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Kermit Roosevelt tells President Roosevelt about the rowing season and an upcoming race. He is “being very careful not to look forward” to a possible trip to Africa, in case plans fall through. He also mentions that he has been re-reading parts of “Captain Craig” and quotes one of the poems.
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1908-04-24
Kermit Roosevelt discusses the recent weather and its effect on the rowing season. William Amory Gardner has asked whether President Roosevelt would like a copy of Gardner’s new book; and an instructor, Albert L. Cross, has requested a signed photograph of the President. Roosevelt comments on the new baby of a family friend, Robert Harry Munro Ferguson, and remarks that Ferguson’s daughter, Martha, is just like Ethel Roosevelt Derby at her age.
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1908-04-14
Finley Peter Dunne is puzzled by the Hapgood correspondence and does not understand why the charge was made. Dunne enjoyed seeing the long line of fighting ships at the review. He would also like to attend target practice with President Roosevelt and then go to Boston.
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1906-09-11
James R. Sheffield invites President Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to stay with his family at their camp in the Adirondack Mountains. He explains the amenities, accommodations, and activities of the area. He believes that Secretary of War William H. Taft could easily visit so Taft and Roosevelt could privately discuss “Panama, Cuba, spelling reform or Harvard’s chances in England or any other equally important question.”
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1906-08-31
Oliver D. Filley explains to President Roosevelt what has been done to try to arrange a race between the crew teams of Harvard and Cambridge. Filley feared it would be impossible for Roosevelt to act in any unofficial way, and that his writing might put the Englishmen in a position where they could not refuse with grace if they could not arrange a match. However, Roosevelt’s letter of support was greatly appreciated.
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1906-07-18
Oliver D. Filley asks President Roosevelt’s assistance in setting up a race between the Cambridge and Harvard crew teams in September of 1906.
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1906-07-10
Article describing the oarsmen on the Harvard rowing crews. The crews have had good weather during the past week for practice and have shown marked improvement.
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1879-02-17
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson thanks President Roosevelt for his immediate response regarding Mr. Cecil. Robinson also tells Roosevelt that her sons, Monroe and Stewart, won their races in rowing.
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1905-06-04
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Natalie A. Naylor describes the relationship of Theodore Roosevelt and his family with the hamlet of Oyster Bay, New York, and his home, Sagamore Hill. Naylor looks at the history of the Roosevelt family on Long Island, and she emphasizes the important role Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt played in managing the Sagamore Hill farm and its finances. She highlights Theodore Roosevelt’s participation in gathering hay on the farm and his fondness for rowing in the nearby waters. Naylor also recounts the roles played by African Americans who worked and lived at Sagamore Hill, and she details the products of the farm and how they sustained the family.
Eight maps showing the evolution of Sagamore Hill and Long Island accompany the article as do seven photographs, five of which feature Theodore Roosevelt working and playing on his estate.
The front cover of this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt dressed for rowing while a student at Harvard University. Further commentary on this picture is provided on page 30. The back cover shows Doris Albert Budner and Lawrence H. Budner in their home in Dallas, Texas, surrounded by a part of their extensive Roosevelt collection.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
This abbreviated version of “News and Notes” contains listings of the Presidents of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association. It notes that a made for television movie, The Rough Riders, will air in July 1997, and it announces that the TRA has an email account. The section also provides commentary on this issue’s cover photograph, and it highlights the work of Stephen R. Fox who wrote the lead article for this issue.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
William J. Kolodnicki praises Paul Russell Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead for their biography of Elliott Coues, an important figure in the history of American ornithology whose Key to North American Birds helped develop the birding skills of Theodore Roosevelt. John A. Gable reviews Howard W. Allen’s Poindexter of Washington: A Study in Progressive Politics about Miles Poindexter and his transformation from progressive to conservative in the first quarter of the twentieth century. David G. McCullough asserts that a photograph of a young Roosevelt that is usually captioned as Roosevelt preparing to box actually shows him dressed to row.
A full page photograph of Roosevelt dressed to row with McCullough’s explanatory caption makes up the third page of the “Book Notes” column.
Theodore Roosevelt sits at his desk, writing an editorial for the Outlook before being disturbed by the sounds of naval gunfire. Hearing the ships, he rushes out of the house and rows into Oyster Bay in the midst of the warships to observe the maneuvers from close range, where he is greeted by sailors.
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1911-07-22
A Republican elephant with a “sound money” trunk in a boat and a Democratic donkey in a bucket attempt to row to the “White House.” The donkey says, “Lend me your trunk and I’ll beat you!” Uncle Sam holds a revolver and watches.
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1904-08-13
President Roosevelt holds his “Harvard” oar while William H. Taft holds his “Yale” oar near the “the Thames.” Caption: T.R.–“My oar knows no brother. W. H. T.–“Same here!”
Veteran cartoonist W. A. Rogers, late of Harper’s Weekly and destined to draw for the New York Herald into the 1920s, documented an item in the news of the day in a cartoon whose origins and meanings might well be misunderstood more than a century after its publication.
Arrangements for a crew competition between Harvard and Cambridge University have nearly been finalized. Frank L. Higginson and R. C. Lehmann have had the duties of representing Harvard’s interests in England, as both have previously been associated with the university. The race will be run purely for fun and for the sport of it, and will not be for any sort of international collegiate championship.
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1906-07-23