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James A. B. Scherer tells Frank Harper he will be in the office on Thursday at 12:30 to meet with him and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1911-06-06
James A. B. Scherer asks to meet with Theodore Roosevelt since he is in town.
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1911-06-03
On behalf of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, James A. B. Scherer thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the two autographed pictures that they have on display.
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1911-05-20
James A. B. Scherer received the photographs from Frank Harper before Harper received his second letter. Scherer plans to use a part of Theodore Roosevelt’s address in an upcoming catalog.
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1911-05-20
James A. B. Scherer sincerely praises Theodore Roosevelt’s African Game Trails and suggests reading The Study of Stellar Evolution by George Ellery Hale.
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1911-04-24
James A. B. Scherer asks Frank Harper for a report on Theodore Roosevelt’s safari lecture and two large, signed photographs of Roosevelt. He also encloses a personal note for Roosevelt.
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1911-04-24
James A. B. Scherer confirms receipt of Frank Harper’s message, and says that all his suggestions will be taken. Many of Harper’s points were already anticipated by himself and Meyer Lissner apart from the hotel lodgings for the women of Roosevelt’s party. He asks Harper to confirm that they would rather go to a hotel in Los Angeles rather than in Pasadena, which Scherer considers would be more private.
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1911-03-04
James A. B. Scherer is grateful there are no changes to Theodore Roosevelt’s arrangements for his visit to Pasadena and Los Angeles and lists the proposed itinerary. However, he regrets Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt cannot attend Helen Newell Garfield’s invitation.
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1911-02-21
James A. B. Scherer asks Frank Harper if the telegram includes the ladies’ acceptance of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield’s invitation.
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1911-02-10
President Scherer of Throop Polytechnic Institute tells Frank Harper that he cooperated with Meyer Lissner at every stage in attempting to schedule Theodore Roosevelt’s visit. He provides brief details of possible locations.
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1911-02-09
James A. B. Scherer, President of Throop Polytechnic Institute, has spoken with California Governor Hiram Johnson and seen the telegram Frank Harper sent to Johnson. Johnson’s only concern is about public meetings in Los Angeles and San Francisco that have already been arranged for Theodore Roosevelt, as well as invitations to dinners and night lectures.
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1911-02-07
James A. B. Scherer says that the wishes of Theodore Roosevelt and California Governor Hiram Johnson are the top priority on Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to California. However, he notes some difficulties in changing the schedule in regards to a lecture at Pasadena when arrangements have already been made.
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1911-02-06
James A. B. Scherer, President of Throop Polytechnic Institute, invites Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and the other ladies traveling in Theodore Roosevelt’s party to meet his wife Bessie, along with Minnie McNeal Johnson, wife of California Governor Hiram Johnson, at a private dinner preceding Roosevelt’s lecture in Pasadena. He asks Frank Harper to reply with the number in the party within the week.
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1911-02-05
James A. B. Scherer confirms receipt of Frank Harper’s telegram regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming California tour. He has shared their plans with Governor Johnson and conferred with Meyer Lissner, who will arrange the details of Roosevelt’s speeches in Pasadena. He asks Harper what food, wine, and decor would most please Roosevelt for Arthur H. Fleming’s dinner.
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1911-02-01
James A. B. Scherer received the letter of January 23 and sent a telegraph in response.
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1911-01-28
James A. B. Scherer informs Theodore Roosevelt of the Maryland Hotel’s offer to entertain his travel party following his lecture. He suggests Roosevelt accept so they will not have to return to Los Angeles.
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1911-01-26
James A. B. Scherer arranged for Theodore Roosevelt to visit the Carnegie Observatory on Mount Wilson if he desires.
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1911-01-18
President James A. B. Scherer of Throop Polytechnic Institute tells Theodore Roosevelt that they have already begun planning for the lecture he will deliver at the college, and that he personally hopes to be able to attend Roosevelt’s lecture at Berkeley as well. Scherer has received many invitations for Roosevelt, three of which he feels are worth considering and which he tells Roosevelt about.
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1911-01-04
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1910-11-08
Scherer, James A. B. (James Augustin Brown), 1870-1944
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
James A. B. Scherer’s calling card.
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1910