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President Roosevelt tells the publishers at Little, Brown & Co. that he was shocked and saddened by the death of his friend Jeremiah Curtin. Roosevelt inquires on the status of Curtin’s partially-completed book on the Mongols, and he wonders if there are any plans to publish the title.
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1906-12-20
President Roosevelt sends Dora Cleveland his deepest sympathy for the recent death of her son, Melvin L. Cleveland. Melvin fell overboard into the Potomac River while part of a naval procession welcoming Roosevelt back to the Washington area on November 26, 1906. Roosevelt tells her he will see if anything further can be done about the situation.
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1906-12-20
A memorandum for William Loeb states that Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch telephoned to inform President Roosevelt that his son Archibald Irvine Devoe Bulloch had passed away on September 12, 1907.
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1907-09-12
Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch informs President Roosevelt that Bulloch’s son, Archibald Irvine Devoe Bulloch, has died.
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1907-09-12
President Roosevelt sends Carl L. Schurz his sympathies on the recent death of Schurz’s father, Carl Schurz.
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1906-05-14
Theodore Roosevelt was shocked to hear of the death of Major Jenkins. Roosevelt held Jenkins in the highest respect.
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1912-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Georgina Roberts for her campaign donation in honor of her recently deceased 12-year-old son, Henry C. Roberts. Roosevelt expresses sympathy for her bereavement.
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1912-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt mourns the recent death of Helen Varick Boswell’s mother, J. Ellen Foster, and comments on how highly he admired her and valued her friendship.
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1910-08-16
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Theodore Roosevelt thanks George D. Talbot for the book of poems written by Talbot’s wife, Sophronia Maria Westcott Talbot, and offers his condolences for George D. Talbot’s loss.
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1912-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt expresses sympathy to Anna Larrabee for the loss of her father, Iowa Governor William Larrabee.
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1912-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt comments on how touched he has been by the amount of work put into his 1912 presidential campaign by his friends. He was particularly touched Alfred K. Ware’s efforts, in spite of his wife’s ill health. Roosevelt offers his condolences and sympathies for the loss of Ware’s wife, Harriet Louise Fletcher Ware.
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1912-12-11
President Roosevelt was shocked by Frances Folsom Cleveland’s telegram, and sends his sympathies, along with those of his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt asks when the funeral is going to be, and says that if it is on Thursday, Friday, or Sunday he will be able to attend, but has a prior engagement on Saturday that he cannot break.
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1908-06-24
President Roosevelt sends a brief telegram to United States Representative Fassett to convey sympathy from both himself and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1908-03-24
President Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt send thoughts of sympathy to Frank Hinchman Platt, who is mourning the death of his daughter, Ellen Barstow Platt.
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1907-02-19
President Roosevelt expresses his sympathies to Moses A. Gunst about the death of Gunst’s son.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt expresses his sympathies to the death of Christine Rice Hoar’s husband, Rockwood Hoar.
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1906-11-04
President Roosevelt sends his brother-in-law Douglas Robinson his sympathy for the recent death of Robinson’s mother, Frances Monroe Robinson.
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1906-08-23
President Roosevelt sends Masayoshi Matsukata, former Prime Minister of Japan, his deep sympathy at the death of Matsukata’s son, Kinjiro Matsukata, who had been studying at the United States Naval Academy.
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1906-08-23
Following a recent telegram he sent, President Roosevelt writes to his cousin, John Ellis Roosevelt, to express his sympathy for the recent death of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt–President Roosevelt’s uncle, and John Ellis Roosevelt’s father. Roosevelt wishes he could attend the funeral, but the circumstances at present in Congress will not allow him to leave Washington, D.C. He asks John to explain the matter to Robert B. Roosevelt, another cousin.
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1906-06-14
While the death of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, John Ellis Roosevelt’s father, was “not wholly unexpected,” President Roosevelt sends his cousin love and sympathy from both himself and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
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1906-06-14