Grandfathers

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Grant

Theodore Roosevelt requests that Robert Grant attend dinner with him on February 25th, with no more than two or three guests. He wishes to discuss being grandfathers and Grant’s previous two articles. He wishes he could see Grant for longer than one day, but he is far too busy with his existing arrangements, and he asks if he can have a few days to decide if he can stay at Grant’s home Monday evening.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-01-30

Reflections of a bachelor

A humorous anecdote on being a father versus a grandfather.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-18

The great American

Piano score for a one-step, march and two-step dedicated to the American Legion in memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Samples for other sheet music are included on the back cover.

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1919

And it’s a girl!

Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt with his new granddaughter Grace on his lap, frustrated by the inability to play with a girl. Around them are mementos of his masculine avocations.

Comments and Context

Kessler drew this cartoon for the St. Louis Republic. By the 1920s he was drawing a human-interest panel cartoon syndicated to rural newspapers by Metropolitan Newspaper Features.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Eleanor Butler Alexander with her mother and grandfather

Eleanor Butler, aged six months, with her mother and maternal grandfather.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1889

Henry Martyn Alexander

Eleanor Butler Alexander’s grandfather, Henry Martyn Alexander.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

Unknown

John Burroughs and his granddaughter Betty

The photograph depicts John Burroughs with his granddaughter Betty on his shoulder.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George C. Sprague

Theodore Roosevelt has just received the autobiography of George C. Sprague’s grandfather and will read it “with the utmost interest.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-24

Letter from Charles Mifflin Hammond to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles Mifflin Hammond tells Theodore Roosevelt that he has recieved his letter and found the “package containing the buffalo.” Hammond and his wife, Harriet Paine Lee Hammond, recently returned from San Francisco where they attempt to meet with “Mrs. Jed” but couldn’t.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-06

Letter from Charles G. Washburn to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles G. Washburn sends Theodore Roosevelt an invitation from George F. Booth of the Playground Commission and hopes he can accept. He congratulates Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-23

Letter from Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann to Theodore Roosevelt

Mary Elizabeth Blampey Trautmann congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather and comments on what it will mean for Grace Green Roosevelt growing up as his granddaughter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-22

Telegram from William Loeb and Oscar S. Straus to Theodore Roosevelt

William Loeb and Oscar S. Straus congratulate Theodore Roosevelt on becoming a grandparent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-21

Telegram from Corinne Roosevelt Robinson to Theodore Roosevelt

On behalf of the Henderson and Cowles families, Corrine Roosevelt Robinson congratulates Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on becoming grandparents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-18

Letter from Charles S. McKay to Theodore Roosevelt

Charles S. McKay sends Theodore Roosevelt a clipping that may amuse him. He congratulates Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-18

Letter from J. O. Hodges to Theodore Roosevelt

J. O. Hodges congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather. He considers Roosevelt a “correct and honorable gentleman.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-18

Letter from John J. Hickey to Theodore Roosevelt

John J. Hickey congratulates Theodore Roosevelt on becoming a grandfather.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-17

Letter from Anthony J. Gavin to Theodore Roosevelt

Anthony J. Gavin congratulates Theodore Roosevelt for becoming a grandfather and sends well wishes to Theodore Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, and the baby Grace Green Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward North Buxton

Theodore Roosevelt sends Edward North Buxton a note of introduction on behalf of Buxton’s daughter to the superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Roosevelt discusses Queen Victoria’s Coronation and a Congressman’s wedding he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt attended at the Old Friends Meeting House, Stuyvesant Square, New York. Roosevelt is content to be “out of active life,” maintaining the home, pursuing leisure activities, and working on The Outlook. Roosevelt writes that eldest son, Ted Roosevelt, is happily married and Roosevelt expects to be a grandfather within the month. Roosevelt wishes to see Alfred and Lady Pease as well as Frederick and Mrs. Selous.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-24