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Annual meeting of T.R. Collection Committee at Harvard

Annual meeting of T.R. Collection Committee at Harvard

Article that announces the annual meeting for 1978 of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection Committee which oversees the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University. The article lists the members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association that serve on the committee, provides an update on the additions and contributions made to the collection, and lists the names of the individuals and organizations that made the donations. The article also says that a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt painted by George Burroughs Torrey at the White House had been donated to Harvard by Dr. Adelbert Ames. The article closes with a history of the Roosevelt Collection from 1919 to 1978.  

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1978

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt is happy that the safari has been a success, although he is homesick and will not listen to those who tell him he should wait to travel home until after the fall elections. Roosevelt is eager to see his articles published in book form, and hopes that it will be received as well as the recent publications were.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-12-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt is greatly concerned about William Sheffield Cowles Jr.’s health and for Anna Roosevelt Cowles given the anxiety she has over her son’s recovery. Roosevelt and his wife, Edith, will meet Anna in New York as soon as she is able to travel there. Roosevelt offers to have his great-nephew “little Joe” Alsop for a visit, and he is eager to show him books about exotic wildlife.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-02-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

The letter is signed by Edith Roosevelt, as Theodore Roosevelt is recuperating in hospital after the assassination attempt. He wants to assure Anna Roosevelt Cowles that he is doing well and enjoying the time to rest with Edith and his children with him. He would prefer to be campaigning but he is thrilled with the work Joseph W. Alsop and Herbert Knox Smith are doing. Roosevelt also loved William S. Cowles’s letter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-10-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt shares with Anna Roosevelt Cowles his frustration with the number of invitations he receives to dedicate and/or deliver speeches at local institutions around the country, and the lack of understanding he encounters when he declines such invitations. He has spoken in almost every state since he returned from safari several months earlier, and while he wanted to do so, he has decided that he will speak only at occasions or for causes that will receive a national audience. He writes about his views on women’s suffrage, saying that he “tepidly” favors it where the majority of women desire it themselves. However, he does not believe it to be of much consequence, believing that it will do only a small bit of good, and none of the harm that its opponents insist it will.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-06-29

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles and William S. Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles and William S. Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s rheumatism. He is pleased that she has made the decision to come home, believing that she is more comfortable in her own house. Roosevelt is glad that George Payne McLean defeated Morgan G. Bulkeley in the Connecticut race for United States Senate, but he wishes that either man were more like Joseph W. Alsop. Roosevelt is happy that his Christmas gifts, zebra-skin rugs, have been received well. He also gave one to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and one to Nannie Lodge, and says they are better than any trophies he brought back from his safari.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1911-01-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister for her letter and enclosures and praises her most recent poem. He asks her to send the enclosed materials to her sons Theodore and Monroe and mentions how difficult it is for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to receive letters from Quentin Roosevelt. Roosevelt also mentions seeing Corinne Robinson Alsop and Joseph W. Alsop.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-08-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Theodore Roosevelt writes that he received his sister’s new book of poems and praises her ability to put into words the inarticulate feelings of life and inspire others to live up to high ideals. He mentions the hard work those around him have put into his campaign and cites it as one of the reasons he was reluctant to run for president.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-10-06