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Theodore Roosevelt sends Elon Huntington Hooker a check from William Bailey Howland, in payment for Howland’s ticket and state room from New York to Chicago.
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1912-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt tells Leslie J. Tarlton that D. T. Abercrombie will attend to the cartridges and send him some from Tritton. Tarlton is to let Roosevelt know if they are satisfactory, as he experienced some issues with the Holland and Springfield cartridges on his African trip. Roosevelt has just written to Kermit who is at Harvard and will be interested to know what Karitura’s language was. He believes Kermit is homesick but growing up at Harvard. They speak often of the Africa trip, and Roosevelt would like to face another big-maned lion. He is irritated with William Bailey Howland for not going to England as it was fair to no one. Roosevelt sympathizes with Tarlton for having so many shooting parties to attend at once.
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1911-06-28
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains to Paul Underwood Kellogg that, due to all of the work Roosevelt has to catch up on after his trip to the West, he has not yet had an opportunity to reply to Kellogg’s letter of April 5 concerning the decision of the New York Court of Appeals. Roosevelt may indeed write an article similar to the one Kellogg suggested, and Roosevelt’s secretary recommends that Kellogg write to William Bailey Howland at The Outlook to see if he might obtain an advance copy.
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1911-04-29
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells B. A. Mayr to contact William Bailey Howland at The Outlook for the answer to his request.
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1911-02-21
President Roosevelt requests asks Ambassador White to provide context to the foreign office regarding William Howe Tolman’s request. Roosevelt believes that his newfound association with The Outlook is part of the reason that Tolman wants William Bailey Howland to be conferred the Legion of Honor. However, Roosevelt believes this request is wholly inappropriate and objects to the conferment on the grounds that it will hinder his ability to publish anything about France.
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1909-02-19
President Roosevelt informs Lyman Abbott of William Howe Tolman’s inappropriate request to Henry White, ambassador to France. Roosevelt notes that Tolman’s request to confer the Legion of Honor award upon William Bailey Howland is improper and requests that Abbott allow Howland and Tolman to see the relevant correspondence.
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1909-02-19
President Roosevelt has considered Lawrence F. Abbott’s letter in which he proposed a business deal, and is pleased to accept. Roosevelt liked the proposition in the letter better than the conversation that they had previously, as the letter did not specify the number of articles he would produce per year. He will try to write more than twelve per year, but likes the fact that he does not have the pressure to write articles simply for the reason of having something to publish. Roosevelt does not think the deal should be announced until after the election. He asks if Abbott and William Bailey Howland could come have lunch with him on July 25.
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1908-07-14
President Roosevelt notifies the diplomatic and consular representatives of the United States that William Bailey Howland, publisher of The Outlook magazine, and Robert Watchorn, immigration commissioner of the port of New York, are going abroad. He directs the representatives to extend all proper official courtesy.
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1908-03-18
President Roosevelt sends Ohio Representative Burton several letters on the topic of the preservation of Niagara Falls, and asks that he return them once he has read them.
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1906-04-20
President Roosevelt introduces William Bailey Howland of The Outlook, which will be publishing a life of Roosevelt by Jacob Riis. Roosevelt would like Senator Hanna to discuss a more political preface for the book with Howland.
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1903-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks Edward Everett Hale for the letter and has just received a copy of The Man Without a Country from William Bailey Howland.
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1902-04-05
John Appleton Stewart describes the purpose and work of the Peace Celebration Committee, of which Theodore Roosevelt has been given the title of Honorary Chairman. Stewart informs Roosevelt of both current and prospective members of the committee. Stewart tells Roosevelt that the object of the committee is to “create better feeling among the peoples of the world” in order to settle “international disputes.”
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1911-05-10
John Appleton Stewart’s Morrisville State School will be dedicated on May 26. He invites Theodore Roosevelt to accompany him and other men on a drive through the New York countryside before speaking at the school.
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1911-04-27
David Nelson Beach asks Theodore Roosevelt to deliver the Enoch Pond Lectures on applied Christianity in February 1912.
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1911-01-21
John H. Batten informs Theodore Roosevelt that John T. Evans from the Hamilton Club will meet Roosevelt at his office on August 12 at ten o’clock with a photographer.
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1910-08-08
Lawrence F. Abbott thanks President Roosevelt for giving The Outlook the opportunity to clear the air regarding William Howe Tolman’s inappropriate petition for William Bailey Howland to receive the Legion of Honor. Abbott also confirms receipt of the Japanese and Tolstoy editorials and will publish them in the order Roosevelt requested. Finally, Abbott offers his condolences for Roosevelt’s nephew, Stewart Douglas Robinson.
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1909-02-24
On behalf of The Outlook, Lawrence F. Abbott apologizes to Ambassador White regarding William Howe Tolman’s inappropriate request for William Bailey Howland to receive the Legion of Honor. Abbott stresses that The Outlook had no part in the matter, nor did he ever approve or support Tolman’s request.
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1909-02-24
Lawrence F. Abbott acknowledges receipt of President Roosevelt’s letter and apologizes for William Howe Tolman’s inappropriate request. Abbott wishes to convey to Ambassador Henry White that The Outlook had no part in Tolman’s desire to award William Bailey Howland the Legion of Honor. Finally, Abbott makes clear to Roosevelt that The Outlook would never take advantage of their association with the president.
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1909-02-20
France’s Foreign Office has asked Ambassador White whether decorating William Bailey Howland with the Legion of Honor would be well received by the American people. As Howland is the publisher of The Outlook and has recently secured President Roosevelt to write for it, White wonders whether this association would influence the magazine’s future coverage of France. White believes that “the American people would not care in the least one way or the other,” but will act in accordance with Roosevelt’s views on the matter.
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1909-02-09
Lawrence F. Abbott thinks it is interesting that colleges, which are so strong in their teaching of science, can be so weak in their teaching of literature and journalism. He asks if President Roosevelt knows whether he will be attending an editorial conference on March 10 or March 17, as his father, Lyman Abbott, will be out of the country for a time but wishes to return to attend the same session as Roosevelt.
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1908-12-10