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President Roosevelt is pleased with the Abraham Lincoln picture and regards it as a real addition to the White House. Roosevelt believes the picture represents Lincoln around the time of the debate between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-05
President Roosevelt does not believe that he can take the time to sit for the production of his bust. He vowed after the John Singer Sargent painting that he would not sit for another painting or bust.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-07
President Roosevelt declines Joseph Ralph Burton’s request that he sit for another portrait, explaining that two good pictures have already been painted and any future paintings of Roosevelt should be replicas of these.
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1903-06-08
President Roosevelt cannot send the picture to an exhibition because it is government property.
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1903-03-10
President Roosevelt thanks Emily Tuckerman for the clipping and was pleased to see her.
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1903-02-20
President Roosevelt offers John Singer Sargent a room at the White House while he paints the portrait.
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1903-01-29
John Singer Sargent’s room will be ready on the 10th and then they can decide where to paint.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-03
President Roosevelt requests a few days to think over William Hooper’s portrait proposition.
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1902-12-29
President Roosevelt agrees that the picture can be made but would like a few days to think over how it should be done.
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1903-01-02
If Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer leaves, President Roosevelt would be pleased to send Henry White to Italy. Roosevelt is pleased that John Singer Sargent has agreed to paint his portrait for the White House.
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1902-05-15
President Roosevelt is pleased that John Singer Sargent will be painting his portrait for the White House.
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1902-05-13
Léopold II thanks President Roosevelt for the photographic portrait that he sent.
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1901-1909
Martha Bacon thanks President Roosevelt for the portrait photograph, and for the pleasant four years she and her husband, Robert Bacon, have spent in Washington, D.C.
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1909-01-07
H. S. Hammond requests Theodore Roosevelt gift the Young Men’s Christian Association of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts a large, autographed portrait to hang in the association’s reading room.
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1911-11-10
Charles M. Shean tells Theodore Roosevelt he has painting a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, who during his lifetime did not have a portrait painted that is “considered thoroughly satisfactory by those who knew the President.” Shean tells Roosevelt he is welcome to come view his portrait, but he knows Roosevelt is very busy so he also offers to send the portrait directly to his office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-17
William Glasmann knows an artist from Ogden, Utah who wants to do a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt. The artist, Fritzhof E. Weberg, has a photograph of Roosevelt seated, but would prefer to paint a standing portrait from the knees up. Glasmann asks Roosevelt to please forward a photograph to meet this request.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-23
Frank C. Williams received an oil painting of President William H. Taft to hang in his office, and requests a similar portrait of Theodore Roosevelt to place alongside it.
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1911-05-22
On behalf of the First Progressive Republican Club of the Sixteenth Assembly District, William J. Myers thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending a photograph.
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1911-05-22
José de Olivares asks Theodore Roosevelt for a signed portrait for the consulate in Madras, India. de Olivares mentions that the last signed portrait that hung in the consulate was owned and taken by the previous Consul at Madras upon his departure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-09
Albert Rosenthal has been commissioned to paint a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt to add to a collection of portraits of Presidents of the United States, and asks if Roosevelt would be available for a sitting at some point.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-24