Show Letters tot o p a Edited by M f Joseph Bishop aT soils I n bo boys s 's grew up p true tree chips chip I VoId old block They were encouraged i pL la to every manly sport If It U father and sons were pals pala It was the Roosevelt Imagine th the pride now himself a national figure I Ing g on his first real hunting trip 91 l ying his fathers father's rifle ED ED ON AHU A HUNTING TING TRIP Oyster Bay Day Aug 25 1903 p n Ted Ted have have thought ot of you a good 1 I W Y pf f course I 1 am glad you have I ilKI l kle Je with you you you-you you scamp does I Mir IlU have those associations r u alleged as the reason why St Value i.-alue It tt so much when In inear ear future I became unable ti to use It I do not have very f j hope of ot your getting a gr great groat at 4 M of t f sport on the trip and any- any 1 L yo you do get In Jn the way of ot furred or a l l game gamo and fishing I shall shallI I fas as so much extra thrown In feel the trip will teach you a athe athe the way of ot handling yourself Id country as well as of ot manI man- man I horses and camp outfits outfits outfits-of of ig g with frontiersmen etc It will therefore fit you to go on a regular camping tr trip p next time I have sternly refused to allow mother to ride Wyoming on the ground that I would not have her make a martyr of herself herselt In the shape of ot riding a horse with witha a foot toot gait galt which she so openly detests Accordingly Accordingly Accordingly Ac Ac- cordingly I r have had some long and delightful rides with her she on an and anik I on while Ethel and Kermit have begun to ride Wyoming Kermit was with us this morning and got along beautifully till tm we galloped whereupon Wyoming made up his hla mind that It was a race and Kermit for a moment or two found him a handful On Sunday after we came back from church and bathed I rowed mother out to the end of ot Lloyds Neck near your favorite camping ground There we took lunch and spent a a. a couple of ot hours with our books reading a little and looking out over the beautiful sound and at the headlands and white beaches of ot the coast const We Ve rowed back through a strange shimmering s sunset I have ha played a little tennis since you left Chandler b beat at me two sets but I beat him one Alex Russell be beat t me a long ong deuce set 10 I to 8 Today the smaller children held their championship Nick won a along a along along long deuce set from Archie and temy to te tomy tomy my surprise Oliver and Ethel beat ba Kermit and Philip In two straight sets I r officiated as umpire and furnished furnished furnished fur fur- the prizes which were pen pen- knives END OF SUMMER GUMMER AT OYSTER BAY Oyster Bay Sept 23 23 1903 Blessed Kermit The house seems ems very empty without without without with with- out you and Ted although I cannot conscientiously say that it is quiet quiet- Archie and Quentin attend to that Archie barefooted bareheaded and with his usual faded blue overalls much torn and patched has Just returned returned re returned re- re turned from a morning with his beloved beloved beloved be be- loved Nick Quentin has passed th the morning in sports and pastimes with the suffering long secret service men Allan has been associating closely ely with mother and me Yesterday Ethel went off ort riding with Lorraine Sh She rode Wyoming who is really turning out a very good family horse hone This evening I expect Grant La Farge and Owen Wister who are coming to tc spend the night Mother is as busy as possible putting up the house and Ethel and I r Insist that she now eyes eye us both with a a. purely professIonal gaze and secretly wishes she could wrap us up In a neatly pinned sheet shee with camphor balls Inside Good bye blessed fellow KIND OF RABBITS To his sitter sl ter Mrs W. W S. S Cowles White House Oct 2 2 1903 Tell Sheffield that Quentin Is now going to the public school As yet h hhas he has preserved an attitude of ot dignified reserve concerning his feelings on th the subject He has Just been presented presente with two white rabbits which h he brought In while we were at lunch yesterday explaining that they were the kind with pink eyes eye eyes A PREACHING LETTER White House Oct 2 1903 Dear Kermit I r was very ry glad to get your letter Am glad you are playing football I should be very sorry to see either eithe you or Ted devoting most of your at attention attention attention at- at to athletics and I haven't go got any special ambition to see you shine shin overmuch In athletics at college a aleast at least If It you go there because I think it tends to take up too much time but I do like to feel that you are manly and able to hold your own in rough hardy sports I would rather rath rath- er have a boy of mine stand high in his studies than high in athletics buI but bu butI I would a great deal rather have him show true manliness of ot character than show either Intellectual o or physical prowess and I believe you ou and Ted both bid fair to develop just Jus such character There You will think this a dreadfully dreadfully dreadfully dread dread- fully preaching letter I suppose I r have a natural tendency to preach Just at present because I am overwhelmed overwhelmed overwhelmed over over- whelmed with my work I enjoy beIng being being be be- ing president and I like to do the work and have my hand on the tho th lever But Dut It is very worrying and puzzling and I have to make up my mind to accept every kind of ot attack and mis mis- representation It is a great comfort comfor comforto to me to read the life and letters o ot of Abraham Lincoln I am more and anc more Impressed every day not only with the mans man's wonderful power and sagacity but with his literally endless patience and at the same time his unflinching resolution To be continued |