[From Theodore Roosevelt.]
White House,
Washington.
October 29, 1903.
My dear Mrs. Elliott:
I shall read the book with the greatest interest and refresh my memory of the story. I have always felt peculiarly drawn to your family, and I appreciate the compliment of receiving such a book from your father’s daughter.
Sincerely yours,
Theodore Roosevelt.
[To my Mother.]
New York, March 20, 1905. The Reverend Percy Grant of Ascension Church sent me a photograph of J.’s drawing of you, with the request that you write a few words on the same and return it to him with some remarks concerning your memories of Ascension Church, where grandfather sat with you beside him and listened to the good English preached by Bishop Eastborn.
September 3, 1905. How dreadful the news of the Russo-Japanese War. I seem to be the only person who is for Russia. Every one I meet says,
“Plucky little Japan!”
But Russia is Christian and her people are white, and Tolstoi is Russian. I suppose in the eternal verities it is all right, and that out of her humiliation a new life will spring for Russia. I am dreadfully sorry for both peoples; the loss of life is so inhuman that it makes the Boer War seem like child’s play.