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Theodore Roosevelt asks Ambassador Gama to forward the enclosed copies of the Geographical Journal to Secretary Muller and Colonel Rondon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edwin Arlington Robinson for the book. Roosevelt is pleased with the translations of the anthology and enjoyed Robinson’s poem that will appear in The Outlook.
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1915-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt has arranged for Baron Kaneko to receive a copy of Metropolitan Magazine that includes an article Roosevelt wrote about Korea, based on a report by Count Masatake Terauchi.
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1915-02-15
Theodore Roosevelt sends copies of his articles for publication in Metropolitan Magazine. Roosevelt discusses the best order for content in the upcoming issues.
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1915-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt acknowledges that he heard Walter Camp was going to “sunder his connection” from the Athletic Committee, but notes that he is confident that does not mean Camp will lose interest in athletics. Roosevelt responds to a request from Camp to publish one of his letters. He agrees to the request but specifies names of publications and people that are to be omitted from the published text.
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1915-01-08
Theodore Roosevelt has to deny the request of the newspaper for the reason that he cannot respond to all the requests he receives.
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1914-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt declines Clinton T. Brainard’s request to meet with Roosevelt regarding newspaper syndicate work.
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1914-12-16
Theodore Roosevelt asks Simon Wolf to see Mr. Hayes and get him to send him any information he has. Roosevelt may want to write another article in the future.
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1914-12-16
Theodore Roosevelt appreciated Edwin A. Van Valkenburg’s editorial on Belgium. Roosevelt offers to share with Van Valkenburg his correspondence with Bernhard Dernburg, which he may also show to Tom Robins.
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1914-12-05
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Edward C. Stokes liked his recent article. The article is copyrighted, and Roosevelt asks if Stokes would mind communicating with the Wheeler syndicate concerning it. Roosevelt has been writing about the nation’s position in the war and is disgusted by the current administration.
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1914-12-12
President Roosevelt has heard from Henry Beach Needham. He concludes that Caspar Whitney’s note about the statement’s origins provides sufficient context for both Needham’s and his own purposes.
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1909-02-05
At Caspar Whitney’s request, President Roosevelt has rewritten his letter to Needham as a statement, focusing on the portions about “vigor of body.” Roosevelt wants the published version to include the original letter’s date and an introductory statement explaining its provenance. He has turned down lucrative offers to write for many other publications after leaving office, and does not wish to appear to favor Collier’s.
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1909-01-31
President Roosevelt thanks Ernest Bross, editor of the Indianapolis Star, for his work.
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1909-01-16
President Roosevelt sends word to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson that he will be leaving public office in “a rather stormy fashion,” being attacked by both houses of Congress and by the press. James Bryce has remarked that bringing libel cases against the biggest two offenders in newspapers will be a service to the American public. Bryce and John Morley suggested Roosevelt make a statement about the British in India, which he plans to do presently. Some of Roosevelt’s English friends sent him a rifle for use on his African safari.
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1909-01-17
President Roosevelt is pleased by William Rockhill Nelson’s telegram.
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1909-01-17
President Roosevelt believes that the political situation has changed in William H. Taft’s favor since he last wrote Kermit Roosevelt. He does not understand the movement of the “ultra Protestant bigots” of the American Protective Association against Taft. He thinks that it may cost them Ohio and Indiana. Roosevelt also complains about various newspaper men from the New York Sun, New York Evening Post, Indianapolis News, and others.
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1908-10-24
President Roosevelt mourns the death of Julian LaRose Harris’s father, Joel Chandler Harris, not only personally, but for the loss the national as a whole has suffered. Roosevelt believes that Harris’s stories appealed to every corner of the United States, and hopes that the magazine he founded, Uncle Remus’s Magazine, is appreciated by all the citizens of the country. Roosevelt agrees with Joel Chandler Harris that his life would be better memorialized in the continuing success of the magazine than in the construction of a statue.
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1908-07-06
William Loeb returns the bill to the Meddler Publishing Company, explaining that President Roosevelt does not want to subscribe to any more publications.
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1908-04-16
President Roosevelt read Henry S. Pritchett’s article, “The Power That Makes for Peace,” with great pleasure.
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1907-07-05
President Roosevelt reviews Edgar R. Champlin’s article and finds it to be mediocre. The thesis of this article is twofold: to increase the American naval presence in the Pacific and to avoid buying Japanese bonds. Roosevelt believes that these are serious blunders that would repeat Russia’s mistakes in the Russo-Japanese War.
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1907-05-22