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Theodore Roosevelt received Corrine Roosevelt Robinson’s messages. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are pleased to be grandparents. Robert Bridges told him about the acceptance of Corrine’s second poem and its “power and purpose.” Bridges regards it as one “written about and for those who have toiled and…have known defeat and triumph.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-21
President Roosevelt thanks Harriet Douglas Robinson Wolryche-Whitmore for her letter, and wishes that she and her husband Henry could have attended the dedication. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing them when he is in England in a year, but notes that he has had to decline a number of invitations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-31
Anna Roosevelt Cowles congratulates her brother, Theodore Roosevelt, on the recent birth of a grandchild, and hopes that the news from Roosevelt’s son, Ted Roosevelt and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, is still good. She appreciated getting Roosevelt’s recent letter, and tells him of the efforts of their joint nephew, Theodore Douglas Robinson, to get into politics. Cowles hopes to be able to visit Roosevelt sometime before winter.
Theodore Roosevelt’s first grandchild, Grace Green Roosevelt, was born three days prior to this letter, on August 17, 1911.
Harriet Douglas Robinson Wolryche-Whitmore thanks President Roosevelt for speaking at the dedication of the library in Jordanville, New York. She was especially pleased with the way that he spoke about her and Douglas Robinson’s parents. She has heard that Roosevelt intends to travel abroad after next March, and hopes that he can spare some time to visit her and her husband Henry Bazeley Wolryche-Whitmore.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-23