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Myron L. Ayers, proprietor of The Dickinson Press, is trying to reach Theodore Roosevelt regarding the reappointment of Sylvane M. Ferris as Register of the U.S. Land Office in Dickinson, which appears to be in jeopardy. Roosevelt is on his African trip, and Ayers inquires of Abbott (editor of Outlook) when Roosevelt will return.
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1910-01-24
Eugene Clarence Warriner, Superintendent of Schools in Saginaw, Michigan, asks Lyman Abbott if it would be possible for Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the Michigan State Teachers’ Association meeting in October.
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1910-02-07
The Associated Harvard Clubs would like to invite Theodore Roosevelt to their annual meeting in June. Minot Simons asks Lyman Abbott to wire Roosevelt’s cable and mail addresses.
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1910-02-09
Willis H. Ropes sends Lyman Abbott two copes of a Salem Evening News article about Rough Rider William A. Mitchell, who is now a chief of police. Abbott should send one to Theodore Roosevelt, and keep another for his reference. Ropes believes it may be interesting for The Outlook to write about Mitchell’s methods.
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1909-10-30
In preparation for an academic debate, William B. Elkins asks Lyman Abbott if Theodore Roosevelt sent him a letter discussing his opinion of women’s suffrage.
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1909-11-07
Marie Corelli thanks Lyman Abbott for sending the Outlook editorial about Harvard House. She sends two articles about the house and asks him to show them to Theodore Roosevelt. The house has no endowment and must support itself by keeping up local and visiting interest.
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1909-11-19
Julius M. Johnson asks Lyman Abbott if Theodore Roosevelt will be going on a lecture tour when he returns from Africa. If so, Johnson would like to know the terms and fees for Roosevelt to speak in a hall that holds 600 people.
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1909-11-27
Abram B. Reading asks Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, to send the enclosed letter on “the corporation” to Theodore Roosevelt.
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1909-11-28
After hearing that Theodore Roosevelt intends to visit England following his African safari, Joseph Cowperthwaite would like him to stay at his hotel in the Lake District. He asks Lyman Abbott to further his cause.
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1909-12-01
Daniel Mayer sends Lyman Abbott a letter which he should forward to Theodore Roosevelt in Mombasa. It involves an important proposition to him regarding London and England following his hunting trip.
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1909-05-07
The Division of Dead Letters has received a book packet addressed to Theodore Roosevelt containing the book Y. America’s Peril and includes an inscription from the author. Before sending the parcel back to England, Fourth Assistant Postmaster P. V. De Graw asks if Lyman Abbott has any instructions about what to do with it.
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1909-05-15
Eunice A. Jennison tells Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, that she is glad to hear that Theodore Roosevelt will have a “pulpit” at the magazine. Jennison expresses her desire for a moral revolution among American women and believes that Roosevelt can and should lead it.
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1909-03-17
Arthur F. Benson asks Lyman Abbott about the possibility of securing Theodore Roosevelt to speak at his church when he returns to the United States.
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1910-02-02
A. M. Fairbairn congratulates Lyman Abbott on securing President Roosevelt to write for The Outlook.
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1908-11-23
John Burroughs writes to Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, to defend the remarks Theodore Roosevelt made about the “nature faker” controversy. Abbott wrote an editorial saying that Roosevelt made a “too sharp distinction between fiction and fact.” Burroughs believes that there is “a legitimate and an illegitimate use of the imagination in writing human history.”
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1907-06-11
A writer who signs their initials “M. B. H.” asks Lyman Abbott to present his idea to President Roosevelt, to publish in a single issue of The Outlook a brief history of the first Hague Conference and communications from the President of the United States, the Emperor of Germany, the King of England, and the President of France regarding the second meeting of the Hague International Conference. The information would be given simultaneously to the United Press. The writer thinks this would be the “most impressive and the most influential utterance in favor of the great cause of arbitration…ever…issued.”
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1905-05-18
President Roosevelt assures Lyman Abbott that no private corporations will have exclusive rights to such a telegraph cable, but he has his doubts about government ownership of the cable. If Congress does not provide funding for the federal construction of such a cable, then Roosevelt believes private individuals should begin their own construction. He comments that while private individuals can run cables to Hawaii as they can between other states, running cables to the Philippines is a trickier matter, and depends on the Supreme Court.
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1901-10-09
President Roosevelt was satisfied with the conference and sent Lyman Abbott corrections for the final draft. He discusses the conflict with congress on the tariff and interstate commerce.
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1905-01-11
President Roosevelt will consider Judge Thomas if there is a vacancy.
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1904-01-08
Draft of a letter dictated and edited by Theodore Roosevelt for Outlook editor Lyman Abbott. He wishes to address the “Vatican incident” and has the utmost respect for Catholics. A note at the end says this letter was dictated, perhaps while on a steamship from Alexandria to Naples.
1910-04-03