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Magdalena Powell sends Theodore Roosevelt short stories, which she hopes he can publish in The Outlook. Powell is a single mother of three sons, and she is struggling to support them alone.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-28
Article is a retelling of the “Little Engine That Could”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1912-01-02
A short story regarding the ability to have an “inner man” who will wake you up when you want him to. As the story continues, Quentin Roosevelt’s inner man becomes unreliable and he has to buy an alarm clock.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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Quentin Roosevelt writes a short story regarding a school teacher and his peculiarities. May be incomplete.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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Quentin Roosevelt writes a short commentary of the power of gossip in society.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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Quentin Roosevelt writes a short story about an unadventurous city boy going off to Africa to deal with the “natives.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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A short story with handwritten corrections and additions, telling the tale of an aspiring gambler on his way to Chicago when he gets pulled into a poker game with bigger stakes than he thought. The back of the last page has a scribbled note and a title for a new story “Sweet Tale,” not started.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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A short narrative about a man named Sterret and how the state of his house reflects his own character.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Unknown
A typed copy of Quentin Roosevelt’s story “Less Noise” which appeared in the Ozone Park Messenger on October 18, 1914. The back of the last page has scratch notes of mathematics equations.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-17
Quentin Roosevelt’s stories from this issue of The Grotonian, of which is he is one of the editors. The stories included by Roosevelt are “One Man with a Dream” and “Typical.” Also included is a mention that Archibald Roosevelt has recently visited the school.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915-01
President Roosevelt thanks Frank Nelson Doubleday for sending him a volume of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Roosevelt was disappointed that some of his favorite stories about soldiers in the South African War were not included and asks Doubleday to find out where he might obtain copies. Roosevelt also states that if he does not get a tutor from Harvard, he will write to young Parker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-14
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Wallace Phillips for the volume of short stories. Roosevelt tells Phillips that except for his family life, there was nothing he enjoyed more than ranch life and “nothing ever did me more good.” He also tells him that Patty Selmes and her daughter are now in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-03
President Roosevelt has already read the stories of Conrad and was particularly impressed with the first two.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-29
Edwin Callow sends Theodore Roosevelt two stories he wrote to aid his accident insurance business. He hopes they are interesting and entertaining.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-08
Christine B. Moriarty sends Theodore Roosevelt a short story she has written for him to review. She has based the account off an event that happened to her brother during Roosevelt’s presidency, and wishes to make sure that there is nothing in the story that Roosevelt would prefer not to be mentioned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-25
Reverend C.S. Mason has written three stories and is looking for advice on where to send them to be published. He wonders if The Outlook might accept one or all of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-19
Arthur S. Hider encloses a short story that he wrote for Harvard President Charles William Eliot’s amusement, which he hopes Theodore Roosevelt will enjoy. He asks Roosevelt to ask General W. L. Marshall if he has heard “the three-absolute story.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-11-06
Ralph Delahaye Paine would like President Roosevelt to read a book, paying special attention to the stories “A Victory Unforseen” (sic) and “Captain Arendt’s Choice.” The second story is based on a true story, the hero being Captain Gerhard C. Apfeld, who saved everyone aboard the American liner Waesland when it sunk quickly after a collision. Paine hopes that Roosevelt will meet with Apfeld, who is a close friend of Paine’s, and he would be happy to get Apfeld to Washington for such a meeting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon compliments Charles Macomb Flandrau on his story in the Harvard Crimson. She discusses visiting with friends and family, including the Goodriches, and gossips about Alice Goodrich. Cutcheon complains about having turned twenty-five.
1891-12-05
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon wishes she could see Charles Macomb Flandrau in his cap and gown. Cutcheon recently attended a wedding and plans to visit Fort Snelling. She regrets not being able to go to Boone County, Kentucky, with her family.
1896-06-18