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Kentarō Kaneko hopes that President Roosevelt’s son, Archie, is recovering from his illness. He assures Roosevelt that he did all he could in light of racial tensions in San Francisco, and will remind the Japanese government that Roosevelt has been a friend to Japan in the past.
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1907-04-15
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, baron d’Estournelles de Constant, informs President Roosevelt that he has “seen a great many things in America,” which he will reflect on once he returns to France. Roosevelt’s family left the best impression on him.
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1907-04-13
Alexander Lambert will go to see President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt after visiting Sherwood Alfred Cheney on Friday. His moose head has finally been displayed on his wall and the moose antlers set aside for Roosevelt’s son are stored in his attic.
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1907-04-11
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about the career implications for Admiral C. H. Davis should Atlantic Fleet Commander Admiral Robley D. Evans retire. Lodge feels that Davis deserves the position more than Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich and that Evans’ actions in Jamaica after the 1907 earthquake should not be held against him. Lodge adds that his sister-in-law’s health continues to deteriorate and that according to the doctors she should have died several days before.
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1907-04-09
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about a speech made by Eben S. Draper, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and owner of a business that manufactured textile processing machinery, that might have been misreported to Roosevelt. Lodge assures Roosevelt that Draper did not attack him in the speech and that the newspapers have mischaracterized it. He also lets Roosevelt know that there has been no change in the condition of his sister-in-law; the doctors have already given up on her but she is still “hanging on the edge”.
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1907-04-08
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt discussing the deteriorating health of his sister-in-law. He also discusses the potential candidates for the 1908 presidential election and their various levels of support.
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1907-04-07
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt thanking him for his note of sympathy in his “dark days”.
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1907-04-03
William Emlen Roosevelt writes to Theodore Roosevelt that his telegraph company received the license they signed the other day. Roosevelt also writes that nobody has escaped the shrinkage in the value of property and he brings up the idea of a national incorporation of railroads.
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1907-03-28
Anna Roosevelt Cowles informs President Roosevelt about the different people that will be coming to visit him. Cowles wishes that they could have visited when Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt was available.
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1907-03-19
Endicott Peabody thanks President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for their kind letter, when his daughter Elizabeth Rogers Peabody was sick with pneumonia. Elizabeth has recovered, and they are grateful that Archibald B. Roosevelt is feeling better as well.
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1907-03-17
President Roosevelt’s former classmate, James Ford Rhodes, reflects on Roosevelt’s administration and how it will be viewed by history. He believes three points will endure: the man whose critics called him a champion of war has become a peace keeper; Roosevelt has set a high standard of honesty in public service, and has inspired good young men to enter into politics; and his presidency has favored neither the rich nor the poor, but administered justice to both. Rhodes also reflects on the lives of the rich, comparing America’s wealthy with others in history, particularly those of the Roman Republic and Empire. He believes the Americans are better because of the use they make of their wealth. While the ancient Romans dedicated themselves to lives of sensual pleasure, the modern Americans live simply and give to educational and charitable causes.
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1907-03-16
George Bird Grinnell thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending the letter that Roosevelt just received from Earl Grey. Grinnell is gratified to know that the Governor General of Canada is interested in protecting buffalo. Grinnell closes by sending his well wishes to Archie Roosevelt.
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1907-03-15
William Emlen Roosevelt writes about a box of flowers that was wrongly delivered in the Roosevelt Hospital. Roosevelt will be coming to Washington, D.C., to see Secretary of War Taft.
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1907-03-12
William Emlen Roosevelt is glad that Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering and understands the anxiety President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt suffer. He wants to visit Washington, D.C., to talk about his dispute with a treasury official and the Harriman incident. Christine Roosevelt is nervous about the idea of William staying where a person has diphtheria, so he may sleep at his in-laws to calm her. He visited Russell in the hospital. The superintendent of Roosevelt Hospital is dying. William hoped that spring was arriving, but a recent snow storm crushed his hopes of riding.
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1907-03-11
Endicott Peabody informs President Roosevelt that they are interested in Archibald Roosevelt’s recovery and have had prayers for him in Chapel. The newspaper coverage of his illness has been sensational. He assumes that not having received a telegram from Kermit is good news. Peabody comments that Kermit is handling his brother’s illness well.
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1907-03-09
William Emlen Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt that he and Edith have been on his mind since hearing of Archibald B. Roosevelt’s sickness. He has enclosed a survey of Cove Neck as promised, and despite several errors, the layout is “very interesting” for them to have. He tells Roosevelt of the dire situation on Wall Street and the effect that the panic has had on himself and his colleagues. He discusses his visit from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and the dispatch he received from his son George Emlen Roosevelt, who was remorseful not speaking to Roosevelt when he was visiting Harvard.
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1907-03-07
Theodore Roosevelt asks his father President Roosevelt when the best time would be to schedule his eye surgery. He would prefer that his mother, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, not come up for his surgery as it would be too hard on her.
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1907-03-06
French diplomat Baron d’Estournelles de Constant accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to visit and will be embarking on the Savoie to New York, arriving in Washington by April 8th.
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1907-02-28
Sarah Polk Fall donates china and glassware used by President James K. and Sarah Polk to the White House collection.
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1907-02-24
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid was surprised by the enclosed letter from Teresa Stoughton Richardson that President Roosevelt has sent her, stating she has never heard such a story before. Reid updates Roosevelt on the health of both her father, Darius Odgen Mills, and husband, Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador to Great Britian, and looks forward to seeing him when she leaves for Great Britian on The Philadelphia on March 2nd.
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1907-02-20