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Richard Watson Gilder informs President Roosevelt that Jacob A. Riis and Mary Phillips Riis have just departed after a five-day visit. Gilder observes that it is a marriage of contrasts, but a happy one. He also mentions that George Colman deKay Gilder and Hayden Channing have done well in recent horse races.
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1907-09-17
Richard Watson Gilder is amazed that President Roosevelt finished the piece of writing, likely referring to “Ancient Irish Sagas,” which Gilder would publish in The Century shortly after. Gilder also writes that Alexander W. Drake, The Century‘s art director, has found the right artist. Gilder also believes that his wife, Helena de Kay Gilder, “will be useful in the archaeology of the pictures.”
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1906-05-22
Richard Watson Gilder writes to President Roosevelt about the article on the ancient Irish sagas that has been received very well. Gilder mentions much has been written about the topic lately, including a book and an editorial. Gilder goes on to discuss the editorial in which Governor Charles Evans Hughes fails to address political machines in New York.
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1907-01-10
Richard Watson Gilder writes a friendly letter to President Roosevelt discussing his meeting with Edwin Arlington Robinson, old Irish literature, and Roosevelt’s Harvard address.
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1905-06-29
Richard Watson Gilder schedules a meeting with President Roosevelt. Gilder is pleased by recent appointments made by Roosevelt.
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1904-12-05
Richard Watson Gilder reminds President Roosevelt that he promised his memoirs to The Century, Gilder’s publication. Gilder will publish any writing project Roosevelt might be considering.
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1904-11-30
Richard Watson Gilder praises President Roosevelt on his speech at the unveiling of the statue of Frederick the Great at the War College in Washington, D. C. Gilder hopes Roosevelt will write a biography of Frederick the Great, which The Century would publish.
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1904-11-20
This excerpt from The Century Magazine includes articles on reading, on the permanent establishment of an American art school in Rome, and on the addition of Yosemite Valley to Yosemite National Park. Richard Watson Gilder enclosed the excerpt in a letter to President Roosevelt, noting his authorship of the articles.
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1905-05
In an editorial for The Century, Editor Richard Watson Gilder defends President Theodore Roosevelt’s actions on the “colored question” in the South. Gilder reminds readers that Roosevelt’s mother hailed from the South and suggests patience to Roosevelt’s critics, encouraging them to “judge the President by his whole conduct toward the South” and by all of his appointments, regardless of their racial makeup. Gilder asserts that the minority appointments Roosevelt has made are not radical or threatening but are in line with his “especial endeavor to appoint good men to office everywhere.” In concluding, Gilder qualifies his remarks with a reminder that the magazine has not agreed with every Roosevelt appointment and that its chief aim is to champion fair play.
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1903-02
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of Scribner’s Monthly, informs President Roosevelt about his struggle to highlight the latter’s presidency in one editorial. Gilder shares the closing paragraphs of the resulting work, a joint effort between himself and Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine. He remarks that history will give credit to Roosevelt’s many accomplishments during his presidency.
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1909-02-17
Richard Watson Gilder asks President Roosevelt if William Garrott Brown may make “discreet use of the statements” from a letter Roosevelt sent to Gilder. Brown may later write something for the Century magazine. Gilder appreciated Roosevelt’s kind words about his poem about St. John’s Chapel, and believes that they may have saved the building for the time being. Gilder is speaking in Philadelphia for the New England Society tonight, and will back up Roosevelt’s ideas on tolerance and yellow journalism.
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1908-12-22
Richard Watson Gilder heartily thanks President Roosevelt for his letter regarding the Southern states, and believes that William Garrott Brown would benefit from seeing it. He asks permission to send it and the enclosure to Brown. Gilder is sending Roosevelt a copy of his “complete poems” separately.
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1908-11-18
Richard Watson Gilder informs President Roosevelt that he has told William Garrott Brown that Roosevelt felt he was unjust in his reference to his administration’s actions regarding the South. Brown regrets this and wishes to be “put right.” He wants Roosevelt’s specific objections to the article. Although Brown is not a Republican, Gilder says that he thinks it is good for the country if the South is not “solid” and was active in the campaign.
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1908-11-10
Richard Watson Gilder of The Century Magazine reminds President Roosevelt of his promise to write his reminiscences for the magazine when he is out of the White House and suggests other items he could write for them.
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1908-05-02
Richard Watson Gilder of Century is pleased with what President Roosevelt said about his memoirs, and hopes that he will start writing them after he finishes his articles on big game. He also suggests Roosevelt making a “survey of the globe” and writing for Century. Gilder informs Roosevelt that Robert Underwood Johnson will be attending the conference on conservation on behalf of the magazine.
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1908-05-07
Richard Watson Gilder asks President Roosevelt when “those Reminiscences which you promised us” are going to happen.
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1908-02-07
Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine, is publishing an article about Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ later work, written by Saint-Gaudens’ son, Homer. He asks President Roosevelt if it is necessary to clarify who authorized the elimination of the motto “In God We Trust” in Saint-Gaudens’ coin design. Watson has not heard a good reason for the motto’s inclusion. Recalling the initial criticism of the new cover design of The Century Magazine, Watson says, “when the novelty has worn off of these new coins, they will probably become the standard.”
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1907-12-16
In response to a request from President Roosevelt on the appointment of Maurice Egan to Minister to Denmark, Richard W. Gilder has attached a glowing recommendation he published in the New York Times.
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1907-06-05
Richard Watson Gilder thinks the effect for good of President Roosevelt’s action is incalculable and asks for Roosevelt’s opinion on the enclosed poem. A typed newspaper clipping of Gilder’s post from October 31, 1906, is included.
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1906-11-02
Richard Watson Gilder praises President Roosevelt’s “righteous wrath” as compared to Lincoln Steffens’s analysis regarding William Randolph Hearst. Gilder has just seen the Hearst tract with Roosevelt’s and Hearst’s views in parallel columns, which he thinks is the “limit,” but can see how it might affect certain minds. Gilder thinks it is important to reach Hearst’s readers, and wishes Roosevelt were free to do so, as Roosevelt is the person the people believe in more than any other man opposed to their “great deceiver.”
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1906-10-30