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Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt wishes he could have seen Frederick W. Kruse while he was in Washington, D.C. His best memories of being in Albany include his time with Kruse, Jonas Sayre Van Duzer, Isaac L. Hunt, and Walter Howe. Roosevelt provides a list of his published books for Kruse and advises which are the best.
1891-04-06
This pamphlet contains, in the first section, information from the Russian Commander in Chief that the Japanese are behind the actions of several Chinese tribal groups against the Russians. The second section contains the translation of a telegram from Baron Komura to Baron Takahira, and the third contains the note verbale from the Japanese minister to the Acting Secretary of State. All concern non-neutral activities by Chinese citizens during the Russo-Japanese War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03
The United States will hold the Chinese government responsible for any losses incurred due to the anti-American boycott. Despite reports, Japan has not been aiding China. Transcribed are three messages to the Foreign Office and two newspaper articles, from the North China Daily Times and the Chefoo Daily News.
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1905-08-17
Henry Bainbridge Chapin sends President Roosevelt a letter from Edward Robinson, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Chapin asks that Roosevelt let Robinson know if he will be in Washington in May so that John Singer Sargent can can come over for the presentation of Roosevelt’s portrait before commencement.
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1905-03-20
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou forwards correspondence with Colonel Robert James Lowry to William Loeb.
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1904-11-30
Sterling E. Edmunds sends copies of the editorials he wrote for the St. Louis Chronicle. Edmunds’s opinion of President Roosevelt changed from a negative one to a positive one over the course of the election.
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1904-11-28
An editorial from The Independent argues that the tariff should be revised.
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1904-11-24
The American company is gauging Chinese interest in the railroad. The Hong Kong government will lend Viceroy Zhidong Zhang money to pay the American company, and British capitalists are investing millions in the railroad. Full details to follow in a letter.
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1905-08-17
Robert Bridges writes to President Roosevelt regarding English and German reviews of Roosevelt’s book. Bridges also mentions a forthcoming German translation of The Rough Riders.
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1906-01-30
Opinion article from San Francisco’s The Argonaut about tariff reform and President Roosevelt’s back-and-forth stance in order to comply with Republican party uniformity. The Argonaut believes Roosevelt has to make his decision soon and will not ignore the people’s demand to revise the tariff.
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1904-11-28
Newspaper article about Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp.
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1904-11-28
Secretary of State Root encloses a dispatch from Minister William Woodville Rockhill of a translated note from Prince Ching regarding the Chinese government’s attitude towards the boycott of American products.
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1905-10-05
Unless Secretary of State Elihu Root has a good reason to occupy Assistant Secretary of State Bacon, President Roosevelt will issue a “command” for tennis between 4 and 6 in the evening with him.
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1905-10-05
Patrons in a library are seated, each listening to a book through a phonograph. At the bottom right a patron is listening to The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt. Brander Matthews enclosed this cartoon in a letter to President Roosevelt.
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A brief review of two French textbooks, describing their contents and how the sections are broken down.
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McClure’s is making available an article on “The President’s Family” which appeared in the July issue of their magazine. There has been such demand for the reprint that they are charging 25 cents a copy. They relate a humorous story about an ex-governor of a western state who had so many friends visiting him that he had to begin charging them to stay, to illustrate the need for the charge.
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1905-08
President Roosevelt writes to Stephania A. Porter to thank her for sending him a picture of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. He also invites her to bring her son and his family to dinner at the White House. There is an annotation in an unknown hand at the bottom regarding the original copy of the letter.
1907-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his admiration for Yolande de Baye.
1918-05-05
An article providing excerpts from Angus Hamilton’s new book, Corea.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02
Sir Tollemache Sinclair discusses the circumstances surrounding the Russo-Japanese War and whether the Russians won a diplomatic victory in the peace treaty negotiations at Portsmouth. In a supplement to his letter, he addresses what is currently wrong in Russia, quoting Leo Tolstoy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09