Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Archibald B. Roosevelt
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1913-04-22
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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1913-04-22
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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1913-04-08
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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1913-02-21
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
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1913-02-13
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt tells his son Archie that he has gotten Captain William Norman appointed Assistant Inspector of Hulls in the Steamboat Service at New Orleans. Next, Roosevelt will inquire about “Wiggie’s” brother. Quentin Roosevelt is still sick but is adjusting to his new school and plays football with the others. Roosevelt took a long ride with Edith in the afternoon.
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1908-10-11
President Roosevelt will have a Spalding football sent to Archie Roosevelt. Roosevelt says he will not make campaign speeches, and he updates Archie on Quentin Roosevelt. It is kind of Mademoiselle to say she misses the family but Roosevelt hopes she is happy. Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Karow Roosevelt have been riding, and Roosevelt has been playing tennis.
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1908-10-06
President Roosevelt writes to Archie Roosevelt that the New York plan is set with Dr. Oscar Carrabine. He tells Archie that winter in Washington, D.C., will be strange with no children around, but that it is good to have Ted Roosevelt there. During tennis a ball hit Roosevelt’s eye, making him stagger, but he continued the game. In a postscript Roosevelt says the dentist will instead come to Groton.
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1908-09-17
President Roosevelt asks his son Archibald B. Roosevelt to be kind to his shy classmate Leonard Opdycke, whose father Leonard Eckstein Opdycke attended Harvard with Roosevelt. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have been enjoying the outdoors in Oyster Bay, New York and plan to depart soon.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt updates Archibald B. Roosevelt on family matters. Quentin Roosevelt brought a snake back to Washington, D.C., from Oyster Bay and has been allowed to borrow three more from a local pet store. He is showing them to everyone, including Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and a number of Congressmen who are off-put by the animals.
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1907-09-27
Theodore Roosevelt writes about his travels in the Midwest, starting to work for the Kansas City Star, and his visits to various military bases. He comments about the lack of rifles and uniforms for the soldiers.
1917-09-28
Theodore Roosevelt reports that Archie Roosevelt is now a father and that Archie’s old captain, Adolf Wiedebach, came to visit. Weidebach agrees with Roosevelt that the German-American Alliance should be suppressed. He ends with a comment about letters being censored.
1918-03-04
Theodore Roosevelt explains the comments he made regarding General Pershing’s orders to prohibit alcohol. Temperance leadership had taken the comments out of context and attributed others to Roosevelt that were never made. Roosevelt ends by reporting on the health of Archie Roosevelt’s newborn son.
1918-03-08
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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919