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Theodore Roosevelt: Letters & Speeches

Edited by Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss “collects a representative sampling of the more than 100,000 letters Roosevelt wrote, and their variety illustrates the incredible range of his interests, from bird watching to bear hunting, from politics to patriotism.”— Bloomberg News

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Story of the Week Theodore Roosevelt, “Enjoying the Presidency”
February 19, 2021

Story of the Week Theodore Roosevelt, “A Very Sad Thing”
February 22, 2019

This Library of America volume collects 367 letters written by Theodore Roosevelt between 1881 and 1919, as well as four of his most famous speeches, creating a vivid portrait of the public career and the private thoughts of an unparalleled man.

Addressed to his family, as well as a wide range of correspondents that includes Jacob Riis, Florence Kelley, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Clemenceau, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, Owen Wister, Upton Sinclair, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s letters demonstrate the astonishing range of his interests and deeds and reveal the personal dimensions of one of our greatest statesmen.

Roosevelt describes climbing the Matterhorn, hunting grizzly bears and cougars, reading Anna Karenina while pursuing thieves through the Dakota wilderness, playing with his children, mediating the 1902 anthracite coal strike and the Russo-Japanese War, visiting Panama during the digging of the canal, and being shot while running for president in 1912. The letters records his expert knowledge of birds and wildlife, his fascination with history and historical writing, his changing views on race and the conflict between business and labor, his concerns about declining birth rates and the corrupting influence of luxury, his contempt for impractical reformers and pacifists, and his disappointment and rage at the failings of William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson. And, most poignantly, they reveal the pride and worry Roosevelt felt when his sons went off to battle in World War I, and the profound grief he experienced when his youngest child was killed.

Also included are four speeches: “The Strenuous Life,” a defense of American rule in the Philippines (1899); “National Duties,” which popularized the phrase “speak softly, and carry a big stick” (1901); “Citizenship in a Republic,” with its famous praise of “the man in the arena” (1910); and “The New Nationalism,” which signaled Roosevelt’s break with Taft’s conservatism (1910).

Louis Auchincloss (1917– 2010), editor, is the author of Theodore Roosevelt in The American Presidents series and of Woodrow Wilson in the Penguin Lives series, as well as more than 50 works of fiction, literary criticism, biography, and history.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Theodore Roosevelt: Letters & Speeches is kept in print with a gift from McKinsey & Company to the Guardians of American Letters Fund made in honor of D. Ronald Daniel.
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EARLY PUBLIC CAREER, 1881 – 1898

• To Anna Roosevelt, August 5, 1881 Climbing the Matterhorn
• To Corinne Roosevelt, August 24, 1881, Dutch Painters
• To Voters of the 21st Assembly District, November 1, 1881, “Honor Me with Your Vote”
• To Charles Washburn, November 10, 1881, An Electoral Victory
• To Henry Hull, October 12, 1882, “The Bill Was a Steal”
• To Jonas Van Duzer, November 20, 1883, “A Republican, Pure and Simple”
• To Carl Schurz, February 21, 1884, Mourning Wife and Mother
• To Simon Dexter North, April 30, 1884, “My Ideal…Is Rather a High One”
• To An Unknown Correspondent, May 1, 1884. An Autobiographical Sketch
• To Anna Roosevelt, June 8, 1884, The Nomination of Blaine
• To Anna Roosevelt, September 20, 1884, Hunting Grizzly Bears
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, November 7, 1884, Consoling a Friend
• To Jefferson Davis, October 8, 1885, Davis and Benedict Arnold
• To Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, April 12, 1886, Guarding Thieves and Reading Tolstoi
• To Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, April 15, 1886, Political Campaign Expenses
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, April 16, 1886, Capturing Horse Thieves
• To Anna Roosevelt, June 19, 1886, Reading War and Peace
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, August 10, 1886, “These Harum-Scarum Roughriders”
• To Denis Donahue Jr, October 22, 1886, “Crude and Vicious Theories”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, November 1 1886, Marriage and the Mayoral Race
• To Anna Roosevelt, February 12, 1887, Touring Italy
• To Francis Parkman, April 23, 1888, “Your Work Stands Alone”
• To Anna Roosevelt, August 8, 1888, A Polo Fall and a Miscarriage
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, April 14, 1889, “A Bit of a Spar with Germany”
• To Francis Parkman, July 13, 1889, “Literature Must Be My Mistress”
• To Douglas and Corinne Robinson, July 28, 1889, Struggling Against a Sedentary Life
• To William Warland Clapp, August 7 1889, Defending Civil Service Examinations
• To Charles A. Dana, September 25, 1889, Defending The Winning of the West
• To Charles A. Dana, October 10, 1889, Continuing a Controversy
• To Alfred Thayer Mahan, May 12, 1890, Praise for “A Naval Classic”
• To Gertrude Tyler Carow, October 18, 1890, Family Life
• To Arthur Gorman, March 1, 1891, Responding to a Senator’s “Untruths”
• To Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, April 28, 1892, Rereading Chaucer
• To Osborne Howes, May 3, 1892, Teaching Devotion to the Flag
• To Richard Watson Gilder, April 1, 1893, Ideas for Magazine Articles
• To Madison Grant, March 3, 1894, Taxonomic Questions
• To Anna Roosevelt, April 1, 1894, Dinner with Kipling
• To Charles Henry Pearson, May 11, 1894, Modern Warfare
• To James Brander Matthews, June 29, 1894, Hamlin Garland and Henry James
• To Anna Roosevelt, July 29, 1894, Playing in a Hollow Tree
• To Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, August 29, 1894, Remembering a Brother
• To John Joseph Keane, October 15, 1894, Religion and Politics
• To John William Fox, October 23, 1894, Scottish Customs
• To Henry Childs Merwin, December 18, 1894, Civil Service Appointments
• To Anna Roosevelt, June 16, 1985, Patrolling New York
• To Anna Roosevelt, July 4, 1895, A Surprise Engagement
• To Carl Schurz, August 6. 1895, Enforcing the Sunday Liquor Law
• To Preble Tucker, October, 22 1895, Principle and Expediency
• To The Harvard Crimson, January 2, 1896, Upholding National Honor
• To Francis Markoe Scott, February 11, 1896, Defending Police Tactics
• To Anna Roosevelt, February 25, 1896, “The Work Was Herculean”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, April 29, 1896, “Unintelligent, Cowardly Chatter”
• To: Cecil Spring-Rice, August 5, 1896, “That Moral Spring”
• To Frederick Jackson Turner, November 4, 1896, Responding to a Reviewer
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, January 2, 1897, “I Am a …’Cuba Libre’ Man”
• To John Davis Long, April 26, 1897, Remaining at His Post
• To Alfred Thayer Mahan, May 3, 1897, Naval Strategy
• To Henry Fairfield Osborn, May 18, 1897, Species and Subspecies
• To Frederick Courtney Selous, May 18, 1897, Hunting in Wyoming and Montana
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, May 29, 1897 “The Warfare of the Cradle”
• To Alfred Thayer Mahan, June 9, 1897, Taking Hawaii
• To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, June 11, 1897, Arranging a Visit
• To George Bird Grinnell, August 2, 1897, Editing a Hunting Story
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, August 13, 1897, Germany and Russia
• To Russell Alexander Alger, August 17, 1897, Reviving the Army-Navy Game
• To George Bird Grinnell, August 24, 1897, Forest Conservation
• To Francis Vinton Greene, September 15, 1897, Raising a Regiment
• To Frederic Remington, September 15, 1897, “The Majesty of Our Ships”
• To John Hay, September 21, 1897, “Any Man with Any Self-Respect”
• To John Davis Long, September 30, 1897, A Proposal for Expanding the Navy
• To William Wirt Kimball, November 19, 1897, Benefits of War with Spain
• To Norman Winslow Cabot, November 23, 1897, Harvard Football
• To Frederick Courtney Selous, November 30, 1897, Vanishing Hunting Grounds
• To Rudyard Kipling, January 5, 1898, Reform in New York
• To John Davis Long, January 14, 1898, The Sinking of The Maine
• To J. Edward Myers, February 21, 1898, Defending the Navy
• To William Peterfield Trent, February 23, 1898, The Dangers of Literary Popularity
• To George Dewey, February 25, 1898, Orders to the Asiatic Squadron
• To John Davis Long, March 25, 1898, Examining a Flying Machine
• To William Sturgis Bigelow, March 29, 1898, Living Up to His Ideals

ROUGH RIDER, GOVERNOR, VICE-PRESIDENT, 1898–1901

• To Henry Cabot Lodge, May 19, 1898, Training the Rough Riders
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, June 12, 1898. Waiting to Sail for Cuba
• To Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, June 15–27, 1898, Fighting in Cuba
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, July 5, 1898, Shafter’s Incompetence
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, July 19. 1898, Sickness and Supply Shortages
• To John Jay Chapman, September 22, 1898, The Independent Nomination
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, November 25, 1898, “The Summer I Was Lucky”
• To James Bryce, November 25, 1898, An Electoral Victory
• To Helen Kendrick Johnson, January 10, 1899, Woman’s Rights
• To Edwin Kirby Whitehead, January 13, 1899, Strength and Gentleness
• To Jacob Riis, February 8, 1899, Considering a Capital Pardon
• To George F. R. Henderson, February 14, 1899, Civil War History
• To Frank Michler Chapman, February 16, 1899, Protecting Birds
• To William Bayard Cutting, April 18, 1899, The Philippine Insurrection
• To Thomas Collier Platt, May 8, 1899, The Franchise Tax Bill
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, May 27, 1899, Passing the Franchise Tax
• To Albert Seligman et al., June 10, 1899, The Dreyfuss Affair
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, July 1, 1899, Political Ambitions
• To Charles E. S. Wood, October 23, 1899, Presidential Chances
• To Hermann Speck Von Sternberg, Novemb4, 17, 1899, The Boer War
• To Granville Stanley Hall, November 29, 1899, Civilized and Barbarian Virtues
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, December 2, 1899, “The Expansion of Great Nations”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, December 11, 1899, “I Had Better Stay Where I Am”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, January 20, 1900, “My Means Are Very Moderate”
• To W. E. Warner, February 1, 1900, Describing Thomas Paine
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, February 3, 1900, Corporate Opponents
• To John Hay, February 18, 1900, Opposing an International Canal
• To Josephine Shaw Lowell, February 20, 1900, “I Have Lived Up to My Ideals”
• To James Coolidge Carter, March 12, 1900, Politicians and Reformers
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, April 30, 1900, Prospects for Re-election
• To Alice W. Beaudry, May 2, 1900, Helping a Woman in Distress
• To William Allen White, June 12, 1900, Death Penalty Cases
• To William McKinley, June 21, 1900, Accepting a Nomination
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, June 25, 1900, “The Thing Could Not Be Helped”
• To Seth Low, August 3, 1900, The New York Machine
• To John M. Palmer, August 9. 1900, An Appeal to Democrats
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, November 9, 1900, Meeting Oklahoma Supporters
• To Edward Sanford Martin, November 26, 1900, “I Am Not Naturally…a Fighter”
• To William H. Llewellyn, December 24, 1900, Drawing the Line
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., January 14, 1901, Hunting Cougars
• To William Carey Brown, March 12, 1901, “I Killed One of Them”
• To Leonard Wood, March 27, 1901, Life After Politics
• To Leonard Wood, April 17, 1901, ”An Utterly Anomalous Office”
• To Frederic Harrison, April 24, 1901, Greek and Byzantine History
• To Alton B. Parker, May 17, 1901, Plans to Study Law
• To Alton B. Parker, May 31, 1901, Plans to Attend Law School
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, July 3, 1901, New York Society
• To Owen Wister, July 20, 1901, Reading Frank Norris
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, September 9, 1901, The Shooting of McKinley

PRESIDENT, 1901–1909

• To Henry Cabot Lodge, September 23, 1901, “A Dreadful Thing”
• To Percival J. Werlich, October 26, 1901, A Warning Regarding Liquor
• To Albion W. Tourgée, November 8, 1901, “Dealing with the Black Man”
• To Endicott Peabody, January 4, 1902, “He Will Get Battered Out”
• To Elihu Root, February 18, 1902, The Philippines and Wounded Knee
• To Cleveland Dodge, June 16, 1902, Woodrow Wilson
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, July 19, 1902, Oliver Wendell Holmes
• To Hermann Speck von Sternberg, July 19, 1902, Atrocities in the Philippines
• To John Hay, July 22, 1902, Studying Abraham Lincoln
• To Martha Baker Dunn, September 6, 1902, Browning and Longfellow
• To Robert Bacon, October 5, 1902, Mediating the Coal Strike
• To Bessie Van Vorst, October 18, 1902, The Danger of “Race Suicide”
• To Robert Goodwyn Rhett, November 10, 1902, Race and Government Appointments
• To Maria Longworth Storer, December 8, 1902 Enjoying the Presidency
• To Clinton Hart Merriam, April 16, 1903, Wildlife in Yellowstone
• To Pierre de Coubertin, June 15, 1903, “Good Hard Bodily Exercise”
• To Hamlin Garland, July 19, 1903, Mothers and Soldiers
• To Winfield Taylor Durbin, August 6, 1903, Lynching
• To John Hay, August 9, 1903, A Western Trip
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., October 4, 1903, Avoiding Overathleticism
• To Nicholas Murray Butler, November 4, 1903, Presidential Reading
• To Kermit Roosevelt, November 4, 1903, Panama
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., January 11, 1904, Drawbacks of a Military Career
• To John Morley, January 17, 1904, Lucretius and Gladstone
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., January 29, 1904, Election Chances
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., February 6, 1904, “I Have Great Confidence in You”
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., February 10, 1904, Saddle Horses and the Caribbean
• To Elihu Root. February 16, 1904, The Death of Mark Hanna
• To Theodore Elijah Burton, February 23, 1904, The Need for a Stronger Navy
• To Francis Bennett Williams, February 24, 1904, Opposing an All-White Party
• To Kermit Roosevelt, March 5, 1904, Japanese Wrestling
• To Lawrence Fraser Abbott, March 14, 1904 Presidential Expenses
• To Bruseius Simons, March 19, 1904, Praise for a Painter
• To Charles William Eliot, April 4, 1904, Philippine Independence
• To Kermit Roosevelt, April 9, 1904, “I Almost Lose My Temper”
• To George Otto Trevelyan, May 28, 1904, “A Sum of Substantial Achievement”
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., May 28, 1904, Springtime in Washington
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, June 13, 1904, The Rise of Japan
• To Lyman Abbott, July 26, 1904, Southern Representation
• To Oliver Otis Howard, August 6, 1904, Honoring Union Veterans
• To John Hay, August 12, 1904, Goo-Goos and Tammany
• To John Burroughs, August 12, 1904, Bears and Tin Cans
• To Robert Grant, September 1, 1904, The Hysteria of Tolstoi
• To Eugene A. Philbin, September 10, 1904, Catholic Presidents
• To George McClellan Harvey, September 19, 1904, The Infamy of Jefferson Davis
• To Oliver Wendell Holmes, October 21, 1904, Pioneers and the Second-Rate
• To Kermit Roosevelt, October 26, 1904, The Presidential Campaign
• To Augustus Peabody Gardner, October 28, 1904, Congress and Appointments
• To Rudyard Kipling, November 1, 1904, “I Have Had a First-Class Run”
• To Philander Chase Knox, November 10, 1904, Labor and Capital
• To Kermit Roosevelt, November 10, 1904, Election Night
• To Amelia Glover, November 10, 1904, “No More Contemptible Ideal”
• To Frederick William MacMonnies, November 19, 1904, Advice to a Sculptor
• To Finley Peter Dunne, November 23, 1904, Anglophobia and Anglomania
• To George Otto Trevelyan, November 24, 1904, “We Won a Great Triumph”
• To William Emlen Roosevelt, November 29, 1904, “The Office Does Good to Him”
• To James Ford Rhodes, November 29, 1904, Civil War and Reconstruction
• To Oliver Wendell Holmes, December 5, 1904, Oblivion and Memory
• To Michael Joseph Donovan, December 13, 1904, A Boxing Injury
• To George von Lengerke Meyer, December 26, 1904, Relations with Russia
• To Richard Harding Davis, January 3,1905, “Pink-Tea Diplomats”
• To Rafael Reyes, February 20, 1905, The United States and Colombia
• To Edward Arlington Robinson, March 27, 1905, Praise for a Poet
• To Richard Watson Gilder, March 31, 1905, Helping Robinson
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, May 13, 1905, The Kaiser
• To John Burroughs, May 29, 1905, Intelligence in Animals
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, June 16, 1905, The Russo-Japanese War
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, July 11, 1905, The Death of John Hay
• To Frank Charles Bostock, July 18, 1905, Cougars and Leopards
• To James Hulme Canfield, August 16, 1905, Helping American Letters
• To Kentaro Kaneko, August 23, 1905, Urging Japan to Make Peace
• To George von Lengerke Meyer, August 25, 1905, A Message for the Czar
• To Charles Joseph Bonaparte, August 28, 1905, Submarines
• To Carl Schurz, September 8, 1905, “A Just War May Be the Highest Duty”
• To Whitelaw Reid, September 11, 1903, The Portsmouth Treaty
• To Lincoln Steffens, September 25, 1905, Corporate Campaign Contributions
• To George Herbert Locke, September 27, 1905, Inaccurate Wildlife Stories
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., October 2, 1905, “These Cursed Newspapers”
• To S.S. McClure, October 4, 1905, Wrongs by the Poor and by the Rich
• To Isaac Wayne MacVeagh, October 8, 1905, Tainted Money
• To Lyman Abbott, October 14, 1905, Lies About the Government
• To Kermit Roosevelt, November 6, 1905, “The Real Spirit of Poetry”
• To Henry Melville Whitney, November 18, 1905, Refusing an Interview
• To Nevada Northrup Stranahan, November 23, 1905, Contributions and Special Favors
• To Ray Stannard Baker, November 28, 1905, Railroad Regulation
• To Clarence Don Clark, December 8, 1905, Appointing a Reformed Robber
• To Maria Longworth Storer, December 11, 1905, Refusing an “Astounding” Proposal
• To Jacob Henry Schiff, December 14, 1905, The Jews of Russia
• To Frederick Courtney Selous, December 18, 1905, African Big Game
• To Melville Weston Fuller, December 19, 1905, A Priceless Art Collection
• To James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., January 3, 1906, Three Existential Questions
• To Leonard Wood, January 22, 1906, Japan and the Philippines
• To George Otto Trevelyan, January 22, 1906, The Comfort of Liking Books
• To Ian Hamilton, January 24, 1906, “The Stern and Hardy Virtues”
• To Charles Joseph Bonaparte, February 17, 1906, Judo at the Naval Academy
• To John Albert Sleicher, February 25, 1906, “They Are Paid to Lie”
• To Oscar Solomon Straus, February 27, 1906, Modern Germany
• To Anna Cabot Mills Lodge, March 11, 1906, Dinner with the Lodges
• To Upton Sinclair, March 15, 1906, Socialism and Starvation
• To William Howard Taft, March 15, 1906, Taft’s Political Future
• To Jean Jules Jusserand, April 25, 1906, Praise for an Ambassador
• To Owen Wister, April 27, 1906, The South and the North
• To John Burroughs, May 5, 1906, Identifying a Warbler
• To Virginia J. Arnold, May 10, 1906, Disciplining Quentin
• To George Horace Lorimer, May 12, 1906, “A Totally False Picture” of Politics
• To Upton Sinclair, May 29, 1906, Investigating Meat Packing
• To Henry Bryant Bigelow, May 29, 1906, Science and Literature
• To Calvin Cobb, June 16, 1906, Labor Conflict in the West
• To James Albertus Tawney, June 17, 1906, Traveling Expenses
• To Arthur Twining Hadley, August 1, 1906, Luxury and Football at College
• To Andrew Carnegie, August 6, 1906, The Hague Peace Conference
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, August 6, 1906, Summer at Oyster Bay
• To Frederick Scott Oliver, August 9, 1906, Hamilton and Jefferson
• To William Allen White, August 11, 1906, “An Ideal President”
• To Charles Arthur Stillings, August 27, 1906, Simplified Spelling
• To Florence La Farge, September 5, 1906, Reading Euripides
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, September 12, 1906, Winston Churchill
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, October 8, 1906, The Corporation Men
• To John St. Loe Strachey, October 25, 1906, William Randolph Hearst
• To Eugene Hale, October 27,1906, Relations with Japan
• To Curtis Guild Jr., November 7, 1906, The Brownsville Incident
• To Kermit Roosevelt, November 1906, Sailing to Panama
• To Kermit Roosevelt, November 20, 1906, Inspecting the Canal
• To Silas McBee, November 17, 1906, “Action Which Cannot Be Tolerated”
• To William Allen White, November 18, 1906, Doing Good Service
• To Kermit Roosevelt, December 5, 1906, Nobel Prize Money
• To Kermit Roosevelt, January 19, 1907, “A Small Administration Joke”
• To William Crary Brownell, January 27, 1907, “The American Democratic Ideal”
• To E.H. Merrell, January 31, 1907, Woman’s Duties
• To Henry Lee Higginson, February 11, 1907, Railroad Legislation
• To Albert Shaw, April 3, 1907, The American Birth Rate
• To Thomas McDonald Patterson, April 8, 1907, Campaign Contributions in 1904
• To William Allen White, July 30, 1907, Making Taft President
• To Lawrence Fraser Abbott, September 11, 1907, The Great White Fleet
• To Anna Cabot Mills Lodge, September 20, 1907, Family News
• To William Henry Moody, September 21, 1907, Jefferson and the Foundation
• To Roland C. Dryer, November 11, 1907, Cheapening “In God We Trust”
• To Frederic Harrison, December 18, 1907, Disinterestedness and Sincerity
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, December 21, 1907, The Uncertain Future
• To Charles Edward Magoon, December 23, 1907, A Christmas Present
• To Arthur Hamilton Lee, December 26, 1907. Mob Rule and Plutocracy
• To George Otto Trevelyan, January 1, 1908, The War of Independence
• To Victor Howard Metcalf, January 2, 1908, Controversies in the Navy
• To George Meredith, January 9, 1908, “The Sound of Trumpet and Horn”
• To Melville Davisson Post, January 17, 1908, The Law and Primitive Justice
• To Kermit Roosevelt, January 27, 1908, Taft and Hughes
• To Florence La Farge, February 13, 1908, Jane Addams and Pacification
• To Kermit Roosevelt, February 23, 1908, Reading Dickens
• To Grafton Dulany Cushing, February 27, 1908, “Fair Dealing Between Man and Man”
• To Arthur James Balfour, March 5, 1908, “Speculative History”
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, April 11, 1908, Great Wealth
• To Archibald Roosevelt, April 11, 1908, Mischief in the White House
• To Elihu Root, April 17, 1908, The Need for Military Preparations
• To Kermit Roosevelt, April 19, 1908, Congress and the Navy
• To John Wolcott Stewart, May 7. 1908, Legislative and Executive Power
• To Whitelaw Reid, May 25, 1908, Americans and Monarchy
• To Ray Stannard Baker, June 3, 1908, “The Few and the Many”
• To Lincoln Steffens, June 5,1908, Robert La Follette
• To Joel Chandler Harris, June 15, 1908, “Dixie” and the “Battle Hymn”
• To French Ensor Chadwick, July 8, 1908, Lord Nelson and Hannibal
• To Charles William Eliot, July 10. 1908, Honor at Harvard
• To Mark Sullivan, September 9, 1908, Jack London and “Nature Fakers”
• To Harriet Taylor Upton, November 10. 1908, Woman Suffrage
• To Henry Stimson, December 9, 1908, “These Creatures of the Gutter”
• To Kaiser Wilhelm II, December 26, 1908, “A Letter of Good Will”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, January 28, 1908, John Hay as Secretary of State

FORMER PRESIDENT, 1909—1919

• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, May 19, 1909, Hunting in Africa
• To Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, June 21, 1909, “Pushing Daring into Recklessness”
• To Henry White, July 21, 1909, Disappointment with Taft
• To Charles Doolittle Walcott, July 23, 1909, “A Collection of Large Mammals”
• To George Otto Trevelyan, September 10, 1909, Macaulay and Carlyle
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, October 17, 1909, Grief
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, May 5, 1910, “The Cauldron of Politics”
• To Gifford Pinchot, June 28, 1910, An Assessment of Taft
• To Sydney Brooks, October 17, 1910, “Words with Me Are Instruments”
• To Simeon Eben Baldwin, November 2, 1910, Criticizing a Judicial Decision
• To Charles Atwood Kofoid, February 2, 1911, Protective Coloration
• To Mary Ella Lyon Swift, March 7, 1911., Suffrage and Women’s Duties
• To William Howard Taft, March 14, 1911, Raising a Division
• To Charles Dwight Willard, April 28, 1911, Genuine Democracy
• To Arthur B. Farquhar, August 11, 1911, Dissolving Standard Oil
• To Florence Kelley, January 9, 1911, An Argument for Woman Suffrage
• To Francis Hobart Herrick, January 15, 1912, Advancing Biological Science
• To Elihu Root, February 14, 1912, Publicly Challenging Taft
• To William Glasscock, February 14, 1912, Seeking the Nomination
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, March 1, 1912, “My Warm Personal Affection for You”
• To Albert Cross, June 4, 1912, Opposing an “Infamous Campaign”
• To Paul A Ewett, July 5, 1912, “It Is a Forlorn Hope”
• To Julian La Rose Harris, August 1, 1912, Race and the Progressive Party
• To Anna Roosevelt Cowles, October 19, 1912, “I Am in Great Shape”
• To Edward Grey, November 15, 1912, Speaking After Being Shot
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, December 31, 1912, “It Is a Trade Risk”
• To Michael A. Schaap, January 24, 1913, Women Garment Workers
• To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 18, 1913, Congratulations on an Appointment
• To Winthrop Chanler, April 1, 1913, Welcome and Unwelcome Guests
• To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 18, 1913, Keeping the Fleet Undivided
• To Lauro Müller, April 30, 1914, Exploring the Mato Grosso
• To Arthur Hamilton Lee, August 23, 1914, The Outbreak of War
• To Cecil Spring-Rice, October 3, 1914, Protecting Belgian Neutrality
• To Hugo Münsterberg, October 3, 1914, Germany and Beligium
• To Mrs. Ralph Sanger, December 23, 1914, “I Am Straight United States!”
• To Archibald Roosevelt, May 19. 1915, “Wilson’s Abject Cowardice”
• To Kermit Roosevelt, August 28, 1915, Preparing for War
• To Marjorie Sterrett, February 6, 1916, Grandchildren and Duty
• To Henry Ford, February 9, 1916, Righteousness and Peace
• To William Moody, May 18,1916, Praise for a Retired Justice
• To Thomas Herbert Warren, June 7, 1916, “The Sympathy of Admiration”
• To James Bryce, June 19, 1916, Supporting Hughes
• To Newton Diehl Baker, July 6, 1916, An Offer of Service
• To Henry Luther Stoddard, September 28, 1916, Shaking Hands with Taft
• To Amos Pinchot, November 3, 1916, “A Lunatic Fringe”
• To Stanwood Menken, January 10, 1917, Democracy and Military Service
• To Jean Jules Jusserand, February 16, 1917, “An Ex-President with His Division”
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, February 20, 1917, “He Is Yellow All Through”
• To Joseph Barrell, March 5, 1917, Terrestrial and Arboreal Monkeys
• To Eleanor Alexander Roosevelt, March 20, 1917, A Message from the Kaiser
• To John Joseph Pershing, May 20, 1917, A Request for His Sons
• To Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., May 30, 1917, Sending “Little Bears” into Danger
• To Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., July 18, 1917, “To Wish You Every Luck”
• To Victor Olander, July 17, 1917, The East St. Louis Riots
• To Theodore Roosevelt Jr., October 20, 1917, “You Have Seized the Great Chance”
• To William T. Hornaday, November 23, 1917, Dismissing Disloyal Teachers
• To Quentin Roosevelt, December 24, 1917, “Write All the Time!”
• To Kermit Roosevelt, February 2, 1918, “My Usefulness is Very Limited”
• To Quentin Roosevelt, March 17, 1918, “The Excitement about Archie”
• To Georges Clemenceau, March 22, 1918, The Menace of Hearst
• To Cleveland Dodge, May 11, 1918, Turkey and the Armenians
• To George V, July 22, 1918, “Their Temper and Quality”
• To Georges Clemenceau, July 25, 1918, “A Very Sad Thing”
• To Corinne Roosevelt, Robinson, August 3, 1918, “Their Golden Morning”
• To James Bryce, August 7, 1918, Peace Terms
• To Belle Willard Roosevelt, August 11, 1918, “Her Heart Will Ache for Quentin”
• To Belle Willard Roosevelt, August, 11, 1918, Quentin’s Last Letters
• To Henry Cabot Lodge, October 24, 1918, Unconditional Surrender
• To Arthur Hamilton Lee, November 19, 1918, “The Victory is Tremendous”
• To Madison Grant, December 30, 1918, “The Melting-Pot Idea”
• To Richard Melancton Hurd, January 2, 1919, “One Soul Loyalty”

SELECTED SPEECHES

The Strenuous Life: Speech to the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899

National Duties: Speech at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, September 2, 1901
“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”

Citizenship in a Republic: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
The Man in the Arena

The New Nationalism: Speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910

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