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Secret Service Agent Flynn presents an extract from the report of Frederick M. Tate regarding the suicide of Lulu Grover. This includes testimony from several neighbors and possible relatives about Grover’s personal history and life in New York City.
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1906-12-15
United States Attorney Stimson informs President Roosevelt about the funeral arrangements and his investigation into the suicide of Lulu Grover, who left all of her property to Roosevelt. Stimson writes that her only two interests appeared to be her two Angora cats and Roosevelt, as her apartment was filled with his photograph and books about him. Stimson also found in her apartment two letters from Roosevelt in which he thanked her for the gifts she sent to Roosevelt’s son, Theodore Roosevelt III, and asked her to stop sending gifts. Stimson arranged for her to be cremated and for an Episcopalian clergyman to read a service for her. Stimson and the Public Administrator agree that “this woman was one of those harmless cranks.”
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1906-12-14
A letter from Henry S. Brown to William Loeb was forwarded to the Acting Secretary of War with instructions to further send it to Secretary of War William H. Taft. The letter discussed lawyer and lobbyist William Nelson Cromwell, and included an endorsement of President Roosevelt instructing Taft to minimize Cromwell’s connections with Panama. Cromwell’s lobbying efforts were instrumental to getting the Panama Canal constructed.
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1905-07-01
Albert Shaw discusses his new magazine Country Calendar and updates President Roosevelt on the arrangements for articles featuring Roosevelt.
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1905-06-28
Senator Dick has been attempting to contact President Roosevelt regarding his views on several political appointments in Ohio and requests that his recommendations be given as much consideration as those of Senator Foraker. Dick also apologizes for a misunderstanding in which Roosevelt feels that Dick has been disregarding his attempts at contact.
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1905-06-13
Thomas Goode Jones would like William Loeb to give President Roosevelt a letter from him. He states that the matter is not urgent and Roosevelt could read it whenever he has a free moment.
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1905-02-04
Secretary of the Navy Morton writes to President Roosevelt concerning the efforts to have the steamship Shawmut docked at Puget Sound Yard. Morton notes that he has consulted with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Hial Darling regarding this docking situation.
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1904-12-24
Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann thanks President Roosevelt for his sympathy upon her husband’s death. She describes his loyalty to and confidence in Roosevelt and expresses his wish that Richard C. Kerens be elected to the United States Senate. She would like to meet with Roosevelt or William Loeb regarding a personal matter.
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1904-12-23
On behalf of Secretary of War William H. Taft, Fred W. Carpenter forwards a letter to Surgeon General O’Reilly stating that President Roosevelt wants to know if a “colored surgeon” can be appointed to serve “colored troops.”
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1904-12-23
Kansas City Postmaster Joseph H. Harris apologizes to President Roosevelt for a statement that appeared in the Kansas City Journal that he strongly denies making. He encloses his public denial that was printed in the Journal. Harris says that Harvey Fleming, manager of the Journal, could not give his authority for the statement, but supported his statement by saying that the “president had meddled in seven other such cases.” The statement related to Senate contests.
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1904-12-21
James Sullivan Clarkson asks Benjamin F. Barnes to explain to the President that his sudden disappearance was due to illness. He intends to return tomorrow to the errand he was charged with.
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1904-12-13
Albert Loren Cheney responds to his ineligibility for reinstatement to the civil service.
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1904-12-07
Douglas Robinson has received the check and will invest it on President Roosevelt’s behalf. Robinson has also received a check from the law firm of Carter and Ledyard. This is an inheritance payment. Robinson will send a ring Ethel Carow Roosevelt wants as soon as it is retrieved from the vault. He and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson enjoyed their trip with Roosevelt to St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-12-02
Republican National Committee Chairman Cortelyou has discussed with President Roosevelt the visit of Colonel Lowry and his friends to Washington, D.C. Cortelyou directs Lowry to contact William Loeb to arrange a time to meet Roosevelt.
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1904-11-28
Journalist Albert Shaw forwards a memorandum written by Alvah Eastman to President Roosevelt concerning the state elections in Minnesota. Shaw requests that the memorandum be returned to him.
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1904-11-26
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
German Ambassador Sternburg has heard that William Loeb is sick, and so instead writes to Benjamin F. Barnes to schedule an appointment to speak with President Roosevelt.
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1904-11-04
Mae C. Wood angrily answers a letter from Postmaster General Wynne explaining her absence from the Post Office department for several days in 1903, referring Wynne “to yourself, J. Martin Miller, Mess. Platt, Loeb, et al,” and alludes to “the nasty details of the outrage and scandal.” Wood states that she has “no intention to longer endure the filthy lies and persecutions as engineered and carried out by your coterie, without retaliation.”
(Wood had alleged to be married to Senator Thomas Collier Platt, and claimed to have hundreds of love letters from Platt to her. She had traveled to New York in order to protest Platt’s 1903 marriage to Lillian T. Janeway.)
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1904-11-01
Representative Gardner has received President Roosevelt’s telegram responding to his request to publish a letter from Roosevelt on the matter of the selection of the postmaster at Haverhill, and explains why he cannot go to Nahant or speak to the senators from Massachusetts at this time, as Roosevelt had suggested. He regrets that he was unable to speak with Roosevelt in person, either about the possible appointment of Charles M. Hoyt or his wish to publish Roosevelt’s letter. Gardner apologizes for bothering Roosevelt with the issue. In a handwritten postscript, Gardner notes that he received the telegram reversing Roosevelt’s decision and permitting him to publish the letter. While Gardner appreciates the courtesy, he had already declined to share it with the press, and thinks it is probably better this way.
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1904-10-31