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President Roosevelt will consider J. Ellen Foster’s situation but does not expect to be able to act because of doubts about the propriety of her appointment.
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1907-06-25
President Roosevelt sends his condolences to United States Marshal Abernathy for the death of his wife, Jessie P. Abernathy.
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1907-05-16
President Roosevelt thanks Nannie Roosevelt for her letter, and remarks that both he and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, grieve over the recent death of John E. Schermerhorn. He sends their love to her and her husband–his cousin–John Ellis Roosevelt.
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1906-06-26
President Roosevelt sends Hannah Gorman his sympathies at the recent death of her husband, Senator Arthur P. Gorman.
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1906-06-05
President Roosevelt telegraphs that he is “shocked and grieved beyond measure.”
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1905-12-05
Theodore Roosevelt sympathizes with John Muir in his grief over the death of his wife Louisa Wanda Strentzel Muir. Roosevelt advises him to get out among the mountains and the trees, “They will do more for you than either man or woman could.”
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1905-08-17
President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Abbott for writing to him. He feels the death of former Secretary of State John Hay “bitterly” for both personal and public reasons, but what he must now “make good” is the public loss. He will not stop Secretary of War William H. Taft from going to the Philippines, but is having difficulty managing the State Department by himself. He wishes he could find help for the peace negotiations between Japan and Russia, as well as for San Domingo and Venezuela. If William J. Calhoun is willing to go to Venezuela, Roosevelt will send him.
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1905-07-03
President Roosevelt sympathizes with Annabel Lee Atkins in her grief upon the recent death of her husband, Addison B. Atkins.
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1905-02-11
President Roosevelt thanks Caroline Sayles Holls for sending him the memorial volume of her late husband, Frederick William Holls, for whom Roosevelt had great respect.
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1905-01-25
President Roosevelt thanks Augusta Rhodes Hanna for the picture of the late Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna and is sorry that she had to experience such a sad Christmas all alone.
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1904-12-26
President Roosevelt tells Judge Brawley he mourns former South Carolina Governor Hugh Smith Thompson just as much as Brawley does. Roosevelt invites Brawley to a judicial reception on January 26, 1905, and would be pleased if he could stay for dinner afterwards.
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1904-12-24
President Roosevelt expresses his grief and shock after the explosion on the USS Missouri.
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1904-04-14
The Roosevelt family is also mourning the loss of Edward Mitchell Townsend.
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1904-02-05
President Roosevelt expresses his shock and grief to Secretary of the Navy Long, and sends his sympathy.
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1901-10-05
Theodore Roosevelt would like to visit with Charles Erskine Scott Wood. Roosevelt also shares his concern with Wood about his son, Erskine Wood, who is battling a serious illness.
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1901-09-23
John Burroughs sends his sympathies to Theodore Roosevelt on Quentin Roosevelt’s death.
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1918-07-22
George Bird Grinnell sends his sympathies on the death of Quentin Roosevelt.
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1918-07-18
Joe Murray deeply appreciates Theodore Roosevelt’s “kind expression of sympathy” (his son, Theodore R. Murray, recently died).
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1911-01-16
Ambassador Jusserand sends Theodore Roosevelt Christmas wishes and hopes for his continued safety. He informs Roosevelt of his election to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on his own merits, with no opposing votes. Jusserand shares an incident of a mother cat saving her kitten from a caged tiger. Roosevelt’s letter was delightful and complemented his articles in Scribner’s Magazine, which everyone follows with interest. He does not have much to comment on regarding internal politics other than that he deplores the quarrel between Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Jusserand updates Roosevelt on several of their friends. Ambassador to France Robert Bacon was recently injured in a fall from his horse before leaving for his assignment. A letter “full of pleasant chattering” from Justice Alford Cooley hints at a possible improvement in health. Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop are trying to capture Jose Santos Zelaya in Nicaragua. While Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge are in good physical health, they still mourn for their son George “Bay” Cabot Lodge, especially on Christmas. Jusserand includes a newspaper clipping on Roosevelt’s election to the Academy and part of a political cartoon featuring Roosevelt.
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1909-12-25
Father Genocchi thanks Reverend Fox for the Christmas greetings, and returns the sentiment. He will happily help any of Fox’s friends who come to Rome. Autumn is the only season when he might not be in the city. Genocchi regretfully informs Fox that the “sectarian suspicion of modernism” ultimately led to the dissolution of his S. Jerome Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Everyone is in mourning for the recent earthquake in Southern Italy.
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1909-02-04