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President Roosevelt wishes Martha Macomb Flandrau Selmes and her family a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-25
President Roosevelt thanks Sir Henry Norman for his Christmas card, and hopes to see him soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt wishes a merry Christmas to all the men of the American army and navy at home and abroad.
1917-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt sends his thanks to John Avery McIlhenny and his wife for the Christmas greetings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-28
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive Frances M. Wellcott’s Christmas greeting and looks forward to seeing her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-28
Theodore Roosevelt praises Nicholas Longworth on the capital speech and extraordinary figures, which he will see if he can use. Roosevelt thinks they make a startling indictment of the good faith of President Wilson and his supporters. Roosevelt also shares a humorous story about receiving a Christmas letter along with a Navy Department calendar from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, “that preposterous old grape-juice gentleman,” despite the fact that Roosevelt has attacked Daniels as strongly as he has attacked Wilson and Secretary Bryan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-23
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt were touched by Clayton Rockhill’s Christmas card and write to return the well wishes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-24
President Roosevelt thanks Sister Regis for her card and wishes her a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-24
Don Hardy wishes President Roosevelt a merry Christmas. Hardy respects Roosevelt’s decision not to seek renomination and hopes his successor carries on his work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-01
A photograph of Devils Tower National Monument appears on the front cover of this issue while the front and back of a Christmas card from the White House Historical Association appears on the back cover. The card depicts the White House, Santa Claus, and the family of Theodore Roosevelt on Christmas morning.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2018-09-18
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson acknowledges John Campbell Greenway’s Christmas card, though it made her homesick to see him. She would like to see him soon and discuss the Rough Riders, among other things. Robinson would like to send Greenway her biography of Theodore Roosevelt but does not know where to send it. She will be traveling west in March and hopes to see Greenway.
1922-01-12
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson is not sure whether her letter will reach John Campbell Greenway, but sends “warm, affectionate greetings.” She reminisces about their last visit at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and discusses the death of Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s husband, William S. Cowles. Robinson inquires about where to send a volume of poems called Roosevelt as the Poets Saw Him.
1923-06-11
Full color Christmas postcard with embossed design of Santa Claus at left, holding a long “List of Births.” At the top right is printed, “Gee whiz! if this keeps up/I’ll have to get an assistant./Roosevelt ought to/read this!” The postcard is in reference to Theodore Roosevelt’s philosophy encouraging large families.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1908