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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about his and Edith’s continuing honeymoon through Italy. They are enjoying the sights, especially Milan and its cathedral, and artwork. They plan to sail home on March 19 and he longs to see Sagamore Hill again.
1887-02-12
Senator Platt is withholding his consent on three diplomatic nominations until he receives more information regarding the inspiration for their selection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-10
Eleanor Butler Alexander feeding pigeons in Venice, Italy.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
Boat sailing near Venice, Italy.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
Theodore Roosevelt continues to write to his sister Anna on honeymoon in Italy with Alice Lee Roosevelt. He describes the pigeons in Venice, the gondolier and the cathedral. He also tells her that he has been practicing his Italian and seems not to be having too much trouble communicating. They head to Como next.
1881-06-23
Theodore Roosevelt laments that his sister did not receive his last letter and informs her of the pleasant trip he and Edith Carow Roosevelt have taken to get to Venice. Roosevelt also expresses relief that his niece is recovering from illness.
1886-02-08
President Roosevelt thanks Corinne Robinson and her husband Douglas Robinson for bringing the chair from Venice. He was feeling bad about the depression and the poor, but the New York contingent awakened a healthy desire in him to “take the tuck out of them.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-25
Alexander Robertson expresses his admiration of Theodore Roosevelt and his book, The New Nationalism. Robertson has enclosed a copy of his own book, Papal Conquests, and explains his concerns about the Catholic church’s relationship with various world powers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-17
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Maria Longworth Storer has heard that Pope Pius X declined to promote Archbishop John Ireland to Cardinal after interference from Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val, who asserted that President Roosevelt had also advocated for the promotion of Archbishop John M. Farley. As Farley represents a “foreign and reactionary spirit,” Storer does not believe that Roosevelt would have asked for his advancement. If the assertions she heard are untrue, she asks Roosevelt to write the Pope to say so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-20
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon acknowledges Charles Macomb Flandrau’s plans to travel to Venice. Cutcheon discusses visiting family in Boone County, Kentucky.
1896-07
Jay Gould, as Shakespeare’s Shylock from the Merchant of Venice, races past the Doges’ Palace in the Piazzetta di San Marco in Venice, being hounded by several men labeled “German Vote, Merchants Cleveland Club, Independent, Banker, Irish Vote” and Labor. On the Palace, above, is a bust of Grover Cleveland and a sign that states “Cleveland. Elected by the Independents in spite of ‘Republican Soap’ and Democratic Treachery in N. Y. City.” Gould has his arms raised overhead, carrying a cane in one hand and a paper that states, “Bond for one pound of Uncle Sam’s Flesh, Signed by J. G. Blaine,” in the other. Puck, carrying his lithographic pen, runs alongside him. Caption: “Thou stick’st a dagger in me – I shall never see my gold again!” [Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene I].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-11-12