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Isabella Hagner informs A. H. Vincent that there will be no photos of the wedding or Alice Roosevelt’s gown taken. Her latest photograph can be obtained from Edward S. Curtis at the Waldorf-Astoria.
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1906-02-10
President Roosevelt is glad about what Endicott Peabody said about his son Archie Roosevelt’s enrollment at Groton. He thanks Peabody for his long letter regarding his opinion on football and a conversation with his son Ted Roosevelt. Roosevelt is glad that Peabody and his wife Fanny Peabody will attend Alice Roosevelt’s wedding, and hopes that they will have time to eat dinner with him. Roosevelt’s wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is concerned about missing their son Kermit Roosevelt’s confirmation due to a scheduling conflict, and asks if they could move the confirmation earlier.
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1906-02-02
President Roosevelt is pleased with what Lois Adelaide Bangs says about his daughter Ethel Roosevelt.
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1906-02-03
President Roosevelt hopes that his daughter Alice enjoys the book that W. A. Fraser sent as much as the rest of the family enjoys Fraser’s animal stories.
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1906-02-05
President Roosevelt informs Endicott Peabody that he does not believe his son Archie Roosevelt could pass the examinations to attend Groton this year, and asks if he could defer for a year. Archie is small, not good at his studies, and would be six months younger at age of entrance than his brothers Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt.
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1906-01-29
Isabella Hagner informs Mrs. S. S. Hitchcock that as a rule, Alice Roosevelt never allows the use of her name or image for advertising purposes.
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1906-01-24
Isabella Hagner responds to the letter that George W. Hodgkins wrote, which most likely invited Kermit Roosevelt and Archibald B. Roosevelt to join an organization. As a rule, no members of the President’s family accept membership in any organizations.
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1906-01-24
President Roosevelt misses Kermit Roosevelt since he left for school, and hopes to visit him soon. He has many social engagements in the evenings, and much work throughout the day.
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1907-01-12
President Roosevelt sends his childhood nurse, Dora Watkins, twenty dollars and wishes her a merry Christmas. He describes his sons Archie and Quentin playing in the snow with their cousins behind the White House. He shares his plan to play hide-and-seek with the children and their friends inside the White House on Saturday.
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1905-12-19
President Roosevelt thanks Captain Winslow for gifting him the candlestick, which he says has “real historic value.” He also appreciates how Winslow put on the inscription. He will prize the gift and pass it on to his children.
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1905-12-19
William Loeb informs Albert T. Sessagrant that Alice Roosevelt feels she is unable to properly express her opinion about the merits of musical or literary productions brought to her attention.
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1905-12-14
President Roosevelt sends his son Kermit Roosevelt a copy of his book and discusses Kermit’s grades, which he would like to be a little higher. He also discusses his trip through the South, and in particular highlights a boat accident he was in off the coast of New Orleans. Alice Roosevelt Longworth returned home from her trip to Japan with fencing armor for Archibald B. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt; Roosevelt describes their antics.
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1905-11-01
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a surprise weekend visit from Ted Roosevelt. Ted, who brought a friend, is enjoying Harvard even though he will not make the freshman football team. Roosevelt leaves tomorrow for his southern trip, and looks forward to it being over, when he will be done with “tours of speech-making.”
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1905-10-17
President Roosevelt encloses a message from Harvard president Charles William Eliot for his son Theodore Roosevelt. He also gently reminds Ted that the family would like to know how he is doing at school.
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1905-10-04
President Roosevelt gives his son Kermit Roosevelt advice about his sleeping bag. He tells him about the upcoming meeting he is to have with the “football men” of Harvard, Yale and Princeton in his efforts to make football a cleaner sport. He also updates him on the activities of the family, including Quentin’s reading and Archie’s football playing.
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1905-10-09
President Roosevelt tells his sister-in-law, Emily Tyler Carow, that he has taken steps to have her friend restored to his position. He also updates her on the Roosevelt family’s summer activities at Oyster Bay and talks about how all of the children are doing.
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1905-09-23
President Roosevelt updates his son Ted Roosevelt on what has been going on at Oyster Bay since he left for Harvard. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is currently away, and in her absence Ethel Roosevelt “has been very cunning,” staying up late and hoping that her father will not remember that she was supposed to go to bed.
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1905-09-27
President Roosevelt is very pleased with what U.S. Marshall Bullock and his wife Martha said about his son Kermit Roosevelt. He also tells Bullock that his oldest son, Ted, is training William Loeb’s horse Scoot to jump.
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1905-09-04
President Roosevelt strongly objects to the suggestion presented in the letter Jacob A. Riis forwarded to him, as he feels that it would be very distasteful to his son, Ted Roosevelt. Doing as the writer suggested would be “just the kind of mawkish, self-advertising impression” that does damage to Sunday school work, and Roosevelt feels that Ted would be being asked not because of his own character, but because he is the son of the president.
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1905-08-05
President Roosevelt’s son, Kermit Roosevelt, is greatly looking forward to visiting Seth Bullock at the end of August, and Roosevelt hopes he will not be a bother. Kermit will arrive around August 20 or 21 and stay ten days, in which Roosevelt hopes Bullock will be able to take him horseback riding and camping. Roosevelt hopes to see Bullock and his wife, Martha Marguerite Bullock, in Washington during the upcoming winter.
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1905-07-07