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Whitelaw Reid wants President Roosevelt to “glance over” an unnamed paper and have his secretary send a telegram if there is anything that should not be said in it. Mrs. Cowles is in good health and spirits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-13
Senators Perkins and Bard have submitted a list of California citizens that could serve as a committee to receive donations for the victims of the volcanic eruption on Martinique.
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1902-05-13
Admiral Walker encloses the resignation of Lewis M. Haupt. Walker recommends that Haupt’s resignation from the Isthmian Canal Commission by accepted.
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1902-05-13
F. Norton Goddard writes to President Roosevelt about efforts to find John Shea a civil service position. The Collector wants to make Shea either pay master or cashier. Goddard thinks that Senator Platt should have input in this decision, but he left for Washington suddenly. In an additional handwritten note he adds that the government should move against the coal trust, which is worse than the meat trust and “cuts a bigger figure in the average working man mind.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-14
Alfred Noble recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission regarding the navigable waterways on the border between the United States and Canada, mentioning the standing that Wisner holds among engineers in both the United States and Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
Clark Olds recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels, pointing out Wisner’s standing as a civil engineer and in the field of hydraulics.
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1902-05-01
“Paper from General Alger concerning General Miles’ record was returned to Mr Victor L Mason this morning.”
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1902-05-01
Representative Sherman, along with Representatives Hull and Overstreet of the Congressional Campaign Commiitte, has been discussing the upcoming campaign and would like an interview with President Roosevelt in order to gather the President’s views.
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1902-05-01
Samuel S. Bricker would like President Roosevelt to find a position for his daughter, Bessie E. Bricker.
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1902-05-02
Senator Hanna cannot make it to a scheduled meeting with President Roosevelt but will come over in the evening at any time that is convenient.
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1902-05-02
Alfred K. Moe will replace Frederick H. Allison as consul of the United States at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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1902-05-02
William Coolidge Lane writes on behalf of the Library Committee of the Harvard Union and asks President Roosevelt if he would be willing to donate his literary works with personal autographs. Roosevelt’s writings are in high demand but the Library Committee only possesses a few copies.
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1902-05-02
Bishop Lawrence forwards a document to President Roosevelt. He had no idea that Roosevelt would ever see it when he wrote it, but after a discussion at the Convention, it was recommended that he send it to Roosevelt. Lawrence also writes of a friend, apparently a doctor, who is dealing with more cases of pneumonia. He sends best wishes for Ted Jr.
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1902-05-02
Charles V. Mersereau recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels, mentioning his qualification as an engineer with experience in hydraulics.
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1902-05-02
Senator Patterson writes that he attempted to present Roosevelt’s views on the subject they previously discussed in his Denver newspaper.
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1902-05-02
Horace Porter encloses two criticisms of the portraits of Edith Roosevelt and either Alice or Ethel Roosevelt that appeared at a Paris Salon. The criticisms were by Pierre Veber of the Paris Herald and Arsene Alexandre of Figaro.
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1902-05-02
Whitelaw Reid, who has been on vacation, is attempting to set up a meeting with President Roosevelt when Reid returns to Washington, D.C. He includes his schedule says that the most convenient time would be within a fortnight of when he sets sail. He also briefly mentions “wild talk about opposition to the Cuban policy,” hoping that reports of Republicans joining with Democrats in this opposition is unfounded.
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1902-05-02
In what appears to be a friendly, joking letter William Sturgis Bigelow mentions Jove, the Queen of Spain, President Roosevelt’s back problems, and suggests that the spring would be “favorable for a short and decisive war with Canada.”
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1902-05-04
Francis E. Leupp asks George B. Cortelyou to give President Roosevelt the enclosed document.
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1902-05-03
Francis E. Leupp notes that President Roosevelt may be unhappy with his having said in public something he has told Roosevelt in private, but to which Roosevelt would not listen. Leupp believes he is persona non grata now but believes Roosevelt will thank him in future. He encloses an article, Mugwump’s Own, to show Roosevelt his good personal, not political qualities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-03