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Secretary of State Hay acknowledges receipt of a letter from William Loeb that President Roosevelt had directed be sent to him, concerning a letter from Collector of Customs at San Francisco Frederick S. Stratton, and relating to a possible complaint of discourtesy towards the Japanese Consul. Hay informs Loeb that no complaint has been received about the matter.
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1904-10-31
Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee requests President Roosevelt’s approval of New Year messages to Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico. It is noted by George B. Cortelyou that President Roosevelt approves and Adee has been informed by telephone.
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1902-01
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt feels that Grand Duke Boris’s “vulgarities” make it impossible for her to meet him and she requests that the reception hosted by President Roosevelt should be official and brief. William Loeb requests that this message be sent in cipher to George B. Cortelyou.
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1902-08-30
The State Department instructs Ambassador Charles Page Bryan to protect American interests in Brazil without taking sides in a Brazilian-Bolivian dispute.
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1902-07-10
The Japanese Government thanks President Roosevelt for the United States’s philanthropic efforts to relieve suffering caused by a famine in Japan’s northeastern provinces.
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1906-02-14
President Roosevelt received a telegram from Ambassador Henry White stating Sir Cecil Spring Rice will sail next Wednesday and requests to stay with Henry Adams and visit Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson. Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Hay to contact Adams and Ferguson on the matter.
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1905-01-13
President Roosevelt finds the memorandum to the Romanian government admirable and asks if it would be proper to host the various princes at Sagamore Hill. Roosevelt is concerned over Consul General Bragg’s indiscretion and feels that he might need to be removed from Cuba.
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1902-07-18
President Roosevelt is disappointed in Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee’s replies to the telegrams of congratulations, which pertain to Roosevelt’s escape from a carriage accident. Four examples are enclosed from Emperor Franz Joseph I; Leopold II, King of the Belgians; Arthur James Balfour; and George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of the Australian State of Victoria.
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1902-09-09
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of State Hay to release to the press the cable that was sent to St. Petersburg, Russia, and announce that the Russian government refused to receive the petition. The signers of the petition are now free “to say whatever they choose as regards the matter.”
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1903-07-16
President Roosevelt received Secretary of State Hay’s note, and would like Hay to do as he suggested by writing to Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi and inviting him to an informal dinner. Roosevelt does not want Itō to feel pressured to attend, but would like to see him. He also asks Hay to “keep the people hurried up about that alleged medical outrage on the Japanese girl students.”
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1901-10-19
Secretary of State John Hay is indignant that Bellamy Storer wrote to Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, regarding what Storer perceives as an injustice in Carlton Bailey Hurst’s dismissal. Storer’s letter amounts to an attack on the Roosevelt administration, as well as the Secretary of State and President under which Storer serves. Hurst’s removal was justified, but even if it was not, Storer should not have written to Hanna. President Roosevelt also reminds Storer that while serving as an American ambassador he should not discuss or interfere with the affairs of the Catholic Church.
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1903-12-30
President Roosevelt expresses his condolences to Hermann Speck von Sternburg, German ambassador to the United States, upon the death of Georg, King of Saxony. Roosevelt has instructed H. Percival Dodge, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, to attend the funeral.
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1904-10-19
“Accept the felicitations of this Government on the first anniversary of Panaman Independence.”
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1904-11-03
Benjamin F. Barnes submits a message to be sent to King Carlos I of Portugal for President Roosevelt’s approval.
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1903-07
President Roosevelt thanks Prince Heinrich for his telegram, and he will always hold their ride together in remembrance.
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1903-02-28
President Roosevelt congratulates Emperor Franz Joseph I on the birth of an archduchess to Archduke Leopold Salvator and Archduchess Blanca.
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1902-09-24
President Roosevelt wishes Léopold II and his people happiness in the coming year.
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1901-12-27
President Roosevelt asks Baron Pauncefote to express Roosevelt’s thanks and expressions of regard to King Edward VII.
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1902-01-01
Charles Fletcher Lummis praises President Roosevelt for maintaining the Cuban treaty and protecting giant redwoods. However, he believes that the United States was wrong in its rapid recognition of the Republic of Panama.
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1912-12
Theodore Roosevelt asks Italian Consul General Fara to thank King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III for the book and Minister of the Royal House of Italy Luigi Luzzatti for sending it.
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1911-12-11