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Governor Roosevelt writes that he enjoyed seeing his sister recently and reflects on his accomplishments over the past year. Roosevelt also describes a driving trip with his family to Crooked Lake.
1899-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt updates his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson on his summer activities, including attempts to play polo with Francis T. Underhill and rowing with Edith to Lloyd’s Neck. Roosevelt also mentions that his daughter Alice is at home.
1887-06-08
Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for taking his daughter Alice on a trip with her own children. Roosevelt also discusses organizing a polo club in Oyster Bay and rowing and reading with Edith.
1887-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, and inquires about her plans for bringing his daughter Alice back home. Roosevelt also mentions summer activities in Oyster Bay and the health of his horses.
1887-08-22
The face of President Roosevelt appears with many arms extending from behind engaged in various activities, such as playing tennis, chopping wood, boxing, rowing, and signing papers making an “Appointment.” Caption: His annual rest at Oyster Bay.
For many years in Washington, D.C., it was not an option or mere tradition but an annual necessity for government workers to escape the District every year for an extended summer. The nation’s capital was basicall built on a swamp, in a zone that normally is high in humidity. Due to the humidity, and to temperatures routinely in the 90s and higher, the entire federal government frequently was “elsewhere” in summer months.
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister from the Lee residence, where he is visiting. He informs his sister of his upcoming plans to go to Maine and recounts his activities of the past few days, including visits and recreation with the Lees, Whitneys, and Staltonstalls. Roosevelt also mentions the books that we wants for his birthday.
1879-08-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister upon returning to Cambridge. He recounts his most recent social activities, including a visit with the Welds and a Sunday spent with the Saltonstalls and Alice Lee.
1879-09-29
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister about his recent social activities, including a drive with Jack Tebbetts and calling on a professor with a Miss Lane, who is also teaching Roosevelt to play lawn tennis.
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Corinne about his time spent with Alice Lee at Chestnut Hill. He expresses his happiness, but mentions that examinations are coming up and he will not be able to visit again until they are finished.
1880-04-27
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Corinne from Schooner Head, Maine, and informs her of his social calls. He also mentions that he is suffering from stomach problems, but that his friends have been taking good care of him.
1880-07-24
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his mother of his activities in Bar Harbour, including lawn tennis and dancing. Roosevelt mentions that he was ill, but that Alice Lee took very good care of him.
1880-08-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister during a hunting trip. He describes the Midwestern landscape and varieties of birds. Roosevelt writes that the hunting is successful and the accommodations are rough.
1880-08-22
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister of their brother, Elliot’s, readjustment to “civilization” after their hunting trip. He writes that they are having a good time, despite a series of hunting accidents and delays.
1880-09-12
At top, a man is being carried in a sedan chair, with many porters carrying furniture from a train on the right to his cabin in the wilderness on the left. At bottom, on the left, is a buck holding up a young hunter, exclaiming “To think of anybody mistaking a thing like this for me!” At bottom, on the right, is “The Guide’s Farewell” where a hunter stands outside the door as his guide takes leave of his family. The guide’s wife is weeping into a handkerchief, an infant sitting on the floor is crying, and his son hands him a rifle. The expectation is that he will be shot by accident by the hunter. At center, a man gestures toward his trophy wall and boasts about having “shot every one of them myself.” On the wall are portraits of many men mistaken for one animal or another, and one deer, which was shot “By Accident.”
Puck increasingly turned its occasional genre cartoons — jokes revolving around one subject in center-spread cartoons — from light humor to social, if not political, attacks. S. D. Ehrhart here takes aim at hunters whose interests were desultory, not for the thrill of the hunt nor food. The idle rich are the cartoonist’s target, ridiculed as a wastrel who outfits his luxurious mountain cabin. The foppish “hunter” and his similarly represented guest are ridiculed for the only possible “trophies” such people could manage to acquire.
Theodore Roosevelt writes his father about his Easter vacation with the Minot and Weld families. He describes his activities over the weekend, including his studies, leisure time, and attending church.
1877-04-15
Theodore Roosevelt recounts a sledding party in Chestnut Hill and the people in attendance.
1879-02-03
At center, a young woman at seaside writes to her beau in the city, asking when he can come down (in verse by Edwin L. Sabin). Surrounding the main image are scenes of summer life at the sea, at the resort, on the road, and at home.
S. D. Ehrhart became Puck‘s go-to cartoonist of humorous and light social commentary in special holiday and seasonal issues of the magazine in the century’s first decade. As here, his format was to feature one large drawing or central joke (or illustrating a poem related to the theme), surrounded by one-panel gags. Seldom did they refer to political issues, as magazines like Puck, Judge, and Life increasingly desired to attract general, and not narrowly partisan, readerships.
At a Sunday school picnic, adults and children are resting and playing, and eating in a rural setting. Included is a poem by Joseph Crosby Lincoln.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-08-01
President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on some of the goings-on of the family, and reports that Kermit’s brother Ted’s eye surgery went well. The egg-rolling at the White House on Easter Monday was great fun for the children, and the white house grounds are looking nice in spring. Roosevelt relates a humorous story involving Kermit’s younger brother Quentin Roosevelt, who “is a funny small person if ever there was one.” Roosevelt is trying to send aid to California, still reeling after a recent earthquake, and has been continuing his fight for a rate bill and the Panama Canal issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-22
Eugene A. Philbin, president of the Parks and Playgrounds Association of New York, informs Theodore Roosevelt of an upcoming conference meant to bring together individuals and organizations interested in the recreation movement to determine a policy for New York City. They would appreciate his presence at this meeting, “in order that this very important matter may be given thorough consideration and a plan of action devised.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03