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President Roosevelt would have to remove Frank W. Howbert to make room for Sherman M. Bell, and he cannot make promises without “full and thorough knowledge of the subject.” He is sorry he cannot immediately do as Howbert wishes. Roosevelt sends his regards to Bell’s wife, Mary Effie Hannon Bell, on the recent birth of their baby.
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1905-01-21
President Roosevelt thanks General Bell for the letter and invites him to dinner sometime this winter.
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1904-01-01
President Roosevelt was interested in General Bell’s letter and will look into Seaton’s case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-14
President Roosevelt apologizes but under the rules of the War Department, it is impossible to detail Cooper as requested by General Bell.
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1903-11-28
President Roosevelt congratulates Sherman and Mrs. Bell.
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1903-06-18
“Congratulations to Adjutant General Bell from his old Colonel.” Sherman M. Bell, a member of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, had been appointed Adjutant General of the Colorado National Guard.
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1903-02-21
William H. H. Llewellyn was glad to receive General Bell’s reply to his letter asking about the political situation in Colorado. Llewellyn had previously written to the other former Rough Riders living in Colorado to assess the situation there. He has been invited to in Colorado later in the month. Llewellyn comments that there are a number of former rough riders near Trinidad, Colorado, including James D. Ritchie, who “is quite an Anarchist.” In spite of Ritchie’s politics and an incident in which he shot a man, Llewellyn writes that “he is doing everything he can for the Roosevelt Electors in Colorado. I do not think you could pry him away from the Colonel even with a crow-bar.”
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1904-10-17