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President Roosevelt says he and Edith miss Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt has been very busy and will continue to be so until after the election. Joe Wilmer visited and had dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Roosevelt also adds that Quentin got a goat and Nicholas Roosevelt is visiting with Archie.
1904-09-25
President Roosevelt talks about his favorite horse, and mentions Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s sickness, which leaves Ethel to read to Archie and Quentin. Granville Fortescue is at the White House as aide. Mrs. Wood is coming to dinner and there is quite a furor over General Wood’s confirmation. The situation in Panama is getting along alright.
1903-12-05
President Roosevelt tells his son Archibald B. Roosevelt about the goings-on of the Roosevelt family. Quentin Roosevelt is very interested in baseball and recently won a game. Ethel Roosevelt’s horse, Fidelity, accidentally kicked her dog, Mike, while she was out riding, causing a commotion. Roosevelt himself has been playing tennis and going riding since the weather has been so nice recently.
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1908-03-15
President Roosevelt writes to Emma V. Allison, the daughter of John Allison of the Chancery Court of Tennessee, telling her that he is sorry she has been sick and is pleased to hear she is getting better. He tells her about the Roosevelt family’s new pet dog, named Scamp.
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1907-11-21
President Roosevelt sends a cartoon he thinks Archibald B. Roosevelt will enjoy. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has a new dog she calls Scamp. The family loves him, and Roosevelt hopes he will be a good dog. A heavy frost covered the roses and leaves. He and Edith enjoy riding, but the cool weather makes Edith’s horse, Audrey, excitable.
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1907-11-15
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 thinks Archibald B. Roosevelt and his friend Opdyke have made very imaginative plans for a temple on the Ganges, and to tell Opdyke so. Roosevelt describes his attempts at hunting bear and his evaluation of his hunting dogs.
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1907-10-13
President Roosevelt informs his son Kermit that he jumped the horse Roswell over a big hurdle. Others had jumped Roswell over it before, but Roosevelt is “a little too heavy” and the horse struggled. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Ethel Roosevelt scolded him for it. Roosevelt describes the weather, flowers, General Tamemoto Kuroki’s visit, prospects for the presidential nomination, and news of the family’s dogs.
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1907-05-12
President Roosevelt has read over Lieutenant General Hamilton’s two volumes again and complements Hamilton on his description of the Japanese army. Roosevelt describes a conversation he had with Tamemoto Kuroki about the superiority of guns over bayonets. Roosevelt notes that Kuroki and Kuroki’s aide like Hamilton’s work. He gives his impression of Kuroki. Roosevelt sends pictures of him jumping a horse named Roswell.
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1907-05-15
President Roosevelt plans to see Martha Blow Wadsworth either that week or the following, depending on weather. He wants to have some photos taken of him jumping his horse Roswell over a stone wall. He is pleased with how Kermit is taking to jumping, particularly on the mare Audrey.
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1907-03-25
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is glad there is a break in his school term so he will be able to attend his sister Alice Roosevelt’s wedding in February. He does not have much to report to Kermit, but believes that the next two months will be hard. Extra social duties along with his regular work will make it difficult for him to get regular exercise, as it is too dark to exercise in the afternoon. However, he has enjoyed recent mild weather by taking rides with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Secretary of War William H. Taft. He regrets to inform Kermit that Keating, a man he put in the secret service, “suddenly went on a spree” and died of heart failure.
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1906-01-08
President Roosevelt informs Kermit Roosevelt he wrote to Endicott Peabody, the rector of Groton School. He recounts recent family activities, including his rides with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and boxing with Ted Roosevelt. Unfortunately, Edith’s horse Yagenka fell ill, but her dog Jack is devoted to her.
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1905-01-19
President Roosevelt describes seeing Bill the Lizard in the honeysuckle on the south porch, and how at home he seems to be. Roosevelt also talks about how quiet the White House is without the children.
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1904-06-21
President Roosevelt encloses some “cunning” letters from the Garfield boys. He has been busy with work and has not had much time for romps with the children. Loretta the parrot has become one of the household and Roosevelt is surprised at the bird’s sociability and intelligence.
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1904-01-23
President Roosevelt encloses two photographs of Archibald Roosevelt and Josiah the badger and asks if Jacob Riis noticed what Roosevelt did in the Delaware situation.
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1903-10-12
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will be visiting John Burroughs at Slabsides, but Ted Roosevelt has a previous engagement. Roosevelt provides some thoughts on animal instinct, learning, and teaching. He states that most of the “school of the woods” material is “deliberate invention of an arrantly silly type.”
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1903-07-06
President Roosevelt encloses a copy of his Springfield, Illinois, speech and writes that any man who was part of the Post Office scandal will be punished to the utmost. Roosevelt was warmly welcomed on his return to Washington, D.C., last night, and Edith, as well as Alice, Ethel, Archie, and Quentin, were in attendance wearing their best clothing. Josiah the badger is proving very popular with the children.
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1903-06-06
President Roosevelt congratulates Alice on her successful trip to Puerto Rico. Roosevelt’s western trip is coming to an end, and he is very tired and weighed down with “gifts of every kind and description.” He thinks that Alice will like Josiah the badger.
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1903-05-27
President Roosevelt describes a horse ride along the beach and has several gifts for the Roosevelt children when he returns, including Bill the Lizard and Josh the Badger.
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1903-05-10
President Roosevelt describes a “scramble” with Archie Roosevelt and story time with Quentin Roosevelt.
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1903-03-01