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Theodore Ayrault Dodge asks for a letter of introduction to Henry White, the new ambassador to France. He reports that the former ambassador, Robert Sanderson McCormick, treated him well. He comments on President Roosevelt’s Irish Saga and promises to send copies of his biographies of Napoleon I by April.
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1907-01-17
Maurice Francis Egan tells President Roosevelt that he likes James Jeffrey Roche’s letter, especially what he said about the Storer affair. As a side note, Egan says he communicated with Archbishop John Ireland. He wonders how Roosevelt feels about Catholic politicians.
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1907-01-15
Francis C. Travers comments on suggested nominees for diplomatic positions. He is particularly concerned about T. St. John Gaffney believing he is to be Minister to Portugal and asks William Loeb whether he ought to write to President Roosevelt about it. In a postscript, Travers encourages Loeb to read the New York Times article about Postmaster General Robert John Wynne.
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1904-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt invites William Astor Chanler to serve with him, if he is permitted to join the war. Roosevelt writes that they share the same beliefs including the belief that “there are many worse ways of ending than in battle.” He goes on to quote a Civil War poem about death in war.
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1915-03-12
President Roosevelt sends a check for a memorial to be erected over the grave of his friend James Jeffrey Roche.
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1908-12-10
President Roosevelt tells Elizabeth C. Roche that he would be delighted to receive a history of Genoa. Regarding the letters Roosevelt sent to her late husband, James Jeffrey Roche, Roosevelt asks if she would be willing to send them to Roosevelt so that he could examine them and indicate if any of them should not be published.
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1908-06-23
President Roosevelt telegraphs, “Accept deep sympathy.”
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1908-04-03
President Roosevelt informs Thomas Wentworth Higginson he was able to offer James Jeffrey Roche a consulate in Italy.
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1904-11-24
President Roosevelt is interested in subscribing to Charles Welsh’s book entitled Irish Literature, but he asks that Welsh not make his letter public. If Roosevelt is known to have endorsed one book, he explains, he would be expected to endorse many others.
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1904-09-07
President Roosevelt has received unexpected support in his campaign and wonders if Secretary of State Hay has anything to do with it. Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro appears to be riding for a fall, and if he misbehaves Roosevelt believes the customs house should be put in the hands of the Belgians.
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1904-08-30
President Roosevelt invites T. St. John Gaffney, James Jeffrey Roche, and Francis H. Wall to lunch.
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1904-08-26
President Roosevelt enjoyed James Jeffrey Roche’s poem on Panama and asks Edward L. Burlingame to look into the poem’s publication. Roosevelt is confident the canal treaty will pass.
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1904-01-07
Joseph Smith writes to President Roosevelt soliciting a contribution to help friends of the late James Jeffrey Roche place a memorial over his grave site, which currently sits unmarked.
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1908-12-08
Meyer Lissner sends Edward Augustus Dickson a letter which he hopes Dickson will publicize in order to help Daniel A. Ryan’s election chances in San Francisco. Lissner also tells Dickson that Los Angeles Republicans have been building support for William Howard Taft’s presidential run by passing resolutions in support of both Theodore Roosevelt and Taft.
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1907-10-17
Lawyer Euegene A. Philbin explains to President Theodore Roosevelt a situation involving a group of Filipino students and their placement within colleges and universities around the United States.
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1904-10-14
T. St. John Gaffney discusses scheduling lunch with President Roosevelt, noting that he will be busy working on the campaign with Jeffrey Roche for the next few days. He believes that the “Italian Element in New York is most important” and that Consul-General DeCastro should return from Rome to speak. Although he believes that Patrick Egan made a good minister to Chili, he argues that Egan is “without character,” without influence among the Irish, and “a danger.” He discusses how Egan sought a position at Tammany Hall.
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1904-08-11
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortelyou informs Benjamin F. Barnes that he received Barnes’s letter about James Jeffrey Roche and will communicate with Mr. Gaffney when necessary.
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1904-06-13
Prominent Catholics who claim to be Democrats support President Roosevelt because of his commitment to the separation of church and state, and stated desire to nominate men to office based on their merits, rather than their religion.
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1904-08-30
John Ireland writes of his recent meeting with Monsignor Denis J. O’Connell, who told the Pope “the words you were so kind as to say to him. The results . . . were most favorable.” However, when Loeb denied that O’Connell had been sent by the President, O’Connell was concerned that the Vatican reaction might be to disvalue the O’Connell’s interview. Ireland suggests that President Roosevelt invite O’Connell for lunch as a sign of Roosevelt’s high regard for the prelate. By doing so, the President’s message that O’Connell presented would not be questioned.
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1903-11-24