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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
Harvard University President Charles William Eliot regrets that he will be away in Canada when President Roosevelt visits. He asks Roosevelt to speak to the students and try to improve their work ethic.
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1907-02-18
After returning from San Francisco, Endicott Peabody shares his plans surrounding President Roosevelt and his family’s upcoming visit.
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1907-02-16
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge would like President Roosevelt to have lunch with Mary B. J. Schieffelin while she visits the Pinchot family in Washington. She misses the Roosevelts.
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1907-02-15
Frances M. Wolcott updates President Roosevelt about the comings and goings among her friends and family in Paris, many of whom are ill with Diphtheria. She also explains the gift she sent him, a thermos.
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1907-02-13
Douglas Robinson will keep Secretary Loeb’s letter confidential, and destroyed the original. Robinson also thinks his arrangement with President Roosevelt about never writing letters of introduction is useful.
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1907-02-11
William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt the deed to the property. William will finish up the details of the transaction after the survey of Cove Neck.
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1907-02-11
Douglas Robinson is pleased about Monroe Douglas Robinson’s election. He also thanks President Roosevelt for the letter.
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1907-02-01
William Emlen Roosevelt writes to President Roosevelt arguing the right of the U.S. to control all cable landing rights and the establishment of wireless stations on the coast of Panama.
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1907-02-01
Emily Tyler Carow describes her experiences in Egypt, including her concern about an “undercurrent of hostility” that seems to be present in the Egyptian Arab people. Carow tells Roosevelt about her conversations with Lord Evelyn Baring Cromer and his dinner guests, which have been about topics such as the British occupation of Egypt, the American occupation of Cuba and the insular possession of the Philippines, whether Roosevelt will run for president again, and the natural beauty of the desert.
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1907-02-01
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt would like Harris & Ewing to come over to the house, likely referring to the photographic studio of the same name.
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1907-01-30
Kermit Roosevelt misses riding with President Roosevelt and has nothing to do. He asks Roosevelt to give him information on the “negro troop question,” likely referring to the events that took place in Brownsville, Texas, as the newspapers are not saying anything about the matter. He mentions a “nasty cartoon” he saw about it in Harper’s Weekly, as well as a poem he had read in Collier’s Weekly about President Roosevelt, which was “very nice.” He also comments on a recent letter he received from a cattle rancher.
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1907-01-13
Kermit Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt what he is reading and how the weather has been recently. He asks whether the Ute braves finally came to Roosevelt and if Roosevelt has sent the “Tartar tribe” back to Utah. Roosevelt mentions that he requested papers regarding the “Brownsville discharge affair” from William Loeb, as Barclay is debating on it and he has been working hard with him, although he belongs to the opposite camp. He asks if President Roosevelt thinks he will get “those two big battleships of the dreadnought class” that he has asked for.
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1907-01-20
Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt hopes that President Roosevelt is still able to make arrangements for Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt to go out west in the summer. She reports on the health issues the family has been experiencing and hopes the new year will bring Roosevelt continued health and happiness.
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1907-01-16
Ambassador Reid traces the origins of a story that President Roosevelt heard. Reid does not think the story could have come from the British Ambassador at Berlin, Frank Cavendish Lascelles. Reid has looked over the correspondence Roosevelt sent to see if there is anything in Roosevelt’s letter or the Emperor’s which could do harm if known to the King.
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1907-01-12
Endicott Peabody thanks President Roosevelt for his letter. Peabody is greatly encouraged to know that Roosevelt is pleased with Kermit Roosevelt’s development and that he feels Groton has been a help to his son.
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1906-12-24
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson has received and forwarded the check to Dora, and encloses a note she has received from the woman who works for Dora. Robinson lists the Christmas presents she sent to the Roosevelt family and who each one was meant for.
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1906-12-24
Margaret Mott thanks Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for the five dollars she sent to Dora Watkins. Watkins often thinks about when she was the nurse of Theodore Douglas Robinson and how smart he was as a child, just like his child, Douglas Robinson. Anna Roosevelt Cowles also sent Watkins twenty-five dollars and a “lovely letter.”
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1906-12-21
Owen Wister congratulates his friend President Roosevelt on his son, Theodore Roosevelt, joining the Porcellian Club at Harvard University. Wister considers his ten year association with the club while an undergraduate and in law school as having been good for his character. Although Wister recalls some who wasted their time in the club, he does not believe members drink as much as they previously did. Wister wishes he could pass some wisdom on to the younger Roosevelt, and hopes to visit him at school soon.
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1906-12-19
William Emlen Roosevelt writes President Roosevelt about annoyances with the Oyster Bay government. He concludes with an update on the family as they get ready for the holidays.
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1906-12-19