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President Roosevelt sends an editorial letter on Christian education in China to Lyman Abbott of The Outlook, permitting him to make any necessary edits.
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1908-09-07
President Roosevelt asks if Lyman Abbott or his son, Lawrence F. Abbott, can come for lunch and talk about Representative J. S. Sherman.
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1908-09-04
President Roosevelt believes an article “gives a totally unfair coloring” to the peace talks surrounding the end of the Russo-Japanese War. He explains to Lyman Abbott his reasoning behind using every effort to show Japan and Russia the error of breaking with each other during negotiations between the countries. He will forward a contemporary letter he wrote to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge detailing the negotiations.
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1908-08-31
President Roosevelt hopes to speak with Howard Richards soon, and if he is able to, will gladly write an article for The Outlook based on Lyman Abbott’s considerations. While he did not appreciate Woodrow Wilson’s standings on recent issues, Roosevelt feels the quote from his book “is a really first class piece.” Roosevelt will inquire if the federal government has the power to act in the case mentioned by Abbott’s son’s brother-in-law.
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1908-08-29
President Roosevelt praises Lyman Abbott’s “first class editorial.” Many political friends protest Roosevelt’s attitude favoring the renomination of Governor Charles Evans Hughes. The reasons for renominating Hughes outweigh those opposing it. Roosevelt encloses a letter from Charles Eliot Norton on farming for Abbott’s consideration. He apologizes if he seems too familiar with Abbott and explains his reasons for sending pieces written by others.
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1908-08-24
Roosevelt despairs of the issues surrounding renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes, discussing with Lyman Abbott “how the theory that a man in public office should not try to do anything but fulfill the duties of his public office breaks down in practice.” Roosevelt does not want to dictate that Hughes be renominated, but believes he should be and has told Republican party leaders his views.
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1908-08-21
President Roosevelt encloses a letter to Lyman Abbott, which he received from Chancellor of Oxford, George Nathaniel Curzon, inviting him to present the Romanes lecture in 1910. Roosevelt is frustrated over the issue of renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes.
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1908-08-18
President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott two letters indicating a plan to sell editorial columns for advertising purposes by Harper’s Weekly.
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1908-08-10
President Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott to schedule a lunch for him and Wilfred Thomason Grenfell at the White House, and wants Abbott to join them.
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1907-01-23
President Roosevelt tells Lyman Abbott that he agrees with his position about the naturalization of the Japanese in Hawaii.
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1907-01-18
President Roosevelt thinks that the enclosed communications between himself and David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, will interest Lyman Abbott.
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1907-01-09
President Roosevelt explains his opinion to Lyman Abbott on several points on which they disagree. First, Roosevelt would interfere on behalf of the Armenians if they were willing to fight. Second, he is currently trying to form an agreement with Japan that would prohibit laborers from each country immigrating to the other. However, he feels that all the Japanese already in the country should be given “the franchise and school facilities,” and treated as well as possible. Third, he is “not well acquainted with the situation in Utah,” but thinks Mormons should be treated exactly as anyone else. He does understand the situation in Idaho, which was not about Mormonism. McLain W. Davis’s claims regarding polygamy among Mormons in Idaho were investigated and found baseless.
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1907-01-03
President Roosevelt tells Outlook editor Lyman Abbott that he appreciated his recent letter and speech. Roosevelt says that Secretary of State Elihu Root is not willing to write, but that he may be able to get Secretary of War William H. Taft or incoming Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to participate instead.
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1906-12-22
President Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott to either bring Dr. Smith himself, or to send him with his son Lawrence F. Abbott, for lunch on March 6. He encloses a letter from Bishop C. C. McCabe.
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1906-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt invites Lyman Abbott to dine in Washington, D.C., with him and discuss general policies.
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1901-10-11
Cyrus K. Stockwell has a series of sermons he plans to give that include the favorite texts of several famous people. He wants to include the favorite text of Theodore Roosevelt and asks Lyman Abbott to find out Roosevelt’s favorite text, or one of them.
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1911-10-02
Charles Henry Brent, Episcopalian Bishop of the Philippine Islands, writes to Reverend Lyman Abbott due to Abbott’s interest in helping him ensure “clean, manly sport” for the young American men living in Manila, Philippines, who are members of Brent’s “Columbia Club.” Brent explains that in his “tilt against betting in high places,” he prefers to give the winners a trophy rather than prizes. Brent hopes that The Outlook, of which Abbott is the editor, might willing to provide the trophy for tennis.
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1906-12-12
Bishop Strange writes to Dr. Abbott. Strange’s speech, delivered at St. Thomas’ Church in New York City, was published in a religious newspaper. Strange will forward a copy to President Roosevelt as Abbott has requested.
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1904-11-28
Dr. Keen wants President Roosevelt to make an exception to his stance on non-interference in state politics. Keen is outraged by J. Edwards Addicks’s influence in Delaware and calls his career “shameless” and refers to his “baseness of character.” Keen is grateful that Dr. Abbott will present the matter to President Roosevelt.
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1904-11-14
William W. Keen writes to Lyman Abbott about John Edward Addicks, an aspiring politician in Delaware. Keen has corresponded with Abbott previously on this topic. He has also contacted Secretary of State John Hay, whom he first met in college. Keen states that Addicks is “in financial straits” and his home is falling into disrepair. Keen also claims that Addicks has “captured the entire fortune of both of [his] wives,” the first of whom is deceased, the second from whom he is divorced.
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1904-11-11