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Fearing Kermit has not been getting his letters, Theodore Roosevelt writes to tell him once again that he has been made a captain of artillery and is to report to Madrid, Spain, for orders. Roosevelt says he has been spending his time making speeches and riding his horse.
1918-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit and is concerned he has not been getting his letters so that he does not know he has been appointed a captain of artillery and must report to Madrid, Spain. He says Flora Payne Whitney has permission from her father to go to Europe and marry Quentin Roosevelt and Quentin is upset there are still no planes to fly over France. Roosevelt reports that Major Wadsworth is dead and the son of his friend Frederick Courteney Selous was killed.
1918-05-12
Theodore Roosevelt tells his son Kermit that General Peyton Marsh has made Kermit a captain of artillery in the American army and that he is to proceed to Madrid, Spain, for orders. Roosevelt feels the American army is too small to fight the German advances and mentions his ill feelings toward President Woodrow Wilson.
1918-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt tells his son Kermit that his transfer from the British army to the American army is all set. Kermit will be sent to Madrid, Spain, to receive his orders and he can spend some time with his wife Belle and their children. Roosevelt encloses a newspaper article about himself.
1918-04-28
Theodore Roosevelt asks Spanish Ambassador Don Juan Riaño y Gayangos if he will pass on a book Roosevelt wrote about hunting in South America to the Duke of Alba, Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James y Falcó. “Alva,” as Roosevelt refers to him, stood in Kermit Roosevelt’s recent wedding to Belle Wyatt Willard in Madrid, where the elder Roosevelt enjoyed the company of King Alfonso III and Queen Victoria of Spain.
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1914-11-30
President Roosevelt informs Governor Black he has already filled the diplomatic posts. However, he may be able to assign John M. Francis to Vienna in a few years.
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1905-01-21
Ambassador Storer tells Francis Augustus MacNutt that the report concerning his Washington club has not reached him nor his wife, Maria Longworth Storer. Mrs. Storer heard of the “manner and reason” of MacNutt’s resignation from the civil service from a “sound authority” who named another authority on the subject when questioned; these were President Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Storer believed the report to have come from Archibald Loudon Snowden or Mr. Griggs.
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1906-09-01
General Wood updates President Roosevelt on his travels through Spain and provides his observations on the country. He also outlines his plans to observe military exercises in France and Spain, but asks Roosevelt to recall him if necessary. Wood provides the names of several officers who will have information on conditions at Manila, if Roosevelt needs it.
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1908-04-29
Francis Augustus MacNutt asks Archibald Loudon Snowden whether he made charges to the Department of State against MacNutt. A story is circulating that MacNutt, during his diplomatic service in Madrid, leaked confidential communications to the Spanish government or to the Catholic Church.
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1907-07-28
President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Root information regarding a pamphlet that Bellamy Storer sent to the members of the cabinet. Storer did not give a full account of the events that led up to his dismissal from his ambassadorial post. Roosevelt seeks to address this by including the text of letters between himself and the Storers.
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1906-12-02
Maria Longworth Storer asks to be sent as special envoy to a wedding in Madrid.
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1906-11-30
Bellamy Storer writes to President Roosevelt asking him to consider the facts, which Storer has enclosed as a statement of points, regarding his dismissal from diplomatic service. The dismissal was based on the grounds that both Storer’s conduct, in his capacity as an American ambassador, and his wife Maria Longworth Storer’s conduct in Rome, blurred the lines of public office and personal opinion regarding the promotion of Archbishop John Ireland to Cardinal. Storer defends his actions, including full and partial correspondence between those chiefly involved, to prove that he was acting in his public capacity at the request of President Roosevelt, which Roosevelt now denies. Storer is aggrieved that he was dismissed before his letter of resignation could have reached Washington since he was on leave in Egypt at the time he received Roosevelt’s request for his resignation.
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1906-11-18
B. Storer, former Minister to Spain, endeavors to fully and frankly answer Francis Augustus MacNutt’s inquiry. He reports that President Roosevelt, then Civil Service Commissioner, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge communicated the manner and reason for Macnutt’s departure from the diplomatic service in 1892 or 1893. Storer assumed it to be “absolutely sound authority” as Roosevelt and Lodge spoke of it openly and in positives terms. He believes Minister to Spain Archibald Loudon Snowden initially reported on MacNutt’s departure.
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1906-09-01
David B. Ogden writes to President Roosevelt regarding charges made against American diplomat Francis Augustus MacNutt. Ogden, who is cousin to MacNutt’s wife, Margaret van Cortlandt Ogden MacNutt, believes MacNutt to be innocent of any charges brought against him. He implores that Roosevelt conduct a sincere investigation regarding the charges against MacNutt and he accuses Colonel Archibald Louden Snowden of making false statements on the matter. Ogden particularly hopes that Roosevelt will send someone he trusts with Ogden’s lawyer John Hampton Barnes to procure a sworn statement from Snowden.
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1906-07-23
Shelby M. Cullom informs Theodore Roosevelt that the Committe on Foreign Relations will report the Algeciras Treaty to the Senate on December 5 and voting for ratification will take place on December 12. Cullom also reports that the Committee ratified the convention providing for an International Institute of Agriculture.
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1906-06-27
Frederick W. Whitridge provides a detailed account of the festivities and wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia, including a description of the assassination attempt on the newly married couple.
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1906-06-02
Railroad president Frederick W. Whitridge, who was appointed special ambassador to Spain for King Alfonso XIII’s wedding, writes to President Roosevelt about the festivities. He notes how the young men in the American group behaved themselves well, and how the Americans hesitatingly wore the insignia they were given to wear at the ceremony so as not to offend their hosts’ hospitality. Whitridge also includes the text of his short speech to King Alfonso, expressing the admiration and affection of the American people and specifically Roosevelt.
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1906-05-30
It is rumored that France wants to infringe on article 17 of the Madrid Conference of 1880 and call together another conference to examine changes. This report denies that France wants to change article 17 regarding Morocco in the next convention.
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1905-07-26
Ambassador Sternburg writes President Roosevelt about the terms of the Madrid conference regulating the rights of foreigners in Morocco.
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1905-06-01
David B. Ogden insists on the innocence of Francis Augustus MacNutt, his cousin Margaret van Cortlandt Ogden MacNutt’s husband. Ogden notes MacNutt’s neighbors spoke highly of him and that Maria Longworth Storer’s statement was only believed because she stated that President Roosevelt was the authority for it. Ogden does not understand how the president has any personal knowledge of MacNutt’s disloyalty and argues against Roosevelt’s supposed position.
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1907-12-12