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President Roosevelt requested to meet with Amos Parker Wilder, editor of the Madison State Journal. Wilder will be at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow and has been advised to call on George B. Cortelyou.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-27
Senator Hale encloses clippings from Maine newspapers.
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1901-12-27
Wilbur Fisk Wakeman acknowledges receipt of President Roosevelt’s communication removing him from the Office of Appraiser. He warns of corruption in the customs service.
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1901-12-27
Eugene A. Philbin will be in Washington, D.C., next week and would like to meet with President Roosevelt. Philbin heard an absurd rumor that Roosevelt had asked the Vatican to make Archbishop Ireland a cardinal.
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1901-12-16
E. Mont Reily and the Roosevelt Club of Kansas City, Missouri, was pleased to hear that Senator Foraker would support the nomination of President Roosevelt for the 1904 election. The club is interested in hosting Foraker for a speech.
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1901-12-16
Irvine Smith is distantly related to President Roosevelt and would like Roosevelt to visit Georgia. Smith can tell Roosevelt about the family members he knew and they can tour historic buildings related to the Roosevelt family. He also offers to serve “an old Georgia dinner.”
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1901-12-16
Seth Low still believes that he can influence Senator Burton to withdraw the current candidate and endorse another. On this basis Low hopes for more time from President Roosevelt.
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1901-12-16
Invitation to the wedding of Ella S. Augustus and Edward L. W. Scott. The wedding will be held on August 29, 1901, in Fleetwood Park, Maryland.
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1901-08-29
Civil and military governors have been asked for lists of towns in each province. The replies have been partially tabulated and appear largely untrustworthy.
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1901-12-17
Winthrop Chanler suggests that President Roosevelt “direct” Andrew Carnegie to purchase a building for donation to the Smithsonian or the Boone and Crockett Club. He mentions having seen William Sturgis Bigelow and Dan Wister.
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1901-12-17
The appointment of Wilder Stevens Metcalf as pension agent shows that Senator Burton’s influence and Senatorial privilege will be respected by President Roosevelt. With this issue decided, Kansas Republicans should ignore factionalism and unite as “good Republicans.”
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1901-12
Summary of reports from Lieutenant William Sowden Sims regarding the defects of the USS Kentucky when compared to the designs and target practice results of Royal Navy vessels.
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1901-12-17
Article argues that Edgar Stanton Maclay was unfairly discharged from his government position for a section of his book disparaging Admiral Winfield Scott Schley.
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1901-12-27
Brooks Adams accepts an invitation to the White House.
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1901-12-17
The article reviews the political wrangling and infighting over the appointment of a pension agent at Topeka, Kansas.
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1901-12-24
Nicholas Murray Butler recommends J. L. M. Curry to represent the United States at the coronation of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.
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1901-12-17
John M. Carson encloses a clipping that he would like forwarded to Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage. In a handwritten note, Gage sends the letter and clipping on to President Roosevelt.
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1901-12-17
William S. Cowles returns the letter and memo from William Sowden Sims. Cowles thinks that Sims is an alarmist but also wants him to be encouraged to improve naval gunnery and target practice.
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1901-12-17
The “old soldiers” opposed the initial appointment of Cyrus Leland as pension agent and supported the recent appointment of Wilder Stevens Metcalf as Leland’s replacement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12
Charles S. Fairchild has copied the letter to Captain Campbell and the team. He had a pleasant evening at the club and accepts an invitation to have lunch at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-17