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President Roosevelt sincerely thanks Madison Julius Cawein for gifting him the books. Cawein is “doing good work for America just where she most needs it.” Roosevelt comments on the interesting situation that sees individuals of Dutch and German descent presenting at a celebration honoring Pilgrims.
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1907-08-22
President Roosevelt thanks Albert Westlake for the beautiful book, and anticipates reading it with pleasure.
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1907-08-21
President Roosevelt congratulates literature professor William Henry Schofield on his upcoming marriage and thanks him for sending a copy of English Literature. Currently, Roosevelt is busy and prefers not to see anyone in person. He asks Schofield to convey his appreciation to German Emperor William II for working to strengthen the relationship between Germany and the United States.
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1907-08-21
President Roosevelt returns the dedication of The Mongols to Alma Curtin and will write a preface as requested. He feels privileged to be involved with the work.
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1907-08-17
President Roosevelt greatly appreciates District Attorney Stimson’s letter. While Roosevelt finds parts of naturalist William J. Long’s book charming, on the whole, he remarks on “what a shame it is that a man who has that charming touch should spoil it by writing such utter nonsense.”
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1907-08-14
President Roosevelt agrees with Caspar Whitney that “it is intensely irritating to be obliged to make a serious argument against a creature” like William J. Long, but says he felt compelled to do so.
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1907-08-14
President Roosevelt received Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt’s letter and the book and looks forward to reading them. The family has missed Laura and her family at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt had archeologist Langdon Warner over, and thanks Laura for introducing him.
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1907-08-13
President Roosevelt requests his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow tell Mr. Bovet that while he sympathizes with the movement to preserve the Alps, as president, he cannot sign a petition that is essentially a request for action by another government. Roosevelt updates Carow on the family’s summer activities in Oyster Bay.
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1907-08-13
President Roosevelt sincerely thanks artist and author Francis Hopkinson Smith for his generous gift of “such a beautiful book,” Venice of To-Day.
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1907-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks Alice Russell Hobbins Porter for the book, The Complete Air-Gunner. He believes in the necessity of rifle practice for citizens.
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1907-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chicago Evening Post, for the beautiful books, including Cromwelliana.
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1907-08-08
President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, for sending his book, Standards of Public Morality.
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1907-08-08
President Roosevelt thanks historian Justin Harvey Smith for the book, The Struggle for the Colony, and for dedicating it to him. He looks forward to reading it.
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1907-08-07
President Roosevelt asks Herman Henry Kohlsaat to thank Forrest Crissey for the book, and says he will enjoy it. Roosevelt is glad to hear what Kohlsaat says about business feelings in the west.
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1907-08-05
President Roosevelt thanks Robert Williams Wood for the copy of his book, and thanks him for his comment on the work of naturalist William J. Long and other “nature fakers.”
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1907-08-02
President Roosevelt would like to write the preface for Homer Davenport’s book, but explains that he is not familiar enough with the topic to do so.
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1907-08-01
President Roosevelt thanks Maurice Francis Egan for the book by Witter Bynner, and wishes Egan all good fortune.
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1907-08-01
President Roosevelt thanks Witter Bynner for a book of poems, and says he takes particular interest in the work of a Harvard man.
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1907-08-01
President Roosevelt thanks Edith Greenough Wendell for the books. Roosevelt thinks the work being done by Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press is remarkable, and compares Updike’s printing of Tacitus favorably with a fifteenth century Venetian printing of Livy.
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1907-07-30
President Roosevelt thanks Herman Henry Kohlsaat for sending him an article.
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1907-07-27