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President Roosevelt was shocked and saddened to receive news that one of his Harvard classmates, Henry Russell Shaw, has died. Roosevelt is grateful to Henry Bainbridge Chapin for notifying him and asks that he pass along a condolence letter to Shaw’s wife.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-07
Stacy A. Cordery examines the “shadows and sunshine” of Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Boston while an undergraduate student at Harvard College. Cordery identifies the shadows as the death of Roosevelt’s father, his disenchantment with his natural science major, and his failed courtship of Edith Kermit Carow. The countering sunshine was provided by Roosevelt’s successful pursuit of Alice Hathaway Lee. Cordery looks at each of these episodes, especially the courtship of Carow and Lee, and she argues that these episodes were pivotal to Roosevelt’s life and career.
Four photographs appear in the text, including two of Roosevelt with Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007-10-27