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President Roosevelt is glad to hear Nicholas Murray Butler’s thoughts on Maurice Francis Egan and David Jayne Hill. Roosevelt would prefer men like them over any other type of American representative.
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1908-10-01
President Roosevelt thanks Jón Stefánsson for sending him a copy of Cormac the Skald and expresses his admiration for Scandinavian sagas.
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1907-09-25
President Roosevelt thanks Witter Bynner for a book of poems, and says he takes particular interest in the work of a Harvard man.
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1907-08-01
Charles Petersen has just arrived in America from Denmark. He read an interview with US minister to Denmark, Maurice Francis Egan, that Theodore Roosevelt can offer employment assistance to any interested dane. Petersen hopes to find employment through Roosevelt.
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1911-09-16
Richard Watson Gilder writes a friendly letter to President Roosevelt discussing his meeting with Edwin Arlington Robinson, old Irish literature, and Roosevelt’s Harvard address.
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1905-06-29
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While returning from Africa in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt visited many European countries, including Denmark, May 2-3, and Norway, May 4-6. Roosevelt, King Haakon, Edith Roosevelt, Queen Maud, Ethel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and others enter carriages outside the railroad station in Oslo, Norway. Carriages arrive at the wharf in Helsingør, Denmark. Roosevelt and Kermit arrive by carriage outside the National Theater in Oslo where he is to deliver his acceptance speech for the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. They are greeted by King Haakon and others. Ethel, probably Edith, and Queen Maud arrive at the theater. Crowds gather outside King Frederick University, Oslo.
Roosevelt, Crown Prince Christian (later King Christian X), Kermit, Edith, and Ethel enter carriages in Copenhagen, Denmark. The carriage with Roosevelt and Prince Christian arrives at Amalienborg Palace, Copenhagen. Roosevelt, a woman who may be Katharine M. Egan, and Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, American minister to Denmark (barely visible on far left), arrive by auto and are greeted by unidentified men. There is a pan of the crowds at Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. Roosevelt and entourage arrive, as Danish soldiers march by, visit, and bid hosts goodbye at Kronborg Castle, Denmark. Roosevelt and the Egans board the steamer Queen Maud. The ship sails past Kronborg Castle, a Danish naval ship, and returns to Copenhagen. Roosevelt leaves the ship and enters a carriage.
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Maurice Francis Egan sends his calling card to President Roosevelt, noting on it the various addresses at which he can be reached and the dates he will be at each, during a trip to Bemidji, Minnesota.
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1904-08-10
Theodore Roosevelt asks Robert John Wynne to arrange a luncheon with Redmond and O’Connor and dismisses those in Britain who would object to his meeting with the Irish Members. He has been open about his support of the British Empire and will meet with whomever he chooses. Roosevelt also mentions that he has received support from American Catholics regarding an issue with the Vatican.
1910-04-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary encloses for George G. Hill a copy of the letter written by Mr. Willard, along with a copy of Roosevelt’s reply. These letters are for Hill’s personal reference. After he is finished with them, Hill should send them on, per Roosevelt’s instructions, to Maurice Francis Egan, the American Minister in Denmark.
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1911-05-17
President Roosevelt thanks T. A. Daly for sending him his poem “The Irish Bird Charmer.” He finds it to be “mighty good.”
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1909-01-29
President Roosevelt thanks Charles Phillips for the poem, which he will read “with pleasure.”
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1909-01-20
President Roosevelt corrects Eugene A. Philbin on a sentence in his letter regarding the administration’s treatment of Catholics in Puerto Rico. Catholics in the administration in Puerto Rico say that they are being treated fairly, and Roosevelt objects to the assertion that on a national level they are treated unfairly. He notes that Catholics often seek political appointments and promotions on the grounds that they are Catholic more often than other groups.
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1908-04-15
President Roosevelt praises Richard Watson Gilder for writing a positive article in the New York Times about Minister to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan. Roosevelt will discuss Robert Abbe’s work in treating cancer with radium with German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg. Roosevelt hopes Gilder’s sons, George Coleman deKay Gilder and Rodman Gilder, will have a good trip.
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1907-07-16
President Roosevelt offers Michael E. Bannin an appointment as Indian Commissioner. Roosevelt explains the availability of the position is due to current Indian Commissioner Maurice Francis Egan being appointed the Minister to Denmark.
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1907-06-20
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century, that he will read the two articles by essayist Charles D. Stewart that Gilder recommended. Roosevelt is not sure if Stewart should go on a trip with him. Roosevelt concludes the letter by stating that Gilder must be happy that he appointed Maurice Francis Egan to be the minister to Copenhagen.
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1907-05-24
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Root for news on United States Ambassador to Denmark Thomas J. O’Brien’s answer. Roosevelt wants to handle the matter quickly and offer the ambassadorship to Maurice Francis Egan as soon as possible.
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1907-05-15
President Roosevelt tells T. A. Daly he has just received his book of poetry from Maurice Francis Egan. Roosevelt was delighted by Daly’s poem about the thrush and hopes that Daly will write a poem about American thrushes in the future.
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1906-11-05
President Roosevelt will not speak to anyone about the matter involving the retirement of Commissioner of Education William Torrey Harris that Columbia University President Butler wrote to him about. In the meantime, he will commit to Professor Elmer Ellsworth Brown as a candidate to replace Harris, unless Butler thinks that Maurice Francis Egan, another potential candidate, would be better.
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1906-05-11
Professor Roosevelt wishes that he could do as Professor Dunn asked but has had to refuse many similar invitations and cannot accept. He asks Dunn to come to lunch at the White House, along with Dr. Maurice Francis Egan and Dr. Douglas Hyde, either on the day the lecture takes place or the day after.
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1906-05-03
President Roosevelt thanks Father Zahm for his telegram of congratulations, which the president received through Maurice Francis Egan.
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1904-11-10