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President Roosevelt is pleased to inform Groton School rector Endicott Peabody that Archibald B. Roosevelt is well enough to attend Groton, where “the little fellow will make an honorable pupil.” He will send more information along with reports from Archie’s tutor, Waldo D. Parker. Roosevelt shares that Archie wants to be a naval officer.
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1907-08-27
Groton School rector Endicott Peabody is glad to hear that Archibald B. Roosevelt is well enough to attend the school and assures President Roosevelt that his son will return for Christmas in “the very peak of condition.” Peabody finds Archie’s choice of a naval career interesting.
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1907-08-30
Mariano L. Paris writes to Denis J. Dougherty, Bishop of Nueva Segovia, regarding Manuel Garcia, President, forcing students to attend official, rather than parochial schools. Paris claimed Garcia was enforcing this rule through the use of police, fines and arrests.
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1905-10-13
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Le Baron Russell Briggs, the dean of Harvard College, that his son Kermit Roosevelt has been asked by the Smithsonian to gather certain specimen of moose, caribou and beaver in New Brunswick for the National Museum. In order to fulfill this request, Kermit will need to be a few days late in reporting at Harvard, so Theodore Roosevelt asks Briggs if he can excuse his son’s absence.
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1911-09-01
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on family and political matters, specifically regarding Ethel Roosevelt’s recent parties and Congress’s opposition to Roosevelt’s Secret Service plans. He extensively discusses the guns he may take along on their upcoming safari. He also remarks on the political turmoil that has marked his final months in office. In the postscript, Roosevelt describes his son Quentin Roosevelt’s truancy, for which he has punished with a “severe whipping.”
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1909-01-10
President Roosevelt updates his son Archibald B. Roosevelt on Quentin Roosevelt’s health and whereabouts following his fall through the ice while playing hockey. Roosevelt also describes the ex-prize fighter he has hired to train him. In the postscript, Roosevelt discusses Quentin’s recent truancy, for which he has punished with a “severe whipping.”
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1909-01-10
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Mrs. Charles E. Willett to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, explaining that her children are not allowed to go to school in Tennallytown. The Roosevelts know Mrs. Willett because they see her when they are out riding. He asks Commissioner Macfarland if it would be possible to allow the children to attend school.
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1908-10-14
John J. Cronin writes in response to President Roosevelt’s criticism of his article in the Review of Reviews, especially Roosevelt’s assertion that he has a depraved moral character. He discusses the size of American families, especially poor families. Cronin argues that children are behind in school because of physical defects like epilepsy and that the “better class” should observe this and “preserve their stock.”
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1907-05-02
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf responds to a resolution requiring his department to furnish the Senate with all documents related to his investigation of Japanese students attending public schools in San Francisco. Metcalf states that the investigation was undertaken under the authority and as the representative of President Roosevelt and not in his capacity as Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The documents, therefore, are now under the custody and control of Roosevelt, to whom Metcalf has forwarded a copy of this letter.
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1906-12-06
Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, writes to President Roosevelt, regarding Kermit and Hall’s absence for Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. It is the school’s policy to not allow students to leave for cousins’ weddings as they are so frequent. However, because Hall was orphaned and very close to the Theodore Roosevelt family, Peabody believes it appropriate. Peabody also discusses cheating allegations of Harvard and Yale football teams.
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1906-01-25
Bishop Dougherty writes to Secretary of Public Instruction Smith to protest against the actions of Edward P. Sheehan, an American teacher, and Manuel Garcia, presidente municipal of Manaoag, who are preventing students from attending a parochial school.
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1905-12-19
Kermit Roosevelt discusses a conversation he had with a school dean about his attendance, his concerns about the rifles he and Theodore Roosevelt will take to Africa, and slides he saw at a recent Audobon Society meeting of famed ornithologist Frank Michler Chapman’s trip to Africa.
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1908-11