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President Roosevelt returns materials that were very helpful, and asks if Henry Fairfield Osborn has either Big Game Shooting and Travels in Southeast Africa by F. R. N. Findlay, or Fauna of South Africa by William Lutley Sclater. Roosevelt enjoyed a recent luncheon with Osborn and his family.
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1908-07-20
President Roosevelt tells Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge that she will have the two tickets. He was also “deeply concerned” about her letter to Edith about “the poor little boy.”
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1908-05-12
President Roosevelt is glad Jacob A. Riis is going after the priest, because slander should be “met sharply.” He looks forward to reading the article on playgrounds that Riis is sending.
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1908-04-21
President Roosevelt gives William Sturgis Bigelow some advice about an inscription.
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1908-03-18
President Roosevelt tells Philip Battell Stewart that he is a friend worth having, and that his faith in the Department of the Interior is almost shaken with regards to the Hagermans. Roosevelt cannot believe that Hitchcock was not an honest man, but he comments that he did have poor judgement and temper.
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1908-02-15
President Roosevelt asks Philip Battell Stewart to notify him when he will be in the same place as Roosevelt.
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1908-02-18
President Roosevelt promises that he will look into the matter that Jacob A. Riis mentioned, and will try to see that justice is done. He enjoyed seeing Riis recently.
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1908-02-12
President Roosevelt will take up the Indian Agent issue but can not assist with the airship, as he would not be of much help and is quite busy. He sends his love to Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge and the children.
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1907-12-26
Alice Roosevelt Longworth is doing well. President Roosevelt sends his sympathies to William Emlen Roosevelt’s wife, Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt. Roosevelt agrees with his cousin Emlen regarding speaking out about his decision to not run for a third term. He heard from Edward King, and has asked Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou about his proposal. The Western banks are complaining that the government gave too much money to the New York banks.
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1907-12-15
President Roosevelt thanks Sarah Bancroft Leavitt for the book and is grateful she thought of him.
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1907-12-18
President Roosevelt thanks Howard Allen Bridgman for the editorial and invites him to visit some time to discuss national and global policy.
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1907-12-21
President Roosevelt values William Allen White’s friendship greatly, and he will give Ambassador J. J. Jusserand the book immediately. He hopes White and his wife, Sallie Moss Lindsay White, can come visit, perhaps for the Army and Navy Reception.
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1907-12-23
President Roosevelt asks if Seth Bullock and his wife, Martha Marguerite Eccles Bullock, can spend the night on January 5, 1908, as it is Kermit Roosevelt wishes to see them. Roosevelt suggests that there are upcoming events in Washington D.C. which Mrs. Bullock might enjoy, including a musical on January 3. Regardless, Roosevelt entreats them to visit.
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1907-11-14
President Roosevelt welcomes any novel if it provides guidance on matters such as “In God We Trust,” even if it is inferior to Wister’s Lady Baltimore. Some will regret Roosevelt’s decision regarding “In God We Trust.” However, he feels it was correct, if not politically, then out of good taste. Roosevelt looks forward to Wister’s biography of George Washington and wishes Wister would visit. He finds the response over Wister’s remarks on non-resistance amusing.
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1907-11-15
President Roosevelt thanks his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, for sharing Mignonette Violett Whelen’s touching letter about her successive sorrows. Presently everyone holds a poor opinion of him. He asks Corinne to thank Darius O. Mills for the kind words. He is anxious to see Corinne and Douglas Robinson. Roosevelt is sorry his nephew, Monroe Douglas Robinson, is not playing on the team but regards the situation as better than Ted Roosevelt, whose sporting career ended when he injured his leg within five minutes of play.
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1907-11-16
President Roosevelt wishes University of California President Wheeler were a Senator, as they could use him for so many different matters.
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt wrote to Supreme Court Justice William H. Moody on the suggestion of Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and forwards Moody’s response to her.
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1907-09-28
President Roosevelt is happy that New Mexico Governor George Curry has been able to fix Captain Green’s problems.
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1907-10-07
President Roosevelt writes that he and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt were amused by Senator Lodge’s grandson’s request. He hopes that when they he sees Lodge in Provincetown, Massachusetts, they will have a chance to have a “real talk.”
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1907-06-13
President Roosevelt relays the details of his past week, including riding with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, the June heat, and his pride in Kermit Roosevelt’s crew team.
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1907-06-09