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President Roosevelt is concerned by Clara Louise Hay’s telegram, but is confident that the trouble will pass soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-26
Nicholas Murray Butler is upset that he is unable to meet with President Roosevelt due to his travel plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-04
President Roosevelt is concerned to hear of Senator Hoar’s ill health and asks his son, Rockwood Hoar, for an update on his condition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-18
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Judge Waddill has been ill. Roosevelt thanks Waddill for the letters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-06-05
Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about Seth Low’s health due to continual reports about his illness.
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1916-06-06
Three men holding spoons labeled “Russia, England, [and] Japan” attempt to force a large pill labeled “Ultimatum” from an “International Pill Box” into a despairing Chinese man sitting on a throne with a large pillow behind him. The three men have the attributes of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Meiji, Emperor of Japan. The sultan of Turkey is sitting on the left, smoking a hookah. Caption: The Sultan–Allah be praised! – Now that they’ve got another “Sick Man,” maybe they’ll let up on me a little!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-06
President McKinley as a physician dispenses strong “Tariff” medicine in the men’s ward of a sanatorium. The beds lining the walls are occupied by a “Business Man” suffering from a “Loss of Confidence,” a “Populist” disturbed by “Mental Aberation in Regard to Free Silver and Government Paternalism,” and a “Jingoist,” a “Spoils Man,” an “Anarchist,” a “Filibuster,” a “Monopolist,” all with similarly distressing ills. Last is a man sitting on a bed with a sign that states “Hallucinations about Home Markets and Infant Industries.” In the background is a door that leads to the “Woman’s Ward,” where “Woman’s Suffrage” and “Woman’s Rights” are the diseases.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-04-14
Several legislators appear as quack physicians trying to cure a large sick man labeled “Protection” with a packet of “Boodle” on his lap. From left are “Hill, Pugh, Vest, Chandler, Brice, Hoar, Peffer, Gorman, [and] McPherson,” and John Sherman. They apply such medications as “Delay Tonic, Concessions to Trusts, Sympathy, Wind, Senatorial Fog, Obstruction Pills, [and] Misleading Talk.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-18
Uncle Sam sits in a chair with pillows behind his head, convalescing. Before him is a table filled with various medicines, including “Bland-Allison Silver Mixture, Sherman’s Compromise Lotion, Tariff Tinkering Tincture, Jones’ Repudiation Pills, Weaver’s Old Greenback Cordial, [and] Fake Financial Theories.” A bottle of “Byran’s Free Coinage Panacea” lies under a chair and a device labeled “Peffer’s Populistic Electrifier” sits on a small table. In consultation around a table in the background are “Drs. Cleveland, McKinley, [and] Reed.” On the table is a bottle labeled “Currency Reform Medicine.” Wreaths labeled “Merry Christmas” are hanging in the windows. Caption: Uncle Sam (to his three eminent doctors of different schools)–Say, gentlemen, I’m getting over my prostration so fast that all I need is a good dose of that bottle on the table, and you can throw all this stuff here out of the window!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-12-23
A good samaritan labeled “Wilson” offers a fallen “Consumer” a drink from a bottle labeled “Tariff Reform” and dresses his wound with “Direct Relief.” A donkey stands to the right. Two men, one labeled “Roosevelt” and the other labeled “Taft,” have passed by, not bothering to stop and offer any assistance. Caption: And the two that passed by on the other side.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-09
A man labeled “Corporate Corruption” and a baby boy labeled “Rail Road Scandal” lie sick in bed. Another young child labeled “Life Insurance Scandal” is trying to climb into the bed. Hanging on the wall above the bed is a portrait labeled “E.H.H.” A man departing the room carries a doctor’s bag labeled “Interstate Commerce Com. M.D.” On a table in the foreground is a bank for “Other People’s Pennies” and a bottle of “Legislation Drops.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-01-30
A man labeled “Infant Industries” is having a seizure in front of Uncle Sam and Columbia. Columbia, holding a purse labeled “High Protection,” is giving him a hand-out while Uncle Sam reaches into his pocket. Caption: Whenever he spots an easy-looking couple, he flops and has one.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-20
President Taft lies in a bed with a “Reactionary Ice Bag” on his head. The Republican elephant is keeping a bedside vigil and attempting to keep him cool with a fan labeled “Hope.” On a nearby table is a bottle of “Progressive Tonic” and note from “Old Dr. Root” that states “Caution to Nurse–Be careful not to give an overdose.” On the floor are notes from “Old Dr. Crane, Old Dr. Penrose, [and] Old Dr. Barnes.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-14
A skeleton labeled “Death,” as a gladiator, stands over “The Sick.” Before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as “Anti-Vivisectionists,” who, holding their pets close, give the “thumbs down” signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled “Progress.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt from Richfield, New York, where he went because he was sick. He has been sick several times since starting on his trip. He visited Philadelphia, New York City, Oyster Bay, and Saratoga.
1870-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt says goodbye to his sister Anna Roosevelt and apologizes he could not see her because he is so busy. It pains him to leave because wife Edith is sick in bed. He feels he made the right decision turning down the job as New York City Street Cleaning Commissioner but it is still disappointing.
1894-12-27
Theodore Roosevelt tells writer Edward Sandford Martin it will be fine to have Cotton. Mrs. Roosevelt is on the mend but not yet strong. Roosevelt provides W. R. Thayer’s address if Martin would like him “on for that lunch.”
1912-01-12
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs his daughter Alice that Mother continues to improve slowly and Ted Roosevelt suffered a return of headaches, due to too much excitement. He talks of Ted’s animal menagerie and encourages Alice to get a raccoon as a pet.
1898-03-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s diary for the year 1877, age 18-19. He records events at Harvard, including wrestling matches, and hunting at Oyster Bay. Also includes two end of year lists: “Game log” and “Collections for year.”
1877
Concerned for Postmaster General Henry C. Payne’s failing health, Lucius William Nieman hopes that President Roosevelt will issue a statement vindicating him from the post office scandal.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-06