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PRESIDENT PLANS QUIETVISITTO HARVARD AND GROTON
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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. Typed Letter Signed, as President, with 9-word
holograph addition, to Governor of Massachusetts Curtis Guild, Jr., asking that no atten-
tion be paid to the Roosevelt family visit to Boston and inviting him to attend his address
at the Harvard Union, adding in holograph: “Can’t you be there, in your private capacity?”
1 page, 4to,White House stationery, with integral blank; two punch holes in upper margin,
minor fading to signature and text. (TFC)
Washington, 25 January 1907
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I am much put out at the publicity given my visit and I most earnestly ask that no attention
whatever be paid to my coming to Boston. I am simply going on to spend Saturday at Harvard
with Ted and Sunday at Groton with Kermit. Mrs. Roosevelt and probably both my daughters
will be with me. It is a purely family affair, excepting that at the Harvard Union I shall speak
to the students . . . .”
“UNCLE SAM CAN AFFORDTO LETTHESE CHILDREN BETAUGHT”
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ROOSEVELT,THEODORE.Typed Letter Signed, as President, with 6 holograph
additions, to District Commissioner Henry B.F. Macfarland, inquiring whether he could
arrange to permit the children of a Maryland family attend school in Tenleytown because
otherwise they would get no schooling. 1 page, 4to,White House stationery, with integral
blank; horizontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 14 October 1908
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. . . [She] is a very nice woman with a family of dear little children.We often see her while we
are out riding. She lives about a mile or two beyond the boundary in Tennallytown, in
Maryland. I really do not see how her children can go to school if they are not allowed to attend
inTennallytown. Isn’t there any way that you can arrange to have her children permitted to go?
It seem to me that on broad general grounds Uncle Sam can afford to let these children be
taught in the District instead of Maryland . . . .”
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