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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary has received A. J. Mack’s letter from Harold Howland but regrets that Roosevelt will be unable to accept any invitation for May 27.
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1912-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Roger Williams Straus that his request for Roosevelt to speak will be given to Harold Howland who is in charge of arrangements for the New Jersey portion of Roosevelt’s trip.
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1912-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers Gilbert G. Wood to Harold Howland regarding Roosevelt’s visit to Ocean County, New Jersey.
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1912-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Franklin Ford for his letter, which illustrates the need for what he is fighting for. He wants Ford to contact Ernest Hamlin Abbott or Harold Howland to discuss the matter. As the contributing editor, Roosevelt does not decide what is published in The Outlook.
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1911-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt recently received Ella May Howland’s letter, and promises to talk her suggestion over with Harold Howland.
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1911-08-05
Theodore Roosevelt is working towards having Judge Lindsey’s article published in The Outlook. He agrees to meet with Lindsey and invites him to Oyster Bay.
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1911-06-27
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary accepts Walker Hill’s invitation to breakfast and lists Roosevelt’s traveling companions.
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1910-09-22
William Bailey Howland only recently learned of John H. Batten’s letter to Frank Harper, as Harper left on vacation shortly after Batten sent it. Howland will submit Batten’s proposed program to Theodore Roosevelt, and will promptly inform him if Roosevelt has any suggestions to make regarding it. Roosevelt will likely be unable to accept either of the invitations Batten has forwarded because of his already full schedule. Howland informs Batten of the members of Roosevelt’s party, and makes suggestions regarding seating at an event.
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1910-08-09
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary replies to Martha Berry that Roosevelt will speak in Rome, Georgia, after visiting the Berry School if his schedule permits. The secretary outlines Roosevelt’s itinerary and lists his traveling companions.
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1910-09-22
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks George R. Belding to send a copy of the program arranged for Roosevelt’s trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas. He lists the individuals in Roosevelt’s travel party.
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1910-09-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Bailey Howland for his letter. Roosevelt has already made arrangements with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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1914-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt thanks William Bailey Howland for his letter. When he is in New York next, he will lunch at The Independent.
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1914-11-17
President Roosevelt introduces Harold Howland of the Outlook to the American representatives in Cuba. He requests Howland have access to information, except for intel sensitive to the military.
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1906-09-27
On behalf of President Roosevelt, Latta Maurice sends Lyman Abbott a letter for Harold Howland to the American representatives in Cuba.
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1906-09-27
Horace L. Rutter asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the annual dinner of the Thomas Hunter Association.
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1911-10-26
Fred L. Seely received Theodore Roosevelt’s letter from May 19, and has written Harold Howland so that Roosevelt knows he is serious about his proposition.
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1911-05-22
Fred L. Seely informs Theodore Roosevelt he has begun to stir interest in Roosevelt’s recent donation of specimens to the Smithsonian Institution.
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1911-05-15
Lyman Abbott, editor-in-chief of The Outlook, is sending a package of issues of the magazine that were published during Theodore Roosevelt’s absence. He is also sending newspaper clippings related to recent events. Abbott believes this will be useful for Roosevelt to catch up on events he may have missed and to familiarize himself with The Outlook’s positions on them. He will find a full report on the investigation into Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Roosevelt is welcome to the full notes on the testimony.
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1910-06-13
Joe F. Decker provides a comprehensive bibliography of the various accounts of Theodore Roosevelt’s attempt to form a volunteer division during World War I. Decker begins with Roosevelt’s own first account in 1917 and concludes with John Milton Cooper’s version in The Warrior and the Priest of 1983. Decker examines books, book chapters, and articles on the subject, and finds that the story still has not been “dealt with satisfactorily.” Decker points out the biases and the shortcomings of some of the authors, and notes that many of the accounts strongly favor either Roosevelt or his antagonist President Woodrow Wilson.
A full page-photograph of Roosevelt and General Leonard Wood accompanies the article. A photograph of Harrison Engle and Sidney D. Kirkpatrick who directed documentary films on Roosevelt is featured, along with three photographs of Roosevelt from newsreel footage used in the film The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association as well as the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on page two of the article.