Touching and Emotional Correspondence of the Former President with Alice, Theodore III, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin from Their Early Childhood Until Their Adulthood
Touching and Emotional Correspondence of the Former President with Alice, Theodore III, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin from Their Early Childhood Until Their Adulthood
Most of the letters in this book were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. A few others are included which he wrote to friends or relatives about the children. He began to write to them in their early childhood, and continued to do so regularly till they reached maturity. Whenever he was separated from them, in the Spanish War, or on a hunting trip, or because they were at school, he sent them these messages of constant thought and love, for they were never for a moment out of his mind and heart. Long before they were able to read he sent them what they called "picture letters," with crude drawings of his own illustrations of the written text, drawings precisely adapted to the childish imagination and intelligence. That the little recipients cherished these delightful missives is shown by the tender care with which they preserved them from destruction. They are in good condition after many years of loving usage. A few of them are reproduced on these pages--written at different periods as each new child appeared in the household.
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From 1888 to 1919, Theodore Roosevelt maintained a steady stream of correspondence with the flamboyant scholar and critic Brander Matthews. Together they sought to promote a literary and cultural "progressivism" both within and outside the walls of academe. This book, bringing together 271 letters, is the first collection of their extant correspondence. As an essayist, critic, professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University, and president of several literary organizations (including the Modern Language Association), Matthews was among the most powerful "culture brokers" of his day. In lively style, he and Roosevelt exchanged opinions on a wide range of literary, social, and political issues as well as on a host of writers and politicians, among them Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, James Weldon Johnson, Agnes Repplier, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Woodrow Wilson. Their chain of correspondence evokes a vivid picture of American culture at the turn of the century.
From the Preface of "The Wilderness Hunter." This second of fourteen volumes is Roosevelt's account of his exploits hunting across America. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill, June 1893 FOR a number of years much of my life was spent either in the wilderness or on the borders of the settled country-if, indeed, "settled" is a term that can rightly be applied to the vast, scantily peopled regions where cattle ranching is the only regular industry. During this time I hunted much, among the mountains and on the plains, both as a pastime and to procure hides, meat, and robes for use on the ranch; and it was my good luck to kill all the various kinds of large game that can properly be considered to belong to temperate North America. In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all but a part of the whole. The free, self-reliant, adventurous life, with its rugged and stalwart democracy; the wild surroundings, the grand beauty of the scenery, the chance to study the ways and habits of the woodland creatures-all these unite to give to the career of the wilderness hunter its peculiar charm. The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone. No one, but he who has partaken thereof, can understand the keen delight of hunting in lonely lands. For him is the joy of the horse well ridden and the rifle well held; for him the long days of toil and hardship, resolutely endured, and crowned at the end with triumph. In after years there shall come forever to his mind the memory of endless prairies shimmering in the bright sun; of vast snow-clad wastes lying desolate under gray skies; of the melancholy marshes; of the rush of mighty rivers; of the breath of the evergreen forest in summer; of the crooning of ice-armored pines at the touch of the winds of winter; of cataracts roaring between hoary mountain masses; of all the innumerable sights and sounds of the wilderness; of its immensity and mystery; and of the silences that brood in its still depths. Theodore Roosevelt Sagamore Hill, June 1893 Publisher's Note: Any remaining fonts transposed in converting Roosevelt's 19th century fonts to meet the demands of 21st century printers will be corrected in the next printing. This is true of all Roosevelt volumes.
The letters included in this volume were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. Deep and abiding love of children, of family and home - this was the dominating passion of his life. Whenever he was separated from them - in the Spanish War, or on a hunting trip, or because they were at school - he sent his children these messages of constant thought and love, for they were never for a moment out of his mind and heart.
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