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Frederic T. Bowers includes his personal details, business and general experience, education, and the type of position he is hoping to secure on this resume. Bowers is willing to provide unusual references for all the work listed.
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1911-10-24
President Roosevelt thanks Waldo D. Parker for assisting Archie and Quentin Roosevelt over the years, and encourages him to use the letter as a personal recommendation.
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1908-09-10
President Roosevelt thanks Waldo D. Parker for his two letters, for tutoring Archibald B. Roosevelt, and for being “a close and valued friend.”
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1907-09-13
President Roosevelt is pleased to inform Groton School rector Endicott Peabody that Archibald B. Roosevelt is well enough to attend Groton, where “the little fellow will make an honorable pupil.” He will send more information along with reports from Archie’s tutor, Waldo D. Parker. Roosevelt shares that Archie wants to be a naval officer.
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1907-08-27
President Roosevelt thanks Adolph W. Callisen for his kind words and says his son is now doing well with a tutor. Roosevelt sends his love to Callisen’s son, Stirling A. Callisen, and compliments him.
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1907-08-03
President Roosevelt endorses Gordon Russell, a former tutor for his sons.
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1902-08-16
President Roosevelt is sorry to hear that his son Kermit Roosevelt has decided to leave Groton School but he will get him a tutor if that is what he really wants. Roosevelt closes by saying Laura Richards and her brother Henry Howe visited.
1906-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about Arthur Hooper ending their German tutoring sessions. Roosevelt will be in New York soon and is eager to hear about Anna’s trip out West. After having been away from home for a month, he longs for “petting and spoiling.”
1878-04-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna about trying, futilely, to tutor Arthur Hooper in German. He is glad to hear Anna took a trip.
1878-03-31
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Edgar Huidekoper Wells of his two sons, Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt. Archie passed two of his four subjects this year, of which Roosevelt is very pleased and may allow him to get in to Harvard University next year. Roosevelt asks if he might get the test papers for Archie’s civics test to better understand what Archie failed in. Kermit Roosevelt was granted permission to start school a few days late so he might finish hunting moose, caribou, and beaver in New Brunswick on behalf of the National Museum. Kermit wrote of his hunting experience and his essay was accepted by Scribner’s Magazine.
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1911-10-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks D. W. Griffiths for tutoring Archibald B. Roosevelt (Archie Roosevelt) in Latin, French, and Geometry.
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1911-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt feels Archie Roosevelt was “well tutored” by Frederic Thomas Bowers and Mr. Leslie and expresses his appreciation. Archie passed the Harvard examinations. Roosevelt wishes this letter to not be published.
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1911-07-28
President Roosevelt understands Endicott Peabody’s letter about his son Archie’s school performance better now that he has received a letter from his son Kermit. Roosevelt does not want to hold Archie back a year yet, but would rather see how he does with tutoring and give him another chance.
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1908-05-27
President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, has decided to stay on at Groton School for two more years, rather than trying to enter Harvard early. Roosevelt therefore no longer needs Wells to find a tutor, and apologizes for the trouble. Roosevelt showed Kermit Wells’s letter, among others, and thinks that it had “considerable influence with him.”
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1906-06-07
President Roosevelt informs Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, has decided to stay at Groton and that he no longer needs Wells to find a tutor. He has written a letter explaining more fully.
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1906-06-07
President Roosevelt tells Edgar Huidekoper Wells, Dean of Harvard College, that his son Kermit Roosevelt would like to start studying with his tutor on July 9, and asks if Wells has found any that he could recommend. He apologizes for bothering Wells so much regarding the matter.
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1906-05-22
President Roosevelt tells Harvard Dean Edgar Huidekoper Wells that his son, Kermit Roosevelt, is hoping to enter college at the same age Roosevelt himself did. Kermit wishes to follow in the footsteps of his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, by getting a tutor and compressing two years of schooling into one to make this possible. Roosevelt asks Wells for information on getting a tutor and outlines Kermit’s plan.
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1906-05-03
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he is sorry about the decision Kermit came to, but that there is no more to say about it. He agrees with everything that Kermit’s mother, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, wrote to him. Roosevelt promises to get his son a tutor, and asks if he has any preference in this regard. He reminds Kermit that the most important thing is for Kermit “to show both before and after entering college not merely power of mental concentration but that stoutness of moral fiber.”
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1906-04-25
President Roosevelt tells his son, Kermit Roosevelt, about the medical procedure his brother, Theodore Roosevelt, had done on his right eye. It was a painful operation, but Ted “stood the knife as mighty few people can stand it.” Roosevelt is sorry Kermit plans to leave Groton early to go to Harvard, but says that if Kermit’s mind is made up he will not refuse him. He warns, however, that Ted has not done well at Harvard this year, which Roosevelt attributes to doing the same sort of plan Kermit now hopes to pursue, graduating from Groton early in order to begin college. Roosevelt will look into getting a tutor for Kermit, but warns that he will have to make up his mind to work as hard as he possibly can.
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1906-04-18
President Roosevelt writes to Groton School Rector Endicott Peabody regarding Kermit Roosevelt’s performance at the school. Kermit has done poorly the past two months, and, although the president questioned Kermit’s efforts the first month, he believes Kermit did his best the second month. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has written to Arthur Woods to see about a tutor for Kermit.
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1904-11-30