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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt Derby

Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt are on the last leg of the safari and Roosevelt is looking forward to the end. He was comforted by being able to write to Ethel Roosevelt. The Kampala and Nyanza lake area is beautiful and interesting. A local leader reminds Kermit of Umslopogaas, H. Rider Haggard’s Zulu hero. Roosevelt doubts he will be able to write again until reaching Cairo, Egypt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-12-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt Derby

Theodore Roosevelt is excited that he will see Ethel Roosevelt in two and a half months. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt have done well and are in excellent health. Kermit has turned into a grownup and is growing a mustache that you must be attentive to see. He is proud of Kermit’s “prowess and hardihood.” Roosevelt wrote to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt about killing a charging elephant and is not sure if she will want him to keep the tusks. The last ten days have been spent traveling from Lake Victoria and Roosevelt has been greeted by the African leaders like a king.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-01-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt Derby

Theodore Roosevelt describes his current camp in the “African wilderness” which has been made less comfortable due to early rains. With the help of several African attendants, he has been hunting eland and oryx. Everyone has been behaving excellently and are “amply supplied with meat.” Roosevelt keeps a photograph of Ethel Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on his table.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-09-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt Derby

Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt have been enjoying a four day hunt by themselves. Kermit seems older and “more developed in character.” Yesterday, Kermit rode fifteen miles to meet with a local African leader and brought back a keg of honey. Tomorrow Kermit and Roosevelt will part ways for a month. It has been difficult to find food for the “huge safari” and Roosevelt is concerned about some of his mail being lost due to the distances involved.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-09-20