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Henry Cabot Lodge encloses an article he wrote last spring and reiterates his agreement with President Roosevelt’s decision regarding Henry Melville Whitney.
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1905-11-05
Lawrence F. Abbott regrets running Clifford Howard’s article, “The Root of Graft”, in The Outlook, though hopes President Roosevelt noticed the enclosed editorial which ran in the same edition as Howard’s article. Abbott also commends the work of George Kennan, though disagrees with him about the Treaty of Portsmouth.
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1905-10-18
John Allison encloses his comments on Richard Olney’s article and asks President Roosevelt which one of them is correct.
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1905-10-07
Eliot Gregory enjoyed President Roosevelt’s recent article.
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1905-10-10
George Kennan writes to President Roosevelt to discuss an article he has written, “Destruction of the Battle Fleet.”
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1905-09-22
Seth Low offers to Clark Howell a letter for publication by The Atlanta Constitution. The letter relates to the topic of racial purity and how it is viewed in the North and in the South. Because Howell is presently running for governor of Georgia and may find the letter embarrassing, Low offers to give the letter to another publication if Howell would prefer it.
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1905-09-01
Henry Beach Needham thanks President Roosevelt for generously giving his time for an interview for McClure’s Magazine, and requests photos for the article, namely of Roosevelt as a boy, at college, from his ranching days, and playing tennis.
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1905-07-19
Henry Barrett Chamberlin corrects William Loeb by explaining that President Roosevelt has indeed subscribed to his magazine, The Voter, before now.
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1905-07-25
Arthur Hewitt of the Ladies Home Journal requests another photography session at Sagamore Hill.
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1905-07-19
A writer who signs their initials “M. B. H.” asks Lyman Abbott to present his idea to President Roosevelt, to publish in a single issue of The Outlook a brief history of the first Hague Conference and communications from the President of the United States, the Emperor of Germany, the King of England, and the President of France regarding the second meeting of the Hague International Conference. The information would be given simultaneously to the United Press. The writer thinks this would be the “most impressive and the most influential utterance in favor of the great cause of arbitration…ever…issued.”
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1905-05-18
Richard Harding Davis writes a first person account of his memories of the charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. He includes photos from the war and from his visit to the site in 1905.
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1905-08
S. C. Mead forwards two newspaper editorials written by George L. Duval for South American papers in response to an editorial in the New York Times that Duval deemed unfair to President Roosevelt.
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1905-03-20
Booker T. Washington writes to ask President Roosevelt to read his article in the Outlook titled “Cruelty in the Congo Country.”
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1904-10-10
Robert J. Collier writes to his father about President Roosevelt’s feeling that Collier’s Weekly has done damage to his campaign. Collier notes that the magazine has offered its qualified support for Roosevelt and that he feels they have been “on the whole, fair.”
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1904-10-10
General Boynton provides President Roosevelt with publishing information regarding the “Army and Navy Critic.” Boynton also includes a brief biography of an author in that publication, “Colonel” Alexander Samuel Bacon.
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1904-09-06
Henry V. Boynton tells William Loeb that he asked two periodical stands about a navy critic, but they could not help him. He will try the Library of Congress next. He mentions an enclosed letter in reply to a letter written September 1, 1904, by President Roosevelt.
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1904-09-04
Lyman Abbott discusses President Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance. Abbott hesitantly offers two suggestions to improve Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance. He would like President Roosevelt to be re-elected, noting that the Democratic Party does not have any clearly defined principles. However, Abbott does not plan to directly support the Republican Party in The Outlook, since he believes a nonpartisan attitude is more appropriate for the periodical and that this strategy will be more effective for influencing voters.
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1904-08-21
Silas McBee, editor of The Churchman, is sending Theodore Roosevelt an advance copy of his editorial concerning African Americans and the United States.
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1904-08-23
Caspar Whitney writes to President Roosevelt about General Henry T. Allen’s desire to publish an article he wrote on the “yellow peril” and Japan’s foreign relations. Allen is concerned about the effect publishing such an article would have on his position and promotion. Whitney requests Roosevelt’s opinion on the matter.
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1904-07-11
This excerpt from Puck includes a piece from Ladies’ Home Journal about Hamilton Wright Mabie and an excerpt from “An Appreciation of William Randolph Hearst,” which satirizes him as “the idol of the proletariat.”
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1904-05-20