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Theodore Roosevelt would have enjoyed having Oscar S. Straus accompany him to New Orleans and he wishes Straus could have come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary discusses Roosevelt’s Louisiana travel arrangements with Philip Werlein. He requests that no more than three or four men meet Roosevelt on the special train to New Orleans and that the public meeting be an informal affair as Roosevelt prefers to speak in his ordinary clothes instead of formal dress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt asks Frederick E. Sullens to arrange with the reception committee for Roosevelt to pay his respects to Harriet Elizabeth Galloway.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary advises Philip Werlein that Roosevelt’s schedule has been arranged so that he can arrive in Texas earlier. However, this will not interfere with engagements already scheduled in New Orleans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary relays to W. O. Hart that due to schedule changes, Roosevelt is unable to visit the Soldiers’ Home at Camp Beauregard, New Orleans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-01
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Oscar S. Straus for the speech and hopes he and his wife, Sarah L. Straus, enjoy their trip. Roosevelt appreciates Straus’s offer to accompany him and invites him on the New Orleans, Louisiana, leg of his journey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-27
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary details Roosevelt’s travel itinerary for John Milliken Parker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary discusses arrangements for Roosevelt’s trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, with Philip Werlein.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt is happy to accept an invitation to visit John Milliken Parker in New Orleans. His sons Archie and Quentin will not be able to come, but Roosevelt will have his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, as a traveling companion. Roosevelt and Parker will spend three or four days visiting bird refuges along the gulf and in the delta before rejoining Mrs. Roosevelt in the city.
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1915-03-31
President Roosevelt thanks Pearl Wight for the letter, as he has always prized Wight’s friendship and support. He agrees with Wight about how the editors of the New York World and the New York Sun should be treated.
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1908-12-24
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Metcalf if it is possible to keep the old house and trees at the New Orleans navy yard. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt likes them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-06
President Roosevelt thanks John Milliken Parker for the note. All the arrangements for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s trip have been made already, but she would like to see Parker when the Mayflower reaches New Orleans. Roosevelt wishes he was coming along on the trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-21
President Roosevelt informs Senator Foster that he has already written to Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery about the James L. Bradford case. Bradford must begin his sentencing and a federal physician will then examine him. Roosevelt cannot do what Foster asked.
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1907-06-11
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from Mayor Behrman of New Orleans and informs him that he will not share his opinion about a proposed exposition. Roosevelt wants to support New Orleans but cannot “make any statement about an event so far in advance.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-23
President Roosevelt appreciated George B. Hoffman’s letter and encloses both autographed menu cards as requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-13
President Roosevelt sends his son Kermit Roosevelt a copy of his book and discusses Kermit’s grades, which he would like to be a little higher. He also discusses his trip through the South, and in particular highlights a boat accident he was in off the coast of New Orleans. Alice Roosevelt Longworth returned home from her trip to Japan with fencing armor for Archibald B. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt; Roosevelt describes their antics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-01
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is visiting New Orleans and believes the risk of infection from the yellow fever outbreak there is small. He is interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football that his older brother Ted played two years ago. He updates Kermit on what has been going on at the White House, where the rest of the family is settling in after the summer in Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-05
President Roosevelt tells John Milliken Parker that he, personally, “has no feeling” about going to New Orleans. He merely has to consider the quarantine regulations of other states, and whether he will have to quarantine after he leaves New Orleans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-23
President Roosevelt tells Nicholas Murray Butler that if he goes to New Orleans, he will be accompanied by William Loeb only, and travel back on a warship. However, given the current yellow fever epidemic, Roosevelt is unsure if it is advisable for him to go at all.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-29
President Roosevelt tells Senator Beveridge that he has already decided who he wants to succeed Miguel Antonio Otero, and that he will put “the joint statehood matter” in his message. Only Roosevelt and William Loeb will go to New Orleans, and in compliance with quarantine rules, will return to Washington by boat.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-02