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Dr. Lambert regrets he will not be able to make a scheduled meeting with President Roosevelt. He has been taking care of a very sick student and another sick child, and he feels he cannot leave just now.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-24
Jacob A. Riis welcomes President Roosevelt home to New York, where his family has returned for the summer. Riis announces to Roosevelt that John D. Rockefeller’s challenge gift of $125,000, for the seaside hospital for children suffering from tuberculosis, has been matched. The news will not be announced publicly until the next day, and Riis wanted Roosevelt to know, in thanks for his early support of the effort.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-01