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Robert J. Collier recently met with Albert Shaw, who helped explain President Roosevelt’s view of the situation in Missouri. Collier hopes to be able to make it up to Roosevelt after his reelection to show that the Weekly does not hold the sorts of hostility towards Roosevelt that has been exhibited in the recent letters of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
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1904-11-03
Robert J. Collier invites Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to have lunch and attend the first National Polo Match game at Meadow Brook.
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1911-05-11
Robert J. Collier invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak on the military aspect of aviation at the Aero Club of America’s annual dinner.
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1911-01-20
Robert J. Collier sends President Roosevelt the register from Brown’s Hotel that Abraham Lincoln likely signed on his first trip to Washington, D.C., as a freshman congressman. He presents this gift as a token of his admiration, and that of the entire Collier’s staff, as Roosevelt leaves the presidency. The officers of the Lincoln Farm Association are also very grateful for Roosevelt’s support.
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1909-02-05
Robert J. Collier was surprised by the gift of a draft of one of President Roosevelt’s speeches that he received from Mark Sullivan, and thanks Roosevelt for his part in it. Collier believes that the speech is high-minded and straightforward, and thinks that it should be printed somewhere after Roosevelt delivers it so that it is preserved.
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1908-12-28
Robert J. Collier asks President Roosevelt again if he would consider writing about his trip to Africa in Collier’s Weekly.
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1908-07
Robert J. Collier would be pleased to have lunch with President Roosevelt on August 1. He hopes to convince Roosevelt to print some future articles in Collier’s. Collier regrets having lost the initial chance, since Roosevelt has committed to Scribner’s, and he is thinking of negotiating directly with Charles Scribner to see if he would be willing to sell some of the articles to Collier’s.
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1908-07-14
Robert J. Collier is disappointed by the news that President Roosevelt has made a decision regarding his African articles before Collier was able to meet with him in person. Collier recalls that he had been one of the first, nearly two years ago, to suggest a trip after Roosevelt leaves the presidency; and he understood that Roosevelt would talk with him before making a decision. He argues that Roosevelt’s articles would reach a greater number of people if Collier’s publishes them than they would if they appear in Scribner’s, and he increases his earlier offer of $50,000 to $100,000 for the rights to publish them serially, with the understanding that Scribner’s would subsequently publish them in book form.
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1908-07-09
Robert J. Collier does not wish to do President Roosevelt an injustice, and therefore asks him a number of direct questions regarding a reported statement that Roosevelt made about his preference for Cyrus Packard Walbridge over Joseph Wingate Folk in the race for the Missouri governorship.
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1904-10-19
Robert J. Collier writes to his father about President Roosevelt’s feeling that Collier’s Weekly has done damage to his campaign. Collier notes that the magazine has offered its qualified support for Roosevelt and that he feels they have been “on the whole, fair.”
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1904-10-10
Robert J. Collier suggests an edited list of people to invite to a breakfast in honor of President Roosevelt before he leaves on his safari.
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1908-12-04
Robert J. Collier invites John T. McCutcheon to a dinner with President Roosevelt on June 22 at Sherry’s.
1905-1909
Robert J. Collier requests President Roosevelt’s permission to send Elisha Ely Garrison complete galley proofs of Roosevelt’s speeches and state papers.
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1904-01-14
Robert J. Collier asks President Roosevelt to write letters to the Secretary of State on behalf of photographers preparing to cover the “Eastern Crisis.” Collier recalls Roosevelt and his father running with the Meadowbrook hounds at Oyster Bay.
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1903-12-31
Robert J. Collier asks President Roosevelt to pen a statement approving of the set of writings by Roosevelt that Collier’s Weekly is publishing.
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1903-12-26
Collier’s Weekly would like permission to reproduce the upcoming portrait of President Roosevelt by John S. Sargent. Collier’s also wants permission for Charles D. Gibson to record some images of the social aspects of the administration.
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1902-12-06
On behalf of the publishers of Collier’s Weekly, Robert J. Collier presents a memorial volume of The Life of William McKinley.
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1902-01-31