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James P. Hawkins was impressed with Ethel Roosevelt when he saw her. He would like to meet her when he is in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-04-12
Edgar Huidekoper Wells recently saw Ted Roosevelt’s name on a list of Harvard prize winners, and congratulates President Roosevelt on the accomplishments of his son.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-19
Theodore Roosevelt thinks his father, President Roosevelt, will likely find something to do after leaving the presidency. However, he believes that ex-presidents should be provided for in some way so that they are not forced to work, as many previous presidents have been penniless. Ted writes about some of his younger brothers, saying that Quentin is an “amusing small boy,” and that that he will be “some what hair-raising to watch when he gets to college.” Kermit has “behaved like a perfect trump” in his willingness to help Robert Harry Munro Ferguson and Isabella Ferguson. Ted is glad to be at work and not idling at clubs and sporting fields. While he enjoys taking time off to play games, he would rather work than be lazy all day. He recommends a new book, Wind in the Willows, to his father.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-03
Oscar Carrabine, the Roosevelt family dentist, sends President Roosevelt pictures of his son, Archibald B. Roosevelt. He notes the changes that have already happened in three months and says that as Archie grows, the change will be even greater. Carrabine praises Archie’s qualities and believes that he is destined for great things.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-10
Endicott Peabody tells President Roosevelt that his son Archibald B. Roosevelt’s dental procedure went well. However, Peabody did think that the session was too long for a boy of his age. Peabody states that Roosevelt must be very pleased with the election results, and says that he is glad that William H. Taft won.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-04
Endicott Peabody is glad President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt agree to have their son Archibald Roosevelt repeat the First Form, and that it will be better for his education in the long run. Peabody admires the work Roosevelt has done as president and hopes he will have some good rest coming up.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-22
Waldo B. Fay reminds President Roosevelt that Quentin Roosevelt is on the roll to attend the Fay School and asks whether he will attend in the fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-18
Byron S. Hurlbut is sorry to hear that Ted Roosevelt is sick again. He tells President Roosevelt to send Ted back to school when he can return safely.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-24
Dean Hurlbut of Harvard College writes to President Roosevelt about the reported troubles and recent arrest of his son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Moran is turning it into a political matter, attempting to harm Roosevelt through his son, who was struck by the police when arrested. Francis R. Bangs and John Perkins will look after Theodore’s best interests. Hurlbut hopes the story comes to light and he apologizes for the president’s son’s poor treatment.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-05
Waldo B. Fay is glad to have Quentin Roosevelt as a potential student at Fay School for 1908 and has enclosed an application. Starting in 1907 would be preferred as another boy is starting then. Boys who start at nine years of age do well and adapt quickly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-20
In a translated letter, French Senator Estournelles de Constant remarks that President Roosevelt and America’s youth and confidence “will have made amends for the old age and the skepticism of Europe.” The Baron believes that Europe created America and that America will recreate Europe in return. He feels that Roosevelt will “contribute to this harmony” between ignorance and egotism. The Baron thanks Roosevelt for the invitation to the White House. He wishes he could have received Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth when they were in Paris.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-05
Charles Morgan regrets that he and his wife cannot accept the invitation to Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. His son Charles C. Morgan also cannot attend as he will be rowing for Harvard. Morgan wishes to call to Roosevelt’s attention the upcoming house bill related to veterans that served in the Civil War, War with Spain, and in the Philippines. Morgan hopes Roosevelt will run again for president and feels “the country is safe in your hands.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-21
Endicott Peabody believes that the new football rules are reaching the point where Harvard may consider allowing undergraduates to participate in it. He tells President Roosevelt at length about a visit from Roosevelt’s son Ted Roosevelt, during which Ted expressed some concerning ideas and positions regarding morality. Peabody tells Roosevelt so that when he sees his son he can “help him to a more sane point of view,” but asks Roosevelt not to tell Ted that he wrote about him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-30
Lorenzo S. Brown sends William Loeb a ticket from Washington, D.C., to Abingdon, Virginia, for Ted Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-31
Thomas W. Sidwell updates Theodore Roosevelt on his son Archie’s education. Archie has been making improvements in spelling, penmanship, and arithmetic. Sidwell believes that he will be ready for the Groton entrance exams next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-09
Secretary of the Navy Morton will be glad to acquire and read the article on the Japanese Navy. He will be pleased to talk to President Roosevelt about Roosevelt’s sons and suggests that he should “make one of them a railroad man.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-18
Charles O. Bishop charts the coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s family, his second wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and his six children, in the pages of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Bishop provides information on how many articles and photo essays have been published on the family members, and he quotes from the articles. Bishop highlights the work of some Roosevelt family biographers and historians, such as Stacy Cordery and her work on Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Each member of the family, excluding the president, merits a section in the article and only Longworth is not depicted with a photograph.
Four photographs and two front covers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal populate the essay.
Keith Muchowski focuses on the literary life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt. Muchowski shines a spotlight on two types of books written, co-written, or edited by Roosevelt: stories and tales from the battlefields of World War I and hunting stories based on expeditions to Asia with his brother Kermit Roosevelt. Muchowski also looks at Roosevelt’s role in the founding of the American Legion and his time as governor general of the Philippines, and he laments that Roosevelt’s death in July 1944 prevented him from chronicling his service in World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2016
Stacy A. Cordery examines the life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, providing a biography of Theodore Roosevelt’s first born child. Cordery looks at her troubled childhood, her rebellious spirit as a young woman, and her celebrated marriage to Congressman Nicholas Longworth. Cordery details Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, her support of isolationism in the years before World War II, and her decades long place as a fixture in the Washington, D.C., political scene. A text box within the article contains an excerpt from Owen Wister about Theodore Roosevelt’s frustration at his inability to control his daughter.
Two photographs of Longworth, one with her siblings and the other with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, supplement the text.
Charles W. Snyder examines the lives of Flora Whitney Miller and Quentin Roosevelt and their doomed engagement in his review of Charles O. Bishop’s Flora & Quentin: A Roosevelt and a Vanderbilt in Love during the Great War. Snyder limits his review of the book to a few comments while providing brief biographies of Miller and Roosevelt, with an emphasis on the latter’s brief military service in World War I. Snyder contends that Roosevelt “was utterly unfit for aerial combat” because of his poor eyesight and injured back, and he notes that later in her life Miller successfully guided the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2014