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President Roosevelt discusses his and Kermit Roosevelt’s preferences for the poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Browning, and Homer with David Gray. Roosevelt mentions how Kermit brought Robinson to his attention and how he appointed Robinson to a civil service post at the New York Custom House.
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1908-07-20
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt recently showed President Roosevelt a sonnet that Robert Bridges wrote about him, and he greatly enjoyed reading it.
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1908-07-13
President Roosevelt returns a poem that Elise Richards Jusserand had sent. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt both enjoyed reading it, and will speak with Jusserand about it tomorrow.
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1908-06-09
President Roosevelt thanks Edmond R. Lyon for sending him the poem, which he had not seen yet. He found it amusing and interesting.
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1908-05-04
President Roosevelt liked Philip Roosevelt’s poem, but will not say so to him. He agrees with his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt that he likes discussing the futures of the Roosevelt boys. He thinks Ted will likely work under John Campbell Greenway. Roosevelt also tells William that he does not know much more about the legislation in Congress.
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1908-04-16
President Roosevelt is extremely grateful to T. R. Sullivan for not only finding the poem “Taillefer the Trouvere,” but also for writing it out in his own hand.
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1908-04-05
President Roosevelt thanks James H. French for the poem and says that it provides a new light on Adams’s character.
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1908-03-30
President Roosevelt thanks Madison Julius Cawein for the poems, especially the ode and Cape Ann poems. He is sure he will enjoy them, as he always enjoys Cawein’s poetry.
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1908-04-03
President Roosevelt thanks Charles Welsh for the poems, which he feels “exactly express the spirit of the present cruse of our fleet.” Roosevelt agrees that Pritchett wrote a good article, and thanks Welsh again for dedicating a book to him.
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1908-02-29
President Roosevelt sends Norman Hapgood some lines of poetry.
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1908-02-21
President Roosevelt thanks Alexander D. Sharpe for the letter, and asks him to thank Mr. Weir for the poem.
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1908-02-15
President Roosevelt praises his cousin Philip J. Roosevelt for a poem he wrote, saying that it evokes the feelings he had when he lived in the Badlands.
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1908-02-17
President Roosevelt sends his son, Theodore Roosevelt, a poem written by Philip J. Roosevelt.
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1908-02-17
President Roosevelt asks Philip J. Roosevelt if he would send him a copy of a poem. He, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and Kermit Roosevelt all enjoyed Philip J. Roosevelt’s visit at Christmas.
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1908-02-11
President Roosevelt thanks Charles William Anderson for the kind speech that he made, and was pleased that he used a line of poetry from William Ernest Henley, whose poetry Roosevelt enjoys.
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1908-01-31
President Roosevelt enjoyed seeing Russell B. Harrison and his family on New Year’s Day. He thanks Harrison for the poem.
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1908-01-03
President Roosevelt appreciated the items that Ernest McGaffey sent him, which included a poem and two pictures of his young daughter.
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1908-01-07
President Roosevelt thanks Richard Watson Gilder for his book of poetry, The Fire Divine.
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1907-12-07
President Roosevelt likes Consul Roche’s poem and does not consider it either disrespectful to the equator or nature faking. Roosevelt is also amused by the New York Herald accusing him of lacking courage, calling the Herald an expert on the subject.
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1907-11-27
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough for the volume of poems.
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1907-06-01