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President Roosevelt discusses the importance of righteousness in developing young minds into good American citizens. Roosevelt mentions that even seemingly positive traits can become evil without a given set of virtues, such as honesty and courage. The speech has masculine undercurrents throughout its entirety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt enjoys Lawrence F. Abbott’s response to a pro-German letter. He agrees with the pro-German on the sentimentality of our people. However, Roosevelt believes the pro-German has erred, deifying brutality, and simply getting facts wrong.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-22
Richard Welbourne Lewis sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his booklet “What’s a Man?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-24
Endicott Peabody believes that the new football rules are reaching the point where Harvard may consider allowing undergraduates to participate in it. He tells President Roosevelt at length about a visit from Roosevelt’s son Ted Roosevelt, during which Ted expressed some concerning ideas and positions regarding morality. Peabody tells Roosevelt so that when he sees his son he can “help him to a more sane point of view,” but asks Roosevelt not to tell Ted that he wrote about him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-30
Theodore Roosevelt argues that young men are best suited for dangerous adventures in the wilderness, but he believes that older men can also find suitable encounters with nature “close beside the beaten roads of present travel.” He describes the many ways and places in which one can encounter the wilderness, and many of the examples are taken from his own experiences.
A drawing of Roosevelt talking to children around a campfire accompanies the piece.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association along with the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is found on page two of the article.
Draft of a speech President Roosevelt will deliver to the school founded by Reverend Dwight L. Moody. President Roosevelt develops his remarks around the biblical verses, “Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only” (James 1:22), and “Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord” (Romans 12:11). He discusses the importance of righteousness in developing young men into good American citizens. Roosevelt urges the necessity of both virtue, to know what is right, and strength, to make it effective, to bring about good in the world.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08
Postcard with a quotation from Theodore Roosevelt’s essay, “What We Can Expect of the American Boy,” which appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine (May 1900). The postcard includes the line, “don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.” Ida supposes “D. D.” is “reading all the president’s [sic] messages” and so sends him this one.
1908-02-14
John D. Dow writes a long and mostly incoherent letter to Vice President Roosevelt. He discusses Alice Roosevelt’s recent illness and need for a dental operation. He seems to want Roosevelt to cooperate in a scheme to sell stock for an invention he has patented, a cattle car to ship cattle East. He believes Roosevelt could raise “2 to 4 million” in just a few days in the West. He also comments on the Rough Riders.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27
Basil Wilson Duke, a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, commends Theodore Roosevelt on his biography of Thomas Hart Benton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1888-05-19