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President Roosevelt thanks Louis W. Olms for sending a cigarette case that belonged to his late brother, Elliott Roosevelt. Roosevelt will send the case to Elliott’s daughter, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-14
Louis W. Olms is sending President Roosevelt a cigarette case that belonged to Elliott Roosevelt which was once given to Olms for safe-keeping. Olms shares that he and Elliott Roosevelt used to chat in French about the Franco-Prussian War. Olms asks Theodore Roosevelt to give the case to Elliott Roosevelt’s daughter, the president’s niece, Eleanor, whom the President is giving away at her wedding to her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-13