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President Roosevelt thanks Therese, Arline, Florence Falkenau and their father Victor Falkenau for the melons.
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1908-09-02
President Roosevelt relays his concern for the Cooley family to Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley as her husband, Assistant Attorney General Alford Warriner Cooley, recovers from illness. Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte wrote him about Alford Warriner Cooley returning the check. He finds it a needless and irritating, yet endearing action. Roosevelt wants to help the Cooley family in any way, finding “it a very great privilege…to serve you,” as he greatly admires and respects them.
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1908-09-02
President Roosevelt is interested in Robert Williams Wood’s experiment in the telescope building. Concerning the boomerangs, Roosevelt thanks Woods, but apologizes that “they are out of the line of my sons and myself.”
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1908-08-20
President Roosevelt believes his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, is handling the details of a reception exactly as it should be handled. Roosevelt confirms the details of his trip to the dedication of a library in Herkimer, New York.
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1908-08-12
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt informs Roger Williams that her children, Theodore and Ethel Roosevelt, will meet the USS Sylph at 4:20 p.m.
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1908-08-12
President Roosevelt will attend to the matter Representative Longworth refers to at once and sends his love to his daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, in a handwritten postscript.
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1908-08-12
President Roosevelt updates Henry Cabot Lodge on personal and political matters. Roosevelt feels obligated to enjoy a series of essays by Westerlick because his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, assumes he would not care for them; the puzzling problem of the re-nomination for Charles Evans Hughes for governor of New York; the plans for Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari, and his desire to tour Europe on the way home as a private citizen without pomp; his plans to write for Scribner’s and The Outlook post-presidency, and his reasoning for selecting those offers.
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1908-08-08
President Roosevelt sends Kermit Roosevelt a poem that reminds him of Quentin, as well as letters relating to his upcoming African safari. He tells Kermit that he will come with him, provided he does not let it distract him from preparing for his future and will treat it as a college course. Roosevelt also updates his son on the activities of other members of the family.
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1908-04-23
President Roosevelt thanks Tadayoshi Sakurai for the Japanese and English copies of his book Human Bullets. Roosevelt personally admires the book, and has read some portions of it to his sons, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt. He thinks that Sakurai’s book should be an inspiration to anyone who may have to serve their country in battle.
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1908-04-22
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt about his busy days in Washington. He has not been able to go riding, but has been going on walks and playing tennis. Roosevelt has recently received an interesting Buddha statue from China and is happy that Ethel Roosevelt has a friend visiting.
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt celebrates Douglas Robinson’s recent appointment and praises him as the one financier in the family.
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1907-09-27
President Roosevelt finds it a great comfort that his elder son, Kermit Roosevelt, is caring for his younger son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, while they are away at school. President Roosevelt gives Kermit advice on what he should do upon graduating. He believes it would only help Kermit to attend Harvard College for three years, and that going immediately into a career would not be beneficial because he is still young and inexperienced. Roosevelt encourages Kermit to seek advice from others, but emphasizes that college will help him mature and will benefit him in the long-run.
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1907-09-24
President Roosevelt thanks Laurence H. Grahame for the photograph. He does not think his children, Ethel and Theodore Roosevelt, will be able to go to Puerto Rico in the winter. Roosevelt invites Grahame to dine with him at the White House when he is next in the area.
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1907-09-24
President Roosevelt asks his son Archibald B. Roosevelt to be kind to his shy classmate Leonard Opdycke, whose father Leonard Eckstein Opdycke attended Harvard with Roosevelt. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have been enjoying the outdoors in Oyster Bay, New York and plan to depart soon.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt has written to his son Archibald B. Roosevelt and asked him to be kind to Leonard Eckstein Opdycke’s son, as the two boys are classmates at Groton School. Roosevelt is happy to hear from Opdycke and laments the loss of two of their classmates, Henry Russell Shaw and Samuel W. Skinner.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt asks Emily Tyler Carow if she could bring a book about Rome by Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero, which he believes is entitled The Greatness and Decline of Rome. Roosevelt tells Carow the family is looking forward to her visit and updates her on their last days at Oyster Bay, New York.
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt gives Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge an update on his life and family. He laments the end of summer and tells Lodge how each member of the family has spent it, remarking upon how his children are growing up. Roosevelt has been vacationing during the summer months and now looks to his work ahead. He wants to ensure that his plans for the Navy and Panama Canal cannot be undone by his successor.
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1907-09-20
President Roosevelt thanks Charles E. Labady for naming a launch after Roosevelt’s son. The president also mentions that another son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, has become quite a sailor and is fond of fishing.
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1907-09-16
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt that he is glad that the cavalry march and chicken shoot went well. Roosevelt details various happenings in the family for Kermit, and wishes him well.
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1907-09-06
President Roosevelt asks Customs Collector Sewall to wait until next winter to come to Washington, D.C. Although Roosevelt would enjoy a hunting trip, it will likely not happen soon, and the boys are now at school during the year. The maple sugar Sewall sent has been appreciated by the Roosevelt family.
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1907-09-03