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Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for his published letter of friendship found in the Birthday Edition of The Outlook.
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1905-12-19
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for the review he wrote for Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “The Children of the Night.”
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1905-07-29
Lyman Abbott writes President Roosevelt to discuss the characters of John Hay and Elihu Root.
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1905-07-24
Lyman Abbott informs President Roosevelt that he is busy Saturday of the current week and Monday through Wednesday of the following week, but that otherwise he is available to come to Oyster Bay any time this month. He and Mrs. Abbott will be spending four or six weeks on the Maine coast beginning next month.
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1905-07-13
Lyman Abbott conveys his opinion to President Roosevelt that no one has better qualities to be Secretary of State than Elihu Root.
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1905-07-07
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt concerning an editorial to be printed in the next issue of the The Outlook.
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1905-02-11
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for his letter and expresses his disgust at the “anonymous accusations” printed in The Times.
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1904-10-09
Lyman Abbott informs President Roosevelt that he will publish the editorial forwarded by Roosevelt without intimating from where it came. Abbott goes on to say that public interest in the coming election seems languid and he attributes it to a feeling that Roosevelt will inevitably be re-elected. He also predicts that this election will put an end to “individualist or Jeffersonian Democracy” and leave the country with two parties “one populistic or semi-socialistic” and “the Republican party, the party of real though conservative and cautious progress.” Abbott also hopes that Roosevelt will read Abbott’s editorial on tariff reform which Abbott believes should be the Republican party’s stance on the issue as well.
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1904-10-03
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt to thank him for his introduction to Nevada Stranahan and note that they had a pleasant lunch. Stranahan will be able to help Abbott in his editorial work.
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1904-09-22
Lyman Abbott discusses President Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance. Abbott hesitantly offers two suggestions to improve Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance. He would like President Roosevelt to be re-elected, noting that the Democratic Party does not have any clearly defined principles. However, Abbott does not plan to directly support the Republican Party in The Outlook, since he believes a nonpartisan attitude is more appropriate for the periodical and that this strategy will be more effective for influencing voters.
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1904-08-21
Lyman Abbott does not believe that Judge Parker will be able to gain a majority. He plans to hold a series of editorials on political issues. Abbott congratulates President Roosevelt on his “memorandum accompanying the refusal to pardon” a black person, most likely referring to John W. Burley.
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1904-08-09
Lyman Abbott discusses the “race plank in the Republican platform.” He is glad that President Roosevelt agrees with him “as to the inexpediency” of the issue and details his opinions about the subject. Abbott further hopes that “the race issue which that plank raised may be forgotten in this campaign.”
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1904-08-04
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for having a copy of Presidential Addresses and State Papers sent to him and hopes that Roosevelt finds the editorial agreeable.
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1904-06-25
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt about the political sentiment across the United States and recommends campaign strategies.
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1904-06-07
Lyman Abbott offers to join Governor Taft and other American officials in Rome to assist in the negotiations with the Vatican regarding the “friar land problem in the Philippines.”
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1902-05-10
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1900-12-10
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Lyman Abbott suggests several possible speeches or letters by President Roosevelt that he feels would illustrate Roosevelt’s opinions on various topics.
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1904-06-17
Lyman Abbott was interested in President Roosevelt’s letter about the attempt to “stir up religious animosity” against president-elect William H. Taft. Abbott had also decided not to dignify the issue by referring it until after the election, when he wanted to write an editorial on it. He had planned on taking a vacation, so he handed the matter over to an associate. He encloses a passage from Woodrow Wilson’s lectures about the Constitution. He discusses when he and his daughter will arrive in Washington, D.C.
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1908-11-11
Lyman Abbott, editor of the Outlook, hopes President Roosevelt found their recent meeting worthwhile, while admitting that he felt the discussion over terminology was a waste of time. Nevertheless, he found the fact that there were no major suggestions as to the content of Roosevelt’s address reassuring. Abbott suspects that, from what newspapers reported, Roosevelt’s recent conference on tariffs was not similarly worthwhile.
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1905-01-10
Lyman Abbott introduces E. H. Vickers, an economics professor at a university in Tokyo, Japan. He hopes President Roosevelt will interview Vickers for insight concerning the Japanese situation as viewed by an American.
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1907-11-15