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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Herbert Livingston Satterlee for sending him some photographs. However, Roosevelt does not know how to help Satterlee with the Dutch Reformed Church minister, and is unable to take on anything more.
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1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt advises Paul M. Hollister to wire or write Kermit Roosevelt for help.
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1915-01-15
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Ruth Moore Lee for forwarding letters from her husband, Arthur Hamilton Lee, who is at the front lines of the Great War. Roosevelt expresses sympathy and admiration for the couple in their challenges associated with the war. He states that while the Lees are “playing heroic parts,” he and his family are “lookers-on.”
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1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt has been disappointed by the Wilson administration’s attitude towards the war but is glad that some Americans are taking action. He is against “globe-trotters and curiosity seekers” and does not believe any American should visit a warring country. If there are visitors, he hopes they are put to work “digging kitchen sinks and burying dead horses.” Roosevelt views Germany as currently winning the war but the greater numbers and resources of the Allies will likely wear Germany down if the Allies stand united. He wishes he could have handled the foreign affairs of the last year as president. The Roosevelts had a delightful Christmas with three grandchildren at Sagamore Hill.
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1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciated the note from John C. Walker.
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1914-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt wishes Hall and Margaret Richardson Roosevelt a merry Christmas and is very proud of them. Roosevelt will be sending them a pamphlet he wrote on the world war and America’s duty. He is disgusted with the Wilson administration, especially because the general public seems to approve. Roosevelt concludes by summarizing the family’s Christmas plans and providing an update on family members.
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1914-12-22
Theodore and Edith Roosevelt are looking forward to a bucket of la cuite, a Lousiana sugar cane syrup, from John Milliken Parker. Roosevelt makes arrangement to see Parker in New York.
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1914-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt and his brother, Nicholas Roosevelt, have gone to France. Roosevelt expresses frustration at how the current administration has failed to interfere in World War I.
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1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt asks Edmund Heller for help arranging a big game hunting trip in Alaska for his son Archie.
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1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Charles Sheldon about an Alaska big game hunt that his son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, would like to take in the summer.
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1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt thanks F. Gray Griswold for the books and for his kindness to Quentin Roosevelt.
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1914-11-24
President Roosevelt gave the pigskin library to his daughter, and she would throw a fit if he suggested she sell a volume.
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1914-11-17
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Morgan for all he has done about the maps, although they arrived too late for the book. The elaborate map did not contain latitude or longitude and were not much use for his purposes. Roosevelt also inquires about some bones that were to be sent to him.
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1914-11-07
Theodore Roosevelt approves of Emily Tyler Carow’s actions after the outbreak of war in Europe and hopes that Italy will not be drawn into war. He understands Carow’s desire to stay in Italy and will not try to influence her as there appears to be no imminent danger. Roosevelt is distressed at the “awful cataclysm” in Europe and describes what is happening in Belgium as “enough to wring a man’s soul.” The Roosevelt family is doing well. Kermit and Belle Roosevelt have been staying at Sagamore Hill before traveling to South America and Roosevelt has been able to see his other children and grandchildren often. In a postscript, Roosevelt asks Carow to thank the consul general at Genoa, Italy for his courtesy and efficiency towards Americans in his province.
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1914-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could go see Kermit Roosevelt, but does not feel that he can leave at the moment. He is working to keep the Progressive Party together. He is to give an address for the American Historical Association and will send it to Kermit. Roosevelt informs his son that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is not well, but believes she will be better. Roosevelt’s other children are doing well.
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1912-12-03
President thanks Herman Henry Kohlsaat for his letter and intends to pass it down to his children.
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1909-03-01
President Roosevelt invites his cousin, William Emlen Roosevelt, and family to ride in a car he will borrow from Peters.
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1909-02-26
President Roosevelt warmly replies to Patrick C. Baker of the Evening News Association, saying he will pass on Baker’s letter to his children. Roosevelt expresses his admiration for “the right kind of man” regardless of occupation or station in life. He shares that George E. Miller, a correspondent in Washington, D.C. for the Evening News Association, is one such a person.
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1909-03-01
President Roosevelt tells his son Archie about the goings-on of his brother Quentin, his sister Ethel, his mother Edith, and some family pets. Roosevelt has just made his last speech as president, but he will be very busy with routine business over the next three weeks.
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1909-02-13
President Roosevelt discusses with his son Ted the precarious situation of Japanese immigration in the West. Roosevelt hopes that the Japanese government will help to prevent mass immigration of Japanese to the United States, as he thinks this would bring about “the gravest kind of race trouble” that will force the American government to pass exclusion laws.
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1909-02-13