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Frank S. Beedleson believes that Theodore Roosevelt has done more than any other single person to work for social and industrial justice. If he had the education, Beedleson says that he would have written an article entitled “By Industry we Thrive,” and offers to send Roosevelt some of his thoughts on the subject.
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1911-03-11
President Roosevelt writes a personal and private letter to the editors of the Outlook criticizing their support of naturalist writer “Mr. Long,” whom Roosevelt asserts is a fraud. Roosevelt believes that integrity in naturalist writing must be upheld to the same standards as that of other literature and provides several examples from Long’s writing that are fabricated accounts.
1907-07-03
President Roosevelt received General Butt’s letter and says the shot being fired was a “newspaper yarn.” Roosevelt asks to see Butt in Washington, D.C., to discuss the infantry drill.
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1908-09-19
President Roosevelt informs the Diplomatic and Consular Representatives of the United States that Frederick Palmer, a journalist from the Chicago Tribune, will be traveling through Central America, and asks that they give him all proper assistance.
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1908-09-10
President Roosevelt will read United States Treasurer Treat’s article and is certain that it is interesting, as Treat has “an extremely happy knack of putting things.”
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1908-08-19
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith for sending copies of the Empire Review. He will be pleased to read the articles, but cannot write as Kincaid-Smith suggests.
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1908-04-22
President Roosevelt thanks Bishop Harris for the editorial and his thoughts about the sentiment in Japan. He is disappointed that the Japanese press is “about on par with our own yellow press.”
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1907-08-26
President Roosevelt tells Frank M. Chapman about a yellow-throated warbler he recently shot, and invites him to come visit next spring when the birds are here. Roosevelt appreciated Chapman’s editorial in Bird Lore regarding the nature fakers controversy and laments that people like The Outlook editor Lyman Abbott are accepting the stories of William J. Long and other fakers.
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1907-07-26
President Roosevelt returns the article to Albert Shaw, and hopes that Shaw will write an article himself. Roosevelt wishes that Shaw could visit him again so he could express his ideas in person, but is sure that Shaw already knows his views on a number of topics. He states that while he is friendly to England, he is “neither pro-Boer, nor pro-Briton; simply pro-American.”
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1901-10-09
George B. Cortelyou informs Caspar Whitney of the Outing that President Roosevelt wishes for the articles he sent Whitney to be “treated in the same dignified manner, with the same freedom from advertising,” that he requested from Charles Scribner regarding some different articles. Only under these conditions can Roosevelt consent to the publication of the articles.
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1901-10-05
George Haven Putnam writes Theodore Roosevelt to ask him a favor concerning Putnam’s brother’s son, George Palmer Putnam. George Palmer Putnam is a newspaper correspondent currently residing in Oregon but recently returned to New York to get married, and will travel back to Oregon soon via the Panama Canal whilst writing news reports on the canal’s status. George Haven Putnam hopes Roosevelt might still be in contact with people involved in the Panama Canal and connect Putnam’s nephew with these individuals. Putnam also knows of a book concerning war photography being published soon that Roosevelt might find interesting.
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1911-10-13
George N. Wise has written an enclosed article on the Republican situation in the South and he hopes Theodore Roosevelt will indorse the article so that it can be published and aid in the cause.
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1911-10-10
Maurice Francis Egan encloses a second unpublished Russian article from the chamberlain to the Czar. Egan mentions the interviewee found him mystical and a good influence, which made him trustworthy.
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1911-09-16
William Bayard Hale asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write a statement for The World’s Work on the possibility of universal peace in a time of increasing global communication and modern transportation.
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1911-09-15
Silas McBee tells Theodore Roosevelt he spoke about Roosevelt’s public life, praised his Outlook article, enclosed an advance proof and Senator Lodge’s letter, and noted an item on Sir Horace’s work in Ireland.
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1911-09-12
Paul V. Collins expresses to Samuel W. Church that he has no interest in political office, as his role as editor gives him greater influence than elected positions.
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1911-09-12
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Reid gives President Roosevelt an update on international politics in Europe, especially events in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Russia. He assures the President that the London Morning Post has a good opinion of him, and proposes a solution to the problem of one of its correspondents writing unfairly on the Roosevelt administration.
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1907-04-17
Richard Watson Gilder writes to President Roosevelt about the article on the ancient Irish sagas that has been received very well. Gilder mentions much has been written about the topic lately, including a book and an editorial. Gilder goes on to discuss the editorial in which Governor Charles Evans Hughes fails to address political machines in New York.
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1907-01-10
Ray Stannard Baker will send President Roosevelt a proof of his new article on “Lawless Finance” in hopes that the President will help make the article stronger or fairer. Baker will bring out Roosevelt’s point for financial moderation.
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1905-01-28
Lyman Abbott plans to interpret the results of the election for the readers of the Outlook, but if the results are what he expects and President Roosevelt is reelected, he does not think the interpretation will be difficult. Abbott believes the Republican party should initiate revision of the tariff. He would be pleased to visit the White House along with his son, Ernest Hamlin Abbott, any time it is convenient for Roosevelt. Abbott would like Roosevelt to talk with Ernest because he thinks Ernest understands the feeling in the South on the question of race, and believes that they need to recognize this if there is to be any progress made on the issue.
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1904-11-08