Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt offers to help with James Russell Parsons’s examination.
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1917-12-12
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Parsons, Frances Theodora, 1861-1952
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt offers advice on the training and enlistment of Frances Theodora Parsons’s son, James Russell Parsons. Archibald Roosevelt was recently injured by a shell and awarded the Croix de guerre by the French.
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1918-03-15
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frances Theodora Parsons for the letter and makes arrangements for a weekend visit.
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1918-06-26
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that James Russell Parsons will be sent to Europe and he invites Frances Theodora Parsons to Sagamore Hill.
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1918-08-18
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt compares the ongoing Bolshevik Revolution to the French Revolution and cautions against excesses damaging any accomplishments.
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1918-10-15
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt offers his sympathy to Frances Theodora Parsons upon learning of her mother’s death.
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1918-10-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt is “as well as possible” after being shot during an assassination attempt. He appreciates the telegram.
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1912-10-18
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed seeing Frances Theodora Parsons on Wednesday and suggests that she visit Sagamore Hill, with her son James Russell Parsons, on July 30.
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1914-07-18
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt would like to arrange a visit to Oyster Bay, New York, for Frances Theodora Parsons and her son, James Russell Parsons.
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1914-07-08
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt declines an invitation from Frances Theodora Parsons. He explains that he will be at a resort in Arizona throughout the summer, followed by a trip to South America in October.
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1913-07-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt advises Frances Theodora Parsons on the motivation and potential of her son, James Russell Parsons III. Roosevelt discusses his own experience as a model for her son’s potential success.
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1912-12-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt will arrange a lunch with Frances Theodora Parsons as soon as possible.
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1912-11-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt does not know what his chances are for the governorship but Frances Theodora Parsons’s presence in Albany, New York, will make a difference for the Roosevelts if he does win.
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1898-10-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Theodore Roosevelt reluctantly accepted the Republican nomination for mayor of New York, New York, after being “implored” by prominent Republicans. There is no chance for success and his best hope is for a decent run. An absurd aspect of the campaign will occur when Roosevelt’s article, “Machine Politics in New York City,” is published. He had “great fun” in the West over the summer, including killing three “White Antelope-goats” and bringing three cattle thieves into Mandan for trial.
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1886-10-21
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Theodore Roosevelt is engaged to Edith Kermit Carow and sails tomorrow for Europe to marry her.
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1886-11-05
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Commissioner Roosevelt sends his condolences to Frances Theodora Dana after the death of her husband, William Starr Dana.
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1890-01-10
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Commissioner Roosevelt thanks Frances Theodora Dana for the copy of her book, How to Know the Wild Flowers. He is delighted with the book and describes it as just what was needed for “out-door folks” who “know little of systematic botany.”
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1893-03-29
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Commissioner Roosevelt enjoyed the book of poems. He will be sending Frances Theodora Dana his own book and requests that she read the preface and fourth chapter.
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1893-06-05
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Commissioner Roosevelt thanks Frances Theodora Dana for writing. He made a recent trip to Boston, Massachusetts, and visited Groton School where Dana’s book was being given out as a prize. The “head botanical man at Harvard” spoke of the book enthusiastically.
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1893-06-27
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frances Theodora Dana
Frances Theodora Dana’s book has been the “hit of the season” and was recently alluded to in The Forum.
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1893-08-27