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President Roosevelt asks if Edgar Huidekoper Wells can stop in Washington for lunch or dinner on his way west.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-10
President Roosevelt thanks Edgar Huidekoper Wells for what he is doing for his son Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt is impressed with the “extraordinary bag” Theodore Lyman got. He would like to have lunch or dinner with Lyman to discuss it and asks Wells to inquire if Lyman can come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-07
President Roosevelt thanks Edgar Huidekoper Wells for assisting Kermit Roosevelt in picking six courses. Roosevelt hopes Kermit will continue working on his Greek, as he himself never took to it. Kermit understands that the six half courses are a heavy workload, but Roosevelt will remind him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-03
President Roosevelt tells Dean Wells of Harvard College that he will bring the matter in question to Secretary of State Root, but he is very busy at the moment. He offers to visit with Clarence Hay and take up the matter in the presence of his mother.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-10
Theodore Roosevelt asks Edgar Huidekoper Wells for the title of the book Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt should study in civics. He was disappointed he did not see Wells at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt returns Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt’s exam papers to Edgar Huidekoper Wells. It appears Archie was confused by the civics questions. Roosevelt tried to get Wells out but could not contact him. He thanks Wells for the letter to Kermit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Edgar Huidekoper Wells of his two sons, Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. Archie passed two of his four subjects this year, of which Roosevelt is very pleased and may allow him to get in to Harvard University next year. Roosevelt asks if he might get the test papers for Archie’s civics test to better understand what Archie failed in. Kermit Roosevelt was granted permission to start school a few days late so he might finish hunting moose, caribou, and beaver in New Brunswick on behalf of the National Museum. Kermit wrote of his hunting experience and his essay was accepted by Scribner’s Magazine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Edgar Huidekoper Wells that he forwarded his letter to Roosevelt.
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1910-03-19
President Roosevelt was very pleased to receive Edgar Huidekoper Wells’s letter complimenting his son, and says that “at the risk of giving Ted too much sugar in his diet,” he will pass along the kind letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-19
President Roosevelt thanks Edgar Huidekoper Wells for his letter to Arthur Woods, and writes that Kermit Roosevelt will be pleased to have Wells as his advisor. He hopes Wells and Woods will be able to visit when they are in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-21
President Roosevelt tells Edgar Huidekoper Wells that he has received a copy of Charles William Eliot’s speech, and is pleased about it. He asks Wells to thank Eliot for him.
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1908-02-13
President Roosevelt shares his schedule with Edgar Huidekoper Wells and asks if he will see him at “the Union.”
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1907-02-12
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear that his son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has been elected to the Porcellian Club despite Ted never writing to his father about it himself.
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1906-11-27
President Roosevelt agrees with Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that the grades his son, Theodore Roosevelt, earned do not constitute “a brilliant record.” He is disappointed Ted did not do better, but is glad that there was still improvement over the first half of the year. He promises to have a “full and serious talk” with Ted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-06
President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, has decided to stay on at Groton School for two more years, rather than trying to enter Harvard early. Roosevelt therefore no longer needs Wells to find a tutor, and apologizes for the trouble. Roosevelt showed Kermit Wells’s letter, among others, and thinks that it had “considerable influence with him.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-07
President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, has decided to stay at Groton and that he no longer needs Wells to find a tutor. He has written a letter explaining more fully.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-07
President Roosevelt tells Edgar Huidekoper Wells, Dean of Harvard College, that his son Kermit Roosevelt would like to start studying with his tutor on July 9, and asks if Wells has found any that he could recommend. He apologizes for bothering Wells so much regarding the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-22
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-06
President Roosevelt tells Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, is hoping to enter college at the same age Roosevelt himself did. Kermit wishes to follow in the footsteps of his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, by getting a tutor and compressing two years of schooling into one to make this possible. Roosevelt asks Wells for information on getting a tutor and outlines Kermit’s plan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-03
President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Theodore Roosevelt, will be delayed returning to Harvard because of a recent eye surgery. Ted had wished to return, but both William Holland Wilmer, the ophthalmologist who performed the operation, and Alexander Lambert, the Roosevelt family doctor, protested. Roosevelt encloses notes from both doctors attesting to this, as Ted does not want Wells to “consider him a malingerer” for missing several days of classes classes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23