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Architects Heins & LaFarge provide William Loeb with a financial statement pertaining to the addition on Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-02
Rowland Gibson Hazard invites President Roosevelt to visit Rhode Island to educate the people as he did at Chautauqua.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-22
Architects Heins & LaFarge provide President Roosevelt a receipt for plumbing, electrical, and repair work on Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-10
Heins & LaFarge forward to President Roosevelt a letter from Williams & Whitman, Inc.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-26
Williams & Whitman address Heins & LaFarge regarding a plumbing issue at the Roosevelt residence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt’s financial manager and brother-in-law encloses a power of attorney for Roosevelt to sign and return after having sold 9 Chicago Terminal Railroad Bonds. Douglas Robinson tells Roosevelt how much Corinne and he enjoyed their visit to Roosevelt’s home. Robinson comments that the new room “is a great success in every way.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-17
Gotthelf Pach, the prominent commercial photographer, asks permission to photograph the visit of the Russo-Japanese War peace envoy at Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill. Pach’s family ran the New York studio of Pach Brothers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-18
The issue with the defective fireplace will be taken up with the contractors before final certification is issued for the work at Sagamore Hill. There are also some issues related to the woodwork that Heins & LaFarge wish to have the builders rectify.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-14
William Loeb informs Rudolph Forster that Baron Takahira has been invited to lunch at Sagamore Hill as directed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-11
Robert Bacon tells William Loeb that he, his wife, and daughter will accept an invitation for lunch with the president at Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-07
William J. Calhoun accepts the appointment of special commissioner for the investigation. Calhoun hopes to clear up all his business matters next week so he can begin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-07
Charles D. Lanier writes to William Loeb that Albert Shaw has spoken to President Roosevelt about The Country Calandar’s article on Sagamore Hill, and Roosevelt’s “activities there as a country gentleman.” Lanier would like Loeb to ask Roosevelt, if the occasion arises, if he has a choice for the author of this article. Lanier has also arranged for George Bird Grinnell to write a second article on “Theodore Roosevelt as a Sportsman,” and will use photographs from Roosevelt’s recent trip to illustrate this article. Lanier understands that the second article is not to be exclusively on Roosevelt’s recent trip, but on his varied interests as a sportsman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-17
The architectural firm of Heins & LaFarge asks that President Roosevelt sign and return two copies of an enclosed contract for work to be done on his home. A third copy is enclosed for the President’s files.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-20
Columbia University President Butler invites President Roosevelt to speak at a Teacher’s Conference in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in July of 1905.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-11
James Speyer informs William Loeb that he will not be able to visit President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill on Saturday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-08
Francis C. Travers confirms an upcoming meeting for Henry P. Chilton with President Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill. Travers asserts that Chilton will be a big help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-01
William Bayard Cutting, Jr. accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch with him at Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-02
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Postcard showing a car being driven down a road to Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. On the left side of the road is the bay and on the right side of the road are trees behind a wooden fence. On the reverse, Elsie M. Early writes to her mother describing her trip to Oyster Bay and Sagamore Hill with her husband, Albert Early.
1911