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Sally Flandrau Cutcheon now has to wear eyeglasses. She requests that Charles Macomb Flandrau purchase something for her and discusses her plans to travel to Chicago, Illinois. Cutcheon also requests that Flandrau tear up her letters.
1891-10-18
Anna Roosevelt Cowles acknowledges John Wallace Riddle’s very welcome letter. She has plans to see President Roosevelt and family before they go to Washington, D.C., and to see friends in Mexico.
1907-09-18
Kermit Roosevelt congratulates John Wallace Riddle on being appointed to Saint Petersburg and leaving Romania. He hopes that Riddle will write about what is happening there. Roosevelt will also be spending the Christmas holidays in Washington.
1906
Anna Roosevelt Cowles congratulates John Wallace Riddle on his new post as ambassador. She appreciates Riddle’s friendship and hopes he can visit before taking his new post.
1906-12-22
John Campbell Greenway was delighted with the cablegram from General Wood, Frank Ross McCoy, and Gordon Johnston. Greenway describes how the family spent Christmas and hopes Wood returns to the United States soon.
1924-01-11
Governor Wood acknowledges John Campbell Greenway’s recent letter and sends warm regards from all Greenway’s old friends in the Philippines; including Louise Adriana Wood, Gordon Johnston, and Frank Ross McCoy. Wood describes the long, hard fight happening in Manila against “agitators of various types.”
1924-02-15
Christmas card from The Leonard Wood Memorial. The front image of the card depicts a nativity scene. The text of the card tells a short story about a mother visiting her deceased child at a leper colony.
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Leonard Wood, Frank McCoy, and Gordon Johnston send Christmas greetings and congratulations to John Campbell Greenway.
1923-12-24
Governor Wood thanks John Campbell Greenway for his Christmas and New Year’s greetings.
1925-01-27
John Campbell Greenway was delighted with the cablegram from General Wood, Frank Ross McCoy, and Gordon Johnston. Greenway describes how the family spent Christmas and hopes Wood returns to the United States soon.
1924-01-11
John Campbell Greenway has returned to Bisbee, Arizona, to find the portrait of General Wood, which is first rate. Greenway wishes Wood a successful and happy New Year.
1912-01-01
Kermit Roosevelt sends Christmas greetings and hopes they might spend a Christmas together soon. He outlines his family’s plans for where they would like to live and work in the future. Argentina is on the “right side” regarding attitudes towards the war and Roosevelt would be enlisting if he were not married.
1914-12-23
Kermit Roosevelt describes his work for the railroad and says he is enjoying it. He expresses his sympathy at the death of Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s sister. Roosevelt acknowledges receiving a Rudyard Kipling book.
1913-01-25
Kermit Roosevelt updates the Fergusons on his activities at school and the Roosevelt family. He jokes about Martha Ferguson catching skunks and feels he may qualify as a second-assistant skunk catcher. Roosevelt recently visited Edmund Heller and Edgar Alexander Mearns at the Smithsonian Institution to watch them work on bird and rodent specimens.
1911-02-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt hopes to have the Ferguson family visit for Christmas and inquires about possible dates. She has told the children not to be too disappointed if they cannot visit.
1907-10-14
President Roosevelt wishes Patty Selmes a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Arizona Historical Society
1906-12-25
President Roosevelt was pleased to hear from John Campbell Greenway at Christmas and trusts that Greenway and Mr. Sloan had a good visit to the Isthmus of Panama. In a handwritten addendum, Roosevelt wishes he could see Greenway again as Greenway travels north.
Arizona Historical Society
1907-12-26
A large Christmas tree is decorated with ornaments labeled with political offices and presidential appointments. Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, who is dressed as a woman, are standing in front of the tree. In queues on both sides are diminutive figures anxiously awaiting their presents, including from right to left, Jerry Simpson, Joseph B. Foraker, William E. Chandler, William McKinley, Whitelaw Reid, Thomas B. Reed, Levi P. Morton, Benjamin Harrison, William B. Allison, George F. Hoar, John Sherman, Chauncey M. Depew, and Robert T. Lincoln. Caption: The two big bosses have full charge of it, and the most obedient boys will come in for the best gifts.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-25
People are gathered in a barn for a Christmas dance party. The fiddler arrives late, a bit intoxicated. Caption: Jabe Gormley–I got ‘im; I got ‘im; – but he’s been to two dances already!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-04
Puck holds mistletoe over the head of a young woman who is reading a magazine or newspaper.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-04