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President Roosevelt asks Colonel Lyon if he plans to be in Washington, D.C., fairly early that winter and invites him to spend a night at the White House.
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1907-09-19
President Roosevelt invites Bishop Satterlee and his wife, Jane Lawrence Satterlee, to dine at the White House to meet the Bishop of London, Arthur F. Winnington Ingram. Roosevelt also informs the bishop about his plans to attend early Sunday services. If the president does attend the early services, he can say a word of greeting to the Bishop of London, but it would not be a speech and would only be “two minutes’ greeting.”
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1907-09-18
President Roosevelt invites Thomas R. Lounsbury to visit the White House beginning on December 6, saying that he has earned the holiday.
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1907-09-16
President Roosevelt invites Joseph Wilmer to spend the night at the White House on September 27, when Bishop of London Arthur F. Winnington Ingram is visiting.
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1907-09-10
President Roosevelt encloses a copy of a letter he wrote to Gifford Pinchot and says Howard Pyle can present it to him as an introduction. However, if Pyle can wait, Roosevelt will invite him to the White House to meet Pinchot. The president hopes he will bring his wife, Anna Poole Pyle.
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1907-09-09
President Roosevelt enjoyed Arthur Train’s book and relates it to his own time as a police commissioner. If Train and his wife, Ethel Kissam Train, will be in Washington, D.C., Roosevelt would be pleased to have them for lunch or dinner.
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1907-09-04
President Roosevelt asks Louise Holmes Vanderbilt if she and Frederick William Vanderbilt will bring Duchess of Marlborough Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan to lunch at the White House.
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1907-09-03
President Roosevelt encloses Bishop Charles Henry Brent’s sermon and assures Silas McBee that he will talk to Brent. Unfortunately, Roosevelt must return to Washington, D.C., early, and he asks if it would be possible for McBee to bring Bishop of London Arthur F. Winnington Ingram to visit in Washington, D.C., rather than Oyster Bay. Roosevelt will play tennis with Ingram on the White House court.
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1907-08-31
President Roosevelt asks if Cecil Spring Rice and his wife Florence Spring Rice can delay their return to England to visit the White House and discuss matters “while I am still among the men whose armor is on and who are standing ready to do their part in the fight.”
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1907-08-19
President Roosevelt sincerely thanks artist and author Francis Hopkinson Smith for his generous gift of “such a beautiful book,” Venice of To-Day.
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1907-08-10
President Roosevelt invites Bartlett S. Johnston to visit the White House and is glad his brother, Joseph Forney Johnston, is a senator.
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1907-08-10
President Roosevelt praises Hannah Kent Schoff’s efforts in convening the First International Congress dealing with child welfare. Roosevelt says he will not be able to make a long address to the delegates, but he hopes to invite them to the White House to express his regards.
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1907-07-26
President Roosevelt asks Lyman Abbott to schedule a lunch for him and Wilfred Thomason Grenfell at the White House, and wants Abbott to join them.
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1907-01-23
William Loeb informs Representative Ryan that he will send invitations to the suggested individuals for the Army and Navy reception. He explains that members of Congress are omitted from the reception due to the limited capacity of the White House.
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1907-01-21
William Loeb explains to Representative Tawney that due to limited space, only a few of the various departmental assistant secretaries are invited to the Army and Navy Reception.
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1907-01-21
William Loeb explains to Representative Slemp that while senators, congressmen, and their families will still be invited to three White House receptions, crowded conditions mean additional guests will be limited to one function. John W. Cast and his wife have already been invited to the reception on January 17.
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1907-01-19
President Roosevelt asks Kermit Roosevelt if William Loeb sent him “the matter” about the Brownsville incident for his debate. Roosevelt then proceeds to tell his son about an amusing interaction with Ellen C. Bonaparte who declared she had been taking people who lead “gray and hundrum lives [sic]” to the White House to bring them pleasure. He trusts Kermit will not tell anyone, and shares another story about the daughter of Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph I. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s pet guinea pigs, Mr. and Mrs. Longworth.
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1907-01-19
William Loeb informs A. Lawrence Lowell that President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt invite Lowell and his wife, Anna Parker Lowell, to spend the night at the White House on February 5 and attend the Army and Navy reception. He asks if Lowell can attend.
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1907-01-19
William Loeb explains to Representative Bennet that while senators, congressmen, and their families will still be invited to three White House receptions, crowded conditions mean additional guests will be limited to one function. The private secretaries of congressmen are invited to the reception on January 31. Loeb will send Murphy an invitation for this reception.
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1907-01-19
William Loeb confirms receipt of Senator Warner’s letter, and adds the names he requested to the guest list to be invited to upcoming receptions at the White House.
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1907-01-18