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Selmes, Martha (Patty) Macomb Flandrau, 1861-1923

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes

Vice President Roosevelt cannot give advice about the appointment of messengers to individual senators as they would not tolerate such advice from a vice president. Roosevelt will be alone at Oyster Bay, New York, but he would be pleased with a visit from Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes and Isabella Selmes. He is unsure of the exact dates he will be home but will inform them as soon as possible.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes

President Roosevelt hopes to have Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes over to dinner sometime so that they can have a satisfactory talk. Roosevelt has forwarded Selmes’s letter to Secretary of War Taft, and says that if he wins the election Roosevelt believes they can get the Manila Constabulary Band to come play. He says that Taft would like to hear from Selmes, as she was the wife of his old friend Tilden Russell Selmes.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-30