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Robert Lincoln O’Brien, reporter and editor for the Boston Transcript, writes to Benjamin F. Barnes, Assistant Secretary to the President, stating he is keeping up the fight for reform, noting that one Mr. Pou had joined the fight as well. O’Brien also encloses an article he wrote for the New York Mail.
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1906-01-15
Robert Halsey Patchin, knowing of President Roosevelt’s interest in White House history, forwards on to William Loeb an article about Andrew Jackson from the Lynchburg Virginian.
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1904-08-25
Patchin, Robert Halsey, 1881-1955
Gustavus M. Middleton reminds Theodore Roosevelt he sent Roosevelt a pamphlet titled Sketches of South Carolina. Middleton also recently published an article on the Civil War in the Charleston News and Courier, and received a letter from Roosevelt. The letter and pamphlet were both sent to John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll and Middleton would now like to send the Duke a good description of the White House, if Roosevelt can point him in the right direction.
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1911-09-04
Frank Basil Tracy shares a page from the Boston Evening Transcript with Theodore Roosevelt that he thinks Roosevelt will interested in. Tracy tells Roosevelt of the Republican campaign in Massachusetts and feels they are making a mistake by pushing workingmen to vote out of fear for their jobs because of tariffs.
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1911-10-24
Palmer H. Wright ask Theodore Roosevelt to send an updated photograph to be kept in the files of the Chicago Daily Journal.
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1911-11-28
Samuel Strasbourger writes of the importance of this moment when President Taft has called a special session of Congress to deal with tariffs, reciprocity, and other big issues facing the nation. Strasbourger believes the Republican Party can continue to make the country and its people prosperous if they stick to Republican principles. Taft will need to continue to be firm and courageous, willing to be vilified to do what is right for the country.
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1911-09-05
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his trip with Irwin R. Kirkwood and discusses the possibility of working for the Kansas City Star. He also asks Kirkwood to give a friend, Rucker, a preliminary opportunity at the Star.
1917-06-19
In recognition of The Canajoharie Courier‘s 25th anniversary, William Loeb sent a letter of greeting from President Roosevelt. The newspaper printed the letter on its front page.
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1904-08-09
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna expressing anger over the published news of his engagement to Edith Kermit Carow. He does not know how anyone found out, but it is true and Anna is the first he is telling. He was not ready to make this announcement and asks for her blessing and understanding.
1886-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about the recent happenings at the Chicago Republican nominating convention. Roosevelt is very disappointed about the nomination of James G. Blaine as the Republican candidate for president. He is going to take a break from politics and spend time at his North Dakota ranch.
1884-06-08
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt writes journalist Eldridge Gerry Dunnell that there was an understanding that speeches from the previous night would not be reported in the newspapers and therefore Roosevelt had spoken more freely. However, a “garbled abstract” of his speech has appeared in the Washington Post. Roosevelt invites Dunnell to visit him the next day at the Commission Rooms.
1890-01-27
William Stephen Devery and a saloon known as “the pump” have returned to the Democratic party with fanfare. Although the article points out that Devery had previously been removed from the Democratic party, his return has been greeted warmly by high-ranking party officials including Thomas Taggart and Norman Edward Mack. Other articles on this page include commentary on vice presidential candidate Henry Gassaway Davis’s age, the delay in the opening of the subway system, and the inspection of the boat, the Grand Republic.
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1904-08-03
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt writes from Montauk Point to George Clinton Baker, saying that the talk about Labor Day was only in the papers.
1898-09-03
President Roosevelt believes the letter Elbert Wakeman referred to “is a thoroly silly letter,” likely originating from The Sun and “if the writer is not a knave he is a fool.”
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1908-08-20
President Roosevelt finds “more doctrine” in Richard Wilson Knott’s the Evening Post than in other papers. He will review Knott’s proposal with Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou.
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1907-08-23
Bernard J. Cigrand mentions to Theodore Roosevelt the Roosevelt coat of arms as well as an etching of Roosevelt he recently mailed him. Cigrand is sending him an article about U.S. presidents’ participation in fraternal organizations, since Cigrand is a member himself, and asks Roosevelt to point out anything that needs changing (William Howard Taft has already done so himself).
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1911-10-14
George Haven Putnam writes Theodore Roosevelt to ask him a favor concerning Putnam’s brother’s son, George Palmer Putnam. George Palmer Putnam is a newspaper correspondent currently residing in Oregon but recently returned to New York to get married, and will travel back to Oregon soon via the Panama Canal whilst writing news reports on the canal’s status. George Haven Putnam hopes Roosevelt might still be in contact with people involved in the Panama Canal and connect Putnam’s nephew with these individuals. Putnam also knows of a book concerning war photography being published soon that Roosevelt might find interesting.
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1911-10-13
Mary F. L. Suydam writes to Theodore Roosevelt about articles she’s enjoyed in the Outlook. She also expresses displeasure over showings of the opera Salome in Philadelphia from a few years prior and how the mayor of Philadelphia, John E. Reyburn, did not stop the performances. She claims that the literate African American population in Philadelphia agrees with these views. She hopes Roosevelt will visit soon.
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1911-10-12
James H. Ferriss sends Theodore Roosevelt Gifford Pinchot’s latest Saturday Evening Post editorial and a speech by Ira Copley with some of his stances highlighted. Ferriss says since he is the Populist party national chairman, he is invested in these matters. He also mentions a speech Roosevelt gave recently in Osawatomie where he briefly mentioned finances and says these kinds of discussions must be discrete. He thinks they are living in good times and hopes to see everyone voting together.
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1911-10-12
Gilson Gardner praises Theodore Roosevelt’s recent article. He has been collecting public opinion, and most farmers are against President William H. Taft.
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1911-10-08