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James Sullivan Clarkson asks Benjamin F. Barnes to explain to the President that his sudden disappearance was due to illness. He intends to return tomorrow to the errand he was charged with.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-13
Consul General at Ottawa, Ontario, John Gilman Foster describes to Benjamin F. Barnes the communications that have occurred regarding an African American man convicted of murder in Canada. A letter from the man’s father was forwarded to Gilman by the State Department. Gilman simply forwarded that letter to the Canadian minister of justice, without requesting clemency or any other intervention.
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1904-12-12
William H. Moody is informing Benjamin F. Barnes that he received his letter from Governor Carter. He states that he knows what the President wants for his judicial appointments for Hawaii.
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1904-12-10
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou thanks Benjamin F. Barnes for sending an unidentified letter and returns it for President Roosevelt’s private files.
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1904-12-10
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw’s personal assistant sends a guest list for President Roosevelt’s review. Shaw will be hosting a dinner for Roosevelt.
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1904-12-09
Harold Bolce sends a copy of a report on international trade to President Roosevelt.
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1904-12-09
Colonel Edwards, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, is organizing the selection and shipment of tindalo lumber to be used in President Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill. The lumber was part of the Philippine exhibit at the World’s Fair.
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1904-12-07
George B. Cortelyou asks Benjamin F. Barnes and William Loeb to review an enclosed letter from David L. Einstein to Cornelius Bliss, requesting advancement for Einstein’s son Lewis in the diplomatic service.
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1904-11-28
The railway’s vice president, General Harries, sends a requested rail pass to Benjamin F. Barnes, assistant secretary to President Roosevelt. The pass was for Miss Roosevelt.
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1904-11-16
German Ambassador Sternburg has heard that William Loeb is sick, and so instead writes to Benjamin F. Barnes to schedule an appointment to speak with President Roosevelt.
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1904-11-04
Assistant Secretary of State Adee sends a message to be approved by President Roosevelt.
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1905-08-15
The peace conference met as usual, with a short afternoon session and adjournment until Saturday.
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1905-08-23
John Appleton Stewart received a letter from F. H. Whitney, Postmaster General Payne’s secretary, in response to the matters he brought to Benjamin F. Barnes’s attention.
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1904-06-10
George B. Cortelyou has informed Washington, D.C. police chief Richard Sylvester that he will be out of town for several days, and has asked him to take every precaution in his absence. Similar information has been given to Secret Service Chief John E. Wilkie, by way of William H. Moran. Benjamin F. Barnes will similarly notify Mr. Sutton of this information. A handwritten note from Barnes referring to this last point notes that Mr. Cochran stopped by and was shown this memorandum.
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1901-10-09
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1905-08-04
Peirce, Herbert H. D. (Herbert Henry Davis), 1849-1916
William Loeb informs Benjamin F. Barnes that the package from C. August Clarke never reached Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1908-11-09
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Warren S. Young draws Postmaster Benjamin F. Barnes’s attention to an enclosed envelope, and suggests that the accidental omission of “D.C.” should have been caught and not resulted in the letter getting sent to Washington state before finally being delivered.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-22
Rudolph Forster conveys a telegram recently received from Ambassador to China William Woodville Rockhill regarding the situation surrounding the cancellation of a concession for the Canton-Hankow railway. Rockhill feels that this cancellation will have long-lasting negative impacts, and urges the government to work with China to reach an agreement on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-25