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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks W. W. Hall for the invitation. Roosevelt will not be in Kansas City at the time Hall mentions and therefore cannot accept.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt declines Adjutant General William Verbeck’s invitation to visit Pine Camp. Roosevelt does not believe he was ever a member of the Burgess Corps and doubts he has heard of the Corps.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
Theodore Roosevelt declines William A. Magee’s invitation to attend a celebration parade on behalf of himself, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and Ethel Roosevelt. Roosevelt is sorry not to be able to attend the parade in which a replica of the first steamboat built will appear, “as it was one of my name [Nicholas J. Roosevelt] who built the first steamboat.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-28
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regretfully declines Helen Connable’s invitation as Roosevelt will not be in Michigan next month.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
On Theodore Roosevelt’s behalf, an invitation from the Executive Committee of the Colorado Springs Summer Carnival is declined with regrets.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regretfully declines Arthur T. Benson’s invitation to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to the Secretary of the Battle Creek, Michigan, Community Club to confirm receipt of a letter sent to Roosevelt. Roosevelt did not receive the previous letter inviting him to visit Battle Creek in July and regrets that he is unable to visit. He hopes to avoid speeches from now on and cannot take on any further speaking engagements.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Ralph Emerson Lum that there are no people whom Roosevelt would particularly like to be at the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument on Memorial Day. Roosevelt will leave the distribution of the invitations entirely up to Lum. Roosevelt’s secretary also thanks Lum for sending the clipping from the Sunday Call.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Elizabeth Coit Gilman that he is unable to accept the invitation from the Headmaster of the Gilman Country School. He regrets having to send this reply.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-06
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Anna M. Haviland Hill of the Nature Study Club of the Bronx that Roosevelt cannot accept any more invitations of any kind. He has had to refuse thousands in the last few months, being “physically unable” to accept them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept the invitation. He has had to refuse all of the invitations he received.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-31
List of recipients to whom the Orphan Conference invitations were sent to on January 25, 1909.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-25
A list of individuals sent invitations on January 20, 1909, to the White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-20
President Roosevelt promises to get John Ellis Roosevelt’s daughter, Gladys Roosevelt, the invitation to Ethel Roosevelt’s ball at once. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is “up in arms with everybody,” and says that she knows she sent an invitation to both Gladys and Jean Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-19
William Loeb tells W J McGee of the Bureau of Soils not to send out more invitations for the meeting to discuss conservation of natural resources without consulting President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt thinks McGee may render the meeting an absurdity by sending invitations to purely patriotic bodies with no connection to the issues being discussed at the conference. Roosevelt will only consider invitations to appropriate bodies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-20
William Loeb informs Mrs. M. L. Wood that she did not receive an invitation to the “at home” gathering next Friday because her card was missing from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s card book. He therefore encloses an invitation for both Mrs. Wood and Commander Wood.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-30
William Loeb confirms that, as Ellen C. Bonaparte, wife of Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte, requests, he will have invitations sent to Henry C. Gauss for a number of people. He regrets that he cannot fulfill Gauss’s own wishes, as he has received too many similar requests to make scheduling exceptions for when invitations were issued for, and therefore cannot grant any.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-21
William Loeb informs Venezuelan charge d’affaires Nicolás Veloz Goiticoa that the names of his wife and daughters were mistakenly left off the invitation for the musical. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt regrets the mistake and assures him that it was an oversight.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-09
President Roosevelt congratulates A. A. Allen on the opening of new club rooms for the Republican League of Los Angeles, and he is gratified by the compliment paid him in his election to honorary membership.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-19
William Loeb informs Frank Harper that Theodore Roosevelt might want to message Robert W. Brown of the Louisville Times, who failed to present to him an invitation personally.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-20