Dailey, Wallace Finley

Tweed Roosevelt acknowledges that there were five errors in his previous column on “One Hundred TR Firsts.” He lists five statements that were in error and two others that were challenged by readers, and he provides details about the five errors, including assertions about Theodore Roosevelt’s first inauguration, his marriages, and his daughter Alice’s White House wedding. Roosevelt also says that he received many suggestions for additions to his list. Five photographs accompany the essay.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Tweed

Advertisement for TR’s Summer White House, Oyster Bay by Sherwin Gluck. The ad cites endorsements from John A. Gable and Wallace Finley Dailey and features a picture of the book’s cover. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

Creator(s)

Gluck, Sherwin, 1970-

The photographer Xiomáro describes the process of photographing Sagamore Hill National Historic Site while it was being emptied and prepared for a major renovation in 2012. Xiomáro recounts his experience photographing another unit of the National Park Service, and he notes how his photographs taken at Sagamore Hill became the basis for an exhibition in Oyster Bay, New York, and at Harvard University. One photograph accompanies the text which is followed by a photo album of eleven color photographs.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

Creator(s)

Xiomáro, 1960-

Brief report and photo album from the 2012 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Chicago, Illinois. The report notes the highlights of the weekend meeting, including the various tours of sites in Chicago, the conferring of awards, and information on the symposium. The report is supplemented by forty-three color photographs of the Chicago skyline and the guests, speakers, and dignitaries at the meeting. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2013

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces the appointment of Laurence Pels as the new Executive Director of the TRA, and it also announces that Heather Cole has taken over as curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University, replacing Wallace Finley Dailey who retired after forty-one years of overseeing the collection. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2012

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Milton Bruce Shields and Louis Victor Priebe examine the topic of Theodore Roosevelt’s vision and how his myopia, or nearsightedness, affected his life from his inability to see clearly as a youth to his stockpiling eyeglasses before his service in Cuba and his safari in Africa. Shields and Priebe also discuss the injury to Roosevelt’s left eye suffered during a boxing match with an Army officer, and they speculate on whether the injury resulted from a detached retina or a cataract. Shields and Priebe also consider how Roosevelt’s vision may have determined other aspects of his life and personality from his heightened sense of hearing to his love of books and reading. 

Four photographs supplement the text, including two of 1904 campaign buttons in the shape of pince-nez glasses. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Art Koch reveals the subject and context of the seventh “TR-era image” which shows rows of small tents arrayed on the San Juan Heights of Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Koch asks readers to identify a figure who was mistakenly identified as Theodore Roosevelt in a photograph in an article in the Fall 2010 issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1898

Terrence C. Brown, Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), inaugurates a column called “Grass Roots” which he will use to communicate with the members of the TRA. Brown notes that two regional chapters have been added to the TRA in North Dakota and Florida, and he highlights the TRA’s cooperation with the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in New York City, noting the site’s support of the Teddy Bears for Kids program and providing the TRA with office space. Brown also informs the TRA membership that he has been cutting the association’s expenses.

A photograph of Brown as a ten year old boy appears in the column.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

Harry N. Lembeck provides a report on the 2009 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in Tampa, Florida. Lembeck notes the business meeting, including the election of officers, and he highlights the seven speakers at the meeting, providing a brief synopsis of each of their addresses. Lembeck also notes the conferring of the Bertha B. Rose Award and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Award. Thirty-seven photographs taken by Art Koch of the speakers, guests, and members of the TRA leadership accompany the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2010

Creator(s)

Lembeck, Harry N.; Koch, Art

Art Koch reveals the subjects and context of the second “TR-era image” which features Theodore Roosevelt with fellow hunters near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in the spring of 1905. Koch notes that one of the subjects in the picture had her head erased by the photographer under direction of Roosevelt who was offended that she had intruded herself among his hunting companions. The third image features a cartoon of Roosevelt shooting at a dictionary with two revolvers while the ghosts of three famous writers hover over the dictionary.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1905

Creator(s)

Koch, Art

William N. Tilchin provides a detailed look at the 2007 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in Boston, Massachusetts. Tilchin notes the committee and leadership meetings of the TRA, and he highlights the field trips to the USS Constitution, Harvard University, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Tilchin’s account also covers the awards presented by the TRA, including the police award for Boston, the Bertha B. Rose Award, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt Junior Officer Leadership Award. Tilchin also notes the various speakers and the topics they addressed in different venues during the weekend meeting.

Fifty photographs populate the report, including five pages with six photographs each, which show the various guests, dignitaries, award winners, speakers, and TRA leaders.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2008

Gregory A. Wynn discusses the origins of his hobby of collecting items related to Theodore Roosevelt, and he uses this as an introduction to examine a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Otto Trevelyan which had not been previously known or published. Wynn highlights the sensitive nature of the letter’s contents as it reveals Roosevelt’s thoughts and actions during a number of diplomatic crises during his presidency. Wynn also notes how the Trevelyan letter was shared with and was part of Roosevelt’s correspondence with his friend David Gray. Wynn asserts that the letters provide a “revealing snapshot of presidential statecraft.”

A postcard and a dinner program from Wynn’s collection appear in the article along with a photograph of Roosevelt with Trevelyan and his son George Macaulay Trevelyan.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2009

William N. Tilchin praises Stacey A. Cordery’s Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt not just for its collection of photographs, but because he feels that it merits reading as “a fine brief biography of TR.” Tilchin includes twelve selections from the work that include captions penned by Cordery. Henry J. Hendrix finds that Iestyn M. Adams’s Brothers Across the Ocean does an admirable job of explaining how Great Britain and the United States put aside their differences to forge an informal alliance during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, but he admonishes Adams for failing to utilize more American works in his study and for characterizing Roosevelt as “immature and bellicose.” 

The book review section also includes a text box with the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces the agenda, speakers, and field trips for the association’s annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, in October 2007. The announcement lists the eight speakers, the field trips to Harvard University and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and it notes that the TRA leadership will host a forum on the planned Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Museum and Research Center. The announcement includes a mail-in registration form.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

James F. Vivian reviews Moose Crossing, Max J. Skidmore’s history of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, and he laments, as does Skidmore, that the road better known as Highway 2 has few visible traces of the man for whom it was named. Charles Markis explains why the staff of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site created a children’s book for students who visit Theodore Roosevelt’s home, and he details the process of identifying the book’s theme, choosing illustrations, and publicizing the title. In a review of that work, Simply “Father”: Life with Theodore Roosevelt as Seen Through the Eyes of His Children, Natalie A. Naylor praises the layout and look of the work as well as its historical accuracy. The “Book Review” section closes with an announcement about the 2007 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and notes that Lowell E. Baier’s article about the Elkhorn Ranch from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal has been reprinted in the magazine of the Boone and Crockett Club.

The section includes three photographs of Roosevelt with his children at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that its 2007 annual meeting and dinner will take place in Boston, Massachusetts. The announcement highlights some of the speakers, presentations, and field trips available to members who attend. The seal of the TRA appears to the right of the announcement. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Creator(s)

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Report on the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s Bertha B. Rose Award. The report includes a biography of Bertha Benkard Rose that emphasizes her work in historic preservation, especially at Sagamore Hill. The report also includes brief notices about the twelve past winners of the award dating back to 1982, and it highlights the work of the 2003 recipient, Michael L. Manson. A text box lists all of the winners of the Rose Award, and the report also includes a list of the seventeen colleges and universities that granted Theodore Roosevelt honorary degrees from 1899 to 1917. A paragraph on Roosevelt’s history with New York City concludes the section.

A photograph of Manson with the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt accompanies the report.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2004

Variety defines this edition of “News & Notes.” The section highlights numerous ceremonies, celebrations, and exhibitions to mark the ongoing centennial observation of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. It also covers the Fourth of July celebration in Oyster Bay, New York, the dedication of a plaque commemorating the attempt on Roosevelt’s life in October 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sagamore Hill to the public. “News & Notes” also notes the death of Doris Albert Budner, the struggles of a Rough Rider museum in New Mexico, and the publication of an article by the Cato Institute that criticizes Roosevelt. 

The section contains three text boxes with quotations and excerpts from Roosevelt’s writings, and it is supplemented by four photographs, including two of humorist Mo Rocca at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

This section of the journal covers twelve topics including a brief report on the 1998 annual meeting which saw the conferring of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to former President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush. It also highlights a revival of the play Bully! starring actor John Davidson, the results of a survey of historians rating twentieth-century presidents, and the opening of an exhibition on Theodore Roosevelt at the National Portrait Gallery. “News and Notes” also discusses whether Roosevelt believed in the legend of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot creature, relays news from the The Friends of Sagamore Hill cooperating association, and notes the launching of a Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) website. The section closes with a listing of the members of the executive committee of the TRA along with the members of the Board of Trustees classes of 1999, 2000, and 2001, and with a text box indicating that this issue of the journal is dedicated to P. James Roosevelt. 

Five photographs of President Bush at the annual meeting appear in the section. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Linda E. Milano reviews Betty Boyd Caroli’s The Roosevelt Women and John A. Gable examines eight books published to coincide with the centennial of the Spanish-American War in the “Book Reviews” section. Milano praises aspects of Caroli’s work, but she details what she considers the sometimes inaccurate and unfair depiction of Ethel Roosevelt Derby. Gable likes the two pictorial histories of the war by Stan Cohen and Ron Ziel, and he also admires the two works based on primary sources, Wallace Finley Dailey’s editing of Theodore Roosevelt’s war diary and Jeff Heatley’s compilation of newspaper accounts about the Rough Riders’ return to New York state. While Gable notes three other works, he devotes four paragraphs to a detailed critique of Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan by Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels which he labels a “trashy book” for its reliance on unreliable sources and its agenda of belittling Roosevelt’s actions in the war. 

The section includes a text box containing the mission statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.