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President Roosevelt welcomes his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt and tells him to show this telegram if he has trouble getting a train ticket.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt is glad to hear William Emlen Roosevelt “feels encouraged by the New York campaign,” but shares the worries felt by President of Columbia University Nicholas Murray Butler who believes defeat is likely unless “a great deal more interest than at present is taken in the matter.” Roosevelt has also told the Whitakers they can use his name.
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1906-10-16
President Roosevelt congratulates William Emlen Roosevelt’s son John Kean Roosevelt and tells his cousin that he can list him as a patron for “your tree doctors.” Roosevelt regrets the situation with Ridgely, but cannot intervene with his appointment.
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1906-10-05
President Roosevelt thanks his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt for the lovely time last evening and is feeling homesick for Oyster Bay. Roosevelt encloses a letter from his son Theodore Roosevelt.
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt promises his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt that he will look over the survey so they can discuss it. He sincerely thanks Emlen for taking Archibald B. Roosevelt out boating.
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1906-09-24
President Roosevelt sends his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt a self-explanatory letter from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. In view of the letter and the action of Congress, Roosevelt does not feel that he can not sign the bill. As Roosevelt understands it, the issue is not that the Chemical Bank will be hurt by the legislation, but that Emlen fears it will be difficult to pass better legislation.
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1906-06-22
President Roosevelt tells his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, that he does not think it would be wise for him to make any pronouncements on labor unions or open shops at the moment, and says “there is not the slightest warrant for my saying anything unless I go into the whole question,” which he does not want to do.
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1906-04-20
President Roosevelt will wait until his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt returns to go over the matter with her, and then hopes to have William Emlen Roosevelt come visit, either alone or with his wife Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt.
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1906-04-06
President Roosevelt asks his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, if he and his wife Christine would like to visit sometime in the next several weeks. He proposes that they come on April 23 and attend the ceremonies in Annapolis in conjunction with the reinterment of Revolutionary War Admiral John Paul Jones on April 24, staying a total of two nights with the Roosevelts.
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1906-04-09
President Roosevelt thanks his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, for writing to him concerning some property, and promises to discuss the matter with his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt wishes he could discuss the rate bill and coal strike with Emlen, but feels that it is likely impossible to do so.
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1906-04-04
President Roosevelt tells his cousin Emlen Roosevelt that he wrote to him what he did to try to head off possible accusations that he was “acting for a go-between for a company in which my cousin was interested and the War Department.” He tells Roosevelt that he is working on the post office matter that Dr. McLane is concerned with, but wishes that McLane would contact Congressman Hill himself. Roosevelt wishes he could hear about Roosevelt’s sons, and comments on how his own family is doing.
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1906-03-27
On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb encloses the signed receipts for the distribution of income from the estate of his uncle Cornelius V. S. Roosevelt. Roosevelt would like William Emlen Roosevelt to turn the money over to Douglas Robinson to be deposited in his personal account.
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1906-03-13
President Roosevelt sends Emlen Roosevelt a report from Brigadier General James Allen regarding James Alexander Scrymser’s letter. Roosevelt believes it is better for Scrymser to communicate directly through the War Department instead of through him. Roosevelt thinks that the War Department knows that in technical matters such as the one concerning Scrymser, he will likely support its judgment.
President Roosevelt strongly discourages William Emlen Roosevelt from pursuing the hosting of a yacht race to commemorate the peace that ended the Russo-Japanese War. He believes that making it an official event involving ambassadors could lead to unfortunate incidents, and wants to take care that nothing about it gets put in the papers.
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1906-02-22
President Roosevelt’s message is already in print, and he cannot add something as important as William Emlen Roosevelt’s suggestion without “full and careful discussion” with others. However, he will go over the matter with Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. Edith Roosevelt is “rather worried” about Emlen Roosevelt’s cough. In a postscript, Roosevelt tells his cousin that Shaw thinks that he is not only “all right,” but entitled under the law.
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1905-11-18
After an uncomfortable talk with Comptroller of Currency William Barret Ridgely, President Roosevelt asks William Emlen Roosevelt for any information about the character and quality of Charles A. Hanna and Ridgely’s brother, Edward Ridgely, who have been accused of inefficiency and drunkenness.
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1905-10-07
President Roosevelt will show the business letter to William H. Taft at once. Roosevelt would like to hear about the trip that his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt took with his wife to Southboro, and discusses recent updates on Emlen’s sons, Philip and George. Theodore Roosevelt’s own son, Ted, is teaching a “mission class” and went shooting with a friend, Arthur C. Blagden.
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1905-03-25
William Loeb informs William Emlen Roosevelt that President Roosevelt has signed the documents and returns them, instructing Emlen to give the documents to Douglas Robinson for deposit in the president’s personal account.
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1905-03-10
President Roosevelt has spoken to Secretary of State John Hay about the matter William Emlen Roosevelt brought to his attention concerning James Alexander Scrymser’s recommendations. The president informs William Emlen Roosevelt Hay has wired the Peruvian authorities and inquires if that is satisfactory.
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1904-12-16
President Roosevelt tells William Emlen Roosevelt he will take up the “Isthmian telegraph matter” with Secretary of War William H. Taft as soon as he returns home.
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1904-12-07