Sailing

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-31

Letter from Mary Cadwalader Jones to Theodore Roosevelt

Mary Cadwalader Whitridge had been sailing and only just heard the news of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident. She hopes Theodore Roosevelt will send word on what happened and how Edith is doing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-11

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to congratulate him on killing a chicken on his hunting trip. He says Ethel is back from her trip, and Archie was the first to help the Landons when their boat sank in a race. Gordon Russell is visiting and Roosevelt played tennis with him and Captain Bulmer. Aunt Lizzie came for dinner the previous night.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-09-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit to wish him luck on his hunting trip with Marvin Hughitt. He says Ted beat him at tennis before heading off to John Greenway’s in Minnesota to look over the ground. Roosevelt describes Archie’s love of sailing and says he has been working on his speeches for his Mississippi River trip.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-08-31

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit Roosevelt to say he is busy because of the rate bill. Roosevelt describes riding his new black mare and Archie and Kermit riding horses at Dr. Presley Marion Rixey’s farm. Ethel has been with Christine and they have gone sailing. Roosevelt closes by saying he just finished reading Anthony Trollope’s Prime Minister.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1906-05-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Harry Johnston

Theodore Roosevelt did not receive Harry Johnston’s letter until after he sailed, and Roosevelt is very sorry for having missed him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-17

Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Supervising Inspector of Vessels

President Roosevelt directs that the license of the man responsible for the steamer Fred Hartweg to be suspended immediately for ninety days. Colonel Sears can give details of the boat’s serious misconduct, which could have easily created an accident.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt

President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit Roosevelt, who is currently on a trip in the Dakotas, and reminisces about his own time there. Life at Sagamore Hill is pleasant, and Roosevelt updates Kermit on the comings and goings and activities happening around the place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Roscoe C. Bulmer

President Roosevelt tells Lieutenant Bulmer that for the upcoming trip his son, Theodore Roosevelt, is going to take with Henry H. Wiegand, Wiegand “is to the the captain and the responsible head, and […] Ted is to do whatever he says.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-24

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to C. Grant La Farge

President Roosevelt wishes he could come visit C. Grant La Farge, but he has found that while he is president his vacations need to be at his home at Sagamore Hill. While that is the case, however, he invites La Farge to visit him with his wife, Florence Bayard La Farge, and instructs him to bring Owen Wister, if possible. He was proud to read what La Farge wrote about his son, Ted Roosevelt. Roosevelt was amused at the furor his going down in the submarine Plunger caused, especially because his son and La Farge were in more danger sailing on top of the water that day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-31

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joshua Slocum

President Roosevelt thanks Joshua Slocum for the book and sympathizes with Slocum’s “delight in the sheer loneliness and vastness of the ocean.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-05

Letter from William Allen White to Theodore Roosevelt

“What shall we do with this patriot?” William Allen White asks Theodore Roosevelt. In a handwritten P.S., White writes, “How is your ark? Is it afloat? Can’t you feel the thrill of life along her keel?”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Letter from John G. Hitchfield to Theodore Roosevelt

John G. Hitchfield has heard a rumor that Theodore Roosevelt plans to make a tour of the world to promote the upcoming world’s fair. Hitchfield asks that if this is true that he be considered as a candidate for the captaincy of the ship. Hitchfield cites his credentials, and offers to procure references.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-28

Letter from Thomas Snowden to William Loeb

Commander Snowden confirms receipt of William Loeb’s letter with details about President Roosevelt’s trip on the presidential yacht. Snowden suggests that since it is a ten-hour journey between Oyster Bay, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island, they might leave around sundown and arrive the next morning. He also confirms details regarding guests and duties related to the trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-16

Letter from Thomas Snowden to William Loeb

Thomas Snowden thanks William Loeb for the letter informing him of President Roosevelt’s travel plans. Snowden will prepare to provide for eight people for two days, and will be able to manage with a few more or less people, as may happen. He has received the check for provisions used on the trip to New London.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-15

Letter from Thomas Snowden to William Loeb

Commander Snowden confirms details for President Roosevelt’s planned trip on the USS Mayflower. As requested, the ship will arrive at Oyster Bay on Tuesday, July 21, and will be ready to depart for the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, that evening. Snowden asks William Loeb to notify him of the number of people who will be in Roosevelt’s party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-11

Letter from Carl Theodore Vogelgesang to William Loeb

Carl Theodore Vogelgesang, commander of the presidential yacht USS Mayflower, sends William Loeb an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the recent grounding of the ship to be presented to President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-08

Letter from Leonard Wood to Theodore Roosevelt

Leonard Wood’s ship has stopped in Sri Lanka to take on coal and prepare for the journey to the Suez Canal. The situation in the Philippines was quiet when Wood left, and he thinks there is no immediate cause for President Roosevelt to have anxiety over the islands. People in the British colonial administration have been very civil.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-05

Telegram from Elihu Root to Theodore Roosevelt

Secretary of State Root sends President Roosevelt the details of his return to the United States in a cipher code. He expects to be at the Potomac River on September 30, and asks that either the Dolphin or the Sylph meet the USS Columbia at Piney Point that morning.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09