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President Roosevelt finds Attorney General Bonaparte’s letter to United States District Attorney N. M. Ruick admirable. Unfortunately, Francis J. Heney is unable to take the case. Roosevelt encloses a letter from Idaho Governor Frank Robert Gooding. The press has turned its attention to Secretary of State Elihu Root, who has been in poor health.
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1907-08-27
President Roosevelt asks Kermit Roosevelt if William Loeb sent him “the matter” about the Brownsville incident for his debate. Roosevelt then proceeds to tell his son about an amusing interaction with Ellen C. Bonaparte who declared she had been taking people who lead “gray and hundrum lives [sic]” to the White House to bring them pleasure. He trusts Kermit will not tell anyone, and shares another story about the daughter of Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph I. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s pet guinea pigs, Mr. and Mrs. Longworth.
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1907-01-19
Charles J. Bonaparte and his wife were very sorry to hear that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident was serious, and they hope she’ll recover quickly. Bonaparte mentions that his wife, Ellen C. Bonaparte, has been indisposed but is getting better.
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1911-10-07
Attorney General Bonaparte reviewed the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company case. He sends President Roosevelt a copy of his letter to United States District Attorney Edwin Walter Sims and asks him to look it over.
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1907-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt confirms the news Charles J. Bonaparte read in the newspaper that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt suffered a bad fall and is slowly recovering. Roosevelt also sends his regards to Bonaparte’s wife, Ellen C. Bonaparte.
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1911-10-06
Theodore Roosevelt is looking forward to seeing Mrs. Bonaparte, the Roses, and the Harrises. He asks Charles Bonaparte to send him a copy of the letter Roosevelt sent Bonaparte about the Tennessee Coal and Iron Co., as Congress is debating whether or not to investigate Roosevelt about it.
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1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles J. Bonaparte for his support in the campaign.
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1912-11-19
President Roosevelt is concerned to hear of Attorney General Bonaparte’s injury.
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1907-02-10
President Roosevelt found Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte’s letter recounting his experience in Santo Domingo “a ray of sunshine.” He agrees the Navy should be told to act on Secretary of War William H. Taft’s orders. Roosevelt advises Bonaparte enjoys his holiday knowing Taft is now responsible for Cuba.
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1906-09-19
William Loeb confirms that, as Ellen C. Bonaparte, wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, requests, he will have invitations sent to Henry C. Gauss for a number of people. He regrets that he cannot fulfill Gauss’s own wishes, as he has received too many similar requests to make scheduling exceptions for when invitations were issued for, and therefore cannot grant any.
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1905-12-21
President Roosevelt discusses when Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte can come to dinner.
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1905-09-12
President Roosevelt invites Charles J. Bonaparte and his wife, Ellen C. Bonaparte, to lunch the following Monday.
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1905-06-01
Charles J. Bonaparte alerts Theodore Roosevelt that Bonaparte has misstepped “on the field of official duty of a Sub-Committee of a Committee on the Reception of Invited Guests” by arranging for Roosevelt’s reception, but has rectified the situation by inviting this “sub-Committee”—Judge John Carter Rose and W. Hall Harris—to informally dine with them, alongside his wife. In a post-script, he remarks that the Baltimore Sun requested Bonaparte to give a letter of introduction to their New York correspondent so that the reporter might interview Roosevelt on his train down to Baltimore, though he declined the request.
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1911-06-01
Charles J. Bonaparte thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the “over-complimentary letter” regarding his speech. He heard that Ansley Wilcox hopes to have Roosevelt as a guest of the National Municipal League. As president of the organization, Bonaparte has tried to expand the scope of discussion to include general problems of good government. Roosevelt is welcome to speak at any meeting he attends. Bonaparte reports widespread concern about the attempted assassination of Mayor William Jay Gaynor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-09