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Helen Beach Tyler thanks President and Mrs. Roosevelt for a gift. She is pleased to hear that Ted Roosevelt is recovering.
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1902-03-07
J. L. Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt a bottle of cordial, which was given to him by Mr. Hellmann, a staunch Democrat who has “great admiration” for the President.
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1902-03-08
Mrs. Edward A. McFarland offers President Roosevelt and his children a one-year-old dachshund named Stein. The dog is named after their mutual friend George Bleistein.
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1902-03-15
Albert L. New encloses annual passes for the Trans-Alaskan Railway Company’s new steamship service for President Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and their respective parties. New invites Roosevelt to join him and Harry S. New on a hunting trip in Alaska.
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1902-02-18
William Sturgis Bigelow believes that the executive needs “alleviation” and sends two volumes of poems.
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1902-02-07
At a sale of Bangs & Company, Julius L. Brown purchased a document signed by President Roosevelt’s great-great-grandfather, Archibald Bulloch. The document is the original commission of William Stephens as Attorney General of the Province of Georgia. Brown encloses the document as an interesting “family relic” for Roosevelt.
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1902-01-26
Eleonora Kissel Kinnicutt encloses a print she found in London. She is pleased with the positive international relations President Roosevelt has made possible.
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1902-01-22
The Harvard Union has recently received a collection of animal head mounts and antlers. They have room for more and William Roscoe Thayer asks if President Roosevelt would be willing to donate one of his trophies for display.
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1902-01-05
Annie Nathan Meyer worries, tongue in cheek, that Vice President Roosevelt will be bored by the Meyer family’s constant contacts. She nevertheless sends Roosevelt a copy of her book, Robert Annys: Poor Priest.
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1901
Isabel A. Smith sends some southern flowers.
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1901
William M. Sweeny was informed by James Edward Kelly that Vice President Roosevelt was interested in Sweeny’s father, General Thomas William Sweeny. Sweeny encloses a likeness of his father with his compliments.
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1901
Le Baron Russell Briggs sends President Roosevelt a copy of his book that contains a collection of his papers on college matters.
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1902-01-02
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the skin of a mountain lion which he has given her as a present. She hopes to have Edith Roosevelt to visit once some renovations are completed in her home.
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1901
Granville Fortescue thanks Vice President Roosevelt for nominating him for an examination to receive a military commission. He is anxious over the examination and hopes to receive a commission as a first lieutenant. He just returned from the Philippines and has a bolo (a Filipino knife) to give Roosevelt.
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1901
Doubleday, Page & Company sends a specially bound copy of A. G. Wallihan’s book to President Roosevelt.
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1901-12-21
Emily Tuckerman encloses as a gift to President Roosevelt the mold of a live creature. It was made by a professor in the aquarium of Naples, and Miss Tuckerman brought it home for Roosevelt.
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1901-12-22
Edwin Langdon thanks President Roosevelt for the autographed copy of Roosevelt’s first message to Congress.
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1901-12-23
Secretary of the Treasury Gage presents a “prime roast of prize beef” to President Roosevelt for Christmas.
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1901-12-24
On behalf of her sister, Mary D. Jones thanks President Roosevelt for the flowers.
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1901-12-24
Joseph Wilcox Jenkins Lee, “K” Troop Rough Rider, is sending President Roosevelt a mountain lion paperweight for his desk.
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1901-12-25