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L. C. Sanford invites Theodore Roosevelt to an informal dinner on January 6 with a few guests and Frank M. Chapman before his lecture at the Graduate Club. He suggests Roosevelt stay overnight and play tennis on the outdoor winter courts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-10
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Winthrop and his wife Melza Riggs Wood Winthrop were distressed to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s horse-riding accident. They are glad to hear she is recovering. Winthrop is sure Theodore Roosevelt was anxious. He recalls the pleasant time spent in the “Tennis Cabinet,” although playing tennis, especially with Ambassador J. J. Jusserand, reminds him of the White House court.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-12
Norman Hapgood apologizes for his inconsiderate Sunday tennis invitation. George Rublee and John Bass are going to discuss New Hampshire on Friday. Both of them play tennis and could probably arrange a match.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-23
William Rand Jr. writes to Theodore Roosevelt to invite him to a tennis match with Thomas W. Slocum in order to decide who is the champion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-05
William Rand is glad Theodore Roosevelt can join him for lunch and a tennis match on the 17th.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-07
John White Hallowell is now unable to visit President Roosevelt to play tennis, as he has to have his tonsils out. He sends his regrets and tells Roosevelt that a group of people in Cambridge are attempting to counteract the efforts at Harvard to eliminate intercollegiate athletics, especially football.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-06
Senator Lodge agrees with President Roosevelt’s views on the shipping matter but feels that the law of 1904 is not being interpreted as Congress intended. Contrary to Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte’s view on the matter, Lodge believes the law does not give the president control over coastwise traffic. He wishes Roosevelt would pay more attention to his advice. Lodge urges Roosevelt to handle the Fort Riley matter carefully before concluding the letter with some light-hearted commentary on Roosevelt’s activities while traveling.
C. Grant La Farge discusses his plans to visit President Roosevelt at his “well-known sporting resort” and banters about the tennis matches they will play. La Farge jokes with Roosevelt about his participation in the simplified spelling movement, or “Theodore defying the Dictionary,” and shares a comical poem he has written about the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-30
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad President Roosevelt is at Sagamore and done with all of the hand shaking. Her husband William S. Cowles was home for the Fourth of July but has returned to Washington, D.C. Cowles recommends to her brother the volume Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. The Chinese minister mentioned while visiting that he plans to give suffrage to land owners based on a conversation he had with Roosevelt. Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. has been homebound much of the summer to avoid catching the whooping cough which is being passed around children in town, although he is canoeing, playing tennis, and vegetable gardening. The Chinese minister and Cowles both agree that horses are preferable to automobiles, as she is “in deadly terror of running into some one.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-08
Alexander Lambert asks President Roosevelt if he would like to play tennis on Thursday. Alternatively, Lambert offers to come visit the 15th or the 22nd, whichever is agreeable to the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Lambert also congratulates Roosevelt on the boat race.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-08
Alexander Lambert plans to spend time with President Roosevelt over the weekend playing tennis, shooting, and riding.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-19
Henry Beach Needham thanks President Roosevelt for generously giving his time for an interview for McClure’s Magazine, and requests photos for the article, namely of Roosevelt as a boy, at college, from his ranching days, and playing tennis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-19
Alexander Lambert suggests visiting on Wednesday to play tennis as suggested by Theodore Roosevelt and to have dinner by the lake. Lambert has picture enlargements to show Roosevelt and thinks bear skin rugs should arrive within a few days.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-10
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1892 to December 1898. Notable events include the death of Elliott Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt is appointed New York City Police Commissioner, his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Spanish-American War, and Roosevelt’s gubernatorial campaign.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Robert Bridges looks forward to staying with Theodore Roosevelt but will take the later train as he does not play tennis. He leads “the simple life.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-21
Two photographs showing five-year-old Daniel C. Kaufherr, dressed as Theodore Roosevelt at a fancy dress children’s party. The top image depicts Kaufherr as Roosevelt playing tennis. The bottom image depicts Kaufherr as Roosevelt, the Rough Rider.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-03
In the first cartoon, William Lorimer holds up some cash and tells Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, “Betcha million you’re wrong, Joe!” Caption: He will bet on the Speaker’s decisions. In the second cartoon, Lorimer holds up cash as he watches President Roosevelt play tennis and says, “Betcha million he misses the ball!” Caption: A fine chance to wager a few on Teddy’s game. In the third cartoon, Lorimer plays crap with two men and says, “Fade you for a million!” Caption: What a chance on the crap games!” In the fourth cartoon, Lorimer looks at a horse race from the dome of the United States Capitol and says, “Fifty million on Azelina!” Caption: He can see the Bennings races from the dome of the Capitol. In the fifth cartoon, Lorimer points to an umbrella a man is holding and says, “Betcha million it don’t rain today!” Caption: Betting on the weather.
Ferdinand G. Long, who drew for several newspapers in the United States and England, but most regularly for the New York World (where he created Sunday and daily strips including the seminal Mr. Peewee) drew this daily political genre-cartoon for the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph in 1908. Unfortunately its title was clipped off by the scrapbook compiler at Theodore Roosevelt’s White House. The Telegraph (1864-1918) was a minor newspaper but with an Associated Press franchise, the reason that publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis purchased it, then killed it, in 1918.
The five vignettes, without the cartoon’s published caption, appear to address William Lorimer, the corrupt Republican United States congressman from Illinois. He was a notorious gambler and reputed influence-peddler and briber. When associate was later asked about charges against Lorimer, he said that he supposed “a million dollars,” spread around, would not have changed an election’s outcome. In fact Lorimer would be elected United State senator — by the state legislature; in the days before direct election of senators — and was subsequently expelled from the senate for having bribed his way into office.