Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John G. Reid
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John G. Reid for the Christmas gifts and wishes him and his parents a happy New Year.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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1912-01-06
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Theodore Roosevelt thanks John G. Reid for the Christmas gifts and wishes him and his parents a happy New Year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-06
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary apologizes to Edwin H. Molly for being unable to send a timely response to his letter, as Roosevelt was overwhelmed with work around Christmas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-06
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his great thanks to Mark Sullivan for the gift. He asks that he meet him at the office the next Wednesday morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-23
A Christmas greeting with a note from John S. Jamison to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sending the Roosevelt family best wishes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Russell N. McAlister for the Christmas remembrance, and wishes him a merry Christmas as well.
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1911-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Hazlitt A. Cuppy for sending him a Christmas remembrance and wishes him a merry Christmas in return.
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1911-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Margaret Brooks Brigham for the pretty calendar and wishes her a merry Christmas.
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1911-12-22
Russell N. McAlister sends Theodore Roosevelt a Christmas greeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Commissioner McIlhenny wishes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt a Merry Christmas.
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1910-12-25
Sister M. Sebastian wishes Theodore Roosevelt and his family a merry Christmas. Sebastian is rejoiced to hear Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is feeling better and prays she will live to a ripe old age. Sebastian prays for Theodore Roosevelt and wants him to go down in history as the greatest President, remembered for years to come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Theodore Roosevelt wishes Belle Roosevelt a merry Christmas and updates her on the status of things at home. Roosevelt is still very discouraged about America’s late entry into, and lack of preparedness for, the war.
1917-12-25
President Roosevelt wishes Dora Watkins a merry Christmas, and tells her that he thinks of her often.
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow for the book that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt got him on her behalf. The Roosevelts have had their “usual type of Christmas,” though with fewer toys as the children get older. Soon they will go to the Pine Knot cabin with friends. Roosevelt has much to worry him in his work, but the incidents “will all go downstream.”
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt congratulates Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam and wishes him a merry Christmas.
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1906-12-24
President Roosevelt sends his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson $10, which he asks her to forward as a gift to the aged former servant of the Roosevelt family, Dora Watkins. Roosevelt wishes he could be with Corinne and her family over the Christmas holiday season.
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1906-12-22
President Roosevelt tells Governor Higgins that he will help however he can with the matter in question, and has taken up the issue with Secretary of State Elihu Root. He wishes the governor and his wife Kate a merry Christmas and happy new year.
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1906-12-20
President Roosevelt wishes Nevada N. Stranahan a merry Christmas and is glad to hear his health is improving. Roosevelt leans on him both personally and as a public official in his position as collector of customs at the Port of New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-17
William Loeb sends Reverend Dr. Schick a $10 donation on behalf of President Roosevelt for his Christmas fund for the poor, and he asks for confirmation of receipt.
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1906-12-17
Anna Roosevelt Cowles asks her brother President Roosevelt to sign a photograph for their brother-in-law Joseph W. Alsop. Alsop chose the photo because it gives a view of the back of Roosevelt’s head.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-15
Senator Lodge expresses his admiration for President Roosevelt’s love of Charles Dickens’s works, and sends him a first edition of David Copperfield as a Christmas present.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-24