Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Brander Matthews
President Roosevelt congratulates Brander Matthews on his daughter Edith’s engagement to Nelson Macy.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-03-07
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ralph N. Ellis
President Roosevelt congratulates Ralph N. Ellis on his engagement, and regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to A. P. Montant
President Roosevelt is pleased to hear of A. P. Montant’s daughter’s engagement.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Owen Wister
President Roosevelt thanks Owen Wister for writing his congratulations about his daughter Alice’s engagement to Nicholas Longworth. The family is pleased at the engagement. Roosevelt asks Wister to let them know when he can come visit, but to give a few days’ notice so that arrangements can be made.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-12-19
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kenneth D. Robinson
President Roosevelt congratulates Rough Rider Kenneth D. Robinson on his engagement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-10-04
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Reginald Ronalds
President Roosevelt congratulates former Rough Rider Reginald Ronalds on his engagement, and asks when his wedding will be. He hopes Ronalds and his fiancee, Matilda Thora Scott Strong, will be able to visit and have dinner at the White House in 1906.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-08-14
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to André Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates his cousin André Roosevelt on his recent engagement, and looks forward to meeting his fiancee, Adelheid Lange. He was delighted to learn of Roosevelt’s new job with the Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-07-24
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Duffield Wrenn
President Roosevelt congratulates Robert Duffield Wrenn on his engagement to Grace Dabney.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-20
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John J. Pershing
President Roosevelt congratulates Captain Pershing on an impending engagement. He says that as soon as it is announced, he and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, would like to have Pershing and his fiancee, Helen Francis Warren, to lunch.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-10
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Parish
President Roosevelt expresses his delight at Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt’s engagement and says, “few things could have given me greater satisfaction.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-12-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Brandegee
President Roosevelt congratulates Edward Brandegee and sends his regards to Mary Brandegee.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-15
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Elisabeth D. Riis
President Roosevelt tells Elisabeth D. Riis that her husband, Jacob A. Riis, must not come unless it is “absolutely convenient.” Roosevelt congratulates Riis on behalf of himself and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, on the recent engagement of Riis’s son, Edward V. Riis.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-05
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Metcalfe Bass
President Roosevelt congratulates Lyman Metcalfe Bass on his engagement to Grace Holland and compliments him on being “the kind of man that we should like to have our boys grow up to be.” Roosevelt believes that being “happily married” leads to happiness “in the highest sense.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John P. Gardiner
President Roosevelt congratulates John P. Gardiner on his upcoming wedding to Elinor Green Whitney, but regrets he will not be able to attend.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-09
Letter from William T. Blodgett to Theodore Roosevelt
William T. Blodgett shares with President Theodore Roosevelt the news of his engagement to Hannah Whitney of New Haven. As Whitney’s sister has married Charley Dickey, also a Harvard graduate, Blodgett delights in two former Yale fans having “succumbed to Harvard men.” Blodgett wishes for Edith Roosevelt to know how happy he is, too.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09
Letter from A. P. Montant to Theodore Roosevelt
A. P. Montant informs President Roosevelt ahead of the official announcement that his daughter is engaged.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-31
Letter from Curtis Guild to Theodore Roosevelt
Curtis Guild, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, writes to President Roosevelt, regarding a letter about Franklin. Guild congratulates Alice Roosevelt on her upcoming wedding.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-16
Telegram from C. F. Eccardt to Theodore Roosevelt
C. F. Eccardt writes to President Roosevelt congratulating him on his daughter Alice’s engagement.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-02
Letter from A. P. Montant to Theodore Roosevelt
A. P. Montant just learned of Alice Roosevelt’s engagement to Nicholas Longworth and expresses to President Roosevelt “how hard it is to congratulate a father on the ‘temporary loss’ of his daughter.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-12-17
Letter from Henry H. Washburn to Theodore Roosevelt
Reverend Washburn congratulates President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on the announcement of the engagement of their daughter Alice Roosevelt. Washburn also wishes the President a merry Christmas.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-12-16