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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna describing his time with the Osborns hunting and fishing. He and his brother Elliott swam across the bay and rowed to Laurelton.
1876-08-06
Tranquility was the summer home that Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Martha Bulloch Roosevelt kept in Oyster Bay, New York. On the verandah, from left to right, are Martha Bulloch Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. On the lawn, from left to right, are Edith Kermit Carow and Corinne Roosevelt.
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1872
In Theodore Roosevelt’s absence, one of his children thanks Marquis de Chandray for the letter, and promises to bring it to Roosevelt’s attention when he returns.
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1912-06-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Walter Thompson for the sermon and appreciates the reference to his father, Theodore Roosevelt.
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1911-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Warren Egbert Benscoter that the book belonged to his father, who sent it to the office as reading material for the soldiers.
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1911-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with Quentin Roosevelt’s piece “In the Grot.” Roosevelt is also happy with Quentin’s academic and football performance at Groton.
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1914-11-04
President Roosevelt thanks James C. Malone for the photographs of his parents, as well as of himself and his siblings when they were children. He sends Malone his photograph in return.
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1909-03-01
President Roosevelt thanks Reverend Adams for his letter. Roosevelt was named after his late father.
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1909-01-22
President Roosevelt introduces Governor Hughes to Dr. Newton M. Shaffer, who was a good friend of his father’s.
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1908-11-11
President Roosevelt tells William B. Okeson that the Theodore Roosevelt he wrote him about was “doubtless” his father. His father’s father was named Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and his brother was Robert Barnwell Roosevelt.
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1908-11-09
President Roosevelt read A. D. Rockwell’s pamphlet about Philip Henry Sheridan’s cavalry with interest and was amused at Rockwell’s advice to his father when Roosevelt was a child.
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1907-11-05
President Roosevelt thanks Stephania A. Porter for the gift of a picture of his mother. He invites Porter to bring her son and daughter-in-law for lunch or dinner at the White House next winter.
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1907-06-24
President Roosevelt updates Kermit Roosevelt on his trip to Georgia, where the Georgians received him well. They built a reproduction of his grandfather’s house and a naval review which was a “great sight.”
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1907-06-13
President Roosevelt declines to act as a model of his father for Francis Bowes Sayre’s uncle, noting that he would not serve well since he does not have a beard. In a postscript, he notes that he is enclosing a photograph of a portrait of his father.
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1907-04-12
President Roosevelt thanks Henry I. Butterfield for the cravat pin, and is touched that Butterfield, a friend of his father, remembered him.
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1906-04-18
President Roosevelt thanks Sarah Bancroft Leavitt for the letter, and says that he is always pleased to hear that the memory of his father, Theodore Roosevelt, is being kept alive. Roosevelt comments on the struggles he has had trying to pass legislation.
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1906-04-09
President Roosevelt thanks Governor Heyward for the copy of his parents’ marriage record. He asks Heyward to let him know in advance before he comes to Washington, as he wants to have people meet him at dinner.
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1905-12-09
President Roosevelt enjoyed having his uncle, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, at his inauguration, and wishes that his father could have lived to have seen it as well.
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1905-03-06
President Roosevelt tells F. Norton Goddard that the author of the letters Goddard had sent was Roosevelt’s father, and he appreciates being shown them.
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1905-01-11
President Roosevelt looks forward to reading A Group of Great Lawyers of Columbia County and confirms that his paternal great-grandmother Maria Van Schaack Roosevelt lived in the county. He accepts Abner S. Haight’s offer of honorary membership in the Columbia County Association, and regrets that he cannot attend their banquet.
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1905-01-16