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President Roosevelt is happy Kermit has been acting as cox on the rowing team. Roosevelt describes his trip into the Grand Canyon and all the animals and plants he has seen. He has collected a variety of treasures which he will bring home for Kermit and the other children. These treasures include a badger named Josiah.
1903-05-10
President Roosevelt thanks Frances M. Abbott for her book, Birds and flowers about Concord, New Hampshire, noting that he knows little about flowers and only what a layman would know about birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-14
William Emlen Roosevelt writes about a box of flowers that was wrongly delivered in the Roosevelt Hospital. Roosevelt will be coming to Washington, D.C., to see Secretary of War Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-12
Clara Louise Stone Hay thanks President Roosevelt for returning the letters and tells him that she is taking a trip to California “to find sunshine and flowers.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-04
Japanese Ambassador Takahira asks William Loeb to pass along his gratitude to President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the gift of flowers. He deeply appreciates their sympathy, and is sure that he will recover from his illness soon.
(Takahira was recovering from having his appendix removed in the wake of developing appendicitis.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-08
Article describing Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s flower garden and heirloom wedding presents.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910
A picture of an unidentified painting by Firmin Girard in a frame which accompanied an article discussing the show and sale of paintings owned by Theron R. Butler, great-grandfather of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01
Flower market near the Conciergerie in Paris, France.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899
Typed excerpt from Chapter IX of Theodore Roosevelt’s Autobiography, describing Sagamore Hill, especially the surrounding birds and flowers.
1913
President Roosevelt thanks Ambassador Cassini for sending along flowers from Cassini’s daughter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-28
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about his trip with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on their boat to the place where George Washington was born. He details the land, especially the flowers. Roosevelt also gives updates on Archie, Quentin, and Ethel.
1906-04-30
Theodore Roosevelt describes the flora, fauna, and mosquitoes at the camp in San Antonio, Texas.
1898-05-20
At center, President Roosevelt shows Uncle Sam and Columbia a large plant with flowers showing the members of his cabinet. The surrounding vignettes show a springtime dance of putti, Alton B. Parker shoveling snow at his home in Esopus, an art gallery, Irishmen marching in the rain on Saint Patrick’s Day, a woman cleaning house by sweeping a dust cloud of policemen out the door, and Roosevelt grafting a branch labeled “Indian School Mission,” with blossom of an unidentified bishop of the Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions, onto the “Interior Dept. Tree.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-03-15
Photograph of an interactive informational display entitled “Flowers at Your Fingertips,” which illustrates flowers of the badlands region; museum exhibit #13 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
President Roosevelt riding in a floral carriage
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
A flower covered train engine drawing President Roosevelt’s train.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
A woman and a girl with a bouquet of flowers for President Roosevelt at a railroad station
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
President Roosevelt addressing large assembly of people in front of building covered with flowers, standing next to a stuffed bear.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
Two women riding in an open air automobile bedecked with flowers, parade spectators on the side.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
Young Quentin Roosevelt hunts for june bugs among the daisies on the west side of the Roosevelt home.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904