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Ivan T. Heinz shares a contract with Theodore Roosevelt that the Advance Manufacturing Company has developed in the hope of preventing law suites with those they work with.
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1911-12-16
A blank contract agreement with Advance Manufacturing Company and Ivan T. Heinz.
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1911-09-30
Contract between Theodore Roosevelt, Sylvane M. Ferris, and Arthur William Merrifield regarding the purchase and care of cattle on Roosevelt’s ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1884-06-12
President Roosevelt defends his actions in the William A. Miller case, stating that union membership cannot be a factor in employment any more than creed, color, or birthplace. Miller’s fitness for the position will be settled as part of routine administrative detail. Item includes draft with handwritten corrections.
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1903-09-29
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1917-10-02
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Theodore Roosevelt disputes a story run by the Sun. Roosevelt explains that while he is an associate editor with the Outlook, he has no contract with Lyman Abbott and is at will to leave or stay. Roosevelt believes that the Sun circulated a story of questionable validity in order to raise prejudice against him.
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1912-07-30
Theodore Roosevelt is as pleased as possible about the two pictures. Roosevelt congratulates the other party to the contract a good deal more than he congratulates Edwin Willard Deming, and he thanks Deming for the two little books.
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1915-03-08
President Roosevelt has considered Lawrence F. Abbott’s letter in which he proposed a business deal, and is pleased to accept. Roosevelt liked the proposition in the letter better than the conversation that they had previously, as the letter did not specify the number of articles he would produce per year. He will try to write more than twelve per year, but likes the fact that he does not have the pressure to write articles simply for the reason of having something to publish. Roosevelt does not think the deal should be announced until after the election. He asks if Abbott and William Bailey Howland could come have lunch with him on July 25.
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1908-07-14
President Roosevelt recently saw a letter of George Haven Putnam’s in the New York Times, which made reference to Roosevelt still being under contract to finish The Winning of the West. Roosevelt thought that the work was already finished, and while he might be able to continue it, as he would like to write about the Republic of Texas, he is not sure he can. It was his understanding that the project was completed with the fourth volume, and he did not think he was obliged to write additional volumes.
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1908-07-10
President Roosevelt is sorry that he did not connect his presently planned hunting trip with Robert J. Collier’s previous offer. Scribner’s Magazine has handled Roosevelt’s past hunting trips, so he naturally thought of them first. Roosevelt is glad that Collier did not make his present offer when he first visited, as Roosevelt would have had a much harder time making a decision between the two magazines. Roosevelt hopes to be able to give Collier articles in the future, and hopes to meet with him and Mark Sullivan in person soon. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt assures Collier that if he were going on a world trip, as Collier initially proposed, he would definitely have turned to him first.
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1908-07-09
President Roosevelt is greatly pleased by Charles D. Walcott’s letter, and is glad to be going on safari on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. They will arrange details when they meet, but Roosevelt says that the only thing he wants understood is that no one else will write anything until after his articles have been published.
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1908-07-02
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock that contracts appear to be the primary complaint in the oil business. He wants to know more and asks Hitchcock to send the forms of contracts.
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1906-09-11
President Roosevelt follows up with Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock on several cases, in particular that of Governor of Oklahoma Territory Frank C. Frantz.
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1906-09-06
President Roosevelt approves of Secretary of War Taft’s conclusions regarding terminating the current contract with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and not contracting with other vessels for work on the Isthmian Canal.
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1905-01-12
Rudolph Forster informs Benjamin F. Barnes that the French Cable company has lost its appeal, and the Venezualan federal court annulled the contract the previous day.
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1905-08-05
Charles Scribner thanks Robert J. Collier for his comments regarding the articles by President Roosevelt. Scribner is not sure how seriously to take Collier’s offer, and says that even if there were not any practical difficulties in doing what Collier proposed, he would not consider making a profit from a contract with the president.
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1908-07-17
Charles Scribner is very happy about Robert Bridges’s success in arranging for the articles President Roosevelt writes while in Africa to be published in Scribner’s Magazine. The company will send a formal letter and contract to Roosevelt soon, which will be sufficient unless Roosevelt wants a more defined agreement. Scribner has given the news to his reporters, as he could not keep it secret any longer.
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1908-07-09
Robert J. Collier is disappointed by the news that President Roosevelt has made a decision regarding his African articles before Collier was able to meet with him in person. Collier recalls that he had been one of the first, nearly two years ago, to suggest a trip after Roosevelt leaves the presidency; and he understood that Roosevelt would talk with him before making a decision. He argues that Roosevelt’s articles would reach a greater number of people if Collier’s publishes them than they would if they appear in Scribner’s, and he increases his earlier offer of $50,000 to $100,000 for the rights to publish them serially, with the understanding that Scribner’s would subsequently publish them in book form.
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1908-07-09
Frank Nelson Doubleday writes down several ideas that he had previously discussed with William Loeb. Doubleday offers to pay Kermit Roosevelt for articles that he writes while on Africa, and is also interested in making an offer to President Roosevelt for publishing rights of the English edition of Roosevelt’s book. He also mentions that A. Radclyffe Dugmore, who is on the staff of Country Life in America is a good photographer and wonders if Roosevelt would like to consider the possibility of him coming along on his safari.
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1908-07-06
Caspar Whitney advises that if President Roosevelt follows his advice of his previous letter, to be sure to get protection in the case of making a contract–to get a guarantee that the company would be able to pay Roosevelt. Whitney says that the company he wrote to Roosevelt about is entirely solvent, but is carrying a big load, and the $100,000 that they offered is a lot of money. Whitney hopes he is not intruding too much, but he is interested in helping Roosevelt claim opportunities available to him, and offers Roosevelt his services in other areas as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-03