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President Roosevelt encloses a letter for Kermit Roosevelt. Roosevelt has written to Edgar Huidekoper Wells about Kermit’s study of Greek, which he encourages as he did Ted Roosevelt’s reading of Latin. Both Roosevelt and William Loeb approve of Kermit’s course schedule.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-03
Theodore Roosevelt informs Theodore Lyman he will come to dinner and asks if he can bring Charles Sheldon. He also inquires if Lyman and Edgar Huidekoper Wells can have lunch the same day with him and “brother-immediate” Kermit Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-16
President Roosevelt has spoken with Edgar Huidekoper Wells about William R. Castle’s plan for Kermit Roosevelt to be able to graduate with his class after returning from his upcoming African safari, and both men agree with Castle’s advice. Roosevelt attributes his son Theodore Roosevelt’s graduation from Harvard University in only three years to Castle’s influence. Roosevelt regrets that neither Kermit nor Theodore Roosevelt will be able to visit Castle over the summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-27
President Roosevelt encloses a letter for Arthur Woods to deliver, and asks if he can arrange to come to lunch to discuss matters. Roosevelt is planning to leave on safari before the end of the Harvard school year, and assumes this will mean that Kermit Roosevelt will not do any “work of value” after the middle of the term.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-21
President Roosevelt reassures Harvard President Eliot that he did not believe Eliot’s report was an answer to his speech. Roosevelt asks Eliot to bring Edgar Huidekoper Wells with him to Washington, D.C., so they can meet others and talk. The two men “are not as far apart as people believe as regards athletics.” Eliot will agree with Roosevelt on the Brownsville affair once he knows more.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-11
President Roosevelt updates Dean of Harvard College Hurlbut on his son Theodore Roosevelt’s well-being after returning home in need of comfort and rest after his arrest. Roosevelt believes that Ted is defending his friend and fellow Harvard student Shaun Kelly by choosing not to press charges against the policemen who wrongfully held and struck Ted. Roosevelt also wants to forgo any further charges because he wants Ted to remain focused on his schoolwork, and wishes him to remain out of future public scrutiny.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-07
President Roosevelt is pleased that Kermit Roosevelt has decided to stay and finish his term at Groton School instead of trying to graduate early. He tells Endicott Peabody that he sent Kermit many letters, but that Peabody’s had the most impact.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-07
Both President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are both very pleased that Kermit Roosevelt has decided to remain at Groton for his full term rather than trying to enter Harvard early. Because Roosevelt believes Kermit “acted like a trump in this, in addition to acting wisely,” he says he will “stand any kind of a spree you want to embark on.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-07
President Roosevelt thanks William R. Castle for the reassuring letter about his son Ted Roosevelt’s college career. Ted and his father are both chagrined following a letter from Edgar Huidekoper Wells informing them that Ted has been placed on academic probation. Ted intends to place academics and work above everything else next semester.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-20
Arthur Woods has received an answer from Edgar Huidekoper Wells regarding Kermit Roosevelt’s courses at Harvard next year. Kermit will need to get special permission from the administrative board to take six half courses, and to have them count as completed halves of a full course. Woods thinks that it would be better for Kermit to have some number of full courses and stay at Harvard through the academic year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-18