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President Roosevelt thanks Reginald Ronalds for the Ross rifle. He is not sure that he will ever hunt again, but he will try it on his target range in Oyster Bay.
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1907-01-01
President Roosevelt looks forward to receiving the book that Ambassador McCormick has sent. He hopes that McCormick and his wife, Katharine Medill McCormick, can visit sometime.
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1907-01-01
President Roosevelt thanks Houghton, Mifflin, and Company for the copy of The Song of Roland that they sent him.
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1907-01-01
President Roosevelt thanks Frank H. Tompkins and his friends for their gift of oranges.
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks Representative Sibley for the oranges and grapefruits.
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt describes the family’s “ideal” Christmas celebrations to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He asks Robinson to find out how her son, Monroe Douglas Robinson, could bear being seen with Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt, when Ted was wearing “such as cap as he seems to have carried.”
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks Martha Waller Johnson for a book with John Randolph’s signature in it.
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1906-12-26
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow for the book that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt got him on her behalf. The Roosevelts have had their “usual type of Christmas,” though with fewer toys as the children get older. Soon they will go to the Pine Knot cabin with friends. Roosevelt has much to worry him in his work, but the incidents “will all go downstream.”
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks Mrs. Whitelaw Reid for her gifts, an eagle and an elephant.
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1906-12-25
President Roosevelt sends his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson $10, which he asks her to forward as a gift to the aged former servant of the Roosevelt family, Dora Watkins. Roosevelt wishes he could be with Corinne and her family over the Christmas holiday season.
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1906-12-22
President Roosevelt tells former Mayor Low that the idea he has suggested has already been raised by Secretary of Commerce and Labor Oscar S. Straus and National Civic Federation founder John Mitchell. Roosevelt doubts the possibility of applying the semi-official gift from the Nobel Foundation and applying it to a private enterprise like the Civic Federation. He hopes a plan can be worked out, but notes that neither his name nor Alfred Nobel’s name should be “swallowed up in any private movement.”
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1906-12-20
William Loeb sends Reverend Dr. Schick a $10 donation on behalf of President Roosevelt for his Christmas fund for the poor, and he asks for confirmation of receipt.
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1906-12-17
President Roosevelt thanks Representative Scott for the copy of his book and looks forward to reading it.
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1906-12-17
President Roosevelt thanks Emanuel Nobel for the gift, noting that he “disposed of it in a way which I believe would have pleased your lamented and illustrious uncle,” Alfred Nobel.
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1906-12-14
President Roosevelt thanks Professor James J. Geddes for the gift of his translation of the eleventh century French poem La Chanson De Roland, and congratulates him on the work.
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1906-12-12
President Roosevelt says that he looks forward to the “receipt of the volumes” promised to him by Anderson. Roosevelt invites Anderson and Wisconsin Senator John C. Spooner to lunch in Washington.
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1906-12-08
President Roosevelt thanks Joel Chandler Harris for the autographed gift for Ethel Roosevelt and expresses his fondness for Harris’s writings.
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1901-10-12
President Roosevelt thanks Marcia Roosevelt Scovel for the letter and the gold pen. He hopes to see her son when he visits Yale University.
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1901-10-11
President Roosevelt thanks Margaret Adelaide Wolfe Kane for the charm, which Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has taken possession of.
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1901-10-01