France--Paris

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit after their return from their African hunting trip to say he is sending Kermit’s rifle to him in Paris and it has been very difficult getting everything from the shipping company they used to send materials home from Africa. Roosevelt is not looking forward to his trip through the country and speaking engagements but he wants to work until he is sixty if that is possible. He says Ethel Roosevelt is planning a Western trip and Archie Roosevelt has been helping him around Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-07-19

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Corinne to describe his honeymoon trip to Paris with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee. This is a typewritten copy of the original letter.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1881-06-13

Illustration shows the circus-like atmosphere of the divorce proceedings of Anna Gould, holding a handful of “Incriminating Evidence” against her husband, and Boni de Castellane. Accompanying text describes the event in language that would be used to describe a wedding celebration.

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Comments and Context

At the turn of the last century, the American press and even satirical magazines like Puck — perhaps especially magazines like Puck — followed the doings and undoings of the socially prominent. The most prominent cartoonist of this genre was Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the Gibson Girls. His heroines were independent and assertive, and influenced a generation of women in turn. Ironically, in many of his cartoons and in real life, a number of American women, especially heiresses, were willing to trade their independence, and their fortunes, for the seductions of foreigners, titles, estates, and castles, even when many of the imported fortune-hunting dukes and counts were virtually bankrupt.

“We are dreadfully disappointed that you are not to meet us at Paris. I don’t know what I could have done without Cal!”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-03-26

Scrapbook contains photos and ephemera related to the Roosevelt and Alexander families as well as images of New York City, Paris, and Scotland at the turn of the century, articles and photographs from the Spanish American War and Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. It also contains articles and clippings on fashion and high society gossip. The scrapbook contains items from roughly the 1880s to 1908. Most of the photographs and documents also have their own individual records in the digital library.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1880-1908

Illustration showing a female figure labeled “France,” welcoming the traditional symbols of nations, Uncle Sam, John Bull, the Austro-Hungarian monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and others to the opening of the 1900b Paris Exposition. Caption: France: Welcome, gentlemen! [Let us f]orget our little animosities, for the present!

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Comments and Context

World’s Fairs, or Universal Expositions, once were more common than today. For many years they were quadrennial affairs, and Paris was a frequent venue. The 1889 Paris Fair introduced the Eiffel Tower and Edison’s phonograph, among many other attractions, to the public. L’Exposition Universelle de 1900 in Paris was a financial disaster, yet was notable for its display of Art Nouveau, the Diesel engine, primitive talking movies, and the Ferris wheel. A fringe benefit, if not the major purpose, of World’s Fairs was the promotion of international harmony, as suggested in the cartoon.

Typed transcript of an article from the Bismarck Tribune. The Marquis de Morès has had a successful year and will winter in Paris to “enjoy a season of recreation and amusement.”

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1885-12-03

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary acknowledges receipt of letters and a book manuscript sent to Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-09

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Theodore Stanton that Charles Scribner’s Sons publishers is sending Stanton two volumes of Roosevelt’s writings to aid Stanton in writing an article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-10

Theodore Roosevelt and his wife will not forget dinner with the Rochambeau Mission in Paris. Roosevelt feels that General Brugère is a true gentleman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-06

Theodore Roosevelt congratulates the Paulist Choristers of Chicago for winning the Wanamaker Trophy in the choral competition. He wishes them luck in their attempts to raise money to travel to Paris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-25

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Salomon Reinach for Major William Edward Frye’s book and will always remember his delightful time in Paris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-12

Theodore Roosevelt encourages Oric Bates to continue on the work and research, likely referring to Bates’s anthropological studies of North Africa. Roosevelt reports that if soldier and African-explorer William Astor Chanler was not in a hospital in France, he would be fighting for the Allies, and, in any case, Chanler likely does not have much money to help with Bates’s project. Roosevelt tells Bates that he is happy to offer whatever advice he might have and write any letters of introduction that might be helpful, but he regrets he can not do more than that.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-29

Theodore Roosevelt informs Henry Beach Needham that he cannot send the information Needham requests via telegraph as it is not secure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-05

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Leonie Chopin in Paris to thank her for her “touching letter.” Roosevelt regrets to not be able to respond in French or to help more with the situation in France as she requested.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-19

Theodore Roosevelt tells Carlotta Paulus to inform her mother that he is in good health. Roosevelt mentions that his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby is serving in a hospital in France with her husband, and Roosevelt and his wife Edith are watching their young son.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-16

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt and his brother, Nicholas Roosevelt, have gone to France. Roosevelt expresses frustration at how the current administration has failed to interfere in World War I.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-08

Theodore Roosevelt provides a letter of introduction for Charles Cary to Ambassador Herrick. Roosevelt states that Cary is a good man who is in Paris, France, to be useful during this time of crisis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-14

Theodore Roosevelt has sent William Austin Wadsworth’s note to Archie. Mrs. Roosevelt has a grandchild visiting, as Ethel and Dick are in Paris. Roosevelt wishes it were possible for him to get up to see Wadsworth, but he fears, “a cob is about the type of animal I am now good for.” Roosevelt has never seen such a political mix up as at present.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-10-02

President Roosevelt congratulates Theodore P. Shonts and his daughter, Mary Theodora Shonts, Duchess de Chaulnes, on the recent birth of her son. Roosevelt is interested about what Shonts says about Georges Clemenceau, and hopes to see him when he is in Paris.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-12