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Assistant Secretary Roosevelt hopes that Patty Selmes has reached Boone County, Kentucky. Roosevelt hasn’t been able to get exercise and hopes to visit his ranch one more time where he will often think of Selmes while enjoying the plains. He has been enjoying his work and this week Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is staying in Washington, D.C.
1897-08-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt updates Robert Harry Munro Ferguson on the health of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Ted Roosevelt. Roosevelt will see Ferguson while he is in New York. He describes his most recent “Sunday scramble” with the children.
1898-01-22
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he cannot stop in Silver City, New Mexico, to visit the Fergusons. He summarizes the upcoming trip and plans to visit the Fergusons in the future.
1910-12-24
Theodore Roosevelt is sending Robert Harry Munro Ferguson a memento of his African trip made from rhinoceros hide. He suggests that Isabella Ferguson could use it as a card case. Roosevelt wishes he could see Ferguson and is dreading an upcoming trip.
1911-02-02
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovering from her accident. Theodore Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson for his advice to Kermit Roosevelt. He appreciates Ferguson’s friendship and Ferguson’s friendship with Kermit. Roosevelt laments that he has no family business or business training to help his sons.
1911-10-20
Theodore Roosevelt sends his sympathy regarding the death of Robert Harry Munro Ferguson’s sister. Roosevelt provides an update on each of his children.
1912-07-25
Theodore Roosevelt recounts his visit to see Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her children. It was a great comfort in their time of sorrow after Quentin Roosevelt’s death. Roosevelt’s sons have done well as soldiers and he would not have had them act otherwise.
1918-08-09
Commissioner Roosevelt has been working hard as police commissioner and also delivering speeches for the Republican National Committee. He feels that he needs to do everything he can to help defeat William Jennings Bryan. Roosevelt is glad to have work as he worries that he will someday be idle since he has no regular business.
1896-10-11
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt thanks Alice French (pen name Octave Thanet) for the kindness showed to one of her sons. She hopes that French can visit Washington, D.C., as she would like to present Ethel Roosevelt to her.
1907-09-11
Scrapbook primarily consisting of newspaper clippings and magazine articles related to the death and memorializing of Theodore Roosevelt. There are also several articles related to the activities of Roosevelt family members in the years after Roosevelt’s death.
1919-1925
Magazine article describing the family life of the Roosevelts at the White House. The centerfold is a layout of ten black and white photographs of the Roosevelt children.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1902-08
Franklin Delano Roosevelt hands a childlike figure depicting Representative John J. O’Connor to the surprised figure of Theodore (“Ted”) Roosevelt, who wears a hat saying “Col. Roosevelt.” O’Connor holds a paper with “G.O.P Nomination 16th NY Dist.” written on it. On the desk in front of FDR are several pages with writing on them, saying “George Purge,” “Tydings Purge,” “Smith Purge,” and “O’Connor Purge.” The first three of these have “X”s drawn on them crossing them out, but the topmost page with O’Connor’s name on it has “O.K.” written on it. This cartoon depicts an incident in a series of “purges” where FDR tried to replace members of the Democratic party who were hostile to him. While other attempts to purge these representatives had failed (as denoted by the crossed out names on the desk), O’Connor lost the Democratic nomination in the sixteenth congressional district of New York, but won the Republican nomination for that same seat. The cartoon therefore depicts the Democratic FDR handing O’Connor over to his surprised cousin Ted Roosevelt, who was a staunch Republican.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1938-09-22
John Burroughs is delighted that President Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and Ted Roosevelt will be visiting him at Slabsides, and outlines plans for their arrival. Burroughs has written an article on animal instinct and intelligence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-02
Portrait photograph of President Roosevelt and family.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-08-24
Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt with his son and grandson.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1916
Theodore Roosevelt is delighted to have heard from R. J. Cunninghame, and has sent the letter on to his son Kermit. Roosevelt would have had Cuninghame in the fighting force if he had command, and hopes still to be at the front with his four sons. Roosevelt is glad that Cuninghame is able to serve, even if it is in the ambulance service and not at the front.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-06
Portrait photograph of President Roosevelt and family.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
Portrait photograph of President Roosevelt and his sons.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
Photograph of President Roosevelt watching his son, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., ride a horse.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907
Photograph shows Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. laughing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1932