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William J. Leslie sends Theodore Roosevelt a newspaper clipping, and asks whether the quote from John P. Gardiner is true.
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1911-02-28
Edward N. Wright sheepishly asks if Theodore Roosevelt can submit his signature and a favorite quotation to appear in the enclosed volume. Wright bragged to the organizer, Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam, that he could get Roosevelt’s signature, but did not expect that she would actually ask him to do so.
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1911-02-06
Winfield F. Prime shares a quote from Thomas Jefferson with Theodore Roosevelt with regard to his recent controversy with Governor Simeon E. Baldwin.
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1911-01-30
A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne.
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1910
Bertha von Suttner asks President Roosevelt to write down a quote she heard him say about peace. She is producing a work full of autographed quotes about the topic, and would like to include it.
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1907-12-02
Pastor Geyer asks Theodore Roosevelt’s permission to compile some of his quotations into a booklet for young people. He would like to distribute Roosevelt’s speeches and papers to a group of young people and have them choose the quotes to be included. Geyer would like to sell the booklets to raise funds to pay off debts incurred by his church’s building fund.
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1909-06-08
Charles H. Adams writes to John W. Farley regarding a phrase related to the United States and the Mississippi River Valley. Adams cites several examples of similar ideas regarding the importance of the Mississippi River and Mississippi River Valley from significant figures in American history.
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1908-12-22
William H. Taft sends President Roosevelt a letter that he has written to David Decamp Thompson. Taft is being quoted by the National Prohibitionist in favor of local option and in opposition to laws which cannot be enforced.
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1908-07-14
Senator Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for the quotation from William Wordswith, which he is returning.
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1908-03-28
Senator Lodge sends President Roosevelt a reminder of their conversation regarding Colonel George G. Greenough. Lodge asks that Roosevelt let him know what Colonel Clarence Ransom Edwards says, as he discussed Henry B. McCoy’s proxy for the Republican National Convention with him. He also encloses a short extract from Charles Dickens, which he thinks Roosevelt could make use of in a speech.
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1908-03-02
R. R. Bowker’s wife, Alice Bowker, found a quote which they thought may interest President Roosevelt. Bowker regrets the bother about Charles A. Stillings, as he knows that Roosevelt worked hard to get the best person as Public Printer.
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1908-03-05
Paul Morton shares with President Roosevelt a quote from Henry Ward Beecher stating that no American president has ever been liked or been “good for anything” during his time in office. Beecher then shows how every president from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant was regarded while in office. Morton thought Roosevelt would find this amusing.
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1908-02-05
Louis A. Coolidge questions a possible misinterpretation of a quote by President Roosevelt, contained in a confidential letter from Congressional candidate Frank Lowden, and encloses it for Roosevelt’s review.
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1906-07-14
President Roosevelt notes that Bishop Henry Gabriels, in his speech to the Pope, correctly reflected the meaning of Roosevelt’s words regarding equal treatment of members of different religions, but that the precise words used were the Bishop’s own.
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1906-08
Richard Harding Davis requested two lines from President Roosevelt about camping. Roosevelt gave more, and Davis requests Roosevelt allow him to share those lines.
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1905-08-10
R. A. Sands encloses a motto and playfully suggests Mrs. Roosevelt nail it to the president’s desk.
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1905-07-22
Attorney General Moody tells President Roosevelt that an closed quotation is not by Roosevelt, but is rather from a dispatch by Richard Olney to Thomas F. Bayard related to the Venezuelan question.
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1904-10-21
Anna Roosevelt Cowles tells her brother, President Roosevelt, about a recent visitor she had, who gratified Cowles by emphasizing Roosevelt’s integrity in a speech. She also tells a story about her son, William Sheffield Cowles, asking an endearing question about whether “all the ladies [will] vote for Aunt Edif.” Cowles plans to visit Washington, D.C. around election day, and will write to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about it.
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1904-10-16
Senator Smoot denies saying that President Roosevelt cannot carry New York in the presidential election. Newspapers are incorrectly attributing this statement to Smoot. He actually said that Roosevelt might not win the state due to opposition from the “trusts and great money interests.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-27
Postcard featuring a head-and-shoulders portrait of Theodore Roosevelt on the left and a quote on the right. A decorated border surrounds the postcard.
1906