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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt informs Roger Williams that her children, Theodore and Ethel Roosevelt, will meet the USS Sylph at 4:20 p.m.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-12
President Roosevelt has read the letter from Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson regarding the hospital ship and sees that the case is outlined accurately by Brownson’s comparison to yachts. The yacht owners are usually not the ones who navigate the ships, yet they are the ones who receive requests and give orders.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-23
President Roosevelt would be glad to see Governor Odell and Captain Cuppers, and they can use the dock of his cousin, Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt. In a postscript, Roosevelt indicates that he has enclosed his letter to New York Secretary of State John F. O’Brien who has been trying to secure a position for his brother, Edward Charles O’Brien.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-31
President Roosevelt comments on false stories that have appeared in the press regarding executive spending. He defends the expansion of the White House as being necessary and the cost of the tennis court as trivial. There was no “personal naval review” that used public money and Roosevelt has used the government yachts, Mayflower and Sylph, sparingly. The yachts are also not exclusive to the president and are used by other government officials. Finally, entertainment at the White House is paid personally by Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-14
President Roosevelt would stop by if he was in Arbuckle’s neighborhood but he has only been on the yacht three times this summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-20
Vice President Roosevelt has been called to Buffalo, New York, after the assassination attempt on President McKinley. He believes the president will recover. Roosevelt thanks William Seward Webb for the use of his yacht.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-07
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Nathanael Green Herreshoff that he has spoken with Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long. Roosevelt hopes that his argument that Herreshoff be given his first payment immediately may be successful, but Long has a plan which will likely be tried first. He promises to tell Herreshoff when he is able to share more information, or when he thinks it may be helpful for Herreshoff to speak to Long in person.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-06-10
On behalf of Emperor William II of Germany, Ambassador von Holleben asks President Roosevelt to give his permission for his daughter, Alice Roosevelt, to help christen the Emperor’s newly-built yacht. The yacht is nearly completed, and will be ready to be launched at the end of February, 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-02
Wallace Downey will visit George B. Cortelyou on Friday at 10 a.m. to arrange an interview with President Roosevelt about the launching of Emperor William II’s yacht.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-16
Wallace Downey, president of the Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding & Repair Co., has been informed that President Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt, will act as sponsor at the launching of a yacht being constructed for Emperor William II of Germany. Downey informs Roosevelt that the yacht will be ready to launch in the middle of February, and asks permission to call on Roosevelt the following week to set a date for the launching ceremonies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-07
Presley Marion Rixey, Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, is glad to hear that President Roosevelt is in such good health as to consider dismissing Dr. Pryor from the Sylph, the presidential yacht. Rixey enjoyed his visit to Oyster Bay and was proud of the “magnificent showing of our Navy.” Rixey is also pleased with the progress they have made to better equip and prepare the Navy for any emergency.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-14
The Mayflower accommodates at least 23 people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-22
Herbert H. D. Peirce discusses accommodations for the Russian officials, including dining aboard Navy ships.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-21
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon now has to wear eyeglasses. She requests that Charles Macomb Flandrau purchase something for her and discusses her plans to travel to Chicago, Illinois. Cutcheon also requests that Flandrau tear up her letters.
1891-10-18
Commissioner Roosevelt and family were glad to learn that Robert Harry Munro Ferguson will visit in September. Roosevelt reviews a recent, disappointing rowing match at Cornell and is looking forward to an upcoming yacht race. He is very busy and has much to tell Ferguson when they see each other.
1895-07-24
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna he will meet with Tracey when he is ready regarding Anna’s fiance’s divorce problem. He also talks of meeting and dining with Howard. Roosevelt describes the first yacht race he and wife Edith witnessed and tells Anna to rent her house without regard to their plans.
1895-09-15
List of President Roosevelt’s expenses aboard the USS Mayflower for July 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-03
George Rumsey Sheldon offers the use of his steam yacht, Admiral, to Edith Roosevelt and the children when they are in Oyster Bay, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-28
Soehlein & Co. claims that the city of Milwaukee sent a silver jewel case and box of Rheingold wine to be used at the christening of the yacht The Meteor. Alice Roosevelt never received the jewel case.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-19