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Theodore Roosevelt comments on the Christian Register‘s reporting of Roosevelt’s activities in Provincetown. Roosevelt also discusses how he dealt with the Freemasons in Rome.
1910-05-12
President Roosevelt tells Senator Alger that diplomat Thomas J. O’Brien is a good man, but that the men he has promoted over O’Brien have served longer and are more entitled to the positions. Roosevelt notes that he has his eye on O’Brien.
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1906-12-22
Frank A. Edwards informs Theodore Roosevelt that he seeks a letter of introduction or endorsement to General Leonard Wood to support his work on an Italian–English Military Dictionary.
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1911-09-11
Governor of Cuba Magoon informs President Roosevelt that Giuseppa Aversa, Archbishop of Sardes, Apostolic Delegate for Cuba and Puerto Rico, will not return to Cuba. Magoon believes it would be beneficial if an American Prelate were appointed as Aversa’s successor.
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1907-08-30
Ambassador Kogoro Takahira writes President Roosevelt, informing him that he has been awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun. Takahira also writes that he has been appointed ambassador to Rome.
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1907-04-03
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson forwards a telegram given to her by Sarah Bancroft Leavitt from Moses Jacob Ezekiel, an American sculptor working in Rome, Italy. Ezekiel wishes for President Roosevelt to delay transferring the American Consul from Rome “until his letter arrives giving serious reasons for this intercession.”
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1907-02-11
James Jeffrey Roche shares his views on a range of topics with President Roosevelt, including Roosevelt’s handling of Bellamy Storer’s “indiscretion” in Rome, the public’s response to the Brownsville case, and Roche’s support for Roosevelt’s simplified spelling idea.
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1906-12-28
William Dudley Foulke calls President Roosevelt’s attention to a paper he encloses which was “published ostensibly by negroes” and distributed widely in Indianapolis. Foulke also comments on the situation of Francis Augustus MacNutt, who had been in the service of the United States as a diplomat until certain charges were raised against him. MacNutt was acquitted at Rome, but subsequent statements attributed to Roosevelt led to his not being received at the Vatican. MacNutt begs the privilege of answering any definite charge against him. He is still abroad, but would return to the United States to have the opportunity to prove his innocence.
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1906-12-28
George Otto Trevelyan writes to President Roosevelt about Panama and the Philippines, drawing parallels with Macaulay’s histories and Ancient Rome. Trevelyan discusses the British diplomatic service and his latest work on the American Revolution. He also describes a recent visit from Charles Francis Adams and his wife, and he muses on what it is like to be old. Trevelyan writes of their shared love of English literature, mentioning Milton, Chaucer, and W. W. Jacobs.
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1906-12-12
Archbishop Keane tells Maria Longworth Storer that he sent Bishop Richard Scannell to talk with Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val, and Scannell reported that the Cardinal’s sympathies are not with them. Princess Alexandrine Windisch-Graetz informs Storer that she met with Pope Pius X about Archbishop John Ireland, and Ireland will be made Cardinal at the next Consistory.
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1905-06-14
Ambassador to Italy Henry White tells President Theodore Roosevelt that he will extend hospitality to Frances M. Wolcott at the request of the President and First Lady. White also discusses Roosevelt’s recent meeting with British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice and Roosevelt’s policy towards Latin America, especially the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. White is confident Roosevelt’s actions (part of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine) will lead to America’s “supremacy in our own hemisphere.”
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1905-01-24
Ambassador Meyer sends a telegram to President Roosevelt kindly acknowledging receipt of a letter and compliment.
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1905-01-20
American diplomat Henry White thanks President Roosevelt for his appointment as Ambassador to Italy. White also discusses the secret negotiations going on with Lord Lansdowne that would lead to British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice being transferred from acting ambassador to Russia to serving as a special representative to Roosevelt. White notes that he has kept these negotiations secret, even from the United States’ Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joseph Hodges Choate.
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1905-01-07
Charles S. Francis writes that he would accept a diplomatic appointment in St. Petersburg or Rome, since his preferred posting to Vienna is unavailable. He thanks President Roosevelt for considering his application.
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1904-12-09
Judson Harmon and Frederick N. Judson stand outside of the “Department of Justice” with a paper that reads, “Instructions—Give everybody a square deal. T. R.” Meanwhile, Attorney General William H. Moody and President Roosevelt hold a sheet that Paul Morton climbs out from under. He holds a suitcase that reads, “P. Morton—New York—When in Rome of the Romans.” On the side of the Department of Justice is a sign that reads, “Let no guilty man escape. U. S. G.”
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1905-06-20
This excerpt from The Century Magazine includes articles on reading, on the permanent establishment of an American art school in Rome, and on the addition of Yosemite Valley to Yosemite National Park. Richard Watson Gilder enclosed the excerpt in a letter to President Roosevelt, noting his authorship of the articles.
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1905-05
Pastel portrait of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt by Ross, Rome, 1894.
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1894
Pastel portrait of Alice Green, by Ross, Rome, 1894.
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1894
President Roosevelt thanks Father Belford for enclosing Father Wynne’s letter, which has been recently published in the Evening Post. Roosevelt refutes Wynne’s criticism of U.S. policy in the Philippines, and suggests that Wynne has “a lot to learn” before he is justified in issuing such criticism.
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1902-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt discusses a letter from Captain H. A. Hanigan, in which Hanigan describes the “Vatican Incident” as an insult to Catholics. Roosevelt encloses for Colonel Lyon the statement he made in The Outlook but does not want it given to Hanigan, as he refuses to appeal to any religious bigotry, whether Protestant or Catholic. Roosevelt asserts that he acted just as any good American citizen would have in that situation.
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1912-08-15