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Benjamin B. Odell would like to set up a meeting with Governor Roosevelt before Roosevelt begins an upcoming trip.
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1899-08-09
Luther S. Kelly has just returned from the Harriman Expedition to Alaska. The expedition went well. The expedition discovered a new inlet on Prince William Sound and killed one of the famous Kodiak bears. Kelly is also sorry to hear that in his absence all of the volunteer appointments to the Army have been filled leaving him unable to reenter the service.
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1899-08-10
Senator Lodge tells Governor Roosevelt that Roosevelt overrates Lodge’s actions. If the positions were reversed, Lodge is certain that Roosevelt would do even more for him. He is also sure that when Roosevelt is president one day he will return the favor by helping Lodge. Lodge comments on aspects of New York politics, and addresses a recent change in the War Department to which Roosevelt contributed, with the previous Secretary of War R. A. Alger being replaced by Elihu Root. The situation in Cuba makes Lodge unhappy, and he wishes that President McKinley would replace General Brooke. Additionally, while McKinley may be correct about General Otis, the general impression is that he is a failure. Lodge wishes that General Wood was in charge in Cuba. He also predicts that Frederick Funston will be a good ally in the future.
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1899-08-10
James Harrison Wilson, who is serving in Cuba, is upset about recent Army appointments and believes the McKinley administration is giving preference to non-West Point graduates. Wilson appreciates Governor Roosevelt’s efforts on his behalf, but does not want Roosevelt to risk losing influence with President McKinley over this issue.
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1899-08-10
Thomas Collier Platt objects to the postponement of the resignation of State Tax Commissioner Martin Heermance. The Commissioner’s successor ought to have time before the new Franchise Tax Law goes into effect on October 1, to prepare to enforce the law.
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1899-08-11
Benjamin B. Odell asks Theodore Roosevelt to look into the case of a boy at the Matteawan Asylum.
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1899-08-12
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1899-08-13
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909
Military Governor of Puerto Rico Davis sends Secretary of War Root information about the effects of a hurricane that struck Puerto Rico. He describes the damage and what relief supplies are needed.
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1899-08-13
Herman Henry Kohlsaat advises Governor Roosevelt to stay close to the McKinley administration and not to do anything to make it appear that he is “chasing the Presidency.”
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1899-08-14
A semi-annual account of the royalties to be given to Theodore Roosevelt from the publisher G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
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1899-08-14
After a hurricane made landfall in Puerto Rico, Elihu Root requests that Governor Roosevelt “ask the people of your state to contribute generously to the relief of the people of Puerto Rico.”
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1899-08-14
William E. Chandler invites Theodore Roosevelt to Concord, New Hampshire, for “Old Home Week,” a New England tradition where former residents visit their home town or parental household.
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1899-08-15
Dan T. Moore, a cousin of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, appeals for Governor Roosevelt’s assistance in getting transferred from volunteer to regular military service, preferably the cavalry. Colonel J. L. Rodgers has approved such a transfer and done what he can to effect it, but it seems that “political pull does it all.”
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1899-08-16
Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan explains to Governor Roosevelt that a line of poetry recalled by Bucky O’Neill was from “The Battle of the Lake Regillus.”
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1899-08-17
Leonard Wood writes from Cuba where he is serving as military governor. He believes that there are too many American soldiers in Cuba and that half as many men would be sufficient to train the Cubans, many of whom are eager to enlist and become soldiers. There are almost no difficulties with the people of Cuba.
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1899-08-18
Jessie Benton Frémont writes to Governor Roosevelt regarding a discussion she had had the previous evening about a letter which Judge Charles Silent had written to Roosevelt regarding the raising of an arch for Admiral George Dewey. Frémont describes Judge Silent in order to introduce him to Roosevelt. She also writes that she is glad whenever her son interacts with Roosevelt and says that her son had written to her regarding a dinner that he had had with Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. Frémont closes by calling Roosevelt an inspiration and says that he is her typical American.
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1899-08-21
Elihu Root explains why George A. Dodd was not made a colonel or lieutenant-colonel in one of the new regiments that are being formed.
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1899-08-21
Author Mary Mapes Dodge requests that Governor Roosevelt write for St. Nicholas Magazine a brief paper on citizenship, national duty, and patriotism “for growing boys to cherish.” She turns to Roosevelt in particular for this task because he is “truly admired and honored in their hearts as a man and a patriot.” The magazine would pay $100 per 1000 words, and Dodge hopes for a completed article of 3000 words within the next 5 weeks.
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1899-08-22
Robert Howze has heard that the War Department is considering mounting a current infantry regiment and he would like Theodore Roosevelt to influence that decision in favor of Howze’s regiment. The regiment will soon be shipping out from San Francisco.
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1899-08-22
Herman Henry Kohlsaat encloses an editorial from the Milwaukee Sentinel, the “leading paper in Wisconsin.”
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1899-08-22