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James Alfred Hoyt encloses two newspaper articles related to President Roosevelt’s mother. Mrs. Baker, one of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt’s bridesmaids, is still living in Roswell, Georgia, and Hoyt suggests Roosevelt visit her if he travels to the South.
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1901-10-12
Hammond Lamont encloses three clippings related to the situation in Hawaii. He has also requested that their correspondent send an unbiased statement on the controversy with Governor Dole.
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1901-10-08
Frederick G. Fincke recounts a conversation with New York Representatives Lucius Nathan Littauer and J. S. Sherman in which they spoke well of Theodore Roosevelt.
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1901-10-10
Thomas Goode Jones will be traveling to North Carolina soon and that will be the best time for him to meet with President Roosevelt. Jones encloses two clippings regarding his recent judicial appointment that may interest Roosevelt.
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1901-10-11
Joseph Bucklin Bishop sends two newspaper articles from the Providence Journal to President Roosevelt. He believes the second article justifies Roosevelt’s actions on a particular matter.
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1901-10-02
Judge Saxton expresses his sympathy over President McKinley’s death and admires the way President Roosevelt has handled his succession to the presidency. Saxton also encloses a newspaper clipping for Roosevelt.
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1901-09-26
Despite the difficult circumstances surrounding the occasion of President Roosevelt’s inauguration, Ansley Wilcox will always fondly remember Roosevelt’s time in Buffalo, New York. He believes that the country is safe with Roosevelt and that the Roosevelt administration will be brilliant and successful. Wilcox encloses several clippings related to Roosevelt’s succession to the presidency.
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1901-09-26
George Hamlin Fitch encloses an article about President Roosevelt that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. If Jacob A. Riis sees or writes to Roosevelt, Fitch would like him to know that he has the loyal support of California and the West.
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1901-09-28
Thornton H. Simmons asks if President Roosevelt recalls the incident outlined on the enclosed clipping.
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1901-09-23
Joshua Thomas encloses an article claiming that President Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, refused to lower the Confederate flag. He would like to know if the article is based in fact.
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1901-09-23
Description of the Clyde, New York, memorial service held for William McKinley, including the text of the speeches delivered by Judge Charles Terry Saxton and Reverend John E. Rhodes.
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1901-09-26
Hermann Speck von Sternburg encloses clippings from the leading Indian papers that have commented on President Roosevelt’s policies. The potential canal and the benefits of American industrial products are popular topics in India.
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1901-09-24
William Henry Baldwin encloses a newspaper clipping for President Roosevelt’s attention.
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1901-09-18
George Edward Graham, correspondent for the Associated Press, sends several articles regarding President Roosevelt. Graham has not seen any criticism of Roosevelt’s course.
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1901-09-18
William Conant Church is pleased that a competent individual was there to succeed to the presidency. He encloses an article he wrote for the United States Army & Navy Journal. Church has followed Roosevelt’s career as he knew Roosevelt’s father and maintains a “fatherly interest.”
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1901-09-21
Senator Lodge expresses his concern for Vice President Roosevelt in the wake of William McKinley’s near-assassination and hopes that Roosevelt will write him “at once” to assure Lodge of his well being. Lodge talks about a clipping that speaks of Roosevelt in French. Lodge also mentions that George H. Lyman is “here” and worrying about Roosevelt as well. Lodge recounts a story “because it tickled my vanity” of a conversation between Lyman and a German, about Lodge and whether he might not be Secretary of State when Roosevelt was President, and whether Lyman and Lodge would not be dangerous to German interests. The German thought Roosevelt must be dangerous because he had killed 1800 “mountain cats” last winter.
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1901-09-12
J. C. Van Alstyne, president of the Press Clippings Bureau, encloses important editorials regarding the attempted assassination of President McKinley.
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1901-09-07
The unknown writer encloses clippings for Vice President Roosevelt. After being approached by the press, the writer made a statement on how Roosevelt received the news of the attempted assassination of President McKinley. The statement was truthful and creditable to Roosevelt.
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1901-09-09
Thomas Grindell delayed his trip to California, where he was going to begin the 1904 Roosevelt presidential campaign, after the attempted assassination of President McKinley. He encloses a clipping that involves Isaac Taft Stoddard, Secretary of Arizona Territory, and reports that U.S. Marshal Myron H. McCord said some “unkind things” when it appeared that Roosevelt would succeed to the presidency.
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1901-09-11
Feodor von Luerzer encloses a newspaper clipping and is concerned that Vice President Roosevelt is being “misled by a fallacious, perhaps a wholly invented story.”
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1901-08-26