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Mabel Wellington White Stimson had been away and has recently learned more details of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident. She sends her sympathies to everyone and offers her assistance if there is anything she can do.
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.
Langdon Warner hopes Mrs. Roosevelt is recovering after her fall. He also thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending a pamphlet on protective coloration, and hopes Roosevelt will speak to Mr. Thayer about the pamphlet.
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1911-10-07
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that William Sheffield Cowles Jr. is overcoming his homesickness. Quentin Roosevelt and Christopher LaFarge have sent good reports about him. He asks that his letter to Sheffield not be sent unless there is need of it.
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1911-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt clarifies to George R. Eaves that no one has ever represented him on a special mission to Russia. Roosevelt corresponds with Louis Edelman regarding politics, but does not remember ever having asked Edelman to represent him on any special missions because he would remember such a thing.
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1911-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed the letter James Bronson Reynolds sent. Roosevelt says he prizes his relationship with Reynolds that goes back to when Roosevelt was the police commissioner. Reynolds has been an inspiration to Roosevelt and he invites Reynolds to lunch so the two of them might talk over many matters.
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1911-10-24
Roosevelt informs Jusserand that Edith Kermit Carrow Roosevelt took a serious fall, taking her 3 days to regain consciousness, and spent the following 2 weeks in severe agony. She is now doing better and is in recovery, but Roosevelt does not know when Edith will be able to leave her bed. Roosevelt expresses concern to Jusserand over hearing that his wife is also not feeling well and is in bed. Roosevelt informs Jusserand that he must see him soon to discuss things, mentioning books he is looking forward to reading.
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1911-10-19
President Roosevelt congratulates Florence Spring Rice on the birth of her son. Roosevelt would congratulate Cecil Spring Rice, but being a father himself, he knows fathers “don’t count for much.” He gladly accepts the role of godfather.
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1908-09-25
President Roosevelt returns Nelson O’Shaughnessy’s letter to Secretary of State Root. Additionally, he encloses letters from Julia Ward Howe concerning the Russian refugee, and requests that Root speak with him before acting on the delicate case. Roosevelt jokingly taunts Root that while the letter he will send will be duller than Root’s speech, he will be in Africa when it is read, and he does not have to deliver it in person like Root.
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1908-09-09
The picture sent by T. St. John Gaffney, the Consul General at Munich, amuses President Roosevelt. While he grieves the loss of his friend Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg, he mourns for Lillian May Speck von Sternburg’s situation. If he makes it into German East Africa, he will contact Gaffney’s son-in-law, Hans Heinrich von Wolf. Roosevelt agrees with Gaffney regarding the navy.
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1908-09-09
President Roosevelt informs Henry Bazeley Wolryche-Whitmore that Scribner’s has the rights for the book in question, but he has forwarded the letter to them and stated that British publisher John Murray would be satisfactory to him. He assumes Douglas Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson have recounted the meeting at Jordanville.
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1908-09-04
President Roosevelt relays his concern for the Cooley family to Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley as her husband, Assistant Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley, recovers from illness. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte wrote him about Alford Warriner Cooley returning the check. He finds it a needless and irritating, yet endearing action. Roosevelt wants to help the Cooley family in any way, finding “it a very great privilege…to serve you,” as he greatly admires and respects them.
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1908-09-02
President Roosevelt sends his nephew, Theodore Douglas Robinson, an interesting clipping from Ambassador Whitelaw Reid’s letter about the Olympics. He sends his love to Robinson’s wife Helen Roosevelt Robinson and their children Douglas Robinson and Helen, having thoroughly enjoyed visiting them the previous week.
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1908-08-27
President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Captain McCoy and learn about the camp at Fort Riley. He is uncertain if he can obtain the copy of Major George M. Barber’s journal notes McCoy requests. Instead, he sends an edition of Rough Riders for reference. As a member of the campaign in question, Roosevelt wants to know who takes exception to Captain Herbert H. Sargent’s account and why.
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1908-08-27
With delight, President Roosevelt shares with Senator Lodge the newspaper account of a riot in Brownfield, Texas, over the erection of a Roosevelt statue. He is glad for the invitation from George Nathaniel Curzon, the Chancellor of Oxford, to present the Romanes lecture on his return from Africa. It is an honor, and it gives him a legitimate reason for visiting England. The matter of renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes grows worse, and Roosevelt worries about the impact it may have on William H. Taft’s election.
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1908-08-18
President Roosevelt asks his son Archibald B. Roosevelt to be kind to his shy classmate Leonard Opdycke, whose father Leonard Eckstein Opdycke attended Harvard with Roosevelt. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have been enjoying the outdoors in Oyster Bay, New York and plan to depart soon.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt has written to his son Archibald B. Roosevelt and asked him to be kind to Leonard Eckstein Opdycke’s son, as the two boys are classmates at Groton School. Roosevelt is happy to hear from Opdycke and laments the loss of two of their classmates, Henry Russell Shaw and Samuel W. Skinner.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt wants to hear about W. Sloan Simpson’s trip. He is glad Simpson thinks Oklahoma Governor Frank C. Frantz has a chance, and that he approves of Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou’s actions.
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1907-08-26
President Roosevelt is pleased for Francis J. Heney. He has many things to talk over with Heney, including the Arizona Territory, California postmasters, and his Provincetown speech.
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1907-08-23
President Roosevelt strongly objects to Charles Erskine Scott Wood publishing quotations from their personal correspondence and will immediately cease writing if that were to ill-advisedly occur.
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1907-08-19
President Roosevelt asks if Cecil Spring Rice and his wife Florence Spring Rice can delay their return to England to visit the White House and discuss matters “while I am still among the men whose armor is on and who are standing ready to do their part in the fight.”
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1907-08-19