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Sarah Martyn Weight sends Theodore Roosevelt a poem entitled “An Ode to America.” Weight recently celebrated her eight-first birthday.
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1911-06-19
Edwin C. Statzer tells Theodore Roosevelt that they share the same birthday and became master masons on the same day. Statzer is a big fan of Roosevelt’s, and hopes to see him in Portland, Oregon, on his next western tour.
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1911-02-05
Frances Garcelon thanks Theodore Roosevelt for taking time from his busy schedule to send her mother, a “most enthusiastic admirer[s],” a message for her seventy-eighth birthday.
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1911-01-12
Elbert F. Baldwin greets Theodore Roosevelt on his birthday and sends good wishes from himself and his family.
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1910-10-27
Seven-year-old Irwin Shafer wishes Theodore Roosevelt a happy birthday and asks him to write back as he shares the same birthday.
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1909-10-24
Albert N. Jett sends Theodore Roosevelt good wishes on their shared birthday.
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1909-10-27
Yick Nam Quan wishes Theodore Roosevelt a happy birthday and expresses concern on behalf of his father about Roosevelt’s hunting trip in Africa, which he believes is dangerous.
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1909-11-07
On behalf of Edward VII, King of Great Britain, Louis du Pan Mallet directs Ambassador Bryce to convey his “cordial sympathy” on the one-hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth to President Roosevelt.
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1909-01-28
Judge Kruse wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday, and reminisces on a time when President Roosevelt stood up to a bullying fellow assembly member on the floor of the New York State Assembly. Kruse wishes that Roosevelt would run for another term, but believes that William H. Taft is a worthy successor.
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1908-10-31
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson sends President Roosevelt birthday wishes, a “little check” and “big love.” She tells her brother that she is always proud of him, and that she becomes particularly sentimental around his birthday, when childhood memories come back. She was very proud of his letter to Patrick H. Grace of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Robinson has been sick since last Wednesday, but she is feeling better now.
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1908-10-26
Justice Clarke wishes President Roosevelt a happy fiftieth birthday. He recalls that ten years ago, he celebrated Roosevelt’s birthday on a train with him as he campaigned for the governorship of New York. Clarke laments that he has been sidelined in the current campaign, because he wishes he could fight alongside Roosevelt in support of William H. Taft.
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1908-10-27
Anna Roosevelt Cowles writes “many happy returns” for President Roosevelt’s birthday.
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1908-10-27
Victor Geza Fischer wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday and discusses the origins of the Christopher Columbus portrait that he is sending. He believes that it is authentic, because it is an etched copy of a portrait that was in Columbus’s son Ferdinand’s house in Genoa. The etching is made by Victor Louis Focillon, who won a gold medal in graphic arts at the Chicago World’s Fair.
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1908-10-27
George Haven Putnam, of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, sends President Roosevelt birthday wishes and expresses his hope that their collaboration will continue. He encloses the November issue of Putnam’s, which includes an article Putnam wrote about the coverage of the Civil War in the London Times.
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1908-10-27
Elizabeth Norris Emlen Roosevelt wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday.
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1908-10-27
Secretary of State Root encloses a copy of a dispatch from Ambassador Whitelaw Reid wherein he transmits copies of telegrams congratulating President Roosevelt on his birthday. At a dinner party on October 27, Reid gave a toast to the president.
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1907-11-16
Ambassador Reid tells President Roosevelt that Edward VII, King of Great Britain, sent his Master of Ceremonies, Arthur Henry John Walsh, to wish Roosevelt happy birthday.
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1907-10-27
Marcus Braun sends President Roosevelt some red wine and well-wishes for his 49th birthday. Braun has been assured that this wine pairs well with bear meat, and tells Roosevelt a bit about the provenance of the wine. Braun hopes that Roosevelt will persevere with his endeavors like the vineyard workers.
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1907-10-24
Yick Nam Quan sends President Roosevelt a small gift for his birthday.
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1907-10-25
John Campbell Greenway wishes President Roosevelt prosperity and long life on his birthday. Greenway says he is eagerly watching the development of Great Lakes-Gulf waterways, which he thinks will help free up railroad traffic along the Mississippi. Greenway goes on to praise Roosevelt’s business policies and says he is looking forward to a visit from Roosevelt’s son, Ted. Greenway is planning to visit Washington soon and hopes to see Roosevelt for John Avery McIlhenny’s wedding.
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1907-10-26