Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt tells Corinne Roosevelt about his pet mice.
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Creation Date
1868-04-28
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Mice as pets
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt requests that his father gather some plant specimens for his museum, particularly two pieces of supple jack of certain size. His favorite mouse, Brownie, was crushed. Nothing much has happened at home but the plants in the piazza are budding. This is a typewritten copy of the original letter.
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Creation Date
1868-04-30
Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway
Kermit Roosevelt asks how John Campbell Greenway and his brother are doing. All of Roosevelt’s newts have escaped. He describes his “cunning little Japanese mice.”
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Creation Date
1900
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Campbell Greenway
Ted Roosevelt thanks John Campbell Greenway for the letter. Ted and Kermit Roosevelt recently caught a pet mouse who had escaped the previous autumn. Ted has not been doing much lately.
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Creation Date
1898-1900
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dora Watkins
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased that his mouse is doing well and would like to hear more about him in the next letter. Roosevelt has been feeling ill and cut his foot yesterday. He asks when Dora Watkins will visit.
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Creation Date
1867-06-29
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Watkins
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Thomas Watkins for the watermelon, which will be eaten tomorrow, and wonders what Dora Watkins will do with his mouse when she leaves for Barrytown, New York. The Roosevelts are speaking French at the table and Roosevelt thinks it sounds funny. There are lots of animals, including three types of squirrels, and he has found six bird nests.
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Creation Date
1867-07-07
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Dora Watkins
Theodore Roosevelt requests that Dora Watkins collect plant and animal specimens for him. Roosevelt misses Watkins and heard that the voyage was unpleasant. He requests that Corinne Roosevelt write more often. Yesterday was the last day of dancing class.
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Creation Date
1868-04-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed his mother’s long letter and looks forward to seeing the “curiosities and living things” she has collected for him. He describes his four mice to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt. Roosevelt asks his father to write and take Martha Bulloch Roosevelt to a battlefield so she can collect some “trophies” for him.
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Creation Date
1868-04-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt requests that his father gather some plant specimens for his museum, particularly two pieces of supple jack of certain size. His favorite mouse, Brownie, was crushed. Nothing much has happened at home but the plants in the piazza are budding.
Collection
Creation Date
1868-04-30