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December 12 will be a good date for the Boone and Crockett Club dinner. President Roosevelt encloses a letter for First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt recommends Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon for membership in the Boone and Crockett Club, as he is an excellent hunter and could assist with an exhibition in Austria.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth he has written to Austrian Ambassador Hengelmüller von Hengervár about the Boone and Crockett Club planning an event with him. He invites Wadsworth to visit Sagamore Hill to see a new room C. Grant La Farge has built.
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1908-08-12
President Roosevelt thanks William Austin Wadsworth and his wife, Elizabeth Greene Perkins Wadsworth, for hosting Kermit Roosevelt and giving him “the most useful educational days he has ever had.”
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1907-07-18
President Roosevelt informs William Austin Wadsworth that he will not have enough time to visit Wadsworth at his home because he is already seeing William Sturgis Bigelow during his brief visit.
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1907-01-25
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1912
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Wadsworth, William Austin, 1847-1918
2025-04-10
Theodore Roosevelt had not dared to hope William Austin Wadsworth would accept but had to try. Had he known the conditions, he would not have tried.
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1912-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt writes to William Austin Wadsworth to thank him for his advice.
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1912-06-25
William Austin Wadsworth’s letter will be brought to Theodore Roosevelt’s attention on Roosevelt’s return from Chicago, Illinois.
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1912-06-17
Theodore Roosevelt believes William Austin Wadsworth is producing “sound common sense.” Roosevelt believes the only thing they can do is to support Rear Admiral Charles Evan Hughes and wishes Hughes had acted differently the last six months to enable Roosevelt and Wadsworth to campaign for him with more heart.
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1916-06-23
Theodore Roosevelt will follow William Austin Wadsworth’s suggestion at that meeting.
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1915-01-21
Theodore Roosevelt has sent William Austin Wadsworth’s note to Archie. Mrs. Roosevelt has a grandchild visiting, as Ethel and Dick are in Paris. Roosevelt wishes it were possible for him to get up to see Wadsworth, but he fears, “a cob is about the type of animal I am now good for.” Roosevelt has never seen such a political mix up as at present.
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1914-10-02
President Roosevelt is unable to accept William Austin Wadsworth’s dinner invitation because of his upcoming trip to Africa.
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1909-01-29
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth to come visit from December 9 through December 14, and that he is very glad Wadsworth can come.
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1908-11-28
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth that his children Ethel and Kermit had “a heavenly time.” Gifford Pinchot will be around to go to the dinner, and Roosevelt hopes that Wadsworth will write and urge Secretary of State Elihu Root and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to come. He celebrates the Harvard football team’s victory.
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1908-11-25
President Roosevelt writes about who Major Wadsworth should invite to a dinner. Potential guests include Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and Senator Albert J. Beveridge, among others.
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1908-11-17
President Roosevelt appreciates Major Wadsworth for writing to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about Ethel Roosevelt.
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1908-11-08
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth that he believes the Boone and Crockett Club is the right kind of organization to undertake the planning of an international hunting exhibition proposed by Austrian Ambassador Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár in two enclosed letters. Roosevelt believes the United States should be represented by the type of men who belong to the club, and that undertaking such a project would be a good opportunity to justify its existence. Roosevelt suggests a few men to appoint to a committee.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth that unfortunately Samuel R. Jones is a lieutenant-colonel, and has not done enough to warrant Roosevelt “jumping him over colonels in the line.”
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1908-05-11
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1907-05-02
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Wadsworth, William Austin, 1847-1918
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