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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Roscoe C. Bulmer

President Roosevelt thanks Captain Bulmer for the delicious ducks and invites him to play tennis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Madison Julius Cawein

President Roosevelt sincerely thanks Madison Julius Cawein for gifting him the books. Cawein is “doing good work for America just where she most needs it.” Roosevelt comments on the interesting situation that sees individuals of Dutch and German descent presenting at a celebration honoring Pilgrims.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Westlake

President Roosevelt thanks Albert Westlake for the beautiful book, and anticipates reading it with pleasure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Emily Tyler Carow

President Roosevelt requests his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow tell Mr. Bovet that while he sympathizes with the movement to preserve the Alps, as president, he cannot sign a petition that is essentially a request for action by another government. Roosevelt updates Carow on the family’s summer activities in Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-13

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Francis Hopkinson Smith

President Roosevelt sincerely thanks artist and author Francis Hopkinson Smith for his generous gift of “such a beautiful book,” Venice of To-Day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Walter J. Power

President Roosevelt sends Reverend Power a gift of fifty dollars for use in the church at Oyster Bay or the new church at Bayville. Roosevelt asks that Power not mention his gift to anyone.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-31

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Allison P. Swan

President Roosevelt thanks Allison P. Swan for the gift of a cane.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-22

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Clay Carrel

President Roosevelt thanks Henry Clay Carrel for sending the old engravings to him, and he agrees with Carrel that the country should be proud of Charles Follen McKim’s restoration of the White House interiors.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Kendrick

President Roosevelt thanks George W. Kendrick for the memorial volume of the Franklin Bicentenary Celebration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Jonathan Bourne

President Roosevelt thanks Senator Bourne for the apples.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Fitz Roy Carrington

President Roosevelt thanks Fitz Roy Carrington for sending three volumes of poetry. He especially likes Agincourt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White

President Roosevelt thanks Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford White for the Christmas gift.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Nathaniel Pitt Langford

President Roosevelt thanks Nathaniel Pitt Langford for the books that he sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Rasmus B. Anderson

President Roosevelt thanks Rasmus B. Anderson for sending him a copy of Norroena through the Norreona Society.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Orison Swett Marden

President Roosevelt thanks Orison Swett Marden for the original drawing by Mr. Needham.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mary Russell Butler

President Roosevelt thanks Mary Russell Butler for the poems she sent, especially for “Miss Flora MacFlimsy,” written by her late husband.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Andrew Carnegie

President Roosevelt is pleased by what Andrew Carnegie is going to do for the Bureau of American Republics, and believes he has done something similar for the Hague Peace Conference. His gifts significantly aid the cause of peace for both hemispheres.