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Winthrop Chanler has just returned from Canada and was shocked to hear about Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s recent accident. He hope she is recovering well, and expresses his dread over horse accidents. Chanler shares some tales from his hunting excursions in New Brunswick.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
Frances M. Wolcott updates President Roosevelt about the comings and goings among her friends and family in Paris, many of whom are ill with Diphtheria. She also explains the gift she sent him, a thermos.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Winthrop Chanler for his letter, asks that Chanler give his love to Daisy, and comments that he is in an “awful” fight, yet enjoying himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-14
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Winthrop Chanler for writing and says Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will recover from her horseback riding accident, but it may be a slow recovery process. Theodore Roosevelt sends Chanler’s wife Margaret Chanler his love, is sorry he did not get a large moose on his recent hunting trip, and hopes to tell him of Kermit Roosevelt’s recent travels.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-13
President Roosevelt thanks Winthrop Chanler for sending him Richard Lydekker’s Game Animals of Africa. It is interesting to think that Roosevelt will be following in Willis’s footsteps, although he thinks his trip will be “quiet” and “gentlemanly.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-20
President Roosevelt is impressed that Winthrop Chanler is able to keep up with so much reading, and was surprised to learn of his interest in Irish sagas. Roosevelt would have liked to have helped Charles Carroll, a member of the Porcellian club, but Frederick, W. Whitridge has already chosen his secretaries. He wishes that Chanler could have been present at Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s wedding, and comments that by the end of it there was a meeting of all the Porcellian brothers who attended, with at least forty attendees. He is glad that Chanler’s family has been having a good time abroad, and comments that he would likely enjoy hunting in Meath, Ireland, but would need some time to get into condition. He hopes to see Chanler when he returns to the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-04
President Roosevelt compliments Charles E. Mather on his hound, Glancer. He appreciates Mather’s invitation to hunt but is unable to accept.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-13
Robert J. Collier invites Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to have lunch and attend the first National Polo Match game at Meadow Brook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-11
Winthrop Chanler sends President Roosevelt a silk sash as a gift and teases him about the upcoming African safari. Chanler will travel to Europe soon. He briefly mentions what his family, who are already there, have been doing. He also congratulates Roosevelt on his twenty-second wedding anniversary. Chanler’s is coming up soon as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-02
Winthrop Chanler critiques the novel Lady Baltimore in a letter to President Roosevelt. He finds the novel to be petty and aggravating. Chanler notes that Woody Kane is the young man who arrives from the north, and he wonders how many copies of the novel would have sold if not for such a figure appearing in it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-21
Winthrop Chanler writes President Roosevelt about his season spent in Paris and Meath, Ireland. He also discusses the activities of his family and friends in Europe, including members of the Porcellian Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-22
Having been recently appointed ambassador in Rome, Italy, Henry White has just learned that Lewis Morris Iddings, first secretary at the embassy there, has been appointed minister in Cairo, Egypt. White believes that the current second secretary in Rome is too young and inexperienced to serve as Iddings’s replacement, and suggests that R. S. Reynolds Hitt might fill the position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-20
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Two books are reviewed and two books are revisited in this edition of the “Book Reviews” section. John A. Gable examines The Letters of Edith Wharton and focuses on what the letters reveal about Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby, the president’s daughter. Gable provides portraits of each, and he notes that Edith Wharton “regarded [Theodore] Roosevelt with an awe bordering on worship.” Perry D. Floyd asserts that Garrett and Roosevelt falls short as a biography of the last twenty years of lawman Pat F. Garrett’s life in part because there was not much a relationship between Garrett and Roosevelt. Floyd says that the available evidence cannot support the book’s title.
The column offers extended quotes from Lewis L. Gould and Gable taken from their reviews of Carol Felsenthal’s biography Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and it features a notice (which acts as an advertisement) about the reissue of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. The notice quotes from William Allen White’s foreword to the 1941 edition.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1989
Aloysius A. Norton asserts that Theodore Roosevelt “did not study Zen; he lived it.” Roosevelt’s total immersion in the task at hand, accepting of the circumstances in which he found himself, and his childlike nature all speak to his living a life of Zen.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
Winthrop Chanler reports on local elections, wherein his family members were elected to various official seats. Chanler relays his approval for President Roosevelt’s published letter regarding the post office matters and chats about the upcoming hunting season.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-04
Winthrop Chanler is pleased that his friend Penn Morris will be able to retain the position he holds in the Census Bureau and thanks President Roosevelt for his support. Chanler also conveys thanks from General Henri Joseph Brugère for the President’s hospitality.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-04