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James Hulme Canfield sends his sincere congratulations to President Roosevelt for “the most active and efficient year which any President has ever spent in Washington.” Canfield jokingly transfers his nickname “Pudding Stick” to Roosevelt, in light of Roosevelt’s “stirring up” the country.
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1908-07-24
James Hulme Canfield writes to President Roosevelt about taxation. Canfield has enclosed a tract he wrote over twenty years ago for the Society for Political Education, written long before he had ever read Henry George’s economic theories.
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1906-07-27
James Hulme Canfield read President Roosevelt’s positive review of poet Edwin Arlington Robinson and recommends further volumes of the poet’s work as well as provides biographical information about him.
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1905-08-11
James Hulme Canfield informs President Roosevelt that General Funston’s speech supporting the administration’s policies in the Philippines left a positive impression and strengthened the administration’s support in New York City.
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1902-03-10
Just like William Allen White, James Hulme Canfield is familiar with all the prominent politicians of Kansas, young and old. He did not suggest to White that a compromise was possible and wrote again to White to explain himself. Canfield does not agree that Cyrus Leland is a man of personal integrity. Leland has a reputation for bribing legislatures and taking in “boodle.”
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1901-11-14
James Hulme Canfield describes a conversation he had with Charles S. Gleed concerning possible candidates for the Kansas delegation seats.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-08