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President Roosevelt would be glad to see Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler at any time but does not plan to change the current system of getting supplies for the White House.
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1901-09-27
President Roosevelt would like Philip Battell Stewart and his wife to spend a night at the White House. Roosevelt fears the “Colorado appointments” will be contentious and would very much like to get Stewart’s opinion on the situation and the candidates.
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1901-09-26
President Roosevelt would like Caspar Whitney and Frederick Courtney Selous to come and take lunch or dinner at the White House.
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1901-09-25
President Roosevelt likes Samuel Shaw’s letter. Roosevelt resolves to carry out the job of President to the best of his abilities. Roosevelt would like to have Shaw and his old friends for dinner at the White House just as they dined at the Governor’s Mansion at Albany.
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1901-09-25
President Roosevelt is happy to learn that Bullock is in charge of the Black Hills Forest Reservation and feels he is the best man to enforce forestry laws. Roosevelt invites Bullock to dinner at the White House.
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1901-09-24
President Roosevelt invites Colonel Dunn to Washington, D.C., in order to dine at the White House and go over “two or three matters.”
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1901-09-23
President Roosevelt thanks John Campbell Greenway for his letter, and asks him to visit the White House and spend the night.
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1901-09-21
President Roosevelt, during his first week as president, writes to ask Charles Ransom Miller, editor of the New York Times, to lunch at the White House next Monday.
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1901-09-20
During his first week in the presidency, President Roosevelt writes to Mary Eliza Avery McIlhenny that he hopes her and her son John Avery McIlhenny, a fellow Rough Rider, will come visit the White House. The McIlhenny family made their fortune as the inventors of Tabasco sauce.
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1901-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his friend C. Grant La Farge saying he will not likely make it to New York. Roosevelt asks if La Farge and his wife Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge might come to Washington to stay at the White House instead. Though not noted in the letter, Roosevelt had just taken office the week before.
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1901-09-20
President Roosevelt thanks Horace K. Devereux for his letter and invites him to spend the night at the White House.
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1901-09-20
Newly appointed President Roosevelt writes that St. Clair McKelway’s words have strengthened him, particularly what McKelway said about Roosevelt’s time as Governor. Roosevelt invites McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, to the White House to discuss his plans for policy. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt can spend time with Virginia Brooks Thompson McKelway.
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1901-09-16
During his first week in office, President Roosevelt writes to Charles Ransom Miller, editor of The New York Times, to see if he or Henry Lowenthal might be able to come by the White House to discuss policy.
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1901-09-16
President Roosevelt requests Joseph Bucklin Bishop to come to the White House.
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1901-09-16
George B. Cortelyou thanks Philip Battell Stewart for the letter and invites him and his wife to stay at the White House when they come east. Cortelyou intends to take the bear and cougar hunt a year from next spring and hopes to get Secretary of War Elihu Root to join their party.
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1901-09-14
President Roosevelt values Nicholas Murray Butler’s letter and would like him to come and stay with him at the White House.
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1901-09-14
William E. Dodd tells Theodore Roosevelt how outraged he is at an article in the recent Harper’s Weekly magazine that he perceives as slanderous towards Roosevelt and paints him as attacking William H. Taft.
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1911-10-14
Edgar Huidekoper Wells thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his letter regarding Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. Wells is sending Roosevelt the Archie’s examination papers and he agrees Kermit’s time off was well spent. Wells does not understand why Roosevelt has not received notification of the meetings of the Board of Overseers, but will let Winthrop H. Wade know of the problem at once.
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1911-10-04
Russell Stringer asks Theodore Roosevelt for a letter of reference for a leadership position at the University of Chicago, and explains how they crossed paths back in 1905 at the White House when Stringer was a pager for the House of Representatives.
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1911-09
Little Brown & Company sends Theodore Roosevelt a complimentary copy of Memories of the White House at the author’s suggestion, ahead of its upcoming publication.
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1911-09-11