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Frances M. Wolcott asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt if she could have a copy of the Storer pamphlet, as she thinks she could “say a word that counts on the right side.” Her son, District Attorney Lyman Metcalfe Bass, is trying his first case and complimented President Theodore Roosevelt to her.
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1907-01-11
President Roosevelt tells Frances M. Wolcott that he has no idea if a lecture tour in support of the work done by the archaeologist Giacomo Boni in Rome would be feasible or profitable.
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1907-07-03
President Roosevelt is concerned by what Edward Hubert Butler tells him. He tells Butler that there is another matter he is looking into about Lyman Metcalfe Bass.
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1906-10-20
President Roosevelt asks Edward Hubert Butler, editor of the Buffalo Evening News, if he received his letter about Lyman Metcalfe Bass and if he plans to write Senator Thomas Collier Platt. Roosevelt believes that Charles Evans Hughes will be successful in the race for Governor of New York.
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1906-10-11
President Roosevelt hears highly of Lyman Metcalfe Bass and tells Senator Platt he will gladly send his letter of nomination for United States Attorney for the Western District of New York after the election.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt confirms that Lyman Metcalfe Bass will be appointed as the United States Attorney of the Western District of New York but Frances M. Wolcott, his mother, must say nothing until after the election.
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1906-10-13
President Roosevelt asks Edward Hubert Butler, editor of the Buffalo Evening News, if he has written Senator Thomas Collier Platt about Buffalo lawyer, Lyman Metcalfe Bass. Roosevelt plans to appoint Bass as United States District Attorney for the Western District of New York.
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1906-10-08
William J. Hunter credits Theodore Roosevelt for the schools in Alaska and thanks him. He made enemies by exposing political corruption but feels he “did right.” Hunter offers to guide Roosevelt on an Alaskan hunt and provides a list of references.
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1911-01-29
Frances M. Wolcott informs President Roosevelt of the work done by the archaeologist Giacomo Boni in Rome and of lectures he has recently given in England. Boni is trying to raise money for a library at the Roman Forum. Wolcott wonders if a lecture tour in the United States would be worthwhile, and if so, how to go about arranging it.
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1907-06-29
Frances M. Wolcott writes to President Roosevelt regarding the shipping of bobwhite quail to the estate of Count Pourtales in Silesia. Wolcott also recounts his attendance at the Democratic State Convention in Buffalo, New York.
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1906-10-11