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Vice President Roosevelt thanks D. M. Trice for his kindness. His daughter is doing better and hopes his son will improve soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28
Vice President Roosevelt requests the presence of Professor Osborn for lunch on September 15. Roosevelt’s children have been ill and he is unsure if his wife will return from the Adirondacks by then. If Osborn would like to come on the 16th with his boys, Roosevelt could show him the mountain lion and he believes that Mrs. Roosevelt may consent by then to letting Osborn have it for the museum.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27
Vice President Roosevelt thanks Magrane Coxe for the letter and remembers the time in the club. Quentin Roosevelt has had a “dreadful time” and Roosevelt’s daughter is recovering.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-27
Mrs. H. L. Jones, responding to Theodore Roosevelt’s article on children, describes her difficult home life and financial struggles. She asks for help getting her husband a job at the Curtis Publishing Company, emphasizing she seeks opportunity, not charity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
Thomas Goode Jones thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his last letter, and Jones assures Roosevelt that his son is getting better, though he is afraid to hope to much yet. B. B. Comer’s attacks on him in the press is adding strain, and Jones states the attacks is because Comer was indicted for attempting to murder a judge. Jones plans to use one of Roosevelt’s letters to him in a reply to Comer if Roosevelt will grant his permission.
William Austin Wadsworth apologizes for not replying to President Roosevelt sooner, but he could not as he was helping care for his son, who had been sick. Wadsworth is going to New York tomorrow and would like to visit Roosevelt when convenient. He read in the paper that Roosevelt supports renominating Governor Charles Evans Hughes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-01
John Allison thanks President Roosevelt for his letter to his daughter, Emma V. Allison, who is ill. The letter brightened her mood considerably. Allison hopes, if Roosevelt is nominated for president in 1908, that not only is he elected, but that he receives the electoral vote of Tennessee. Allison provides a report on the Republican Party of Tennessee, calling it a “seething bed of factionalism” which has lost much of its power. Someone high up in the party should discipline the leaders in Tennessee. Allison explains how he would go about that if he were the one to do it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-25
Leonard Eckstein Opdycke forwards President Roosevelt an article that is generally favorably towards Roosevelt as well as the response Opdycke has written regarding some of the policy recommendation made in the article with which he disagrees. Opdycke’s son and daughter have both been ill, but are making recoveries. Opdycke is especially happy to see his son Leonard getting along well with Roosevelt’s son Archibald B. Roosevelt and has also enclosed a pencil drawing made by both boys.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-22
Judge Allison remarks that President Roosevelt impresses everyone, including children. His daughter, Emma V. Allison, met Roosevelt on a previous occasion. Recently, while recovering from appendix surgery, she asked if Allison informed Roosevelt of her illness. Upon hearing he had not, she replied, “Well I want you to, for I know he would be sorry for me.” Emma is doing well. Allison knows the country will thank Roosevelt for his response to the current money situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-18
Edward William Bok sincerely thanks President Roosevelt for writing to his sick son, Curtis Bok. He has not given Curtis the letter for fear any excitement will stress Curtis’ heart. Bok hopes to do so in the coming days and again expresses gratitude to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-16
Alexander Lambert sends a clipping he thinks President Roosevelt will find interesting, and is pleased to hear of Henry C. McDowell’s appointment as the new U.S. District Court Judge for Western Virginia. Lambert’s sister has also recently lost her son to appendicitis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-13
Edward William Bok recounts the conversation he had with his sick son, Curtis Bok, to President Roosevelt, regarding what Curtis has requested for a Christmas present. Above all, Curtis wants to meet Roosevelt and shake his hand. Bok inquires if Roosevelt can grant this request. Curtis has read everything he can about Roosevelt and speaks of him daily.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-12
A handout describing the Fathers and Mothers Club Farm Home program for “delicate and anaemic school children.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-17
Information about the Fathers and Mothers Club of Boston, including a list of officers and the club’s objectives, among which is the maintenance of a farm to provide outings for ill children. A handwritten note indicates the farm was purchased last May and has hosted groups of ill children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-17
A woman appeals to a man holding a cane labeled “Allopath” and topped with a skull who has turned his back on a sick child lying in a bed. On the far side of the bed is another man with papers labeled “Homoeopath” and “Apothecary” extending from a pocket. Caption: Dr. All. O’Path – “Very sorry, madam, if your child must die; but you ought not to have called in a Homœopath first.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-13
Print shows a domestic scene with Benjamin F. Butler as the mother of a sick child labeled “Butler Boom” who is being examined by Puck as a physician. Various medicines labeled “Grand Reforms, Tewksbury Investigations, Big Reforms, Big Talk, Wind, [and] Friend of the Convicts” are on a table and the floor. Caption: N.C. Physician “You have almost talked the baby to death, madam; it will require great care to keep him alive until the 6th of November.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-10-31
Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt writes in rhyme to Theodore Roosevelt (or “Tedie”), expressing the hope that Theodore feels better soon.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1869-11-11
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter he wrote to journalist Julian Ralph for his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles to read. The Roosevelt household is quarantined because of son Kermit’s “diphaeretic sore throat.” He describes the guests at a recent dinner.
1896-03-15
Theodore Roosevelt says he is greatly concerned to hear of Regis Henri Post’s son being sick. Roosevelt is sure he will be alright but concedes it causes a harrowing anxiety.
1915-12-24