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President Roosevelt appreciates John Woodbury’s efforts to have his portrait painted, and thinks any painter Woodbury chooses will be satisfactory. Roosevelt suggests that he sit for the portrait in October, before Congress returns.
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1908-08-04
President Roosevelt recounts for Viscount Lee how pleasant it was to sit for his portrait by Fülöp László. László allowed him to have guests to speak to while he sat, and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge was a common guest. Roosevelt thanks Lee for his work with William Lyon Mackenzie King, and notes that although the issue of Japanese immigration is not acute yet, it could be soon. He also discusses the success of the Great White Fleet’s tour and target practice.
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1908-04-08
President Roosevelt tells Arthur Hamilton Lee that Fülöp László has completed his portrait of Roosevelt, and Roosevelt thinks it is the best portrait that has been painted of him.
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1908-03-21
President Roosevelt tells John Woodbury about several portraits that he has had or is having done. Roosevelt asks Woodbury if having a replica of a painting by Gari Melchers or John Singer Sargent woulld suffice. He agrees that if his picture is going to be put at Harvard it should be during his presidency, and he is touched by the desire of his classmates to put it there.
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1908-02-05
President Roosevelt thanks Robert Mackay, editor of Success Magazine, for the letter. He asks Mackey to give this letter to Paul Morton, who has a good picture of him.
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1908-02-06
President Roosevelt is interested in seeing a quotation that Paul Morton mentioned. Roosevelt has written a note to Robert Mackey, editor of Success Magazine, to give to Morton to ask if Morton would be willing to let Mackey copy a painting of Roosevelt that Morton has.
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1908-02-06
President Roosevelt apologizes to Charles H. Young that he cannot sit for a portrait for the Republican Club of New York because of his busy schedule. He asks if Charles A. Whipple would be able to paint a replica of a portrait that had already been completed of him.
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1908-02-06
President Roosevelt is sorry to inform his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles that he will have to wait to sit for a portrait with artist Ellen Emmet Rand. Roosevelt is too busy due to the ongoing financial panic.
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1907-11-01
President Roosevelt tells Richard Watson Gilder that he consents to be photographed but will have difficulty persuading Edith Kermit Carrow Roosevelt to participate. Roosevelt asks if Gilder ever sees Mr. Cleveland anymore.
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1907-11-06
President Roosevelt agrees to meet with a sculptor at Dana Estes’ request, but explains that he would prefer to meet with the artist once he returns to Washington, D.C., after his vacation.
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1907-07-10
President Roosevelt sends two photographs to John L. Harrington, and says that Harrington may keep the one labeled for Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II, because Robert Peet Skinner has already delivered a copy of it to the emperor.
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1907-07-10
Although “churlish” to decline a portrait by artist Cecile De Wentworth, President Roosevelt gets too many requests to have his portrait painted. However, he asks De Wentworth for a different painting and will discuss it with Father Alexander Patrick Doyle.
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1906-10-09
President Roosevelt thanks Irving Ramsay Wiles for sending him a photograph of a painting, and comments that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, in addition to many of his friends, think it is the best portrait of Roosevelt that has been done. He also thanks Wiles for sending the photographs of portraits of Nicholas Murray Butler and John William Burgess.
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1906-07-20
President Roosevelt gives Robert Jenkins Nevin permission to use his face, and encloses “the only good profile photograph I have.”
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1906-06-18
President Roosevelt says that Speaker Charles E. Patterson has the same view of his portrait as Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt says he is nonchalant about the portrait and is “utterly indifferent” when it comes to all pictures of himself.
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1905-10-06
President Roosevelt assures Kate Phelan Hampton that she not feel badly about causing him any annoyance over the use of his photograph in the book, which is presumably William D’Alton Mann’s Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. However, Roosevelt wants to again stress that he does not authorize the use of his photo in this case and wants nothing about him to appear in the book.
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1905-07-29
President Roosevelt liked Vitalie Pappin’s letter, and sends her a photograph for her school.
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1905-03-18
President Roosevelt thanks Helen Dortch Longstreet for the copy of her book, Lee and Longstreet, and sends her a photograph in return.
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1905-02-16
President Roosevelt thanks young Darrell Weston Papst for sending him and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, souvenir plates. Roosevelt sends a photograph in return.
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1904-10-11
President Roosevelt sends his congratulations to the students, teachers, and Board of Education of Virginia, Minnesota. A photograph of Roosevelt is enclosed for the school.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-06