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Rear Admiral Mahan is glad to let President Roosevelt use any of his writing that may be of service, without regard to credit. He adds that the book has not been read in the United States as much as in Great Britain. He also notes that his change of address delayed receipt of the president’s letter.
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1906-10-24
Assistant editor to The Century Magazine Clarence Clough Buel encloses proofs for Theodore Roosevelt’s article “The Ancient Irish Sagas” and asks that he give it the “final touches.”
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1906-10-18
Editor Edward Bok of The Ladies’ Home Journal writes to William Loeb with a question concerning the magazine section devoted to President Theodore Roosevelt. While Bok will comply with a request from Roosevelt to change the language of the section heading in “The President,” he requests that Roosevelt reconsider as the change, though minor, may cause unnecessary confusion.
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1906-09-07
William H. Fleming encloses a newspaper clipping containing his reply to an attack made by Judge A. L. Miller on his Athens, Georgia, address on race.
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1906-08-09
Opie Read tells President Roosevelt that he has just finished writing a book about Andrew Jackson, and asks if Roosevelt has any objection to the enclosed dedication page, which he emphasizes is written out of esteem and not “as an advertisement.”
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1906-08-09
William Valentine Alexander, managing editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal, asks William Loeb to deliver the enclosed proof of Maurice Francis Egan’s article to President Roosevelt for review. If Roosevelt finds no occasion to make changes, the article is ready to go to press.
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1906-08-07
Albert J. Beveridge quotes a letter from John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, who recently purchased the Dayton Journal. Shaffer plans to unequivocally endorse President Roosevelt and his policies. Beveridge has been traveling in the depths of the Maine woods, which he feels has restored him and urges Roosevelt to rest over the summer. After he opens the Maine campaign, Beveridge plans to go on another long trip with Gifford Pinchot.
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1906-08-08
Robert Bridges thanks President Roosevelt for sending him a poem written by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Bridges intends to print the poem in Scribner’s Magazine and offers critical feedback for later proofs.
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1906-08-08
Robert Bacon encloses a dispatch from the Legation of Buenos Aires that includes a clipping from La Nacion, a translation of a letter from President Roosevelt to Dr. Miguel F. Rodriguez.
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1906-07-26
Charles Scribner’s Sons has sent President Roosevelt a complete set of Roosevelt’s publications. They have added Outdoor Pastimes to the set.
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1906-07-20
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad President Roosevelt is at Sagamore and done with all of the hand shaking. Her husband William S. Cowles was home for the Fourth of July but has returned to Washington, D.C. Cowles recommends to her brother the volume Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. The Chinese minister mentioned while visiting that he plans to give suffrage to land owners based on a conversation he had with Roosevelt. Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. has been homebound much of the summer to avoid catching the whooping cough which is being passed around children in town, although he is canoeing, playing tennis, and vegetable gardening. The Chinese minister and Cowles both agree that horses are preferable to automobiles, as she is “in deadly terror of running into some one.”
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1906-07-08
Frank Andrew Munsey writes to President Roosevelt to ask him to write a 200,000 word article for Munsey’s Magazine on the topic of “The Populating of an Empire.” Munsey believes that Roosevelt is the most qualified man in the country on this topic. Roosevelt would be paid $50,000 for the article and would reserve the book rights.
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1906-03-06
Praising remarks made by Japanese Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt if he can send it to be published in The Outlook or if she can have permission to have it published in another weekly publication. La Farge thinks the address would be more valuable to the civilian than the military man. She recommends that Roosevelt read the book Religion, a Criticism and a Forecast by G. Lowes Dickinson.
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1906-03-07
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge references President Roosevelt’s troubles with the “Fads and Fancies” publication and thanks him for sending her a copy of the related correspondence between William Loeb, Francis Wayland Palmer, William D’Alton Mann, Joseph M. Deuel, and William Travers Jerome. La Farge is keeping it because she is having dinner with Jerome soon. She plans to tell him that he was foolish for not working with Roosevelt on the matter, as she believes people credit Roosevelt for calling out the fraudulent behavior.
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1906-02-06
Frederick Courteney Selous sends President Roosevelt a copy of Swayne’s Travels in Mongolia, and, as soon as he is able, will send copies of several magazine articles. Selous very much enjoyed meeting Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. If Roosevelt would consent to send Selous a signed photograph, Selous would “value it above all things.”
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1905-11-26
Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt to discuss sending Roosevelt photographs for publication in a book.
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1905-09-13
Ambassador McCormick thinks the enclosed article from the Nineteenth Century dated March 1904 would interest President Roosevelt. McCormick thinks it is advantageous to see such a point of view, if only to strengthen the current belief in the Japanese and their actions in the present war.
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1905-07-15
Robert Bridges saw the photos of Theodore Roosevelt’s hunting trip. Bridges is delighted that Roosevelt finished the first draft of the articles. Bridges can go to Washington to talk over the arrangement of articles for the book.
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1905-06-03
M. F. Morris thanks Theodore Roosevelt for giving Morris the permission to publish their personal correspondence.
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1905-05-29
Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Takahira wants to convey to President Roosevelt that the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov (also spelled Kniaz Souvoroff) went down. Takahira mentions that four additional Russian battleships have gone down. According to Takahira, the Japanese fleet seized a torpedo-boat destroyer, where they found the wounded Russian Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky (also spelled Rojestoeusky). Takahira urges others to keep this information quiet until publication.
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1905-05-30