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Mrs. Edith Roosevelt telegraphed the Secretary to the President William Loeb to ask how the President was doing the next time he communicates with the Colorado camp.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-29
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-22
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
2025-07-31
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-26
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948
Cowles, Wm. S. (William Sheffield), 1846-1923
2025-10-09
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt shares her opinions regarding a number of decisions to be made about the renovation and decoration of the White House, including the design of her writing desk, and the shade of color to be used in the Blue Room.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-18
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that President Roosevelt is doing much better, with a normal temperature and good appetite. The doctors believe that his leg should heal quickly now after the surgery following his recent carriage accident. Edith is very glad that Constance Lodge Gardner is getting better, and supposed President Roosevelt has written Lodge about Constance’s husband, Augustus Peabody Gardner. She promises to write again soon to him and his wife Nannie.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-10
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt responds to a request from Katherine Williams Watson, children’s librarian at the Denver Public Library, to review a list of books called “Girlhood Favorites.” Roosevelt notes that the list includes many of her favorites and the favorites of her children, especially the books of Juliana Horatia Ewing.
1930-10
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt requests arrangements for a car and will isolate the Roosevelt boys at the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt coordinates travel plans with Theodore Roosevelt for their sons attending school at Groton, Massachusetts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks John Wallace Riddle for the small library that he sent and for providing her and her guests their summer reading. She hopes that Riddle will not return to St. Paul, Minnesota, early in the summer and instead spend the Fourth of July with them at Oyster Bay, New York.
1889-05-08
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt hopes to have the Ferguson family visit for Christmas and inquires about possible dates. She has told the children not to be too disappointed if they cannot visit.
1907-10-14
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sends her regrets regarding John Campbell Greenway’s illness. She describes her recent trip to Cuba.
1900-03-30
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks John Campbell Greenway for the venison. Roosevelt says that she saw Secretary of War Taft help himself twice, although he is on a diet. Roosevelt hopes to see Greenway soon, but asks that he not come December 27 through January 1, as the family will be at Pine Knot in Albemarle County, Virginia.
1905-1908
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sends love and Easter greetings to John Campbell Greenway from the Roosevelt family.
1900-03
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt invites Patty Selmes to Alice Roosevelt’s “little dance.” Roosevelt is pleased that Selmes will be able to visit.
1901-12-31
Edith Kermit Carow sends her sympathies to Isabella Ferguson in regard to Ferguson’s “new anxiety.” She is confident that Ferguson will face things with courage and observes that a sedentary lifestyle has taken a toll on Robert Harry Munro Ferguson. Roosevelt offers to open her home to their children if they need a milder climate.
1901-1909
Theodore Roosevelt is home safe and well again. Roosevelt is very busy and their house is thronged by the press. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt instructs Patty Selmes what clothes to bring if she finds the money to visit.
1898-1899
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks Octave Thanet for the delightful letters and hospitality. She invites Thanet to visit Sagamore Hill.
1910-11-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is traveling with daughter Ethel Roosevelt and a friend to Arizona to meet President Roosevelt and visit the Grand Canyon. She will be stopping in Chicago, Illinois, and requests to meet with John T. McCutcheon.
1911-03-02
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks John T. McCutcheon for the orchid and agrees to search for a document in President Roosevelt’s papers. If the document is not there she will reclaim it from Groton School.
1911-03-25
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks John T. McCutcheon for his work.
1912-06-18