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President Roosevelt looks forward to reading A Group of Great Lawyers of Columbia County and confirms that his paternal great-grandmother Maria Van Schaack Roosevelt lived in the county. He accepts Abner S. Haight’s offer of honorary membership in the Columbia County Association, and regrets that he cannot attend their banquet.
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1905-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt will tell Silas McBee “a little joke” on the Archbishop of Canterbury that happened when Roosevelt was a boy traveling with his father in Egypt.
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1904-10-05
President Roosevelt was pleased by Sarah Bancroft Leavitt’s letter and touched by her personal memory of his father. Roosevelt has been distressed by the recent death of John Procter and of his uncle, James King Gracie.
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1903-12-15
J. H. Butner relates a story that Martha Bulloch Roosevelt displayed a Confederate flag in her window even over the objections of her husband and an angry mob.
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1901-09-22
President Roosevelt thanks Alberta G. Burton for the Harper’s Weekly article on his father’s death.
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1902-03-15
President Roosevelt responds to a letter from an unnamed woman that Jacob A. Riis forwarded. The woman claims the letters, written by Theodore Roosevelt’s father, contain information that could damage Roosevelt’s political career. President Roosevelt puts little faith in the woman’s claims.
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1901-12-31
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Willoughby B. Dobbs for the information in his last letter. He hopes the New York Police Board will not change the civil service examinations and expresses frustration towards the choices Governor Frank Swett Black has made. Roosevelt asks Dobbs to answer the woman who wrote the enclosed letter, as her husband was a client of Roosevelt’s father and he would like to help her because of the connection.
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1897-05-25
Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History, reminds Theodore Roosevelt of his desire to display a portrait of his father and founder of the museum, Theodore Roosevelt, at the institution. He asks if there is a portrait that the museum could copy for this purpose.
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1911-12-06
Anson G. P. Dodge has been a supporter of Theodore Roosevelt for some time, and now asks for his help in electing a Progressive Republican to represent his area. If Roosevelt could put him in contact with someone locally who would be able to help, or come to Danville, Illinois to speak, Dodge feels that it would help rally voters to his cause.
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1911-07-26
After reading Theodore Roosevelt’s April 22nd article in The Outlook, E. McIntyre provides him with additional information about tenement house conditions. Anne Harriman Vanderbilt and other philanthropists are trying to build redesigned buildings that are healthier. However, local tenement house departments are preventing them from being built due to the lack of an air shaft. McIntyre says that he knew Roosevelt’s parents.
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1911-07-12
Warren E. Benscoter informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has a copy of To Cuba and Back, a Vacation Voyage with his father’s name and the year 1858 written in it. Benscoter asks Roosevelt to verify it was his father’s book that was sent to Hart Island during the Civil War. Benscoter would like to display this book with other items his father brought home from his time in the war if it can be verified.
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1911-05-15
Arthur Newman, the pastor of the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, employs Fannie Smith, an eighty-year-old Shinnecock Indian who Theodore Roosevelt’s father supposedly employed. He hopes Roosevelt will write to her. As president of the Long Island Bible Society, Newman asks Roosevelt, the organization’s vice president, to speak at an upcoming meeting.
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1911-03-06
Governor Johnson regrets that he cannot accept Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s dinner invitation as his gubernatorial duties keep him busy. He shares his thoughts regarding arrangements for Theodore Roosevelt’s speeches in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Any local party wishing to sponsor Roosevelt must ensure general admittance. Johnson encloses an invitation from the City Club of Los Angeles.
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1911-01-11
Francisco Athayde Machado de Faria e Maia informs Consul Creevey that the Municipal Council of Ponta Delgada, Azores, has named the public garden in honor of Theodore Roosevelt and to commemorate his visit in 1909.
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1910-11-09
Douglas Robinson notifies President Roosevelt of several upcoming changes that will affect his trust, as well as those of Anna Roosevelt Cowles and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, due to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s illness. He needs Roosevelt’s consent to appoint a new trustee. Robinson has also been contacted by George Lee, who was wondering if Lee, Higginson & Company could arrange Roosevelt’s financial matters while he is abroad. Robinson congratulates Roosevelt on the election results, and enjoyed recently seeing Roosevelt’s sons, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt.
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1908-11-30
W. N. Mitchell explains why he advocated for President Roosevelt’s renomination at the Republican convention in Chicago. He discusses his Confederate roots, his connections to both of Roosevelt’s parents, and explains that he circulated a petition for his renomination in the South. Mitchell believed that Roosevelt had the best chance of delivering the South to the Republicans. He pledges now to support President-elect William H. Taft and work to elect Republicans in the next election.
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1908-11-09
John P. M. Richards thanks Jacob A. Riis for the book. Richards goes on to reflect about President Roosevelt and the rest of the Roosevelt family, from childhood memories of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. visiting his grandfather’s shop to purchase hunting equipment to seeing the president’s recent speech in Spokane, Washington.
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1907-11-27
Stephania A. Porter has sent President Roosevelt a miniature portrait on ivory of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Porter had intended to leave the portrait, given to her as a girl, to her own family, but she feels the Roosevelts should have it and take it to the White House with them. Porter wishes Roosevelt’s parents could see him now as president. Porter recently injured her knee but will soon visit her son.
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1907-06-20
Agnes Catherine Latrobe Weston sends to President Roosevelt a letter that was written by her aunt, Juliana Elizabeth Boneval Latrobe, to Lydia Sellon Latrobe Roosevelt, around the time of the death of the president’s father, Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Weston hopes the letter will remind Roosevelt the high esteem in which his father was held.
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1906-10-28
Euphenia Knox Smith Pomeroy writes to President Roosevelt explaining that the two are second cousins. Their grandmothers, Margaret and Elizabeth Barnhill, were sisters. She and her husband Stephen W. Pomeroy, a Presbyterian minister, have moved to Harrisburg where their son lives. She provides the son’s address and asks if Roosevelt may find time in his busy schedule to visit while in town for the dedication of the new Capitol building.
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1906-09-25