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William Hooper asks President Roosevelt to encourage Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon to attend a dinner with Harvard classmates in Boston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-25
William Hooper thanks President Roosevelt for the birthday wishes and says he will do his best, “but those boys are so young and foolish.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-10
President Roosevelt’s Harvard classmate William Hooper regrets not being able to visit him in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-02
William Hooper remarks that Theodore Roosevelt is the third U.S. President to have attended Harvard and the only one who graduated from Harvard’s class of 1880. He asks Roosevelt to reply to the following comment, “If we don’t give your portrait, what can we give?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-31
William Hooper would like to donate a portrait of President Roosevelt to Harvard for the 25th anniversary of their graduation. Hooper wants to get the best painter available and asks Roosevelt to do the necessary sitting for the portrait.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-27
Marquis Rini de Saint Mars is a member of the French Commission on its way to the United States. William Hooper explains how the Marquis is related to the family of Gordon Abbott.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-18
William Hooper has remembered the name of the individual they spoke of at dinner, Mr. Redfern. Hooper notes that Senator William B. Allison and Hooper’s father-in-law, C. E. Perkins, are good friends. If Roosevelt needs to understand the sentiment south of the Platte River, Perkins could be of help. Hooper apologizes for any mistakes in etiquette when he called on Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-07
William Hooper sends his best wishes and hopes for a successful Roosevelt administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-15