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President Roosevelt was pleased by Martha P. Sargent’s letter, and asks asks Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to forward her a note. Roosevelt asks La Farge asks when it would be convenient for her and her husband, C. Grant La Farge, to give the Roosevelt family “a real visit.”
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1904-12-07
President Roosevelt is glad that everything is well with Florence La Farge’s newest child.
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1903-11-20
President Roosevelt has agreed to meet with C. Grant La Farge regarding the Lord & Hewlett case. However, Roosevelt doubts that the case can be reopened as the Department of Justice has ruled both protests in favor of the Department of Agriculture.
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1903-08-27
President Roosevelt invites the La Farges to the White House in January.
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1902-12-02
President Roosevelt invites the La Farges to the White House.
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1902-11-21
President Roosevelt thanks Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge for the note and has already read the book she suggested.
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1902-09-30
President Roosevelt asks Elizabeth Norris Emlen Roosevelt to invite C. Grant La Farge and Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to dinner.
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1901-10-25
Governor Roosevelt was especially pleased to receive congratulations from Gifford Pinchot, and hopes Pinchot can visit with C. Grant and Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge.
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1900-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt believes that “wise discretion” should be used in the selection of members for the Boone and Crockett Club.
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1898-02-04
Theodore Roosevelt asks if the location and time of the Boone and Crockett Club dinner has been decided.
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1897-11-30
Carl Ethan Akeley has heard through C. Grant La Farge that Theodore Roosevelt seconded his nomination for membership in the Century Association. Akeley thanks Roosevelt for doing this, and hopes for Roosevelt’s leadership for the coming four years.
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1916-05-31
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge thanks President Roosevelt for the tickets to the Chicago Convention that he sent to her and her husband.
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1908-05-12
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge tells President Roosevelt her thoughts on a variety of books she has read recently. Notably she read and enjoyed George Macaulay Trevelyan’s Garibaldi’s Defense of Rome and Herbert W. Paul’s Life of Froude. She has also read Jane Addams’ book The New Ideals of Peace, and enjoyed Horace Plunkett’s book on Ireland. Her husband C. Grant La Farge has been “splendidly” handling the new arrangements following the death of George Lewis Heins.
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1908-01-28
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge presents President Roosevelt with a cravat, recommends that he read George Macaulay Trevelyan’s book on Giuseppe Garibaldi, and updates him on her husband C. Grant La Farge’s well being.
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1907-10-08
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge informs President Roosevelt of Charles MacVeagh’s Washington, D.C., travel plans. La Farge thinks that Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will like him. C. Grant La Farge is doing well. Criticism in New York about Roosevelt has calmed down.
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1907-05-01
Thomas H. Netherland writes to William Loeb to discuss the Williams & Whitman, Inc., account. (The Roosevelt residence was undergoing renovations involving the companies Williams & Whitman and Heins & La Farge.)
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1905-08
Owen Wister writes at the request of Rowland Gibson Hazard, but he understands that President Roosevelt can probably not do what Hazard wants him to do.
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1905-08-23
Rowland Gibson Hazard invites President Roosevelt to visit Rhode Island to educate the people as he did at Chautauqua.
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1905-08-22
Secretary of War Taft writes to Brigadier-Generals Mackenzie, Humphrey, and Story that C. Grant La Farge should be informed about what their respective departments are building along the Narragansett Bay. Mackenzie, Humphrey, and Story are to communicate to their subordinates that it is the desire of President Roosevelt that La Farge receive the information he requires, including that which is usually withheld from the public.
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1905-06-04
President Roosevelt scribbles notes to himself for items to bring, which are mostly books: The Olympic Games at Athens by James E. Sullivan, The Government of England by A. Lawrence Lowell, Waterloo 1815: Captain Mercer’s Journal, National and Social Problems by Frederic Harrison, and short stories by C. Grant La Farge and Will N. Harben.
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1908