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President Roosevelt thanks Tadayoshi Sakurai for the Japanese and English copies of his book Human Bullets. Roosevelt personally admires the book, and has read some portions of it to his sons, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt. He thinks that Sakurai’s book should be an inspiration to anyone who may have to serve their country in battle.
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1908-04-22
President Roosevelt asks Emily Tyler Carow if she could bring a book about Rome by Italian historian Guglielmo Ferrero, which he believes is entitled The Greatness and Decline of Rome. Roosevelt tells Carow the family is looking forward to her visit and updates her on their last days at Oyster Bay, New York.
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt thanks Marvin Hughitt for the hospitality he and his son have shown to Kermit Roosevelt and the family as a whole.
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1907-09-21
President Roosevelt gives Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge an update on his life and family. He laments the end of summer and tells Lodge how each member of the family has spent it, remarking upon how his children are growing up. Roosevelt has been vacationing during the summer months and now looks to his work ahead. He wants to ensure that his plans for the Navy and Panama Canal cannot be undone by his successor.
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1907-09-20
William Loeb encloses a draft and pass-books belonging to Ted, Kermit, and Ethel Roosevelt. He requests the draft be credited their accounts and the books to be returned.
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1907-08-29
William Loeb asks the New York Central Railroad Company to provide tickets for Kermit Roosevelt’s upcoming trip to Fairfield, Iowa. He provides the exact trains he would like to take to get there, and states that he would like to return before September 15.
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1907-08-15
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
William Loeb encloses Kermit Roosevelt’s Newport tennis racket to be restrung and returned.
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1907-08-05
President Roosevelt thanks Fitzhugh Lee for the photographs. Kermit Roosevelt is looking forward to visiting Lee, and the Roosevelts look forward to a visit by Lee.
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1907-07-23
President Roosevelt thanks William Austin Wadsworth and his wife, Elizabeth Greene Perkins Wadsworth, for hosting Kermit Roosevelt and giving him “the most useful educational days he has ever had.”
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1907-07-18
President Roosevelt would like to accept William Crowninshield Endicott’s invitation, however he cannot undertake any other engagements as he will be seeing his sons. He will visit Theodore Roosevelt on Saturday at Harvard and Kermit Roosevelt on Sunday at Groton.
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1907-01-26
President Roosevelt would like to accept Collector of Customs Lyman’s invitation, but on his trip he will be busy visiting his sons at Harvard and Groton.
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1907-01-24
President Roosevelt thanks his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow for the book that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt got him on her behalf. The Roosevelts have had their “usual type of Christmas,” though with fewer toys as the children get older. Soon they will go to the Pine Knot cabin with friends. Roosevelt has much to worry him in his work, but the incidents “will all go downstream.”
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1906-12-26
President Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody that he is pleased with the growth and change his son Kermit is experiencing due to his fifth-grade glass at the Groton School. Roosevelt writes that Kermit feels is a lieutenant of Peabody’s who must bring credit on the school.
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1906-12-22
Charles Heald Weller thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his response to his previous letter about the study of Greek. He says the President of the University of Iowa, John G. Bowman, would like to publish Roosevelt’s letter, but Weller would like to ensure Roosevelt’s full consent to do so. If Roosevelt does not reply in a few days, Weller will assume his consent. He includes a copy of Roosevelt’s letter in case he has forgotten the contents.
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1911-10-12
Elizabeth Green Perkins Wadsworth invites Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and her family, including Theodore Roosevelt, Ethel Roosevelt, and Kermit Roosevelt, to visit her and her husband, William Austin Wadsworth, at their homestead for a week in October. Wadsworth also expresses her relief that Roosevelt’s recent fall was not serious.
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1911-10-05
F. C. Copp requests a picture of Kermit Roosevelt when he was a boy.
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1911-10-05
Edgar Huidekoper Wells thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his letter regarding Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. Wells is sending Roosevelt the Archie’s examination papers and he agrees Kermit’s time off was well spent. Wells does not understand why Roosevelt has not received notification of the meetings of the Board of Overseers, but will let Winthrop H. Wade know of the problem at once.
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1911-10-04
Joseph Szold asks Theodore Roosevelt if he received the letter Szold sent while Roosevelt was in Vienna on his return trip from Africa. Szold shook Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt’s hands during a reception at the Embassy in Vienna.
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1911-10-04
Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt continues his previous letter to his father, Theodore Roosevelt, on President William H. Taft’s reelection campaign. He plans to leave politics once the current municipal race is over. He will publicly support Taft, but he will not actively campaign for him. According to Ted, the California legislature has been inconsistent, passing some useful and some silly measures in the most recent session. This has caused the public to lose some confidence in government leadership. Roosevelt’s wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Grace, are doing well. Ted hopes his father and mother will be able to visit them soon. He looks forward to reading the article written by his brother, Kermit.
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1911-09-29