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Quentin Roosevelt writes about Mary S. E. Lucas’ son Earle, who was apparently suspended from Groton School. Roosevelt assures Lucas that Earle’s “crime,” so called by the rector, was really very trivial. He asks Lucas not to worry.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915
Quentin Roosevelt thanks John E. Ewell for the check and hopes Ewell’s new job will be successful.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-12
Quentin Roosevelt writes home thankful for receiving packages of gifts such as books and a sweater. He discusses how he is trying to finish up his flight training but keeps getting sidelined with illnesses.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-01-29
Quentin Roosevelt writes about heavy rain storms flooding his camp and making working and living conditions difficult.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-09-07
Quentin Roosevelt writes about working 16-hour days and working on construction of the aviation school.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-10-03
Quentin Roosevelt describes his ill health and being put in charge of a squadron and having 600 recruits from the United States arrive in France where they are not prepared to train them. Also mentions how he is trying to see “action” on the front. Evidence of military censor on pages 5 and 6. The document is half typed, half handwritten.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-12-17
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother about his tardiness in letter writing and his mild case of pneumonia that had him hospitalized.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-12-18
Quentin Roosevelt telegrams the family from Paris to wish them a merry Christmas.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-12-25
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother about his Christmas overseas and how letters from home cheer him as well as gifts from the family.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-12-29
“Will change back first address insteda farmer’s surer love Quentin Roosevelt.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918
Text of telegram: “Worried by cable what about Roslyn please explain by wire…am recovering from pneumonia at Eleanor’s.” Probably during the winter of 1917 when Eleanor had to go collect Quentin from camp when he was ill.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his father about his regrets for writing dull letters and describes his flying skills. Pages 2, 3, and 4 have paragraphs crossed out by hand in pencil mark, possibly by military censors.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-01-22
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother about how, despite the weeks of heavy rain, his education in flying has progressed well.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-01-23
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother that he is not too pleased by the cold winter weather, since it makes flying in an open cockpit biplane unpleasant. He mentions being sore about his friend Cord Meyer getting to fight at the front before him.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-02-17
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his father about the need to be trained on the mechanics of firing machine guns, flying the old rickety air planes and parachuting.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-03-03
One of last letters written by Quentin Roosevelt to his mother. Postmarked in Oyster Bay, Aug 5, 1918, three weeks after his death and forwarded to Edith Roosevelt in Maine. Quentin talks about his first weeks on the front and what life will be like when he gets back to the States.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-06-25
Quentin Roosevelt cables his mother that he and Hamilton Coolidge are finally moving to the front.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-06-08
One of the last letters written by Quentin Roosevelt to his father. Quentin recounts shooting down a German airplane over enemy lines on July 11, 1918. Pages are missing from the letter as the last sentence stops in the middle of a thought.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-07
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his father about not receiving nor sending mail recently and worried mail from United States might have been lost at sea. He then discusses the state of the US air forces in France, seeing Archibald and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and asks if his father has any news on why his fiance Flora Miller cannot come to Paris right now.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-05-12
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother about making a crash landing in a tree (due to motor malfunction) and hurting his wrist.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-05-04