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Sherrard Billings thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the jaguar skins that Roosevelt gave him and his wife as a wedding gift. Billings also rejoices in having a wife.
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1906-09-18
Frederic Remington presents President Roosevelt with Paleolithic Man, a bronze sculpture which he describes as representing the “original inhabitant of Oyster Bay.”
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1906-09-06
Frederick W. Whitridge has sent a box of pheasants as a gift for Theodore Roosevelt that will be delivered to William Loeb via special messenger. Loeb is to deliver the gift to Roosevelt as he sees fit.
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1906-09-01
Anna Roosevelt Cowles apologizes for taking so long to return a deed to her brother, President Roosevelt, but explains the difficulty she had in getting a notary. She is glad to be able to gift him something that will be of use. Cowles promises to write Roosevelt about possibly visiting at Oyster Bay later in the summer, after the upcoming Naval Review. Her vacation has been pleasant so far, but she comments that sometimes “it is difficult being your sister to stay in a hotel and not be made too conspicuous just on account of the relationship.” She heard good things about the honeymoon Roosevelt’s newly married daughter, Alice Longworth, and her husband Nicholas Longworth were able to take to England, and hopes they had a good time. Cowles also shares a humorous story where her son, William Sheffield Cowles, shared that he hoped President Roosevelt could find something to do in Farmington, Connecticut, after leaving the presidency so that they could see him often.
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1906-08-19
Robert Harry Munro Ferguson writes to President Roosevelt, thanking him for sending something to his wife, Isabella, in celebration of their marriage and honeymoon. Ferguson asks Roosevelt permission to request that Mr. Ronald ask Whitelaw Reid for some information.
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1906-07-19
Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria was touched to receive the gift of Roosevelt’s The Wilderness Hunter. He would have sent his thanks sooner, but he wanted to finish reading the book first, and now tells Roosevelt of his deep enjoyment of the book. Salvator tells Roosevelt about some of his recent travels, and his plans to make a study of Southern Albania that he hopes to send to Roosevelt.
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1906-07-20
Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val thanks Henry White for sending the photographs of President Roosevelt. His Holiness Pope Pius X is pleased with this token. Merry del Val, too, is honored that Roosevelt is sending him a copy of his recent speech. There should be “esteem and confidence on all sides” that Roosevelt is president. Merry del Val was secretary of the papal conclave of 1903 that elected Pope Pius X.
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1906-05-20
Annette Bartlett Scott informs President Roosevelt that her husband, Roosevelt’s friend, Joseph Scott died in Naples. Scott sends along a gift which her husband purchased for Roosevelt in Cairo.
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1906-04-23
Archduke Salvator will proudly send President Roosevelt books gifted to him by various men from Prague, Vienna, and Leipzig. Salvator warmly wishes Roosevelt a long and prosperous life.
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1906-03-15
Duchess Litta-Visconti-Arese sends President Roosevelt a copy of her translation of the life of Emperor Julian of Rome, sometimes called “Apostate.” She hopes that the book meets with his approval.
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1906-03-04
Deputy Consul General to Mexico City Eberhardt has sent William Loeb a capa for President Roosevelt and has forwarded a bill for it. Eberhardt also mentions the consulate at Nogales, Mexico, which he turned down and asks Loeb to thank President Roosevelt for his involvement in making the appointment.
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1906-03-05
Secretary of War Taft writes to Governor Winthrop on behalf of President Roosevelt to suppress any movement to appropriate money from the Puerto Rican legislature for a wedding present for Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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1906-03-09
Governor Winthrop writes to Secretary of War Taft, most likely in regards to the appropriations in Congress to purchase a wedding present for Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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1906-03-09
Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt writes to President Roosevelt to send him The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson.
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1906-02-24
Henry S. Pritchett sends President Roosevelt his recent publication of sermons for college students. Pritchett also expresses his admiration of Roosevelt.
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1906-02-09
Yick Nam Quan writes to President Roosevelt regarding a small gift he has sent for Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice.
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1906-01-31
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge writes to President Roosevelt concerning a gift she presented to him.
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1906-01-01
Hamilton Wright Mabie informs President Roosevelt of a plan to surprise Lyman Abbott for his upcoming seventieth birthday with an privately printed extra edition of The Outlook. Mabie asks Roosevelt to write five or six lines of congratulations for the edition.
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1905-12-03
Elizabeth von Heyking had the opportunity to be introduced to President Roosevelt at the White House. Von Heyking sends Roosevelt the book in which she tried to render the great and lasting impression he made upon her.
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1905-12-03
Emily Tuckerman sends the promised photographs of Abraham Lincoln and wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas. Tuckerman adds a pleasant anecdote about how her father would have her open her Christmas gifts as soon as he bought them because he was too impatient to wait.
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1905-12-04