Education

Charles M. Miller copies part of a news letter sent by Janette Miller from her missionary post in Angola, Africa. Janette Miller describes the climate, weather, and details the long trip from Lisbon to the village where she lives and works. The men, women, and children she helps to educate and teach Christian ways are also described. Janette Miller ends saying she trusts her African friends and reminds the reader that there are cousins of the tribe she lives with in the United States who are suffering because of what her race did to them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-18

President Roosevelt writes to San Francisco Board of Education President Boyle and accepts the position of Honorary Vice President of the San Francisco Public Schools Athletic League. Roosevelt supports the League’s goals of providing athletics and physical development for young boys. He writes that athletics should come after the development of the mind, but are important to the overall development of character.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1908-10-13

President Roosevelt is glad to hear from Fitzhugh Lee, who is missed as “Master of Horse” and family friend. Roosevelt gives an update on Ted Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt’s career and education, respectively, and on Archie Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt’s school lives. Roosevelt is proud of Lee, and looks forward to hearing more from him while he is at the cavalry school.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-30

President Roosevelt sends Kermit Roosevelt a poem that reminds him of Quentin, as well as letters relating to his upcoming African safari. He tells Kermit that he will come with him, provided he does not let it distract him from preparing for his future and will treat it as a college course. Roosevelt also updates his son on the activities of other members of the family.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-23

President Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody that he is pleased with the growth and change his son Kermit is experiencing due to his fifth-grade glass at the Groton School. Roosevelt writes that Kermit feels is a lieutenant of Peabody’s who must bring credit on the school.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-22

Agnes Lackey invites Theodore Roosevelt to be a speaker at the March 1912 school teacher’s meeting if he is available.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Samuel Kahan, secretary of the Public School 2 Manhattan Centennial Celebration Committee, invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend and give some remarks at the celebration on November 15.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Wickliffe Rose sends Theodore Roosevelt a report showing the results of the activities of the Southern Education Board. He wonders if this report might be useful to the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-06

Henry Fairfield Osborn sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of the recently published map showing the free public educational institutions of New York City for 1911.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Seward S. Travis encourages Theodore Roosevelt to accept the invitation by the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce to speak before the State Association of Academic Principles, and other allied organizations, on the cause of Education.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-03

John M. Schick and Mary J. Lloyd Schick offer sympathy to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt after Edith’s accident. The Schick family is praying for Edith’s full recovery. John L. Schick is attending Mercersburg Academy to prepare for college.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-03

Channing Rudd requests Theodore Roosevelt to give a talk to the “Finance Forum” at the Y.M.C.A. Rudd shares some facts and statistics for the scope of the educational program. The announcement of speakers will be going out in a few days and Rudd would like to add Roosevelt’s name to the list.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-03

Maria Dolores Calvo, daughter of Minister Plenipotentiary Joaquin Bernardo Calvo Mora, tells Theodore Roosevelt that she has been teaching for the past three years but recently decided to pursue a writing career. She explains that her education at the Washington Seminary, College of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and her fluency in three languages, would make her an excellent worker. She asks if Roosevelt knows of any job openings for her and requests a letter of recommendation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-15

Endicott Peabody tells President Roosevelt that he is delighted to have Archibald B. Roosevelt at Groton School although he will not see him regularly, just once a week for recitation. Peabody, however, will see Kermit Roosevelt every day and says he thinks that Kermit will grow well this year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

The nomination of Oscar Hundley to the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama is now in the hands of a sub-committee. There is some opposition to the confirmation of Hundley because of his advocacy for an amendment to the Constitution “providing that moneys collected by white taxpayers should be used in the education of white children only, and that moneys collected from the colored people should be used for the colored schools.” This would have resulted in “colored children” being thrown out of school, as “the amount of taxes collected from colored people is very small.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-24

Kermit Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt what he is reading and how the weather has been recently. He asks whether the Ute braves finally came to Roosevelt and if Roosevelt has sent the “Tartar tribe” back to Utah. Roosevelt mentions that he requested papers regarding the “Brownsville discharge affair” from William Loeb, as Barclay is debating on it and he has been working hard with him, although he belongs to the opposite camp. He asks if President Roosevelt thinks he will get “those two big battleships of the dreadnought class” that he has asked for.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-20

Endicott Peabody thanks President Roosevelt for his letter. Peabody is greatly encouraged to know that Roosevelt is pleased with Kermit Roosevelt’s development and that he feels Groton has been a help to his son.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-24

Principal Sidwell sends President Roosevelt the bill for Archibald Roosevelt’s tuition. Sidwell indicates that Ted Roosevelt is still using the laboratory and so they will not bill his laboratory fees until February 1. The fee is $1.25 each day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

Headmaster Peabody writes that Kermit’s grades are slowly improving. Peabody asks that Kermit not receive “outside assistance” because he believes Kermit is accepting responsibility and is working harder.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-01

Anthony Matré, National Secretary of the American Federation of Catholic Societies, sends President Roosevelt a newspaper clipping related to the “Filipino Educational Question,” with the request for a few words of clarification on the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-10-31