Death

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Lambert, Alexander, 1861-1939

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Platt, Jeannie Penniman Smith, 1834-1927

Language

English

Writing from the Dark Harbor, Theodore Roosevelt expresses his sorrow upon the death of his youngest son, Quentin Roosevelt, as compared to Corinne Robinson’s loss of her son, Stewart Douglas Robinson.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-08-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about his and Edith’s continuing honeymoon through Europe. He thanks Anna for sending him a telegram about the recent death of a friend. Roosevelt needs to discuss the arrangements for his daughter Alice when he returns from his trip and he wants to know if Rowe proposed to Anna.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1887-01-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Belle Roosevelt responding to the death of Zoeth S. Eldredge. Roosevelt addresses President Wilson’s handling of the war in Europe. He also mentions a recent trip to Tuskegee to appoint a successor to Booker T. Washington.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-12-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt writes to Henry White that he mourns the death of German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg, a man he regarded highly. Roosevelt will likely be presented to King Edward VII of Great Britain as a private citizen while he is visiting Oxford, and if requested he will also visit William II, the German Emperor, so as not to offend him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

H. C. G. Moule writes Annie Augusta King about a letter he received from Hester J. B. Hart, whose husband Robert Hart recently died. He discusses the current upheaval in China and wishes Cole well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Creator(s)

Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn), 1841-1920

Baron North informs President Roosevelt of the death of Roger A. P. North and sends a local newspaper clipping that covered the funeral.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Creator(s)

North, William Henry John, Baron, 1836-1932

Senator Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for his sympathy during the final illness and approaching death of his sister-in-law, Louisa Minot Davis Luce. Lodge has just read Roosevelt’s letter and Elihu Root’s speech to the peace meeting, and he finds both “entirely admirable.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-16

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Lodge’s sister-in-law Louisa Minot Davis Luce is still alive, though barely. Commenting on a charge that President Roosevelt was insane, Lodge notes that it was a careless remark that had been misconstrued and was not meant to be taken seriously. The people are with Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-17

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt about his sister-in-law’s health and comments on dealings among several political figures, including Secretary of War William H. Taft and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-13

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt about the career implications for Admiral C. H. Davis should Atlantic Fleet Commander Admiral Robley D. Evans retire. Lodge feels that Davis deserves the position more than Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich and that Evans’ actions in Jamaica after the 1907 earthquake should not be held against him. Lodge adds that his sister-in-law’s health continues to deteriorate and that according to the doctors she should have died several days before.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-09

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Captain Pendleton describes the aftermath of the earthquake in Kingston. Pendleton reports that over 400 people have been killed, including the Cuban Consul, and 400 more are wounded.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-17

Creator(s)

Pendleton, Edwin C., 1847-1919

Louisa Lee Schuyler was deeply touched by President Roosevelt’s tribute to her recently deceased brother, Philip Schuyler, in the midst of Roosevelt’s busy public schedule. Schuyler says that her brother’s death was a blow; it would have been no surprise if he had died while serving in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, but he lived to serve his country for many more years.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-15

Creator(s)

Schuyler, Louisa Lee

Secretary of War Taft has heard about Secretary of State John Hay’s death and is ready if President Roosevelt requires his presence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-01

Creator(s)

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Secretary of State John Hay has died unexpectedly of sudden heart failure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-01

Creator(s)

Hay, Clara Louise Stone, 1849-1914

Rear Admiral Rixey thanks President Roosevelt for his sympathy after the death of Rixey’s mother-in-law.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-18

Creator(s)

Rixey, Presley Marion, 1852-1928

President Roosevelt is sorry to hear that “old Muley” has died. He thanks Joseph A. Ferris for caring for him.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation

Creation Date

1907-10-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit and is concerned he has not been getting his letters so that he does not know he has been appointed a captain of artillery and must report to Madrid, Spain. He says Flora Payne Whitney has permission from her father to go to Europe and marry Quentin Roosevelt and Quentin is upset there are still no planes to fly over France. Roosevelt reports that Major Wadsworth is dead and the son of his friend Frederick Courteney Selous was killed.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-05-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919