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President Roosevelt invites Brander Matthews and his wife to dinner at the White House on December 5. He thanks Matthews for sending him a magazine.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt requests his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow tell Mr. Bovet that while he sympathizes with the movement to preserve the Alps, as president, he cannot sign a petition that is essentially a request for action by another government. Roosevelt updates Carow on the family’s summer activities in Oyster Bay.
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1907-08-13
J. J. Jusserand has only heard vague reports of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s horse riding injury, and hopes Theodore Roosevelt can let him know how she is doing. Jusserand tells Roosevelt about his and his wife’s summer travels and recommends a book he read the most in Paris, promising to send Roosevelt a copy.
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1911-10-15
French Ambassador Jusserand thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and book, which he says he has been reading in the midst of seeing work done to the house. He has spent the majority of his days on the top of ladders, not like some ambassadors who must only emphasize their greatness. Jusserand goes into detail about some of the stories, saying that they remind him of Secretary of State Elihu Root’s lecture at Yale where he noted that the main thing is progress.
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1907-09-17
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to discuss his views on the work of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. He also talks about a poem by Philip Roosevelt and a visit from cousin Emlen Roosevelt, Christine, Frank Lowell, and his wife. Roosevelt closes by saying he had dinner with Ambassador Jusserand and Justice Moody.
1908-02-23
Theodore Roosevelt is glad to see the editorial, and he hopes that Ambassador Jusserand has noticed the straightforward articles he has recently published in the Metropolitan.
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1915-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt reminds French Ambassador Jusserand about a meeting they had with former German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg. Roosevelt says he wrote two copies of terms for France and Germany at the Algeciras Conference, and gave a copy to each of them. Roosevelt would like Jusserand to send Roosevelt a copy of what he wrote. He wishes Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, would visit them, and says it was nice having George Bakhmeteff and his wife, Mary Beale Bakhemeff, over for lunch.
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1915-06-21
Theodore Roosevelt is working to coordinate a visit with Jean Jules Jusserand, because Roosevelt goes to Boston when Jusserand will be in the area. Roosevelt has also written about contraband to Cecil Spring Rice.
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1915-01-05
President Roosevelt sends Ambassador Jusserand a copy of his Sorbonne lecture, and says that he will also keep copies of it himself. He would like to see Jusserand and his wife again sometime, but says that he fears that “the tennis court is laid up for the season.”
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1908-12-30
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit, telling him about the pleasant weather that Washington, D.C., has had recently. He also mentions that he thinks that they should take a good camera with them when they go to Africa. Roosevelt has been keeping a close eye on the Chicago Convention, and it appears that Secretary of War William H. Taft will be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. In a handwritten postscript Roosevelt remarks on some birds that he has seen around the White House recently.
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1908-06-13
President Roosevelt thanks Supreme Court Justice Moody for showing him Mather’s speech, and remarks on the pleasant time they had at the Jusserands’.
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1908-02-24
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about a visit he made to Ambassador J. J. Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, and the nice time he had there. Roosevelt also comments on the weather, saying that he has been able to go riding and play tennis often. Things are going well with Secretary of War William H. Taft at present, but politics is too changeable to say he will for sure be nominated. Roosevelt did not write to Endicott Peabody about Kermit going to Princeton, as he sounded set on going to Harvard and Roosevelt did not think of suggesting anywhere else.
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1908-01-20
President Roosevelt sends Ambassador Jusserand a book called Stratagems and Spoils and directs him to read the final two stories. The subjects reminded Roosevelt of Pierre de la Gorce’s criticisms of democracy. Roosevelt does not agree with La Gorce, but thinks he is a great historian.
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1907-07-08
President Roosevelt describes his jumping Roswell over a big hurdle to his son, Theodore Roosevelt. He is glad that Theodore is assistant manager of the crew team. He notes that Louis Adams Frothingham visited yesterday. Archibald B. Roosevelt caught tadpoles, turtles, and a small alligator that he put in the bathroom.
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1907-05-12
President Roosevelt recently received a copy of French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau’s recent speech, responding to Jean Jaurès, and asks French Ambassador Jusserand to tell Clemenceau of Roosevelt’s admiration of the speech. Roosevelt agrees with nearly everything Clemenceau said, and was interested to see that Clemenceau’s policies are very similar to Roosevelt’s own. He comments that if anything he would have been more extreme in his insistence of putting down mob violence, and reflects on situations in France and Russia, believing the Russian Duma is acting improperly by currently working to abolish the death penalty while at the same time assassination is rife in Russia. Congressman Nicholas Longworth is having Clemenceau’s speech translation and printed.
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1906-08-16
President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the book and newspaper clipping. Roosevelt comments that he does not know who Louis Friedman is, and was not shown any telegram from him. Roosevelt enjoyed spending time with Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, recently, and hopes that they enjoy their vacation.
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1906-06-27
President Roosevelt thanks John S. Kennedy for the salmon, and says that while unfortunately First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt recently went to Roosevelt’s home at Oyster Bay, he is dining with French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, and will have it served for them.
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1906-06-26
President Roosevelt has explained to French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, who is listening to him dictate this letter, what Phi Beta Kappa is. Jusserand will respond to Frederic Jesup Stimson himself, although Roosevelt does not think he will be able to deliver the requested address. He hopes that Stimson will use his influence to prevent Harvard president Charles William Eliot from abolishing football at Harvard.
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1905-11-25
President Roosevelt thanks French Ambassador Jusserand for the copy of his letter, and hopes Jusserand is not going to too much trouble getting the original.
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1905-02-18
President Roosevelt tells French Ambassador Jusserand that it was very kind of him and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, to remember Roosevelt’s birthday. He thanks both of them, and offers special thanks to Elise Jusserand for having given him an opportunity to see Downing, who is a good citizen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-28