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W. H. Phillips and A. V. Braithwaite recommend their services to President Roosevelt after hearing that he plans to have the interior of his Oyster Bay, New York home decorated.
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1901-12-30
Noah Seaman, Superintendent of Sagamore Hill, reports on the status of the residence and grounds.
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1901-12-17
Charles Erskine Scott Wood is traveling to Washington, D.C., and will be available to meet with President Roosevelt. Erskine Scott Wood (Charles’s son) is in poor health and failed to inform Roosevelt that he would not be able to visit Oyster Bay, New York. Erskine is in Phoenix, Arizona, with his mother and his health is improving.
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1901-12-11
Alexander G. Russell encloses an item for President Roosevelt, not because he is president, but because he is a resident of Oyster Bay, New York. Oyster Bay is watching the Roosevelt administration with great interest and pride.
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1901-12-12
Vice President Roosevelt invites Lucius Nathan Littauer to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1901-09-10
Secretary of War Taft originally planned to make Secretary of State Root and his family comfortable on one of the Panama Railroad Company’s steamers, but he now believes a warship will be more suitable. Root cannot have the USS Charleston because it has gone off into the Pacific, but Taft advises President Roosevelt to have Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte or Assistant Secretary of the Navy Newberry make arrangements for one of the new cruisers to bring Root home.
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1906-07-27
Francis C. Travers congratulates President Roosevelt on his election as an honorary member of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York.
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1901-11-25
Elizabeth Norris Emlen Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and describes her recent trip to Oyster Bay, New York.
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1901-11-03
W. Jay Peck thanks President Roosevelt for his sermon entitled “Artillery on the Bible.”
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1901-11-07
A letter of introduction to the diplomatic and consular officers abroad has been sent to Leila Roosevelt Reeve-Merritt of Elfland, Oyster Bay, New York.
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1901-10-28
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson expresses her pride and interest in President Roosevelt’s responsibilities and wishes him a happy forty-third birthday. She asks if he will be in New York and, if so, wishes to see him, if only briefly.
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1901-10-21
General Brooke apologizes that a member of his staff was not able to escort Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt from Oyster Bay, New York, to Washington, D.C., due to an error on the date of the telegram ordering such action.
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1901-09-24
Moses Rodgers has been ill and was unable to respond to William Loeb or President Roosevelt. Rodgers would like to deliver a personal letter to Roosevelt in person.
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1901-09-19
McCoskry Butt congratulates President Roosevelt on his succession to the presidency.
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1901-09-20
The citizens of Oyster Bay, New York, express their sympathy at the death of William McKinley. They call for the adoption of measures to promote respect for law and obedience to authority.
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1901-09-18
Mary Eliza Avery McIlhenny expresses her sympathy regarding the events that brought President Roosevelt to the presidency. Her son, a former Rough Rider, has told her of the invitation to visit Oyster Bay, New York, this winter; and while that is not now to be, McIlhenny expresses her thanks.
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1901-09-16
H. W. Workman accepts Vice President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at Oyster Bay, New York, on September 27.
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1901-09-11
John W. Hallowell regrets that he will be unable to accept Vice President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at Oyster Bay, New York, on September 27.
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1901-09-12
Secretary of War Elihu Root orders that an officer be sent to confer with First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, New York, to arrange to accompany her to Washington, D.C. A special train is available for her travel.
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1901-09-14
Under different circumstances, Finley Peter Dunne would have accepted President Roosevelt’s invitation to Oyster Bay, New York. He wishes for Roosevelt’s success as he succeeds to the presidency.
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1901-09-14