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President Roosevelt is unable to accept Frank Andrew Munsey’s request to write an article about populating an empire, because the subject is too big and he does not have time for it. Roosevelt notes that he has been unable to complete a “light article” on Celtic literature that he has promised to another friend.
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1906-03-07
President Roosevelt will get the G. Lowes Dickinson book that Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge mentioned. He does not want to submit Japanese Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō’s orders to The Outlook himself, but if La Farge makes a suggestion, he will send it along.
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1906-03-08
President Roosevelt thinks the article Brooks Adams sent is interesting, although he has not read it carefully. He is particularly pleased with the farmed tax analogy, because that is exactly what a railway rate is.
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1906-03-13
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1906-01-26
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt hopes that the articles Charles A. Gardiner wrote will appear in the North American.
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1906-01-01
William Loeb sends a check from President Roosevelt for two yearlong subscriptions of Rider and Driver to be sent to George Emlen and John Kean Roosevelt.
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1905-09-23
Theodore Roosevelt recently saw a political cartoon published in Judge magazine which gives “currency in a pictorial way to a peculiarly base set of slanders.” He asks whether John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie’s Weekly, is still connected with Judge. While Roosevelt is aware that there are many things that men in public life have to face, and agrees with Sleicher’s last letter, he feels this recent cartoon crosses a line.
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1905-07-21
William Loeb returns an enclosed bill to The Voter Company, and informs them that President Roosevelt has never subscribed to The Voter, and does not currently wish to do so.
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1905-06-23
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the holiday he had at Pine Knot, Virginia, with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. The president tells Kermit, “Mother is a great deal more pleased with it than any child with any toy I ever saw.” The president and Edith spent time with Joseph Wilmer and William Nivison Wilmer, who are “the most generous, thoughtful, self-effacing friends.” The president talks about his attempts to cook fried chicken and how Edith “greatly enjoyed” it as well as his attempts to encourage peace negotiations between Russia and Japan. The president looks forward to seeing Kermit at Bishop William Lawrence’s house and appreciates the recommendation of “that piece in Collier’s.”
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1905-06-11
President Roosevelt thanks Alexander Lambert for his suggestions on his articles, most of which Roosevelt adopted.
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1905-06-06
President Roosevelt likes Albert Shaw’s proposal for an article in The Country Calendar, and encourages him to write the article himself from Alexander Lambert’s notes. Shaw can use any of Philip Battell Stewart’s photos not needed by Scribner’s. Roosevelt asks that the article be confined to his “country life” at Oyster Bay, as he is writing an article about the hunt in question for Scribner’s himself.
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1905-03-18
President Roosevelt suggests to Harper’s Weekly editor George Brinton McClellan Harvey that Charles A. Gardiner write an article on his views of executive powers for the North American Review.
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1905-02-06
President Roosevelt will be glad to help in the memorial for William Henry Baldwin. While he agrees with Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp’s advice about the Newsboys’ Magazine, he permits himself “the malicious pleasure” of saying that Leupp’s ideas of the composition of the Panama Canal Commission are wrong.
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1905-01-12
President Roosevelt has not seen the December Political Science Quarterly, and asks Brander Matthews to send it if he has it. Roosevelt does not think American Ambassador to Italy George von Lengerke Meyer will go to Paris for his next post.
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1905-01-03
President Roosevelt asks Murat Halstead to look into a matter in which a letter sent by Roosevelt to O. O. Stealey, the editor of the American Newsboy’s Magazine, is being used to exploit the company. The president does not want his name in connection with the enterprise, if it is being used in this way.
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1905-01-07
President Roosevelt praises Ray Stannard Baker for his article in McClure’s Magazine about lynching. Roosevelt has admired Baker’s pieces about labor, but believes the recent piece on lynching is the best discussion he has seen of the topic anywhere, and is even better than to his other work.
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1905-01-02
President Roosevelt informs President Jordan, of Stanford University, that he is unable to write to the college magazine, because if he writes to one, he has to write to one hundred other college magazines. Roosevelt made this mistake earlier in his career and does not want to make it again.
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1904-12-15
President Roosevelt promises to read the article and to consider Davis’s name in reference to selection of the delegates. However, Roosevelt informs Hamilton Holt “there has been much hanging back among the great Continental powers about fixing the time.”
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1904-12-07
President Roosevelt introduces Caspar Whitney, who is making a trip to South America, to the diplomatic, consular, and other representatives of the United States and asks for them to assist Whitney.
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1904-12-02
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for his comments in the Century and agrees with Gilder’s opinion of Charles J. Bonaparte. Roosevelt expresses his wish to have Bonaparte associated with his administration before the end of his term.
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1904-12-02