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Lawrence F. Abbott and his brother Ernest Hamlin Abbott would be pleased to join President Roosevelt for lunch on September 10th. When he returns in the fall, Abbott’s father Lyman Abbott would surely like to visit Roosevelt at the White House.
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1907-09-04
Ernest Hamlin Abbott, editor of The Outlook, compares the Abbott family to the Republican Party in that both “can present a united front . . . but still be torn with internal strife.” Abbott has already shown President Roosevelt’s letter to his brother Lawrence F. Abbott, and will try to show it to his father, Lyman Abbott, when he returns from a trip. He jokes that “it will be useless for [him] to try to induce Lyman Abbott, 2nd,” Lawrence F. Abbott’s newborn son, to read Roosevelt’s letter. Ernest Hamlin Abbott and his brother Lawrence Abbott “like immensely” Roosevelt’s Provincetown speech and feel it will positively impact national views on controlling corporations.
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1907-08-27
Lawrence F. Abbott has sent President Roosevelt’s condolence note to his father and thanks him for it.
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1907-07-24
Lawrence F. Abbott informs President Roosevelt of the death of his mother, Abby Frances Hamlin Abbott, in Germany.
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1907-07-22
John Burroughs sends a copy of the paper he referred to in his last letter to Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt will be able to suggest some additions. In Lyman Abbott’s reply to Burroughs’ letter to The Outlook, Abbott kept his ground in the “nature faker” controversy.
On behalf of his father, Ernest Hamlin Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for his attention to his father’s suggestions for religious facilities and appropriations to hire clergymen at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy. Abbott returns several documents to President Roosevelt’s secretary.
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1907-06-27
Nicholas Murray Butler updates President Roosevelt on the progress being made to establish the Association for International Conciliation, with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The peace work of the association is to be done as quietly as possible and in accordance with the wishes of Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root. In addition, Butler offers Roosevelt his support in regard to the Brownsville affair and encourages Roosevelt to keep up a “stiff front” to the “Senate oligarchy.” Butler also shares his observations regarding how railroad officials are trying to make the new railroad rate law unpopular, but concludes that, despite challenges, the law will succeed in the end.
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1907-01-21
R. D. Townsend writes on behalf of Lyman Abbott, returning a letter from Yamei Kin and an article to William Loeb. The Outlook will mention both items, but will not mention the President’s name or the fact of his correspondence. The Outlook will send a specially marked copy containing the mention.
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1906-09-10
President Roosevelt’s letter to Ernest Hamlin Abbott’s father arrived while his father was away. Abbott will forward the letter if possible and if not, he will hold it until his return. Abbott congratulates Roosevelt on his success in dealing with questions concerning the nature of government.
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1906-07-12
Lawrence F. Abbott sends President Roosevelt a defensive explanation of an editorial that appeared in The Outlook about Roosevelt’s “Muck Rake” speech. Roosevelt had written two letters to Abbott’s father expressing his displeasure with the editorial. Since Abbott’s father was away in New England, Abbott explains his view that Roosevelt’s address was “courageous, significant and far-reaching.”
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1906-04-27
Praising remarks made by Japanese Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt if he can send it to be published in
The Outlook or if she can have permission to have it published in another weekly publication. La Farge thinks the address would be more valuable to the civilian than the military man. She recommends that Roosevelt read the book
Religion, a Criticism and a Forecast by G. Lowes Dickinson.
Senator Lodge asks President Roosevelt why he is unhappy with Lodge, as reported in the New York Herald. He also introduces the name of Roosevelt’s “old friend Dargan” as a possible candidate for a judgeship in South Carolina, if Roosevelt is willing to name a Democrat.
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1906-02-26
Lawrence F. Abbott sends an editorial about the Panama Canal to William Loeb, requesting that he forward it to President Roosevelt. Roosevelt had requested the article from Abbott’s father, Lyman Abbott.
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1906-02-09
Hamilton Wright Mabie informs President Roosevelt of a plan to surprise Lyman Abbott for his upcoming seventieth birthday with an privately printed extra edition of The Outlook. Mabie asks Roosevelt to write five or six lines of congratulations for the edition.
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1905-12-03
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp thanks President Roosevelt for sending the letter from Colonel Brown. Leupp had hoped to appoint Brown to a superintendency before discovering that the law prohibited the appointment of retired officers of Brown’s pay grade. Leupp asks Roosevelt to make inquiries into the matter with the Attorney General and thanks Roosevelt for making similar inquiries regarding the extension of trust patents for Native Americans. Leupp encloses a letter from Reverend Abbott discussing materials pertaining to contracts with Indian parochial schools, as well as a letter from Darwin R. James who has found a candidate for the superintendency of the Indian Warehouse of New York. Leupp has visited and “stirred up” the Winnebago and Klamath Reservations and looks forward to entertaining Roosevelt with an account of his adventures.
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1905-06-23
Ernest Hamlin Abbott writes to President Roosevelt expressing his frustration with the Congressional attitude toward the Arbitration treaties.
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1905-02-07
Lawrence F. Abbott tells President Roosevelt that his father, Lyman Abbott, is currently out of town. Lawrence will speak with George B. Cortelyou tomorrow, and will arrange for his father to see him when he returns.
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1904-11-03
Booker T. Washington is glad that President Roosevelt likes the editorial, and is sending it to Lyman Abbott of The Outlook, and asking that he use it as soon as possible. Washington was surprised to find, while investigating the subject of lynchings, that there have been fewer lynchings during Roosevelt’s time as president “than for any similar period since 1885.”
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1904-10-17
Booker T. Washington is disappointed by the attitude of the New York Evening Post. When Washington met with Rollo Ogden and Oswald Garrison Villard, they promised to support President Roosevelt because of his attitude towards black people. Washington believes it would be best if Roosevelt did not discuss the “Southern question” in his letter of acceptance. Washington plans to submit an article to Dr. Abbott of The Outlook concerning what Roosevelt has done “in the way of purifying official life in the South.”
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1904-08-10
Ernest Hamlin Abbott assures William Loeb that he will deliver to his father, Dr. Abbott, an article by David Gray that President Roosevelt wanted Abbott to examine.
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1904-07-20