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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Hamilton Lee

President Roosevelt is looking forward to visiting Arthur Hamilton Lee while in England. If Roosevelt visits in the fall he would be pleased to visit Lee’s hunting lodge, and he details his experiences in deer stalking and fox hunting. Roosevelt agrees with Lee on international athletics and finds that such competition often ends in an unhealthy bitterness. Roosevelt will read The Quarterly, in particular the article on Germany, and he has things to say to Lee in person rather than on paper.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ralph Delahaye Paine

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ralph Delahaye Paine

As the college football season comes to a close, President Roosevelt admits that it is too sore a topic for him to discuss with members of the cabinet who graduated from either Harvard or Yale. This did not keep Williams College graduate Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield from making a joke at the Harvard football team’s expense, which “nearly produced a rift in our hitherto excellent relations.” Roosevelt will also forward Ralph Delahaye Paine’s earlier letter to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Beekman Winthrop.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-19

Letter from William T. Blodgett to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from William T. Blodgett to Theodore Roosevelt

William T. Blodgett shares with President Theodore Roosevelt the news of his engagement to Hannah Whitney of New Haven. As Whitney’s sister has married Charley Dickey, also a Harvard graduate, Blodgett delights in two former Yale fans having “succumbed to Harvard men.” Blodgett wishes for Edith Roosevelt to know how happy he is, too.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09

Oxford against Cambridge

Oxford against Cambridge

Postcard entitled “king of the alley” features a bear bowling. Lengthy handwritten message appears to be friendly banter between acquaintances regarding the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge. The unidentified creator believes “Oxford is going to win the next four or five years” and claims that it is “easy to bump some Cambridge blues, but to bump a strong Oxford man, that’s hard!”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1930-04-14