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Edith Roosevelt is recovering slowly and being cared for by a nurse. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt suggests the guest list for his rescheduled visit to Anna Roosevelt Cowles’s home.
1898-01-12
Edith Roosevelt is still not in good health and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is suffering daily headaches. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt discusses his upcoming visit with Anna Roosevelt Cowles.
1898-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt describes his trip with Edith Roosevelt, on which he saw Douglas Robinson. He was most impressed with the beauty of the Canadian Rockies and was well received in Canada.
1915-08-06
Theodore Roosevelt describes a visit to his sister Corinne Robinson Roosevelt’s house in upstate New York, where many family members and friends gathered after the death of Corinne’s husband, Douglas Robinson, three days earlier. Roosevelt describes Corinne’s anxiety over hosting the large number of people, her concern for her daughter’s state of mind, and her feelings about the absence of Anna Roosevelt Cowles.
1918-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt describes his cousin J. West Roosevelt’s funeral for his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles. C. Grant La Farge has pneumonia. His work as Police Commissioner is hampered by colleague Andrew D. Parker. Sister Corinne and her husband Douglas Robinson visited and she is feeling better.
1896-04-19
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt that Tilden Selmes is in the hospital dying of liver cancer and he and Edith have visited Mrs. Selmes. It was wonderful to have sister Corinne and her husband Douglas Robinson visit. The Leiters were just married and a cable just arrived from Turin with the news that Edith’s mother Gertrude Tyler Carow died.
1895-04-27
Theodore Roosevelt is happy sister Anna Roosevelt’s wedding to William Sheffield Cowles will be on November 25 and that sister Corinne and brother-in-law Douglas will be there. He wishes he and wife Edith could attend. Elections are in two days and Republicans will probably lose in the city. Edith will write that they accept Anna’s offer of taking her house at 689 Madison Ave.
1895-11-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles how he worked to fix the blackmail tendency in the detective bureau. He has finished his book so he can fully devote himself to being Police Commissioner. He believes they will try and legislate the Commissioners out of office this year. Roosevelt lunched with Bob and wasn’t able to meet sister Corinne and her husband Douglas Robinson when they arrived.
1895-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about Bob visiting Edith and the children at Sagamore Hill. Their brother Elliott’s former coachman informed brother-in-law Douglas Robinson that Katy Mann is bothering Elliott again. Roosevelt describes the scene in Washington these days.
1894-06-17
Theodore Roosevelt compliments his sister Anna Roosevelt on how interesting her letters from England are but he is glad she is coming back. Brother-in-law Douglas Robinson is recovering from his polo accident and little son Kermit cannot do what the other children can. Roosevelt just completed three days of lectures. The Democrats are split over the tariff and a Republican victory seems certain next election.
1894-07-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about the death of their alcoholic brother Elliott. It was probably for the best because if he had lived any longer he would have been in a straight jacket. They did not bury him next to his wife Anna. Roosevelt describes the funeral and says that Katy Mann went to see brother-in-law Douglas Robinson.
1894-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt agreeing with her decision to stay in London through the fall. Sister Corinne and husband Douglas Robinson are visiting with the children. Roosevelt continues to host political dinners.
1894-03-25
Governor Roosevelt invites Frederick William Holls to breakfast at the house of his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, where they will meet with Senator Thomas Collier Platt to discuss “various measures affecting the policy of the party in the coming legislature.” Roosevelt believes that “the ideas of some of our friends need straightening out as to the work of your commission,” referring to the Education Commission.
1899-12-11
Theodore Roosevelt describes to his sister Anna a dinner at her home which he calls one of the “greatest successes” he has ever seen. Brother-in-law Douglas Robinson received a telegram saying the “authorities would not allow the body to land.”
1893-12-10
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about financial matters. He is once again short of money and is again considering leaving Sagamore Hill. He and Edith have also been socializing quite a bit and had a long conversation about public schools.
1893-12-17
Article reporting that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will lease a home at 165 East Seventy-fourth Street when he moves to New York City to take a job in a Wall Street banking house.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Melza Riggs Wood Winthrop thanks Corinne Roosevelt Robinson for the gift, and regrets that she could not attend her wedding. She describes the farewell extended in the Philippines to William H. Taft as he ends his service as Civil Governor of the Philippines. She also extends New Year’s wishes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-05
Registry return receipt for a letter sent to Douglas Robinson from William Loeb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-09
Robert Harry Munro Ferguson sends a bronze cast of R. Tait McKenzie’s The Sprinter and suggests it may look good in Theodore Roosevelt’s single-stick “death chamber.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-16
The Strachey family will be visiting the United States and expects to hear from the White House. Nicholas Murray Butler congratulates President Roosevelt on the conclusion of the Anthracite Coal Strike and is pleased that his friend, Bishop Spalding, is a member of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-17