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On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Benjamin F. Barnes encloses a passbook and requests that the Albany Savings Bank credit Roosevelt’s for the accompanying check of $700. When completed, she asks the passbook be returned to her.
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1904-12-12
Benjamin F. Barnes sends a $10 check on behalf of President Roosevelt to support the Salvation Army, as Frank L. Roper requested in a previous letter.
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1904-12-09
Benjamin F. Barnes acknowledges receipt of John Ellis Roosevelt’s letter to William Loeb and states that Washington, D.C., is the “correct address for all of the witnesses.”
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1904-12-07
On behalf of the President, Benjamin F. Barnes asks Secretary of State Hay to ensure the enclosed communication is hand delivered to Cecil Spring Rice.
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1904-06-16
Acting Secretary to the President Barnes has been told that the President would like the Count to discontinue writing to Miss Alice Roosevelt.
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1904-06-13
Benjamin F. Barnes explains that President Roosevelt does not send personal letters to foreign leaders; however, letters to the Ambassadors of Berlin and Vienna were enclosed in a response letter to Arthur von Briesen.
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1904-06-07
On behalf of President Roosevelt, Barnes encloses a letter that will be sent for publication on Monday unless Governor Durbin objects.
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1903-08-07
Benjamin F. Barnes encloses President Roosevelt’s reply to Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma’s note of July 7.
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1903-07-23
Benjamin F. Barnes informs Juliette M. Babbitt that female journalists are not to be invited to the White House reception that will be held next Friday afternoon.
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1904-06-08
Postmaster Barnes, of Washington, D.C., has been told by an informant that Senator Joseph Benson Foraker intends to bring to the Senate affidavits from postal employees, alleging a conspiracy in the Washington post office. Foraker asserts that there was a conspiracy to spy on the mail of men in public life. While Barnes does not think that such a conspiracy exists, he informs President Roosevelt of events in the post office which may be related. Following the dismissal of a superintendent of delivery, the number of complaints against the post office increased until it was announced that his replacement would be removed. Barnes believes that the dismissed superintendent conspired with others to slow the mail.
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1908-11-11
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1904-06-06
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
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Benjamin F. Barnes provides text for a telegram from President Roosevelt to Minister William Woodville Rockhill, disapproving of the foreign office’s actions regarding interactions with China.
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1905-08-14
Confidential Telegram to be forwarded to President Roosevelt. Japan views agree with the President on restoring “Open Door Policy” in Manchuria and restoring that province to China. Japan is also anxious to start negotiations with Russia through the President.
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1905-04-25
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1905-04-20
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
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1905-04-18
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
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Benjamin F. Barnes relays messages from Senator Redfield Proctor which express dismay that Eugene Frederick Ladd did not receive a promotion.
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1905-04-03
Benjamin F. Barnes asks Isabella Hagner to get Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s opinion on allowing her portrait to be published in a newspaper.
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1904-06-17
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1904-06-06
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
Beach, William D. (William Dorrance), 1856-1932
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1904-06-06
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
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1904-06-06
Barnes, Benjamin F., 1868-1909
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