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W. P. MARSHALL, PRESIDENT

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1955 JUN 5 AM 9 33

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MR AND MRS HERMAN HAGEDORN=

GRAND HOTEL MACKINAC ISLAND MICH=

THINKING WITH GREAT GRATITUDE OF FRANK TODAY SO
GRATEFUL YOU ARE THERE MIKEY FLOURISHING AND IS A MOST
GUIDED YOUNGSTER WE MADE WAFFLES TOGETHER AT THE COTTAGE
THIS MORNING LOVE TO DOT AND ERIC DEVOTEDLY=

MARY=..

THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE

July 7, 1959

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Recognizing that a father's commendation may, to some extent, be discounted, I am impelled, nevertheless, to add a personal word to the general commendation of my daughter's work printed in my Report as director of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission.

Miss Hagedorn has, first of all, of course, the essential capacities of a trained and efficient secretary - speed and accuracy in typing; less speed, at the moment, in taking dictation, owing to the fact that stenographic work was only a very minor part of her activities with the Commission.

More important than this basic competence, she has certain qualities of mind, character and personality which are not found too frequently: integrity; a sharp sense of responsibility; selfless devotion to the job and the capacity for complete absorption in it; deep caring for people, and courtesy, imagination and grace in dealing with them. Further, she has a gifted pen, intuitive perception and a sense of style in the drafting of letters, a flair for public relations and, finally - possibly rarer than any of the qualities listed above - an alert and sensitive concern for the public welfare.

Hermann Hagedorn
Director

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DRAFT

Recognizing that a father's commendation may, to
some extent, be discounted, I am impelled, nonetheless, to
add a personal word to the general commendation of my
daughter's work printed in my Report as director of the
Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission.

Miss Hagedorn has, first of all, of course, the
essential capacities of a trained and efficient secretary -
speed and accuracy in typing; less speed, at the moment, in
taking dictation, owing to the fact that stenographic work
was only a very small part of her activities with the
Commission.

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More important than *this* basic competence, she has
certain qualities of mind, character and personality which
are not found too frequently: integrity; a sharp sense of
responsibility; selfless devotion to the job and the capa-
city for complete absorption in it; deep caring for people,
and courtesy, imagination and grace in dealing with them.
Further, she has a gifted pen, intuitive perception and a
sense of style in the drafting of letters, a flair for public
relations and, finally - possibly rarer than any of the
qualities listed above - an alert and sensitive concern for
the public welfare.

Library of Congress Annex

Feb. 17, 1948

Dearests,

Here am I, given a table and a typewriting table, waited upon by a very nice colored man who is much more courteous than the average white, and the Washington Post for 1893 is due any minute. The Colonel wanted me to look up the news item which marked his first meeting with T.R. when he was Civil Service Commissioner.

It looks now as though the Colonel is really going at life again with zest. He came back to the office and immediately set them on their ear with suggestions that is certainly making the place (that was never a sleepy proposition anyway) a beehive. And he informed me, as I guess I told you, that he thought it would be too bad just to write about the T.R. administration, when he had so much more than that-from 1893 long past the administration (to T.R.'s death)-that would be valuable. So,-----------

What a sweet letter from Rita! So Matt had what Marie von Bergen Tolander had. How wonderful that he is recovering! She was the only one of twelve such cases in the hospital when she was there who survived.

I told Matt Rita that if I could possibly do it I would try to get to Denver at the beginning of my vacation and then see if I couldn't arrange for Dot and Eric and Mike to pick me up when they came to Mackinac with the car. Hence the trip West that Rita mentions.

Dad, have you told Matt about your gratitude for what you learned through your troubles last Spring and Summer? I think it would mean an awful lot to him, because he will have a lot of time to himself, just to think and not do much else. For two months Marie couldn't even feed herself - in fact, it may have been for longer. She couldn't sit up at all, or raise her arms!

Mother Dearest, I'm so grateful for your letters and your very good counsel! They have meant a real lift for me. Couldn't you sneak up here when Dad goes West to Kansas City (I hope, too, to Denver?) We'd so love to have you. You'd be like Ella so much, I think.

Later

I had to start with these cracking, funny old tomes! And now it's lunch-time, and after that I'm going to have the bandage taken off my knee. That jurnt is fully recovered, thank goodness, and it will be good to have the bandage gone so I can bend the thing again and walk upstairs more than just with one foot at a time!

Devoted love,

October 7, 1948

Dear Arthur:

These things Dad said needed to be done after we leave the
house:

Catch on north window, middle room

Plane down door on fuse-box, south room

Fix and paint screens for bathroom windows

Fix and paint screen for small south window, south room.

Fix brackets under table, middle room

Repair floor, refrigerator room

Put in new boards on porch. Also posts and cross-piece for
grape arbor

Put up shelf in guest-room closet

Put vegetable cage into the "wart".

Put extra fastener on the furthest window on the east side
of the bedroom. It's loose and drafty.

Thanks ever so much, Arthur, for all you did for us this
summer. Hope you have a chance to get a bit of rest and fun now
that the summer's over.

All the very, very best to you all,

Dad, the rug is put on top of the mattresses on top of chairs
in the guest-room, so isn't on the floor. We have left the tool-
box in the guest-room because Mrs. Davis felt it would be drier
there. The tools are wrapped and in it.

Mrs. Davis is a darling! And all's well. It's such a relief
to have her finish up.

Loads of love,

50 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston 16, Mass.

Oct. 13, 1948

Dearest Dads,

So many thanks for your letters. Forgive me
for my neglect of you! What I most seem to want
to do these days is sleep, and sleep, and then just
rest after that. I never was so relaxed in all my
life, I guess.

So far I've only spent three hours at the
Library, having taken two days off to unlax again.
But I'm going tomorrow, after going to bed early
tonight.

I'm sorry you have been having a hard time
inspiring the RMA Ladies. It's certainly true that
anything revolutionary has to be fought for. Ike
should be able to help you in that line.

Had a very fine time at lunch with Martha
today and them seeing the folks at 133 afterwards.
Wyman seems completely baffled and told me he can't
understand it. He feels it is caused by economics.
Ed Wesley reported that when he was down in N.Y. at
the Madison Ave. office funds were so low they didn't
have enough to pay the month's salaries. So I guess
that's the answer.

Grace Colburn said, "What did I tell you?" She
said the same thing keeps happening to everybody
sooner or later, in just the same sudden way. I
have a feeling that change is needed somewhere, and
when it occurs the money will come too.

Wyman said he would write me a letter of recommendation, which will help.

Much, much love,

50 Commonwealth Ave.

Boston 16, Mass.

October 19, 1948

Dearest Dads and Mother,

Many thanks for your letters. I'm so glad the apartment is nice and that you had such a good trip down.

This will be only a short note as I must get down to Cambridge. I went this morning to WRUL as per Wyman's request, as he said he had the money for me that was owing, so I got $16.34 in cash beside the week's check that had been sent me for $37.80. It all helps.

Helen Van Wyk was dear and invited me to have dinner with her and her husband in Cambridge as soon as I come back from N.Y.

Also Wyman said that Mr. Lemmon was going to write me a letter, which will be good, too.

Dad, Miss Cordingley said that the Cowles letters are only a fraction of those she has in microfilm and suggested that I look those over. It seems to me, too, that to quote from letters already published is not adequate. There must be many delightful quotes about Sagamore Hill in the microfilmed stuff.

Here is yesterday's haul from the scrapbook, except for one fairly long article in the September 22, 1901 N.Y. Herald which I am going to get photostated - it's about Mrs. T.R.

Miss Cordingley says that the pictures you asked for are there, so I shall probably hunt for them today.

Will you let me know about the Cowles microfilmed letters? Mr. Morison says there is nothing about the acquisition of Sagamore that he has found but will let me know if anything of general interest turns up with regard to the life there.

All is well. I seem to get pretty tired still, so am not doing more than three hours and a half at the Library yet. Pray for me.

Had a lovely restful time at the Swaime's.

October 12, 1948

Dear Mary:

I haven't been able to see Colonel Cal for some time. I am afraid he is much the worse for wear. I have talked to him over the telephone and have delayed writing to you until I had the satisfaction of a round up with him over the Roosevelt book and your important part in getting ready for it. But since you have taken time by the forelock and settled the thing for the present I shall reply to your last note with a "To whom it may concern".

On my own behalf I want to thank you very much for your handling such a trying research job for the best interests of all concerned and I appreciate having had the opportunity to talk it over with you from time to time as we did last spring and summer. I shall write you again after I have had a little heart to heart talk with the Colonel.

With devoted messages from Frances and myself,

enclosure

Miss Mary Hagedorn
c/o Mrs. J. K. Allen
50 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

October 12, 1948

To whom it may concern:

Miss Mary Hagedorn has been doing some very important research work on behalf of this Association in helping Colonel John Callan O'Laughlin to finish his proposed book on Theodore Roosevelt and his personal association with him throughout his administration, first as a distinguished correspondent writing mostly on foreign affairs, and later on as Assistant Secretary of State toward the end of the first Roosevelt administration.

Miss Hagedorn was charged with research work and arrangement of material for the writer. I have been in touch both with Colonel O'Laughlin and Miss Hagedorn during this period of some six months and feel that the work which she has done has been most satisfactory both to Colonel O'Laughlin and to the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Miss Hagedorn has handled it in a scholarly way, with literary skill, and has had her heart in her work. It has been, I am sure, an interesting experience for her and I can vouch for her intelligence and integrity in all her work with which I am familiar. She has finished her work and has been released at her own request.

Vice President
Roosevelt Memorial Association

Dear Opack

Sister is two years old and I am six years old, and six years old.
I am six years old, and I am six years old.

Dear Opack

Sister is two years old, and I am six year years old. I hop you
are very happy. I was six in march the sixteenth.

Sister was two in a ugust. I mean to tell many things but I
cant think of them. I hop you are very well to as well as
happy. I have a pāir of wings and a EXEM crown.

I was down at the beach and I saw the schiottgig girls
and they started sockazz at february. I seem to
think of the things, but sometimes I cant. I am going to
try to write a long letter. I am goinga away pretty soon,
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