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Edward G. Riggs requests a letter that can be read at the dinner since President Roosevelt will be unable to attend.
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1902-03-17
Edward G. Riggs will be more considerate and will write tonight requesting a “fine letter of regrets.”
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1902-03-17
Secretary of War Root sends President Roosevelt several enclosures regarding General Nelson Appleton Miles.
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1902-03-18
Richard Harding Davis has received President Roosevelt’s letter and requests a letter from Roosevelt or from Secretary of War Elihu Root to Governor of Puerto Rico William Henry Hunt. In a handwritten note, Root has agreed to furnish the requested letter.
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1902-03-18
Ambassador von Holleben ackowledges receiving President Roosevelt’s letter and has forwarded the letter to Admiral von Tirpitz.
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1902-03-18
Episcopal Bishop William Doane of Albany, New York, apologizes for not having been able to attend the launch of Emperor William’s yacht to which he was invited. Just as he and his wife were about to depart, the bishop was called to the death bed of the superior of a convent nearby. He regrets having had to miss the launch and sends compliments to Alice Roosevelt for her part in it and to Mrs. Roosevelt.
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1902-02-25
Herman Henry Kohlsaat encloses a letter he received from President Roosevelt in 1899 regarding trusts. He suggests the letter may be Roosevelt’s first utterance on the subject.
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1904-03-16
In addition to his report on the Agnew-Treat matter, Attorney General Knox encloses letters from Judge Goff and Mr. Foulke.
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1902-02-26
Secretary of the Navy Long encloses a letter from Winslow Warren.
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1902-02-26
Bishop Doane appreciates President Roosevelt’s response to his letter of apology for having missed the launch of Emperor William’s yacht. He also comments on the president’s conduct of the Schley case and his response to “the gentleman? from S. Carolina.”
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1902-03-03
At the direction of Secretary of War Elihu Root, Merritt O. Chance returns Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long’s letter regarding “land defenses at Guam, Pearl Harbor, San Juan, and other points.”
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1902-03-06
William Allen White asks George B. Cortelyou to hold the enclosed letter until President Roosevelt returns from visiting his ailing son Ted.
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1902-02-10
James S. Groves has received George B. Cortelyou’s letter and requests the return of the enclosure that accompanied his letter of February 5.
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1902-02-11
Louisa Lee Schuyler sends an enclosed letter by special delivery not because it is urgent, but so that it will reach President Roosevelt on Sunday, when he may have more leisure to read letters from friends.
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1904-02-20
Charles S. Hamlin encloses a letter regarding Professor John Knowles Paine of Harvard University and requests that it be brought to President Roosevelt’s attention.
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1902-02-17
James Jeffrey Roche requests that the enclosed letter be delivered to President Roosevelt.
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1902-02-17
“To President Roosevelt with kind regards.”
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1902-02
Josiah Quincy requests a letter of introduction to Ambassador Clayton, the United States Ambassador to Mexico. Qunicy will be traveling in Mexico for business.
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1902-01-31
Maria Longworth Storer offers to return President Roosevelt’s letters pertaining to “the Catholic Church in America.” Quotations from the letters have been made public and “used to injure” Roosevelt.
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1902-01-31
Josiah Quincy appreciates President Roosevelt’s willingness to change the letter but believes that the State Department letter will be sufficient.
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1902-02-03