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President Roosevelt writes to his son to say Bishop Lawrence would be happy to have Kermit stay at his house. Roosevelt says he and Edith are going to their cottage Pine Knot for a few days and he has been riding and playing tennis. Roosevelt adds that Commander Takeshita visited with half a dozen Japanese naval officers.
1905-06-06
After telling Kermit Roosevelt he can stay with Bishop William Lawrence at Harvard, President Roosevelt updates Kermit on family events. The president will be going to Pine Knot, Virginia, with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt next weekend. Yesterday the president played tennis with Ted Roosevelt and one of his friends. Yesterday evening, Admiral Isamu Takeshita brought some Japanese naval officers who had been with Heihachirō Tōgō at Port Arthur. The president called them “a formidable looking set and evidently dead game fighters!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-06
President Roosevelt congratulates Baron Kentarō Kaneko on Japan’s naval success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-31
President Roosevelt sends William Sturgis Bigelow a copy of a letter Asahi Kitagaki wrote to Archibald B. Roosevelt, which he thinks Bigelow will enjoy, “as it shows so nice a trait in the Japanese character.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-14
President Roosevelt thanks Asahi Kitagaki for sending a Christmas present to Archibald B. Roosevelt and invites Kitagaki to visit him if he comes to Washington, D.C., this winter. If Commander Isamu Takeshita cannot take Kitagaki to see the president, Roosevelt tells Kitagaki to show this letter in order to be admitted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-27