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President Roosevelt asks William Sturgis Bigelow to invite Curtis Guild and Frank Lowell to breakfast when he is visiting, and feels there will be trouble if Guild does not attend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he wishes he could accept the invitation to attend a reception thrown on his behalf when in Boston, but he will be too busy visiting his two sons and giving a speech at Harvard that he even had to turn down an invitation from Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild.
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1907-01-28
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he plans to “convulse the googoos and mugwumps with horror by taking the chance to write a letter making as strong a plea as I know how for the election of a Republican Congress.” He agrees with Lodge regarding organized labor, and comments on several political candidates. Roosevelt additionally describes some of his recent sailing and rowing adventures he has gone on with his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-09
President Roosevelt writes to Oscar S. Straus about the international situation, and while Russia has promised to take steps to prevent trouble being done to its Jewish population, Roosevelt also comments on the impossibility of interfering in other countries, such as the Congo Free State or Turkey. Issuing petitions can sometimes be harmful unless the United States is able to back up the petitions with military force, which it is unlikely to do. Roosevelt knows he does not have to convince Straus of this, but some of Straus’s friends “need to have these considerations ever clearly before their eyes.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-10
President Roosevelt was pleased to hear from Curtis Guild, and reminisces about an enjoyable trip he took while was campaigning for the Vice Presidency with Guild’s son, Curtis Guild, and John Proctor Clarke.
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1906-03-29
President Roosevelt tells Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward that he knows Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild well, and that she should tell Guild from him that he believes that vivisection should be “rigorously regulated.”
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1905-11-18
President Roosevelt comments to Senator Lodge on the election results in various states. He is particularly pleased about the Massachusetts results. He wishes that Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer had gone back to Saint Petersburg when the trouble started three weeks ago.
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1905-11-08
In light of Senator Lodge’s campaign commitments, President Roosevelt says he does not need to go to Oyster Bay to meet with Joseph Hodges Choate. Roosevelt hopes that Curtis Guild’s gubernatorial race in Massachusetts goes well. He discusses the current unrest in Japan, where foreigners and Christians are being targeted in riots.
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1905-09-08
President Roosevelt wonders if Bishop Lawrence can invite Massachusetts Governor William Lewis Douglas and Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild to breakfast with when he visits Lawrence’s home. If Douglas objects, Roosevelt will have to take breakfast with him at the Algonquin Club, but that is not Roosevelt’s preference.
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1905-06-04
President Roosevelt promises to do nothing about “the squadron matter” until he hears back from Senator Lodge. He updates Lodge on the situation with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner, and says that he gave his permission to publish a letter, although he is not sure what good it will do. In a handwritten portion, Roosevelt notes that Curtis Guild sent him “a frantic telegram about an utterly unimportant matter,” and that he asked Guild to speak with Lodge about it.
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1904-11-01
President Roosevelt extends his warmest wishes to his comrades who saw service in the Spanish-American War, Philippine insurrection and Boxer uprising in China. Unfortunately, he is unable to attend the event but has relayed the information to Colonel Curtis Guild.
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1904-08-31
President Roosevelt would like Knox to join Curtis Guild, the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, at the dedication of the McKinley monument in Adams, Massachusetts.
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1903-08-26
While President Roosevelt is pleased with the military in San Francisco, he is shocked at the poor quality of the officers’ buildings. Men returning from the Philippines in poor health have only tents. He asks Secretary of War Root for a report on improving these conditions. He also includes a letter from Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild on the mobilization of a regular brigade in Boston.
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1903-05-13
Lillian de Malinowska discusses how she married a Russian nobleman and was shunned by his family, who turned her and her son out in impoverished conditions. She has since returned to the United States and secured employment. However, she asks Theodore Roosevelt for advice on how to get her belongings back and have her husband’s family support her child.
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1911-11-13
A. G. Reynolds invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend the annual dinner of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War, as he did several years previous. He hopes Roosevelt can now make arrangements for December.
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1911-11-01
Frederic Jesup Stimson and Minister Maurice Francis Egan have been having “a bully time” together. He wonders whether Theodore Roosevelt received the copy of his book “Popular Law-making”. Stimson is going to Russia to see Ambassador Curtis Guild. He likely will not see Roosevelt for some time, but he wishes him the best.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-18
M. G. Overlook, State Inspector of Health in the Eleventh Massachusetts District, has started a movement to have manufacturing companies pay the hospital bills of their employees who are being treated for tuberculosis. Because tuberculosis was often associated with poverty, many patients were unable to pay the hospital fees per week. Overlook has spread this movement world wide, but asks Theodore Roosevelt for words of commendation to share to manufacturers who have not joined in the effort.
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1911-05-22
Everett I. Nye inquires about the book portrait plate he sent for Theodore Roosevelt to sign. If he is unable to get the portrait plate signed, Nye requests it be returned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-29
F. W. Brown asks Theodore Roosevelt for a signed photograph to include in his collection of prominent Americans, which he intends to donate to the Boston Press Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-19
On the advice of Governor Curtis Guild, Wayne M. Musgrave asks Frank Harper when Theodore Roosevelt will be in Boston, and whether such a time would happen to be in April or May. While Roosevelt is unable to attend the dinner on its current date, Musgrave suggests that the date of the dinner could be altered to one which would fit Roosevelt’s schedule better, if he would agree to give a short address. The Harvard Masonic Club is very anxious to have Roosevelt attend the celebration of their tenth anniversary, as they regard him as their “most illustrious member.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-24