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Chester Sanders asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write an article to be published in the Scout News. Sanders’s Boy Scout troop has already asked President Taft if he would consent to write an article for them, but his schedule prevents him from contributing at present.
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1911-03-13
Charles Welsh previously sent Theodore Roosevelt an article he wrote, but as it was near the election, thinks that perhaps Roosevelt was too busy at the time to read it. He now sends a copy of Education containing the article, as he believes it will be of interest to Roosevelt.
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1911-03-14
Robert L. Stevens of the Home Educational Society asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an article on a married man’s duties to his family and country. The article will appear in a book produced by the society, which will be freely distributed to newly married couples and include helpful advice from famous writers.
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1911-03-09
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1911-03-05
Louis H. Bonelli shares with Theodore Roosevelt the text of two letters he wrote which were published in the Boston Herald which are critical of Roosevelt. Bonelli used to strongly admire Roosevelt, but disapproves of his anti-progressive support of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his lack of support for Eugene Foss for governor of Massachusetts.
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1911-02-08
Ralph R. Bruster asks if the enclosed article can be of use to The Outlook. It is based on points Theodore Roosevelt made in the September issue, but proves them in more detail. Bruster can include a brief with references if he thinks it can be of use.
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1911-02-08
Gifford Pinchot suggests that in Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming article on conservation he should reiterate what he said in last summer’s speech in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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1911-02-02
Ambassador Jusserand sends Theodore Roosevelt Christmas wishes and hopes for his continued safety. He informs Roosevelt of his election to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on his own merits, with no opposing votes. Jusserand shares an incident of a mother cat saving her kitten from a caged tiger. Roosevelt’s letter was delightful and complemented his articles in Scribner’s Magazine, which everyone follows with interest. He does not have much to comment on regarding internal politics other than that he deplores the quarrel between Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Jusserand updates Roosevelt on several of their friends. Ambassador to France Robert Bacon was recently injured in a fall from his horse before leaving for his assignment. A letter “full of pleasant chattering” from Justice Alford Cooley hints at a possible improvement in health. Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop are trying to capture Jose Santos Zelaya in Nicaragua. While Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge are in good physical health, they still mourn for their son George “Bay” Cabot Lodge, especially on Christmas. Jusserand includes a newspaper clipping on Roosevelt’s election to the Academy and part of a political cartoon featuring Roosevelt.
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1909-12-25
Lawrence F. Abbott tells President Roosevelt that the next issue of The Outlook, to be published on March 6, 1909, will include his first signed editorial and another officially welcoming him to the publication. The Outlook also intends to publish a paragraph describing the relationship between Roosevelt and the periodical as well as information regarding Roosevelt’s upcoming trips to Africa and Europe. Abbott has enclosed this paragraph for review by Roosevelt and notes that this information will be kept private until after the inauguration.
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1909-02-25
Lawrence F. Abbott encloses a proof of President Roosevelt’s editorial article on Leo Tolstoy. The Outlook will print Roosevelt’s lectures at Sorbonne University, the University of Oxford, and Humboldt University of Berlin unless they hear from him otherwise. While Abbott originally had no qualms about printing Philippe Bunau-Varilla’s article on the Panama Canal, he would rather suppress it now than to print something that would be personally offensive to Roosevelt.
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1909-02-15
The Outlook is publishing a series of four articles that will summarize President Roosevelt’s administration from four different aspects. Lawrence F. Abbott originally wanted Secretary of State Elihu Root to write the article on foreign relations. Both Abbott and Roosevelt are disappointed in the article that Scott wrote instead, as it does not portray the administration’s foreign policy accurately. Abbott regrets that he had not thought of First Assistant Secretary of State John Callan O’Laughlin to write the article, as Roosevelt suggested.
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1909-02-16
The Outlook will publish the Panama article, along with a second article in support of a lock canal. The two articles will be accompanied by an editorial statement. Lawrence F. Abbott hopes that President Roosevelt will give them a possible article about the “Japanese question.” He asks if Roosevelt has a preference as to which of his finished articles he would like to appear in the March 13 issue.
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1909-02-17
Lawrence F. Abbott, president and publisher of The Outlook, asks President Roosevelt if he would write an editorial in support of the lock canal plan used at the Panama Canal to be run alongside an article by Philippe Bunau-Varilla criticizing the lock type. Abbott argues that no one but Roosevelt will have greater influence in persuading people not to worry about the canal.
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1909-02-09
Caspar Whitney understands President Roosevelt’s decision to not write a feature about his upcoming safari, and resolved that he will not have anyone else write it. Whitney instead suggests that Collier’s publish an article on the guns Roosevelt will be taking with him to Africa and proposes Horace Kephart, an avid sportsman himself, to write it. However, if Roosevelt has another author in mind, Whitney will be glad for him to write it.
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1909-01-14
Lawrence F. Abbott’s source, Reverend Charles Cole Creegan, reports that there was little public approval in the galleries in response to the House of Representatives’s condemnation of Roosevelt’s Secret Service Message. Abbott plans to publish an editorial about this tension, expressing the opinion that the presidential-congressional conflict has arisen out of Roosevelt’s attempt to protect the government from “usurpatory, despotic and unconstitutional ‘Congressional Aggression.'” In the postscript, Abbott asks if he may meet with Roosevelt to discuss the conflict further.
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1909-01-15
Caspar Whitney wants to publish an authoritative account of President Roosevelt’s plans for his safari in Collier’s magazine. He would like to feature a short article written by Roosevelt himself. If this is not possible, Whitney requests Roosevelt’s permission to contact his safari companion, Edgar Alexander Mearns, to ask the same. Whitney attaches a press release about his new column “Outdoor America” in Collier’s magazine.
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1909-01-06
Albert Shaw thanks President Roosevelt for writing his letter about Abraham Lincoln, which will be read in public schools in February. Shaw also comments on the current state of affairs in Congress, concluding that “the only hope for the Senate lies in its newer members.”
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1909-01-09
Albert Shaw approves of President Roosevelt’s recent message relating to the Secret Service. He reminds Roosevelt of a promise to write a letter about Abraham Lincoln that could be published in the American Review of Reviews. He will not hold Roosevelt to this if it is inconvenient, but he hopes that Roosevelt would be willing to write about Lincoln’s work as an executive, “dealing from day to day with the problems that a President has to face, the big things and the little things.” Shaw feels that with the recent death of Grover Cleveland, there is now no one better suited to write on this topic, and hopes that Roosevelt will be able to write something.
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1908-12-30
Lawrence F. Abbott asks President Roosevelt to sign off on an article if he feels that it is ready for publication. The Outlook would prefer to have article published as a contribution with Roosevelt’s name under the title of the article, rather than as an editorial with his signature at the end of the article, as that form will be saved until after March 4, 1909, when Roosevelt is officially working for the magazine.
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1908-12-23
Lyman Abbott, of The Outlook, informs President Roosevelt that his son will send Roosevelt the article proofs that he requested, and that he intends to send Roosevelt proofs of all his articles. Abbott informs Roosevelt about an upcoming speech he plans to give, which he hopes will be published or turned into a full article.
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1908-11-30