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President Roosevelt thanks his uncle, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, for his attitude during the campaign. Roosevelt remarks that Robert Barnwell Roosevelt’s son Granville Fortescue is visiting, and that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt “feel just as if he was one of our own boys.”
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1904-11-10
President Roosevelt thanks C. Grant La Farge for his congratulations and looks forward to seeing La Farge and his wife, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge, soon.
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1904-11-11
Vice President Roosevelt enjoyed visiting Le Grande B. Cannon. He is relieved that President McKinley is recovering.
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1901-09-10
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Edward J. Anderson for having written. He hopes to be able to travel to the Pacific Coast sometime during his term of office, and would be pleased to visit Anderson and view his house and library at that time.
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1897-06-28
Horace K. Devereux thanks President Roosevelt for the opportunity to stop and visit with him on his way home, and hopes that Roosevelt will have enough time to take a ride with him.
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1901-09
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of State Hay that he has many things he would like to discuss, and invites Hay to visit and stay the night on Tuesday.
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1901-1905
Henry W. Crees sends Theodore Roosevelt a letter of introduction for Miss Lloyd-Baker, daughter of Mr. G. Lloyd-Baker who is a prominent member of the Hardwicke Court in Gloucester and is known for his advocacy of the reformation of juvenile criminals. Crees also writes that Miss Lloyd-Baker is greatly interested in the United States broadly speaking, and hopes that Roosevelt can spare the time to meet with her.
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1911-08-31
Anna Roosevelt Cowles congratulates her brother, Theodore Roosevelt, on the recent birth of a grandchild, and hopes that the news from Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, is still good. She appreciated getting Roosevelt’s recent letter, and tells him of the efforts of their joint nephew, Theodore Douglas Robinson, to get into politics. Cowles hopes to be able to visit Roosevelt sometime before winter.
Theodore Roosevelt’s first grandchild, Grace Green Roosevelt, was born three days prior to this letter, on August 17, 1911.
Austro-Hungarian Ambasador Hengelmüller von Hengervár thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the invitation extended to himself and Count Johann Nepomuk Maria Josef Gregor Wilczek to visit him at Oyster Bay. Wilczek is writing to Roosevelt independently, but would be pleased to accept his offer to visit. Hengelmüller also hopes to accept Roosevelt’s invitation to visit, and discusses means of traveling to Oyster Bay.
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1911-07-09
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland unfortunately isn’t able to take advantage of Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation to visit him at Sagamore Hill to discuss Saint Augustine of Hippo at the current moment, but she looks forward to being able to do so in the future. She jokingly promises she will try to disagree with Roosevelt as much as she can so they can have an interesting debate.
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1911-06-27
Clarence B. Douglas, on behalf of the Muskogee Commercial Club, invites Theodore Roosevelt to visit the city of Muskogee when he travels to Oklahoma for the annual reunion of the Spanish War Veterans. He promises Roosevelt that he would be greeted by even greater numbers of admirers than he was on his previous visit.
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1911-06-29
Anna Roosevelt Cowles tells her brother, Theodore Roosevelt, about a man who would like to meet him and invite him to the opening of a new library. She greatly enjoyed Roosevelt’s recent visit, and hopes to be able to see him at Sagamore Hill sometime soon. Cowles shares some of her opinions on women’s suffrage with him, remarking that many of the best women she knows are against it.
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1911-06-28
William Sidney Rossiter sends his thanks to Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for their hospitality during his recent stay at Sagamore Hill. Rossiter feels that in many ways his time in Washington, D.C. was not worth much, but having gained Roosevelt’s friendship gives his time there great value.
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1911-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt’s brother-in-law, William S. Cowles, writes to him on a number of topics, including commenting that some newspapers are reporting that Roosevelt is “all for Taft in 1912.” Cowles recently visited Washington, D.C., where he stayed with Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Longworth. Roosevelt’s sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, meanwhile, recently visited Groton School to see the Cowles’s son, William Sheffield Cowles, and had a enjoyed her visit.
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1911-06-07
Alden B. Willey, Adjutant General of the Farragut Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, invites Theodore Roosevelt to visit Vallejo, California, and address the region’s inhabitants. Willey writes of the patriotism and loyalty of the members of the GAR, and hopes that Roosevelt will be able to accept their hospitality.
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1911-03-28
Jane Adeline Swezy introduces herself as an elderly admirer of Roosevelt. Swezy asks if it would be possible for him to pay her a visit while he is in California, as she is unable to go see him herself.
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1911-03-29
DeLorme B. Harbaugh was the manager of the hotel that Theodore Roosevelt stayed at during his last visit to Seattle, Washington, and invites Roosevelt to stay at the new hotel he now manages during his upcoming trip.
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1911-03-24
Charles B. Merrick confirms several details of Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Oregon with Frank Harper, including the hotel at which Roosevelt’s party will stay and where several of the people scheduled to meet Roosevelt will join him.
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1911-03-24
Nevada Governor Oddie informs Theodore Roosevelt that many citizens in the state are eagerly preparing for Roosevelt’s arrival, and that the whole state is enthusiastic about Roosevelt’s upcoming trip. Definite plans will be sent to Roosevelt soon.
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1911-03-24
Annie Frances Chaffee is sorry that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt cannot join her for a luncheon in Los Angeles when she visits. She has asked the committee managing Roosevelt’s schedule to bring her up for a cup of tea, and asks if it would be agreeable for her to meet several of Chaffee’s Californian friends at the time.
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1911-03-17