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Mother Mary Paul is pleased to accept Theodore Roosevelt’s invitation to visit him at his house at Oyster Bay. She hopes it is all right if she brings her sister along with her, as she is not able to go out alone, and asks what train they should take to get there.
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1911-01-04
Mother Mary Paul Murphy wants to visit with Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at Oyster Bay if she can get permission from from her superior.
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1911-01-03
Henry L. Stimson asks Theodore Roosevelt if he can visit him at Sagamore Hill sometime around New Year’s to discuss matters.
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1910-12-23
Mary Tracy Scott Townsend sends President Roosevelt drinking cups and a blanket bag, and hopes the latter will be useful while Roosevelt is on safari. If he likes the cups, she requests he send them back to her to proceed with an engraving process, after which they will be returned to Oyster Bay.
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1909-02-26
John Murgatroyd, taxidermist, reminds President Roosevelt of his past servicing of hunting trophies at Oyster Bay. He wishes Roosevelt a safe and fruitful safari.
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1909-02-28
Noah Seaman, superintendent of Sagamore Hill, discusses a number household management topics with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. These include a taxidermist bill, pillows in the North Room, horses, and saving money on a tax bill.
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1909-02-13
Hamilton Bell regrets that President Roosevelt was troubled about the column caps at Sagamore Hill. Bell arranged for them to be completed by March 1, and hopes that is satisfactory to Roosevelt.
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1909-02-15
Hamilton Bell informs President Roosevelt that work at Sagamore Hill will be completed on February 25, 1909.
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1909-02-18
Hamilton Bell, of Hamilton Bell and Company, outlines the proposed plans for alterations to the columns in the large room at Sagamore Hill, describing both the work to be done and the cost for the work.
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1908-09-25
C. Grant La Farge is very interested to visit President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill to discuss placing a new painting the Roosevelts have acquired. La Farge will consult his “boss,” Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge, and let him know when they will be able to come.
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1908-08-12
Commander Snowden confirms receipt of William Loeb’s letter with details about President Roosevelt’s trip on the presidential yacht. Snowden suggests that since it is a ten-hour journey between Oyster Bay, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island, they might leave around sundown and arrive the next morning. He also confirms details regarding guests and duties related to the trip.
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1908-07-16
Secretary of State Root tells President Roosevelt that he would be glad to spend a night at Sagamore Hill, and thinks it would be good to bring Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon as well. Root has not read a newspaper for several days, and feels disconnected from current events.
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1908-07-08
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad that President Roosevelt has been able to get away from Washington, D.C., for a time to go to Sagamore Hill. Cowles congratulates Roosevelt about something in which she feels that Roosevelt was able to control the flow of events well. She also mentions a humorous comment from Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley.
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1908-06-20
Reverend Judge reminds William Loeb of his visit to Sagamore Hill in the summer of 1907 and their conversation about the accident on the Georgia. Judge requests to speak with President Roosevelt about something that would be of deep interest to him and the country but only has permission to discuss it in secrecy. Judge plans to stop at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C.
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1907-12-14
William Henry Schofield of the American Scandinavian Foundation is delighted to accept President Roosevelt’s invitation to Sagamore Hill.
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1907-10-30
Rudolph Forster forwards a telegram from Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. A group of Central American republics have agreed to hold their proposed conference in Washington in early November. Díaz approves of the telegrams President Roosevelt has sent him thus far and hopes they will both send their messages to the Central American presidents tomorrow. William Loeb adds a handwritten note at the bottom that the State Department is being asked to send these messages.
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1907-09-21
Arthur I. Vorys requests William Loeb deliver the enclosed letter to Secretary of War William H. Taft. He wants Taft to read it before seeing President Roosevelt.
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1907-08-10
Hector Munro Ferguson tells President Roosevelt that he will enjoy a visit from his friend Bishop of London Arthur F. Winnington Ingram, declaring the two will get along like “two houses a’fire.” Ferguson has particularly told the bishop about Roosevelt’s son, Kermit. He hopes the bishop will see that Americans are not just “Trusts and Souvenir-hunters.”
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1907-07-17
Edward B. Clark writes to President Roosevelt, refuting the claim in the editorial in The Washington Herald that he sold his interview to the highest bidder. He instead that simply submitted it to one publication – Everybody’s Magazine.
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1907-07-05
Congressman Andrews writes President Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb, in support of the president’s policy in New Mexico and believes that Governor George Curry should follow suit.
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1907-07-09