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William Sowden Sims writes to President Roosevelt to say he has recently become engaged to Anne Hitchcock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-01
President Roosevelt is impressed with Commander Sims’s paper regarding military efficiency, and asks whom he should contact in the army regarding the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-14
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt congratulate Lieutenant Commander William Sowden Sims and Anne Hitchcock Sims on the recent birth of their daughter, Margaret Hitchcock Sims.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-21
President Roosevelt congratulates Lieutenant-Commander Sims on his engagement to Anne Hitchcock.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-02
President Roosevelt praises the recent successful fishing expedition of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock and his daughter, Anne Hitchcock. He wishes he could have attended a recent celebration with them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-19
Jacob A. Riis writes to President Roosevelt to say that he met with a Joint Committee of the House and Senate to discuss a plan to “fence the slums out of Washington,” but he had forgotten the details of their conclusions. Riis updates Roosevelt on social reform efforts, including the work of Anne Hitchcock, who is working with African American school children in Washington, D.C..
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-10