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As Theodore Roosevelt is currently away on a trip and cannot answer his mail himself, his Assistant Secretary thanks Lorenzo S. Brown for sending the clipping.
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1910-08-30
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges receipt of J. W. Petavel’s letter. As Roosevelt will not return from his African safari until the spring of 1910, Petavel’s request cannot be fulfilled.
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1909-10-30
Theodore Roosevelt sends Charles Evans Hughes information related to Mexico and thanks him for dinner.
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1916-06-30
Theodore Roosevelt has received the clippings and congratulates Leigh Hunt for the work he is doing, which is elevating small farmers.
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1915-11-17
The articles that William H. Cowles has sent Theodore Roosevelt are “capital” and highlight the problem with “the fatal and dangerous point of the proposition.” Roosevelt is comforted that Cowles also supports universal service.
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1915-10-30
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Reverend Samuel V. Leech for the letter and article. Roosevelt says it benefits him having an American Methodist minister saying such nice things about him. Roosevelt thinks it will make famed circuit rider Peter Cartwright turn over in his grave.
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1915-11-06
Theodore Roosevelt tells Reverend Rainsford that he has been so busy with other matters he has not had time to go into state matters like the Constitution for the state of New York. He invites Rainsford to visit.
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1915-10-20
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Hutchinson Cowles for the articles and remarks it was nice seeing him the other day. Roosevelt fought hard for universal service and has included articles of his own in return to Cowles.
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1915-10-25
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Elbert F. Baldwin for sending him a clipping written by Oswald Villard of the Evening Post. Roosevelt refers to Villard as a “kind of hyphenated-American whom I loathe more than anyone.” Roosevelt also discusses William Roscoe Thayer and notes his recent review of Thayer’s Life and Letters of John Hay for Harvard Graduate Magazine.
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1915-10-30
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in Charles Clemons’s letter and wants to know if there is a file at the University Club in Honolulu because he is interested in the Japanese.
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1915-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends John St. Loe Strachey a copy of what he has just written for the Metropolitan.
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1915-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt was amused by the clipping that Mrs. S. A. Tucker sent. Roosevelt thinks it is nice that there are so many Roosevelts and Derbys at the Plattsburgh training camp.
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1915-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt has enclosed an article that he hopes both Ruth Moore Lee and her husband Arthur Hamilton Lee will read.
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1915-06-17
Theodore Roosevelt tells John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, that he is mistaken in believing that the American public will acknowledge Roosevelt as a leader again. Roosevelt does, however, believe that what he has said will influence public opinion and they will see that his position was right. Roosevelt sends two of his articles about the Lusitania disaster to Strachey, which were and are still not popular. Roosevelt sends his regards to Strachey’s daughter and wife and is glad their house has become an emergency hospital. Roosevelt will write James Bryce expressing his approval of Bryce’s report on German atrocities.
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1915-05-29
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to have received the articles Nelson Lloyd sent.
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1915-03-24
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Paul V. Bunn for sending him an interesting clipping.
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1915-02-25
Theodore Roosevelt asks Mr. Finn to send him a copy of his book Wild Animals of Yesterday and Today, since he failed to get it himself. He is glad that Mr. Finn became an editor at the Zoologist, thanks him for the clippings he received, and finally criticizes the scientists of that time for being less observant of the nature.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Thomas F. Millard for the letter and the clippings.
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1915-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the clipping and visiting Douglas and Corinne Robinson, his brother-in-law and sister.
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1915-01-21
Theodore Roosevelt writes to publisher S. S. McClure that no one was interested in publishing the letter from Count Albert Apponyi. They published the letter from Baron Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár. Many people give articles to Roosevelt, which he passes along to newspaper men who sometimes publish them. Roosevelt will pass on interesting articles to McClure.
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1915-01-22