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John St. Loe Strachey understands President Roosevelt’s objections to arbitration in the Alaska boundary dispute but he supports arbitration especially in light of America’s demand for arbitration in the Venezuelan debt crisis. Strachey wants to avoid a quarrel with the United States but feels that he must support Canada in any conflict.
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1902-08-18
Wilhelm Snyman defends himself from accusations by Thomas Alfred Beddy regarding embezzlement of funds collected for the benefit of Boer women and orphans affected by the South African War.
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1902-08-11
Thomas Alfred Beddy claims that Wilhelm Snyman, who has been touring the country collecting money for the Boer Relief Fund, has not turned any of the money over to the Fund’s trustees.
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1902-08-05
William R. Bigham forwards a letter from Marie Koopmans-de Wet to President Roosevelt thanking him for his sympathy with the people in the concentration camps.
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1902-07-23
John St. Loe Strachey sends a letter from the aide-de-camp of the Governor of Cape Colony, which is the best information he can provide as to the treatment of the Cape Rebels.
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1902-07-14
Ansley Wilcox thanks President Roosevelt for his hospitality and commends him on his recent presidential activities. He also compares amnesty for Boer prisoners in the Cape Colony with Filipino insurgents of the Philippine-American War.
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1902-06-07
John A. Hassell, who fought with the Boers during the Second Boer War, is an American citizen with possessions in South Africa. Hassell fears British animosity if he returns to South Africa to retrieve his possessions and would appreciate a letter from President Roosevelt to the extent that Hassell is pursuing legitimate business.
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1902-06-06
According to the peace terms of the Second Boer War, General Wilhelm Snyman can only return to South Africa as a prisoner, and Edward Reeve Merritt believes the United Kingdom should take this opportunity to offer amnesty, similar to what occurred in the United States after the American Civil War.
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1902-06-03
Edward Reeve Merritt forwards a check for $350 which he received from Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the “sufferers in South Africa” and asks that the State Department use the money where it will be of “best advantage.”
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1902-06-02
The Boer Legislative Committee of Philadelphia has accused the British government of violating neutrality in Louisiana. The Attorney General has made a reply.
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1902-05-28
Franklin Delano Roosevelt encloses a check for $336.50 which was collected at Harvard for the Boer Relief Fund.
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1902-05-26
Editorial from the April 22, 1904, edition of the Commercial Advertiser; topics include the Cuban relief bill, the South African War, assassinations in Russia, and Philippine policy. A section on Theodore Roosevelt is highlighted in the first column.
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1902-04-22
Judson Swift requests a “quiet word” from President Roosevelt to encourage the British officials at a Boer prison in the Bermudas to allow Dr. Albertyn, the prison chaplain, to distribute the Psalter and Hymns published by the American Tract Society.
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1902-03-19
Gerald C. Kitson has informed Ambassador Julian Pauncefote of President Roosevelt’s displeasure concerning British management of concentration camps during the South African War. He offers to send summaries of the various blue books regarding the war and assures Roosevelt that Joseph Chamberlain’s statement that “never has such a [significant] effort been made to minimize the horrors of war” is justified.
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1902-03-18
The Boer delegates; Montague White, A. D. W. Wolmarans, and Cornelius Hermanus Wessels; would like to meet with President Roosevelt and deliver a letter from Paul Kruger, the former President of the South African Republic. In a handwritten note, President Roosevelt agrees to the meeting and asks if it will be informal.
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1902-03-05
Arthur Hamilton Lee clarifies comments he made during a debate in Parliament concerning American neutrality during the South African War. He claims his comments were distorted by the Associated Press. Lee concludes by expressing pleasure concerning Ted Roosevelt’s recovery.
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1902-03-01
Walter Gordon-Cumming reviews his recent experiences during the South African War.
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1902-02-29
Paul Kruger, former President of the South African Republic, requests that President Roosevelt publicly speak out against British atrocities taking place during the ongoing South African War. The original in Dutch and a translation are included.
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1902-02-12
Alastair Penrose Gordon-Cumming encloses the latest information from his brother Walter who is in South Africa and suffering from gout. Several of Gordon-Cumming’s cousins were killed at the Battle of Colenso and he wishes that President Roosevelt could stop the South African War.
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1902-02-02
Summary and review of the French military maneuvers.
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1901-09-20