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President Roosevelt has appreciated Frederick G. Fincke’s support and would like him to spend a night at the White House.
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1901-10-01
President Roosevelt wishes William Sturgis Bigelow good luck.
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1901-10-01
President Roosevelt re-encloses Karl Bünz’s letter and returns it to Laura d’Oremieulx, and thinks that it is admirable. He feels fortunate for being so closely acquainted with Bünz, and hopes to have him visit the White House soon.
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1901-09-28
President Roosevelt thanks Louis Stern for his friendship and for the letter he wrote.
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1901-09-21
Newly appointed President Roosevelt writes that St. Clair McKelway’s words have strengthened him, particularly what McKelway said about Roosevelt’s time as Governor. Roosevelt invites McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, to the White House to discuss his plans for policy. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt can spend time with Virginia Brooks Thompson McKelway.
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1901-09-16
George B. Cortelyou thanks Philip Battell Stewart for the letter and invites him and his wife to stay at the White House when they come east. Cortelyou intends to take the bear and cougar hunt a year from next spring and hopes to get Secretary of War Elihu Root to join their party.
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1901-09-14
President Roosevelt values Nicholas Murray Butler’s letter and would like him to come and stay with him at the White House.
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1901-09-14
Joseph Wilmer tells Theodore Roosevelt he is very sorry to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s pain. He is grateful for his friendship with Roosevelt’s family.
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1911-10-14
Arthur Hamilton Lee is enjoying his holiday in the Scottish Highlands and feels refreshed after engaging in outdoor recreation. He is glad to hear Theodore Roosevelt is likewise taking pleasure in his leisure. Lee discusses recent British political issues, including debates over Constitutional law and Irish Home Rule. Additionally, he comments on international relations between Morocco, Germany, and France, and the United States’ proposed arbitration treaty with Great Britain. Hopefully, in the near future, he and his wife, Ruth Moore Lee, can travel to the United States and visit the Roosevelt family.
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1911-09-10
Leonard Eckstein Opdycke informs President Roosevelt that he left his son, Leonard Opdycke, at Groton School and found out that Archibald B. Roosevelt was his table neighbor and classmate. Although Leonard Opdycke is good at books, he is a bit shy, and the elder Opdycke would appreciate if the president let Archie know about the fathers’ friendship.
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1907-09-18
Caspar Whitney informs President Roosevelt that he had received four letters where people had made fun of him for taking up “cudgels for Roosevelt” although Whitney was not included in the roll of honor in the September issue of Everybody’s magazine. Whitney tells Roosevelt that his “interest in life is not to be reckoned on rolls of honor,” but the letters have made him wonder if the absence of his name from the rolls meant more than he originally thought. Whitney would like to know where he stands with the president.
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1907-09-07
John Callan O’Laughlin asks William Loeb to suggest hunting locations for his friend Medill McCormick. He hopes Loeb will continue writing occasionally. O’Laughlin encloses several articles.
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1907-08-19
Elihu Root is “completely broken” by the death of Secretary of State John Hay. Root sends his condolences to President Roosevelt as he knows the affection the two men had for each other.
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1905-07-01
William Croswell Doane thanks President Roosevelt for his quick action in taking a message to Congress after a conference.
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1905-01-31
Cecil Spring Rice tells President Roosevelt that he has a friend, Valentine Chirol, who is currently en route to the United States, and asks if Roosevelt would be willing to speak with him. Spring Rice vouches for Chirol, and mentions the work he did in England during the Spanish-American war advocating for the United States, as well as his subsequent activities of traveling and writing.
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1904-11-09
Elisabeth D. Riis apologizes for not responding to President Roosevelt sooner, but explains that her husband Jacob A. Riis is away on a trip, and that she herself was sick in bed. She promises that Jacob will write immediately after he gets home, which she expects to be within a day or two. Riis updates Roosevelt on how her sons are doing, one of whom has recently gotten engaged.
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1904-11-04
A photograph of Ethel Roosevelt (left) and her friend Cornelia Landon possibly taken around 1908.
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1908
Theodore Roosevelt, getting ready for a trip, discusses the fact that Charles G. Washburn wrote his book, Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of his Career, while Roosevelt had lost popularity and that only friendship could have made Washburn write the book. However, Roosevelt has recently become popular again.
1916-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to hear from Sarah Bancroft Leavitt. He wishes Leavitt could have been at the Orthopaedic. He always associates Leavitt with his father, mother, and aunt Anna Bulloch Gracie who had such fun together and did so much good for others.
1916-02-09
Theodore Roosevelt asks his daughter Ethel Roosevelt if she has seen much of Margaret and Helen. He tells her that he has stopped at the mansion for dinner and a bath, and now the real work of his trip will begin.
1900-09-05