supply them. Sincerely yours, Mrs. G. U. Bacon, 505 Electric Chambers, Winnipeg, Man., Canada.1729 January 25, 1918. R. Barrett, Esq., Box 711 Reading, Pa. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt requests me to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of the 23rd, and to say that he regrets greatly that he has no power in such a matter. He suggests that you should apply to the military authorities. Very truly yours, Secretary. 3015 January 25, 1918. F. C. Barton, Esq., 65 Worth Street, New York, New York. Dear sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary.5933 January 25, 1918. Harry O. Bennett, Esq., Pharmacist, Penn Yan, N. Y. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary.5874 January 25, 1918. Mrs. Wm. Hutton Blauvelt, 1917 West Genesee Street, Syracuse, New York. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary.5447 January 25, 1918. Albert Bonneau, Esq., 40 rue des Quatre- Ponta, Chattellerault (Vienne) My dear Sir: I deeply appreciate your little note. I wish I could do more for France. Faithfully yours,5496 January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Brown: I am sorry but I have no way of getting those pictures. I wish I could help you but I am over my head in work and it just is not possible for me to attempt anything additional. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Clara Bell Brown, 1603 E. Broadway, Long Beach, Cal.1500 January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Brownell: That's very good of you. I thank you for your very kind letter and I thank you for letting me see the enclosure. Faithfully yours, Mr. George C. Brownell, Oregon City, Ore.2025 January 25, 1918. John E. Bruce , Esq., 2109 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 67652009 January 25, 1918. My dear President Chase: I thank you and deeply appreciate your more than kind letter, and regret it is not possible for me to do as you request. You have no conception of the demands upon my time and it is a physical impossibility for me to attempt anything additional. I hate to have to answer you this way. Faithfully yours, Mr. George C. Chase, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. 6765January 25, 1918. Addison H. Clarke, Esq., 717 Newington Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 6976January 25, 1918. Miss L. O. Cluxton, 540 West 122nd St. Roxbury, [Mass.] N. Y. Dear Madam: Thank you with all my heart for your kind letter. I was greatly interested in the one you enclosed. I wish it were possible for me to be of some use in remedying the dreadful conditions in our camps. Faithfully yours, 7025 January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Cobb: At this time I doubt the advisability of that plan and under no circumstances would the President allow me to do anything of the kind. I am returning your enclosure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Albert W. Cobb, Asia America Associates, 301 Carr Bldg., Springfield, Mass. 7111January 25, 1918. Gordon Seymour Carrigan, Esq., Stock Exchange Building, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Mr. Carrigan: That is a mighty nice letter. I thank you for it heartily and greatly appreciate it. Faithfully yours, 43007January 25, 1918. C. H. Carroll, Esq., 1540 East 54th Place, Apt. #61, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hope you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43008January 25, 1918. Paul N. Coburn, Esq., The University Club, New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your [?] he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43009January 25, 1918. Edward Coffin, Esq., Associate Director, Military Entertainment Service, 19th and G. Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Coffin: I greatly regret that I received your letter too late to make the arrangement you suggest. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, 43010January 25, 1918. TELEGRAM Via Western Union COLLECT. W. C. Cowell Cold Water, Mich. Greatly regret utterly impossible for me to accept your kind invitation. Many thanks Theodore Roosevelt. 43011January 25, 1918. Mrs. V. L. Earle, 243 Oakland Avenue, West Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. My dear Mrs. Earle: You are more than kind. I return you the letter as you request. I profited by it and appreciate your sending it. Faithfully yours, 012January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. Foley: I am extremely sorry, but under the terms of Colonel Roosevelt's contract it is not possible for him to do that. With regret, Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Stanton A. Foley, 109 Berlin Avenue, Southington, Conn. 013January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Fraser: I wish I could help you, but my dear sir, I have no influence whatever with the Administration. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Philip H. Fraser, 546 West 165th Street New York City. 014January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Funk: 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, Mrs. T. W. Funk, Bellefontaine, Ohio. R. 4. 015Telegram. Via Western Union COLLECT. January 25, 1918. Hon. John M. Garman Judge of the Courts, Wilkesbarre, Pa. Greatly regret previous engagements render acceptance kind invitation Polish Citizens Committee utterly impossible. Theodore Roosevelt. 43016January 25, 1918. A. F. Graff, Esq., 330 Putnam Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43017January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Hallowell: Just at this time it is not possible for me to attempt anything additional. You have no conception of the multitude of demands upon my time and how driven I am. On February 12th I shall be speaking in Milwaukee. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Charlotte R. Hallowell, Women's University Club, 106 East 52nd Street, City. 18January 25, 1918. L. O. Hamilton, Esq., 1407 Merchants Bank Building, Indianapolis, Ind. My dear Mr. Hamilton: I thank you for your very interesting and encouraging letter. I am particularly glad to hear to hear what you say about Mr. Watson. I am sorry to say that what you say about the management of affairs here is absolutely justified. Faithfully yours, 43019January 25, 1918. W. P. Hamilton, Esq., Editor, The Wall Street Journal, 44 Broad Street, New York. My dear Mr. Hamilton: I am really obliged and was greatly interested and amused with the editorial in question. With many thanks, Faithfully yours, 43020 Telegram. Via Western Union COLLECT January 25, 1918. Mrs. J. G. Harahan, Ritz Hotel. New York City. Exceedingly sorry but physically impossible for me to accept your courteous invitation. Theodore Roosevelt. 43021January 25, 1918. Mrs. E. A. Hayes, 2111 Bancroft Place, Washington, D. C. Dear Madam: Col. Roosevelt was so exceedingly busy during his brief stay in Washington that he has requested me to acknowledge and thank you for your kind invitation to visit the Congressional Club. He wishes me to express his regret that he will be in Washington only a few days and that his engagements will prevent him from being with you. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43022January 25, 1918. Wm. Hayhurst, Esq., 89 Marlborough St., Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary, 43023Telegram Via Western Union, [xx] COLLECT. January 25, 1918. Rowland Haynes 50 E. 42nd St. New York City. Exceedingly sorry absolutely impossible. Had already written declination. Much regret. Theodore Roosevelt. 43024January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Hazard: I am extremely sorry but the demands upon my time are so great that it is not possible for me to comply with your request. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. T. R. Hazard, 4302 N. Florissant Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 025January 25, 1918. George W. Hills, Esq., 2527 Park Row Building, New York, New York. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43026January 25, 1918. Worthington C. Holman, Esq. c/o Publisher's Office, System, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43027January 25, 1918. Rev. James W. Holmes, 205 West 60th St., New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that is was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43028January 25, 1918. Henry Hoyt, Esq., Regal Shoe Co., Boston, Mass. My dear Sir: Many thanks for your telegram received. I regret exceedingly that it is utterly impossible for mt to accept the invitation referred to. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, 43029January 25, 1918. Mrs. Harry C. Huber, 610 West 152nd Street, New York City. My dear Madam: I have your letter of the 24th, and greatly regret that I am absolutely powerless to be of the slightest use. I have no influence whatever. Faithfully yours, 3030January 25, 1918. Lawrence Hurst, Jr., Esq., Forest Hills Gardens, Long Island, New York. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43031January 25, 1918. Albert S. Jones, Esq., 1279 - 21st St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43032 January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Jones: That's a fine letter of yours, it touches and pleases me. With hearty thanks, Faithfully yours, Mr. George Jones, 37 Cameron Terrace, Woodside, N.Y. 33January 25, 1918. A. N. Jordan, Esq., 124 Front Street, New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43034January 25, 1918. Edwin C. Kaelber, Esq., 903 23rd St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 3035January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Karelsen: Each person knows best himself what he can afford to give. You know your own circumstances best and therefore no one is more capable of deciding what it is proper to contribute to charity than you yourself. Sincerely yours, Mr. Eph. A. Karelsen, 87 Nassau St., New York City. 036January 25, 1918. W. A. Kelsey, Esq., President, Daily Record-Republican, Meriden, Connecticut. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 3037January 25, 1918. Arthur M. Klein, Esq., Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43038January 25, 1918. B. C. Kuser, Esq., The Trenton House, Trenton, New Jersey. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43039January 25, 1918. Mrs. Alzone Greene Laird, 1304 P Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Dear Madam: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43040January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Lasher: I am very sorry but I do not know anything about that matter. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W. H. Lasher, Albion N.Y. 1January 25, 1918. Walter J. Lementy, Esq., 195 Claremont Ave., Apartment 66, New York City. My dear Sir: Thank you very cordially for your letter of the 23rd, but I could do nothing in the matter to which you refer, and so I am afraid you would be wasting your time to come to see me. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, 3042January 25, 1918. Edward Lewis, Esq., P. O. Box 682, New Haven, Conn. Dear Sir: Col. Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43043January 25, 1918. John Lewis, Esq., Room 305 Karback Blk., Omaha, Nebraska. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 3044January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Linton: That's very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Alfred Linton, c/o Spaulding & Co. Michigan Ave. & Van Buren St. Chicago, Ill. 045January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Lockley: I appreciate your courtesy, but it is not possible for me to undertake anything additional at this time. I am sorry not to be able to accept the election. Sincerely yours, Mr. Fred Lockley, 31 Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France. 46January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Louthan: 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. Howard C. Louthan, 325 East Iliff Ave., Denver Colo. 7January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Lummis: I thank you for your courtesy and I thank you for the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles F. Lummis, Institute of the West, 200 East Avenue 43, Los Angeles, Cal. 048January 25, 1918. Thomas Haddock, Esq., Chairman, Arizona Republican Central Committee, Phoenix, Arizona. My dear Sir: I am exceedingly sorry. I am absolutely powerless to remedy the shocking matter which you point out. I wish that the facts could be detailed and in some way published. Why do you not write to the New York Tribune or the New York Sun or to the Chicago Tribune? Faithfully yours, 3049January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Martin: That's a very nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it; but I have no influence with the Administration and there is therefore nothing I can do in the matter. With regret, Faithfully yours, Mrs. C. A. Martin, 310 Windsor Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. 50Telegram. Via Western Union COLLECT. January 25, 1918. Mrs. Thomas G. Massee, Bronxville, New York. Very very sorry. Physically impossible to accept. Theodore Roosevelt. 43051January 25, 1918. L. C. Massey, Esq., County Clerk, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your telegram, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 3052January 25, 1918. Alfred W. McCan, Esq., The Globe, 73 Dey Street, New York. Dear Mr. McCann: That is a very interesting and important letter of yours. I only wish I had more power and could deal with such a subject as that. I am afraid of taking up too many things because I simply do not get listened to. Confidentially, I don't think we have ever had so utterly incompetent an administration in Washington. Faithfully yours, 053January 25, 1918. T. H. M'Cool, Esq., 1328 Real Estate Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary 3054January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. MacFarland: I greatly regret it is impossible to undertake any additional work. I cannot therefore accept the election. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles S. MacFarland, Chairman, 105 East 22nd Street, City. 6[*McLean*] January 25, 1918. Edward McLean, Esq., The Washington Post, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. McLean: I was very sorry not to see you but of course under no circumstances could you have left the baby. It was a real pleasure to see you. I need hardly say how I entirely sympathize with the position you are taking. I wish you could see Kirkwood. He is a good fellow and I [wo] would very much like to have him and you work together. Faithfully yours, 43057January 25, 1918. F. S.McNeff, Esq., 300 West 61st St., Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43058January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Mergele: You must begin at the bottom of the ladder. Study the principles for which the various parties stand and then govern yourself accordingly. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. V. Mergele, 907 Camden Street, San Antonio, Tex. 9January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Merwin: That's very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy in letting me see the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Horace W. Merwin, 501 West 110th St., New York. 3060January 25, 1918. Mrs. Alada T. P. Mills, The St. Nicholas, Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Mills: That is more than kind of you. You know how I prized your husband. I wish I could have seen you. With all good wishes, Fiathfully yours, 43061January 25, 1918. Dear Dr. Moore: I thank you and appreciate your letter and the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Dr. D.B. Moore, Newcastle, N.B., Canada. 062 January 25, 1918. Rev. G. L. Morrill, Newport Beach, California. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your telegram, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43063January 25, 1918. Frederick Ockers, Esq., West Sayville, Long Island. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43064 January 25, 1918. Dear Mrs. Ott: If you will be good enough to state exactly what you desire to see Colonel Roosevelt about in reference to your children, I will let you know whether or not it is possible for Colonel Roosevelt to see you. If you desire to see him in a matter where he is helpless to do anything for you, it is useless to take your time and his time to no advantage. You have no idea how very, very busy Colonel Roosevelt is. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. Lillian M. Ott, 190 Riverside Ave., Newark, N.J.January 25, 1918. D. Paniarua B., Esq., #76, The Toronto, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43066January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Parmeter: I am very sorry but the demands upon Colonel Roosevelt are so very many that it is a physical impossibility for him to attempt anything additional at this time. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Mr. Irving Parmeter, Secy. N.Y.State Assn. of Horsemen, Watertown, N.Y. 7January 25, 1918. My dear Judge Patterson: Mr. Robins has forwarded your letter to me, but my dear Judge, it is not possible for me to accept that invitation. It is a physical impossibility for me to attempt any additional speeches beyond those to which I am already committed. With real regret, Faithfully yours, Judge John M. Patterson, Room 362, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.[*Rathom*] January 25, 1918. John R. Rathom, Esq., The Providence Journal, Providence, R. I. My dear Mr. Rathom: That is mighty nice of you. I shall read what you say, as I always do, with the greatest interest and profit. Senator Chamberlain took the lid off, didn't he? Be sure to let me see you when you come to New York and can give me the chance. Faithfully yours, 069January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. Ravage: If you will submit a draft of what you have in mind, I will ask Colonel Roosevelt's opinion. I feel however that because of the multitude of similar demands upon him he will probably not consent to it. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. M. E. Ravage, 867 West 181st Street, New York. January 25, 1918. My dear Mrs. Restarick: You neglected to enclose the sermon, but I thank you heartily for your courtesy in letting me see your poem and the enclosure, which I am returning to you herewith. You must not ask me to pass an opinion. That request is made of me so very, very often that it is not possible for me to comply with it. With real regret, and hearty good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mrs. H. B. Resarick, Bishop's House, Emma Square, Honolulu, Hawaii.January 25, 1918. J. Will Roberts, Esq., C/o Clerk,Superior Court, Marshall, Madison County, N. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 72January 25, 1918. Montgomery Rollins, Esq., 17 Joy Street, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43073January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. Rothschild: Colonel Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of January 20th. I am returning your enclosures herewith. Sincerely yours, Mr. V. Sidney Rothschild, 4 East 67th St., City. 74January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Russell: Your letter touches and pleases me. I am doing all I can to have this war fought out to a victorious conclusions. Sincerely yours, Mr. John Russell, Queens Hotel, Toronto, Canada. 075January 25, 1918. J. H. Shepard, Esq., Branchville, Maryland. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43076January 25, 1918. My dear Mr. Sherlock: If you have followed my speeches and writing you will see that time and again I have upheld the loyal American citizens of German birth or descent and I have condemned just as wholeheartedly the man or woman [[?] [?] descent] without regard to national origin, who is not loyal to this country. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles R. Sherlock, 383 Park Avenue, New York. 077January 25, 1918. Major J. O. Skinner, Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 78January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. Smith: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of January 11th. Sincerely yours, Mr. M. G. Smith, Pictcairn, Pa. 79January 25, 1918. V. R. Spader, Esq., 1517 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43080January 25, 1918. Wm. C. Sproul, Esq., Chester, Pennsylvania. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your [?] and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, 3081January 25, 1918. Wm. C. Sproul, Esq., Chester, Pa. My dear Mr. Sproul: That is awfully good of you. I wish I could accept but I just cannot make another engagement at present. If I could undertake another one it would be for you and the Union League Club, but in the week in question I have more engagements than I can well keep as it is. With heartiest thanks and good wishes, Very faithfully yours, 3082January 25, 1918. George K. Stokes, Esq., Stokes Manufacturing Company, Montgomery, Pa. My dear Mr. Stokes: That is a shocking and dreadful thing. I would hardly believe it were it not that I know of several such cases. Faithfully yours, 3083January 25, 1918. G. B. Storer, Esq., Toledo, Ohio. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your telegram, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 3084January 25, 1918. C. K. Thayer, Esq., C/o Flather, Moorhead & Elmore, 729 - 16th St., Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, - Secretary. 085January 25, 1918. My dear Dr. Theodore: That's a matter that must be taken up with the War Department at Washington, and as you probably know, I have no influence whatever with the Administration. Sincerely yours, Dr. Emanuel Theodore, 137 West 141st Street, New York City. 6January 25, 1918. Samuel H. Troth, Esq., 409 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 87[*Tuttle*] Telegram. Via Western Union COLLECT. January 28, 1918. Exceedingly sorry Greatly appreciate your courteous invitation. I would gladly come if it were possible but I cannot make two speeches in one evening. Therefore it is out of the question for me to undertake more than I have undertaken. Theodore Roosevelt. To E. P. Tuttle President, Boston Credit Mens Association, Boston, Mass. 088January 25, 1918. George L. Upshur, Esq., 1790 Broadway, New York City. My dear Mr. Upshur: I thank you and thoroughly appreciate your courtesy. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, 3089January 25, 1918. E. F. C. Vandissell, Esq., Chairman, Military Affairs Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Spokane, Washington. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your telegram, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Yours very truly, Secretary. 43090January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Warren: I thank you for your very courteous letter, and I thank you for the clipping enclosed. It would be impossible for me to personally answer the attacks the various small papers throughout the country make upon me. If you will follow my writings in the Kansas City Star you will see that everyone who wants to may know the truth. Faithfully yours, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Warren, Box 701, Oilton, Okla. 91January 25, 1918. Dear Mr. Washburn: I have such a queer name that even when people do make out the letter they think it isn't right, so I shall print my name at the bottom of this letter for you. Colonel Roosevelt is still in Washington, and I want to thank you for your courtesy in sending the books to him. Sincerely yours, J. M. Stricker Mr. Charles G. Washburn, 28 Union Street Worcester, Mass. 92January 25, 1918. O. R. Washburn, Esq., 147 Sumner Avenue, Springfield, Mass. Dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt was literally overwhelmed with work while here. He could not, with all his efforts, attend to all that it was really necessary he should attend to. In addition there was a mass of mail which it was a physical impossibility for him to answer personally. He requests me to thank you most warmly for your letter, and he hopes you are satisfied with what he did while in Washington. Very truly yours, Secretary. 43093January 25, 1918. Jesse A. White, Esq., Pewaukee, Wis. My dear Mr. White: That is such a particularly nice letter of yours that I want to thank you for it most warmly. Faithfully yours, 43094January 25, 1918. J.LeeWilkinson, Esq., 1419 F Street, N. W., (General Engineer Depot) Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Wilkinson: Thank you so much for your letter, which I have just received, too late to arrange to see you. I am very sorry. Faithfully yours, 43095[*Wymond & Clark*] January 25, 1918. Gentlemen: That's very good of you. I thank you and look forward with pleasure to reading the book. Faithfully yours, Wymond & Clark, 538 S.Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. 096January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Bainbridge: I very deeply appreciate your courtesy and thank you. Sincerely yours, Mr. Oliver Bainbridge, Trescoe, Reigate, Surrey, England.January 26, 1918. Dear Mrs. Chanler: At Colonel Roosevelt's request I as sending you the enclosed check for $10. from Mr. George Harvey, together with his letter. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mrs. William Astor Chanler, 141 East 19th Street, New York.[*Chanler*] January 26, 1918. Dear Winty: You know Grant La Farge as well as I do. I could write a letter on his behalf to some of the Generals in France, but I know how many such letters they receive and how inevitably small is the attention they can pay to them. You however, are not only a personal friend of Grant's but know his great capacit[y]ies to render service. I need not recapitulate them to you. I need only say that if I had a division I should single him out at once for the kind of work he mentions, because I could count upon his unflagging industry and zeal, his initiative, his resourcefulness and alertness, his energy and intelligence, and his ability to get on with men and to find out what the real needs of [the] any situation are. [?] it is possible for me to give a stronger testimonial. I would be very glad if you would go personally to whom ever you think is the appropriate man and show him this letter. Always yours, Captain Winthrop Chanler, Headquarters American Expeditionary Force, France. 6595January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Claiborne: I deeply appreciate your courtesy and I shall read the book with very great interest. Sincerely yours, Mr. J. Hubert Claiborne, c/o C.P. Putnam Sons, 2 West 45th Street, City. 903January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Comstock: That's fine. I thank you most heartily for your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Arthur F. Comestock, 13234 Hartford Rd., Cleveland, Ohio. 062January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Carpenter: I am sorry, but that is not the kind of a thing I can do. Sincerely yours, Mr. Warwick S. Carpenter, Conservation Commission, Albany, N.Y.January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. De Ford: I thank you very much, but that is not the kind of thing I can do, and so I return your manuscript and am very much obliged for your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Louis Aubrey De Bord, Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo. 098January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Emgy: Colonel Roosevelt decided to make a number of important changes in his Boston speech, so we have re-written the entire thing and have destroyed the printed gallies you sent. Will you kindly have this re-printed and let me have the gallies as soon as possible because of course now the time is getting so short. Colonel Roosevelt's speech for St. Louis has been postponed until next spring because they could not get a large enough hall to come in with the time that he would have to go to St. Louis this time. He has changed that speech also and will make it in Detroit. I am sending that speech to you in a day or two. But the Boston speech I do want to get off to the newspapers at the earliest possible moment. Sincerely yours, Mr. J.K. Emgey, Pittsburg Leader, Pittsburgh, Pa.January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Ewing: Without expressing an opinion upon the wisdom of starting the league, I wish to thank you for the really admirable article you enclose. I shall plagerize some of the admirable ideas it contains. Faithfully yours, Mr. A. J. Ewing, World's Democracy League, Wichita, Kans. 3100January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Forester: That's a very nice letter of yours. I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Mr. William Forester, 59 Wall Street, New York.January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Geraghty: I am extremely sorry, but it is not possible for me to attempt anything additional at this time. With real regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. [C? V?] W. Geraghty, 97 Commercial Union Bldg., Montreal, Canada. 3102January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Gleason: In accordance with your request I enclose herewith Colonel Roosevelt's autograph for your collection. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Stanley J. Gleason, U.S.S. Florida, c/o Postmaster, New York. 103 January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Harvey: I have just received your check for $10. together with your letter of January 15th, and have forwarded both to Mrs. William Astor Chanler, 141 East 19th Street, New York, who is [?]inently connected with the French Hero Fund. Sincerely yours, Mr. George Harvey, 43 High Street, Charlestown, Mass. 104January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Heisler: That's a very nice of you. I gladly accept Honorary membership in your society, but I am not able to give you any information about the flag. I know that Major Bullock served in the War of 1812, but I do not know how active his service was. Faithfully yours, Mr. E. F. Heisler, 712 North 6th Street, Kansas City, Kans. 5January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Hooker: In Colonel Roosevelt's absence from the city I am forwarding your letter to Mr. Hurd for attention. With deep appreciation, Sincerely yours, Mr. Edwin Hocker, 403 So. Hill Street, Los Angeles, Calif. January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Howard: That's a mighty nice letter of yours and I deeply appreciate it. Faithfully yours, Mr. M. B. Howard, Chairman, Republican Committee, Sweetwater, Texas.January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Jones: I thank you so much for letting me see your letter. I appreciate your courtesy to the full. Faithfully yours, Mr. George I. Jones, Lakeside Bldg., 202 S. Clark Street, Chicago, Ill. 8January 26, 1918. Dear Miss Keller: That's an astounding state of affairs. I can hardly believe it. Are you sure your information is absolutely correct? Faithfully yours, Miss Frances A. Keller, 29 West 39th Street, City.January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Ketler: 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. Weir C. Ketler, Grove City College, Grove City, Pa.[*La Farge*] January 26, 1918. Dear Grant: I think those letters are exactly right. Now, how is the enclosed for my letter? Faithfully yours, Mr. C. Grant La Farge, 101 Park Avenue, City. 11January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Marvin: I entirely agree with you and I thank you for your letter. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thomas O. Marvin, Secy., Home Market Club, 77 Summer Street, Boston, Mass.January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Maunder: I think that you will get the information you desire from a book of Colonel Roosevelt's entitled "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" published by Scribners. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Ralph Maunder, 281 Duckworth St., St. Johns, Newfoundland. 3January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Meyer: That's very good of you. I thank you and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. V. Meyer, American Baptist Publication Society, 1701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 14January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Osborn: That's mighty nice and I thank you for it to the full. Faithfully yours, Mr. Chase S. Osborn, Sault De Sainte Marie, Mich. 15January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Parke: That's mighty nice, but anything you do is entirely satisfactory to me. How about turning over the funds for the benefit of the Red Cross? Faithfully yours, Mr. E. V. B. Parke, Asst. Secy., Boston Chamber of Commerce, Boston, Mass. 116January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Perkins: I return herewith for your file the J. Rossa McCormick telegram. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. George W. Perkins, 71 Broadway, City. 3117January 26, 1918 My dear Mr. Phipps: That's another of the many instances of incompetence. There ha[s]ve come to my attention literally scores of such. I thank you for writing me. Faithfully yours, Mr. A. J. Phipps, Oyster Bay, N.Y. 118January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Pratt: I am very sorry, but that is not the kind of thing Colonel Roosevelt can do. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. George D. Pratt, Commissioner, Conservation Com., Albany, New York. 120January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Rawle: I thank you heartily and greatly appreciate your sending me the pamphlet. Sincerely yours, Mr. Francis Rawle, Philadelphia, Pa. 121January 26, 1918. My dear Dr. Rodgers: I thank you for your letter. I am doing everything I can. Faithfully yours, Dr. Mark A. Rodgers, 20 South Stone Avenue, Tucson, Ariz. 122[*Roosevelt*] January 26, 1918. Gentlemen: Will you kindly place the enclosed check for $500. to the credit of Colonel Roosevelt's account? Sincerely yours, Roosevelt & Sons, 30 Pine Street, City. 23[*Shaw*] January 26, 1918. Dear Albert: I can't come to that banquet. I have found by bitter experience that every invitation I accept entails literally scores of others. I hate to have to tell you no. Now about Ely. Won't you send him what I am writing to you? I will try not to scatter over much; but it is utter folly to have asked me with any expectation that ["]I shall "support Wilson". I have a right to assume that when I am asked to make a speech, those asking me have some knowledge of the speeches I have been making. I shall not attack Wilson and this from the very motives of expediency to which Ely alludes. But I hold him to be not one whit more loyal or more honest than La Follette and although not intensively as mischievous, extensively more mischievous. La Follette's chief wrongdoing at present is to continue preaching [?] [ideas] things that Wilson, without one particle more or less justification, was preaching one and two years ago. I shall concentrate my attention on winning the war, and I shall not attack Wilson, and shall say that we must support the 124- 2 - Administration in everything it does for the efficient winning of the war, but not explicitly or implicitly [accept] endorse of that [passage] plank of the Wisconsin Loyalty League which gives "full support of Wilson" (my support of him is full precisely to the degree that his performance of duty to America is full), [A]and if I did not speak of universal military training I would rightly cause suspicion of my own good faith. Ever yours, Dr. Albert Shaw, 30 Irving Place, City. 125January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Sherwood: Indeed, I remember that visit very well. I wish I could do as you request, but at this time it is an impossibility. I just cannot accept any further invitations. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Abbot W. Sherwood, Alton, Ill. 126January 26, 1918. Dear Miss Tilghman: It was very good of you to send me the clipping. I enjoyed the movie play and I thank you for your kindness in sending me the tickets. Sincerely yours, Miss Frances Tilghman, American Defense Society, 44 East 23rd Street, City. 127January 26, 1918. Dear Mr. Weatherwax: I am powerless to deal with that matter I am very, very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. M. Weatherwax, Mgr., Aberdeen Lumber & Shingle Co., Aberdeen, Wash. 3128[*Webb*] January 26, 1918. Dear Creighton: I thank you for your very kind letter and the interesting, although disheartening, account of your experiences. Just the extent to which I will be able to use the information I don't know, but it may be very valuable. With all good wish wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Creighton Webb, 640 Madison Avenue, New York. 3129January 26, 1918. My dear Mr. Wise; That's a very nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it. Faithfully yours, Mr. George N. Wise, Newport,News, Va. 3130