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Douglas Robinson tells President Roosevelt that he and his wife, Corinne, will be delighted to join him for a trip to St. Louis to see the World’s Fair. Having just wired a telegram with the same message, Robinson learned that the wires were down. He has sent the letter by special delivery.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-14
Douglas Robinson writes how pleased he and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson will be to visit with President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt at Thanksgiving. Robinson asks if he can travel with Roosevelt to see the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-11
William Emlen Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt a second congratulatory message now that they know how much of a triumph Roosevelt’s electoral win was. He reflects on what their fathers, Theodore Roosevelt and James Alfred Roosevelt, would have thought of such an outcome. William Emlen Roosevelt approves of the president’s statement that he will not seek a third term, and believes it will do much good.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-09
In the first vignette, an African American man is labeled as the “proposed usher of the black rod.” In the second vignette, Secretary of War William H. Taft is labeled, “a nifty lord-in-waiting–waiting still for the nomination.” In the third vignette, Gifford Pinchot holds a tennis racket and is labeled, “first lord of the inner closet, with insignia of office.” In the fourth vignette, Henry Huttleston Rogers, Edward Henry Harriman, and John D. Rockefeller are labeled, “a group of bad barons in attitutes expressive of deep dissatisfaction and possible rebellion. In the fifth vignette is a “suggestion for royal coat of arms.” There is the big stick–;”Of course there can be but one sceptre.” The coat of arms includes the motto, “In votes we trust to bust the trusts.”
Many political and editorial cartoonists drew variations on the themes of the interests and activities of Theodore Roosevelt. As a cognoscente and polymath, the president offered inspiration enough, but his famous strenuosity added to the visual possibilities. Few cartoonists captured so many of the possibilities offered by the many-sided Roosevelt, and Garnet Warren found his “hook” when a professor from Michigan — presumably a hagiographic assessment, as Michigan was one of the nation’s most progressive states at the time — observed that the president was a virtual monarch in the glory of his presidency of the republic.
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is pregnant, and is therefore confined to “absolute rest and quiet.” President Roosevelt is expected to leave Colorado to return to Washington, D.C., on May 8.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-01
Booklet includes pictures and drawings to illustrate the life of President Roosevelt and his family.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1904
Commissioner Roosevelt writes to Gertrude Tyler Carow informing her of the recent birth of his son, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt. The birth went well and Roosevelt describes the excitement and reactions of his children.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1894-04-09
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Sylvane M. Ferris for his letter, discusses his sons’ involvement in World War I, and laments the fact he was not allowed to go fight.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1918-07-26
Charles S. Wood calls attention to the neglected condition of a cemetery in Liberty County, Georgia, where President Roosevelt’s grandfathers are buried.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-12
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles to say wife Edith enjoyed her ten-day visit and has everything ready to return with the children. Roosevelt really enjoys his work as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Daughter Alice wrote him an entertaining letter and he wants his sister Corinne Robinson to invite son Ted to visit.
1897-08-17
A cartoon uses various sizes of shoes, from booties to riding boots, to create a “portrait” of the Roosevelt family.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-1908
Newspaper clippings describe the Roosevelt family’s reactions to Ted Roosevelt’s bout with pneumonia.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-02
Theodore Roosevelt family at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York. Left to right: Ethel, President Roosevelt, Ted, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, Quentin.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
President Theodore Roosevelt and his sons Kermit, Quentin, Ted and Archie.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-1903
Typed excerpt from Chapter IX of Theodore Roosevelt’s Autobiography, Outdoors and Indoors, in which he reflects on his children and their many pets.
1913
The Roosevelt cousins at Oyster Bay. They appear to be lined up according to age. From left to right: Archie, Nicholas, Oliver, Ethel, Philip, Kermit, Ted, Katharine, Laraine, Margaret, Jack, George, Elfrida, Alfred, Alice and Christine.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897
Jacob Riis outlines life for the Roosevelt family. He describes the personality, habits, and even pets of each child. Riis also discusses the parenting style of Edith and Theodore Roosevelt. The article, later published in the August edition of Ladies Home Journal, gives readers an idea of what life was like for the Roosevelts in the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Theodore Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a letter from Ted Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor and about walking across the frozen harbor to the light house. He says he keeps making speeches and writing in an effort to produce more activity from President Woodrow Wilson’s administration toward the war. Roosevelt writes about playing with the grandchildren as well.
1918-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit about the unhappiness of Archie, Quentin and Theodore Roosevelt regarding their circumstances in the war right now. He talks of taking a trip to Washington with Edith to visit Alice and Nick Longworth. He says Tommy Hitchcock thanked him for helping shore up conditions in the military training camps.
1918-01-27
A newspaper clip describing Theodore Roosevelt’s first visit to see his newest grandson, Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr. in Boston. It mentions that the baby’s father, Archibald Sr., is fighting in France and has not yet seen him. The picture features Roosevelt holding the baby while the baby’s mother, Grace Stackpole Lockwood Roosevelt, looks on.
1918-03-30