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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Nathaniel M. Brigham that Roosevelt is unable to visit the Petrified Forest while in Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Roosevelt’s regrets that he will be unable to visit the Petrified Forest during his trip through Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends his travel itinerary to Stephen H. Landon and invites him to join the Arizona portion of Roosevelt’s trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a letter to The New York Times in which Robert M. Stevenson, president of Westminster College, quotes a passage from Pearson’s Magazine alleging that as President, Roosevelt made a bargain with the Mormon Church in exchange for electoral votes. The votes were allegedly given in exchange for an end to Republican agitation for an amendment allowing Congress to legislate regarding polygamy, the retention of Senator Reed Smoot, and patronage positions in accordance to the wish of the Mormon hierarchy. Roosevelt vehemently denies these allegations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-04
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs C. J. Blanchard of the U.S. Reclamation Service that there have been changes to the itinerary for Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to the West. He asks Blanchard to respond to an earlier letter and inform him what the Santa Fe Railroad intends to do and to provide the name of a town near the Grand Canyon that can provide accommodations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt sends a memento made from the skin of a rhinoceros he shot in Africa to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson. Roosevelt jokes about skunks suffering from hydrophobia in Arizona and New Mexico.
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1911-02-02
Theodore Roosevelt informs William Codman Sturgis that Archie Roosevelt now attends the Evans School in Arizona.
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1911-01-31
Theodore Roosevelt cannot give A. W. Kempner definite advice about a ranch in the west for his son. He suggests showing the letter to former governor of New Mexico George Curry or Arizona Chief Justice Edward Kent for help.
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1911-01-12
Theodore Roosevelt will visit his son Archie’s school while in Arizona to see the Roosevelt Dam. While he and Mrs. Roosevelt will not ride “wild and dangerous” steeds like Archie’s favorite horse Diabolo, he is pleased his son has taken to riding.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-05
Theodore Roosevelt praises his son Archie for “the twenty-shot chicken” and notes that the meat gets bruised if you shoot birds on their body. He asks if Archie will be able to visit him and his mother at the Grand Canyon. He should ask his headmaster, H. D. Evans, if he can be allowed to go. Roosevelt is excited to visit his son at school and hopes they will have a chance to take a ten or fifteen mile ride into the desert.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt tells Anthony Fiala that if there comes a war, he shall try to raise a division. Archibald Roosevelt will also try to raise a troop in Arizona. Roosevelt agrees with Fiala about the need for preparedness. Roosevelt has done all that he can, but it has been hard to make the people realize “how things are.”
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1916-07-04
Theodore Roosevelt contacts Lawrence F. Abbott requesting the ability to respond to a letter from the Director of the Belgian Bureau of Publications. Roosevelt is concerned by the actions of Arthur Dullard, hoping that what he published was “a mere German fabrication.” Roosevelt also asks Abbott about the whereabouts of image plates from his Arizona and South American trips, revealing his intention to publish a “little book” with Scribner’s in the spring. Lastly, Roosevelt confirms a lunch with Abbott and his father Ernest on November 10.
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1915-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe that President Woodrow Wilson’s administration will enter the war unless forced. If the United States joins the war, Roosevelt would like to raise a regiment to go fight, and asks John Campbell Greenway for his opinion regarding several people who Roosevelt believes could serve as leaders within this regiment.
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1915-06-22
President Roosevelt thanks Major Llewellyn for his letter and expresses his “red-hot” dislike for the policies and actions of President Wilson and William Jennings Bryan. Roosevelt requests the name of any Americans killed in Arizona.
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1914-12-16
President Roosevelt believes it is crucial that the New Mexico and Arizona statehood bill passes this session and hopes that President-Elect Taft will reverse the impression that he opposes the measure.
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1909-02-20
President Roosevelt does not believe that there is any vacant judgeship in Arizona he will fill before leaving office. He informs Rachel Sherman Thorndike that, contrary to her suggestion, he feels it is inappropriate for the ex-president to do anything but travel directly from the inauguration ceremony to the train station as a private citizen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-02
President Roosevelt thanks Ralph H. Cameron for his congratulations. Roosevelt hopes that he will have the chance to sign the bill making Arizona a state, and promises that if he does Cameron will receive the pen he uses to do so.
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1908-12-07
President Roosevelt reminds Senator Beveridge that when they spoke, he urged him to admit both New Mexico and Arizona as states at the same time. However, he acquiesced to Beveridge’s decisions and told Senator Frank P. Flint to do the same. As far as he knows, Flint did so. Now Roosevelt does not think any good will come from further delay. Keeping the territories out for even a short time will only make them irritated at the Republican Party.
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1908-11-19
President Roosevelt tells Henry P. Bardshar that Governor of New Mexico Territory George Curry is a “first-class Governor.” He assures Bardshar that he will push separate statehood for Arizona and New Mexico.
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1908-11-11
President Roosevelt assures New Mexico Territory Governor Curry that he will do everything he can to secure separate statehood for New Mexico and Arizona.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-11