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President Roosevelt thanks Seth Low for the letters. He believes that the Southern states demand northerners give them the liberty they deserve but refuse northerners the same freedoms.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-08
President Roosevelt sends Seth Low his final communications with the Japanese government and asks that they be kept strictly confidential and returned after Low has read them. He will show Low what he sent to Czar Nicholas II when he sees him in person.
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1905-09-02
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1905-06-14
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
2025-07-10
President Roosevelt thanks Seth Low for his letter, which he found helpful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-17
President Roosevelt thanks Seth Low for the congratulations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-09
President Roosevelt is “more than delighted” with what Seth Low has accomplished during the campaign.
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1904-10-19
President Roosevelt is glad that Seth Low liked what he said and discusses a speech by Populist Party presidential candidate Thomas E. Watson.
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1904-09-16
President Roosevelt agrees with Seth Low’s view on the situation in New York. Roosevelt thinks it is curious that the “gold Democratic papers” in Chicago and Massachusetts are of a different opinion about Alton B. Parker’s actions than those in New York, which are “fairly hysterical” and ignore the Democratic Party’s attitude on the matter. Roosevelt is glad Low wrote to Elihu Root but doubts it will have any effect (probably in convincing Root to run for governor of New York).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-14
President Roosevelt received Seth Low’s letter from Rome, Italy, and is pleased to learn that the archbishop is friendly. Things are going well in the United States with the usual row within New York politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-09
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Leary and would like him to receive the position he seeks.
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1903-12-20
President Roosevelt’s judgment is in line with Seth Low and he will take up the matter with Secretary of War Elihu Root.
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1903-12-17
President Roosevelt feels bad for New York City after Mayor Low’s defeat in the reelection campaign. However, Roosevelt congratulates Low on the “high standard of municipal government” set by his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-03
Bishop is hopeful about the New York election results and, whatever the result, President Roosevelt believes that Seth Low’s usefulness will be increased in the future. Roosevelt has found it difficult to keep his interest at bay so as not to “offend some timid mugwump or independent democrat.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-19
President Roosevelt is unsure of what to do in reference to the municipal elections. Roosevelt supports Seth Low and is trying to not take a public position that will embarrass Low.
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1903-09-18
President Roosevelt met with Governor Odell, who was “much moved” by Seth Low’s support and aid.
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1903-08-26
President Roosevelt supports Ex-Congressman Creamer for a position on the commission supervising the construction of the new county courthouse.
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1903-08-28
President Roosevelt apologizes for troubling Mayor Low as the “Mount Sinai people” have deferred the cornerstone laying and Roosevelt will have no chance to speak.
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1903-08-06
There is an ongoing dispute on who should be the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City. Roosevelt believes that the “only wise and proper thing to do” is to renominate Seth Low.
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1903-08-01
President Roosevelt asks if Mayor Low would like J. Edward Swanstrom to run again for borough president of Brooklyn, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-23
President Roosevelt would like Mayor Low to discuss the organization of Republican political clubs in New York with James Sullivan Clarkson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-28