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Document 3815

ARCHIBALD BULLOCH ROOSEVELT
Mentions his father's libel trial to TR's future biographer.
ALS: "Archibald B. Roosevelt", 1p, 5x6½2. Claverly Hall, Cambridge, 1915 May 7. To Mr. (William Roscoe) Thayer. In full: "It will give me very great pleasure indeed to have dinner with you on Sunday. I have just seen father's secretary, who has told me some amusing details about the trial at Syracuse." Archibald was the fifth child and third son of Theodore Roosevelt. This letter was written while he was a 21-year-old student at Cambridge. He was graduated two years later from Harvard. A financier, Archibald was a Captain in the American Expeditionary Force during WWI and a Lieutenant Colonel in WWII; he was wounded in both wars. Archibald died in Hobe Sound, Florida on October 13, 1979. In 1914, Theodore Roosevelt had supported Harvey D. Hinman, the Progressive candidate, for Governor of New York. TR declared that William Barnes, Jr., who managed the Republican Machine politics in that State, had a bi-partisan alliance with the Democratic Machine in the interest of crooked politics and crooked business. Mr. Barnes brought suit for libel, and it came to trial in Syracuse, N.Y. on April 19, 1915. At the trial, the former President showed how the "Albany Evening Journal", Mr. Barnes' political organ, had profited by illegal political advertising. He proved the existence of the bi-partisan alliance with the Democratic Machine and showed its effects on legislation and elections. After deliberating two days, the jury brought in a verdict in favor of Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, an "intimate biography" by WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER was published in 1919, the year of TR's death. Shaded at right and bottom margins, touching signature. Lightly creased, light paper clip impression at upper left blank margin.

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