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John A. Herman writes Theodore Roosevelt in response to reading Roosevelt’s introduction to H. J. Mozans book Along the Andes and Down the Amazon (Following the Conquistadores). Herman has travelled in South and Central America in a parallel journey to Mozans. Not all men agree with Mozans’s conclusions, so Herman appreciates Roosevelt’s approval.
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1911-12-16
Silas McBee tells Theodore Roosevelt he spoke about Roosevelt’s public life, praised his Outlook article, enclosed an advance proof and Senator Lodge’s letter, and noted an item on Sir Horace’s work in Ireland.
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1911-09-12
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends a copy of the speech Roosevelt is going to make at St. Paul, to the New York correspondent of the London Times. He directs that the speech is not to be printed until it has been delivered by Roosevelt. The secretary believes Sir Horace Plunkett has already told the correspondent this copy is being sent.
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1912-03-26
Theodore Roosevelt declines Winona Charlier Edson’s invitation and wishes her success with the establishment of Chairs for the Study of Celtic Literature at universities.
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1911-02-14
President Roosevelt discusses the various supplies, including food and drink, that he should bring on his safari. He tells Frederick Courteney Selous that he does not want the trip to be too luxurious, and does not want to bring very much alcohol. He also discusses the type of guns he should use and when he intends to leave for Africa. Selous’s friend Charles Sheldon recently visited Roosevelt and told about his hunting experiences in Alaska. Roosevelt has been invited to give the Romanes lecture in Oxford in 1910, and will be going to England after he leaves Africa.
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1908-08-19
Theodore Roosevelt is delighted with Horace Curzon Plunkett’s sketch of Charles McCarthy.
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1915-09-04
President Roosevelt acknowledges British Ambassador Bryce’s interest in the United States Country Life Commission and explains its origins. Roosevelt has long been interested in farm life and especially the work and hardships of women in farm life. The President’s interest became action when he learned about the success of the Irish farm cooperative movement from Horace Curzon Plunkett. Roosevelt would like to extend his thanks through Bryce to Plunkett and the Irish for their influence on the United States. Roosevelt considers farmers the foundation of American greatness and progress.
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1909-03-02
President Roosevelt has written a letter of introduction for Horace Curzon Plunkett to see President-Elect Taft. Plunkett has a great deal of experience with agriculture, and Roosevelt asks Taft to speak with him about this. Roosevelt worries about the declining birthrate in America, and about the shift away from the country to the cities. Roosevelt also asks Taft to send him some details about his life and career, as he has promised to write a brief introduction to Taft’s inauguration book.
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1908-12-21
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of Agriculture Wilson a pamphlet by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett entitled “The problem of Rural Life in the United States,” and asks for Wilson’s opinion about some suggestions therein.
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1906-07-03
Gifford Pinchot is “puzzled” over what is to be done in terms of U.S. politics. He would like to visit Theodore Roosevelt as soon as he returns from Europe. When he returns, Pinchot will also discourse “peace for peace’s sake” with Germany.
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1915-05-05
Gifford Pinchot regrets that he was unable to review Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett’s draft on conservation and country life. He encloses a letter he wrote to Senator La Follette when he decided to support Theodore Roosevelt’s candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
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1912-03-24
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett is unsure if Theodore Roosevelt expects him on Thursday night. Gifford Pinchot hopes that Roosevelt can see Plunkett.
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1912-03-19
Winona de Clyver is hopeful that Theodore Roosevelt will assist her in raising money, perhaps through the staging of a play, to raise money to allow Irish children to be taught Irish in schools. The English government has agreed to allow this and it is already being done in many schools. She also discusses at length efforts to get Irish farmers to join co-operatives to improve their financial position.
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1911-02-10
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett has written a book on the country life problem in the United States and Gifford Pinchot hopes for Theodore Roosevelt’s endorsement. Pinchot is pleased that Roosevelt might be able to speak at the National Conservation Congress and knows other organizations that would be anxious to hear him speak as well. Pinchot believes that the latest developments in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy show Attorney General George W. Wickersham and President William H. Taft in a poor light.
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1910-05-18
Gifford Pinchot and Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett wonder whether the death of King Edward VII will make it feasible for Theodore Roosevelt to visit Ireland. Amos Pinchot has written that the controversy surrounding Secretary Richard Achilles Ballinger is looking favorable for them and that Gifford Pinchot should not return yet. Pinchot hopes to have the conservation meeting in either Kansas City or St. Louis, Missouri and urges Roosevelt to make his first speech there.
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1910-05-09
Gifford Pinchot and Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett believe that Theodore Roosevelt should make a speech on the subject of his country life policy, believing it and conservation to be “really the two great parts of the supreme whole.” Pinchot thinks it would be best if Roosevelt could make the speech in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
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1910-04-23
British Ambassador to the United States Bryce was pleased by President Roosevelt’s letter about Horace Curzon Plunkett and believes that Plunkett will be pleased with it too.
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1909-03-03
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge tells President Roosevelt her thoughts on a variety of books she has read recently. Notably she read and enjoyed George Macaulay Trevelyan’s Garibaldi’s Defense of Rome and Herbert W. Paul’s Life of Froude. She has also read Jane Addams’ book The New Ideals of Peace, and enjoyed Horace Plunkett’s book on Ireland. Her husband C. Grant La Farge has been “splendidly” handling the new arrangements following the death of George Lewis Heins.
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1908-01-28
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom Reid comments on Winston Churchill’s recent promotion to the Privy Council, noting that it acknowledges his rise in the party without giving him a seat in the Cabinet. Churchill is still not well liked. Reid relays the debates on Horace Curzon Plunkett in the House of Commons and reports on English newspaper coverage of Roosevelt’s speech at Jamestown. He comments on unease over labor relations in France, the planning of an event after the Colonial Premiers’ Conference, opposition to a proposed move for a limitation of armaments at the Hague Conference, and Lewis Harcourt’s proposed English Land Bill.
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1907-05-01
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson refutes criticism made by Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett against the United States Department of Agriculture. The topics include research efforts, education, and communication in the field of agriculture.
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1906-07-06