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President Roosevelt has already received two pairs of mosquito boots, so Edward North Buxton no longer needs to send him any more. Roosevelt intends to try out a gun which Whitelaw Reid has forwarded to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-07
President Roosevelt has appointed Lewis Morris Iddings to the diplomatic posting in Cairo.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-01
Theodore M. Davis invites Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to lunch on his boat on March 26. He will have Lewis Morris Iddings and his wife, Louise Belden Iddings, escort the Roosevelts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-03-23
F. R. Wingate discusses the arrangements he is making and is planning to make for President Roosevelt’s upcoming safari in Africa. Roosevelt will visit the Sudan in the later part of his trip, and Wingate says it would be helpful if Roosevelt could communicate with him during the first part of the trip so that he knows which arrangements to make. In particular, Wingate discusses Roosevelt’s chances of shooting elephants, buffalo, lions, and white rhinoceros in the Sudan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-05
Emily Tyler Carow describes her experiences in Egypt, including her concern about an “undercurrent of hostility” that seems to be present in the Egyptian Arab people. Carow tells Roosevelt about her conversations with Lord Evelyn Baring Cromer and his dinner guests, which have been about topics such as the British occupation of Egypt, the American occupation of Cuba and the insular possession of the Philippines, whether Roosevelt will run for president again, and the natural beauty of the desert.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-01
Having been recently appointed ambassador in Rome, Italy, Henry White has just learned that Lewis Morris Iddings, first secretary at the embassy there, has been appointed minister in Cairo, Egypt. White believes that the current second secretary in Rome is too young and inexperienced to serve as Iddings’s replacement, and suggests that R. S. Reynolds Hitt might fill the position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-20
Maria Longworth Storer expresses her concerns regarding the representative of the American Catholic Church at the Vatican, Francis Augustus MacNutt. Storer relays that she believes MacNutt to be a spy, stating that his actions will negatively affect proceedings in the Philippines and the American Catholic Church. Storer also discusses the “failure” of the Vatican to properly recognize Archbishop Ireland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-15