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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Graves Sharp

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Graves Sharp

Theodore Roosevelt informs Ambassador Sharp of Gouverneur Morris’s “honor and his good sense” and his desire to present the French case before the American people. Roosevelt states that all French civil and military officers who help him will be rendering a service to their country. Roosevelt also mentions Morris’s ancestry.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles about Senator Lodge’s visit and their unhappiness with Speaker of the House Reed. Things are looking up for Roosevelt and the police department despite Thomas Collier Platt’s efforts to remove him from office. The work is hard but he enjoys it and is also editing the fourth edition of Winning of the West.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1896-03-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his sister Anna Roosevelt for writing Chamberlain about Roosevelt staying at his place in New York City. His work is very hard and time consuming as he has “the most corrupt” police department on his hands. He has stopped working on the fourth volume of Winning of the West.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1895-05-19

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt he spent three weeks out at Sagamore Hill playing with the children and working on his book. The political outlook is bleak and Roosevelt feels he will be legislated out of existence in a few months. The Democrats are under Tammany’s control and the Republicans under Thomas Collier Platt.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1895-11-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt says he thinks of his sister Anna Roosevelt as her wedding day approaches and the children were excited at the news as well. He is finishing the fourth volume of his series Winning of the West but is uneasy about being away from the office of Police Commissioner. No one has a harder task than he and his worry is great.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1895-11-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna at his disappointment over the Lodges leaving Washington and says he is disconcerted over what Anna told him about the Whites. William Astor Chanler stopped by and he was most interesting. This will be Roosevelt’s last week in Washington for some time and he just finished writing the third volume of Winning of the West.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1894-07-01

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna Roosevelt how happy he is to be back at Sagamore Hill and all his activities. He is revising his manuscript and Cecil Spring Rice is visiting. Kermit’s leg is “iron-cased” and the new black pony is a good mate for Diamond. Ted is learning to ride and he and Alice are learning to swim.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1894-07-15

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt about beginning to write the fourth volume of Winning of the West before he gets involved in the presidential campaign. Wife Edith is improving and daughter Alice’s feet hurt. He has been riding with Senator Lodge.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1894-12-30

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Reginald Rowan Belknap

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Reginald Rowan Belknap

Theodore Roosevelt believes Commander of the USS San Francisco Belknap’s article should be published in The Outlook but advises him to send it directly himself and not ask Roosevelt to submit it for him. He agrees with Belknap about the “silliness” of a remark by Harvard president Charles William Eliot regarding the need to break a man’s will, to train him as a soldier.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1915-10-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes his wife Edith from his African safari to say he dreamed he was with her and reminisces about their relationship. He describes the place they are camped and the animals they have gotten. He hopes Edith liked the articles he wrote for Scribner’s and adds he and Kermit are attached to their attendants.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1909-11-12