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President Roosevelt asks Emily Tyler Carow if she could bring a book about Rome by Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero, which he believes is entitled The Greatness and Decline of Rome. Roosevelt tells Carow the family is looking forward to her visit and updates her on their last days at Oyster Bay, New York.
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt thanks George Macaulay Trevelyan for the copy of Songs before Sunrise. Currently, he is reading Guglielmo Ferrero’s The Greatness and Decline of Rome and notes that there are similarities with the conditions he describes and those of “our modern industrial civilization.”
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1907-08-23
President Roosevelt is very impressed by George Cabot Lodge’s poem, “Herakles.” Roosevelt wonders if Lodge and his wife, Mathilda Elizabeth Frelinghuysen Lodge, can join him for lunch on December 8. Guglielmo Ferrero, an Italian historian, will be at the lunch also.
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1908-11-30
President Roosevelt invites A. Lawrence Lowell and his wife Anna Parker Lowell to stay at the White House December 7 to December 9. The Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero will also be there.
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1908-11-22
President Roosevelt invites Andrew Carnegie and his wife, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, to dine with him on December 8. The Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero will be there. Roosevelt would like to go over Carnegie’s book, which he has been reading “with real pleasure.”
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1908-11-17
President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the books he sent. Roosevelt tells Jusserand he is glad to have the distraction of his upcoming African Safari. Roosevelt shares his thoughts about leaving office, and the duty of a president to make the office as strong as possible, while at the same time not grasping for permanent power. Roosevelt discusses the problems with Turkey and Venezuela, adding that he wishes France could solve everything.
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1908-08-03
President Roosevelt thanks William Roscoe Thayer for the letter. He is unsure about Thayer’s proposition concerning Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, and while he supports understanding between the United States and Great Britain, he does not think it is correct to say that Americans and Englishmen are the same people. While Roosevelt does not contradict Thayer’s statement that Lincoln was the greatest English-speaking statesman of the nineteenth century, or that Darwin was the greatest English-speaking scientist of the nineteenth century, Roosevelt thinks that there might be a significant contingent of people who do not accept either one or the other of these ideas.
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1908-06-24
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Griscom for his speech and encloses a copy of his messages for him to present to Guglielmo Ferrero.
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1908-05-20
President Roosevelt tells William Roscoe Thayer that although Guglielmo Ferrero will spend a few nights at the White House, he is not his guest. Roosevelt hopes that Thayer will make his own arrangements for Ferrero and is sorry that Ferrero will not speak at the Lowell Institute.
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1908-04-08
President Roosevelt has heard good news from Emily Tyler Carow regarding Guglielmo Ferrero, and asks Italian ambassador Edmondo Mayor des Planches to tell Ferrero that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would be pleased to have him visit the White House in June or December.
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1908-02-29
President Roosevelt agrees with British author George Otto Trevelyan’s assertion that it would be “impossible” to imagine a book more interesting than Guglielmo Ferrero’s tome on the Roman Empire, and that he quoted it in a recent speech. Roosevelt tells Trevelyan to expect a gift from Secretary of State Elihu Root, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and the president himself. Roosevelt has recently reread Trevelyan’s book, and reports that Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer is enjoying it as much as Roosevelt.
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1907-12-09
Charles S. Grillo invites Theodore Roosevelt to address a gathering of Italian Americans at the forty-first-anniversary celebration of Rome’s return to Italy as its capital. The committee believes Roosevelt is the best choice, given that Guglielmo Ferrero “compared him to the Roman Caesar.”
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1911-08-22
Anna Roosevelt Cowles says the news about Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker validates President Roosevelt’s feelings, and Justice William H. Moody thinks the situation will help William H. Taft. Ambassador to Brazil Edwin V. Morgan has commented on the recent political involvement of the wealthy. Cowles thinks Seth Low Pierrepont is qualified to enter the diplomatic service and she hopes Roosevelt will speak to him. Joe Alsop’s senate nomination and hard work have pleased Cowles. Mabel Boardman, who Cowles is visiting, is going to Washington for the tuberculosis congress in her usual hardworking spirit. She invites Ted Roosevelt to visit Farmington, though he might find it boring.
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1908-09-19
George Macaulay Trevelyan is grateful for President Roosevelt’s approval of his last volumes as well as the opportunity for a six-week holiday. During his travels throughout Europe, Trevelyan encountered a number of Americans, whom he mentions to Roosevelt, and remarks how hospitable they are.
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1907-11-27
Guglielmo Ferrero will be staying briefly at the White House. President Roosevelt would be pleased if William Roscoe Thayer made arrangements for Ferrero. Roosevelt is sorry Ferrero is not to speak at the Lowell Institute.
1908-04-08