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Joseph A. Ferris offers to go out for a week with Governor Roosevelt when he returns to the Medora area. He suggests next fall because Roosevelt “will need a rest by next year.”
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1899-08-23
Robert E. Peary writes from Greenland and congratulates Theodore Roosevelt for surviving the Spanish-American War and being elected governor of New York. He “confidently looks forward” to seeing Roosevelt as President of the United States next.
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1899-08-23
Richard Davis, a writer and journalist, thanks Roosevelt for an inscribed photograph and mentions that he will soon be traveling to the Transvaal (South Africa, where the Second Boar War is ongoing).
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1899-08-24
Leonard Wood writes from Cuba saying that the populace is generally content but there are some difficulties with a few of the Cubans who have received government appointments.
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1899-08-24
Thomas Collier Platt discusses the many recent requests for army commissions and, on behalf of Mr. Bidwell, invites Roosevelt to make a speech at the Columbia County Fair.
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1899-08-25
Henry Ware Lawton writes from the Philippines to say that Roosevelt’s former military companions are pleased with his political success. In terms of the Philippines, he believes that the United States was proper and correct to take possession of the islands but views U.S. administration as not progressing well.
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1899-08-28
Arthur Hamilton Lee writes to Roosevelt while returning from a trip to the western United States and Canada. He is impressed with Roosevelt’s popularity in the region.
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1899-08-28
Elihu Root thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his assistance in making New York appointments for the Army’s new volunteer regiments. He mentions difficulties with a former Rough Rider, Delaigne, and being “sorry about the Austin business.”
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1899-08-28
Thomas Collier Platt declines “making any amendments or suggestions as to the army appointments.”
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1899-08-29
The state convention of African American Republican voters will meet in Austin, Texas, on October 24, 1899. The convention will be comprised of one delegate for every 150 African American men.
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1899-08-31
Louise Adriana Wood asks Governor Roosevelt if he knows whether her husband, Leonard Wood, may be ordered home from Cuba by the autumn. Pressing business matters need to be attended to, which she would postpone if there were a chance he could be home to take care of them.
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1899-09-03
Moses A. Gunst has just returned from abroad and agrees to attend to Governor Roosevelt’s request.
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1899-09-06
Thomas Collier Platt forwards a request from Senator Wellington of Maryland for Theodore Roosevelt to “participate in their campaign this fall.”
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1899-09-06
William A. Pinkerton delivers a case update to Governor Gooding on Agent 21’s investigation into the assassination of Governor Frank Steunenberg. He worked with Mr. Barber and a man identified as Border and others as they traveled to other precincts to work. Union members were freely giving information to other agents of the investigation without realizing who they were. Agent 21 retired at 10:30 PM after his meetings had ended.
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1907-04-04
Rudyard Kipling thanks Police Commissioner Roosevelt for his previous letter and jokingly requests that Roosevelt use police forces to induce a letter from W. H. Phillips who has stopped replying to Kipling’s letters.
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1897-03-25
Josephine Shaw Lowell praises a recent speech by Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, but is distraught at the thought that he might leave his office to accept a government position in Washington, D.C. She urges him, if he is able to, to remain in New York and continue the work of improving the city’s government.
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1897-04-06
Alexander Patrick Doyle writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to congratulate him on his recent appointment in the Navy. He thanks Roosevelt for his work for the city and hopes that his work in the national government will inspire younger politicians.
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1897-04-08
John S. Dennis is sad that Theodore Roosevelt will no longer be in New York City and feels that he has lost an “efficient support” and “true friend.” Roosevelt showed loyalty to truth and courage. Dennis and his wife wish Roosevelt success in the wider field now open to him as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and hope he will “strike the same note of righteousness in National affairs.”
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1897-04-13
C. H. Parkhurst tells Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt that he considers Roosevelt’s departure from his position of New York City Police Commissioner a “personal bereavement.” Parkhurst notes that it is gratifying that the public is “discovering its own moral perceptions” and “expressing its appreciation for the splendid warfare” Roosevelt has waged.
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1897-04-16
John Hay writes to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asking him to see what he can do to appoint Paul Joseph Dashiell as a professor at the United States Naval Academy. He also updates Roosevelt on his recent travels and describes the condition of his traveling companions. Hay says that while he does not prefer to live in Washington, D.C., the place suits Roosevelt. Hay remembers fondly his own time in Lafayette Square and the early summer days spent with the Lodge family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-04-20