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The Boston Herald has not published Williams’ letter to Henry Loomis Nelson. A copy of the letter is enclosed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-14
Representative J. W. Babcock is recommended to replace House Majority leader Sereno Elisha Payne if he resigns due to failing health.
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1903-08-05
Commissioner of Immigration Williams responds to Harper’s Weekly editor Henry Loomis Nelson’s criticism of the recent arrest of Edward F. McSweeney, presenting evidence of McSweeney’s inappropriate conduct as Assistant Commissioner of Immigration.
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1903-08-04
Joseph Bucklin Bishop writes to President Roosevelt to discuss the Harper’s Weekly article and how to respond to it.
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1903-08-04
Ernest Hamlin Abbott responds to President Roosevelt’s inquiry concerning The Outlook’s editorial on Roosevelt’s resolution of the threatened bookbinders’ strike and encloses documents Roosevelt had sent to Abbott’s father, Lyman Abbott.
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1903-08-04
Martin suggests reviving the defunct New York Daily News as a “good, clean, enterprising newspaper,” that will “cut right into the heart of Tammany strongholds.” Handwritten notation warns that “a Tammany syndicate” was going to bid for paper.
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1903-07-31
Nicholas Murry Butler asks President Roosevelt to notify John Hay that he will be writing to him concerning a position on Columbia University School of Journalism’s Advisory Board. Butler encloses a letter.
Lyman Abbott agrees with President Roosevelt regarding the William A. Miller case, and will address it in an editorial in The Outlook. He is leaving for the coast of Maine, but if the President issues a report on the Post Office investigation, Abbott’s son Ernest Hamlin Abbott would go to Washington or Oyster Bay to review the report and prepare an editorial.
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1903-07-28
Ray Stannard Baker congratulates General Wood on his Army promotion. He mentions an unfair article in The Sun and Wood’s work in the Philippines. Baker also writes about his lunch with President Roosevelt.
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1903-07-21
Joe P. Johnston describes an Independence Day celebration held in the Post Office Department. He asserts that the New York Sun story that described the celebration was “a burlesque designed to be humorous,” and that the celebration was conducted with due decorum.
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1903-07-17
Edgar Gardner Murphy found Dr. Shaw’s editorial in The Review of Reviews so significant that he requested it published in The Adventurer. Murphy informs President Roosevelt that it is prominently featured on the editorial page of the latter.
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1903-02-06
Emil von Schleinitz sends enclosures regarding German-American anger at the constant attacks against Germany appearing in the press. Schleinitz fears that this anger will lead to opposition to the Republican Party and the Roosevelt administration within the German-American community.
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1903-02-06
Richard Watson Gilder has written an editorial for April since Mr. Jenks’s article will appear at the earliest in May.
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1903-02-04
Silas McBee encloses his editorial entitled “The President and the South” and asks George B. Cortelyou to bring it to President Roosevelt’s attention.
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1903-02-03
S. Claude Burr is writing a series of articles as told by “frontier types” and would like President Roosevelt to confirm the information attained from his interview with Frederick Herrig. Herrig worked and hunted with Roosevelt in the Badlands, and was also a Rough Rider. Most of Herrig’s information is about the incident when the Marquis de Morès challenged Roosevelt to a duel.
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1903-02-02
John Milliken Parker knows how little attention President Roosevelt pays to “Yellow Journal reports which are a slur upon Southern manhood.” Even though Parker and Roosevelt may differ at times, Parker promises that Miss Roosevelt will be treated with courtesy and hospitality at her reception.
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1903-01-30
Silas McBee thanks Rufus B. Bullock for his criticism of the article that appeared in The Churchman, but returns the letter because he does not want to open the correspondence columns to discussions of political issues.
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1903-01-26
Thomas J. Cummins asks President Roosevelt to recommend him for the position of eastern literary representative of the St. Louis Exposition, currently vacant after the death of Julian Ralph.
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1903-01-21
James Sullivan Clarkson sends enclosures regarding Edward Garstin Smith who was supposedly selling subscriptions to an anti-Roosevelt publication. It was concluded that Smith was most likely getting subscriptions for a fake paper and keeping the money for himself.
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1903-01-16
William Penn Nixon could find little information on Edward Garstin Smith and believes his anti-Roosevelt paper would be very unpopular with Republicans.
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1903-01-14