Letters of Theodore Roosevelt

Dane Cooper

Amount of Letters Theodore Roosevelt Wrote over hundreds of letters, far too

many to go through each one Even still TR does not have a presidential library, but his personal

and presidential papers are scattered in libraries and other places Many of the letters have not been preserved or recorded, there

are only a few letters written back to him by political figures

Hunting Trips

To let his children know he was constantly thinking about them

Treasures he found exploring/his travels

Deaths of friends/family

His presidential endeavors

Letters to his ChildrenTR constantly wrote letters to his children because he

could not always see him with his traveling/work He made sure they knew how much he cared about

each of them He also made sure to keep them up to date with his

work/traveling/hunting

Spoke to them about missing them, and being homesick

Seems like he was a wonderful father, and loved/missed his children constantly

Also Gave them Life advice throughout the letters, spoke about what was happening in their lives and guided them

Letter to President Garfield’s Grandson

He wrote a letter to President Garfield’s grandson, James (who he called Jimmikins)

Talked about Christmas in the Whitehouse and what his family did/presents received for the children

Spoke about his Grandfather

Basically kept him up to date with the entire day and how they spent Christmas

BooksWrote Tons of Books

The Naval War of 1812

Theodore Roosevelt an Autobiography

The Great Adventure

The Man In The Arena

Good Hunting

Hunting The Grisly and Other Sketches

Wrote many more books, and also there is a book The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt by H.W. Brands

Knowledge of HistoryTR was a very smart individual

Wrote many history books/studied history constantlyTopics ranging from Dante to ancient Irish Sagas to

military warfare

Constantly putting out books/commentaries on different topics

Hunting NovelsTR wrote constantly during his expeditions

He tracked his daily moves by writing them down

Constantly talked about what he was doing both in letters to his children, and in the novels he created while on his hunting trips

Has writings about his time in the Brazilian Amazon

His OpinionTR was known to be very

aggressive

He wrote many letters to President Wilson talking about how he was not aggressive enough/needed to get the Military ready for war

He wrote a letter to Wilson asking for permission to lead another Rough Riders type of army in the war Wilson Declined

Letters to TRThere are many letters in the Theodore

Roosevelt center (online website) that were written to TR in regards to politics from different political figuresMost were requests by TR for something political,

like fund raising to Employment and then there are some that are personal like congratulatory and history thoughts

A lot of the letters were others congratulating TR on his succession to the Presidency

The LettersMost of TR’s letters that have been

documented were to his children

The letters were pretty much to keep up with each others lives and keep everyone updated about what was going on

I believe there are a lot of letters that just weren't preserved or recorded

We see he was a brilliant writer from all of the books he authored and how his writings are extremely diverse

Just an Interesting

Fact

I found this fact while doing research and I thought it was cool and uniqueTR was

actually blind in his left eye due to an injury in a boxing match (he boxed when he was a young boy)

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