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President Roosevelt updates Archibald B. Roosevelt on family matters. Quentin Roosevelt brought a snake back to Washington, D.C., from Oyster Bay and has been allowed to borrow three more from a local pet store. He is showing them to everyone, including Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte and a number of Congressmen who are off-put by the animals.
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1907-09-27
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 describes his recent trip to Provincetown to his son Kermit Roosevelt, including his speech, a banquet, and meeting “five hundred Gloucester fishermen.” Roosevelt feels Kermit’s trip with the cavalry “was such a fine thing.”
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1907-08-21
The Roosevelt family was amused by William Sturgis Bigelow’s comment that “the six Jiu Jitsu jackets might perhaps facilitate the weekly adjustment of family dissensions.”
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1907-08-17
President Roosevelt received Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt’s letter and the book and looks forward to reading them. The family has missed Laura and her family at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt had archeologist Langdon Warner over, and thanks Laura for introducing him.
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1907-08-13
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 and his wife are distressed and sorry about the news his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson sent, and asks for news about the “dear little fellow.”
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1907-08-05
President Roosevelt thanks Adolph W. Callisen for his kind words and says his son is now doing well with a tutor. Roosevelt sends his love to Callisen’s son, Stirling A. Callisen, and compliments him.
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1907-08-03
President Roosevelt is pleased with the letters from Representative Longworth and his wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Roosevelt tells Longworth he feels positive about the “Taft business,” but friction with the Japanese, and the outcome of the Big Bill Haywood trial, are causing him anxiety.
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1907-07-31
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 regretfully declines Henry Lee Higginson’s invitation to be his guest at the Tavern Club. He will be busy seeing his sons at Harvard and Groton and therefore will not have any spare time for other engagements.
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1907-01-27
President Roosevelt informs his nephew Theodore Douglas Roosevelt that there will not be any room for accommodation left on his car due to the number of other family members accompanying him to Boston. He hopes Theodore can join the train anyway and he is welcome to spend time in Roosevelt’s car until bedtime.
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1907-01-26
President Roosevelt stresses to Massachusetts Governor Guild that his visit to Boston is a personal one and other than speaking at Harvard he will be spending time with his family.
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1907-01-25
President Roosevelt tells Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt, wife of his cousin James West Roosevelt, that he is sorry to hear that her family is sick. He has written to Arthur William Merrifield and is sure that arrangements can be regarding her son. He hopes Laura is all right.
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1907-01-16
President Roosevelt asks if he can spend November 4 at Elizabeth Norris Emlen Roosevelt’s home.
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1901-10-21
President Roosevelt is very sorry to hear that Ted Roosevelt has broken his collarbone playing football. He hopes Ted is getting on well with his studies. Although it is not an easy job being president, Roosevelt is enjoying it and the family is finding time for fun.
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1901-10-19
President Roosevelt has thought very much of his family during this time. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and two of the children are now in Washington, D.C., and enjoying the White House.
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1901-10-01
President Roosevelt thanks Alice Lee for the letter she sent him previously.
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1901-09-21
President Roosevelt expresses his deep gratitude for the hospitality of Ansley Wilcox and his wife Mary Grace Wilcox upon the occasion of his emergency inauguration at their house on September 14, 1901, following the death of President William McKinley. Roosevelt appreciates that Wilcox acted naturally and treated him normally on the occasion. Roosevelt regrets that his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, could not have been there also. Roosevelt confirms his receipt of a letter from Wilcox and promises one for Mrs. Wilcox soon.
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1901-09-17
Bernard J. Cigrand informs Theodore Roosevelt that he has sent him papers related to Roosevelt’s family coat-of-arms. He also asks Roosevelt to send him more information about his Huguenot ancestry.
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1911-09-22