Wounds and injuries

Theodore Roosevelt notifies Anna Roosevelt Cowles of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s injuries from being thrown from her horse, and despite her injuries, the doctor is not concerned for Edith. Roosevelt informs Cowles that Archibald B. Roosevelt will delay his trip out west due to her accident but is doing well in his examinations and will most likely get into Harvard University.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt expresses his admiration for Yolande de Baye.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-05-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

J. J. Jusserand has only heard vague reports of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s horse riding injury, and hopes Theodore Roosevelt can let him know how she is doing. Jusserand tells Roosevelt about his and his wife’s summer travels and recommends a book he read the most in Paris, promising to send Roosevelt a copy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-15

Creator(s)

Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932

Joseph Wilmer tells Theodore Roosevelt he is very sorry to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s pain. He is grateful for his friendship with Roosevelt’s family.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-14

Creator(s)

Wilmer, Joseph, 1848-1912

William B. Howland hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovering from her accident and praises Theodore Roosevelt’s recent editorial in The Outlook on the Panama Canal. He says him and Ella May Jacobs Howland are enjoying their time at the Manor Club House and he believes Albert Henry George Grey will accept honorary chairmanship of the English Committee on the Hundred Years.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Howland, William Bailey, 1849-1917

A person labeled “Bossism” sits in a chair, with many bandages labeled “New York, New Jersey, Penn. [and] Ohio.” On the table next to him is a medicine bottle labeled “Cashtoria.” He is being attended to by a well-dressed man labeled “The Big Interests” pretending to be a doctor. Caption: Old Doctor Dough — Keep quiet a while longer and I’ll pull you through.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-11-29

A bald eagle, bruised and battered, stands on a pile of spent fireworks, following the celebration of the Fourth of July.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-07-05

Mars, the Roman god of war, with bandages on his head, arm, and foot, sits in his tent with a map of “Manchuria” on the small table next to him; hanging on the wall behind him are his helmet and shield. “Peace” is standing at the entrance to the tent and is asking if she may come in to visit. Caption: Peace–May I come in?

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-12-21

Illustration showing the British Lion, wearing a military uniform, aghast by the tattered look of a female figure labeled “Peace,” her clothing torn, head and left arm bandaged, and walking with a crutch, the dove at her feet looks plucked. In the background is a sign stating “The last Boer ditch” stuck in ground labeled “South Africa.” Caption: Great Britain. — Didn’t you tell them the war was over? Peace. — “Yes; – and they immediately filled me full of lead; – said it was only a rumor of war!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-02-20

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Henry L. Stimson’s telegraph, and mentions that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is grateful for Mabel Wellington White Stimson’s visits and her health is improving slowly.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Theo. A. Bingham that he was written to the Century with pleasure and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is getting better.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Charles J. Bonaparte that while he will be happy to meet with William Henry Welch, he has already told Welch he cannot give any speeches at the moment. Roosevelt says Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is recovering well.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Mary Cadwalader Jones about Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident in which she was thrown from a horse and fell unconscious for seventy-two hours. Though she is in pain and bedridden, Theodore Roosevelt says Dr. Pearce Bailey has been treating her and says she will make a full recovery.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Winthrop Chanler for writing and says Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will recover from her horseback riding accident, but it may be a slow recovery process. Theodore Roosevelt sends Chanler’s wife Margaret Chanler his love, is sorry he did not get a large moose on his recent hunting trip, and hopes to tell him of Kermit Roosevelt’s recent travels.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt tells Theresa Buxton that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt recently suffered from a serious fall and is being attended to by nurses for an indeterminate length of time until recovery. In light of this, he is no longer able to schedule Buxton a visit to Oyster Bay, but is hoping he will be able to update her soon and still meet.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt shares A. M. Corwin’s concerns about Carl Ethan Akeley, particularly as he has heard reports that Akeley was injured by an elephant and has been suffering from a fever. When he saw Akeley in Africa, Roosevelt tried to convince him to be satisfied with taking an elephant with tusks weighing sixty pounds each and to return home and have his specimen mounted. Akeley, however, would not consent to do so, wishing to travel on to Uganda to pursue gorilla.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was concerned to hear about the accident that befell Olin B. Coit’s son, Carl S. Coit, but is pleased that he is doing better. Roosevelt praises Carl S. Coit for his combination of scholarship and athletics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has heard that Medill McCormick has “been a little knocked up recently,” and urges him to take some time to rest and recover.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt recounts for his son Archibald the mischief that Quentin has been getting into this week. First, Quentin has taken up a new interest in bees and brought a beehive to school before bringing it back to the garden. Second, Quentin was hit in the eye with a foul ball while keeping score for a baseball game and now “feels much much like a baseball hero.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is glad that his second cousin, Katherine Roosevelt, is coming out all right, and that William Emlen Roosevelt’s mother made the trip okay and is comfortable. (Katherine Roosevelt had recently broken her leg in an accident while horseback riding)

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919