Cowles, Anna Roosevelt, 1855-1931

Hilda Francesetti, contessa di Malgrà, sends President Roosevelt the first copy of her Italian translation of his book, The Strenuous Life. Francesetti has given out reproductions of a photograph which Roosevelt sent to her when she has given other copies of her work to friends, and she hopes that Roosevelt will not disapprove of this. While she still grieves for her late brother, Ugo Francesetti, conte di Malgrà, the time she spent translating Roosevelt’s work was a welcome distraction. Francesetti asks Roosevelt to forward an additional copy of the book to his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-05

Creator(s)

Francesetti, Hilda, contessa di Malgrà, 1872-1955

William S. Cowles tells Theodore Roosevelt he hoped Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is on the mend. Cowles loved Theodore Roosevelt’s editorial “Our Neighbors, the Ancients,” and will get the book to read. Cowles agrees with Roosevelt regarding the removal of obelisks and other artifacts from their original locations and believes Akhenaton, King of Egypt, should not be allowed to wander foolishly about.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-05

Creator(s)

Cowles, Wm. S. (William Sheffield), 1846-1923

William S. Cowles congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather and says he likes Roosevelt’s article “Dante and the Bowery.” Cowles praises Senator Boies Penrose. President William H. Taft and Governor Simeon E. Baldwin will be at the Connecticut State Fair. Cowles is glad John Ellerton Lodge is getting married, ending an awkward situation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-31

Creator(s)

Cowles, Wm. S. (William Sheffield), 1846-1923

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-12-21

Creator(s)

Hofer, Billy

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that William Sheffield Cowles Jr. is overcoming his homesickness. Quentin Roosevelt and Christopher LaFarge have sent good reports about him. He asks that his letter to Sheffield not be sent unless there is need of it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Writing from the Upper White Nile, Theodore Roosevelt expresses a favorable opinion of Joseph W. Alsop, describing him as “an ideal American citizen.” He also talks of being homesick.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-03-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter for his sister and writes that its recipient was pleased with her most recent poem. Roosevelt mentions that everyone he talks to about Douglas Robinson speaks about him with the highest regard. He writes that he is looking forward to a visit from Helen Roosevelt Robinson and her children and is concerned about the health of Anna Roosevelt Cowles. Roosevelt also mentions that Archibald Roosevelt and his wife, along with aviator Douglas Campbell, are coming to visit and reminisce about Quentin Roosevelt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-10-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister for her letter and enclosures.  He informs her of his travel plans for the next month and makes plans to see her when he returns.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-05-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister for her letter and writes that he enjoyed seeing Theodore Douglas Robinson at the Harvard Club and is glad that he joined the Grange. Roosevelt asks if his sister has written to General Bell, who is ready to go abroad. Roosevelt also admires Anna Roosevelt Cowles’ “heroic spirit” and mentions correspondence he has received updating him on his family’s activities.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-09-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Arthur Hamilton Lee for the painting, saying he is overwhelmed by Lee’s kindness and generosity, and the way in which he has read Roosevelt’s thoughts about the painting. Roosevelt mentions that Admiral William S. Cowles, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks recently attended the tricentennial celebrations in Québec, emphasizing the “hearty friendship” between the United States and England. Roosevelt thinks the British fleet should be kept up to the highest standards for the “peace of the world,” though he would like to limit the size of ships. Roosevelt’s African safari is coming up, and he hopes he can travel as a private person, but will pay his respects to various important personages along the way if need be.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt asks Louise Holmes Vanderbilt if she and Frederick William Vanderbilt will bring Duchess of Marlborough Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan to lunch at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt describes the family’s “ideal” Christmas celebrations to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He asks Robinson to find out how her son, Monroe Douglas Robinson, could bear being seen with Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt, when Ted was wearing “such as cap as he seems to have carried.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

William Loeb, on behalf of Edith Roosevelt, sends the Albany Savings Bank a check from President Roosevelt’s sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles “in favor of Quentin Roosevelt for $10.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-13

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

George B. Cortelyou sends Chief Post Office Inspector Cochran President Roosevelt’s agenda for his trip to New Haven, Connecticut, including his stop to visit his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles. Cortelyou asks Cochran to cooperate with Police Chief Richard Sylvester and Secret Service Chief John E. Wilkie regarding Roosevelt’s safety while away from the capital.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-15

Creator(s)

Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940

President Roosevelt would like to discuss his message when he meets Senator Platt at Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s house on October 22.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Howard Pyle thanks President Roosevelt for his letter of introduction to Gifford Pinchot. Due to Roosevelt’s kind deed, Pyle praises Roosevelt’s administration and believes that he “will stand forth in history as one of the very greatest of our presidents.” Pyle also notes that Roosevelt had inspired him in painting a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which Anna Roosevelt Cowles has seen in Pyle’s studio in Wilmington, Delaware.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Creator(s)

Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911

William Emlen Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt that he and Edith have been on his mind since hearing of Archibald B. Roosevelt’s sickness. He has enclosed a survey of Cove Neck as promised, and despite several errors, the layout is “very interesting” for them to have. He tells Roosevelt of the dire situation on Wall Street and the effect that the panic has had on himself and his colleagues. He discusses his visit from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and the dispatch he received from his son George Emlen Roosevelt, who was remorseful not speaking to Roosevelt when he was visiting Harvard. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Mrs. Whitelaw Reid was surprised by the enclosed letter from Teresa Stoughton Richardson that President Roosevelt has sent her, stating she has never heard such a story before.  Reid updates Roosevelt on the health of both her father, Darius Odgen Mills, and husband, Whitelaw Reid, Ambassador to Great Britian, and looks forward to seeing him when she leaves for Great Britian on The Philadelphia on March 2nd.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-20

Creator(s)

Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw, 1857-1931

William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt the deed to the property. William will finish up the details of the transaction after the survey of Cove Neck.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, William Emlen, 1857-1930

Margaret Mott thanks Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for the five dollars she sent to Dora Watkins. Watkins often thinks about when she was the nurse of Theodore Douglas Robinson and how smart he was as a child, just like his child, Douglas Robinson. Anna Roosevelt Cowles also sent Watkins twenty-five dollars and a “lovely letter.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-21

Creator(s)

Mott, Margaret