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Emma T. Brown writes to President Roosevelt regarding her role in the Vernon Case and her support of the rights of women and motherhood. She asks Roosevelt to speak with her regarding this issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-01
Kristie Miller explores Theodore Roosevelt’s relationship with three women: Julia Stockton Dinsmore, her niece Martha (Patty) Selmes, and Selmes’s daughter, Isabella Greenway King. Miller notes that Roosevelt became close friends with Selmes and her husband Tilden Selmes during his years as a rancher in Dakota Territory, and she also examines Roosevelt’s friendships with his fellow Rough Riders, Robert Ferguson and John Greenway, the first two husbands of King. Miller highlights Roosevelt’s appreciation of Dinsmore’s poetry, King’s active participation in politics, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s friendship with King. The article includes photographs of all three women.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2004