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William Emlen Roosevelt writes about a box of flowers that was wrongly delivered in the Roosevelt Hospital. Roosevelt will be coming to Washington, D.C., to see Secretary of War Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-12
William Emlen Roosevelt is glad that Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering and understands the anxiety President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt suffer. He wants to visit Washington, D.C., to talk about his dispute with a treasury official and the Harriman incident. Christine Roosevelt is nervous about the idea of William staying where a person has diphtheria, so he may sleep at his in-laws to calm her. He visited Russell in the hospital. The superintendent of Roosevelt Hospital is dying. William hoped that spring was arriving, but a recent snow storm crushed his hopes of riding.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-11
President Roosevelt expresses his concern that Robert Harry Munro Ferguson was recently admitted to Roosevelt Hospital; he strongly encourages Ferguson to take a year off work to fully recuperate. Roosevelt recalls a recent trip to Puerto Rico, where the area’s Secretary of the Interior Laurence H. Grahame impressed local residents with his Scottish kilt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-01
Vice President Roosevelt details his feelings about the attempted assassination of President McKinley. He is confident that the President will recover. Alice and Quentin Roosevelt were both recently admitted to the hospital with different illnesses. Roosevelt had an interesting time on trips to the Midwest and Vermont.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-09
Charles A. Merritt’s wife requires surgery to remove a tumor. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for help getting a reasonable rate at Roosevelt Hospital.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-27
William Emlen Roosevelt returns letters from the United States War Department to Theodore Roosevelt and includes a letter from James Alexander Scrymser. Roosevelt does not see a problem with Scrymser’s proposal as long as the cable is used for war related transmissions. Roosevelt asks President Roosevelt to consider a suggestion for the position of postmaster in New Caanan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-26
Much of this edition of the “News and Notes” section revisits and elaborates on articles published in this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. “The TR Exhibit at the Johnson Library” quotes from the remarks made by William Davison Johnston, President of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), at the library, notes the gifts given by the TRA to Lady Bird Johnson, and promotes the exhibit’s catalogue. The section also provides excerpts from a letter written by the leadership of the TRA to President Ronald Reagan thanking him for visiting the graves of General Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt in June 1984, and it notes that this issue of the journal is dedicated to Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt.
The section also touches on some of the awards given to high school students by the TRA and highlights talks on Roosevelt presented at Lamar University in Texas and at Sagamore Hill. It also revisits the TRA Police Award ceremony in New York City and cites the contributions of Paul Russell Cutright and the National Geographic Society to the article on President Roosevelt’s conservation record.
An illustration of a bronze medallion depicting Theodore Roosevelt, two photographs of Lady Bird Johnson, and a photograph of Roosevelt speaking are found in the section.
Obituary for Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt which highlights her volunteer and work history with the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City and the leadership of her sons, P. James Roosevelt and John E. Roosevelt, in the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1984
John A. Gable reviews Nathan Miller’s The Roosevelt Chronicles, a history of the Roosevelt family in America. He acknowledges that Miller covers the lives of the well known Roosevelts: Theodore, Franklin, Eleanor, and Alice Longworth, but he believes that the real value of the book comes from its examination of lesser known members of the famous family. Gable looks at four of these figures: Nicholas Roosevelt, a pioneer in steamboats; James Roosevelt Bayley, an important figure in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church; Robert B. Roosevelt, Theodore’s uncle, who was a conservationist; and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Theodore’s son, who would earn the Medal of Honor for his actions on D-Day, 1944.
Frederick W. Marks describes the research he undertook for his book Velvet on Iron, and surveys the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt beginning in the 1920s. He argues that there persists a divide between his record as a restrained diplomat and the perception “of him as bellicose and impulsive.
A photograph of Marks accompanies his article.
Robert C. Kimberly provides a detailed examination of the various afflictions and ailments that marked the life of Theodore Roosevelt from his childhood to his death in January 1919. He describes Roosevelt’s struggles with asthma and poor eyesight as a youth, his battle to control his weight, and details many of the injuries he suffered while living out the strenuous life. Kimberly delves into the serious leg injury Roosevelt suffered in a carriage accident in 1902, his decades long struggle with malaria, his near death experience on the River of Doubt expedition, and the treatment he received after the October 1912 assassination attempt. He notes the many doctors who treated Roosevelt as well as the implications his health problems had for his wife Edith.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on page three of the article and an advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank is found at its conclusion.
President Roosevelt is concerned about Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s hospitalization. He advises Ferguson to take a holiday for his health. Roosevelt recently appointed Laurence Grahame as Secretary of the Interior of Puerto Rico. Grahame is a Canadian of Scotch parentage and is an “awfully good fellow.”
1906-12-01
Theodore Roosevelt is “getting on splendidly” but will be in the hospital for another week. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is spending some time with Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her children. Roosevelt has been pleased with what he hears about Quentin Roosevelt and is proud of his sons. He thinks that Tommy Hitchcock has “turned out cracker-jack.”
1918-02-28
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Anna Roosevelt Cowles from the hospital, from which he expects to be released in a week to ten days. He appreciates her kind thoughts and thinks of her and her husband William Sheffield Cowles often.
1918-02-23