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Theodore Roosevelt has received the book and is very pleased with it. He was concerned to learn of General Greene’s sickness.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-19
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs the Pain Manufacturing Company that due to an illness in the Roosevelt family, it is impossible for Theodore and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to have the fireworks at their house on the Fourth of July. They are sorry to have to cancel the order, but hope to be able to renew it on another occasion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-13
Roosevelt is glad to hear Ambassador Hengelmüller von Hengervár’s wife, Marie, is doing better and sends his regards. Count Albert Apponyi is staying a night at Oyster Bay during his visit.
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1911-01-13
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edward Hale and his wife for the letter. He is sorry that Hale has been unwell.
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1911-01-13
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear Rough Rider Charles G. Abbott is unwell. He will be passing through Texas in March and hopes to see Abbott.
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1910-11-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends Warrington Dawson a copy of his book Fear God and Take Your Own Part. He is sorry that Dawson has been unwell. Belle Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt’s wife, has had typhoid. Roosevelt is busy but does not foresee much good coming from it since the country is “sound asleep” like England was two years ago.
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1916-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt is greatly concerned at Silas McBee’s letter, as he had no idea that McBee had been sick. Roosevelt sends his regards to Mrs. McBee, who he thinks must have suffered even more. Roosevelt is leaving tomorrow, but when he gets back he wishes to hear McBee’s views at length over lunch.
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1915-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with Archibald B. Roosevelt’s letter and believes the camp is doing “just exactly what it ought to do.” Roosevelt says that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are leaving on a trip today and he believes it will be good for her health. He asks Archibald to fill in and send the application for enrollment in the American Legion at his earliest convenience.
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1915-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John C. Shaffer for his telegram about Mrs. Roosevelt and is glad Shaffer enjoyed his letter to Juliet Barrett Rublee. Roosevelt is sorry he had to be in Syracuse while Shaffer was here.
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1915-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt forwards Hannay’s letter to Senator Lodge. Roosevelt sends his love to Lodge’s wife and says to tell her that their grandson Richard Derby has fallen ill on his visit.
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1915-04-06
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Alexander Pollock Moore was ill and trusts he is now fully recovered. Roosevelt invites Moore and his wife, Lillian Russell, to have lunch with him in Oyster Bay after his libel suit is over.
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1915-04-10
Theodore Roosevelt was very pleased to receive Winthrop Chanler’s letter discussing Hester’s marriage, but it also brought him some sorrow to reminisce about earlier times.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear of Silas McBee’s sickness.
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1915-02-06
President Roosevelt is glad to hear from F. J. H. Merrill, but concerned to hear of his illness. Roosevelt is overjoyed with Hiram Johnson’s victory.
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1914-12-03
Theodore Roosevelt tells Walter T. Sumner that if he had known Sumner was ill while he was in Chicago, Roosevelt would have called on Sumner.
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1912-12-17
President Roosevelt expresses concern at Selina Maud Pauncefote’s sickness and wishes to have seen her at the last White House reception.
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1909-02-20
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 and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are concerned that Owen Wister is laid up and unable to visit. President Roosevelt had wished to tell Wister in person how much he liked his biography of George Washington.
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1909-01-18
President Roosevelt is “overjoyed” to hear that Leigh S. J. Hunt’s son, Henry L. Hunt, has improved in health and discusses his Nile river travel plans for his upcoming African safari. Based on the advice of the Sirdar and John L. Harrington, Roosevelt plans to travel up the Sobat and Pibor rivers instead of the Bahr-el-Gazal. Roosevelt also reports that the Sirdar claims he can catch a white rhinoceros while in Uganda. In the postscript, Roosevelt wonders if they should bring donkeys on their river journey.
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1909-01-14
President Roosevelt spoke with Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte about Alford Warriner Cooley’s letter. Roosevelt intends to leave the position open for the moment, then appoint Cooley towards the end of February. He believes that if Cooley is in office when President-Elect William H. Taft takes office, he will probably remain. Roosevelt is not sure if the Senate will consent to confirming Cooley and advises him to get his references set up. Roosevelt is adamant, however, that Cooley should not return to work unless his doctors approve a return to work, as Cooley must not do anything that endangers his health.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-29