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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews about a recent newspaper article. Roosevelt still has controversy with Andrew D. Parker, calling him a “scoundrel” and a “coward.”
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1897-05-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt praises Jacob A. Riis’s son and expresses his appreciation of his close friendship with Riis, despite what Andrew D. Parker and Frederick Dent Grant say about him.
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1897-05-17
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is interested in the Police Commissioner Board and feels for Police Commissioner Andrews in this crisis. He is surprised by Police Commissioner Frank Moss’s efforts to reconcile with Police Commissioner Andrew D. Parker. Andrews can show Moss the rest of the letter if he wants. Roosevelt hopes promotions will be made in a way that will not hurt civil service reform.
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1897-05-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt was glad to receive Jacob A. Riis’s letter but has a Navy yard inspection on May 17 and cannot come. He will ask Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, but doubts he can attend either. Roosevelt wishes Riis’s family well and asks what Riis thinks Police Commissioner Frank Moss will do.
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1897-05-07
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is glad Commissioner Frank Moss was elected president of the Board of Police Commissioners. However, Roosevelt does not like that Moss left Commissioner Andrews or the lack of action regarding Commissioner Frederick Dent Grant. He asks Andrews to contact him and give him an update.
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1897-05-06
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt is still interested in the New York police force. However, he explains to D. J. Osgood that Commissioners Andrew D. Parker and Frederick Dent Grant blocked everything. They persistently threw obstacles in the way of William S. Devery’s trial to delay it and refused to vote in Martins’s trial. Regarding Adam A. Cross’s case, Dennett was convinced he was improperly accused.
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1897-05-06
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt enjoyed Lincoln Steffens’s letter and regards him and Jacob A. Riis as the bright spots of his police work. He comments on the tickets. Roosevelt is grateful for what Steffens did for Minnie Gertrude Kelly and Frank Rathgeber. Police Commissioner Frank Moss has made an admiral beginning in his new position.
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1897-04-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt commends Police Commissioner Moss for his work in his new position. He warns Moss that Andrew D. Parker will try to trick him.
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1897-04-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt wishes he could be a third police commissioner with Frank Moss and Avery De Lano Andrews. He warns Moss not to let Parker or Frederick Dent Grant trick him. Roosevelt hopes Moss finds Kelly and Rathgeber satisfactory and testifies of their good work and character. Moss knows the New York Police Department better than most.
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1897-04-24
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews that he spoke to Mayor William Lafayette Strong and put in a “vigorous” word for Henry L. Sprague. Roosevelt is still embroiled in conflict with Police Commissioners Frederick Dent Grant and Andrew D. Parker.
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1897-04-20
Otto R. Markworth comments on Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Elgin, Iowa, and shares an extensive list of individuals he received autographs and letters from.
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1911-11-10
John J. Cauchois congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on his birthday. He has long followed Roosevelt’s career and is honored to have a letter signed by him. Cauchois wrote a song honoring Roosevelt.
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1911-10-27
Henry Novoa Spada encloses for Theodore Roosevelt a plan for the Free Commercial School which he referred to in a previous letter.
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1911-08-31
Walter W. Wigman asks Theodore Roosevelt to write an article on the Boys Brigade. He knows Roosevelt is busy, but such an article would be greatly appreciated.
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1911-08-21
Noble E. Dawson notifies Theodore Roosevelt of his son’s death a few years ago in the event Rudolph Forster failed to do so. Dawson details his son’s merits and that he found dictations from Roosevelt amongst his belongings.
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1911-06-19
William Musgrave Calder invites Theodore Roosevelt to the parade honoring the fiftieth anniversary of when the Fourteenth Regiment of the New York State Volunteers left for the Civil War. Calder has been meaning to visit Roosevelt to talk about general affairs. Even though he is the only Republican congressman from New York he is quite enjoying it.
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1911-05-06
Calder, William Musgrave, 1869-1945
Charles A. Wilson invites Theodore Roosevelt to deliver an address in Georgetown, Ohio, on the occasion of the dedication of a statue honoring General Thomas L. Hamer.
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1911-02-25
William H. Taft describes the reception of his acceptance speech in Cincinnati to President Roosevelt, which was well attended and generally met with great approval. Taft mentions that he is having trouble with Frank H. Hitchcock, who is headstrong and has appointed his executive committee without any of Taft’s input. Taft was pleased that Frederick Dent and Ida Grant attended the speech. William Jennings Bryan has taunted Taft in the press.
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1908-07-31
Colonel Vrooman reports that the Union League Club dinner for General Albert Leopold Mills was successful, and more people were present than expected. The letters placed before the people at the dinner were from President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as General Henry Clark Corbin and General Frederick Dent Grant, whose letters are enclosed. An album containing nineteen parchment pages enclosed in a leather cover was given as a souvenir. Vrooman attaches a copy of the pages. Other souvenirs included an autographed photograph of Mills, and a blue ribbon which every person present clasped while they sang “Auld Lang Syne.” Vroonan also encloses the letter from Mills expressing his gratitude for the dinner. Finally, Vrooman is particularly delighted that the press never found out about the event, which was just meant to be “a friendly dinner to bring each other closer together and not for publication.”
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1906-09-06
Representative Mudd urges President Roosevelt to approve the recommendation of Frederick Dent Grant to dismiss the soldier from the Hospital Corps who married a black woman. He suggests some possible language for a statement that Roosevelt could issue explaining the situation, and does not think that taking this course of action would lose Roosevelt any votes in the upcoming election, and may even gain him some.
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1904-10-21