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Harper & Brothers is sending President Roosevelt a special copy of Alfred Austin’s A Tale of True Love & Other Poems in a special binding at the author’s request, as previously mentioned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-30
Secretary of State Hay wants President Roosevelt to know that Mr. Kasson is seriously ill and has been taken to Garfield Hospital. Kasson has severe internal pains, and an operation at his age is especially dangerous.
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1902-04-30
George Kennan sends a telegram to President Roosevelt: “Grinnell has not received your letter but he will go.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-30
Attorney General Knox has reviewed the case of U.S. Marshal John Grant, who has admitted to accepting money from the American National Bank of Beaumont, Texas, supposedly as a reimbursement of expenses, although Grant cannot remember or itemize his specific expenses. Knox encourages the removal of Grant for breaking, if not the letter, at least the spirit of the law against federal officials taking money for procuring government positions or licenses for others.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-30
Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long responds to a letter from Charles Hamlin, who is trying to obtain the soundings gathered by the U.S. cable-surveying ship Nemo, for the purposes of laying a transatlantic telegraph cable. Since the soundings were taken for the purposes of laying a government cable, and Congress is considering the question of constructing the cable, Long has recommended to President Roosevelt to wait for Congress to act. If Congress adjourns without making provision for the construction of the cable, the soundings could be made available to any company legally eligible to build the cable, provided the company offered reasonable compensation to the government for the cost incurred in taking them.
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1902-04-30
Ralph Modjeski recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake level regulation. Modjeski points to Wisner’s service on the Deep Waterways Commission after his appointment by President McKinley.
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1902-04-30
Henry E. Riggs recommends George Y.. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels, pointing out Wisner’s experience as an engineer on the Board of Engineers of Deep Waterways.
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1902-04-30
E. C. Shankland recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels, mentioning his experience with the Deep Waterways Commission and as a civil engineer.
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1902-04-30
The French artist whose painting was used as the advertisement of the 1900 World Expo will be in Washington, D.C., as a delegate of the French Ministry of Public Instruction. He will deliver the original painting to President Roosevelt.
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1902-04-30
Caspar Whitney asks that an attached letter be shown to President Roosevelt and then returned.
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1902-04-30
August Zeising of Chicago recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels. He mentions Wisner’s service on the United States Lake Survey and the Deep Waterways Commission and his standing in both the United States and Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-30
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge informs President Roosevelt that she has given Mrs. John Markoe a letter of introduction to Roosevelt. Mrs. Markoe’s husband served honorably in the Civil War. Mrs. Markoe wishes to speak to Roosevelt on an undisclosed matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04
If the Senate fails to confirm Keester as Collector of Internal Revenue he does not want a recess appointment for fear of embarrassing President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
The Union Republicans insist that John Edward Addicks become Delaware’s senator and the regular Republicans insist that they will not enter into any agreement that sends Addicks to the senate. No more compromises can be made; Addicks must be elected or not elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-03
“I think you will like to know what a trump Higginson is.”
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1902-05-01
Surveyor Clarkson thanks President Roosevelt for his appointment as surveyor of the Port of New York. Clarkson recognizes that there are multiple parties that opposed him, which makes him more grateful for the position.
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1902-05-01
Civil engineer Branch Harris Colby recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels. Colby has known Wisner for thirty years and highly recommends him for the post to help with certain hydraulic problems necessary to improve the Great Lakes.
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1902-05-01
J. B. Davis recommends George Y. Wisner for appointment to the international commission on lake levels.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
Henry Clay Evans sends a copy of a telegram he sent to Colonel Wilder Stevens Metcalf in regard to printing services for the Department of the Interior. Evans believed that a proposed change in printing from the Topeka Agency of William Allen White would be a mistake.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
Henry Clay Evans tells Wilder Stevens Metcalf not to suspend printing services from William Allen White.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01