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Theodore Roosevelt would be pleased to write the paper Henry Van Dyke requested, if only Roosevelt did not have to present a speech as the President of the American Historical Association a week after the date Van Dyke mentioned. Roosevelt will not be able to work on the paper until well after the election, and so cannot hope to write two papers.
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1912-08-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary advises J. Franklin Jameson that Roosevelt will do his best to prepare “that address ready in time for printing in the American Historical Review” and asks Jameson to write again when the deadline is one month away as a reminder to Roosevelt.
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1912-06-10
Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to meeting James Ford Rhodes’s dinner guests. However, he already has plans for lunch with Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt is happy to see Rhodes at the upcoming dinner of the American Historical Association.
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1911-11-24
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he cannot attend the American Historical Association dinner with James Ford Rhodes and William Milligan Sloane as his address at Groton School was rescheduled.
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1911-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt informs John Franklin Jameson that he cannot accept the presidency of the American Historical Association and would prefer not to be named as a vice president, as he has come to dread making addresses and must do so continually.
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1911-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Clarence Winthrop Bowen for his kindness and is grateful for lifetime membership in the American Historical Association.
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1910-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary cannot forward William Milligan Sloane’s letter to Roosevelt. He suggests Sloane write about the American Historical Association matter again upon Roosevelt’s return in May.
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1910-01-27
Theodore Roosevelt is not familiar enough with the matter to express an opinion and is in favor of doing whatever Henry Morse Stephens, President of the American Historical Association, desires.
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1915-10-11
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Mayor Herbert P. Keller that he will not have any involvement with the arrangements for the American Historical Association in 1913, as he will no longer be president.
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1912-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt tells Katherine Lowell Roosevelt Bowlker that he will try to dine with her next time he is in town and comments that sometimes its better for him to stay with William Sturgis Bigelow as it allows him to meet many Progressives. Roosevelt also asks if Bowlker plans to attend his lecture to the American Historical Association, as he thinks she would enjoy it.
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1912-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt tells R. M. Johnston that his speech to the American Historical Association on December 27th is already complete and will “not admit of my dealing with military history.” However, Roosevelt is interested in speaking to Johnston, either by attending a section that Johnston had mentioned or inviting Johnston over to William Sturgis Bigelow’s home on December 28th.
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1912-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt tells Clarence Winthrop Bowen that he has enclosed a check and tells Bowen that he enjoyed the dinner and thought it was successful.
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1912-12-09
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could go see Kermit Roosevelt, but does not feel that he can leave at the moment. He is working to keep the Progressive Party together. He is to give an address for the American Historical Association and will send it to Kermit. Roosevelt informs his son that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is not well, but believes she will be better. Roosevelt’s other children are doing well.
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1912-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept General King’s invitation to attend a Boy Scout rally on December 28. Roosevelt will be giving a speech for the American Historical Association then.
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1912-12-02
Theodore Roosevelt informs James Ford Rhodes that he is unable to come to Boston due to the calls from the Progressive leaders there. Roosevelt will stay with William Sturgis Bigelow, but is happy to have dinner with Rhodes.
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1912-11-20
Theodore Roosevelt informs John Graham Brooks that he and Edith Roosevelt think President of Wheaton College Samuel Valentine Cole’s speech is “poetry.” Roosevelt is delighted with the continued support for the Progressive cause after the election. He hopes to see Brooks, Lawrence, and the “young fellows” at the Historical Association meeting in December.
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1912-11-19
William Loeb informs Clarence Winthrop Bowen that President Roosevelt has decided to give up his active membership in many organizations he has been identified with. As such, he tenders his resignation from the American Historical Association.
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1908-11-24
President Roosevelt encloses a letter which explains itself. He thinks that both he and Collier’s should be careful not to do anything that could be accused of having “the slightest taint of sham,” and thinks they should ask the four officers of the American Historical Association to investigate the matter.
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1908-05-11
President Roosevelt compliments the article written by George Otto Trevelyan and is pleased that he fought back against the damage being done to historical writing by Mr. Bury. Roosevelt comments on the current deficiencies in historical and scientific training and writing.
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1904-01-25
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1911-12-11
Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin), 1869-1937
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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