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Principal Blackford from the Episcopal High School of Virginia requests proficiency under Dulin’s instruction which would prepare Quentin for the school’s first form.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1908-03-23
Quentin Roosevelt writes a letter to his mother Edith Roosevelt describing his moving into a new school. Stationary on letter imprinted, “The White House, Washington”.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1908-09-18
Theodore Roosevelt can not write Archibald R. Hoxton, associate principal of Episcopal High School, letters of introduction. However, Hoxton can show this letter to anyone as Roosevelt supports the project of getting new equipment for the school.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-04
President Roosevelt accepts his honorary membership in the Blackford Literary Society of the Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He sends a photograph of himself for the club as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-27
President Roosevelt authorizes Principal Launcelot M. Blackford to permit the monitor to administer proper discipline to his son, Quentin Roosevelt, when he receives sufficient demerits to warrant it. Roosevelt asks that Blackford show this letter to Quentin as a warning and will allow Quentin to return to Washington when his “demerits are not excessive.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-15
President Roosevelt sends word to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson that he will be leaving public office in “a rather stormy fashion,” being attacked by both houses of Congress and by the press. James Bryce has remarked that bringing libel cases against the biggest two offenders in newspapers will be a service to the American public. Bryce and John Morley suggested Roosevelt make a statement about the British in India, which he plans to do presently. Some of Roosevelt’s English friends sent him a rifle for use on his African safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-17
William Loeb sends the payment for Quentin Roosevelt’s tuition to the Episcopal High School principal, Launcelot M. Blackford, and requests a receipt in return.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-12
President Roosevelt tells his son Archibald that Quentin has a “game leg” which will be in a plaster cast for two weeks. On Saturday, Roosevelt and Edith took Quentin to see the athletic games at the Episcopal High School. Quentin was supposed to participate in the sack race, but his injury prevented this.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-17
Launcelot Blackford, principal of the Episcopal High School of Virginia, approves of President Roosevelt’s request for his son Quentin Roosevelt spend Sunday and Wednesday nights at home in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-16
Launcelot Minor Blackford congratulates Lieutenant Greenway on his return from Cuba and on a “duty faithfully performed and distinction honorably won.” Blackford asks that Greenway write to him at home as soon as Greenway receives this letter and he hopes to see Greenway at Episcopal High School when circumstances allow.
1898-08-16
Mary Goulding Hooff Fawcett has seen Ambler Mason Blackford’s article in The Outlook about Quentin Roosevelt during his time at Episcopal High School at Alexandria, Virginia, and adds to this account her own remembrance of Quentin. Fawcett reflects on the receiving photographs, letters, and kind words remembering her own son, Lieutenant Richard Hartshorne Fawcett, who also was killed while in the Air Service.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-10-21