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Granville Fortescue thanks Vice President Roosevelt for nominating him for an examination to receive a military commission. He is anxious over the examination and hopes to receive a commission as a first lieutenant. He just returned from the Philippines and has a bolo (a Filipino knife) to give Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Commandant Heywood has recommended Lieutenant Jonas for the position of Assistant Quartermaster. He found Lieutenant Henry Latrobe Roosevelt to be a capable candidate but his lack of field experience placed him second on the list of applicants. Three additional Assistant Quartermaster positions have been approved. With some field service, Lieutenant Roosevelt will have a strong claim for one of these positions.
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1901-12-23
William Emlen Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for arranging the letters of introduction for his acquaintances. He has been following the Schley matter but offers no advice. The will of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt has been decided satisfactorily.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-23
Patty M. F. Selmes will be in Washington, D.C., and requests a meeting with President Roosevelt. She inquires about Alice Roosevelt’s health.
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1901-12-26
Irvine Smith is distantly related to President Roosevelt and would like Roosevelt to visit Georgia. Smith can tell Roosevelt about the family members he knew and they can tour historic buildings related to the Roosevelt family. He also offers to serve “an old Georgia dinner.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-16
Noah Seaman, Superintendent of Sagamore Hill, reports on the status of the residence and grounds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-17
Henry Bazeley Wolryche-Whitmore sends a book he is editing about the Royal Navy. President Roosevelt has proven popular with the British press and Wolryche-Whitmore will be traveling to the United States in January.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-17
Douglas Robinson encloses letters that may be of interest to President Roosevelt. Theodore Douglas Robinson arrived home and may have appendicitis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-19
Judge Lawrence has upheld the will of Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt after much time and family dispute. John Ellis Roosevelt will bring his daughter, Anita Blanche (Pansy) Roosevelt, to Alice Roosevelt’s coming out ball.
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1901-12-19
Murat Halstead needs more information about the Roosevelt family for his “prosaic publisher.”
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1901-12-10
John Farson thanks President Roosevelt for the sympathetic telegram after the death of Farson’s mother. Farson and his wife will be in Washington, D.C., the following week and wish to visit Roosevelt and his family.
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1901-12-04
Cornelius Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for the “beautifully expressed” message. Roosevelt’s father would have been proud if he were still alive.
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1901-12-04
S. Grosvenor Porter was given a gun by Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, President Roosevelt’s uncle, and he would like to gift the gun to Roosevelt. The gun is from the Paris Exposition of 1868.
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1901-12-06
Albert Hamilton Ellett asks if President Roosevelt is related to the man who built the first steamboat on the Mississippi River. According to Mississippi historical records, that boat was built by “Roosevelt of N. Y. in 1871.”
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1901-11-26
Charles Pratt believes that the photograph of President Roosevelt’s parents in the Atlanta Journal does not depict Roosevelt’s mother the way he remembers her. He consulted with others who also knew Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and they agree. Pratt encloses photographs of locations important to the Bulloch family. He tells the story of when he and Roosevelt’s uncle, Irvine S. Bulloch, painted a Confederate flag on the old academy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-27
Frederick Roosevelt mistakenly received a stock dividend that may have been meant for President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-14
William Felix Alexander shares a joke and reveals a family connection to President Roosevelt.
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1901-11-15
Bulloch home in Roswell, Georgia. President Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, lived in the house and was married there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Maria Longworth Storer congratulates President Roosevelt on the New York elections. She suggests that the Catholic Church might be more successful in inserting morality into society and politics if there were more bishops like Archbishop Ireland. Storer derides Archbishop Corrigan for his involvement with Tammany Hall and believes it to be a “matter of shame to every Catholic.” She is thankful that Roosevelt is a “reformer first and a politician afterwards.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-08
August Belmont has returned and would be pleased to meet with President Roosevelt. Douglas and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson enjoyed Roosevelt’s visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-09