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Theodore Roosevelt tells Douglas Robinson that, rather than being critical of Frank, he sympathizes with him for his efforts on behalf of Roosevelt’s finances. Roosevelt is eager to tell Robinson about his trip and wonders if Robinson and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson could have him over next Tuesday evening, April 25.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt saw Aunt Lizzie yesterday and was going to visit Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt until he was reminded how sick she had been with typhoid fever. Roosevelt is eager to tell William Emlen Roosevelt about his trip.
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1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt received Alfred E. Pease’s letter, as he had hoped. He is currently visiting Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and comments that the happiness of his children is his greatest concern. He recounts hunting bongos with George Grey in Africa and bird watching with his brother, Edward Grey, in England. The news of George Grey’s death by a lion saddened him, and he considers the dangers of lion hunting. Roosevelt discusses his family and their recent trip. While happy at home, Roosevelt would consider another scientific expedition through Asia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-01
Theodore Roosevelt recalls his trip to Rome, Italy, with fondness and wishes he could accept Mayor Nathan’s invitation to visit again.
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1911-02-28
Theodore Roosevelt is honored by the Tennessee Legislature’s resolution asking him to address the Joint Assembly. However, he must decline as he is preparing to leave for a six-week trip across the country to acknowledge the people. He cannot change his plans, and the legislature will likely have adjourned by the time he returns. Roosevelt finds Tennessee’s history fascinating and shares his belief in the state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-28
Theodore Roosevelt is too busy to write personal replies. On his behalf, his secretary thanks John Willis for the invitation to visit Glasgow, Montana. However, he cannot make it there and hopes to see Willis in Missoula or Helena if possible.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-28
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with Archibald B. Roosevelt’s letter and believes the camp is doing “just exactly what it ought to do.” Roosevelt says that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are leaving on a trip today and he believes it will be good for her health. He asks Archibald to fill in and send the application for enrollment in the American Legion at his earliest convenience.
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1915-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt provides a letter of reference for a group of researchers going on expedition to the West African islands, including the Azores. Among the group are Henry R. Emory, Charles Wellington Furlong, and others. The team is traveling on behalf of the Comparative Zoology Department and the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. Roosevelt urges those in a position to do so to assist the team.
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1915-06-29
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased with Jules Bois’s essay about him. He comments that a successful foreign policy is often dependent on only international courtesy being made public. When Roosevelt sent an American fleet on a tour around the world he instructed them to act as if they were always in a state of war. The “peaceful mission” brought only goodwill from Japan and was popular at home. Roosevelt says he “spoke softly and carried a big stick.”
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1916-02-07
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Captain Magalháes and through him Colonel Rondon for the volume containing the account of the work of the Brazilian Telegraph Commission and its scientific results.
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1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the work of the Royal Geographical Society and John Scott Keltie on the maps from the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. The work of Dr. Lauro Muller and Colonel Rondon deserved to be recognized by the leading geographical magazine and society. Confidentially, the Brazilian preparations for the trip were poor and Roosevelt believes Kermit Roosevelt and Anthony Fiala could have organized a better, faster, and more comfortable journey. He blames many of the problems on the Latin American desire for “splendor,” such as Rondon’s refusal to walk, which would not be in “splendid style,” and free up space for more supplies on pack animals. The lack of supplies forced the expedition to use half rations after reaching the river. Roosevelt did not make information like this public as his companions were “fine fellows” and the trip could not have been completed without them.
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1915-02-25
Theodore Roosevelt is unable to take any trip because of his physical condition.
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1915-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the pamphlet that details C. L. Stratton’s trip and wishes him a happy New Year.
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1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt is concerned that he did not receive either the two letters or the telegram Emilio Frers sent. Roosevelt hopes Frers likes what he wrote in the Outlook, as it is in line with Frers’s speech in the Colon Theater. Roosevelt is still thankful for the generosity of the Argentine people when he visited there.
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1915-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt claims that on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition there would not have been any “observations worth anything” if he had not insisted on it and that his companions’ work was mostly valueless unless he was around. There were many shortcomings in planning and preparation. Roosevelt believes that he, along with Kermit Roosevelt and Anthony Fiala, could have made better preparations. Roosevelt describes the river’s features and will be sending John Scott Keltie a map of the River of Doubt (Roosevelt River) that is incredibly accurate.
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1914-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to read the extracts from Frederick Sturges Osborn’s journal. The “Ed Mearns” mentioned in the journal was Edgar Alexander Mearns, who joined Roosevelt for the African trip.
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1914-12-16
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
Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about some of the specimens from the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Exposition which have not arrived at the museum. He is concerned that they might have gone down with the S. S. Vandyck, which was sunk by a German cruiser off the coast of Brazil. Roosevelt requests that Edwin T. Morgan investigate what has happened to the specimens. He is pleased that Morgan translated his Outlook article and will send Morgan a pamphlet of his writings about the ongoing war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-28
President Roosevelt has sent letters by Dean Hurlbut, F. W. Taussig, and Roland Thaxter to Edgar Alexander Mearns. Roosevelt will endeavor to assist Thaxter but will offer no promise until he hears from Mearns.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-26
President Roosevelt assures that he will contact Surgeon-Major Edgar Alexander Mearns and see if his expertise in mammalogy and ornithology will translate to insects while in Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-28