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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-13
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Magoon, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1861-1920
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1908-05-06
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Magoon, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1861-1920
English
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1908-05-01
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Magoon, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1861-1920
English
President Roosevelt informs Provisional Governor of Cuba Magoon that the journalist Stephan Bonsal will be visiting Cuba on behalf of the Chicago Tribune. Roosevelt asks that Magoon make sure to show Bonsal every bit of hospitality, but confidently expresses that he should also keep his guard up.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-10
President Roosevelt requests Cuban Occupation Governor Magoon report to him on the matter. A postscript indicates the issue in question concerns telephone commissions in Havana.
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1908-08-15
President Roosevelt appeals to Charles E. Magoon, Provisional Governor of Cuba, on behalf of Granville Fortescue and encloses a letter from him. He asks Magoon if Major Herbert J. Slocum might be convinced to give Fortescue a trial on his merits. Fortescue served alongside Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War, and also served with distinction in the Philippines. The President believes he is a good man who has learned from his mistakes and will not repeat them.
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1907-09-20
President Roosevelt agrees with Provisional Governor of Cuba Magoon, but he can not take any action on the matter. Magoon has been doing a fine job in Cuba, as the press does not say anything negative about him.
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1907-09-04
President Roosevelt introduces Governor Magoon to Maxwell Norman.
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1907-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt asks Charles E. Magoon to let him know in advance if he is to be in New York for the summer because he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would love to have him visit them in Oyster Bay.
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1911-06-02
President Roosevelt thanks Governor Magoon for the admirable work he has done as a public servant over the course of Roosevelt’s administration.
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1909-02-04
President Roosevelt would like Provisional Governor of Cuba Magoon to issue an order forbidding the killing of manatees in Cuban waters. Roosevelt does not want this “strange creature” to go extinct.
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1909-01-09
President Roosevelt informs Provisional Governor Magoon that he has received the umbrella, and that it is exactly what he wished for. He plans to use it for many years. Roosevelt enjoyed seeing Magoon briefly, and expresses his gratitude for all the work Magoon has done in Cuba.
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1908-12-14
President Roosevelt thanks Governor Magoon for the telegram congratulating him on the election. It is a good victory for the whole country.
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1908-11-04
President Roosevelt is pleased that the committee in Cuba hung a reproduction of John Singer Sargent’s portrait of him. He is especially glad that Aurelio Melero, a Cuban artist, is the one who made it. He asks Provisional Governor of Cuba Magoon to thank them on his behalf.
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1908-10-29
President Roosevelt provides a letter of introduction for Harry Johnston, an English administrator with “long and varied experience” in several of England’s possessions in Africa. Roosevelt hopes that Charles E. Magoon, the Provisional Governor of Cuba, will let Johnston see and study whatever he wants.
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1908-10-27
President Roosevelt invites Charles E. Magoon to change anything in a cable he feels wise.
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1908-08-01
President Roosevelt asks Governor Magoon when he can come to discuss the transition of power from the United States to Cuba with him and Secretary of State Elihu Root.
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1908-07-24
President Roosevelt has received Provisional Governor Magoon’s letter about the church property matter in Cuba and clarifies that he did not mean to hurry “in that sense.” He merely wants to have the facts “clearly before” him, so that the matter can be “in such shape that I can answer bores and critics.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-13
President Roosevelt sends Governor Magoon the text of a letter from Cardinal James Gibbons outlining the Catholic Church’s plan to sell property to the provisional government. He asks Magoon to prepare a report on the matter. Roosevelt also thanks Magoon for the cigars and preserves.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-06
President Roosevelt asks Provisional Governor Magoon to speak with Andrew J. Dougherty to secure his cooperation in settling the Santiago church matters. Roosevelt believes that Dougherty would secure the necessary information quickly if Magoon showed interest in the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-01