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1908/11/26
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
to George Bird Grinnell re: Grinnell's request that he write about Africa
Signed as President. Roosevelt had not been to Africa yet.
GLC02793.058
1922/10/09
Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923
to Richard Washburn Child re: wife's illness and international affairs
Signed as President on White House stationery. Child was ambassador.
GLC02793.074
2 April 1917
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Address of the President of the United States, delivered at a joint session of the two houses of Congress
Asks Congress to declare war against Germany. Marks the beginning of the American involvement in World War I.
GLC02904
19 April 1918
to Harvey
Discusses using President Wilson's quote of 1 January in a newspaper article. Criticizes Wilson's prosecution of the war in Europe. Says that Wilson can speed up the war and come "to the left of our allies before it is too late, by just one...
GLC03663.01
A message calling for war with the imperial German government in defense of American rights
Subtitled "Delivered by President Woodrow Wilson to the Congress of the United States of America on Monday, April the Second, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen."
GLC03621
1902-1904
Walker, John G., 1835-1907
Five letters re: the Panama Canal [decimalized]
Five letters between John G. Walker, President of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and his friend Thomas Gibbons. Letters describe Walker's family and their mutual friends, as well as developments in the canal project. He discusses the ratification...
GLC02763
14 November 1902
Walker, John Grimes, 1835-1907
to Thomas Gibbons
Glad to receive a copy of the "Rainbow," a paper published aboard the U.S. Flagship Rainbow. Thanks him for box of cigars, though he says he does not smoke regularly, as well as for a photograph of himself and one of Gibbons taken in Hong Kong....
GLC02763.01
1921
Various
Album signed by Delegates to first assembly of the League of Nations
Signers include Paderewski, A.J. Balfour, H.A.L. Fisher, etc. Inscribed to L. Cordel.
GLC03900
1919
[Album signed by Paris Peace Conference Delegates]
Signers include Lloyd George, A. J. Balfour, Marshall Foch, Paderewski, etc.
GLC03901
1919-1924
Pershing, John J., 1860-1948
to Joseph K. Dixon re: 15 letters (some translations or carbon copies), including Douglas Haig & Marshal Petain[Decimalized .01- .23]
Praising the contributions on Native Americans in World War I. With other writers besides Pershing.
GLC03911.07
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