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Lyman Abbott regrets he cannot attend the Hungarian Republican Club with Theodore Roosevelt as he has a previous engagement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-10-28
Lyman Abbott sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter and a copy of his response. Roosevelt need not reply.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-07-27
Lyman Abbott, editor-in-chief of The Outlook, is sending a package of issues of the magazine that were published during Theodore Roosevelt’s absence. He is also sending newspaper clippings related to recent events. Abbott believes this will be useful for Roosevelt to catch up on events he may have missed and to familiarize himself with The Outlook’s positions on them. He will find a full report on the investigation into Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Roosevelt is welcome to the full notes on the testimony.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-06-13
Lyman Abbott, editor-in-chief of The Outlook, approves of Theodore Roosevelt’s editorial against prize fights. Because Roosevelt approves of boxing, Abbott believes his condemnation of prize fighting will carry weight. He adds that from now on they will meet on Tuesdays.
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1910-06-08
Lyman Abbott offers his opinion on President Roosevelt’s two lectures, which he will deliver at the Sorbonne and at Oxford. Abbott read both with great interest, but feels unqualified to make any judgement on the Romanes lecture Roosevelt delivered at Oxford since it deals with scientific development, which Abbott is unfamiliar with. Nevertheless, he plans on reading it again “with greater care.” Abbott notes that his son, Lawrence F. Abbott, is writing Roosevelt a letter about congressional usurpation and endorses what he writes.
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1909-01-15
Lyman Abbott, of The Outlook, writes to President Roosevelt to inform him that Henry Joseph Haskell, of the Kansas City Star, will be in Washington, D.C., for a time. Abbott has a high opinion of the Kansas City Star and has worked with Haskell before, and wishes to endorse Haskell to Roosevelt in case Roosevelt has the opportunity to meet him.
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1909-01-05
Lyman Abbott would like to know if President Roosevelt has said or written anything on the subject of direct primary elections. Abbott is undecided about them and would like Roosevelt’s perspective to help him “reach a final conclusion.” Abbott also plans on reading Roosevelt’s two lectures and will send him comments on them next week.
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1909-01-09
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt regarding the recent judgements passed down by Ashley M. Gould and Daniel Thew Wright, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in a case involving labor leader Samuel Gompers. Abbott thinks that Gould was correct in issuing an injunction, but is less certain about Wright’s actions. He believes that Roosevelt is correct to not interfere at this point.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-27
Lyman Abbott informs President Roosevelt that in a recent copy of his Message, Roosevelt makes reference to several pages of the Congressional Record. Abbott points out that the pages in question are for April 28, not May 1, as referenced in the Message, and tactfully suggests that “possibly the printer of [Roosevelt’s] Message has made a blunder” which Roosevelt may wish to correct.
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1908-12-31
Lyman Abbott forwards a letter from A. M. Fairbairn of Mansfield College, Oxford, to President Roosevelt. Abbott also congratulates Roosevelt on his recent message. He says that Roosevelt put forth a comprehensive statement of the steps that must be taken to avoid socialism and industrial despotism on one hand, and individualism and anarchy on the other. In a postscript, Abbott thanks Roosevelt for the book.
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1908-12-08
Lyman Abbott sends President Roosevelt something which, he says, “shows the perils that attend a lukewarm advocate of woman’s suffrage.” He jokes that “perils from suffragette” is a peril that Paul did not include in his list of those he had faced. (In 2 Corinthians 11, Paul lists many perils that he faced during his lifetime.)
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1908-12-10
Lyman Abbott, of The Outlook, informs President Roosevelt that his son will send Roosevelt the article proofs that he requested, and that he intends to send Roosevelt proofs of all his articles. Abbott informs Roosevelt about an upcoming speech he plans to give, which he hopes will be published or turned into a full article.
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1908-11-30
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and enclosure, and assumes he is at liberty to publish the enclosure in The Outlook as long as he leaves out the marked passages that Roosevelt wishes omitted. Abbott does note that the people who received the original letter may take this publication as permission to publish the entire letter without omissions. He feels that the movement to allow women into public life is “a movement against that work in the home” which Roosevelt says is more important than “any man’s work.”
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1908-11-25
Lyman Abbott is going to speak about women’s suffrage on December 4, and would like a copy of President Roosevelt’s letter to women suffragists. Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler will be reading a letter from Secretary of State Elihu Root on the occasion. Abbott asks if he can quote Roosevelt’s letter in part or in full. In a postscript, he notes that national Republicanism is unwilling to be associated with local Republicanism and that president-elect William H. Taft’s speech produced “a very real effect.” Abbott hopes that The Outlook helped a little too.
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1908-11-20
Lyman Abbott and his children will be honored to have dinner with President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Abbott is pleased with all of the initial articles that Roosevelt sent to be published for The Outlook. He advises Roosevelt to allow his article on socialism to be published and that he make his 1910 Romanes Lecture about his trip to Africa. Abbott discusses other articles that Roosevelt wrote, including one that will be published to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
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1908-11-07
Lyman Abbott encloses a letter from a railroad man about President Roosevelt’s “future editorial associates.” He asks Roosevelt to return the letter, as he is considering The Outlook holding a conference of railroad, shipping, and academic men to discuss the railroad problem.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-09
Lyman Abbott discusses dates when he will be able to meet with President Roosevelt in Washington in the upcoming month. He is pleased that he will have the chance to work with Roosevelt. He hopes that between the end of his presidency and when he sails for Africa, Roosevelt will have time to come and meet the staff of The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-03