Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

William J. Vanden Heuvel looks at the connections between Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, especially their shared commitment to American engagement with the world and promoting conservation. Vanden Heuvel highlights Theodore Roosevelt’s winning the Nobel Peace Prize and his support for an inheritance tax, and he notes that both Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to regulate corporations and the wealthy for the benefit of the working class. Two photographs and a drawing of Sagamore Hill supplement the address.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2003-10-24

Creator(s)

Vanden Heuvel, William J. (William Jacobus), 1930-

Henry Parish sends congratulations to President Roosevelt on the election results. Parish is also very happy about Eleanor Roosevelt’s recent engagement announcement. Parish is fond of Eleanor and has high regard for Franklin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-01

Creator(s)

Parish, Henry, Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt reports that Archie Roosevelt is now a father and that Archie’s old captain, Adolf Wiedebach, came to visit. Weidebach agrees with Roosevelt that the German-American Alliance should be suppressed. He ends with a comment about letters being censored.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-03-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit that John Hay is ill and Frank Travers has died. He also mentions going to New York to give away Eleanor Roosevelt in marriage. He has been riding a lot with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and has been playing tennis with Matt and Ted. The birds have returned and Archie and Quentin played with friends.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1905-03-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt provides Joseph Gaston Baillie Bulloch with some details of Roosevelt family marriages. Roosevelt was also pleased to read Bulloch’s article, and agrees with the spirit, even though he must dispute some of the details.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt that he killed two moose and that both had good antlers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt appreciates Franklin D. Roosevelt’s courtesy and sends his love to Eleanor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Charles R. Huntington that his portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., by Daniel Huntington, Charles R. Huntington’s father, is in the country cannot be shipped. Roosevelt suggests that Huntington contact Corrine Roosevelt Robinson or Eleanor Roosevelt about another suitable portrait. Roosevelt is sure they will be glad to send it to the exhibition of paintings by Daniel Huntington if possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Franklin D. Roosevelt that his family was pleased to hear that the baby was strong and that Eleanor Roosevelt was doing well. He hopes that their good fortune will extend to all the children they may have together. They are glad Gracie Hall Roosevelt will be visiting for a week or two but are sad he won’t be able to stay with them for a whole month.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is anxious to have Kermit Roosevelt and Hall Roosevelt attend Alice Roosevelt’s wedding and suggests to Endicott Peabody, the rector of Groton School, that they take the Thursday evening train and return on Monday. Roosevelt feels Harvard University is mistaken about abolishing football outright and that clean sport can be secured if the president would interfere instead of waiting for the committees to act. He compares the collegiate football situation to Groton School and St. Mark’s School.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs his son Kermit that Secretary of State John Hay is “pretty sick,” and hopes that he recovers. Roosevelt updates his son on events at the White House, where the birds have returned and he has been riding with Edith. Archie and Quentin both had friends to see them, and Roosevelt, Ted, and Matthew Hale have been playing tennis. Roosevelt is sad that his friend Frank C. Travers died last night.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-20

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Louis W. Olms for sending a cigarette case that belonged to his late brother, Elliott Roosevelt. Roosevelt will send the case to Elliott’s daughter, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Anna Roosevelt Cowles to send the enclosed $10 to Mrs. Hoyt for the Mrs. Lee matter. He also mentions he can attend Eleanor Roosevelt’s wedding if it is before March 17 and gives several dates that work for him, as well as several dates that do not.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt expresses his delight at Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt’s engagement and says, “few things could have given me greater satisfaction.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

State senator Franklin D. Roosevelt discusses the current election for United States Senator from New York. Matters remain deadlocked, but he believes that ultimately William F. Sheehan will be defeated.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Anna Roosevelt Cowles asks President Roosevelt to read the enclosed letter from Frances E. Monson, and to have William Loeb write her if he knows of a place that can help her son. She recently visited New York, where she visited Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt, who have moved into their new home and are expecting their third child. She also saw Mr. Mills, who is frail but fondly remembers Edith. She has seen her nephew Ted, and will see him again on Sunday, and expects to see Alice Roosevelt Longworth today.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-18

Creator(s)

Cowles, Anna Roosevelt, 1855-1931

Louis W. Olms is sending President Roosevelt a cigarette case that belonged to Elliott Roosevelt which was once given to Olms for safe-keeping. Olms shares that he and Elliott Roosevelt used to chat in French about the Franco-Prussian War. Olms asks Theodore Roosevelt to give the case to Elliott Roosevelt’s daughter, the president’s niece, Eleanor, whom the President is giving away at her wedding to her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-13

Creator(s)

Olms, Louis W., 1857-1934

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

William N. Tilchin reviews Ken Burns’s documentary film The Roosevelts: An Intimate History about Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Tilchin examines all seven episodes of the documentary, and he largely praises the latter episodes devoted to the Hyde Park Roosevelts while expressing serious reservations about the first two episodes centered on Theodore Roosevelt. Tilchin criticizes the treatment of Roosevelt’s service prior to and during the Spanish-American War by Burns and by three “talking head” commentators, and he admonishes the film for its coverage of Roosevelt’s presidential diplomacy. Tilchin also faults Burns for failing to recognize the evil nature of Joseph Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union. Overall, Tilchin finds much to like in the film, but he believes that it will never be seen as “a masterpiece.”

The review is supplemented with twenty-six images over ten pages from the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University and by three illustrations of the DVD set from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

Stacy A. Cordery examines the life of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, providing a biography of Theodore Roosevelt’s first born child. Cordery looks at her troubled childhood, her rebellious spirit as a young woman, and her celebrated marriage to Congressman Nicholas Longworth. Cordery details  Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, her support of isolationism in the years before World War II, and her decades long place as a fixture in the Washington, D.C., political scene. A text box within the article contains an excerpt from Owen Wister about Theodore Roosevelt’s frustration at his inability to control his daughter.

Two photographs of Longworth, one with her siblings and the other with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, supplement the text.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000