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President Roosevelt updates Archibald B. Roosevelt on the weather and flora in Washington, his riding with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt’s baseball playing. The family will go see the juggler Harry Kellar tonight.
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1908-05-01
President Roosevelt thanks Lieutenant Poole for the flowers he had sent for Roosevelt’s birthday.
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1907-10-28
President Roosevelt thanks Nannie S. Neilson for sending him flowers.
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1907-10-23
President Roosevelt thanks James G. Winsor for the bunch of mayflowers.
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1907-06-01
President Roosevelt accepts Charles L. Pollard’s offer of an honorary membership in his association. He presumes Pollard is doing all he can to preserve the mayflower as he dislikes seeing people carry bunches of them pulled up by the root.
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1907-04-22
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on the weather and the family after the Easter holiday. He discusses the railroad situation and the requests for him to speak on the matter but reiterates that he would be repeating what already has been said. In a postscript, Roosevelt updates his son on the grounds and how the trees and flowers are blossoming.
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1907-03-31
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about a recent trip he took with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on the Presidential Yacht Sylph. He also writes briefly about some of the humorous activities Kermit’s brothers Archie and Quentin have gotten up to.
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1906-04-30
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about how his trip through the southern states has gone thus far. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and a cousin, John S. Elliott, accompanied Roosevelt as far as Atlanta, and had a lovely time. They also visited the childhood home of Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Roosevelt, now accompanied by John Campbell Greenway and John Avery McIlhenny, believes that the next part of the trip will be hard work going forward.
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1905-10-22
President Roosevelt thanks James W. Meagher for the letter of congratulations and the flowers.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt thanks Julia Strong Post Swan for the flowers she sent.
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1904-07-27
President Roosevelt thanks Cornelius Van der Hoogt for the flowers and Dutch pipe.
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1903-10-27
President Roosevelt was a good friend of Bradley S. Johnson’s father and is saddened by his death. Roosevelt hopes the flowers he sent reached the cemetery.
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1903-10-07
President Roosevelt thanks the Wisconsin Woman’s Republican Club for the flowers.
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1903-06-06
President Roosevelt thanks M. Frances Ashton for the flowers and regrets that they were not able to have breakfast together during his trip.
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1903-05-23
President Roosevelt found the flowers lovely and approves of an unnamed “good old Dutch custom.”
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1902-10-27
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt asks White House steward Henry Pinckney to send an updated inventory of the amounts of cigars and liquors present in the White House to Captain William S. Cowles so that he can purchase some replacements and make sure everything is stocked. She informs Pinckney of some of the family’s travel plans between Sagamore Hill and the White House, and offers to send him a photograph of her son, Quentin Roosevelt, and his, Roswell N. Pinckney together.
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1902-08-30
President Roosevelt thanks Miss Jenkins for the flowers that he received while passing through North Asbury and adds the requested six signatures.
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1902-07-26
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou thanks Florence Van Cortlandt Parsons for the flowers.
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1901-12-11
The apothecary Hans Bergmann has a collection of pressed flowers which includes a cornflower, which is German Emperor William II’s favorite flower. Bergmann asks if President Roosevelt will allow Alice Roosevelt to present it to Prince Heinrich of Prussia. Original item in German, with a typed, translated summary.
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1902-01-14
Bernard Shandon Rodey tells Theodore Roosevelt that he just received a large amount of mail, as navigation just opened back up. Minnie Codington Rodey told Rodey that she regretted only being able to send cards and flowers to Roosevelt’s family when they visited Albuquerque, New Mexico. Rodey’s wife is living in a small house with her mother, as her mother is unwell.
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1911-06-14