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Theodore Roosevelt explains that he is booked for Tommy Hitchcock’s box, but he invites the Colliers, the Hapgoods, and Mark Sullivan for lunch sometime.
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1911-05-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Professor Bowman for his review of Roosevelt’s book Through the Brazilian Wilderness and invites him to lunch at Oyster Bay to discuss a foal and Bowman’s Forest Physiography book among other things.
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1915-03-18
President Roosevelt thanks Clarence Winthrop Bowen for inviting him to stay the night. However, he must decline the invitation. Roosevelt sends his regards to Mrs. Bowen.
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1914-12-03
President Roosevelt thanks Governor Comer for the interview and hopes they can dine together soon. Roosevelt eagerly awaits receiving the sugar cane syrup.
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1907-12-18
President Roosevelt writes to Archie Roosevelt that one letter home will suffice for both parents and gives updates on his life at home with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. He recently had visitors for tennis and French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand brought him a medal from an artist. When he came home he brought Quentin Roosevelt bear tusks and a stuffed copperhead skin.
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1907-10-27
President Roosevelt asks Marvin Hughitt to be honest about if he wants Roosevelt’s son, Kermit Roosevelt, to go on the hunting trip.
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1907-05-10
President Roosevelt has not heard from his son Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., so he is glad to hear the news through Frederick G. Fincke. He received a vague telegram but was pleased by Fincke’s letter. He regrets that he cannot attend the mid-year dinner due to his being president. He is very happy that Fincke has taken a fancy to Ted.
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1906-11-27
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit Roosevelt, who is currently on a trip in the Dakotas, and reminisces about his own time there. Life at Sagamore Hill is pleasant, and Roosevelt updates Kermit on the comings and goings and activities happening around the place.
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge about his vacation, and comments that “the secret service men are a very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh.” While they would not prevent an assassin, Roosevelt believes, they help keep sightseers away. Roosevelt will try to help the Congressional Committee in the fall, but feels that there will be a number of tough elections coming up.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte that he has had to refuse both invitations, and remarks that he “shuddered slightly at the usual ‘Excellency’ in the Mayor’s letter.” Secretary of State Elihu Root has given Roosevelt details about the running of the Department of State for the next several months, but Roosevelt has not heard from any other Cabinet members apart from Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock.
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1906-07-05
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on some of the goings-on of the family, and reports that Kermit’s brother Ted’s eye surgery went well. The egg-rolling at the White House on Easter Monday was great fun for the children, and the white house grounds are looking nice in spring. Roosevelt relates a humorous story involving Kermit’s younger brother Quentin Roosevelt, who “is a funny small person if ever there was one.” Roosevelt is trying to send aid to California, still reeling after a recent earthquake, and has been continuing his fight for a rate bill and the Panama Canal issue.
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1906-04-22
President Roosevelt thanks President Michael J. Lyons and the committee members of the Central Labor Union of Tidewater for their invitation to Norfolk, Virginia. However, as president, he endeavors to follow the principle of “equal rights to all and special privileges to none.”
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1905-01-23
President Roosevelt has heard good things about Mr. Olney but is still unsure what he can do in the matter. Roosevelt cannot join a society, no matter how admirable, as he receives so many invitations that there would be hurt feelings.
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1904-02-23
President Roosevelt is always busy, but thoroughly enjoys the work. The Roosevelt family is doing well and he encloses the requested photograph.
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1901-11-01
Mark Sullivan asks William Loeb if he could bring the several individuals to meet President Roosevelt and shake his hand during the first week of February.
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1909-01-25
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson informs William Loeb that she has some friends who would like to have their son shake hands with President Roosevelt, and asks if he might be able to spare a couple minutes to greet them. Robinson also asks if Roosevelt had the chance to have lunch with Miss Archibald Alexander, who she had previously written about. She asks Loeb to give Roosevelt an enclosed note.
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1908-03-24
Edward William Bok, the editor of the Ladies Home Journal, asks William Loeb for suggestions of writers capable of authoring articles on various aspects of the presidency. Additionally, he requests a meeting with President Roosevelt to discuss a potential series of articles following his time in office, if Loeb thinks Roosevelt would be open to the idea.
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1907-08-16
Ford Kitchel gives testimony about making facsimilies of a check for $975, signed by Theodore Roosevelt for champagne bought from the Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Company, for their archives at their main office in Reims, France and in New York City. Kitz, agent of Piper-Heidsieck, sends Kitchel to Graham at Oberly & Newel printing house to get the facsimilies of the check. Graham sends Kitchel to Herman Schedler, a photographer, for a photograph to make the engraving. Two days later Kitz tells Kitchel that the president objects to making a copy of his check and to “obtain the plate that they had made and everything pertaining to this subject matter.” Kitchel then goes to Graham and obtains said photograph and plate from him. Graham tells Kitchel that “no impression of any kind had been made from the copper plate.” Kitchel obtains from Schedler a negative and two impressions he had received for his files.
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1906-03-28
Reverend Washburn congratulates President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on the announcement of the engagement of their daughter Alice Roosevelt. Washburn also wishes the President a merry Christmas.
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1905-12-16
Clarence H. Mackay writes to President Roosevelt to arrange a visit with Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough.
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1905-09-17