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Theodore Roosevelt assures Jacob A. Riis they will come, and discusses plans, including what day will work, where to meet, and the possibility of Riis spending the night at Sagamore Hill.
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1905-07-24
President Roosevelt asks Robert Bacon when he can bring his wife, Martha Bacon, and “every available younger Bacon” to visit Sagamore Hill. He suggests the week of July 10, and tells Bacon to bring his tennis shoes.
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1905-06-30
President Roosevelt thanks Brander Matthews for the letter, article, and pamphlet. Roosevelt wishes Leigh S. J. Hunt and Jessie Noble Hunt could come to the White House to spend the night, as his schedule has been so busy he has not been able to see them any other way. Unfortunately Leigh has not been able to get a hold of Jessie, so Roosevelt thinks “it will be too late” for them to come to the White House.
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1905-06-12
President Roosevelt asks if Alexander Lambert can come Saturday evening or Sunday morning. He would like to ride on Sunday afternoon to “kind of break [Lambert] in for the Texas riding.” They will start out on Monday morning.
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1905-03-29
President Roosevelt will be back in Washington, D.C., by the end of May. He asks Nicholas Murray Butler to spend a night at the White House then.
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1905-03-31
President Roosevelt would like to visit John Breckinridge Castleman and ride on the horse he mentioned, but given that any stop he may make at Louisville, Kentucky, would be very short, Roosevelt does not feel that he can make any plans.
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1904-12-22
President Roosevelt thanks Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann for her letter and deeply sympathizes “with [her] in [her] great sorrow.” He would be pleased to visit with her any time she visits. (Trautmann’s husband, Ralph Trautmann, had died recently).
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1904-12-24
President Roosevelt hopes Owen Wister will come and visit the White House for a week when he is back on his feet again, although it will have to be before or after the holidays.
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1904-12-10
President Roosevelt finds the figures that Joseph Bucklin Bishop sent about the election results “most interesting.” He hopes Bishop can visit soon.
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1904-12-13
President Roosevelt is looking forward to seeing Finley Peter Dunne and his wife, Margaret Ives Dunne, at dinner and the musical and invites them to lunch on Friday as well. The president is sorry the Dunnes are unable to stay at the White House, especially the spare room is better than when they visited before. In a handwritten addition, Roosevelt adds, “Better not be haughty; come and spend the night in our little ‘doll house'”
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1904-12-07
President Roosevelt was pleased by Martha P. Sargent’s letter, and asks asks Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to forward her a note. Roosevelt asks La Farge asks when it would be convenient for her and her husband, C. Grant La Farge, to give the Roosevelt family “a real visit.”
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1904-12-07
President Roosevelt informs Robert Foster Maddox he will be unable to visit Atlanta, Georgia, in May. If he does go on a trip at that time, it will be straight to Texas. Nevertheless, Roosevelt tells Maddox that he does plan to visit Atlanta and see Roswell, Georgia–the hometown of Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt–sometime during his presidency.
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1904-12-08
President Roosevelt invites Robert Grant and Amy Gordon Galt Grant to spend the night at the White House on February 2. Roosevelt would love to have lunch with them that day or the following day as well.
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1904-12-09
President Roosevelt invites James R. Sheffield and his wife, Edith Tod Sheffield, to the White House on December 8, for dinner and a musical. The president offers the couple a spare double room with an attached bathroom at the White House to stay in, although it lacks a dressing room.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt invites Owen Wister to the White House for a week, which would give Wister a chance to rest. Roosevelt says, “You could read, walk about, [and] see the Congressional Library. . . .”
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1904-12-02
President Roosevelt says that it was a “real pleasure” to host Archbishop of Canterbury Davidson at the White House. The president plans to read Davidson’s book, The Christian Opportunity, “at the earliest moment.”
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt asks Justice Cohen not to visit on Thanksgiving Day as he plans to be out in the country with the children. The president asks if Cohen can visit after Roosevelt returns from the St. Louis Exposition.
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1904-11-19
President Roosevelt is pleased by the result in Colorado, but is sorry about Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody’s defeat. The president hopes to see Philip Battell Stewart soon because he wants to talk over several matters with him.
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1904-11-11
President Roosevelt asks when Thomas R. Lounsbury is free to spend a night at the White House.
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt encourages Douglas Robinson to send the letter he wrote to New York Lieutenant Governor Frank Wayland Higgins and looks forward to seeing Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson soon.
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1904-11-10