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President Roosevelt describes his recent trip to Provincetown to his son Kermit Roosevelt, including his speech, a banquet, and meeting “five hundred Gloucester fishermen.” Roosevelt feels Kermit’s trip with the cavalry “was such a fine thing.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
President Roosevelt instructs Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry to ensure there is enough coal for the Great White Fleet’s trip, and says the Bureau of Equipment is “on trial in this matter.” He likes the idea of “having one first-class man. . .represent all the newspapers.”
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1907-08-17
President Roosevelt thanks William J. Prendergast and his wife Annie Catherine Burns Walsh Prendergast for the information about James B. Connolly. He will make their letters public immediately.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-31
President Roosevelt is sorry, but not surprised, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt did not find any bears given the weather. The naval review “was really a great sight,” especially for Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt, who is devoted to the water and the navy. Roosevelt wishes he was out in the wilderness.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt thanks Secretary of State Root for the humorous translation of a Spanish newspaper. He provides updates on the successful naval review, recent state elections, and the boiling pot of New York politics. Roosevelt finds that William Jennings Bryan’s eagerness for popularity causes him to commit “to preposterous positions,” as revealed by his recent speech.
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1906-09-04
President Roosevelt is concerned that Maurice Francis Egan has been sick and reminds him of the humorous “pope” story. The naval review was “corking.” Among the unofficial guests were journalist Finley Peter Dunne and author James B. Connolly.
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1906-09-05
President Roosevelt wrote a letter like that which Maurice Francis Egan proposes several years ago and it brought in hundreds of similar requests. He does not wish to repeat the situation, and therefore cannot send the greeting Egan proposes. Roosevelt tells Egan that he has asked their mutual acquaintance James B. Connolly, who has written sea stories, to attend a naval review.
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1906-08-11
President Roosevelt is pleased about what Maurice Francis Egan said about him as a “literary man” and talks about his ambition to write something about Celtic sagas. He plans to discuss the topic with Egan when they meet, including if Roosevelt wrote something next summer where he ought to publish it.
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1905-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt gives Maurice Francis Egan permission to quote him on the Irish saga, but would like to see it so that he can be sure of the phraseology. Roosevelt finds sea fiction author James B. Connolly delightful and enjoyed his Gloucester stories.
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1904-03-28
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Ernest McGaffey’s view of the bill and would veto it if it was passed. McGaffey should keep that information private. Roosevelt also has enjoyed some “sea stories” from a “young Harvard fellow” named James B. Connelly and wonders if McGaffey knows him.
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1904-03-30
Finley Peter Dunne is puzzled by the Hapgood correspondence and does not understand why the charge was made. Dunne enjoyed seeing the long line of fighting ships at the review. He would also like to attend target practice with President Roosevelt and then go to Boston.
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1906-09-11
Maurice Francis Egan writes to President Roosevelt that he has heard that only James Fenimore Cooper and James B. Connolly can write about the sea with disparaging remarks about Captains Courageous and The Sea Wolf.
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1906-08-20
Robert Bridges concurs with President Roosevelt’s decision to use the pseudonym “Jacob Van Vechten” in publishing Ted’s poem “Sunset on the Marsh” in Scribner’s Magazine. Bridges will notify Baron Christian Karl Bernhard von Tauchnitz that Roosevelt approves of the terms for issuing an edition of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter in Tauchnitz’s series. Recently, a firm in Amsterdam expressed interest in a Dutch translation of Roosevelt’s Oliver Cromwell, but Bridges says that no arrangements have been finalized. He sends the latest book by Jesse Lynch Williams and notes that he has not yet heard from James B. Connolly but expects his agreement with the plan.
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1906-08-17
Maurice Francis Egan writes to President Roosevelt about an article he is circulating to several Catholic newspapers. James B. Connelly liked Roosevelt’s statement that a man named O’Brien is not necessarily an Irishman. Egan also acknowledges the return of some books by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1904-03-26
Robert Bridges is writing a letter of introduction for writer James B. Connolly, who plans to meet with President Roosevelt. The publisher requests Roosevelt’s army record to be used in an appendix to a volume of The Rough Riders. Bridges also discusses publishing issues.
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1904-03-23
James B. Connolly is pleased that President Roosevelt enjoys his writings. Connolly has read The Virginian but not Blazed Trail.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-04