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Alexander Lambert sends a clipping he thinks President Roosevelt will find interesting, and is pleased to hear of Henry C. McDowell’s appointment as the new U.S. District Court Judge for Western Virginia. Lambert’s sister has also recently lost her son to appendicitis.
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1901-11-13
Baron North informs President Roosevelt of the death of Roger A. P. North and sends a local newspaper clipping that covered the funeral.
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1907-09-11
“Slowly sinking; no hope but may last two or three days. Terrible ordeal for Nannie.”
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1907-04-04
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1907-03-25
Strachey, John St. Loe, 1860-1927
Masayoshi Matsukata, former Prime Minister of Japan, thanks President Roosevelt for the kind letter of condolence following the death of his son. Matsukata’s grief is partly alleviated by the knowledge that his son died among friends. Matsukata further expresses gratitude for the kindness shown to his son by Admiral Sands and the officers of the Naval Academy.
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1906-09-27
Douglas Robinson appreciates President Roosevelt’s letter and is touched by what he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt said. The death of his mother, Frances Monroe Robinson, came as a “great shock,” but it was peaceful.
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1906-09-03
Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for his action in the Tanner case. Riis hopes to see Roosevelt soon and reports that he is “getting on,” likely a reference to the death of his wife, Elisabeth.
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1905-06-19
Secretary of State Hay’s older brother, Augustus L. Hay, has died. Hay tells President Roosevelt about their boyhood. Hay eulogizes his brother as a man of integrity and self-sacrifice.
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1904-11-16
The Loeb family thanks the Roosevelts for “sending the flowers on the occasion of their great sorrow.”
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1903-02-02
Nicholas Murray Butler is grieving for his late wife and tells President Roosevelt how much she admired him.
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1903-01-16
Ellen Grant Sartoris thanks President Roosevelt for his expression of sympathy on the death of her mother, former first lady Julia Dent Grant.
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1903-01-06
C. Grant La Farge is saddened by the death of his daughter and would like to visit the Roosevelts.
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1902-07-29
Someone close to John M. Wilson has passed away and he thanks the Roosevelts for the flowers.
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1902-06-19
Hal Sayre thanks President Roosevelt for his remembrance of Sayre’s son after his death.
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1902-05-19
Mourning for William McKinley has reached all the way to Stuart E. Bulloch’s home in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. He has followed President Roosevelt’s career and congratulates him on his succession to the presidency. Bulloch and Roosevelt are cousins and Bulloch requests a few lines and a photograph of the Roosevelt family.
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1901-09-19
Minnie Paget expresses her sympathy after the death of William McKinley and President Roosevelt’s succession to the presidency. Great Britain is mourning McKinley.
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1901-09-17
Germany has joined in the mourning for William McKinley. Adolf Mensing is confident that President Roosevelt will be a successful president.
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1901-09-15
Seth Low writes to encourage President Roosevelt in the wake of William McKinley’s death. Low hopes Roosevelt will keep the current Cabinet, especially Secretary of State Hay, Secretary of the Treasury Gage, Secretary of the Navy Long, Secretary of War Root, and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Low praises Roosevelt’s service as Governor of New York and wishes him the same success as President. Low reminds Roosevelt that he is likely to be judged more by those he appoints than by what actions he takes and that good appointments result in good government and good administration. Low expresses his pleasure that people are now saying that McKinley will be remembered as one of the nation’s great presidents.
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1901-09-15
Myron T. Herrick is mourning his friend, William McKinley, but is comforted that the presidency has “fallen upon the broad shoulders of an honorable and capable gentleman.”
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1901-09-14
Mayor Green says the citizens of Binghamton and Broome County, New York, are mourning the death of William McKinley but rejoice that the presidency has “fallen upon so worthy a successor.”
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1901-09-14