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William Augustus Patton of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company updates William Loeb with the company’s arrangements for President Roosevelt’s shipment from Oyster Bay to Washington.
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1905-09-18
Edith Ogden Harrison invites John Campbell Greenway to the Huron Mountain Shooting and Fishing Club. Harrison suggests when Greenway might visit and when the boat departs from Marquette, Michigan.
1904-09-11
Theodore Roosevelt asks Irving Bacheller to lunch at Oyster Bay on January 15.
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1913-01-03
Seth Low informs the reader the date of the meeting of the Trustees of Tuskegee Institute and asks that travel arrangements be made. To travel to Tuskegee from New York, two days are needed.
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1911-12-15
Henry Bainbridge Chapin sends President Roosevelt a letter from Edward Robinson, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Chapin asks that Roosevelt let Robinson know if he will be in Washington in May so that John Singer Sargent can can come over for the presentation of Roosevelt’s portrait before commencement.
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1905-03-20
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna that he is not sure when he will be back home. He is glad to hear that Mrs. Lee came to visit her. He discusses Leo Tolstoy’s La Guerre et la Paix (War and Peace), and is enjoying reading it very much. The roundup was great fun.
1886-06-19
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 is grateful for Edward North Buxton’s letters, especially in regard to the reserves. He discusses his plans for shipping money and supplies to Africa for his trip. Roosevelt notes that he intends to hire an Englishman to manage the caravan because he will be too busy hunting and working with field taxidermists to manage it himself. Roosevelt also discusses several places he would like to visit and hunt in, including German territory.
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1908-10-12
President Roosevelt wishes his son Kermit Roosevelt a happy birthday. He would like to hear all about Kermit’s trip west and especially to hear about college. Preparation for the Africa trip is going well. Roosevelt would like to know if the English shoes he sent Kermit are all right and says that at Christmas he will take Kermit’s list of books that he would like to bring. Roosevelt discusses Ethel Roosevelt’s horse jumping and details a “scramble walk” he took with Archibald Willingham Butt through Rock Creek Park.
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1908-10-10
President Roosevelt inquires if Annie Montague Alexander will allow Edmund Heller to accompany him on his African safari. Roosevelt intends to make the trip a scientific one and collect samples for the United States National Museum.
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1908-10-08
President Roosevelt will miss seeing Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt on election day, and hopes that she will be able to take a few days off from caring for her mother to visit Washington, D.C.
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1908-10-06
President Roosevelt thanks Armar D. Saunderson for his assistance. Roosevelt has asked William Northrup McMillan and others to help arrange the caravan, but he will ask Manuel A. Da Silva for assistance in accompanying Kermit Roosevelt around the big game.
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1908-10-05
President Roosevelt sends Kermit Roosevelt a kind letter from Seth Bullock. Roosevelt reminds Kermit that if he becomes ill in Africa he will be sent home. Manuel A. Da Silva has been hired to be Kermit’s guide, and Roosevelt has been discussing the trip with his English friends.
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1908-10-05
President Roosevelt is pleased that Manuel A. Da Silva will be able to attend the safari to assist Kermit Roosevelt with big game. William Northrup McMillan has already arranged the porters, so Da Silva should not have to do anything about them. Roosevelt plans to arrive in Mombasa in April.
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1908-10-05
President Roosevelt thanks Kermit Roosevelt for the letter and asks if the monthly funds will be enough. Roosevelt is lining details up for Africa. He is is pleased that Kermit will focus on his studies, and he doubts that Ted Roosevelt had visited Harvard without getting in touch. William H. Taft is likely to win but Roosevelt is alarmed at William Jennings Bryan’s strength. It is now fall, and recent visitors have included Susan Dexter Dalton Cooley, James C. Cooley, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt asks Kermit Roosevelt if he is taking care to secure a supply of hunting boots. Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have been taking in the blooming gardens at the White House. The troubles with Roosevelt’s leg have been bad lately. He has received letters from Alfred Pease and Sir William Northrup McMillan regarding safari travel plans. Although Roosevelt has not been exercising, he has been busy writing to William Jennings Bryan and tending to other matters in Washington, D.C.
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1908-09-27
President Roosevelt encloses for Frederick Courteney Selous a copy of an invitation from William Northrup McMillan. He explains that he has asked McMillan to contact Selous and Edward North Buxton when making arrangements. Alfred E. Pease has said that Sirdar F. R. Wingate could likely provide leather mosquito stockings, but Roosevelt would rather have Selous ask the outfitter Lawn & Alder to have them made and sent. William C. Judd seems like the best choice for managing the caravan.
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1908-09-25
President Roosevelt received Alfred E. Pease’s letter on the same day as an invitation from William Northrup McMillan, and he has asked McMillan to contact Pease, Frederick Courteney Selous and Edward North Buxton for making arrangements. Sirdar F. R. Wingate has offered a boat in Gondokoro, and from there Roosevelt will hunt for white rhinoceros before tackling game from the exhaustive list of creatures Pease has said can be found on the Nile. Roosevelt is glad he will be able to restock supplies in Nairobi. At present Roosevelt’s time is consumed by the political campaigns in the United States. He hopes to see Harry Johnston soon, with whom he has an ongoing intellectual correspondence.
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1908-09-25
President Roosevelt thanks William Northrup McMillan for the invitation to stay at the farm in Nairobi, and says he will likely come after staying with Alfred E. Pease and before taking the trip McMillan suggested. Roosevelt will be joined by Kermit Roosevelt and General Edgar Alexander Mearns, and he will be shooting specimens for the National Museum. For further planning Roosevelt asks McMillan to be in contact with Edward North Buxton, Frederick Courteney Selous, and Pease. After going through British East Africa Roosevelt will go on to the Nile and meet Sirdar F. R. Wingate and Leigh S. J. Hunt.
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1908-09-25
President Roosevelt sends Edward North Buxton a copy of a letter from William Northrup McMillan. Roosevelt hopes to visit McMillan’s farm, but has asked that he contact Buxton when making arrangements. Roosevelt discusses potential guides for the Safari, and Alfred E. Pease has strongly suggested William C. Judd. For the hunting boots, Roosevelt does not want to bother Sirdar F. R. Wingate, and he has asked Frederick Courteney Selous to add them to the supplies. Until the presidential campaign is over, Roosevelt’s attention is on helping to elect William H. Taft.
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1908-09-25