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President Roosevelt thanks Edward North Buxton for the volume, which he finds most interesting, and he hopes to one day have Buxton “on this side” again.
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1907-12-31
President Roosevelt assures Caspar Whitney that his name appears on the “roll of honor,” as is evidenced by Roosevelt’s mention of Whitney in his book.
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1907-11-07
President Roosevelt sends John Burroughs greetings upon his seventieth birthday. Roosevelt expresses his wish to be present with Burroughs at the celebration.
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1907-11-13
President Roosevelt believes he knows who leaked the proposition and says it is of no consequence. He trusts William L. Ward entirely and looks forward to having a satisfactory talk once he returns to Washington, D.C.
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1907-10-07
President Roosevelt was “rather disturbed” by John Temple Graves’s telegram to William Loeb. Roosevelt says he can be completely frank with Graves, but only with the understanding that it never be repeated. Roosevelt says it will always be a pleasure to see Graves.
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1907-06-22
President Roosevelt acknowledges John Lawrence Sullivan’s letter. He expresses his pleasure at seeing Sullivan and looks forward to seeing Sullivan again on Saturday.
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1907-05-09
President Roosevelt is entertained by Assistant Treasurer Fish’s letter and agrees with Fish about the “gentleman in question.”
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1907-03-28
President Roosevelt is disappointed by Ella Lyons Swift’s message.
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1907-03-29
President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews that it is “horrid” to decline a request for “a pair of old pants” and thinks it is best to stay silent about the abridged spelling.
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1907-04-01
President Roosevelt cannot attend, but is happy that Secretary of State Elihu Root will. Roosevelt invites Andrew Carnegie to lunch with him and friends on Wednesday, March 27.
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1907-03-11
President Roosevelt writes a letter of introduction for Ella Lyon Swift to the Diplomatic and Consular Officers of the United States. She will be in “Europe and the Levant” for several months.
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1907-02-28
President Roosevelt’s letter presents Augusta Rhodes Hanna to Henry White, U.S. Ambassador to France, and requests that he look after her. He is sure this will not be any trouble because she is a pleasant lady and her husband Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna was his friend.
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1907-01-31
President Roosevelt thanks Nicholas Murray Butler for his note and comments on how much Butler’s friendship has meant to him. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing and talking with Butler.
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1906-10-29
President Roosevelt congratulates Robert B. Brown on his election as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He shares a humorous anecdote about General S. B. M. Young and General Adna Chaffee, showing the camaraderie that is built by the army.
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1906-08-21
President Roosevelt thanks Ben Daniels for the “bully letter,” and comments that he was bound to fight for Daniels, “with every ounce of strength.”
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1906-07-14
President Roosevelt was “deeply pleased and moved” by Thomas R. Lounsbury’s letter, but fears that those words are inadequate to express how he felt upon reading it. Roosevelt reflects on his goals as president of doing everything he can to benefit the “plain people” of America, and of working to gain “their trust and approbation.” That being said, the mass of the public is occasionally difficult to understand and acts with seeming randomness, and Roosevelt comments that “the friendship, the goodwill and the praise I value more than I can express come from [Lounsbury] and from two or three others whose convictions and judgement I deeply respect.”
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1906-07-05
President Roosevelt is concerned to learn that C. Grant La Farge is having trouble, and comments that from the information he has gained in the past several years he has come to believe that “Burr is a tricky man.” La Farge can tell him about the situation when he visits.
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1906-07-06
President Roosevelt thanks Lillian Schaaff for showing him the nice letter from her uncle, and says that he is glad that his son, Quentin Roosevelt, “chose his small friend with such discretion!”
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1906-07-07
President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the book and newspaper clipping. Roosevelt comments that he does not know who Louis Friedman is, and was not shown any telegram from him. Roosevelt enjoyed spending time with Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, recently, and hopes that they enjoy their vacation.
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1906-06-27
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt were delighted by Winthrop Chanler’s letter, and Roosevelt remarks that Chanler wrote many things that he wished to write to Owen Wister, “but had not the heart to.” Wister’s other works have been very good, but Roosevelt was sorry to have him write his recent book. Roosevelt believes the beef business will come out all right, and will add to the large number of things achieved by the current Congress. He would have liked to visit with Chanler longer last Sunday, and hopes that he will come visit the Roosevelts soon. Roosevelt jokes about Chanler “looking as if [he] were under thirty while [Roosevelt] is feeling like a worn-out and crippled old man.”
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1906-06-23