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President Roosevelt updates Kermit Roosevelt on various happenings in the family. The president tells Kermit he is “reluctantly” realizing that boxing and wrestling are “too violent” for him as sports. Roosevelt is just glad he was elected president, whether or not his physical fitness is declining.
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1904-12-11
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about seeing James S. White, a “cowpuncher” he knew from North Dakota, and he had him to lunch “with a mixed company of home and foreign nobility.” The president also encourages Kermit to not lose heart about his grades and to “keep pegging away.”
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1904-12-02
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s trip to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and how he walked through the exposition grounds with an enormous bruise without letting any reporters know he was experiencing pain in his leg. The president was most interested in the North Dakota and Philippine exhibits. President Roosevelt includes a handwritten note encouraging Kermit to “keep pegging away” in his studies and to not lose heart.
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1904-11-29
President Roosevelt informs his son Kermit Roosevelt that by all indications he has won the presidential election by a large margin.
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1904-11-08
President Roosevelt confirms to his son Kermit Roosevelt that he has won the election by an overwhelming majority, “about as great as that of McKinley four years ago.” He wishes that Kermit could have been present.
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1904-11-08
President Roosevelt encloses some “cunning” letters from the Garfield boys. He has been busy with work and has not had much time for romps with the children. Loretta the parrot has become one of the household and Roosevelt is surprised at the bird’s sociability and intelligence.
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1904-01-23
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1903-12-08
English
President Roosevelt describes a “scramble” with Archie Roosevelt and story time with Quentin Roosevelt.
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1903-03-01
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1912-04-03
English
Herman Fields asks Kermit Roosevelt to send photos of Theodore Roosevelt “in action” as reference for the statue that Gustav Vigeland is designing.
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1911-05-02
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1910-05-26
English
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin tells Kermit Roosevelt about his desire to make another Arctic expedition, but inquires if he could join President Roosevelt’s African expedition in the meantime. He hopes to see Kermit and his brother at his talk at Harvard in December.
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1908-06-06
Edwin H. Allison sends a pipe to Kermit Roosevelt as a Christmas present for President Roosevelt with the message that honest men want Roosevelt to run again and finish the good work he started. Senator Robert J. Gamble found Allison employment as an interpreter for the Allotting Agent, although his salary is small. Little Knife, a Brûlée Sioux, made the pipe. In a postscript, Allison encloses letters from Army officers, which he asks Kermit to return.
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1907-11-11
President Roosevelt contemplates his chances for victory in the upcoming presidential election in a letter to his son Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt lists the states of which he is confident of victory along with those in which he believes the contest is in doubt. Roosevelt assures his son that he is content to stand by his record of the past three years and that he considers himself fortunate to have been president.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1904-10-26
In a letter to his son Kermit Roosevelt, President Roosevelt describes aspects of his trip to Panama to check on the progress of building the Panama Canal. Roosevelt notes the heavy rain, the work of the steam shovels, and his long days of inspecting various aspects of the project. Roosevelt remarks that the jungle flora and fauna renewed his interest in natural history.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1906-11-20
In a letter to his son Kermit Roosevelt, President Roosevelt describes a weekend visit to Pine Knot, the rural retreat purchased by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt in Virginia. Roosevelt notes that he did the cooking for himself and Edith, and that they enjoyed walking the property and sitting on the piazza. Roosevelt also writes of his efforts to bring the Russians and Japanese to the negotiating table to achieve a diplomatic settlement to the Russo-Japanese War.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1905-06-11
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt about attending the funeral of Ida Saxton McKinley, President William McKinley’s widow, and he says that he was both “half irritated and half amused” that the assembled crowds seemed much more interested in him than in Mrs. McKinley or the memory of President McKinley. Roosevelt acknowledges that people will always be more interested in the live dog of the present than the dead lion of the past. The vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association appears below the letter.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1907-06-01
President Roosevelt describes his trip to Pine Knot Cottage with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, including two days of failed turkey hunting expeditions that finally succeeded on the third day. He ends by saying Secretary of State Elihu Root’s speech went well.
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1906-11-04
President Roosevelt reports to his son Kermit Roosevelt that “life at Oyster Bay is as wonderful as it is pleasant.” He describes how the neighborhood entertained the officers of the Mayflower in a variety of ways. Archibald Roosevelt spends most of his time boating with his dog Skip. Roosevelt is again busy with work, which includes writing speeches and making arrangements for the Atlantic Fleet. He hopes Kermit is enjoying himself.
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1907-08-27
The Greenways have settled into their new home in Ajo, Arizona, for the winter and would like Kermit and Belle Roosevelt to visit. John Campbell Greenway cannot attend the Boone and Crockett Club dinner but encloses a check for his entrance fee and dues. He regrets not being able to see the unveiling of the Theodore Roosevelt monument in Cuba.
1924-12-04