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William Loeb sends President Roosevelt’s 1908 dues to the National Institute of Arts and letters to Hamilton Wright Mabie. He informs Mabie that Roosevelt intends to give up membership in many organizations after he leaves the presidency, and resigns from the institute.
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1908-11-14
President Roosevelt informs James Grant Wilson that it is not possible for him to accept any invitation to dinner during the upcoming fall, and asks Wilson to not consult him about it. If Roosevelt is asked to take part in the work of the organization he will have to resign from the honorary presidency, as he only accepted on the understanding that in doing so he expressed his approval of the organization, but that he could not do any work in conjunction with it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-29
President Roosevelt tells Reginald Cleveland Coxe that he thinks the idea is excellent, and encloses a check for $25 as his subscription.
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1908-02-27
President Roosevelt thanks William Shaw for his letter and extends his heartiest good wishes to the International Society of Christian Endeavor for their work. He hopes their convention will emphasize the need for good citizenship. Roosevelt accepts honorary membership in the Christian Endeavor Patriot’s League.
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1907-06-02
President Roosevelt endorses Lieutenant Franck Taylor Evans for membership in the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia, writing that Evans “is to my mind as fine an example as we have in the Navy of what a Christian officer should be.”
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1906-04-21
President Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will second Ted Roosevelt’s nomination to the Boone and Crockett Club. Ted has killed deer, moose, and elk.
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1906-02-17
President Roosevelt thanks William W. Cooley for the membership to the Pokegama Tuxedo Club and wishes he had a chance to see it.
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1905-02-21
President Roosevelt sends greetings and best wishes for an enjoyable reunion to the Colorado Yale Association.
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1904-12-29
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear that Lyman L. Pierce, General Secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, is planning to start a branch of the organization in Havana, Cuba.
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1904-11-07
President Roosevelt sends his greetings to the Black Hills Mining Men’s Association and congratulates them on their interesting World’s Fair exhibit.
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1904-08-25
The Wild-Wood Club Company of Canada extends to the Roosevelt Family “all the reserved privileges of the various lodges and clubs operated by the company.”
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1906-08-29
George B. Cortelyou informs Jennie E. Rodell that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is not comfortable accepting membership in any organization where she cannot take an active part in the work.
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1901-11-20
Governor Roosevelt regrets that he cannot speak at the American Advancement of Science or the American Forestry Association and suggests that Austin Wadsworth speak instead. Roosevelt is glad that Gifford Pinchot will be working closely with the new forest commission.
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1900-05-19
Governor Roosevelt regrets that he cannot join the American Forestry Association.
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1899-03-13
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann and the Ladies Health Protective Association for the letter. He enjoyed working with the New York Police Department and for the opportunity to work with associations such as Trautmann’s.
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1897-04-30
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks John J. Curran, secretary of the Union of Temperance Societies, for the organization’s resolutions.
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1897-04-26
William T. Hornaday encloses a copy of a letter he sent to Frank H. H. Roberts of the New Mexico Educational Association. Hornaday asks Roosevelt to send a telegram to Roberts on November 26th expressing approval of the fact that the Association has taken up the cause of wildlife conservation.
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1917-11-16
William T. Hornaday writes to inform Theodore Roosevelt of his opposition to the proposed lease of Stinking Lake, New Mexico, to a sportsman’s club looking to “turn the finest wild-fowl bredding ground in New Mexico into a duck “preserve.”” Hornaday believes that Stinking lake should be designated as a national bird preserve.
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1917-12-10
William T. Hornaday will support E. H. Grubb’s scheme for Stinking Lake if Grubb can secure the approval of the New Mexico Game Protective Association. In a handwritten postscript, Hornaday celebrates the New York Board of Education’s dismissal of three “disloyal teachers.”
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1917-12-20
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for writing to Aldo Leopold.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-01-30