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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919), President. Autograph letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), to Thomas W. White, 6 West 57th St., New York, 18 February 1884. 2 pages, 8vo, mourning stationery, with original envelope, tipped to another sheet. -- ROOSEVELT. Photo portrait signed ("Theodore Roosevelt, Sept. 12th 1908"), as President, Pach Bros., New York, 1904. 6 3/8 x 4¼in, signed along lower margin, laid down.
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore (1858-1919), President. Autograph letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), to Thomas W. White, 6 West 57th St., New York, 18 February 1884. 2 pages, 8vo, mourning stationery, with original envelope, tipped to another sheet. -- ROOSEVELT. Photo portrait signed ("Theodore Roosevelt, Sept. 12th 1908"), as President, Pach Bros., New York, 1904. 6 3/8 x 4¼in, signed along lower margin, laid down.
"THERE IS NOW NOTHING LEFT FOR ME..."
A SHORT, BUT POWERFUL NOTE SHOWING T.R. STRUGGLING WITH HIS GRIEF, just four days after the death in the same house on the same day, of his wife Alice, and his mother, Martha. His mother, aged 50, died of typhoid fever. His wife, just 22 years of age, died of Bright's disease and complications from childbirth. He tries to be stoic but his language betrays his devastation: "Many thanks for your kind sympathy and remembrance of me. I shall come back to my work at once; there is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me." He distracted himself with legislative work in Albany, then plunged into the frustrating GOP convention at Chicago in June that nominated James G. Blaine over the opposition of T. R. and fellow reform-minded young Republicans. But by year's end he needed to get away and in 1885 he sought refuge on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota, "a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty," he once called it. T.R. even thought of retiring there permanently. Western life suited him. He wrote two books in these years Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) and Thomas Hart Benton (1887); he arrested and brought in a dangerous group of cattle rustlers at rifle-point. But he could not stay out of the arena of life. He returned to New York City and ran a strong but unsuccessful campaign for mayor in 1886. In December of that year he remarried, to Edith Carow. After writing a moving memorial to his first wife, Alice, he never mentioned her again. Together 2 items. (2)
"THERE IS NOW NOTHING LEFT FOR ME..."
A SHORT, BUT POWERFUL NOTE SHOWING T.R. STRUGGLING WITH HIS GRIEF, just four days after the death in the same house on the same day, of his wife Alice, and his mother, Martha. His mother, aged 50, died of typhoid fever. His wife, just 22 years of age, died of Bright's disease and complications from childbirth. He tries to be stoic but his language betrays his devastation: "Many thanks for your kind sympathy and remembrance of me. I shall come back to my work at once; there is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me." He distracted himself with legislative work in Albany, then plunged into the frustrating GOP convention at Chicago in June that nominated James G. Blaine over the opposition of T. R. and fellow reform-minded young Republicans. But by year's end he needed to get away and in 1885 he sought refuge on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota, "a land of vast silent spaces, a place of grim beauty," he once called it. T.R. even thought of retiring there permanently. Western life suited him. He wrote two books in these years Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885) and Thomas Hart Benton (1887); he arrested and brought in a dangerous group of cattle rustlers at rifle-point. But he could not stay out of the arena of life. He returned to New York City and ran a strong but unsuccessful campaign for mayor in 1886. In December of that year he remarried, to Edith Carow. After writing a moving memorial to his first wife, Alice, he never mentioned her again. Together 2 items. (2)