Description:
Secretary of the Treasury Gage encloses a letter from a longtime resident of Milwaukee which he believes represents "a certain amount of public opinion."
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Wisconsin--Milwaukee; Letters
Date:
1901-12-07?
Description:
President Roosevelt would like Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage to send over a nomination appointing George W. Whitehead as Appraiser of Merchandise at New York City.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Public officers--Selection and appointment; Whitehead, George W., 1848-1931; Wakeman, Wilbur Fisk, 1857-1931; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date:
1901-12-20
Description:
James A. Garfield, son of Civil Service Commissioner James Rudolph Garfield, wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas.
Resource Type:
Note
Subject:
Christmas
Date:
1902-12?
Description:
A volume summarizing and recording the 1902 restoration and renovation of the White House, including the report by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White summarizing the extent of work that was done, historical notes regarding the White House, and many drawings and photographs of the construction work on the White House and Executive offices.
Resource Type:
Book
Subject:
White House (Washington, D.C.); McKim, Mead & White; Washington (D.C.); Architecture; Building; Floor plans; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940; Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820; L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825
Date:
1903
Description:
William Loeb encloses a check from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to Harriet A. Fritts in payment of Mrs. Roosevelt's account, and states that Mrs. Roosevelt does not wish to order any lace collars.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Payment; Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
Date:
1904-10-17
Description:
President Roosevelt will show all the courtesy he can to O'Neal, but he cannot go to the dinner in question. He tells William A. Gaston that he gave the Bishop a letter of introduction to the American minister to Japan.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Scheduling; Letters
Date:
1906-02-28
Description:
President Roosevelt tells Senator Frye that he cannot meet with Kate Deering Ridgely about the court-martial of her brother George A. Deering, who is a paymaster in the Navy. As a rule, Roosevelt does not meet with the relatives of anyone who is court-martialed. Based on what he knows of Deering's case, the most leniency Roosevelt could grant him is allowing him to resign.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Deering, George A. (George Alexander), 1880-; Ridgely, Kate Deering, 1880-
Date:
1906-03-02
Description:
President Roosevelt invites William D. Gates to become a member of the newly-formed Advisory Board on Fuels and Structural Materials. The Board will investigate the properties and best methods of using the United States's fuels and building materials.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. National Forest Service; National Advisory Board for Fuels and Structural Materials (U.S.); Executive advisory bodies--Officials and employees--Selection and appointment; Governmental investigations
Date:
1906-03-12
Description:
James Rudolph Garfield apologizes that he cannot greet Theodore Roosevelt when he comes to Ohio as he will be out of town for a speech. His mother, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, is disappointed Roosevelt did not follow her advice regarding the nomination. Nathaniel C. Wright can give Roosevelt a clear statement of the present political situation in Ohio. John Hays Hammond attended the Republican picnic and saw that the Republicans will only tolerate the progressive movement.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Ohio; Hammond, John Hays, 1855-1936; Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918; Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930; Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946
Date:
1910-08-24
Description:
Theodore Roosevelt thanks the members of the Appomattox Post No. 50 of the Grand Army of the Republic for their kind words.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Etiquette
Date:
1910-09-20
