Rixey, Presley Marion, 1852-1928

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he has been a bit bored on the trip, but he has been reading a lot, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has been enjoying herself. The officers and crew have been very good to them. He describes the sight of the three battleships cruising at night and reflects on his current state as president helping to build the Panama Canal. He outlines their typical day. In an entry a few days later, Roosevelt comments on their reaching San Salvador, where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas. They are getting closer to Panama and hope to reach it that afternoon, just six days from when they left Washington, D. C.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit on activities at Sagamore Hill and upcoming activities as the family soon returns to the White House. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft

President Roosevelt thinks Secretary of War Taft should send the letter from former Panamanian president Tomás Arias to Secretary of State Elihu Root for review. While canal engineer John F. Stevens is admirable man, Roosevelt believes he can render himself valueless by thinking himself indispensable. Roosevelt wants to keep the party traveling to Panama a small one. He requests Taft communicate with the acting Secretary of War, as he is not pleased with the War Department’s lack of initiative concerning Cuba’s request for cartridges.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Wingate Sewall

President Roosevelt explains his upcoming Panama trip to William Wingate Sewall. He is traveling by battleship and will only have a few men in official positions accompany him. As Sewall has no official business in Panama, he is not welcomed. Roosevelt has refused hundreds of requests similar to Sewall’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles F. Stokes

President Roosevelt expresses his and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s concern after they heard that Charles F. Stokes’s son is seriously ill.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-13

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to read the enclosed memorandum that Surgeon General Presley Marion Rixey drew up after Roosevelt’s meeting with him and Surgeon General Robert M. O’Reilly.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles J. Bonaparte

After meeting with Surgeon General of the Navy Presley Marion Rixey and Surgeon General of the Army Robert M. O’Reilly, President Roosevelt has concluded that regulations for the medical corps in the Navy should be analogous to those in the Army. It appears to Roosevelt that the Navy Bureau of Navigation has not been efficient in their dealings with the medical corps. He asks Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte to speak with him about the matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

President Roosevelt hopes that his son, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt, gets to play in the football game between Harvard and Yale. He asks about the athletic achievements of his classmates. There is nothing of interest to report from the White House, although Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt went hunting with Presley Marion Rixey, took two shots at a rabbit, and missed. Robert Bacon is doing well under Secretary of State Elihu Root.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Melville Elijah Stone

President Roosevelt will try to write several of the speeches he will give on his upcoming trip in advance. He tells Melville Elijah Stone that he intends to visit New Orleans with only William Loeb and Surgeon General Presley Marion Rixey. He cannot take one press man without taking others, and he wants to avoid crowding.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-08

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles E. Magoon

The letter from Charles E. Magoon, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, both impressed President Roosevelt and made him uneasy. Roosevelt is thinking of appointing a commission of experts to visit the Canal Zone to compile a report on what should be done to avoid outbreaks of illness, and asks for Magoon’s opinion on such an action.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt about the family’s trip to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, and how he walked through the exposition grounds with an enormous bruise without letting any reporters know he was experiencing pain in his leg. The president was most interested in the North Dakota and Philippine exhibits. President Roosevelt includes a handwritten note encouraging Kermit to “keep pegging away” in his studies and to not lose heart.

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Creation Date

1904-11-29

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Endicott Peabody

President Roosevelt is very sorry that his sons Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt have the mumps. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is on her way to Groton School to stay with them.

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Creation Date

1904-04-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Moody

President Roosevelt believes that Surgeon General Rixey should be able to use the word “command” when referring to the hospitals under his control. Roosevelt requests Secretary Moody’s opinion.

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Creation Date

1903-07-18

Letter from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to Henry Pinckney

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt informs White House steward Henry Pinckney of her travel plans, and asks him to inform Rear Admiral Presley Marion Rixey.

Comments and Context

Rear Admiral Presley Marion Rixey, in addition to serving as Surgeon General of the Navy from 1902-1910, was also the personal physician to both President William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Dr. Rixey will reach Groton on Friday.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-19

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Dr. Rixey is coming to Groton to pick up Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Ted Roosevelt. President Roosevelt warns that Ted should not come until it is absolutely safe.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02-18

Letter from Julian C. Keith to Theodore Roosevelt

Julian C. Keith hopes Theodore Roosevelt now has time to accept his invitation for “some real old Virginia fox hunting.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-11

Letter from Charles J. Bonaparte to William Loeb

Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte updates William Loeb on Admiral Eustace Barron Rogers’s acceptance to be appointed Paymaster General. He also includes the requested memorandum from Admiral H. T. B. Harris and discusses the findings of the recent Court of Enquiry. Bonaparte also asks for advice regarding the cases of the three naval academy candidates turned down for deafness and that of J. Raynor Wells’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-08

Letter from John Campbell Greenway to Theodore Roosevelt

John Campbell Greenway feels the country is prospering under President Roosevelt’s administration, with corporations earning plenty of money despite Roosevelt’s “attacks” on them. Greenway wants Roosevelt to run for president in 1907 because the people want him to and because he thinks William Jennings Bryan will give the next candidate a tight rub.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

Letter from William H. Moody to Theodore Roosevelt

William H. Moody writes to President Roosevelt to examine the use of the word “command” versus “in charge” with respect to hospitals under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s control. Admiral Rixey is an advocate of the change.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-07-23