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Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has recently returned from a trip to Groton School, and remarked to President Roosevelt about how well liked and respected Leonard R. Wood is throughout the school. Roosevelt would like to hear such news about his own children, so he wanted to write to General Leonard Wood to tell him.
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1908-02-27
President Roosevelt tells his son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, about a funny letter he received from Fannie Peabody. He also provides an update on how Quentin Roosevelt is doing at home.
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1908-01-20
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt about a visit he made to Ambassador J. J. Jusserand and his wife, Elise Richards Jusserand, and the nice time he had there. Roosevelt also comments on the weather, saying that he has been able to go riding and play tennis often. Things are going well with Secretary of War William H. Taft at present, but politics is too changeable to say he will for sure be nominated. Roosevelt did not write to Endicott Peabody about Kermit going to Princeton, as he sounded set on going to Harvard and Roosevelt did not think of suggesting anywhere else.
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1908-01-20
Archibald B. Roosevelt has been enjoying his time at the Groton School, greatly admires rector Endicott Peabody, and has been preemptively training younger brother Quentin Roosevelt as a fullback so he can join the Groton School’s football team when the time comes. The doctors are still not sure what is causing Archie’s poor health. Roosevelt is considering a sea voyage to improve it, but worries about such a trip’s effect on Archie’s education.
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1907-11-30
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt about the events of Thanksgiving week. His son Archibald B. Roosevelt has taken extremely ill, although he has had a good time at the Groton School. Roosevelt has gone on several outings with friends and plans to go riding with Henry Cabot Lodge the next day.
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1907-11-30
President Roosevelt is very pleased with Archibald B. Roosevelt’s work at school and knows he will continue working hard despite his headaches. He advises Archie on the importance of outdoor exercise and thinks it will ease the headaches along with his new glasses. Roosevelt is glad Kermit is there to care for Archie and provides updates on Edith, Ethel, and Quentin.
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1907-11-09
President Roosevelt is glad Archie has gotten new glasses and hopes they will help his headaches. Roosevelt offers his observations on local squirrels, a pet dog, and the recent high spirits of Audrey the horse. He also updates Archie on family life, writing that Ethel Roosevelt is still recovering from surgery and that Quentin Roosevelt never brings his friends home to the White House.
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1907-11-03
President Roosevelt has heard that his son Archibald B. Roosevelt has befriended young Leonard Opdyke while at Groton School, and encourages him to invite his school friends to visit over the holidays. He tells Archie about his trip, which he believes will be his last trip of consequence while in office. Roosevelt thinks Archie would quite enjoy his own trip up the Mississippi River next spring.
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1907-10-01
President Roosevelt writes to Kermit Roosevelt congratulating him on his academic accomplishments. Roosevelt tells him that there are a few diplomatic and internal issues that are concerning him. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed reading Seymour Blair’s poem in The Grotonian.
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1907-05-27
President Roosevelt describes the late, cold spring in Washington D. C. and its effect on the flowers. He gives updates on the family’s activities. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has started riding with him. Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt visited recently. Archibald “Archie” Roosevelt is slowly recovering and hopefully will be prepared to attend Groton School in the fall. Quentin is “bouncy and merry.” Roosevelt’s horse, Roswell, recently bruised his knee while jumping.
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1907-04-22
President Roosevelt comments on and advises Kermit Roosevelt on his athletic abilities and pursuits. He is “up to my ears in work,” which includes dictating speeches. Archibald “Archie” Roosevelt commented that it seems Roosevelt is currently under attack more than at previous times. Roosevelt felt it best to “attack aggressively and fearlessly” in his letter to the Moyer-Haywood Defense Association. He finds comfort in having Secretary of War William H. Taft and Secretary of State Elihu Root with him and hopes Taft will be nominated for president.
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1907-04-23
President Roosevelt sends his thoughts on the present movement towards building playgrounds in American cities to the Washington Playground Association through Cuno Hugo Rudolph. Roosevelt believes that play is important to the physical welfare of children, especially after most have been barred from employment.
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1907-02-16
President Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody, Rector of Groton School, that he is happy to hear that his son Kermit Roosevelt is “winning his way in your esteem.” Roosevelt requests to meet with his son and Master William Amory Gardner for a talk and reassures Peabody that he is at his disposal at any time during his visit.
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1907-02-20
President Roosevelt asks Endicott Peabody, rector of Groton School, if he would admit Archibald B. Roosevelt on the recommendation of Thomas W. Sidwell, rather than requiring him to take the normal Groton entrance exams. Peabody arranged for Kermit Roosevelt to be admitted this way, and although Roosevelt does not think Archie will do as well at Groton as his older brother, he still believes he “will succeed.”
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1907-02-12
President Roosevelt intends that his son Archibald B. Roosevelt will enter the Groton School in September.
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1907-02-07
President Roosevelt thanks Melvin O. Adams, James E. Leach, and Arthur L. Spring of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity for the invitation, but cannot accept as all his time will be taken up visiting his sons.
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1907-02-09
President Roosevelt proposes a schedule for his visit to Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts to William Sturgis Bigelow, including breakfast and stops at Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Harvard University. Roosevelt asks Bigelow for his thoughts on this plan.
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1907-02-09
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on the comings and goings of the White House and his thoughts on a recent article that appeared in Outing. Roosevelt had hoped to keep his upcoming visit to Groton School and Harvard University private, but it has leaked. He is having difficulties resolving the segregation of Japanese students from San Fransisco schools and the resulting diplomatic tensions, but has decided immigration from Japan must be curtailed.
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1907-02-09
President Roosevelt tells Senator Lodge that he wishes he could accept the invitation to attend a reception thrown on his behalf when in Boston, but he will be too busy visiting his two sons and giving a speech at Harvard that he even had to turn down an invitation from Massachusetts Governor Curtis Guild.
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1907-01-28
President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt at the Groton School with news of home, including details about his sister Alice Roosevelt Longworth and mother Edith Roosevelt. He also mentions several pending commissionership appointments and shares news about his pending Nobel Peace Prize award.
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1906-12-01