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Theodore Roosevelt describes riding ponies and rowing with wife Edith. He had dinner with New York City Mayor Strong and says he is on good terms with him. Uncle Jimmie Roosevelt and others have visited.
1896-06-01
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles of C. Grant La Farge’s wife Florence having twins. He also lists recent house guests and how he spends his time with wife Edith. Roosevelt says he is trying to get New York City Mayor William Lafayette Strong to remove Police Commissioner Andrew D. Parker.
1896-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna Roosevelt that wife Edith and sister Corinne were relieved to hear from Bob. Roosevelt, Edith, Kermit, and Alice went to Orange, New Jersey, to visit Corinne. Alice will have to wear ankle braces and he is worried because Edith is not looking well. He has been busy with lunches and dinners at the Boone and Crockett Club.
1895-01-20
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna Roosevelt that he is home with the children while wife Edith is with daughter Alice in Orange, New Jersey, so Alice can be fitted for ankle braces. He describes playing with and reading to Ted, Kermit, and Edith. His work goes as usual and he criticizes President Cleveland. Roosevelt has dined out a lot.
1895-01-27
Theodore Roosevelt lists the people and places he and wife Edith have been dining with for his sister Anna Roosevelt. He says the political and business world is torn up over the financial situation. He has been practicing with Norwegian snowshoes. Roosevelt feels Representative Reed made a good speech on the gold bond issue and President Cleveland has an unwise contract with bankers.
1895-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt of all the entertaining he and wife Edith have been doing and also says he has had too much of dinners lately. He comments on dinner with Harry White and his wife.
1895-02-25
Theodore Roosevelt reports to his sister Anna Roosevelt that Bob has turned up after his trip and then describes his evenings the past week, mostly consisting of dinners with different friends.
1895-03-03
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna Roosevelt he has been to Philadelphia to examine the Post Office and Internal Revenue Service. He also attended a farewell dinner for Bellamy Storer where he conversed with Rudyard Kipling and dined with many others as well.
1895-03-10
Theodore Roosevelt lists his recent dinner guests for sister Anna Roosevelt. He is going to take the children for their weekly “scramble” up Rock Creek. He has been working very hard in the office and on his books.
1895-04-07
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna that they do not yet know the particulars of wife Edith’s mother’s death or what plans Edith’s sister Emily Tyler Carow has. He provides more details on the Leiter-Curzon wedding, and despite Anna’s letter, Senator Lodge will still come to London in July.
1895-05-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt that wife Edith’s sister, Emily Tyler Carow, has arrived and they went to the country where Roosevelt will soon join them. He has attended a number of interesting political dinners. He is getting the police department under control after forcing out Chief Thomas Byrnes and Inspector “Clubber” Williams.
1895-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna he will meet with Tracey when he is ready regarding Anna’s fiance’s divorce problem. He also talks of meeting and dining with Howard. Roosevelt describes the first yacht race he and wife Edith witnessed and tells Anna to rent her house without regard to their plans.
1895-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles how he worked to fix the blackmail tendency in the detective bureau. He has finished his book so he can fully devote himself to being Police Commissioner. He believes they will try and legislate the Commissioners out of office this year. Roosevelt lunched with Bob and wasn’t able to meet sister Corinne and her husband Douglas Robinson when they arrived.
1895-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother-in-law Gertrude Tyler Carow with updates on wife Edith and the children. Edith has been attending many dinners and the children had measles.
1893-02-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt about one of the help, Sophie, mixing up his clothes with Elliot’s and Father’s and the food they have been eating. Roosevelt went to a dinner and a picnic and some other friends came over and sang.
1876-05-14
Theodore Roosevelt tells his sister Anna that A. T. Mahan had a great time in London. Roosevelt had to interfere at the Navy department in an argument between Mahan and Admiral Henry Erben. John Jacob Astor’s book was astonishing. Roosevelt has been dining with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and is glad the Senate declared “hands off” Hawaii.
1894-06-03
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about Bob visiting Edith and the children at Sagamore Hill. Their brother Elliott’s former coachman informed brother-in-law Douglas Robinson that Katy Mann is bothering Elliott again. Roosevelt describes the scene in Washington these days.
1894-06-17
Theodore Roosevelt describes dining with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and the Storers among others to his sister Anna Roosevelt. He supports Representative Reed for the presidential nomination and speaks highly of Senator Davis. The Democrats are divided.
1894-08-05
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt about the tangle over the tariff in the Democratic party continues which keeps his friend Senator Lodge in town. They dine together and with other friends as well. He is very homesick for wife Edith and the children, especially Kermit with his knee problems. Their alcoholic brother Elliott has recovered from his fall and is drinking again.
1894-08-12
Theodore Roosevelt asks his sister Anna Roosevelt to send him Mayor-elect William Lafayette Strong’s address and says she will dine with them on Wednesday and Friday of her visit. Roosevelt is in good health but the doctor says he must stay in his room.
1894-12-11