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President Roosevelt assures William Lawrence that the gathering of couples on Tuesday is not a lunch party. If Lawrence and his wife do not want to attend on Tuesday, then Roosevelt would like to have lunch alone with him the Saturday prior, as he needs to see him.
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1907-01-18
Theodore Roosevelt shares with Stewart Edward White the complimentary words that R. J. Cuninghame wrote about White. He hopes to see White’s wife, Elizabeth Colvert Grant White, the next time they come out East.
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1911-11-24
Theodore Roosevelt tried to have Stewart Edward White out for lunch with Carl Ethan Akeley and Delia J. Akeley. He asks if he can share White’s comments about the sable antelope with Edmund Heller. Roosevelt feels naturalists have gone to extremes in creating new species without evidence.
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1911-11-08
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary invites Stewart Edward White and his wife, Elizabeth Colvert Grant White, to lunch on November 4.
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1911-10-31
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed reading about Stewart Edward White’s adventure with the four lions and asks when White’s book is being published. Due to the government’s failure to make any military preparations, a movement is beginning to organize and train citizens for military service. Roosevelt has suggested that White serve on the advisory council. Americans “seem incapable of learning except by disaster.” Roosevelt has heard that Californians are supporting President Wilson because they want peace, but their policies towards Japanese immigration are most responsible for antagonizing Japan.
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1915-03-03
President Roosevelt says that Stewart Edward White sent a “corking” picture. He asks after White’s wife Elizabeth Colvert Grant White and inquires whether they are both coming to Washington this winter.
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1905-12-04
President Roosevelt comments on the “corking buck” that Stewart Edward White got, and thinks he could have preserved its antlers. He wishes White luck with the bears. He has sent White’s letter to Gifford Pinchot for advice.
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1905-10-05
President Roosevelt believes Stewart Edward White was probably right to decline the trust inspector appointment. He wishes there were a suitable position to put Charles S. Newhall in, but he cannot take up that matter at present. Roosevelt mentions Ted Roosevelt’s desire to get out with White, but the president says Ted will have to wait until his studies improve.
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1904-11-17
Stewart Edward White is pleased President Roosevelt enjoyed his book, Arizona Nights, as he believes Roosevelt is a good critic. White thanks Roosevelt for the opportunity to accompany the cruisers on the target practice and sends his best regards to the president and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1907-12-09
Novelist Stewart Edward White asks President Roosevelt for permission to travel with the battleship Maryland for the upcoming target practice run as he wants to observe shipboard routines closely. His naval officer relative, Charles Belknap, reports no objections among the ship’s senior officers regarding White’s request. White sends his two latest books for Roosevelt and the boys. Feeling Roosevelt will be interested, White also wants to submit a review of his impressions concerning military discipline in Yosemite Park. His wife, Elizabeth Colvert Grant White, asks that Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt remember her.
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1907-11-10
Stewart Edward White offers to start a petition for removal of Charles S. Newhall as Superintendent of Forest Reserves in California. He requests that a circular letter be sent to “all rangers, military commanders and park keepers” informing them that he is “a respectable member of society.” The adventure and travel writer, accompanied by his future wife and co-writer, Elizabeth “Betty” Grant, was planning a visit to national parks in the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-12