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Corinne Roosevelt Robinson is distressed she has only just received President Roosevelt’s letter and will write more fully.
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1908-08-01
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, unbeknownst to her husband Douglas Robinson, asks President Roosevelt if it would be possible for him to attend the dedication of a “little Memorial Library to Mr. & Mrs. Robinson” in Jordanville, NY (now the Jordanville Public Library). Many more trains are available to make the trip than before. She says it is Douglas Robinson’s dearest wish, but he will not ask Roosevelt himself as he feels Roosevelt is already too busy. She understands if Roosevelt is unable to attend.
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1908-07-22
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes to her brother President Roosevelt to tell him about her experience at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. She was struck by the spontaneous outpouring of support for Roosevelt during the convention. Robinson was glad that former Secretary of War William H. Taft, who Roosevelt chose as his successor, was chosen by the convention; she sees it as an endorsement of Roosevelt. She sends Roosevelt an article written by William Allen White, who she sat near during the convention.
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1908-06-24
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson asks President Roosevelt if he will write a note to be read at an upcoming meeting of the New York Chapter of the American National Red Cross. Secretary of War William H. Taft will be speaking, and Robinson believes that a message from her brother about the importance of the organization will drum up more excitement. Robinson also relays a message of support from William M. Polk.
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1908-04-19
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson informs William Loeb that she has some friends who would like to have their son shake hands with President Roosevelt, and asks if he might be able to spare a couple minutes to greet them. Robinson also asks if Roosevelt had the chance to have lunch with Miss Archibald Alexander, who she had previously written about. She asks Loeb to give Roosevelt an enclosed note.
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1908-03-24
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson asks William Loeb to remind President Roosevelt that he agreed to invite Caroline Stevens Alexander to lunch on March 12 or 13, and asks that he notify Alexander which day will work.
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1908-03-10
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson sends President Roosevelt a letter from her friend Mignonette Violett Whelen about the tragedies in her family. Robinson also talks about Darius O. Mills’s visit after the Knickerbocker Trust Company failure and mentioned that he said, “History will prove that the President is right.” She concludes by suggesting that Roosevelt meet Mayor of Troy, New York, Elias Plum Mann, who voted for Roosevelt in the last election even when he was very ill.
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1907-11-14
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson asks William Loeb to bring President Roosevelt’s attention to the book The Mother-Artist, by her acquaintance Jane Dearborn Mills. Robinson encloses a letter praising the book for the president and a letter for Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch, whose address she believes Loeb must have.
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1907-07-15
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday and encloses poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow as a birthday present. Robinson wishes to see Roosevelt before he leaves for Panama and suggests boarding the train he will be riding on Election Day.
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1906-10-26
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes to William Loeb on behalf of her friend Samuel Beck Parkman Trowbridge, a prominent architect in New York, who wants to study the decorations in the Turkish palace. Because the palace is not always open to the public, Robinson wonders if William Loeb could ask President Roosevelt to write her friend a letter of introduction to Ambassador John George Alexander Leishman, who is stationed in Turkey.
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1906-10-07
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson updates President Roosevelt on her daughter Corinne Roosevelt Cole’s recovery. Robinson also comments on current legislation and discusses a recent speaking engagement at a “Girls’ Club.”
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1906-03-15
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson asks William Loeb to deliver the enclosed note to President Roosevelt. Robinson also requests a meeting with the president for Emma Eames Story, indicating that such a great American singer should make his personal acquaintance.
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1906-03-20
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes President Roosevelt, asking him to grant Emma Eames an audience. Eames is a well-renowned and accomplished opera singer and “has a great admiration” for Roosevelt. Robinson believed Eames “had the right” to request the meeting. The opera singer will be in Washington, D.C., at the Willard for several days.
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1906-03-20
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson encloses a letter from Caroline Morton Potter that contains news of Frances Theodora Parsons. Robinson asks that President Roosevelt return the letter once he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have read it, as several friends would also like to read it. Robinson expresses her sorrow for what Parsons is going through, presumably with the recent death of her husband, James Russell Parsons.
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1905-12-14
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday. She is delighted that his trip to the South went so well. She also tells President Roosevelt news of her family.
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1905-10-27
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes to President Roosevelt regarding her upcoming travel plans, saying she may see Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt in Boston, Massachusetts.
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1905-09-23
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson congratulates President Roosevelt on the peace between Japan and Russia.
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1905-09-04
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson encloses a letter from Powers Farr, who will soon visit New York. Robinson compliments President Roosevelt’s speeches and is living quietly on holiday.
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1905-08-14
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson was delighted to see President Theodore Roosevelt and has much more she wishes to discuss with him. If Roosevelt is seriously considering attending the Army vs. Navy football game, Princeton University’s Ivy Club would gladly entertain him. Robinson thinks it would be lovely if Roosevelt could visit Princeton as he did Harvard and Yale.
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1905-07-17
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson thanks President Roosevelt for his immediate response regarding Mr. Cecil. Robinson also tells Roosevelt that her sons, Monroe and Stewart, won their races in rowing.
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1905-06-04