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President Roosevelt thanks Madison Grant for his kind letter and Edmund Giles Loder’s note. Roosevelt remembers Loder as, “a first class big game hunter of the best type,” and hopes to see him while in London. Roosevelt knows so many English people already that he believes letters of introduction will be unnecessary.
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1908-09-02
President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.
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1908-08-07
Kai Branner asks Theodore Roosevelt for help finding employment in the United States, mentioning his background as a clerk in Denmark and London, his knowledge of English and German, and his hope to secure a position in publishing or another business.
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1911-09-12
Herbert W. Ladd informs Theodore Roosevelt about his daughter Elizabeth B. Ladd’s upcoming trip to Entebbe, Uganda, where she will marry Dr. Robert E. McConnell. Ladd requests Roosevelt’s advice, aid, or introductions to assist her during her journey and after her arrival in Africa.
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1911-09-11
Senator Lodge shares some of a letter from Secretary of the Immigration Commission, Morton E. Crane, in which Crane discusses the positive feelings of the citizens of London toward President Roosevelt’s economic policies, as well as the friendship between Indiana Senator Albert J. Beveridge and David Graham Phillips, author of The Treason of the Senate. Lodge also shares segments from Baron F. A. Channing’s essay on the Union, which Roosevelt may want to quote.
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1907-09-02
Teresa Stoughton Richardson asks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for advice concerning the false reports that she and her husband, Clifford Richardson, criticized the American Embassy in London.
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1907-02-13
Ambassador Carter, Secretary of the American Embassy in London, thanks President Roosevelt for his letters, and for having his daughter Mildred stay at the White House. Carter discusses the response of the British public and press to the “Jamaica incident.” This likely refers to the inadequate relief provided by British Governor of Jamaica James Alexander Swettenham to Jamaican residents after the Kingston earthquake, and the subsequent intervention by American Rear Admiral C. H. Davis. The reaction in Britain is one of “amazement, indignation, and mortification.” However, Roosevelt’s answers to British Secretary of State for War R. B. Haldane’s and British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Edward Grey’s telegrams “had a most soothing effect.” Carter also references an earlier conversation he and Roosevelt had about Swettenham, in connection with the Panama Canal.
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1907-01-25
George Otto Trevelyan writes to President Roosevelt about Panama and the Philippines, drawing parallels with Macaulay’s histories and Ancient Rome. Trevelyan discusses the British diplomatic service and his latest work on the American Revolution. He also describes a recent visit from Charles Francis Adams and his wife, and he muses on what it is like to be old. Trevelyan writes of their shared love of English literature, mentioning Milton, Chaucer, and W. W. Jacobs.
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1906-12-12
Acting Secretary of State Loomis sends a private message to Ambassador Reid in London regarding President Roosevelt’s efforts to encourage countries such as Japan to agree upon The Hague. Loomis suggests that the King and his government’s future efforts should involve Japan and peace. Loomis mentions Roosevelt’s need to know the English government’s plans for peace.
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1905-06-15
Ambassador Meyer informs Secretary of State Hay about the Russian Emperor’s belief that his people prefer war over peace. Meyer mentions that the Emperor agrees with President Roosevelt’s proposition, which is to be kept quiet, and the Emperor wishes for Roosevelt to directly convince Japan to agree for Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries to meet and discuss peace. Meyer adds that the Emperor hopes for these events to happen soon before any attacks take place.
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1905-06-07
Ambassador Choate is prepared to officially resign in May, so Whitelaw Reid can become the new ambassador by June 1, 1905.
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1905-02-07
American diplomat Henry White updates President Roosevelt on efforts to have British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice visit Roosevelt to discuss policy on the “far east.” Spring Rice, who had recently met with King Edward VII, will visit Roosevelt but stay with historian Henry Adams instead of at the White House. White also discusses meeting with Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, who hopes to receive command of a new squadron. White also notes anti-Semitic attitudes in Austria and Italy towards Jewish diplomats.
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1905-01-13
Ambassador Choate thanks President Roosevelt for offering him the opportunity to remain as ambassador until Choate can personally dedicate his memorial window to John Harvard.
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1905-01-10
American diplomat Henry White thanks President Roosevelt for his appointment as Ambassador to Italy. White also discusses the secret negotiations going on with Lord Lansdowne that would lead to British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice being transferred from acting ambassador to Russia to serving as a special representative to Roosevelt. White notes that he has kept these negotiations secret, even from the United States’ Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joseph Hodges Choate.
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1905-01-07
Ambassador Choate expresses his gratitude after six years of service and submits his letter of resignation to President Roosevelt.
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1904-12-12
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Theodore Roosevelt returns from his African safari through the countries of Sudan, France, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, and finally his reception in New York City. Edited by Mae Manning.
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1925
Theodore Roosevelt understands why his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles is wistful about leaving England and returning to America. He looks forward to meeting her husband William S. Cowles and invites his sister Helen Cowles to stay at Sagamore Hill. He believes he will remain a Police Commissioner at least until the new year and does not know what to do after he leaves.
1897-03-28
Richard Harding Davis requests President Roosevelt’s help in getting a seat at the coronation at Westminster Abbey.
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1902-06-06
Harriet Crocker Alexander, wife of Charles B. Alexander and aunt of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, dressed for the Court of St. James.
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Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Corinne to describe his honeymoon trip to Paris with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. This is a typewritten copy of the original letter.
1881-06-13