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President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carrow Roosevelt send their sympathies to Augusta Saint-Gaudens and her son Homer Saint-Gaudens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-06
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
Theodore Roosevelt will write Ambassador Thomas J. O’Brien on Augusta Saint-Gaudens’s behalf.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-28
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to help Augusta Saint-Gaudens. He instructs her to write Ambassador Thomas J. O’Brien along with the letter he encloses. She needs to recite what she wrote Roosevelt that she wants to gift the bas-reliefs to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy and to sell the La Page production to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-15
President Roosevelt appreciated receiving Augusta Saint-Gaudens’s letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-19
President Roosevelt will have Mint Director Frank Aleamon Leach secure a twenty-dollar gold piece for August Saint-Gaudens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-15
On behalf of the Italian Royal Home Office, Tomasa Bencivenga thanks Augusta Saint-Gaudens for her “graceful and noble thought.” However, court customs and ceremonies prevent them from accepting. King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III changed his mind and purchased a different art piece.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-08