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Jane Addams has received the forwarded telegram from Millicent Garrett Fawcett and is pleased with Fawcett’s commendation of the Progressive Party. She has sent the telegram to Frances Kellor for distribution to the press. Addams will be writing several articles on the party’s social economic planks drawing on her “experience with poorer people.”
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1912-08-24
Representative Norris suggests that Theodore Roosevelt write an editorial for The Outlook articulating why the Post Office Department should be independent of politics and the Cabinet.
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1912-03-25
Arthur Wallace Dunn is preparing articles on the views of President Taft and Theodore Roosevelt regarding trusts, the tariff, initiative and referendum, and the recall. Senator Dixon has been tasked with approving the article on behalf of the Roosevelt campaign and encloses it for Roosevelt’s attention.
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1912-03-17
Senator Dixon requests copies of Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches and his articles that were published in The Outlook.
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1912-03-10
Senator Lodge is submitting an article to The Outlook on the last one hundred years of peace between the United States and Great Britain. Lodge fears a public debate on the arbitration treaties as it could damage relations with several foreign nations. He read in the newspaper that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was ill and hopes it is not serious.
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1912-01-08
William Allen White admires Theodore Roosevelt’s interpretation of books and sees in him a strong intellectual leader of the country. He recommends two books to Roosevelt. White also warns Roosevelt about using lengthy sentences in his writing, describing his recent writing as nervous rather than lucid.
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1912-01-16
Senator Bourne has received Theodore Roosevelt’s kind wishes for the New Year and congratulates Roosevelt for his article on arbitration. He also discusses the rights of the composite citizen, and how they begin to outweigh those of the individual.
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1911-12-30
Elmer L. Morey recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s kind treatment of him as Vice Consul and his father, Consul William Morey, during their service in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He sends two articles on big game hunting in Sri Lanka and hopes Roosevelt can publish them in the Outlook. If not, Morey asks for an introduction to another magazine.
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1911-12-09
H. J. Howland asks Theodore Roosevelt for a brief piece about British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey to accompany his portrait in the upcoming issue of The Outlook.
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1911-12-11
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1911-12-07
Macomber, Charles S. (Charles Summer), 1858-1935
Joseph W. Reynolds commends Theodore Roosevelt’s article in the Outlook, “The Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit,” and offers suggestions to help in the further search for “Truth.”
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1911-12-07
Percival Sheldon Ridsdale, secretary of the American Forestry Association, informs Theodore Roosevelt of the suggestion by Governor Robert P. Bass, president of the Association, that Roosevelt write a brief article on citizen involvement in conservation. Such an article would greatly influence the public.
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1911-12-08
Paul A. Zuber wants to dedicate his French language book about his adventures in the Western United States to Theodore Roosevelt, and for him to write a letter. He wrote the book while recovering from a knee injury, during which time he read Roosevelt’s articles about hunting in Africa.
Paul A. Zuber published Dans les Mines du Far-West: Recits et aventures in 1912.
Henry Wallace sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his speech on the Rural Church and a book he wrote twelve years ago about trusts. He enjoyed Roosevelt’s recent article in the Outlook, especially because he was preparing to give a lecture about King Solomon. After a lecture series in February or March, he will visit their mutual friends and plans to see Roosevelt.
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1911-12-04
Joseph Culbertson Clayton commends Theodore Roosevelt’s recent article in The Outlook, “The Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit.” He will urge his friends to read it carefully.
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1911-12-02
Troward H. Marshall appreciates Theodore Roosevelt’s recent Outlook article “The Search for Truth in a Reverent Spirit” and hopes it will be the first of many. He asks if Roosevelt has seen the review of Arthur Mitchell’s translation of Henri Bergson.
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1911-12-02
Edward William Nelson sends Theodore Roosevelt some of his findings on the natural history of Alaska. He includes reports on the habits of birds and the material culture of the indigenous people of the Bering Strait. Nelson read Roosevelt’s “extremely interesting and valuable” article on animal coloration and agrees that Thayer and other naturalists “have gone beyond all reason” in their conclusions.
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1911-12-02
Howard Froelick asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an article for him on the opportunities for college men in politics to be published in the Princeton University paper. He is a candidate in a competition at Princeton and an article would help.
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1911-11-06
J. Stanley Brown sends Theodore Roosevelt the November issue of Worlds Work with his article about the difficulties corporations labor under. He also discusses possible remedies that Roosevelt’s administration considered. Had the succeeding administration followed these, the country would not be a “mess.” Brown argues that the public does not understand the constructive side of Roosevelt’s administration because it has not been presented clearly. He asks Roosevelt to consider turning over the needed materials to a businessman who could present the matter.
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1911-10-31