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President Roosevelt updates Kermit Roosevelt on the family’s recent activities. In particular, Quentin Roosevelt is eager to attend Fay School, much to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s sorrow at seeing him leave home.
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1906-09-23
President Roosevelt found the poem “immense.” Although he is not “in trim” to play tennis, he invites C. Grant La Farge to come early on Saturday, and Kermit Roosevelt will play instead.
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1906-08-30
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit Roosevelt, who is currently on a trip in the Dakotas, and reminisces about his own time there. Life at Sagamore Hill is pleasant, and Roosevelt updates Kermit on the comings and goings and activities happening around the place.
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1906-08-18
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of State Root that French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand can extend his thanks to Roosevelt while playing tennis, or during any number of other physical activities the two undertake together. Roosevelt in turn will give his compliments to France, “and all of the necessary formalities will thereby have been accomplished.”
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1906-05-25
President Roosevelt agrees with his son Kermit’s thoughts on Nicholas Nickleby, and says that in general, he prefers novels that have joyous and noble aspects, rather than ones that are depressing and have sorrow, shame, and suffering in them. He updates his son on the activities at the White House, including a visit from African big game hunter Frederick Courteney Selous, and Quentin Roosevelt’s birthday celebrations.
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1905-11-19
President Roosevelt hopes that his son Theodore Roosevelt gets to play in the football game between Harvard and Yale. He asks about the athletic achievements of his classmates. There is nothing of interest to report from the White House, although Archibald Roosevelt went hunting with Presley Marion Rixey, took two shots at a rabbit, and missed. Robert Bacon is doing well under Secretary of State Elihu Root.
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1905-11-06
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit about a surprise weekend visit from Ted Roosevelt. Ted, who brought a friend, is enjoying Harvard even though he will not make the freshman football team. Roosevelt leaves tomorrow for his southern trip, and looks forward to it being over, when he will be done with “tours of speech-making.”
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1905-10-17
President Roosevelt was glad to have his son Ted unexpectedly visit with a friend and tells him that he is welcome to bring whoever he wants to the White House at any time. Roosevelt is in the middle of a speechmaking trip through the South, where he was greeted most enthusiastically by the public, noting that they had “nothing sufficiently bitter to say of me” just a year prior.
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1905-10-22
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is visiting New Orleans and believes the risk of infection from the yellow fever outbreak there is small. He is interested to hear that Kermit is playing the same position in football that his older brother Ted played two years ago. He updates Kermit on what has been going on at the White House, where the rest of the family is settling in after the summer in Oyster Bay.
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1905-10-05
President Roosevelt updates his son Ted Roosevelt on what has been going on at Oyster Bay since he left for Harvard. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is currently away, and in her absence Ethel Roosevelt “has been very cunning,” staying up late and hoping that her father will not remember that she was supposed to go to bed.
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1905-09-27
President Roosevelt asks Robert Bacon when he can bring his wife, Martha Bacon, and “every available younger Bacon” to visit Sagamore Hill. He suggests the week of July 10, and tells Bacon to bring his tennis shoes.
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1905-06-30
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!”
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1905-06-06
President Roosevelt informs his son Kermit that Secretary of State John Hay is “pretty sick,” and hopes that he recovers. Roosevelt updates his son on events at the White House, where the birds have returned and he has been riding with Edith. Archie and Quentin both had friends to see them, and Roosevelt, Ted, and Matthew Hale have been playing tennis. Roosevelt is sad that his friend Frank C. Travers died last night.
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1905-03-20
President Roosevelt tells Corinne Roosevelt Robinson that she “may accept for that International Peace Congress business,” although he does not hold a high opinion of the organization. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has returned to the children, but Roosevelt is keeping busy by riding horses, playing tennis, and working on his acceptance letter.
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1904-08-10
Seth Bullock wrote a very complimentary letter about Theodore Roosevelt and George. After Theodore Roosevelt left, President Roosevelt spent the day with Edith Roosevelt and played tennis with Loraine the next morning. Archibald Roosevelt said goodbye to Oliver with a fifteen minute “ferocious scrap.”
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1903-09-23
President Roosevelt hopes that Ted will learn frontier and camping skills on his trip but doubts that there will be much sport. The Roosevelt family has been busy riding horses, rowing, and playing tennis.
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1903-08-25
President Roosevelt would visit Richard Olney if he was in the vicinity but that will not be the case. Roosevelt invites Olney to Oyster Bay, New York and offers a game of tennis.
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1902-08-11
President Roosevelt cannot attend the international tennis matches but is interested in getting seats for Ted Roosevelt and two of his cousins.
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1902-07-29
President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the international tennis matches and requests that Price inform Robert Duffield Wrenn.
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1902-07-25
President Roosevelt will be unable to attend the international tennis matches at Bay Ridge.
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1902-07-11