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Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt to urge General Adna Romanza Chaffee to accept the position of President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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1906-03-19
Praising remarks made by Japanese Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt if he can send it to be published in The Outlook or if she can have permission to have it published in another weekly publication. La Farge thinks the address would be more valuable to the civilian than the military man. She recommends that Roosevelt read the book Religion, a Criticism and a Forecast by G. Lowes Dickinson.
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1906-03-07
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge references President Roosevelt’s troubles with the “Fads and Fancies” publication and thanks him for sending her a copy of the related correspondence between William Loeb, Francis Wayland Palmer, William D’Alton Mann, Joseph M. Deuel, and William Travers Jerome. La Farge is keeping it because she is having dinner with Jerome soon. She plans to tell him that he was foolish for not working with Roosevelt on the matter, as she believes people credit Roosevelt for calling out the fraudulent behavior.
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1906-02-06
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge writes to President Roosevelt regarding an article and plans to send Roosevelt something in the future.
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1906-01-24
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge writes to President Roosevelt concerning a gift she presented to him.
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1906-01-01
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge writes to President Roosevelt to discuss a man joining the service and to thank Roosevelt for a visit to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1905-09-22
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge discusses two of her seemingly dissimilar suggestions about a speech given by President Roosevelt.
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1905-03-01
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge is making President Roosevelt a waist-coat, and sends him some colored fabric samples to choose between.
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1905-02-16
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for his previous letter discussing books he has been reading and shares her current reading interests. She also expresses her delight that Roosevelt won the nomination for president.
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1904-07-07
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge is relieved to hear Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is safe and recovering.
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1911-10
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the inaugural address and explains she is off for the “great enlightenment.” She hopes the “Russian-Japanese affair” will not keep Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., too long.
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1905
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the letters. She expects Roosevelt to be in a good political position for 1905-06 because his head and heart are “in touch with the nation.” La Farge points to Panama as an indication of Roosevelt’s success.
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1903-11-23
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge suggests appointing Percy Fields to the vacant Delaware debt collectorship.
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1903-09
La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge knows that President Roosevelt is disappointed that his nominee for the District Attorney of Delaware, William Michael Byrne, was not confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. However, La Farge thinks the failed confirmation can become a positive for Roosevelt’s 1904 presidential campaign. By nominating La Farge’s suggestion John P. Nields, someone who is backed by the Delaware state bar, Roosevelt can strike back at John Edward Addicks and his supporters while not antagonizing Senator Hanna. La Farge believes such a strategy would paint Roosevelt as someone in control of the party and still true to himself.
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1903-02-04
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge is looking forward to spending Thursday night at the White House with President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1902-11-23
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge informs President Roosevelt that she has given Mrs. John Markoe a letter of introduction to Roosevelt. Mrs. Markoe’s husband served honorably in the Civil War. Mrs. Markoe wishes to speak to Roosevelt on an undisclosed matter.
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1902-04
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge introduces Mrs. John Markoe with this letter to President Roosevelt, and she thinks that Roosevelt will enjoy Mrs. Markoe’s acquaintance and appreciate the information she will give.
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1902-04-23
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge is sorry that they were not able to visit Oyster Bay and invites the Roosevelts to dinner.
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1901
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the skin of a mountain lion which he has given her as a present. She hopes to have Edith Roosevelt to visit once some renovations are completed in her home.
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1901
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge is pleased to have President Roosevelt leading the country. She believes in Roosevelt and thinks his leadership is a “great good.” However, she also recognizes that the circumstances of his succession deprive Roosevelt of the “certain pleasure” which he would have normally found in succeeding to the presidency.
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1901-09-19