Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Gifford Pinchot
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from John Riis, son of his dear friend Jacob A. Riis.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-08-29
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Riis, John, 1882-1946
Letter from Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis to Theodore Roosevelt
Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis thanks President Roosevelt for his friendship. Jacob A. Riis is away for his health in California, but is expected to return soon. Riis writes that she and her family will do their best to be present at Roosevelt’s inauguration, and that only death or sickness will stop them. The rest of the Riis family is doing well.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-27
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Letter from Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis to Theodore Roosevelt
Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis asks President Roosevelt to forward a letter to her husband, Jacob Riis.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-12-05
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Jacob A. Riis
Jacob A. Riis’s son John Riis accepted the position of Forest Guard offered to him by Gifford Pinchot.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-22
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elisabeth D. Riis
President Roosevelt is delighted to hear about the Riis family. He directs Elisabeth D. Riis to reserve rooms in Washington, D.C., and asks her to write to the Committee on Public Comfort of the Inaugural Committee. They will send the Riis family the tickets and lunch invitations.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Jacob A. Riis
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt praises Jacob A. Riis’s son and expresses his appreciation of his close friendship with Riis, despite what Andrew D. Parker and Frederick Dent Grant say about him.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1897-05-17
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Letter from Jacob A. Riis to Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob A. Riis tells President Roosevelt that his son, John, has made up with his “old girl,” and that they are getting married tomorrow. Although the couple wants it kept quiet, Riis asks Roosevelt to wire them a letter of congratulations.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-08
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Letter from Jacob A. Riis to Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for securing a job for his son, John, a job that Riis thinks will get his son safely through “his wandering years.” Presently, the elder Riis is recuperating in the hospital after having a heart treatment to which he is responding well. As it is the first day of Lent, he encourages Roosevelt that with spring soon at hand, he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will “have peace in the White House” and be able to rest. In a postscript, Riis remarks that the happenings of the Senate remind him “of the man who digged a pit for his enemy and fell therein himself.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-27
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Letter from Jacob A. Riis to Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob A. Riis is pleased at an unnamed order given by President Roosevelt. Riis’s son John has left home and Riis is unsure of his son’s whereabouts.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-08-15
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Letter from Elisabeth D. Nielson Riis et al. to Theodore Roosevelt
Jacob A. Riis is still in Canada, but the Riis family is thinking of President Roosevelt as he succeeds to the presidency.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-09-15