Birthdays

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-10-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Fowler, Margaret K.

Elizabeth Wheelock sends Theodore Roosevelt best wishes on their shared birthday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-27

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Walter Bacon’s birthday greetings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-15

Theodore Roosevelt thanks George H. Sands for the birthday greetings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-08

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Thomas Robins for the birthday greetings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-08

Theodore Roosevelt was touched by Charles E. Reid’s birthday message.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-08

Theodore Roosevelt is touched by J. Ogden Armour’s birthday greetings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-08

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970; Reid, Ogden Mills, 1882-1947

Theodore Roosevelt thanks W. A. Bach for the birthday wishes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-04

Theodore Roosevelt thanks E. E. Baird for the birthday greetings.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-02

B. K. Merriman wishes Theodore Roosevelt a happy birthday and hopes all future Roosevelt’s future campaigns will have success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

President Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that Kermit Roosevelt was chosen as captain of the seventh but fears he will fall behind in his studies. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is back home now and has brought Aunt Emily. Today was Quentin’s birthday.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1903-11-19

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for remembering his birthday. He signs the letter as “Methuselah’s Understudy”. Attached is a note written by Robinson stating this is a copy of his last letter to her.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-10-27

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister for remembering his birthday.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-10-27

Ted Roosevelt thanks James Cardinale for remembering his birthday, and for the crown roast. Letterhead from Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1939-09-14

Ted Roosevelt thanks James Cardinale for the birthday present and says he ate too much of it. Roosevelt also mentions that he knows his grandson Billy used to call on Cardinale. Letterhead from Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1937-09-16

President Roosevelt wishes his son Kermit Roosevelt a happy birthday. He would like to hear all about Kermit’s trip west and especially to hear about college. Preparation for the Africa trip is going well. Roosevelt would like to know if the English shoes he sent Kermit are all right and says that at Christmas he will take Kermit’s list of books that he would like to bring. Roosevelt discusses Ethel Roosevelt’s horse jumping and details a “scramble walk” he took with Archibald Willingham Butt through Rock Creek Park.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-10

President Roosevelt updates Kermit Roosevelt on preparations for their Safari and on family life. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has lately been exposed to commentary about the potential dangers of the trip, including letters from Cecil Spring Rice and an article in The Public Ledger. The Roosevelt family celebrated Ted Roosevelt’s birthday with a picnic, and Roosevelt feels strongly that Ted will be successful in his upcoming ventures. Soon Archie Roosevelt will be heading back to school and summer will give way to fall.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-14

President Roosevelt requests his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow tell Mr. Bovet that while he sympathizes with the movement to preserve the Alps, as president, he cannot sign a petition that is essentially a request for action by another government. Roosevelt updates Carow on the family’s summer activities in Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-13

President Roosevelt regrets to inform the Committee of Arrangement for the Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of General Robert E. Lee that he will not be able to attend their celebration. However, he would like to join them in honoring Lee’s life and career as a “great soldier and high-minded citizen whose fame is now a matter of pride to all our countrymen.” He reflects on Lee’s life, character, and accomplishments and describes a man who “in the closing years of his life, served those who sorely needed what he so freely gave.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-16