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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Anne D. Megary Stanley that Roosevet has received her letter. To obtain the information Stanley seeks, he recommends writing to either George W. Goethals or Joseph Bucklin, both of whom are in Panama.
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1911-10-24
William Loeb returns to Representative Burton a clean, signed copy of the letter Burton drafted for President Roosevelt’s signature. Loeb describes additional edits made to the letter.
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1907-09-06
President Roosevelt has forgotten to write the note but shall do so at once.
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1901-09-26
President Theodore Roosevelt tells Lucius B. Swift that Swift’s letter is exactly what he expected and that Roosevelt shall do his level best to justify Swift’s confidence.
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1901-09-24
President Roosevelt thanks Miss M. Florence Locke for her letter.
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1901-09-20
Secretary to the President Cortelyou thanks General Wilson for his letter and telegram, and says that he is bearing a difficult burden. Cortelyou thanks Wilson for sending correspondence with Goldwin Smith.
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1901-09-14
George B. Cortelyou informs Wilhelm Snyman that as soon as President Roosevelt hears from Snyman’s representative, he will forward the money for Mrs. Sarah Viljoen Snyman.
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1901-09-14
George B. Cortelyou informs Samuel Small that the Secretary of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War is Surgeon M. H. Crawford.
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1901-09-14
Nicholas Murray Butler is giving President Roosevelt the schedule of his upcoming trip along with the address where he can be reached. He wants Roosevelt to know that he will be meeting with the Emperor at Wilhelmshohe in August to discuss the interchange of professors and educational subjects. Butler is also congratulating Roosevelt on his role in the Japan-Russian matter.
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1905-06-15
Reverend Dowie asks for William Loeb’s assistance in making sure President Roosevelt receives his enclosed letter asking Roosevelt to write a letter of introduction on his behalf to Ambassador Clayton.
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1905-01-31
Reverend Dowie will be traveling to Mexico to meet with President Diaz. Dowie asks President Roosevelt to write a letter of introduction, on his behalf, to Ambassador Clayton.
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1905-01-31
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, writes to President Roosevelt to arrange a visit to the White House and encloses an article from the San Francisco Argonaut.
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1904-11-11
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt he was mistaken about the president’s communication with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner being published. Only Gardner’s correspondence with Attorney General William H. Moody had been published. Given that Gardner carried his district by over 9,000, Lodge believes no good “can come by reopening it.”
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1904-11-10
William Hooker congratulates President Roosevelt on winning the election, and knows he must feel gratified. Hooker has a note from Abraham Lincoln to his grandfather, and wants a letter to himself from Roosevelt to hang alongside it. He asks Roosevelt to please do this for him sometime when he is feeling good-natured.
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1904-11-09
President Roosevelt informs Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep he is designated as chairman of a committee to investigate how to make the business of the government more efficient. The committee will also include First Assistant Postmaster General Frank H. Hitchcock, Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor Lawrence O. Murray, Commissioner of Corporations James Rudolph Garfield, and Chief of the U.S. Forest Service Gifford Pinchot. Roosevelt lists several considerations he particularly wants the committee to examine, including how to eliminate “useless letter-writing.”
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1905-06-02
On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb sends correspondence to Secretary of War Taft and asks if an African American contract surgeon can be appointed to serve with African American troops.
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1904-12-21
Theodore Roosevelt assures Gustavus V. Dahlgren that it was fine to write to him and thanks Dahlgren for the enclosed clipping.
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1911-06-20
Theodore Roosevelt has written to Dr. Forsyth.
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1912-07-27
In an informal letter to Medill McCormick, Theodore Roosevelt refuses to write a letter of the kind McCormick requested and asks to see the “Lithuanians” in Chicago.
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1912-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt asks A. L. Marsh to thank Mr. Pearson for having written “a very interesting letter.”
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1912-06-14