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President Roosevelt send New Years wishes to William Dean Howells, and invites him and Edmund Clarence Stedman to dinner.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
President Roosevelt appreciates William Dean Howells’s letter. He does not believe in “violent revolution” rather “steady and healthy growth in the right direction.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28
President Roosevelt is pleased that William Dean Howells appreciated what he felt was “a very trivial act.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-02
Commissioner Roosevelt discusses Seth’s Brother’s Wife by Harold Frederic and how nice it is to see a novelist realistically describe politics and government work. He ends by asking William Dean Howells if he would be willing to meet sometime.
1890-10-20
Commissioner Roosevelt asks William Dean Howells to write to the editor of a Boston newspaper in support of Henry Cabot Lodge’s campaign for senator. He ends with a promise to meet with him in person.
1892-12-15
Commissioner Roosevelt compliments William Dean Howells on his study of Jewish life in New York and invites him to dinner to meet another writer.
1897-03-06
President Roosevelt is glad William Dean Howells was pleased.
1905-10-02
President Roosevelt agrees that spelling reform is needed. He does not believe in violent revolution, but in growing the right direction. He hopes to enact both inheritance and income tax.
1906-08-28
President Roosevelt wishes William Dean Howells a happy New Year and invites him to bring Mr. Stedman to dinner.
1906-12-06
Theodore Roosevelt read and enjoyed Boy’s Town. He then comments on William Dean Howells’s speech on Rudyard Kipling.
1890-12-26