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On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks M. A. Dixon for the tickets but says unfortunately that Roosevelt is too busy to attend at the moment and that his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and daughter Ethel Roosevelt are often not in town.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks C. A. Pinney for the letter and asks if Pinney will be around on a Tuesday or Friday as Roosevelt will be in his office in the city those days since Oyster Bay is out of the way.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs John Scudder McLain that Roosevelt has a copy of Senator Jeff Davis’s address at his house but he does not want to give it away. They advise McLain to obtain a copy of the pamphlet from the University of Michigan. Roosevelt believes that Senator Davis’s opinions have not changed since the pamphlet was issued.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Guy D. Peck that Roosevelt thinks he was made a Master Mason in 1900.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-21
Theodore Roosevelt wishes both he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt could accept the invitation to the Colony Club, but they will be in Oyster Bay, New York that day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-29
Theodore Roosevelt declines Wilfred Powell’s lunch invitation with Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, as he is busy. He looks forward to seeing Baden-Powell soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary asks the Mason-Seaman Transportation Company to provide a receipt for the check Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sent on January 3, 1912.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs Thomas Martindale that he has to decline the invitation sent by Powell to meet with his cousin, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell. Roosevelt is unable to leave town that day. He clarifies that he is already meeting with Baden-Powell next Sunday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-02-03
Theodore Roosevelt assures Roscoe C. Mitchell that he does not distrust him. He is glad that Mitchell was able to have the New York Herald recall its correspondent at Oyster Bay, as he does not want to see newspaper men there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-10
Theodore Roosevelt confirms that he does not want newspaper men in Oyster Bay. He will inform Loren Palmer or Lucius F. Curtis of the Associated Press if he has anything to communicate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-01-09
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
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 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
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
After having lunch with Theodore Roosevelt, Frank Knox gives an official statement that Roosevelt is not and will not run for the nomination to become a candidate for president. Many Republicans hope Taft will turn down the nomination so Roosevelt might step up and save Republicans by becoming the Republican presidential candidate.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-14
Abbot Handerson Thayer thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the invitation to come to Oyster Bay. Thayer asks Roosevelt to consent to Thayer using a photograph in an article being published in National Geographic by signing the enclosed permission and mailing it to Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-29
Advertisement for TR’s Summer White House, Oyster Bay by Sherwin Gluck. The ad cites endorsements from John A. Gable and Wallace Finley Dailey and features a picture of the book’s cover.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2009
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces that it will publish a compilation of articles titled Spotlighting TR: Selections from the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 2007-2014. The book, edited by William N. Tilchin, will feature forty essays. The TRA also announces that its 2016 annual meeting will be held in Oyster Bay, New York. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2015
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces the host cities for its 2015 and 2016 annual meetings: Boston, Massachusetts, for 2015 and Oyster Bay, New York, for 2016. The TRA also notes that it published a combined Winter-Spring-Summer issue in order to include material about the reopening of Sagamore Hill National Site in July 2015. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2015
John A. Gable reviews three of the five books found in the “Book Reviews” section. Gable praises Edward Renehan’s The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War with its emphasis on the fate of the Roosevelt family during World War I, and he summarizes Sherwin Gluck’s study of how Oyster Bay, New York, became home to the summer White House during the Roosevelt administration with offices located above a grocery store. In reviewing Douglas Brinkley’s American Heritage History of the United States, Gable highlights Brinkley’s coverage of Theodore Roosevelt, especially his views on conservation. The section also promotes the publication of a new edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s collection of Roosevelt’s speeches, The Man in the Arena, and a Modern Library version of The Naval War of 1812, both of which feature introductions by Gable.
An advertisement for Blocklyn Books of Oyster Bay, New York, appears on the last page of the section.