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President Roosevelt tells writer Edward Sandford Martin he will read the article after he repeats the invitation and will talk it over with Martin when he comes over. He wishes to know which days are good for Martin to visit.
1908-11-12
An invitation to a French lecture by M. Funck Brentano at the White House for Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton. It is written on a calling card for “Mrs. Roosevelt.”
1905-01-14
Card announcing “Mrs. Roosevelt” will be at home (the White House) on January 27, 1905, from four until six. Card was sent to Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton.
1905-01-27
New York State Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt informs his wife Alice he has dined with the Rotches. It reminded Roosevelt of when he and Alice went on the Whitney’s private train to the Yale-Harvard boat race; Alice was so pretty and fascinating.
1883-04-18
New York State Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt writes his wife Alice about the beautiful weather and the people he has been visiting with, including Aunt Annie and Uncle Jimmie. He wants Alice to invite her family to Rickfield Springs as Roosevelt feels it will do her mother good.
1883-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother all about his social life at Harvard and the people he has visited with including the Saltonstalls and Whitneys. He describes listening to the Glee Club sing on Class Day with Alice Hathaway Lee and being invited by Mr. Whitney to a boat race in New London. He adds he would like to invite some of his friends to New York.
1879-06-22
Theodore Roosevelt describes for his mother the enjoyment he has had staying with the Saltonstalls, especially Rose and her cousin Alice Hathaway Lee. He describes riding in the cart and playing games. He has fallen behind in school during the last month but intends to make it up.
1879-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother from his honeymoon in London. He describes visiting Aunt Hattie and the only thing that marred the visit was the “slobbering” of the younger Bullochs. He also details paintings at the National Gallery and at South Kensington. He took Alice to “ladies day” at Epsom Races, driving in Hyde Park, the opera and Saint Paul’s.
1881-06-05
Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother from his honeymoon in Switzerland and describes the “spree” he and Alice had with Charley Alexander. They gave a dinner for some of Alice’s Boston friends and met some other Americans. The only useless purchase made the whole trip was a gondola pole he finally sent ahead of them to Liverpool.
1881-08-02
Theodore Roosevelt writes Thomas Barbour, the curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, to relay Kermit Roosevelt’s address in Brazil. Roosevelt is pleased with Barbour’s collecting trip in East Cuba. He asks Barbour to write John C. Phillips and have him observe “the desert or Isabella chat, and the black and white chat,” as Roosevelt believes the species behavior is due to their coloration. He invites Barbour and his wife to lunch.
1912-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks ornithologist William Brewster for sending him a copy of The Birds of the Cambridge Region. Next time Brewster is in the area Roosevelt will try and get him, William T. Hornaday, and Charles Sheldon to come out to the house.
1911-12-02
Theodore Roosevelt is very sorry he must decline Solomon Lincoln’s invitation but he is already engaged for the evening with Dick Saltonstall. Letter is dated November 19 but no year is given.
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Theodore Roosevelt informs Regis Henri Post he will be gone for a month but Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will be home if Post wants to visit. Roosevelt hopes to see him when he returns and gives him “Mac’s” telephone number.
1915-09-04
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his wife Alice how much he missed her as he was dressing and she was not there to tease him. Mother and his sisters were receiving but not many people called. He met Uncle Leverett today.
1881-03-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes his wife Alice to express how much he misses her. Frank Iselin has “failed” and his family will have to leave their house. He took Aunt Annie out in the dog-cart and dined with Philip Miller.
1881-04-06
Theodore Roosevelt expresses how much he misses his wife Alice and hopes to come for a visit next Sunday. Malcolm Whitmore is visiting and Roosevelt gives updates on various members of the family.
1881-10-09
Theodore Roosevelt telegraphs Independent party leader John Jay Chapman to say he will decline the independents’ nomination of him for governor of New York at once. He wants Chapman to tell Tucker and come to Oyster Bay with him as well as Cutting and Fuller if possible.
1898-09-22
An invitation and ticket to a reception given February 9, 1905 at the White House addressed to Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, daughter of Charles Eliot Norton.
1905-02-09
Diary kept by Theodore Roosevelt while at Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota from January 1 to July 3, 1886. Pages for April 23 to June 17 are torn out. There were no entries from July 4 to December 31. April 1 tells of Roosevelt’s capture of boat-thieves, as described in Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn.
Also included are six typed transcript pages of diary text.
Announcement from R. A. Smith, Chairman of the Committee on Harbor Display, for the reception honoring Theodore Roosevelt’s return from Africa on June 18, 1910. Refers to receiving Roosevelt aboard the steamer Androscoggin and transporting him up the North River to Pier A.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910-06