Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edgar Huidekoper Wells
Subject(s): Education, Groton School, Harvard College (1780- ), Roosevelt family, Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948, Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944
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President Roosevelt shares Edgar Huidekoper Wells’s hesitation about Kermit Roosevelt’s plan to compress two years of schooling at Groton into one but does not want to stop him from trying to do it. Roosevelt feels that both his older son, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kermit “have felt it a point of honor to enter college at the age I did,” but says that he will try to remove the notion from his younger sons before they start at Groton.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-06
Creator(s)
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Recipient
Wells, Edgar Huidekoper, 1875-1938
Language
English
Period
U.S. President – 2nd Term (March 1905-February 1909)
Repository
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Page Count
1
Production Method
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edgar Huidekoper Wells. [May 6, 1906]. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o195442. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edgar Huidekoper Wells. [6 May. 1906]. Image.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 5, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o195442.
APA:
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919., [1906, May 6]. Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edgar Huidekoper Wells.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o195442.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. March 5, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
APA:
Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/library-of-congress-manuscript-division.
