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Theodore Roosevelt declines a request from Mary Flinn Lawrence to write an article. He suggests she find a previous speech he gave before the Woman Suffrage Convention that would fit her needs and to contact Frances Kellor if she needs help locating it. Roosevelt inquires after Flinn’s father and husband.
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1915-03-12
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Frederick H. Allen on his article in the Evening Post. Roosevelt is frustrated with Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan over the situations in Mexico and Europe.
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1915-02-26
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Leo E. Miller will accept the suggestion about cutting the article down. Roosevelt would like to see the article in Scribner’s and agrees to write a brief introduction.
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1915-03-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Tomás Amadeo for the invitation to write for the Bulletin of Pan American Union, but declines the invitation due to his workload.
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1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt writes to James Frazer about Frazer’s request that Roosevelt advise whether or not his son should pursue a career in writing. Roosevelt can only recommend pursuing a literary career if the person is so “bent upon doing so that he will go into it anyhow without regard to what the effect is upon himself.”
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1915-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt does not have the time to write the kind of piece Harold Hamel Smith would like on the subject.
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1915-02-19
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry that he did not receive Albert B. Fall’s letter in time to incorporate his statements into an article Roosevelt was writing. Roosevelt is appalled at the Wilson administration’s handling of the war in Europe and believes action will have to be taken in Mexico.
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1915-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James Heild for the letter which describes the matter accurately. Roosevelt hopes Heild saw his recent article in the Metropolitan on Panama.
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1915-02-22
When Theodore Roosevelt sees Charles Scribner, he will tell Scribner about the article Leo Miller wrote about South America. Miller had interesting experiences and the photographs are “quite remarkable.”
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1915-02-22
The title is not Theodore Roosevelt’s and the pamphlet is one of the chapters from the book Murray is about to publish. Roosevelt would like these falsehoods corrected.
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1915-02-22
Theodore Roosevelt sends the article from the Spectator and asks that it be printed in the Middle West and in the North American.
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1915-02-23
Theodore Roosevelt’s view on the question will appear in the March issue of Metropolitan Magazine.
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1915-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Belle da Costa Greene in response to her request for some original documents. Roosevelt is not able to provide the requested papers but offers to send her other documents.
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1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt would like to see W. S. Rainsford when he returns to discuss the war. Roosevelt is particularly interested in Rainsford’s nephew’s comment. Roosevelt also hopes Rainsford has seen his book, America and the World War.
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1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt asks Joseph Welwood Roper if he has been in touch with Myron T. Herrick and B. F. Harris for more information on the subject about which he is writing.
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1915-02-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles O. Hunter for his kind letter. Roosevelt thinks Hunter’s suggestion is “a history well worth writing,” but he does not feel qualified to do so.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Harry Lawson likes the story. Roosevelt would like to thank Lawson for the editorial in the Telegraph.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt praises Luther S. Kelly for his article on peace and war. He thinks the closing sentence of Kelly’s article should be memorized by all “professional pacifists.” Roosevelt tells Kelly that he had an “interesting time” in South America, and he thinks Kelly’s description of Alaska is “interesting and remarkable.”
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1915-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt writes Henry Cabot Lodge that there are a number of Progressives who would not support William H. Taft. Roosevelt could not support Woodrow Wilson, either. The U.S. Collector of Customs is in John Campbell Greenway’s hospital, because he was shot on American soil by Mexicans.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt asks Philip J. Roosevelt to read an enclosed invitation, and to come with him and then write it up if he “thought it worth it.”
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1915-02-03