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Theodore Roosevelt expresses his displeasure in receiving a copy of Frederick Albert Cook’s book, which he promptly returned. He tells Admiral Peary that he dined with George Borup at the Boone and Crockett dinner, and wishes a happy New Year to both Peary and Josephine Diebitsch Peary.
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1911-12-26
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Francis W. Kelsey for his book and will read it with interest.
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1911-12-26
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Sarah Louise Corson Downes for the book she sent.
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1911-12-26
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his great thanks to Mark Sullivan for the gift. He asks that he meet him at the office the next Wednesday morning.
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1911-12-23
John P. Wallace thanks Theodore Roosevelt on behalf of himself and the Grant Club for the portrait he sent.
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1911-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt sends his appreciation to William A. McKeever for the volume of poetry he sent to him. Roosevelt wishes him a merry Christmas and New Year’s.
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1911-12-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Elliott Howard for the apples that Warren W. Butler sent. He invites Howard to visit at The Outlook office, or Oyster Bay, when he has time.
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1911-12-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Warren W. Butler for the gift of apples and wishes him a merry Christmas.
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1911-12-23
Oh behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Paul G. Lewis for sending a copy of his book.
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1911-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William S. Hoskins for sending him a photograph and appreciates all that Hoskins says in his letter.
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1911-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes W. N. Mitchell with appreciation for sending him a box of grapefruit.
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1911-12-18
George R. Pryor advises Theodore Roosevelt that a hind quarter of elk meat has been sent to him to enjoy, from Pryor and George Whittaker. A box of steaks is included for William Loeb as well.
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1911-12-22
John C. Quinn writes Theodore Roosevelt with admiration for Roosevelt’s advocacy of the “Race Suicide” cause. Quinn encloses a photo of Henry A. Murphy and Margaretta Ann Heaven Murphy’s large family and says it is a “Christmas token” for Roosevelt and evidence that there is no “Race Suicide” in their family.
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1911-12-18
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks the gentlemen of Ernst & Ernst for sending him a copy of their calendar.
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1911-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Margaret Brooks Brigham for the pretty calendar and wishes her a merry Christmas.
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1911-12-22
Calling card of Clarence Miller Jones with “Maeterlinck Wisdom + Destiny” handwritten at the top. When Jones gifted Theodore Roosevelt the Maeterlinck title, Wisdom and Destiny, he added an inscription to the title page.
At the request of Howard Elliott, Warren W. Butler sends Theodore Roosevelt a box of Washington apples.
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1911-12-16
Dinner gong with accompanying mallet mounted on top of two rhinoceros feet. A small plaque dedicates the gift from former president Theodore Roosevelt to Ambassador to France Robert Bacon.
Following his African Safari, Theodore Roosevelt gifted many of his friends and acquaintances mementos made out of some of his hunting trophies, including inkwells, wastepaper baskets, and items like this dinner gong. Ambassador Bacon was a longtime friend of Roosevelt, and had both served in his administration in the State Department and in his unofficial “Tennis Cabinet.”
Silver cup dedicated to First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon inscribed with the signatures of fellow members of the Tennis Cabinet, including President Roosevelt, Assistant United States Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley, Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield, French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, Postmaster General George von Lengerke Meyer, Lawrence O. Murray, United States Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot, Herbert Knox Smith, and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Beekman Winthrop. In addition to the signatures, the cup is inscribed with the date October 11, 1907.
While president, Theodore Roosevelt’s unofficial “Tennis Cabinet” comprised an inner circle of unofficial advisors with whom Roosevelt would play tennis and discuss policy matters. Including men both from within and outside Roosevelt’s official administration, the group was influential in helping shape and carry out many of Roosevelt’s policies and reforms.
William Loeb returns the package of Mexican drawn work that Josephine Webb sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt as she does not want them.
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1902-02-01