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Senator Lodge expresses his admiration for President Roosevelt’s love of Charles Dickens’s works, and sends him a first edition of David Copperfield as a Christmas present.
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1906-12-24
Senator Lodge, as requested by President Roosevelt, records in writing several matters about which they spoke. He hopes the Gas Company will release the Government, and wants to make sure that Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw does not take further steps before Congress acts. Lodge wants Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson to ask the House Committee for double the amount for the work with moths, and a word of encouragement from Roosevelt would be helpful. Finally, Lodge reminds Roosevelt to speak to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte about giving a speech to French Canadians in Massachusetts in the coming winter.
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1906-12-17
Henry Cabot Lodge thinks that if something were to be done, it was done as best as it could be, but he is not sure it should have been done at all. He also thinks that Postmaster General George B. Cortelyou’s letter was admirable. Lodge liked the clipping Roosevelt sent him, and showed it to Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, who was amused.
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1906-12-10
Senator Lodge thanks William Loeb for a letter from Whitelaw Reid and encloses a letter to President Roosevelt. Lodge states it was safer to send it to Loeb as letters addressed to Roosevelt are opened.
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1905-06-30
Senator Lodge tells President Roosevelt about the establishment of a big German coaling station in St. Thomas, which indicates that German Emperor William II is “still hankering after those islands.” Lodge recommends quickly buying Greenland. In addition, Lodge recommends replacing Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, and disagrees with Shaw’s plan for issuing bonds. Lodge comments on various prominent events happening in the United States and the world and explains he is enjoying his time in “this old Italian town,” but is beginning to long for home. He wants to be near Roosevelt and not have to watch from a distance.
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1905-06-10
Senator Lodge reminds him of their recent conversation and sends President Roosevelt a report including Captain Newcomb’s record.
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1905-02-07
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt that he did not intend to push for James B. Reynolds’s appointment to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and is sorry to hear of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw’s feelings about the matter. Lodge only suggested Reynolds when Shaw asked him for names. Lodge vouches for Reynolds’s competency and character.
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1905-02-06
Senator Lodge has enclosed an article and a letter together with some analysis of the latest statistics relating to the Socialist vote. Lodge believes that President Roosevelt’s speech at Philadelphia on the issue was one of his best.
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1905-01-31
Henry Cabot Lodge is suggesting that Theodore Roosevelt think about having Edgar R. Champlin become a commissioner to San Domingo. Throughout the letter he informs the President about Champlin’s background and credentials, and why he would be a good fit for this position. He states that he has not run this notion by Champlin as of yet, but was hoping that the President might address the position to Champlin himself.
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1905-01-25
Senator Lodge encourages President Roosevelt to release Fairbanks’s report, letters, and a statement concerning his intentions in order to prove that all have been acting in “the utmost good faith.” Lodge believes that the documents will put an end to one part of the “agitation.”
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1905-01-06
Senator Lodge requests a copy of George Kennan’s letter of November 20, 1904, for William Sturgis Bigelow.
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1904-11-20
Senator Lodge explains that he did not object to President Roosevelt having his own letter published in the press but that he was concerned about Roosevelt publishing Representative Gardner’s letter. Lodge answers questions posed by Roosevelt in a previous letter. Lodge does not know why a plan to have a second squadron of battleships, to be commanded by a friend of his, has been eliminated by the Navy. He asks to have a meeting to discuss a treaty as it is too complicated for a letter.
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1904-11-15
Senator Lodge agrees that publishing President Roosevelt’s letter on a recent matter related to Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner is best, even if it seems that the matter is nearly settled. Lodge asks that Roosevelt not release Gardner’s letter on the matter, as Gardner had intended it to be a private letter about a public matter. Lodge concludes with congratulations on the election results, noting the surprising win in Missouri.
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1904-11-11
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt he was mistaken about the president’s communication with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner being published. Only Gardner’s correspondence with Attorney General William H. Moody had been published. Given that Gardner carried his district by over 9,000, Lodge believes no good “can come by reopening it.”
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1904-11-10
Senator Lodge explains a situation reconciling differences of account between “Harry” and Attorney General William H. Moody regarding the Second Battleship Squadron. Moving on to a matter with Augustus Peabody Gardner, which Lodge finds distressing, Lodge explains that he stands by the recommendation of Moody. He believes Roosevelt will carry New York in the upcoming election. Everyone is stressed due to it being the final hours of the campaign.
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1904-11-03
Senator Lodge has only one of the documents Howes Norris has requested, the second part of the 1901 Smithsonian report.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904-12-14
Senator Lodge studies the character and opinions of President Roosevelt as expressed in his speeches in this article, originally published in The Critic.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904-04
Henry Cabot Lodge sends a note of concern following an accident in which Theodore Roosevelt’s carriage was hit by a trolley car. Lodge and his wife Nannie were greatly distressed by the incident. Lodge notes that he is seeing Coolidge tomorrow and that Hale has endorsed TR in a speech on trusts. In a postscript, Lodge tells Roosevelt that he telegraphed him that afternoon.
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1902-09-03
Senator Lodge agrees to visit the White House and relays Judge George Gray’s request that President Roosevelt visit him as he cannot scale the White House stairs in his condition.
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1902-05-20