Cousins

President Roosevelt has no knowledge of a cousin named Maude Davison Davenport.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-14

The Roosevelt cousins at Oyster Bay. They appear to be lined up according to age. From left to right: Archie, Nicholas, Oliver, Ethel, Philip, Kermit, Ted, Katharine, Laraine, Margaret, Jack, George, Elfrida, Alfred, Alice and Christine.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897

Theodore Roosevelt vouches Nicholas Roosevelt is his cousin and a “responsible and good fellow.” Roosevelt mentions Archie “got eight points in his examination” and is glad Nicholas and Aspinall are having a good trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-21

A remote cousin of the Roosevelt family is experiencing difficulties. Theodore Roosevelt would like Emlen Roosevelt to advise him on the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-06

President Roosevelt updates his cousin William Emlen Roosevelt on Archibald B. Roosevelt’s health. He expresses his concern about the situation going on in the business world. He notes that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Archibald will not be going on the trip down south. He asks William to give him notice when William decides to visit. He expresses relief that William warned Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. about business. He is disappointed that he did not see William’s son, George Emlen Roosevelt, at Harvard, but notes that he did not see much of his son, Theodore, either.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-08

President Roosevelt tells William Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt how much he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed having William and Christine’s boys visit them. The president details a walk he took with William and Christine’s boys and Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and Archibald B. Roosevelt. He looks forward to seeing William and Christine at the inauguration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-04

President Roosevelt tells Attorney General Moody that he believes it would be a wise idea to appoint Henry K. Love as a United States Marshal because he is a “first-class man.” In a handwritten addition, Roosevelt says, “He is a rough rider, alas—but then he is also a distant cousin of John Hay!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-17

Theodore Roosevelt is happy his cousin, Laura Jane Bulloch Locke, enjoyed the drive and hopes to send the carriage to her for her use often.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-06-09

Theodore Roosevelt is glad Matilda Moxley Elliott enjoyed herself, but he regrets he cannot tell his aunt, Lucinda Ireland Sorrel Elliott, what she wishes to know about her son, John S. Elliott. Roosevelt recently dined with him in New York, but he knows nothing of his current affairs or whereabouts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-05-24

Arthur M. Harris believes the “Mr. Judd” who assisted Theodore Roosevelt on his African safari is his cousin, W. C. Judd. If so, Harris sends respects on behalf of him and his cousin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-06

Nannie Vance Roosevelt thanks President Roosevelt for his “affectionate thoughts” and the wreath he sent after the death of her father-in-law, Robert Roosevelt. She and her husband, John Ellis Roosevelt, understand why President Roosevelt could not come to see them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-23

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Elizabeth E. Roosevelt reminds readers that the Cove Neck peninsula on Long Island, New York, was not the exclusive domain of Theodore Roosevelt and his family. She describes the many Roosevelt families who had estates in the area, and she highlights the frequent gatherings of these clans and the entertainments they enjoyed such as tennis, swimming, and sailing. Roosevelt provides biographical snapshots of some of these family members, including the children of Theodore Roosevelt, and she notes which family members made their homes in the same area where they were raised, including the president’s sons, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Archibald Roosevelt, and his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby. 

Two photographs of Roosevelt cousins and two photographs of sailing ships supplement the text.

Theodore Roosevelt did not enjoy the voyage to England as there was not much to do. He learned how to tell time by the bells and the names of the sails. Roosevelt met his cousins after arriving and thinks that they kiss too much. He finds Liverpool to be a “very funny place.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1869-05-29

Theodore Roosevelt has written to Mrs. Pierce. Quentin Roosevelt enjoyed his time at Farmington, especially with William Sheffield Cowles, Jr. The last two months Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt have been less busy and have been very happy; they both laughed over Anna’s last letter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-01-08

On behalf of a reporter, Job E. Hedges asks if Maude Roosevelt Davidson is Vice President Roosevelt’s first cousin. Hedges is pleased that President McKinley is doing better.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-11