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John W. Foster responds to a letter from Theodore Roosevelt concerning improper behavior. Foster asserts he did not improperly use James Hay’s statement and Hay did not have any contemptuous feelings towards Foster. Hay further asserts Roosevelt’s claims are groundless as Hay employed Foster as his legal and confidential adviser.
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1911-06-10
John W. Foster responds to Theodore Roosevelt’s recent letter criticizing Foster’s speech on international relations. Foster supplies citations for statements that Roosevelt alleges are baseless, including discussions of the Alaskan boundary dispute, the Olney-Pauncefote commission, and Roosevelt’s conduct in the case of international treaties during his presidency. Foster closes the letter by remarking that, had Roosevelt “not made a public assault on the noblest act of [his] successor’s administration, I would not have reviewed [his] record.”
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1911-05-29
John W. Foster believes that Norway has been an independent country and can therefore send a diplomatic representative to the United States.
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1905-07-24
John W. Foster encloses papers as requested by President Roosevelt.
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1903-11-02
John W. Foster sends President Roosevelt a copy of his article regarding the Alaskan Boundary decision, which will appear in National Geographic Magazine.
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1903-12-21
John W. Foster forwards to President Roosevelt an article that appeared in many of the London papers in relation to the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal.
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1903-09-11
John W. Foster discusses the date for the Alaskan Tribunal Boundary meeting and explains why the date suggested by Clifford Sifton will not work.
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1903-08-04
John W. Foster forwards to President Roosevelt letters discussing the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. He has advised Secretary of State Hay and the department in Washington of the correspondence, as well.
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1903-08-04
John Watson Foster asks Secretary of State Hay to instruct Ambassador Choate to inform the British government that the United States government expects the Alaska Boundary Tribunal to assemble on September 3 and will tolerate no further postponement.
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1903-08-04
John W. Foster asks George B. Cortelyou to forward the enclosed papers to President Roosevelt, which will show that Governor Dole did not favor Hawaiian neutrality during the Spanish-American War.
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1902-03-14
Secretary of State Foster provides a letter of reference for William Eleroy Curtis, director of the Bureau of American Republics and representative of the World’s Fair, who was traveling to obtain items for exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition the following year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1892-09-22