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Isabella Hagner James, White House social secretary, informs David Robinson that while Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciates his gesture, she feels the gifts he has sent are too valuable to keep, and so is returning them.
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1905-03-13
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb thanks Edith Sterling Smith for the letter and scarf and sends a photograph of the White House.
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1905-02-21
President Roosevelt tells his uncle, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, that he had already read the article and was impressed by it. He is glad that Roosevelt will be there for the inaugural, and confirms that he will be at lunch at the White House that day.
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1905-01-11
President Roosevelt tells George Rumsey Sheldon that he awaits the advance of “the old guard” with pleasure and expects them all at lunch at the White House on inauguration day.
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1905-01-11
President Roosevelt hopes Owen Wister will come and visit the White House for a week when he is back on his feet again, although it will have to be before or after the holidays.
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1904-12-10
President Roosevelt invites William W. Mangum, his wife, Mary R. Ball Mangum, and his daughter, Mary Campbell Mangum Hardie, to the White House for lunch or dinner.
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1904-12-12
President Roosevelt invites Major Pitcher and his wife, Matilda Catherine Jones Pitcher, to the White House if they visit Washington, D.C., this winter. Roosevelt has heard that Major Pitcher has some “remarkable pictures” of his daughter with mountain sheep, and asks to see copies of the photographs if this is true.
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1904-12-12
President Roosevelt invites Robert Grant and Amy Gordon Galt Grant to spend the night at the White House on February 2. Roosevelt would love to have lunch with them that day or the following day as well.
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1904-12-09
President Roosevelt invites James R. Sheffield and his wife, Edith Tod Sheffield, to the White House on December 8, for dinner and a musical. The president offers the couple a spare double room with an attached bathroom at the White House to stay in, although it lacks a dressing room.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt enjoyed Donald A. Carson’s letter and is interested in his club for boys. Roosevelt tells Carson about his boys, Theodore Roosevelt, Archibald B. Roosevelt, and Quentin Roosevelt, and the animals around the White House.
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1904-12-02
President Roosevelt invites Owen Wister to the White House for a week, which would give Wister a chance to rest. Roosevelt says, “You could read, walk about, [and] see the Congressional Library. . . .”
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1904-12-02
President Roosevelt encourages Edward North Buxton to attend the inauguration with his daughter, although Roosevelt cannot invite him to stay at the White House. The president tells Buxton to write soon about accommodations and says he will be glad to give Buxton a personal letter for the commandant in Yellowstone Park so that Buxton’s daughter can photograph wild animals. Roosevelt promises to help Buxton outfit the camping trip when Buxton says he will definitely use it.
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1904-11-22
President Roosevelt thanks Pinckney Marcius-Simons for his letter and offer to send “the little picture” to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, which she will gladly accept. The president expresses Edith’s and his fondness for Marcius-Simons’s painting, and tells him that one of his works hangs in the living room at the White House: “I doubt if either of us ever goes into the room without looking at it.”
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1904-11-22
President Roosevelt says that it was a “real pleasure” to host Archbishop of Canterbury Davidson at the White House. The president plans to read Davidson’s book, The Christian Opportunity, “at the earliest moment.”
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt thanks Henry W. Lucy for the letter and the clipping. He asks Lucy to give his thanks to the “rural secretary” for her freehand translation.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt invites Robert Stuart MacArthur to have lunch with him at the White House, if MacArthur plans to be in Washington, D.C., anytime soon.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt insists he needs a quiet horse and jokes with W. Sloan Simpson if he plays “any games” with Roosevelt, “there will be a break-up in the entire republican party!” The president informs Simpson he cannot make any definite plans for his vacation until after Congress convenes, but will let Simpson know directly.
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1904-11-21
President Roosevelt thanks M. J. Costello for his letter and invites him to the White House for a meal.
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1904-11-17
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb sends a photograph of the White House for “use in the direction” Mrs. J. A. Briggs indicated. Loeb also encloses the twenty-five cents Briggs forwarded.
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1904-11-18
President Roosevelt invites Oscar S. Straus to the White House on Monday night because he would like to discuss several things with him.
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1904-11-11