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President Roosevelt knew Endicott Peabody would like to hear about the Romanes lecture, and he encloses the related letters from George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Although Roosevelt agrees with Peabody about the difficulty of frequent travel, he feels Archie Roosevelt should continue on with his current dentist in New York.
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1908-09-16
President Roosevelt encloses a letter for Endicott Peabody, explaining that he had hoped to let Archie Roosevelt “be free” this summer, but an emergency dental situation has thwarted the plan. He asks that the doctor’s suggestion be heeded. Peabody might like to know that Roosevelt has been invited to give the Romanes Lecture at Oxford.
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1908-09-12
President Roosevelt thanks Waldo D. Parker for assisting Archie and Quentin Roosevelt over the years, and encourages him to use the letter as a personal recommendation.
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1908-09-10
President Roosevelt finds it a great comfort that his elder son, Kermit Roosevelt, is caring for his younger son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, while they are away at school. President Roosevelt gives Kermit advice on what he should do upon graduating. He believes it would only help Kermit to attend Harvard College for three years, and that going immediately into a career would not be beneficial because he is still young and inexperienced. Roosevelt encourages Kermit to seek advice from others, but emphasizes that college will help him mature and will benefit him in the long-run.
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1907-09-24
President Roosevelt has written to his son Archibald B. Roosevelt and asked him to be kind to Leonard Eckstein Opdycke’s son, as the two boys are classmates at Groton School. Roosevelt is happy to hear from Opdycke and laments the loss of two of their classmates, Henry Russell Shaw and Samuel W. Skinner.
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1907-09-23
President Roosevelt asks Emily Tyler Carow if she could bring a book about Rome by Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero, which he believes is entitled The Greatness and Decline of Rome. Roosevelt tells Carow the family is looking forward to her visit and updates her on their last days at Oyster Bay, New York.
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt gives Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge an update on his life and family. He laments the end of summer and tells Lodge how each member of the family has spent it, remarking upon how his children are growing up. Roosevelt has been vacationing during the summer months and now looks to his work ahead. He wants to ensure that his plans for the Navy and Panama Canal cannot be undone by his successor.
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1907-09-20
President Roosevelt thanks Charles E. Labady for naming a launch after Roosevelt’s son. The president also mentions that another son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, has become quite a sailor and is fond of fishing.
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1907-09-16
President Roosevelt thanks Waldo D. Parker for his two letters, for tutoring Archibald B. Roosevelt, and for being “a close and valued friend.”
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt informs Secretary of the Interior Garfield that he will appoint Frank Pierce as Assistant Secretary of the Interior and is sorry about Thomas Ryan’s resignation. He encloses a letter for Garfield to forward to Ryan. The president also notes that the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., has been a good fit for Archibald B. Roosevelt and believes Garfield’s son, James Abram Garfield, would do well too.
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt tells Asahi Kitagaki that Archibald B. Roosevelt mentioned meeting Kitagaki at Oyster Bay, New York. Roosevelt is sorry to have missed him there, but hopes to see Kitagaki in Washington, D.C.
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1907-09-11
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt that he is glad that the cavalry march and chicken shoot went well. Roosevelt details various happenings in the family for Kermit, and wishes him well.
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1907-09-06
President Roosevelt wishes Kermit Roosevelt good luck on his shooting trip. He additionally updates Kermit on Ted Roosevelt’s trip to Minnesota and on the their recent tennis matches, as well as Archie Roosevelt’s interest in sailing. Roosevelt is busy working on his speeches for the Mississippi River trip, but he is still enjoying the holiday.
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1907-08-31
President Roosevelt requests his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow tell Mr. Bovet that while he sympathizes with the movement to preserve the Alps, as president, he cannot sign a petition that is essentially a request for action by another government. Roosevelt updates Carow on the family’s summer activities in Oyster Bay.
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1907-08-13
President Roosevelt is pleased to inform Groton School rector Endicott Peabody that Archibald B. Roosevelt is well enough to attend Groton, where “the little fellow will make an honorable pupil.” He will send more information along with reports from Archie’s tutor, Waldo D. Parker. Roosevelt shares that Archie wants to be a naval officer.
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1907-08-27
President Roosevelt sends Edward McKay a photograph of him in the Rough Riders, and says he will always think of him as “one of Uncle Sam’s little boys,” and remembers him playing with Roosevelt’s son, Quentin. Roosevelt tells McKay about all the sports and activities his sons Quentin and Archie are involved in, and describes a camping trip where two bold young foxes visited the party.
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1907-07-30
President Roosevelt expresses concern about his son Kermit Roosevelt’s health. He mentions the Brownsville matter, the opposition from the Senate over the battleships and offers his view on Native Americans. Roosevelt is pleased that Kermit has been reading and studying, and updates Kermit on recent family activities.
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1907-01-26
President Roosevelt asks Kermit Roosevelt if William Loeb sent him “the matter” about the Brownsville incident for his debate. Roosevelt then proceeds to tell his son about an amusing interaction with Ellen C. Bonaparte who declared she had been taking people who lead “gray and hundrum lives [sic]” to the White House to bring them pleasure. He trusts Kermit will not tell anyone, and shares another story about the daughter of Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph I. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s pet guinea pigs, Mr. and Mrs. Longworth.
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1907-01-19
President Roosevelt describes the family’s “ideal” Christmas celebrations to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He asks Robinson to find out how her son, Monroe Douglas Robinson, could bear being seen with Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt, when Ted was wearing “such as cap as he seems to have carried.”
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt thanks his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow for the book that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt got him on her behalf. The Roosevelts have had their “usual type of Christmas,” though with fewer toys as the children get older. Soon they will go to the Pine Knot cabin with friends. Roosevelt has much to worry him in his work, but the incidents “will all go downstream.”
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1906-12-26