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Elisabeth Susan Buring Sampson, wife of Admiral William Thomas Sampson, thanks President Roosevelt for granting their son Ralph an appointment to the United States Naval Academy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-14
Tiffany and Company requests permission to make an impression of President Roosevelt’s ex libris plate for a collection in the Cincinnati Museum.
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1902-03-14
Lawyers from Wilson, Barker & Wilson provide an update on the case involving Mrs. Motley, who is suing the estate of Cornelius Roosevelt. They suggest that a fund of $3000 be set up to pay a settlement, in order to avoid the matter being taken up in the Court of Appeals.
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1902-03-14
Robert C. Winthrop reproaches Anna Roosevelt Cowles for forgetting to send him a card for Miss Pyemont-Smith which would have allowed her to enter an informal reception at the White House and pay her respects to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1902-03-14
Donald McDonald Dickinson praises and recommends Abram S. Hewitt. He suggests that Hewitt be publicly recognized in some fashion.
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1902-03-15
Frederick M. Alger understands that President Roosevelt cannot attend the meeting but requests that a member of the Roosevelt administration come and speak.
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1902-03-15
William Sturgis Bigelow encloses photos regarding some recent marksmanship.
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1902-03-15
Campbell W. Witbeck wants President Roosevelt to know what some of his enemies are planning, particularly Louis Frisbie Payn. Witbeck encourages Roosevelt to contact Representative William H. Draper to ascertain Witbeck’s character and reputation, and then to contact Witbeck discreetly for information. Witbeck fears losing his position if Payn or his associates find out about this correspondence.
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1904-03-17
Lowell asks that an enclosure be given to President Roosevelt without opening it as it is a personal matter.
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1902-03-15
Mrs. Edward A. McFarland offers President Roosevelt and his children a one-year-old dachshund named Stein. The dog is named after their mutual friend George Bleistein.
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1902-03-15
Postmaster General Payne returns papers regarding the postmastership at Wilmerding, Pennsylvania. H. D. Patch has been appointed postmaster on the recommendation of John Dalzell.
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1902-03-15
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw returns several letters. Mr. Holls’s plan for baggage handling is similar to previous plans and Shaw believes that most criticism is unfounded. He uses an example of a woman’s efforts to retrieve her twenty trunks in New York, who subsequently retrieved them in Washington, D.C., declaring that she had no dutiable goods.
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1902-03-15
J. Sherborne Singer relates his activities and the social events in Cuba.
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1902-03-15
George W. Smalley provides a letter of introduction for John Walter to President Roosevelt.
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1902-03-15
Robert Lloyd Smith is seeking a federal appointment but was unable to meet with President Roosevelt. He requests that Francis E. Leupp intercede on his behalf.
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1902-03-15
Joseph Bucklin Bishop recommends Mr. McIlvaine for the post of Immigration Commissioner.
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1902-03-17
Harrington Fitzgerald offers to speak with Henry Burke regarding Burke’s opposition to President Roosevelt’s Cuban policy.
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1902-03-17
Hamlin Garland sends a special copy of his book The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop and an article he is writing on the “Indian problem.”
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1902-03-17
E. C. Hobson suggests that the $100 clause be repealed, perhaps through an amendment to the War Revenue Repeal bill.
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1902-03-17
Archbishop Ireland recommends George William Hill for the vacancy on the Board of Civil Service Commissioners.
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1902-03-17