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President Roosevelt inquires if Theodore Lyman can come for dinner on November 14. William Phillips was meant to write Lyman, and Roosevelt will try to get him to come to dinner also. Roosevelt also asks if Lyman could come to lunch on Saturday.
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1908-10-10
President Roosevelt supports whatever Herbert Parsons decides to do and asks him to come to breakfast tomorrow at nine.
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1908-10-10
President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot accept Alexander Rudolf Lawton’s invitation, but he cannot attend another engagement.
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1908-10-09
President Roosevelt would like to attend the centennial celebration for the founding of the Diocese of Boston, but as he can not, he asks that Archbishop William O’Connell share his well wishes with the participants.
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1908-10-03
President Roosevelt thanks William A. Brady for the invitation but he can not take another night off from work. He is quite busy and will already be taking one evening off to attend Israel Zangwill’s play next week.
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1908-10-03
December 12 will be a good date for the Boone and Crockett Club dinner. President Roosevelt encloses a letter for First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt has records related to Oklahoma Governor Charles Nathaniel Haskell. He offers them to Lawrence F. Abbott, should he cover Haskell, and invites Abbott to come see him. Roosevelt reminds Abbott of an Oklahoma senator’s statement that Haskell is “Bryanism in action.”
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1908-09-26
William Loeb confirms the order of a cab to meet Mary D. Ledwith at the East Thirty-fourth Street Station on September 22.
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1908-09-18
President Roosevelt is pleased with Mark Sullivan’s action on the London situation. Roosevelt approves of Sullivan’s suggestions for future publications and enjoyed the recent editorials on farming. He invites Sullivan and Norman Hapgood to visit him.
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1908-09-12
President Roosevelt asks if Lyman Abbott or his son, Lawrence F. Abbott, can come for lunch and talk about Representative J. S. Sherman.
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1908-09-04
President Roosevelt likes Assistant Attorney General James Clark McReynolds’s suggestion and asks Attorney General Bonaparte if he can wait until next week so they can review it together. Roosevelt is pleased with Alford Warriner Cooley’s letter.
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1908-09-02
President Roosevelt is excited to hear John Fox speak on September 6 at the Presbyterian church, and thanks Alexander G. Russell for the opportunity.
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1908-08-29
Following Julian LaRose Harris’s letter, President Roosevelt has a better understanding of the situation. He asks Harris to visit sometime after Roosevelt returns to Washington, D.C.
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1908-08-29
Rudolph Forster proposes an itinerary for a trip that Kermit Roosevelt and Robert Harry Munro Ferguson want to take to Coleraine, Minnesota, returning via Huron, South Dakota. He asks John F. Fairlamb to provide transportation and make Pullman reservations, billing Ferguson’s share to himself and Kermit’s share to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. A canceled version of this letter was written by Thomas H. Netherland the previous day.
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1908-08-27
In a canceled letter, Thomas H. Netherland proposes an itinerary for a trip that Kermit Roosevelt and Robert Harry Munro Ferguson want to take to Coleraine, Minnesota, returning via Huron, South Dakota. He asks John F. Fairlamb to provide transportation and make Pullman reservations, billing Ferguson’s share to himself and Kermit’s share to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. A non-canceled version of this letter was sent the following day by Rudolph Forster.
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1908-08-26
President Roosevelt inquires if Grace Wilson Vanderbilt and her husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt, can stop for lunch on their way back to Newport.
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1908-08-24
President Roosevelt will arrange lunch or dinner with Jacob A. Riis and his wife Mary Phillips Riis while they are in Washington, D.C., for the tuberculosis congress. He will schedule a later appointment with Riis to review another matter. Riis’ evaluation of William H. Taft concerns Roosevelt, who does not understand how people do not recognize Taft’s character. He will write to Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to rectify the issue.
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1908-08-22
President Roosevelt remembers J. E. Clark well, and would be pleased to talk things over with Clark any time after he returns to Washington, D.C. If necessary, Clark may use the letter to get access to Roosevelt.
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1908-08-22
President Roosevelt is interested in James E. West’s work but is uncertain he can do anything. He asks if West and Theodore Dreiser would come meet with him once he returns to Washington, D.C.
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1908-08-21
President Roosevelt has Asahi Kitagaki’s letter and apologizes that it is difficult to arrange meetings while at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt sends his regards to Tanaka and good wishes to Kitagaki’s parents.
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1908-08-20