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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about his and Edith’s recent visit to the Wadsworths. The children are doing well and Roosevelt is still enjoying playing polo as is cousin Emlen Roosevelt. Edith is expecting another child.
1888-07-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about current happenings in Oyster Bay, New York. Roosevelt and his friends have created a polo club. Cousin Emlen Roosevelt is playing as well and Uncle Jimmie might, too. Two of Roosevelt’s political essays are going to be published. Alice is visiting Grandmother Lee.
1888-05-27
President Roosevelt describes his recent trip to Provincetown to his son Kermit Roosevelt, including his speech, a banquet, and meeting “five hundred Gloucester fishermen.” Roosevelt feels Kermit’s trip with the cavalry “was such a fine thing.”
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1907-08-21
President Roosevelt tells Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt (wife of his cousin Emlen) that he hopes she approves of the way he used the Nobel Prize cash award. Roosevelt notes that after he got past his anger over the Maria Longworth Storer incident, that he found the situation amusing. He reports that he is taking up James Alexander Scrymser’s application with “the Departments,” and that he has had a difficult time getting businessmen and bankers to agree upon currency legislation.
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1906-12-14
William Wingate Sewall, Collector of Customs at Aroostook County, will be sending President Roosevelt some maple sugar. Sewall hopes Roosevelt’s boys can come deer hunting soon, and he describes the camp he has built at Hook Point with his son Fred Sewell. Major General Henry C. Merriam and Civil Service Commissioner Charles Lyman have recently visited. If Roosevelt is too busy to visit Maine, Sewell might be able to come to Oyster Bay.
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1907-09-01
Douglas Robinson will put the deed President Roosevelt received from William Emlen Roosevelt in the President’s papers.
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1907-02-13
Nicholas Murray Butler congratulates President Roosevelt on winning “one of the most astounding triumphs in modern politics.” Butler believes that Roosevelt owes his victory both to his own character and to the dirty campaign his opponents ran. Roosevelt’s statement regarding his decision to run for a third term was a wise decision, and removes an area which Roosevelt could have been criticized for. Butler reminds Roosevelt of a suggestion that he and William Emlen Roosevelt made last summer to establish the gold standard even more firmly, and wishes for him to take action on this, believing that the Democratic party would follow suit on the issue.
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1904-11-09
Ticket admits William Emlen Roosevelt to the Republican National Committee offices in Metropolitan Life building.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904-11-08
Secretary of State Hay details an emerging problem regarding a United States business concession in Bolivia, which is threatening Bolivia’s relationship with Brazil. Hay encloses a draft response for President Roosevelt’s approval.
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1902-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about his and Mother’s travel plans in South America and updates him on members of the family.
1913-08-28
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to discuss his views on the work of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. He also talks about a poem by Philip Roosevelt and a visit from cousin Emlen Roosevelt, Christine, Frank Lowell, and his wife. Roosevelt closes by saying he had dinner with Ambassador Jusserand and Justice Moody.
1908-02-23
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit and describes his trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he gave a speech that he says caused the Stock Market to go down a few points. Roosevelt also attended a banquet with Gloucester fisherman.
1907-08-21
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about his distress over the government in Cuba. He then describes his trip aboard the Mayflower to see Admiral Evans’s fleet at Barnstable with cousin William Emlen Roosevelt, C. Grant La Farge, and Archie. They watched a gunnery exercise on the battleship Missouri (BB-11). Roosevelt ends the letter with updates on Ted and Quentin.
1906-09-30
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to report on his activities with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and other family members. He also mentions that Quentin wants to go to the Fay School, a boarding school, in the fall, which upsets Edith.
1906-09-23
President Roosevelt sadly reports that his horse Renown died. Ethel, Archie, Quentin and some of the pets are traveling to Sagamore. Cousin Emlen Roosevelt is afraid to let Phil and Kermit go to the St. Louis Fair alone, and Roosevelt agrees they should probably have someone to supervise them.
1904-06-05
Theodore Roosevelt gives details about the current adventure he is on in Maine to his sister Anna. He includes information about the people that are on the trip with him, including cousin Emlen Roosevelt. He mentions that he is surprisingly stronger than the other two men, the flies are really bad, and he has lost one of his shoes.
1879-09-04
Theodore Roosevelt asks William Emlen Roosevelt to accept his resignation as director of the Broadway Improvement Company. He requests that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. be elected in his place.
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1912-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes for breaking Huntington Norton’s automobile lamp and instructs him to send the bill to him.
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1911-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt writes to relative Laura Gertrude Roosevelt Punnett that he discussed the matter with their cousin Emlen Roosevelt, also Theodore’s financial adviser, and he cannot help find a job per her request. Jobs are scarce to come by, especially with a reduction of hours of labor. Roosevelt has many demands placed on him and cannot help.
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1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt agrees that perhaps they should wait on filing a criminal suit against George A. Newett. Roosevelt also proposes several witnesses that James H. Pound could take depositions from for his case.
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1912-12-13