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President Roosevelt is very pleased by the letter from Richard Harding Davis and enjoyed the Punch cartoon. Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would like Davis and Cecil Clark Davis to dine with them at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-19
General Barry informs President Roosevelt that Herman Speck von Sternburg and Lillian May Speck von Sternburg have departed Havana, Cuba, for Santiago, Cuba. They are planning to leave for Washington, D.C., on March 10th, and will travel via Tampa, Florida. It is currently Carnival season in Havana, so the city is full of visitors, including Richard Harding Davis and his wife Cecil Clark Davis. Barry says that they have kept the peace in the temporary absence of Provisional Governor Charles E. Magoon, but will be glad to having him back.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-04
Richard Harding Davis and his wife Cecil Clark Davis are settled in Tokyo like it is home. Davis’ contract with Collier’s Weekly was only for three months, but he does not want to return home without seeing the front lines of the Russo-Japanese War. Davis complains that the newspaper correspondents have been treated poorly by the Japanese authorities who have restricted their access to the front, read their private correspondence and had them spied upon. As an example of the unfair treatment they have been subjected to, Davis recounts the story of Jack London who has been arrested and tried by court martial after getting into a physical altercation with a servant who was caught stealing correspondents’ supplies. Davis knows that President Roosevelt likes to hear of United States representatives abroad, and praises the work of LLoyd Carpenter Griscom, Charles Carlton Marsh, and James Wheeler Davidson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-26