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Frederick William MacMonnies thanks President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the clothes.
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1905-01-30
William Sturgis Bigelow confirms that the book, Bushido, is worthwhile and highly valued by the Japanese.
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1905-01-25
Ambassador to Italy Henry White tells President Theodore Roosevelt that he will extend hospitality to Frances M. Wolcott at the request of the President and First Lady. White also discusses Roosevelt’s recent meeting with British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice and Roosevelt’s policy towards Latin America, especially the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. White is confident Roosevelt’s actions (part of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine) will lead to America’s “supremacy in our own hemisphere.”
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1905-01-24
Reverend Peabody writes to President Roosevelt giving Kermit permission to miss school to attend his father’s Presidential inauguration.
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1905-01-21
Katherine Lowell Roosevelt Bowlker congratulates President Roosevelt on his landslide re-election and rhapsodizes over the country’s faith in his character. She wishes Alfred (her first husband and Roosevelt’s cousin) had been alive to witness it.
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1905-01-10
William M. Cruikshank acknowledges receipt of papers which effect the appointment of Edith Roosevelt as the guardian for Kermit Roosevelt.
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1904-12-27
Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann thanks President Roosevelt for his sympathy upon her husband’s death. She describes his loyalty to and confidence in Roosevelt and expresses his wish that Richard C. Kerens be elected to the United States Senate. She would like to meet with Roosevelt or William Loeb regarding a personal matter.
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1904-12-23
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis gave President Roosevelt a copy of “Mereille,” a poem by Frederic Mistral along with a silver medal for Edith Roosevelt which Mistral sent to him.
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1904-12-15
Nathan Bijur discusses a convenient date for a luncheon with Israel Zangwill and President Roosevelt in Florida. Bijur relays a compliment regarding Roosevelt’s recommendations on the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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1904-12-11
John Ellis Roosevelt received President and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s wills. John Ellis Roosevelt mentions that the witnesses have failed to provide their addresses. Although this omission does not affect the validity of the wills, it may constitute a small fine for the witnesses. He has therefore taken the liberty of indicating “Washington, D.C.,” as their address, and asks Loeb to advise him if this is not correct.
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1904-12-06
William M. Cruikshank has received documents related to Edith Roosevelt’s petition to be made guardian of Kermit and Ethel.
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1904-12-05
Douglas Robinson has received the check and will invest it on President Roosevelt’s behalf. Robinson has also received a check from the law firm of Carter and Ledyard. This is an inheritance payment. Robinson will send a ring Ethel Carow Roosevelt wants as soon as it is retrieved from the vault. He and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson enjoyed their trip with Roosevelt to St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-12-02
Lucius H. Beers sends the forms that must be completed so that Mrs. Edith Roosevelt can be named guardian of Kermit and Ethel.
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1904-11-23
Secretary of Puerto Rico Regis Henri Post writes to President Roosevelt about Puerto Rico’s Governor Beekman Winthrop. Post praises Winthrop’s work and congratulates Roosevelt for encouraging men like him to be in politics. Post also congratulates President Roosevelt on the recent elections results.
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1904-11-16
Nicholas Murray Butler encloses a clipping for President Roosevelt’s attention. Butler enjoyed his short visit with Mrs. Edith Roosevelt.
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1904-11-16
Historian James Ford Rhodes thanks President Roosevelt for his “kind words” and discusses the volume on which he is currently working. Rhodes mentions that when Roosevelt is no longer president, he would like to sit and talk with him about history and literature.
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1904-11-15
Elihu Root will be bringing his wife and daughter, Edith, to Washington, D.C., to see the bronze sculpture of Frederick the Great given to President Roosevelt by German Emperor William II. Root would like to meet with Roosevelt to discuss the recent election results.
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1904-11-11
Douglas Robinson writes how pleased he and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson will be to visit with President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at Thanksgiving. Robinson asks if he can travel with Roosevelt to see the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
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1904-11-11
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, writes to President Roosevelt to arrange a visit to the White House and encloses an article from the San Francisco Argonaut.
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1904-11-11
Senator Beveridge congratulates President Roosevelt on his victory in the presidential election. He mentions he is visiting his mother, Francis Ellen Parkinson Beveridge, and that her county—and the county where he was raised—has always gone Democratic since Illinois became a state. However, in the 1904 election, it went to Roosevelt. Beveridge believes this is indicative of the entire nation, which wants Roosevelt and not necessarily the Republican Party. He knows that Roosevelt’s administration will accomplish great things and sends his regards to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1904-11-10