Letters to His Children
Theodore Roosevelt
56 chapters · 4 h 48 min · English
Read by Michele Fry, Jeremy Logan, Jill Engle, Mark Hissong, Larry Wilson, Denise Nordell and others
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The strong, vigorous, exalted character of a doting father who loved playing with his children and their pets, even while serving as the President of the United States, stands revealed in this selection of letters he wrote his children throughout their school years. They shed light on the cheerful man who remained throughout his life as pure and gentle as the soul of a child, plus many little reveals that there were squirrels nesting in the presidential bedroom, rats in the basement, and children's pranks that damaged the White House artwork! Many of these letters are considered valuable guides for youth in all ranks of life, notably those on the relative merits of civil and military careers, and the proper proportions of sport and study. Only a short time before he died, Teddy Roosevelt said "I would rather have this book published than anything that has ever been written about me." ~ Summary by Michele Fry
Chapters
1 00. Introduction 9 min 2 01. In The Spanish War 1898 - Blessed Bunnies, Darling Ethel 4 min 3 02. from Oyster Bay Dec 1900 - Youthful Bible Commentators, Fine Names For Guinea Pigs 3 min 4 03. from Keystone Ranch Jan 1900 - A Cougar and Lynx Hunt, Dogs That Climb Trees, The Pig Named Maude 7 min 5 04. from Oyster Bay May 1901 - Advice and News, Archie and Quentin 6 min 6 05. Incidents of Homecoming, Oyster Bay, May 1901 3 min 7 06. Dear Little Miss Sarah 1 min 8 07. Uncle Remus and White House Pets 2 min 9 08. from White House Oct 1902 - The Dog Gem, and Presidential Nurse For Guinea Pigs 2 min 10 09. Thanksgiving In The White House 1902 2 min 11 10. A White House Christmas 1902 4 min 12 11. Tom Quartz and Jack 4 min 13 12. A Far Western Trip 1903 7 min 14 13. Loves and Sports of The Children 4 min 15 14. A President At Play 3 min 16 15. from Oyster Bay 1903 - To Ted On A Hunting Trip, End Of Summer At Oyster Bay 3 min 17 16. White House Oct 1903 - 'Valuablest' Kind Of Rabbits, A Preaching Letter 3 min 18 17. Proper Place For Sports, Concerning Getting 'Smashed' 8 min 19 18. The Art of Uncle Remus, A Ride And A Pillow Fight 4 min 20 19. Study and Play, Quentin's First Fall, Homesich For Sagamore Hill, Joy Over A Football Victory, Vice-Mother Of The Children 8 min 21 20. Quentin's Sixth Birthday 2 min 22 21. A President's Poor Protection 3 min 23 22. from White House 1904 - Ted's Sprained Ankle, The Supreme Christmas Joy, A Day With Juggler 5 min 24 23. Merits of Military and Civil Life 7 min 25 24. from White House Feb 1904 - Root and Taft, Senator Hanna's Death, Irritating Remark by Quentin 5 min 26 25. Japanese Wrestling 2 min 27 26. Love For The White House 1904 7 min 28 27. Charms Of Valley Forge, Washington's Companions At Valley Forge 3 min 29 28. On The Eve Of Nomination for President 1904, Picture Letter, Bill The Lizard 3 min 30 29. On The Eve Of Election 4 min 31 30. Dec, Jan 1904 - Big Jim White, Winter Life In The White House, Playmate Of The Children, A Japanese Boy's Letter 7 min 32 31. On Counting Days And Wrestling; Spring In Washington 5 min 33 32. April, May 1905 - A Hunting Trip . . . Abernathy The Wolf Hunter . . . Prairie Girls . . . Bears, Bobcats and Skip 9 min 34 33. Home Again With Skip, Skip In The White House, Officers of Togo's Fleet 4 min 35 34. A President As Cook 5 min 36 35. Quentin's Quaint Sayings 2 min 37 36. Advice Regarding Newspaper Annoyances 6 min 38 37. Incidents of a Southern Trip, Poets and Princes 5 min 39 38. Novels and Games, Christmas Present To His Old Nurse 5 min 40 39. Dickens and Thackeray, A Tribute To Archie 5 min 41 40. Pillow Fights With The Boys, Sorrows Of Skip, 'An Interesting Circus Experience', A Big And Lonely White House, A New Puppy And A New Horse, A Quentin Antecdote 9 min 42 41. A Visit To Washington's Birthplace, More About Dickens 6 min 43 42. No Place Like Sagamore Hill, Attic Delights, Presidential Rescue of a Kitten 5 min 44 43. Sports of Quentin and Archie, Skip and Archie, A Turkey Hunt at Pine Knot 4 min 45 44. On Board U. S. S. Louisiana on the Way to Panama November 1906 - Pets On Shipboard, Names of the Guns, Reflections On The Way, Events Since Columbus's Discovery, Pride In America 9 min 46 45. What The President Saw at Panama 9 min 47 46. On The Way To Porto Rico, What He Saw In Porto Rico 9 min 48 47. Sickness of Archie, At the Jamestown Exposition, General Kuroki 7 min 49 48. Temporary Absence Of Skip, Death of Skip, Quentin's Snake Adventure 5 min 50 49. On Board U. S. S. Mississippi, October 1907 - Trials of a Traveling President, Changes of Three Centuries, Pecularities of Mississippi Steamboats 10 min 51 50. The Lone Cat Of The Camp, Shooting The Bear 6 min 52 51. Quentin's 'Exquisite Jest', Tom Pinch, 'Martin Chuzzlewit', Good Reading For Pacifists 7 min 53 52. Quentin As A Ball-Player, Four Sheepish Small Boys 4 min 54 53. John Burroughs and the Flying Squirrel, Beauty of White House Grounds, Quentin and a Beehive 4 min 55 54. Quentin And Turner, Quentin and the Pig, A Presidential Fall, More About Quentin 7 min 56 55. Tribute To Kermit, Longing For Home, The Last Hunt, Quentin Grown Up 6 min
