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Mabel Wellington White Stimson had been away and has recently learned more details of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident. She sends her sympathies to everyone and offers her assistance if there is anything she can do.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
Langdon Warner hopes Mrs. Roosevelt is recovering after her fall. He also thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending a pamphlet on protective coloration, and hopes Roosevelt will speak to Mr. Thayer about the pamphlet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-07
Ronald Storrs, while stationed as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, recounts to Theodore Roosevelt an archeological expedition to Abu Simbel, by way of Aswan, that he took with Arthur Weigall. Weigall suggested Storrs send Roosevelt his article on the topic alongside photographs taken at the site, in the hopes that it could be published in The Outlook. Storrs sends his regards to several members of the Roosevelt family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-24
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Edwards confirms that Acting Collector of New York Henry C. Stuart is available to assist with the arrival of Emily Tyler Carow. Stuart will also give her the letter Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt wrote.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-14
Lyman Metcalfe Bass thanks President Roosevelt for helping him gain access to the Republican National Convention and congratulates Roosevelt on winning the nomination. Bass also shares news of his engagement to Grace Holland before it gets formally announced.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt tells George Otto Trevelyan that he thought Sir Edward Grey’s speech was fine and lived up to Trevelyan’s hope that it might be worthy of Henry John Temple Palmerston with all Palmerston’s good qualities and just the sense of power Grey should convey as the English spokesman of foreign affairs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
Theodore Roosevelt asks Frank B. Williams to thank his wife from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and himself. Roosevelt also thanks Williams for asking after the health of Edith Roosevelt, who is now well on the road to recovery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Sister M. Sebastian wishes Theodore Roosevelt and his family a merry Christmas. Sebastian is rejoiced to hear Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is feeling better and prays she will live to a ripe old age. Sebastian prays for Theodore Roosevelt and wants him to go down in history as the greatest President, remembered for years to come.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Frederick Courteny Selous apologizes to Theodore Roosevelt for not responding to his last letter, but Selous wanted to read Roosevelt’s pamphlet on coloration first, and has been very busy. He is taking the pamphlet with him to Africa to read on the ship. Selous will first stop in Paris, France to receive a medal from the French Academy of Sports in recognition of his big game hunting, and then travel with friends to Kenya. Selous would like to go back to Bahr el ghazal and study the Kob and the ways it changes color each year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-09
Ferguson, Robert Harry Munro, 1868-1922
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
William S. Cowles tells Theodore Roosevelt he hoped Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is on the mend. Cowles loved Theodore Roosevelt’s editorial “Our Neighbors, the Ancients,” and will get the book to read. Cowles agrees with Roosevelt regarding the removal of obelisks and other artifacts from their original locations and believes Akhenaton, King of Egypt, should not be allowed to wander foolishly about.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-05
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1903-12-03
Secretary of the American Art Association
English
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-10
Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940
de Alte, José Francisco da Horta Machado Franca, Viscount, 1863-1933
English
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-07
English
On behalf of her husband, John F. Stevens, Harriet T. O’Brien Stevens asks Theodore Roosevelt if John Stevens might change his appointment to meet with Roosevelt as he has been detained in Chicago. Harriet Stevens hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is well once again and wishes them all the best in the new year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-21
Olive Child Mitchel Johnstone thanks Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for their kind letter of sympathy. Johnstone relates that her husband, John Purroy Mitchel, is doing well and she is encouraged by his condition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-06
English
African Safari (March 1909-1910)
Theodore Roosevelt notifies Anna Roosevelt Cowles of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s injuries from being thrown from her horse, and despite her injuries, the doctor is not concerned for Edith. Roosevelt informs Cowles that Archibald B. Roosevelt will delay his trip out west due to her accident but is doing well in his examinations and will most likely get into Harvard University.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
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1916-05-10
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930
English
Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. D. Evans for apprising him about Archibald (Archie) B. Roosevelt’s sickness. He has heard from Archie that he misses home and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the first time, but Roosevelt wishes Archie was stronger.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-13