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Surveyor of Customs Clarkson writes to William Loeb about a hammock which is to be sent to President Roosevelt. The hammock is a diplomatic gift from United States Minister William B. Sorsby who found the hammock while serving as a diplomat in South America.
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1905-07-01
French Ambassador to the United States Jean Jules Jusserand will recommend that his government accept the “friendly suggestions.” News from Russia is encouraging, and an immediate armistice seems likely.
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1905-06
French Ambassador to the United States Jusserand congratulates Loeb on President Roosevelt’s election victory. He informs Loeb that Minister of Commerce Georges Benoît-Lévy is visiting the United States on a mission to study garden cities, and would like to meet with Roosevelt as well. Jusserand asks that Roosevelt review a volume sent to him that will inform him of the kind of work Benoît-Lévy is involved in.
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1904-11-09
Baron Komura informs William Loeb that he has delayed his departure to Japan.
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1905-09-18
Theodore Roosevelt inquires whether Ambassador Hengelmuller von Hengervar received his note requesting him to call. Roosevelt regrets not seeing Hengervar and his wife before they left the United States, especially due to the possibility that they will not return. Roosevelt states that although he does not believe he will ever again be president, he hopes that should it happen Hengervar will visit him at the White House.
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1912-06-14
President Roosevelt asks General Barry to make sure that German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg and his wife, Lillian May Speck von Sternburg, are able to see everything they want in connection to the United States Army when they visit Cuba.
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1908-02-17
An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907. The act stipulates funding for salaries of ambassadors and ministers, salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations, contingent expenses, foreign missions, and a number of international bureaus and commissions among other things.
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1906-08-28
French Ambassador Jusserand sends President Roosevelt a collection of hunting articles by Guillaume Vasse and a book by Henri Cordier that may be of interest to Roosevelt for his upcoming hunting trip to Africa. Jusserand spent a fine Fourth of July with American Ambassador to France Henry White, whose new home in Paris is “quite ambassadorial.” In European news, Jusserand reports that the state of Turkey seems most troubling, because unrest can spread easily from that region to others. European troops in Turkey are hampered from exerting their full influence. Jusserand includes two newspaper clippings describing King Louis XIV, but notes the rest of the article “had better not be repeated.”
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1908-07-19
John R. Carter sends President Roosevelt a copy of Guy Laking’s work in the Royal Collections of Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, presented by Edward VII, King of Great Britain, and a clipping of an editorial from The London Times. He wishes Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt happy holidays.
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1907-12-20
Acting Secretary of State Adee informs William Loeb of telegram exchanges between Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon and Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer. The exchanges indicate that even before a telegram was sent to Meyer expressing President Roosevelt’s wishes for him to travel to St. Petersburg as soon as his health would permit, Meyer was en route from Kissingen, Germany, to St. Petersburg, Russia.
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1906-09-16
Ambassador Griscom writes for the State Department’s records a short account of Secretary of State Root’s stay in Brazil. Griscom details those who took the voyage with Root, the dinners Root attended and gave, the dignitaries he met, and the cities he visited. Griscom will collect the speeches Root made during his Brazilian trip and transmit them to the department as soon as they are available.
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1906-08-31
Charles S. Francis will comply with President Roosevelt’s request for him to speak highly of Arthur von Briesen and his competency to be the official counselor of the Hungarian Exposition of Agriculture in the United States. Francis has directed Secretary George Barclay Rives to follow suit if inquiries should be made of him. Francis requests that Loeb inform Roosevelt of the kind words spoken of him by Count Apponyi in his reply to Francis’s letter. Apponyi suggests autumn as the best time for Francis to visit Budapest, as Parliament will be in session and Francis will have opportunities to meet members of the Royal Hungarian Government. Francis thinks Roosevelt has made a marvelous record of shaping federal legislation in the last sixty days of Congress.
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1906-07-27
State Department memo regarding the potential arrival of the Storers from Vienna, most likely referring to Ambassador Storer and his wife Maria Longworth Storer.
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1906-02-03
The United States Department of State relays a message from Ambassador Storer about “leaving seventh instant.”
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1906-02-05
Ambassador Meyer thanks President Roosevelt for his kind words. Meyer is planning to be in Washington, D.C., on Monday to discuss the situation in Russia with Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root, as well as to arrange for his departure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-19