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President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that Robert Fulton Cutting “will be more than pleased to balance your poetry against [Hearst’s] prose!” Roosevelt knew they had fixed the problem with Secretary of State Elihu Root’s speech.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt admires an article written by Richard Watson Gilder.
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1906-10-19
President Roosevelt appreciates Richard Watson Gilder having taken the trouble to look at the poem he sent, which was written be “a young kinsman” of Roosevelt’s, and he has gone over the poem with him in light of Gilder’s criticism. Roosevelt believes that the experience Gilder’s son, George Colman deKay Gilder, had was novel, but was concerned to hear about the quality of the meat the men were given.
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1906-08-03
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he enjoyed meeting Henry T. Rodman. He also met with Secretary of War William H. Taft recently, who was able to do what Gilder asked. Roosevelt encloses a poem from a friend and asks if it is worth publishing. If not, would like the poem to be returned.
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1906-07-21
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder, of The Century Magazine, that he does not believe there would be any value to Secretary of War William H. Taft writing an article about the tariff at present, as he is not particularly familiar with it. While Taft is very familiar with the Panama Canal and the Philippines, Roosevelt does not feel that Taft would do himself justice by writing an article on the tariff.
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1906-06-26
President Roosevelt is glad that Richard Watson Gilder, of Century Magazine, liked his piece and tells him to publish it in either December or January, as he sees fit. Roosevelt would prefer that Gilder decide what to pay him and promises to be content with whatever amount he is given. On the scale of Scribners, Roosevelt says he would receive $1000 but wishes for Gilder to tell him frankly if that is too much.
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1906-05-29
President Roosevelt sends Richard Watson Gilder an article. He suggests that it be published in the September or October Century, as he believes “it is much better if it can come out at some time when there is as little political excitement as possible.” He asks Gilder to refer to him in the article “simply as Theodore Roosevelt, not in any way as President.”
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1906-05-26
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he will have an article on Irish mythology ready for publication soon and that he thinks it would be a good article to pair with some illustrations. He recommends Gilder speak with Charles DeKay to find someone to help.
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1906-05-18
President Roosevelt approves of Andrew Dickson White’s letter, which Richard Watson Gilder shared with him. Roosevelt in turn sends Gilder a letter he wrote to John Ellerton Lodge, who had wanted Roosevelt to meet Maksim Gorky, which shows that Roosevelt has taken the same view of Gorky that Gilder and White have.
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1906-04-25
President Roosevelt is interested in meeting H. G. Wells, and asks Richard Watson Gilder to let him know when he is coming so that he can invite him to lunch. He also remarks that, regarding socialists, “so far as they represent an extreme type, I have less and less respect for them as time goes on.”
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1906-04-09
President Roosevelt is not interested in writing an introduction, as he does not know what else it would lead to. He is currently only committed to writing one article for Century. He asks Richard Watson Gilder to send him S. M. Barrett’s manuscript so that he can forward it back to him.
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1906-04-06
President Roosevelt sends Richard Watson Gilder of The Century Company a manuscript by S. M. Barrett, who has translated Geronimo’s book. Roosevelt knows that Gilder will not publish the book solely on his recommendation, but asks that Gilder look at it and consider whether he thinks it would sell, as Roosevelt feels that it would worth publishing in order to preserve autobiographical records of Native American life.
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1906-03-27
President Roosevelt is pleased that Richard Watson Gilder liked the speech he gave to the workingmen. He remarks that “it was right off the bat, as I had no idea what they were going to bring up.”
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1906-03-23
William Loeb asks Richard Watson Gilder to forward the enclosed item to Cleveland.
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1906-03-13
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for the “awfully nice allusion” to him and sends a copy of the message. He praises Gilder’s son George, and says that he wishes his son Ted was “up to his standard.”
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1905-12-07
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for the book of poems. He has already read and enjoyed several of them.
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1905-10-04
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1905-06-30
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President Roosevelt does not think it is advisable for Edwin Arlington Robinson to go to England, because he thinks that America’s literary men are “always hurt by going abroad.” Roosevelt asks Richard Watson Gilder to find out how Robinson is doing. He wants to give Robinson a government position.
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1905-03-31
President Roosevelt likes the article that Richard Watson Gilder wrote, and asks if it is based on something written by Nicholas Murray Butler.
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1905-03-27
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for the poem he sent.
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1905-03-06