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Lyman Abbott is keeping William H. Fleming’s letter so he can show it to his son. Abbott wants to help men like him, but does not know how to do it without arousing the antagonisms of the South. Abbott asks the recipient if he has met Robert C. Ogden.
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1906-09-12
Lyman Abbott believes the government should build, own, and operate the proposed Pacific cable. Abbott states the government should not need to depend on a private company to communicate with its “distant possessions.”
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1901-10-07
Lyman Abbott offers his help in promoting “a rational campaign in the South” to create a more cohesive United States. Abbott discusses Senator Hanna as an unlikely Republican candidate and William R. Hearst as an unlikely Democratic candidate. Abbott includes Rough Rider buttons and congratulates President Roosevelt on his “Cuban message.”
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1903-11-12
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt about Arthur P. Gorman’s campaign. The Democratic Party plans to “arouse the race prejudice in the South” in order to make the South go against Roosevelt. Abbott would like to send the most persuasive stump speakers into the southern states and have them prove that Roosevelt and the Republican Party stand for the principles of Abraham Lincoln.
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1903-11-04
As previously agreed, Lyman Abbott requests letters of introduction for his son, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, who will be investigating conditions in the South. Abbott will be in Lake Mohonk next week pressing for two reforms, the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department and placing all public schools under the Bureau of Education. He believes these reforms will remove the issues from partisan politics. Next week, Abbott is beginning a lecture series on preaching at Yale University. He encloses clippings on James Kimble Vardaman and wishes more could be done to oppose Vardaman’s election.
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1903-10-12
Lyman Abbott thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter of introduction he wrote for Abbott’s son who is embarking on a trip to the Southern United States the first of next week.
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1903-10-18
Lyman Abbott writes to President Roosevelt regarding the enclosed proof of an editorial to appear in The Outlook. Abbott believes Roosevelt, Secretary of War Root, and Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock could influence Congress.
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1903-09-05
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for sending his Syracuse address and agrees with many of its principles.
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1903-09-08
Lyman Abbott agrees with President Roosevelt regarding the William A. Miller case, and will address it in an editorial in The Outlook. He is leaving for the coast of Maine, but if the President issues a report on the Post Office investigation, Abbott’s son Ernest Hamlin Abbott would go to Washington or Oyster Bay to review the report and prepare an editorial.
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1903-07-28
Lyman Abbott encloses an “amusing” clipping for President Roosevelt. Abbott comments that the Southerners appear to be similar in some respects to the Italians and the French – one cannot always take them seriously. Abbott wants to include Roosevelt’s opinion about appointments to the army as “editorial ammunition,” and he presumes Roosevelt will not object, as long as he does not reveal his source.
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1903-07-23
A friendly note to Theodore Roosevelt thanking him for taking time out of his busy schedule to respond to Lyman Abbott.
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1903-06-25
Lyman Abbott encloses a newspaper item he had promised to send to President Roosevelt. If the President writes a response, Abbott would like to publish it.
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1903-06-30
Lyman Abbott is pleased that Congress is moving towards legislation on the trust question. George Kennan is writing articles for Abbott on the situation in Delaware, and Abbott would rather see two Democratic Delaware Senators rather than a Senator tainted by Addicksism.
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1903-02-11
Lyman Abbott supports efforts to assist African Americans in the South and wants to see equal justice for African Americans. However, he fears intensifying white prejudice by taking drastic action and does not believe the time is right to appoint an African American as Collector of the Port in Charleston, South Carolina.
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1902-12-04
Lyman Abbott offers suggestions for ending the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902-10-08
Lyman Abbott provides his thoughts on how to settle the Anthracite Coal Strike.
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1902-10-05
Lyman Abbott will see President Roosevelt tomorrow morning.
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1902-10-06
Lyman Abbott asks Charles B. Spahr to telegraph John Mitchell and urge him to accept President Roosevelt’s proposed committee of investigation.
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1902-10-07
Lyman Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and will be making a speech on industrial problems. He urges Roosevelt to take care of his health.
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1902-10-01