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Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt about various subjects including fixing Roosevelt’s damaged rifle, football, and Roosevelt’s involvement with the proposed food and drug legislation.
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1905-11-29
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt about various subjects. Lambert inquires whether he should fix Roosevelt’s damaged rifle and talks about a medical article he is writing. Lambert discusses the concerns of several physicians about Congress’s failure to pass the act concerning “food and drug adulterations.” Harvey Washington Wiley, the Agricultural Department’s chief chemist, aggressively supported the act, but Lambert thinks Roosevelt’s involvement is important for the bill to pass.
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1905-11-23
Alexander Lambert encloses a letter from W. A. Brodie concerning the delivery of moose heads and describes his recent hunting trips.
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1905-11-05
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to discuss photographs and copy right privileges.
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1905-09-18
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to discuss sending Roosevelt photographs for publication in a book.
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1905-09-13
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to discuss photographs he sent with the letter.
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1905-09-12
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to discuss hunting.
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1905-09-05
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to congratulate him on the “peace” and to discuss an upcoming trip to New Mexico.
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1905-09-01
Alexander Lambert accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to spend the weekend with him and compliments his speeches.
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1905-08-13
Alexander Lambert thanks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the book and sends her an envelope and a legend that may amuse President Roosevelt. He updates her on visitors he has had recently.
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1905-08-05
Alexander Lambert plans to spend time with President Roosevelt over the weekend playing tennis, shooting, and riding.
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1905-07-19
Alexander Lambert suggests visiting on Wednesday to play tennis as suggested by Theodore Roosevelt and to have dinner by the lake. Lambert has picture enlargements to show Roosevelt and thinks bear skin rugs should arrive within a few days.
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1905-07-10
Alexander Lambert thinks President Roosevelt’s articles are very interesting. He has added a few ideas and made some small corrections, but he encourages Roosevelt to rewrite the insertions in his own style, if he thinks them worthwhile. Lambert showed his pictures to Robert Bridges and Edward Burlingame, but they will not finalize their choice of picture until they have the text of the articles from Roosevelt.
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1905-06-03
Dr. Lambert forwards to President Roosevelt a letter from Dr. William Crawford Gorgas which might interest him. Lambert notes that Anna Roosevelt Cowles saw his wolf pictures and spoke to Whitelaw Reid about them. Reid is anxious to show them to King Edward and the Prince of Wales. Lambert has not seen his own bear pictures yet, which were less successful, but will have them some day this week. He asks if Roosevelt, when he comes to Brooklyn, would like Lambert to meet him somewhere and bring some of his bear hunt pictures.
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1905-05-22
Dr. Lambert writes to President Roosevelt regarding the course of the illness and death of Jabob Riis’s wife Elisabeth. Lambert states that Riis was especially comforted by Roosevelt’s telegrams.
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1905-05-18
Dr. Lambert updates President Roosevelt on the status of Jacob Riis’s wife, Elisabeth. She has relapsed.
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1905-05-18
Dr. Lambert updates President Roosevelt about the status of Jacob Riis’s wife, Elisabeth, saying she is “very ill.”
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1905-05-17
Dr. Lambert informs President Roosevelt that Jacob Riis’s wife, Elisabeth, has a “fighting chance.” Lambert will see her tomorrow and will update the Roosevelts after that visit.
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1905-05-15
Alexander Lambert reports that while President Roosevelt suffered from two slight bouts of Cuban fever (a variety of malaria) he is fine and continues to hunt. Telegram also includes hand-written message with associated telegraph cipher codes.
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1905-05-02
Transcript of a telegram written by Dr. Lambert to Edith Roosevelt saying that President Roosevelt had an attack of Cuban fever, but was feeling better and continued to hunt.
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1905-05-02