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Rudolph Forster asks Riggs National Bank to deposit funds in the accounts of Ted, Kermit, and Ethel Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-31
President Roosevelt asks Guy Murchie if the enclosed letter will suffice. He is glad Murchie saw and liked his son, Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-29
President Roosevelt sends A. H. Fox a sixteen bore shotgun to be used as a model, and asks that he then send it on to Ted Roosevelt. Roosevelt will take Fox’s advice on the rifle weight, and he asks about further design specifications.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-16
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt informs Roger Williams that her children, Theodore and Ethel Roosevelt, will meet the USS Sylph at 4:20 p.m.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-12
President Roosevelt sends Kermit Roosevelt a poem that reminds him of Quentin, as well as letters relating to his upcoming African safari. He tells Kermit that he will come with him, provided he does not let it distract him from preparing for his future and will treat it as a college course. Roosevelt also updates his son on the activities of other members of the family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-23
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-22
President Roosevelt thanks Laurence H. Grahame for the photograph. He does not think his children, Ethel and Theodore Roosevelt, will be able to go to Puerto Rico in the winter. Roosevelt invites Grahame to dine with him at the White House when he is next in the area.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-24
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-13
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-31
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-29
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
President Roosevelt agrees with mining executive John Campbell Greenway. In his recent Provincetown speech, he reaffirmed the position taken in his “undesirable citizens” letter. In a postscript, Roosevelt thanks Greenway for taking an interest in Ted Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-23
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-13
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt has been told by his son that his young friend Otohiko Matsukata is coming to Washington, D.C. with his younger brother. He asks Japanese Ambassador Aoki if they can lunch with him either Saturday or Monday during their visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-24
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 will come to the Harvard Union with Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon after meeting his son Ted Roosevelt and nephew Monroe Douglas Robinson. He would like the meeting to be held “under the auspices of the Political Club,” because he thinks that would give the speech “a little more point.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-11
President Roosevelt describes the family’s “ideal” Christmas celebrations to his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. He asks Robinson to find out how her son, Monroe Douglas Robinson, could bear being seen with Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt, when Ted was wearing “such as cap as he seems to have carried.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
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.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
President Roosevelt tells Owen Wister that he will relay his recent letter to his son Theodore Roosevelt, then asks Wister to join him on an upcoming trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-20