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Octavia K. Young asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak at a missionary convention in Indianapolis, and offers to cover travel expenses and provide an honorarium. Young also invites Mrs. Roosevelt and hopes he will mention mission work in Africa.
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1911-09-12
James Gibbons expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his gratitude for Roosevelt’s presence and words at his jubilee celebration, and explains that poor health prevented him from visiting at Oyster Bay.
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1911-09-12
Thomas T. Wright expresses to Oscar W. Underwood that the U.S. needs more American ships in foreign trade and urges Congress to pass a ship subsidy bill to support the merchant marine and boost the southern economy.
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1911-09-11
Herbert W. Ladd informs Theodore Roosevelt about his daughter Elizabeth B. Ladd’s upcoming trip to Entebbe, Uganda, where she will marry Dr. Robert E. McConnell. Ladd requests Roosevelt’s advice, aid, or introductions to assist her during her journey and after her arrival in Africa.
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1911-09-11
Sir William Northrup McMillan expresses to Theodore Roosevelt that he, along with his brother, Harry Adams, will visit on September 14, 1911, traveling by motorcar named the “Jinja Waja.”
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1911-09-10
Ernest P. Holcombe’s reports on his travels as special inspector to attend the hearing in the case of Holm Olaf Bursum v. Territory of New Mexico. Holcombe mentions his conversations with Judge Albert B. Fall, who was under the influence of alcohol. Holcombe details the proceedings of the Bursum case, which resulted in the Territory owing an amount of money to Bursum.
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1907-09-19
Laurence H. Grahame thanks President Roosevelt for the photograph and invites Ted and Ethel Roosevelt to visit Puerto Rico this winter. Grahame asks the president to allow them to stay with him and his wife, Jessie Charlotte Laura Grahame.
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1907-09-18
Thomas R. Lounsbury informs President Roosevelt that he will let him know when the Cooper committee needs the president’s assistance in erecting a monument. Lounsbury also accepts an invitation to visit the White House, especially since he has recently become an emeritus professor and is able to travel more now.
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1907-09-13
Attorney General Bonaparte tells President Roosevelt that District Attorney Edwin Walter Sims has asked for a postponement in Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis’s case, perhaps due to Landis’s behavior. The press covering Secretary of State Elihu Root and Thomas Fortune Ryan has been sensationalized, and Bonaparte feels it is unfortunate that Root is taking the blame on the whiskey situation. Bonaparte will get an update from Department of Justice Agent Peyton Gordon about Agent Ormsby McHarg. As he will be traveling, Bonaparte sends his forwarding address. He encloses telegrams from Assistant Attorney General Marsden C. Burch regarding Judge Frank Sigel Dietrich.
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1907-09-04
Benjamin Ide Wheeler will tell Senator Ralph Metcalf to go East, “whether riding or walking.” Wheeler hopes to see President Roosevelt in November.
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1907-09-03
Anna Roosevelt Cowles has been eager to write to President Roosevelt but knows he is busy. After seeing many of their friends, she updates Roosevelt on their views and the influence of financial ties on his supporters. Cowles has been at a beautiful property called Hill-Stead owned by Alfred Atmore Pope and Ada Brooks Pope, and she feels that such places reflect positively on wealth in America. She updates Roosevelt on William S. Cowles’ trip and on family matters. As a favor to Frederick William Vanderbilt who has been respectful to Roosevelt through everything, Cowles asks if Roosevelt can have Duchess of Manchester Consuelo Montagu for lunch. Douglas Robinson seems to be making a political impact in Herkimer County, and Cowles looks forward to visiting and talking about many things whenever it is convenient for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1907-08-31
Mining executive John C. Greenway is glad Ted Roosevelt is coming to Duluth, Minnesota. He tells Roosevelt that Edward C. Collins will telegraph to tell Roosevelt when he should be at Cleveland, Ohio, to board the ore ship he will travel on.
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1907-08-29
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, baron d’Estournelles de Constant, informs President Roosevelt that he has “seen a great many things in America,” which he will reflect on once he returns to France. Roosevelt’s family left the best impression on him.
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1907-04-13
Felix Kraemer has enclosed a letter of introduction from the Vienna Male Chorus Society, who will be performing at the White House on May 6. He requests that all the singers and their families could bypass quarantine restrictions since their transport from Hamburg, the Oceana, was personally chartered by the society and no one else travelled with them. Kraemer hopes William Loeb will “drop him a line” about when he can receive him.
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1907-03-31
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid was surprised by the enclosed letter from Teresa Stoughton Richardson that President Roosevelt has sent her, stating she has never heard such a story before. Reid updates Roosevelt on the health of both her father, Darius Odgen Mills, and husband, Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador to Great Britian, and looks forward to seeing him when she leaves for Great Britian on The Philadelphia on March 2nd.
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1907-02-20
John St. Loe Strachey relays to President Roosevelt an account of his trip to France and Germany. He and his wife visited Ambassador Charlemagne Tower and his wife in Berlin as well as Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick and his wife in Paris. Strachey believes that Chancellor Bernard Fürst von Bülow will be defeated in his reelection bid and that the Emperor was also held in disfavor by the German people. Strachey is concerned about the warlike nature of the Germans. He relays his thoughts on some of the French politicians and theologians whom he met; he found the French people and politicians generally to be pacifistic.
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1907-02-11
Viscount Aoki has not heard anything about Otohiko Matsukata coming down from Harvard to Washington, D.C. If Aoki does learn anything about such a visit, he will inform President Roosevelt.
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1907-01-25
Tokutaro Sakai writes to William Loeb, thanking President Roosevelt on behalf of Baron Kentaro Kaneko for the invitation to stay with the president at Oyster Bay. Kaneko will take the train from Long Island City to Oyster Bay on Friday, as suggested by Loeb.
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1905-07-03
Hermann Speck von Sternburg states he will follow President Roosevelt’s travel itinerary and asks if Roosevelt has received any answer on Morocco.
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1905-06-13
Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for the telegram to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. Riis is currently in California resting to relieve his heart trouble and sends good wishes for Roosevelt’s travels in the south. He does not think Roosevelt will see any trouble, and has seen much kindness on his travels. While Riis has enjoyed his convalescence, he is eager to do some exploring and return home.
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1905-01-22