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Theodore Roosevelt writes Whitelaw Reid with the knowledge that one of Reid’s men, Royal Cortissoz, is very ill and wishes Reid might allow him to take a holiday and recover. Roosevelt heard of Cortissoz bad health through a friend and decided to write in case Reid would care to do anything about the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
President Roosevelt hopes Interior Secretary Garfield has a delightful vacation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-12
President Theodore Roosevelt will try to make Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield take a vacation. Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon is off for five weeks and Roosevelt is not happy about Secretary of State Elihu Root’s health either.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
President Roosevelt encourages Connecticut Representative Hill to take a vacation until the first of the new year, and wishes him and his family a pleasant trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-05
President Roosevelt encourages Secretary of War Root to stay as long as he needs. Root has a hard winter ahead and should be as well as possible.
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1901-10-16
President Roosevelt has been very pleased by the actions of Grover Cleveland in “this trying time.” He fondly remembers the trip taken with J. Sterling Morton the previous summer.
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1901-10-11
Acting Secretary of War William Cary Sanger has been instructed not to send anything to Secretary of War Root until he returns to work. President Roosevelt has met with Senator John C. Spooner and others to discuss his message.
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1901-10-05
President Roosevelt is happy to hear that Secretary of War Root is going to the Adirondacks and would like to issue directions that he should not be interrupted by messages from the War Department. Roosevelt appreciates the letter from General Grenville Mellen Dodge and will return it for Root’s private files.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-01
President Roosevelt has spoken with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Frank Warren Hackett and Rear Admiral A. S. Crowinshield, and informs Secretary of War Root that the Dolphin will be at his disposal. Roosevelt suggests Root examine the coastal fortifications, although he makes clear that he is suggesting this in order to give Root a vacation away from work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-28
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his friend C. Grant La Farge saying he will not likely make it to New York. Roosevelt asks if La Farge and his wife Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge might come to Washington to stay at the White House instead. Though not noted in the letter, Roosevelt had just taken office the week before.
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1901-09-20
Clara Louise Stone Hay thanks President Roosevelt for returning the letters and tells him that she is taking a trip to California “to find sunshine and flowers.”
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1907-02-04
George Otto Trevelyan writes to President Roosevelt about Panama and the Philippines, drawing parallels with Macaulay’s histories and Ancient Rome. Trevelyan discusses the British diplomatic service and his latest work on the American Revolution. He also describes a recent visit from Charles Francis Adams and his wife, and he muses on what it is like to be old. Trevelyan writes of their shared love of English literature, mentioning Milton, Chaucer, and W. W. Jacobs.
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1906-12-12
S. B. M. Young refutes a rumor he fears William Loeb may have heard that he is trying to remove General Hamilton Smith Hawkins from the leadership of the Soldiers’ Home, and states that he has “no desire to in any way inconvenience Gen. Hawkins.” Young does wish, however, for his grandson, Burton Y. Read, to be appointed as a cadet at the Military Academy in 1908. He wishes the Roosevelts and the Loebs a pleasant summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-02
President Roosevelt sits and reads while on vacation at Oyster Bay. Caption: President Roosevelt in characteristic attitude when resting from the strenuous life he leads even while on his vacation at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-08
A portrait of President Roosevelt shows his “vacation smile, which is donned when leaving Washington, and will not abandon till he returns.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-02
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about the fun he had with his children while on holiday. He took them on a picnic and is now heading back to Washington where he will be working pretty steadily. Cowles’ husband William Sheffield Cowles visited.
1897-08-01
A photograph of a turned over wagon taken while Eleanor Butler Alexander was on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park with her mother Grace Green Alexander.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909
A photograph of Grace Green Alexander cooking over a campfire with an unidentified man. Taken while on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909
A photograph of a campsite on Slough Creek taken while Eleanor Butler Alexander and her mother Grace Green Alexander were on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909
A photograph of Grace Green Alexander, mother of Eleanor Butler Alexander, washing her hair while the two were on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1909