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Thomas Hitchcock invites President Roosevelt to send his son Ted to recuperate in Aiken, South Carolina. He extends an invitation to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-03
William Emlen Roosevelt cautions President Roosevelt about visiting Charleston, South Carolina at the risk of “receiving insult.”
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1902-03-03
Ben Daniels has received President Roosevelt’s letter and is pleased that Roosevelt maintains a good opinion of him regardless of the charges that have been brought. Daniels has received a great deal of support from his friends and considers Roosevelt to be among them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-04
Woodbury Kane will arrive this evening.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-04
Governor Odell would like President Roosevelt informed that he will be in Washington, D.C., next Saturday.
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1902-03-04
Ambassador Porter requests a signed photograph of President Roosevelt to display at the embassy in Paris. He concludes by expressing happiness at Ted Roosevelt’s recovery.
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1902-03-04
John Palmer Gavit requests that Jacob A. Riis bring a particularly unpopular postmaster to President Roosevelt’s attention.
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1902-03-05
The Boer delegates; Montague White, A. D. W. Wolmarans, and Cornelius Hermanus Wessels; would like to meet with President Roosevelt and deliver a letter from Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic. In a handwritten note, President Roosevelt agrees to the meeting and asks if it will be informal.
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1902-03-05
Bradley T. Johnson asks President Roosevelt to have the Secretary of State request a $100,000 appropriation to edit the records of the State Department. Johnson says, “I am a very unhappy old man & I want employment to occupy my time & thoughts.” Johnson looks forward to seeing Mrs. Roosevelt and the children.
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1902-03-05
Herschel V. Jones suggests that President Roosevelt consider publishing his works as limited editions. He recommends Houghton, Mifflin & Company and Little, Brown & Company as publishers. Jones concludes with a request for a signed first edition of Roosevelt’s newly published book, The Deer Family.
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1902-03-05
By unanimous vote, the American Cattle Growers’ Association has elected President Roosevelt as its sole honorary member.
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1902-03-05
George Haven Putnam sends President Roosevelt a revised set of his works with new covers and editorial changes. He encloses a copy of Life of General Putnam for Roosevelt’s library and a clipping from Finley Peter Dunne’s comic, Mr. Dooley, concerning Cuba.
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1902-03-05
The New York Journal has just printed “a sensational account” describing the preparation of an elaborate copy of one of President Roosevelt’s books. G. P. Putnam’s Sons has written to the New York Journal and informed them that the account is entirely false.
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1902-03-05
Jacob A. Riis requests that President Roosevelt look into a complaint from John Palmer Gavit regarding an unpopular postmaster. Riis’ letter is written on the back of Gavit’s letter to Riis.
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1902-03-10
Secretary of War Root believes that the military and civil affairs of the Philippines have been “able and successful.” American sovereignty is being accepted and many former Filipino rebels have accepted positions in the civil government. Root sees no benefit to bringing Cuban or Puerto Rican delegations to the Philippines or bringing a delegation of Filipinos to the United States.
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1902-03-05
Charles Scribner encloses a new edition of President Roosevelt’s The Rough Riders.
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1902-03-03
William Townes extends an invitation for a recovering Ted Roosevelt to stay with him. The climate will be better and Ted will be built up on a “simple diet of hog hominy.”
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1902-03-05
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Christopher G. Boland for the letter.
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1912-10-30
The California Miners’ Association has been informed that an effort is being made to remove Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock and Commissioner of the General Land Office Binger Hermann from office. The Association believes that this would damage the California mining industry and they urge Senators Perkins and Bard to investigate the matter.
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1902-03-06
At the direction of Secretary of War Elihu Root, Merritt O. Chance returns Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long’s letter regarding “land defenses at Guam, Pearl Harbor, San Juan, and other points.”
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1902-03-06