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1903, many of which he transferred verbatim to his book. He may therefore be reliably quoted. On the other hand, all the intimate observations of Archie Butt (see Bibl.) have had to be left out because Butt did not meet TR until after the 1907 Reception.

1. Washington Herald, and Post, Jan. 2, 1907; Town & Country, Jan. 5; clips in Fenwick, 1907. Stoker, Bram, Reminiscences of Sir Henry Irving (NY 1906) 237; N.Y.T., Jan. 2, 1907.

2. Fenwick, 1907.

3. Evans, Robert D., An Admiral’s Log (D. Appleton, 1910) 412.

4. W. Her., Jan. 2, 1907.

5. Ib.; 2 clips. n.d., in Fenwick, 1907.

6. Collage from W. Her., W. Post, W. Evening Star, N.Y. Sun, N.Y.T., Jan. 1 and 2, 1907. Town & Country, Jan. 5.

7. Ib.

8. Ib.; Fenwick, 1907, qu. W. Eve Star, n.d.

9. Eve Star, Jan. 2, 1907.

10. Ib., Dec. 31, 1906; Sun, same date; Philadelphia Public Ledger, Dec. 3, 1906; Eve. Star, Jan. 2, 1907.

11. Message to Congress, Dec. 1906, reprinted in TR.Wks.XV. See Dun. II. 3–14 for a list of the legislative achievements in this, “the greatest year in Theodore Roosevelt’s life.”

12. Eve. Star, Dec. 31, 1906; James Thayer Addison to Hermann Hagedorn, Apr. 26, 1921 (TRB).

13. See TR.Auto. 526ff.

14. Speeches at Cuelbra and Colon, Panama, Nov. 16 and 17, 1906.

15. Qu. Har.260.

16. St. Louis Censor, Dec. 27, 1906.

17. TRB memo.

18. Mor.6.1605; de Voto, Bernard, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption, Harpers, 1940, 8.

19. Qu. Har.303.

20. Literary Digest, Dec. 22, 1906; Bea.306–8.

21. Bea, 451; Pri.298. For a full account of the Cuba incident, see Scott, James B., ed., Robert Bacon: Life and Letters (NY, 1923) 113 ff.; also Bur. 105–8.

22. Bis.I.431.

23. Eve. Star, Dec. 31, 1906; Mor.5. 535; W. Her., Jan. 2, 1907; Har.306. See Lane, Ann J., The Brownsville Affair (NY, 1971) for an exhaustive and highly critical account of TR’s role in this evident miscarriage of justice. The presidential message on the incident, quoted by Joseph Foraker in his Notes of a Busy Life (Stewart & Kidd, 1917) is one of TR’s most regrettable effusions. He chose not to mention Brownsville in his Autobiography.

24. Speech at opening of Pan-American Exhibition, Buffalo, May 20, 1901.

25. Jusserand, Jules, What Me Befell (London, 1933) 346; Pri.387.

26. Harper’s Weekly, July 14, 1906. “Congress has evidenced almost phonographic fidelity to the wishes of the President”—N.Y. World, July 2, 1906.

27. Crook, W. H., Memories of the White House (Boston, 1911) 298; Scr., TRB; N.Y. World, Dec. 30, 1906; Gene Tunney in Women’s Roosevelt Association Bulletin, 5.6; Phil. Pub. Ledger, Dec. 3, 1906.

28. Gwy.1.483.

29. Rensselaer Independent Republican, Jan. 1, 1907; London Times, Dec. 5, 1906. The message, TR’s sixth and longest at 30,000 words, was written throughout in Simplified Spelling. It contained such characteristic Rooseveltisms as “It is out of the question for our people to rise by treading down any of their own number,” and the declaration that “wilful sterility,” i.e., birth control, “is the one sin for which the penalty is national death.… a sin for which there is no atonement.” There were at least two discreet suggestions that the Constitution needed amending. “The dominant note,” remarked the Literary Digest on Dec. 15, 1906, “is a demand for a greater centralization of power.”

30. See Schoenberg, Philip E., “The American Reaction to the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly, Mar. 1974; also Straus, Oscar S., Under Four Administrations (Houghton Mifflin, 1922).

31. Unidentified clip, dated June 27, 1907, in TRB.

32. For TR’s telegram of acceptance, see Mor. 5.524. He separately announced, not without some pangs, that the prize money would be used to establish “a permanent Industrial Peace Committee” in Washington. “Would anybody but Theodore Roosevelt,” asked the Brooklyn Times, “ever think of dedicating a Christmas windfall of $40,000 for such a purpose?” (Lit. Dig., Dec. 22, 1906).

33. Eve. Star, Jan. 1, 1907; W. Her., W. Post, N.Y. Her., Jan. 2; Florida Times, Jan. 1, 1907.

34. Hag.RBL.468.

35. W. Post, Jan. 2, 1907; Loo.208–13.

36.