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Theodore Roosevelt writes to Belle Roosevelt about happenings in the Roosevelt family. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has not been well and is in the hospital. Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt Derby are also unwell. When Edith is feeling better, Roosevelt plans to take her on trips to Louisiana and San Francisco.
1915-04-17
President Roosevelt asks Attorney General Bonaparte to tell him the facts of a grand jury investigation concerning Charles F. Brooker. Roosevelt is concerned for his friend and Assistant United State Attorney, Alford Warriner Cooley, and asks Bonaparte if he can be given sixty days pay before ending his service. Roosevelt also asks for Bonaparte’s opinion on a letter from Emory Speer.
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1908-08-14
President Roosevelt sends George P. Hamner a letter stating that Hamner became ill while serving as Roosevelt’s secretary at Camp Wikoff as a result of malaria contracted in the service.
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1908-08-08
President Roosevelt is glad to see Secretary of State Root returning to his old self. Roosevelt feels he should accept the appointment of Tingfang Wu as China’s Ambassador to the United States as they are unlikely to get an ambassador like the one who has just left. He has received a report that the Chinese Army has stopped reforming itself and cannot compare to leading military powers. Roosevelt asks Root to give his good wishes to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz.
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1907-09-26
President Roosevelt requests Elizabeth Hobson express his sympathy to Archibald Hopkins. He wrote to the Court of Claims.
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1907-08-19
President Roosevelt is glad Secretary of Agriculture Wilson feels better and is confident he can handle the “knotty business about the dried fruit.”
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1907-08-17
President Roosevelt and his wife are distressed and sorry about the news his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson sent, and asks for news about the “dear little fellow.”
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1907-08-05
William Loeb is sorry to hear that Rosalie Goulding is unwell and cannot attend the diplomatic reception. He sends an invitation to the reception on January 31.
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1907-01-11
President Roosevelt tells Matthew Hale he is sorry to hear about his illness and wishes to see him when he’s feeling better. Roosevelt wishes he could accept Hale’s offer to speak at an event, but notes it’s impossible—and that he’s already turned down an offer to speak at Harvard on Memorial Day.
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1906-12-14
Stewart Edward White expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his sympathy regarding Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s recent accident, mentions R. J. Cunninghame’s recurring fever and his own mild symptoms, and confirms plans to lunch with Roosevelt at The Outlook office.
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1911-09-11
C. Grant La Farge is excited to visit President Roosevelt and lists the times he is available. La Farge is having a difficult time as his business partner George L. Heins has been seriously ill and is unlikely to recover. His family is well, and he will try to convince his wife Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge of the merits afforded by a week’s rest.
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1907-08-22
Charlotte Everett Hopkins, wife of Archibald Hopkins, chief clerk of the United States Court of Claims, relays her convalescing husband’s gratitude to President Roosevelt for his concern. While Hopkins worries about his duties to the court, Chief Justice Stanton J. Peelle kindly understands the situation. Charlotte joins her husband in gratitude and recalls Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s support the previous year when her son A. Lawrence Hopkins took ill.
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1907-08-20
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1907-03-28
Lee of Fareham, Viscount (Arthur Hamilton Lee), 1868-1947
Endicott Peabody informs President Roosevelt that they are interested in Archibald Roosevelt’s recovery and have had prayers for him in Chapel. The newspaper coverage of his illness has been sensational. He assumes that not having received a telegram from Kermit is good news. Peabody comments that Kermit is handling his brother’s illness well.
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1907-03-09
Lord Curzon congratulates President Roosevelt on his re-election. Curzon remarks that he has gone through some trying times, but his wife’s health has improved and he hopes she will recover fully.
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1904-11-30
Japanese Ambassador Takahira asks William Loeb to pass along his gratitude to President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the gift of flowers. He deeply appreciates their sympathy, and is sure that he will recover from his illness soon.
(Takahira was recovering from having his appendix removed in the wake of developing appendicitis.)
The White House has received a telephone message that Japanese Ambassador Kogoro Takahira is expected to recover from his illness, but will likely be unable to perform his duties for some time.
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1904-10-31
Pictured here is Archibald B. Roosevelt who, “though still very ill, is today reported somewhat improved.”
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1907-03-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit after returning home from seven weeks in the hospital with rheumatoid arthritis and sciatica. He says he can only hobble a few yards. He provides updates on Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Archie Roosevelt and the grandchildren. Roosevelt asks Kermit to write him about his experiences in the Argonne and the march to the Rhine river. He closes by saying he hopes Kermit will be home soon, unless President Woodrow Wilson does something to his own selfish advantage.
1918-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a visit from Walter R. Lawrence and discusses how the British tend to “butter up” Americans. The sketch of Kermit made by Philip de Laszlo came. Ethel Roosevelt Derby writes a postscript saying Roosevelt could not finish the letter because he was taken ill but is now comfortable.
1918-02-08