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Frederick w. Gnichtel apologizes for being unable to come to New York on the day arranged because of the increase in public engagements he must participate in. Gnichtel has followed Theodore Roosevelt’s career since the 1880s and hopes he will be able to meet Roosevelt soon.
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1911-10-04
Article discusses the Speakership position and Brooklyn Republicans.
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1905-12-22
List of New York State Senators, with markups from Governor Higgins.
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1905
Theodore Roosevelt recommends that Frank Harper stay in touch with Colonel Carrington. Roosevelt tells Harper about Roosevelt’s efforts to eliminate the deplorable conditions of tenement house cigar manufacture. This resulted in a bill that he passed as a member of the New York Legislature but that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional.
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1912-08-26
Theodore Roosevelt expresses regret to T. Harvey Ferris that he does not have the expertise to appear to appear before the Committee on the Conservation of Water Power. He invites Ferris to visit him at his home to share what he does know on the topic.
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1911-10-24
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Theodore Douglas Robinson for his letter. Roosevelt says Robinson put up a good fight, which puts him in a stronger position for the next fight and may be more helpful than if he had won.
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1911-10-04
President Roosevelt enjoyed his visit with Viscount James Bryce and reminisces about when Bryce stayed at the White House several years prior. Roosevelt believes the question of disarmament is “full of difficulties” and wants to avoid raising “high anticipation as will ensure disappointment” with the upcoming National Arbitration and Peace Congress. He wasn’t impressed with Jamaica Governor James Alexander Swettenham’s message and compares his dealings with him to that of Henry Wolcott Bowen, former Ambassador of Venezuela. Roosevelt is pleased that the Santo Domingo treaty was ratified by Congress and is overall satisfied with the number of other legislative measures he managed to pass.
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1907-02-28
President Roosevelt explains why he is not in favor of Ray Stannard Baker’s suggestion that the Interstate Commerce Commission should be given the power to condemn railroad shipping rates. Roosevelt believes his maximum rate plan is the best option.
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1905-11-20
George Roland Malby recounts for William Loeb his sixteen years of service in the New York Legislature, in the Assembly, and Senate. Malby hopes Loeb will pass on to President Roosevelt congratulations for taking a stand and acting in the interest of the people in recent bills relating to railroad rates, Arizona and New Mexico joint statehood, and agriculture. Malby offers his continued support to the president and sends wishes to the Roosevelts from his wife Lucy A. Malby.
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1904-03-04
President Roosevelt mourns the loss of his longtime friend, Thomas W. Welch.
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1903-11-19
President Roosevelt compares Theodore Roosevelt’s success in athletics to his own time in the New York Assembly. President Roosevelt is pleased with the Alaska boundary award and believes that a decisive factor in the arbitration was the British understanding of the consequences that would follow a disagreement.
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1903-10-20
President Roosevelt is glad that Phillips came to H. D. Macdona as “an authority on the old days of the attempt to impeach Westbrook” and Roosevelt’s struggles in the New York legislature.
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1902-10-17
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Francis E. Laimbeer for the letter. He believes Gregory will receive the appointment but will look into the matter. Hopefully, Laimbeer will return as an assemblyman to the New York Legislature to sort out the “mess.”
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1897-09-16
Gordon Russell thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the note of sympathy which arrived on the day of his father’s, Alexander G. Russell, funeral. During his last few months, Alexander Russell enjoyed reading the book Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sent him, The life of the Duke of Argyle. Gordon Russell believes his father kept every letter he received from Theodore Roosevelt, beginning with those written during his first candidacy for the New York Legislature.
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1911-11-26
Charles W. McMurran thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter on his son, Russell W. McMurran’s behalf. He included Roosevelt’s secretary’s instructions only to use it as described. Russell wants to make California his home, much like Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and McMurran hopes Roosevelt will visit Russell when he is in San Francisco. He asks to meet with Roosevelt to discuss a business opportunity. In a side note, McMurran predicts that Tammany Hall will elect their men and the Democrats will control the New York Legislature.
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1911-11-04
Ernest Harvier reports no changes in the political situation since seeing Theodore Roosevelt. He hears that the Republicans will control the next assembly and have practical control of the legislature through cooperation with progressives and Democratic insurgents. Harvier sends an article for Roosevelt’s scrapbook if he has one. New York City harbors hostility to Tammany Hall, but it will not affect the upcoming election.
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1911-10-26
Maud Nathan informs Theodore Roosevelt that he is surprised to see Roosevelt be so unwilling to male a public statement on equal suffrage and recalls a luncheon where Roosevelt was firm on his belief on women’s suffrage. Nathan inquires why Roosevelt did not make recommendations for equal suffrage as Governor to the New York legislature and why he is still unwilling to make a public statement.
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1911-10-23
Theodore Douglas Robinson thanks his uncle Theodore Roosevelt for the letter and reflects on his 1910 bid for the New York State Legislature which ended in defeat.
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1911-08-29
Thomas Henry Barry, the superintendent of West Point, provides Assemblyman Cuvillier with feedback and information about the bill he introduced that would limit the sale of alcohol near the academy. The consensus is that the bill as written is best, but as a last resort, it could be amended to apply only to cadets. This is an official copy that was provided to Theodore Roosevelt by Barry.
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1911-07-13
Archibald McCowan believes Theodore Roosevelt has some influence with the Republicans in the New York state legislature. He suggests that the Republicans vote for a “good Democrat” as a United States senator. McCowan speaks against machine and boss politics.
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1911-03-07