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Presidential snapshot (#15): Excerpt of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles William Eliot

Presidential snapshot (#15): Excerpt of a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles William Eliot

President Roosevelt tells Justice Holmes that he likes the book written by Charles William Eliot, the President of Harvard, and he wishes that Eliot could write more biographies of everyday Americans. Roosevelt also offers his thoughts on how people will be remembered once they have died. Roosevelt says some may be able to attain a degree of pleasure before they die knowing that those close to them will fondly remember them. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1904-12-05

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. Holbrook Curtis

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. Holbrook Curtis

Theodore Roosevelt is willing to support H. Holbrook Curtis’s project to build a hospital as a “protest against the erection of meaningless mausoleums and monuments to the dead.” For most people mausoleums mean nothing and Roosevelt thinks that the Society of Friends have the better custom of plain stone slabs for the dead. The best memorial for a worthy person must be doing good for the living.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Theodore Roosevelt is grieved to learn of George Cabot Lodge’s death. His worry over the sorrow Corinne Roosevelt Robinson continues to experience because of the loss of her son causes Roosevelt to reflect on how one should approach life and handle the grief that comes with the death of a loved one. Roosevelt notes that he is “on safari” as he writes this letter and will leave East Africa for Uganda and the Nile in mid-December.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-10-17