{"date": "1861-09-09", "text": "Are me a soldier laddie?", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1861-12-08", "text": "Papa say in the morning, 'Our Harder in Heaven.'", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1862-01-08", "text": "I feel badly. I have a toothache in my stomach.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1862-06-30", "text": "I do not remember biting her arm, but I do remember running down to the yard, perfectly conscious that I had committed a crime. From the yard I went into the kitchen, got some dough from the cook, and crawled under the kitchen table.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1862-06-30", "text": "My Father immediately dropped on all fours and darted for me. I feebly heaved the dough at him, . . . got a fair start for the stairs, but was caught half-way up them. The punishment that ensued fitted the crime", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1862-10-27", "text": "chicken, roast beef, and everything that was good better than salt water.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1863-06-30", "text": "I was a sickly, delicate boy, suffered much from asthma, and frequently had to be taken away on trips to find a place where I could breathe. One of my memories is of my father walking up and down the room with me in his arms at night when I was a very small person, and of sitting up in bed gasping, with my mother and father trying to help me.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1863-12-25", "text": "Christmas was an occasion of literally delirious joy. In the evening we hung up our stockings - or rather the biggest stockings we could borrow from the grown-ups -and before dawn we trooped in to open them while sitting on Father's and Mother's bed; and the bigger presents were arranged, those for each child on its own table in the drawing room, the doors to which were thrown open after breakfast.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1863-12-31", "text": "Morning prayers were with my father. We used to stand at the foot of the stairs and when father came down we called out 'I speak for you and the cubby-hole, too!'", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1864-04-01", "text": "My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. he combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness, and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us children selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice, or untruthfulness.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1864-05-31", "text": "We children, of course, loved the country beyond anything. We disliked the city. We were always wildly eager to get to the country when Spring came, and very sad when in the late Fall the family moved back to town.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1867-05-31", "text": "which with Grant makes two", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1867-05-31", "text": "I was pretty near thrown down.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-04-30", "text": "supple jacks", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-10", "text": "Auntty and uncle Jimmy left us that evening", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-10", "text": "an attack of the Asmer", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-13", "text": "Nothing happened of consequence", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-15", "text": "Played store and 'baby'. . . Wrote, read and drew", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-16", "text": "I went to Church. After lunch I did nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-19", "text": "We played in the brook", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-20", "text": "Annie Platt arrived to day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-08-21", "text": "We played in the brook. We played games in the evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-09-04", "text": "Cold and rainy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-09-04", "text": "We played fort the rest of the day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1868-09-05", "text": "We discovered a weasel's hole and a foxes burrow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-01", "text": "When I put 'We 3' I mean Ellie Conie and I. When I put \"big people\" I mean Papa Mama and Bamie.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-13", "text": "We saw two ships and severel fish. I was sick at breakfast. It is rather monotonous. I read and played with Ellie and Conie most of the day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-14", "text": "I played read or wrote during the day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-16", "text": "I could not go to service.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-17", "text": "We saw two ships and a great maney fish", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-19", "text": "Read and played", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-22", "text": "ran round the hotel", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-26", "text": "Read, wrote or drew", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-27", "text": "We went to our cousins school at Waterloo... met Jeff Davises son and some sharp words ensued", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-28", "text": "Papa and Mama went to Chester,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-29", "text": "ride on donkeys", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-05-30", "text": "My leg hurts me a great déal.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-05", "text": "romped", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-09", "text": "Dungens", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-19", "text": "an archerry", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-19", "text": "colages", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-21", "text": "The valet with we 3 first the rest afterwards. I have a little headache still.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-22", "text": "animals . . . common to other menageries", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-24", "text": "70 dead fish 2 inches long", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-06-26", "text": "lungs were perfect", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-01", "text": "got lost from her", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-05", "text": "Roar valley", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-07", "text": "cristal palace", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-10", "text": "man dressed like an ancient warden showed us round", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-16", "text": "chinese things", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-07-19", "text": "Palace picture museum", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-08-05", "text": "a furious pain", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-08-08", "text": "We passed two drunken men", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-08-09", "text": "Went to the Shapo", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-08-30", "text": "landskap and a church", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-01", "text": "gurgle, gurgle", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-11", "text": "True Italy of the poets", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-14", "text": "I was dreadfully sick in the night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-15", "text": "barracks", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-17", "text": "We played 'School', giant, and hide and go seek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-21", "text": "staid in the house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-09-22", "text": "I am all well", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-10-08", "text": "cholera morbus", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-10-18", "text": "Miss Wolf", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-10-20", "text": "Miss Wolf's", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-10-27", "text": "to Cologne where we were 4 months 8 days ago", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-08", "text": "pretty Papa, Pretty Mama", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-12", "text": "hip! hurrah!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-17", "text": "I did not have a bath. I had a walk with mama.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-22", "text": "In the evening Mama showed me the portrait of Eidieth Carow and her face stired up in me homesickness and longings for the past which will come again never, alack never.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-23", "text": "wooden horses", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-25", "text": "3rd time changed all my medicine", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-29", "text": "We played in the evening but I was too tired to like it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-11-30", "text": "cried for homesickness and a wish to get out of the land where friends (or as I think them enemies) who can not speak my language are forced on me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-02", "text": "My two sisters Bamie 14-15, Conie 8; My Brother Elliott 9-10 and Myself 11.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-03", "text": "bothers", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-04", "text": "B, the valet", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-12", "text": "not interesting", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-14", "text": "like chickens", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-20", "text": "leauge of the t", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-22", "text": "dirty", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-25", "text": "hip, hip, hoorah!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-26", "text": "Leauge of the t", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1869-12-29", "text": "Leauge of the Tt", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-01-05", "text": "ipicack", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-01-05", "text": "Leaug of t", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-01-09", "text": "Leauge of the cross", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-01-13", "text": "went to the meet", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-01-31", "text": "We saw the Pope and we walked along and he extended his hand to me and I kissed it!! Hem! Hem!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-04-30", "text": "I do not think I gained anything from this particular trip abroad. I cordially hated it, as did my younger brother and", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-05-26", "text": "We went round and had breakfast at her house", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-05-27", "text": "We stayed at our house the whole day playing with Jimmie and talked with Dora.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-05-28", "text": "the rest went in to the country", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-05-29", "text": "I go with Aunt Susy to Philadelphia to day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-05-30", "text": "I bought some china animals and Aunt Susy and I had strawberry ice cream", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-06-29", "text": "French exercise", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-07-04", "text": "cracked torpedos", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-07-12", "text": "went in swimming", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-08-04", "text": "I lost my journal till September 10th (we were at Oyster Bay and Richfield).", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-08-14", "text": "I am here at Richfield now.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1870-08-14", "text": "I can swim now.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1872-02-29", "text": "I was allowed to take lessons in taxidermy from a Mr. Bell, a tall, clean-shaven, white-haired old gentleman, as straight as an Indian, who had been a companion of Audubon's.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1872-09-18", "text": "I think I will stay till Saturday as I am having a splendid time.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1872-09-18", "text": "38,000 books in its library.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1873-02-25", "text": "remarkably small", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1873-04-28", "text": "Last week spent in pleasant monotony", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1873-05-15", "text": "When we reached Dresden we younger children were left to spend the summer in the house of Herr Minckwitz, a member of either the Municipal or the Saxon Government - I have forgotten which. It was hoped that in this way we would aquire some knowledge of the German language and literature.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1873-07-04", "text": "not lost any progress by going to the Bastei as I have taken extra lessons since, and am now equal to Ellie in the grammar and have even more writing and poetry.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1874-04-14", "text": "Went to Miss Nelly Dean's Wedding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1874-08-14", "text": "Travelled from Ausable Fork to St. Regis Lake. The ground was", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1874-08-15", "text": "mountainous, and originally covered with trees but these had been burned and a dense growth of underbrush had grown up.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1874-08-31", "text": "made us understand that the same standard of clean living was demanded for the boys as for the girls", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-03-14", "text": "Spring is coming.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-06-20", "text": "At present I am writing in a rather smelly room, as the fresh skins of six night herons are reposing on the table beside me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-06-28", "text": "Corneil and Hill came over to our church today to sing for us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-07-25", "text": "Is it not splendid about my examinations? I passed well on the eight subjects", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-05", "text": "at a little camp", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-06", "text": "THE EDITH", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-21", "text": "100 yds. foot race between West & Theodore. Theodore won in 13 seconds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-24", "text": "Standing jump. Theodore 8° [feet] West 7° 10'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-25", "text": "Running. Theodore won against Alfred. Distance 300°.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-28", "text": "100 yd. dash. Emlen and Theodore. I won in 12 1/4 seconds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-29", "text": "they are great 'catches' and beaux", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-08-30", "text": "100 yd. Dash. John, Emlen, & Theodore. I won in 13 sec.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-09-17", "text": "Race between Johny & Theodore. Theodore won.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-10-29", "text": "Vaulting Theodore beat J. Elliott making 5° 4 1/2'.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-11-21", "text": "Theodore & West wrestling and Boxing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-11-25", "text": "Theodore vaulting against West, beat vault 5° 7.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-11-29", "text": "Vaulting - Theodore, Elliott & W. Jacobs. T. won making 5° 8 1/2'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-11-29", "text": "Wrestling Theodore beat Elliot", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-12-07", "text": "Boxing, Theodore beat Buckmeister (at Johny Longs)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1875-12-11", "text": "Theodore, running quarter of a mile", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-02-05", "text": "What business I shall enter . . . I do not know, for we have been forced to give up the glass business on account of the Panic.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-05-05", "text": "Nature has now assumed an entirely new face.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-05-06", "text": "woods . . . have begun to bring forth buds and shoots", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-05-12", "text": "Danced the German with Annie Murray.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-05-13", "text": "Annie Murray is a very nice girl, besides being very pretty. Ahem!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-07-30", "text": "I believe the girls were the Miss Smiths, Sister Ann and a young lady named Shenk or Hank or something equally barbarous, and who corresponded beautifully to her name.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-08-06", "text": "In the evening I rowed over to Laurelton and after tea took Miss Nelly Smith out in my boat. The moonlight was beautiful and we took a lovely long row so that I did not get back home 'till eleven o'clock", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-08-31", "text": "good, but only in the general effect, for there was very little in my actual studies which helped me in after life.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-09-29", "text": "where I can always see motherling", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-09-29", "text": "cosy", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-10-12", "text": "which I thought rather poor", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-10-15", "text": "new table", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-10-22", "text": "I do not think there is a fellow in college who has a family that love him as much as you all do me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-10-23", "text": "in case of accidents", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-10-29", "text": "It seems perfectly wonderful, in looking back over my eighteen years of existance . . . I have literally never spent an unhappy day, unless by my own fault!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-05", "text": "pretty hard", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-05", "text": "I don't seem to make any headway at all", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-19", "text": "down to New Haven", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-19", "text": "beautiful health", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-26", "text": "I most sincerely wish I knew something about the antecedents of my friends, on this very account I have avoided being very intimate with the New York fellows.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-26", "text": "It is a great thing to have a popular", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-11-26", "text": "All of your friends have been very polite to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1876-12-11", "text": "I have to work harder than expected. Johny remarked to me that he came to college to enjoy himself. Few fellows have the intention of getting an education.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-01-07", "text": "Returned to Cambridge to my studies, after the weeks vacation. Took up my Sunday School class.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-01-14", "text": "Had a very pleasant time at the dancing class . . . one of the sweetest and prettiest girls there is a 'Miss Whitney'", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-05", "text": "very swell", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-05", "text": "very pretty girl", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-05", "text": "don't frizzle her hair", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-06", "text": "The food at our boarding house is very good.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-10", "text": "Beaten by Dick Trimble boxing", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-11", "text": "Send on gun", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-18", "text": "Sick with measles", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-18", "text": "slight case of the measles", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-02-26", "text": "Partially recovered. Went on to New York", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-03-12", "text": "Went out to Oyster Bay for a little shooting", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-03-16", "text": "Came back from Oyster Bay. Only procured a couple of ducks.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-03-17", "text": "Returned to Cambridge", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-03-27", "text": "Pet Pussie", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-03-29", "text": "Wrestling. Threw Billy Hooper, Learned, Peters & Nickerson. Thrown by Davis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-04-01", "text": "Oh energy, thy name is Bamie!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-04-29", "text": "Southern trip", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-05-06", "text": "on which I think I did pretty well, and I did not have to study very hard for it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-05-06", "text": "Make Maude and Edith come.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-05-10", "text": "Father, Bamie, Conie, Cousin Maud [Elliott] and pretty Edith came on to visit me. Elliott also, full of Texan adventures.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-05-14", "text": "The family all went home, leaving me disconsolate. The last three days have been great fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-05-21", "text": "Grinding like mad for the annuals", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-06-03", "text": "I am glad you like my room, and next year I hope to have it even prettier when you all come on again.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-06-19", "text": "I have done well in my examinations so far (Got on the Rank list in all but one).", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-06-20", "text": "Poor Aunt Mary died. I left Cambridge for New York, to attend the Funeral.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-06-21", "text": "Started for Adirondacs [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-06-22", "text": "Reached St. Regis Lake Adirondacs [sic]. Staying at Paul Smith's, with Harry Minot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-03", "text": "Started into the woods to camp out, today.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-05", "text": "Potters Pond, 25 miles from Paul Smiths. Shot my 1st deer, a buck. Also a couple of black ducks and three ruffed grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-07", "text": "Came out of the woods today, Good fun, but not much fishing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-07", "text": "Weeks bag 4 buck 2 duck 3 grouse 52 trout (about 15 lbs).", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-07", "text": "Have had no tent. Eatables - bread & tea.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-10", "text": "Reached Oyster Bay in the afternoon", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-11", "text": "I enjoyed myself very much in camp, getting both deer and trout.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-16", "text": "Am leading the most thoroughly out of door life. Riding and walking every day and rowing in my little boat almost as often.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-07-25", "text": "On a 'frogging excursion", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-08-03", "text": "Emlen, Elliott and I started on a sailing trip in the Sound (which occupied 3 days)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-08-10", "text": "Got 6 herons at a heronry", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-08-11", "text": "Jack Elliott arrived today.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-08-24", "text": "Jack Elliott and I in my little boat rowed down to Whitestone", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-08-25", "text": "Coming back from Whitestone got caught in a heavy nor-easter, got home 1 a.m. Sunday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-05", "text": "Spent the day seineing for fish in a panny", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-08", "text": "Jack Elliott and I rowed round Loyd's Neck, portaging the 'isthmus'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-10", "text": "Jack and I rowed to Loyd's [sic] Neck, shooting several herons with rifle.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-11", "text": "Jack and I rowed round centre Island getting 1/2 dozen snipe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-12", "text": "Shot 2 sea-coots in the mouth of Harbor", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-13", "text": "Jack and I started out in our little boat and rowed to Hempstead Harbor, Camped out at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-14", "text": "Early in morning got 4 coots & 6 snipe. Returned to Oyster Bay.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-22", "text": "Rowed to Loyds neck to see Miss Boden. Heavy sea, got very wet, had to dry myself by lying naked on the dock for an hour. Big sea running as I came home.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-26", "text": "Rode over to see Miss Boden at Loyd's Ne came home at 10 p.m. & horse fell down on way back", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-27", "text": "Left for Cambridge", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-28", "text": "Cambridge. Am elected 5th man of 2d ten of Institute (D.K.E.)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-09-28", "text": "Started with my Sunday School again", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-04", "text": "Threw Davis wrestling", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-08", "text": "The work is much pleasanter than last year. I like the Zoological courses very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-12", "text": "Threw Ellis wrestling", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-14", "text": "is extremely difficult", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-14", "text": "Tell Father I am watching the 'controllership'.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-18", "text": "Boxed with Arthur Hooper. Even. Beat Ellis wrestling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-22", "text": "Beat Hooper boxing, and also Ellis", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-10-27", "text": "19 years old today. Rode over and spent night with Minot Weld.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-11-03", "text": "Hooper beat me badly boxing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-11-03", "text": "I beat Ellis and Brooks", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-11-09", "text": "Thank you for 'scotch naturalist'.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-11-09", "text": "It looks as if Father would not get the Collectorship.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-11-28", "text": "Went on to New York for Thanksgiving", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-04", "text": "Returned to Cambridge after Thanksgiving.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-08", "text": "No new developments in collectorship case; I am very afraid that Conkling has won the day.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-15", "text": "Gave red-haired Coolidge a tremendous thrashing in the gymnasium boxing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-15", "text": "Have done better than last year in my studies so far.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-16", "text": "I am very uneasy about Father.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-22", "text": "Suddenly called on to New York, Dear Father very sick.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-24", "text": "Father very much better.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-25", "text": "Xmas - Father seems much brighter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1877-12-25", "text": "Received a double barreled shot gun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-01", "text": "New York. Made about 20 calls. A particularly pleasant one on Annie Murray; she is a singularly sweet girl and one whom I wish I could serve.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-01", "text": "is also a great favorite of mine - a pure, religious, bright girl well read and I think a true friend. Edith C. makes up my trio of Freundinnen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-02", "text": "The vacation has now come to a happy end, although it opened so gloomily; but I wish my dearest Father were better. Today he told me I had never caused him a moment's pain. I should be less than human if I ever had, for he is the best, wisest and most loving of men, the type of all that is noble, brave, wise + good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-02", "text": "great fun", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-03", "text": "Cambridge. I have returned to my work today.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-04", "text": "Have naturally been thinking a good deal of home, especially of Father and of my darling Mother and sweet sisters, Elliott is a noble fellow, wonderfully grown up in every way.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-04", "text": "I suppose, after him, Jack Elliott is my best friend, one who would do anything for me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-04", "text": "Of my college friends I should say, at present, that Hal Minot, Will Blodgett, Minot Weld and Harry Chapin, were likely to become friends, and very possibly George Pellew, Arthur Hooper and Charley Washburn.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-06", "text": "Took up my Sunday School class as usual.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-07", "text": "Studies now fairly under way again. I think I shall do well in all except French 4, and very well in the Natural History courses.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-07", "text": "I am boxing with my 'tutor' five times a week; I am going to try hard for the light weight cups in boxing and wrestling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-08", "text": "The Natural History Professors are very pleasant and obliging.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-09", "text": "Dined with Agassiz. Very pleasant dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-10", "text": "Dined with 'Piggy' Everett. Charming and remarkably cultivated man - but very dirty.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-12", "text": "Dancing class in the evening. Some very sweet girls in Boston", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-12", "text": "Spent the night with Arthur Hooper (not coming back till Monday) .", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-13", "text": "Spent a lovely evening; Miss Jeannie Hooper reading aloud. She is a singularly sweet girl.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-14", "text": "Went to the Nuttall Ornithological club with Hal Minot. I like Brewster and Allen very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-16", "text": "Went to a Party at the Hoopers and had a very pleasant time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-18", "text": "Went to the theatre in the evening with a set of them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-19", "text": "Dined with Harry Shaw, going to a party afterwards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-22", "text": "Party in the evening. Went with the Hoopers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-23", "text": "Boxed with little Briggs and beat him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-26", "text": "Spent the afternoon with Minot Weld, staying at his house (Did not return till Monday).", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-26", "text": "Dancing class in the evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-29", "text": "Went to a party with Minot Weld, Harry Chapin, Bessie Whitney and the two Miss Lanes. Very nice girls are the two Miss Lanes.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-01-30", "text": "Was rather beaten in a boxing match with Bob Bacon; not much though.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-01", "text": "Threw Jack Tebbetts in a wrestling match.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-02", "text": "Made calls with Arthur Hooper.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-03", "text": "My opinion of Miss Jeannie grows more and more.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-05", "text": "'Anticipated' my second half year's required history, 83%", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-07", "text": "Semi-annual in history 91%", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-09", "text": "My dear Father, Born Sept. 23d 1831", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-12", "text": "He has just been buried. I shall never forget these terrible three days; the hideous suspense of the ride on; the dull, inert Sorrow, during which I felt as if I had been stunned, or as if part of my life had been taken away;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-12", "text": "He looked so calm and sweet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-12", "text": "With the help of my God, I will try to lead such a life as he would have wished.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-15", "text": "He was the most wise and loving father that ever lived: I owe everything to him. It is terrible to think I have never done anything for him, not even during his sickness.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-15", "text": "He was so unselfish and was so continually making others happy that he was always happy himself, his 46 years of life were, excepting the last two months, very happy ones.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-17", "text": "He was as wise and good in public as in private life. He was a great personal worker among the poor; some of his old 'patients' whom I visited have been very touching about him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-17", "text": "By the way it is very pleasant to see my old Mission scholars again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-18", "text": "The family have all been simply wonderful during his illness, especially Elliott and Bamie.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-19", "text": "It seems impossible to realize I shall never see him again: he is such a living memory.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-19", "text": "Truly 'he was eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, and a father to the poor'.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-20", "text": "Every one has been very kind. I never shall forget Uncle Jimmie Gracie's sweet sympathy at the two times when I most needed it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-20", "text": "Your sweet letter cheered us up a great deal.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-21", "text": "It is much worse for Mother and the girls than for me; but it is very terrible for us all.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-22", "text": "Every now and then it seems to me like a hideous dream.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-23", "text": "I came back to Cambridge today. I am left about $8,000 a year; comfortable although not rich.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-24", "text": "Oh, my Father! what loving, living memories you have left in my head!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-25", "text": "Hard at work again, Quite touched by my boxing teacher.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-26", "text": "All the fellows have been wonderfully kind, especially dear old Hal Minot. Harry Shaw very thoughtful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-27", "text": "Will Blodgett has rather disappointed me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-28", "text": "Got well through two of my semi-annuals-90 pec.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-02-28", "text": "All of the boys have been very kind and considerate.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-01", "text": "All the Professors very kind and considerate.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-02", "text": "Been dissecting a seal most of the day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-03", "text": "Have been thinking about Father all evening, have had a good square breakdown, and feel much the better for it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-04", "text": "It seems as if I could only begin to realize it now.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-04", "text": "You will have to give me a great deal of advice and assistance, now that our dear father is gone, for in many ways you are more like him than any of the rest of the family.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-05", "text": "Had the first meeting of the glass ball club. I broke 11 out of 25.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-05", "text": "It seems so brutal to go about my ordinary occupations, but I must keep employed. I can not bear to mix with the fellows yet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-06", "text": "Every now + then there are very bitter moments; if I had very much time to think I believe I should almost go crazy. But I think I can really and humbly say 'Thy will be done'.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-07", "text": "Looking back on his life, it seems as if mine must be such a weak useless one in comparison.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-07", "text": "I should like to be a scientist; oh, how I shall miss his sweet, sympathetic advice!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-08", "text": "Shot 11 out of 22", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-09", "text": "The light weight wrestling occured today. It is funny to look back and remember how I had trained for and anticipated it. It seems as if it was years ago. It is just one month since the blackest day of my life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-10", "text": "Have been thinking over the many, many lovely memories I have of him; had another square breakdown.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-10", "text": "My own heart's darling, I have so longed to be with you", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-10", "text": "to try to comfort you during this, our season of sorrow.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-11", "text": "It has been a most fortunate thing for me that I have had so much to do that I have not had much time to think.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-12", "text": "It is really wonderful, what sweet, unselfish letters the dear ones at home send me. It seems so strange never to write to him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-13", "text": "Have been tutoring Billy Gaston for his second wrestling bout", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-14", "text": "I have not been able to make up my mind to call on any of my friends in Boston yet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-15", "text": "Looked over his sweet, affectionate letters. They will always be to me a talisman against evil.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-16", "text": "Looked at the Sparring contest. Took a long walk with Dick Morgan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-17", "text": "Have been reading one of his favourite chapters, John XIV.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-18", "text": "Had a one hour examination in German. 98%", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-19", "text": "Have been looking over my Egyptian journal: every incident is connected with him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-19", "text": "he shared all my joys, and in sharing doubled them. and soothed all the few sorrows I ever had. But it is worse for Mother and the girls than for me; I wish so that I could be with them now.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-21", "text": "It is as if part of myself had been taken away. Every event of my life is bound up with him: he was as pure and unselfish as he was wise and good. But I have very much left to be grateful for.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-23", "text": "Had a 3 hour examination in Natural History. 95%", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-24", "text": "Have been writing to the dear ones at home, and thinking of the dear one to whom I shall never again write.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-25", "text": "Boxed with Teschmaker, and I think I beat him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-26", "text": "He was everything to me; father, companion, friend. I do not know whether I most valued his advice or his sympathy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-26", "text": "He was so fond of all amusements and outdoor sports, as riding, sailing and shooting; and without a particle of cant, was so deeply religious.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-30", "text": "Had a three hour semiannual in German. 90%. Bought Bonapartes' Fauna Italica; it is a rare work.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-03-31", "text": "I do not think there was a man in New York who did as much good as Father; and there certainly was no one who was so much loved and respected in his own family.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-01", "text": "Bacon rather used me up in a sparring match. Shot glass balls with Minot Weld and beat him - 6 out of 10; bad. Went to Nuttall Ornithological Club in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-02", "text": "It will seem so utterly unnatural for him not to be there. I can hardly conceive of a home without his presence; in looking back to all my happy family memories he is associated with every one. No evening was ever complete if spent without him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-02", "text": "Sometimes when I fully realize my loss I feel as if I should go wild.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-06", "text": "It is raining so I have been in the house all day; and have had rather a gloomy time, thinking over our loss.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-07", "text": "After all, it is merely selfish grief. I know this thoroughly; but it is very terrible sometimes.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-07", "text": "the only one that asks me questions is Watson, who is also very good; Ward is very good but frightfully stupid; Blennerhasset just as good, but much brighter; Kinsey bad and bright; Phillipot bad and stupid, and much the worst case of all.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-09", "text": "I left for New York in the night boat, in company with Harry Chapin.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-10", "text": "Was greeted with the most heartfelt joy by all but Bamie who is away in Denver.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-11", "text": "The coming home has been much harder than I expected; for the memories are frightfully vivid.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-11", "text": "But oh how much I have left to be thankful for!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-12", "text": "I am getting back my good opinion of Emlen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-13", "text": "He is one of the many who will miss Father terribly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-14", "text": "As my mottoes I take 'Trust in the Lord, and do good' 'Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-15", "text": "It was very hard at first, for everything was connected with the dear one we so loved.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-16", "text": "Rowed around Centre Island in my skiff. Killed a duck. Shot two muskrats in a brackish pond.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-17", "text": "Shot a muskrat in a shallow brook, not two feet wide and six inches deep; went back to the City.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-18", "text": "It is lovely to think of our meeting in heaven, when we shall be united with the dear one who has gone before.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-18", "text": "I have lost the only human being to whom I told everything, never failing to get loving advice and sweet sympathy in return. No one but my wife, if ever I marry, will ever be able to take his place. I so wonder who my wife will be!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-22", "text": "Darling, beloved Motherling came down and saw me off.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-22", "text": "On the boat I felt awfully homesick; and I was heartsick for Father.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-23", "text": "Cambridge. Am back in my snug little room once more, and was enthusiastically greeted by all the fellows.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-24", "text": "Only four more weeks of grinding hard", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-25", "text": "I am now getting over the first sharpness of grief", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-25", "text": "it is lovely to have such memories, but so sad to think they are only memories.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-28", "text": "Went to S.S. [Sunday School] for I expect the last time till October.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-29", "text": "I have been getting very good marks in my studies; he took such pride in my progress", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-04-30", "text": "Shaved off my whiskers and have in consequence been endlessly chaffed by the boys.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-01", "text": "but, I do not know why, today it has only given me pleasure to do so.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-02", "text": "He was just too sweet to me in the height of affliction.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-03", "text": "In the evening I went on to Minot Weld's and shall not return till Monday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-04", "text": "We knocked about the barnyard in the morning, looking over cows and chickens, In the afternoon Minot and I drove over to see Dick Saltonstall.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-05", "text": "Had a short capital and practical sermon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-05", "text": "It is wonderful to see how Father was beloved and respected by everyone.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-06", "text": "Returned to Cambridge early.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-07", "text": "what I most valued them for was his pride in them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-08", "text": "Our table was photographed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-09", "text": "In the evening I went on (in company with Hal Chapin) to New York by the last Fall River boat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-10", "text": "Arrived in New York at 7.00 a.m. and took the 10 a.m. train for Oyster Bay, where I found sweet Muffie.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-10", "text": "Stayed night at Oyster Bay", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-11", "text": "Of course I was awfully petted up.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-12", "text": "It does me positive good, morally and mentally, to be with them even for a short time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-13", "text": "Came in town early and took the night boat for Boston.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-14", "text": "Cambridge Arrived early in the morning.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-15", "text": "Am grinding like a trojan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-16", "text": "He is a very rough diamond; but still, I think a diamond.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-16", "text": "No words can tell how I shall miss his advice as to what I shall do when I leave college.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-19", "text": "Had a very good sermon on the duty of putting a complete finish on whatever we undertake.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-19", "text": "Took a very long walk in the afternoon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-20", "text": "Am studying harder on that villainous french; but I have to work on everything.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-21", "text": "For exercise I have been relying on lawn tennis and occasionally going out in the river in a shell.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-22", "text": "he is an old trump and I am glad he is going to be at our table next year.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-23", "text": "Rather unwell and feverish; had a terribly distinct and vivid dream about Father. It has made me feel very sad.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-23", "text": "'The Lord is my comforter.'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-24", "text": "Bob Bacon made wonderful time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-25", "text": "Our nine were disgracefully beaten by the Yales.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-26", "text": "Broke through my rule and studied today", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-27", "text": "Annual in Anatomy", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-28", "text": "'Tutoring' about six men for tomorrow's examination", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-29", "text": "Annual in Rhetoric", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-30", "text": "Annual in German", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-05-31", "text": "The weather has luckily been very cool and good for studying in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-01", "text": "Have been feeling rather under the weather this week, unluckily.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-02", "text": "Thank fortune, all the hard work for this spring is over.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-02", "text": "Very often, when I have done well in something I find my self thinking 'How pleased Father will be!' It seems perfectly terrible sometimes to think of never seeing him again; I long for him so.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-03", "text": "All of my Bostonian friends have been very hospitable and kind, and by so doing have added wonderfully to the enjoyment of my college course.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-05", "text": "In evening left Cambridge for New York", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-06", "text": "Coming back here has recalled Father very vividly and very sadly to me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-06", "text": "It is impossible to tell in words how terribly I miss him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-07", "text": "Had a splendid ride on Lightfoot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-07", "text": "Father Father how bitterly I miss you, mourn you, and long for you!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-08", "text": "Spent the morning in sandpapering and varnishing my boat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-08", "text": "There comes a dull pain at my heart whenever I think of the dear lost one.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-09", "text": "All through the sermon I was thinking of Father.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-09", "text": "Oh, I feel so sad when I think of the word 'never'.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-10", "text": "Made a long tramp in the morning, rising with the sun and coming back at nine. Then built my boat house for the rest of the day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-11", "text": "I am afraid if I should stay long at home I should get spoiled and conceited, the family pet me up so.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-12", "text": "She goes away tomorrow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-13", "text": "Had my first swim.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-13", "text": "This is the first summer that all the Roosevelt boys (except myself) have been in business.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-14", "text": "Poor fellow! He is really deeply in love with her and has been so for three years.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-15", "text": "I like her very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-16", "text": "The house was very gloomy and desolate, and thinking of Father made me feel so sad and lonely.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-17", "text": "It was terribly hard luck; thank heavens I am not of a nature to take things hardly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-18", "text": "Funnily enough I was elected into the A.D. club - a totally unexpected social success.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-18", "text": "I took the night boat to New York.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-19", "text": "he did everything for me, and I nothing for him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-20", "text": "Made hideous scores with the rifle in the morning", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-21", "text": "Am leading the most intensely happy + healthy, out of doors life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-21", "text": "Father was himself so invariably cheerful that I feel it would be wrong for me to be gloomy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-21", "text": "Had a glorious 20-mile ride on Lightfoot; cantering the whole time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-24", "text": "My face is beginning. to look like an underdone lobster.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-25", "text": "There was quite a sea running and I shipped a good deal of water.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-26", "text": "Rowed to the marsh.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-27", "text": "Came on here to see the race.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-28", "text": "Harvard won easily. Am perfectly hoarse from shouting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-29", "text": "Bought a Sharps rifle. Harvard won the baseball championship.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-06-30", "text": "I was much struck with one remark, that Christianity gives us, on this earth, rest in trouble, not from trouble. Nothing but my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ could have carried me through this, my terrible time of trial and sorrow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-01", "text": "Tried the new rifle and made 67 out of 100; it works very well, but I am an awful shot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-01", "text": "The bathing is perfectly delicious.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-02", "text": "Tried the rifle; 71 out of 100.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-03", "text": "whom I found very sweet and pretty and a little wee bit out of temper.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-04", "text": "Enjoyed the sail most thoroughly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-06", "text": "The portage took 14 minutes, and the tide was so low I had to make a circuit of half a mile.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-07", "text": "I can never thank God sufficiently for having given me such a lovely, affectionate family.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-08", "text": "My horse now goes very well and is almost entirely free from lameness.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-09", "text": "now I must rely on myself in difficulties, while before I had always carried everything to him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-10", "text": "got stuck in the mud flats and had hideous work getting out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-11", "text": "often feel badly that such a wonderful man as Father should have had a son of so little worth as I am.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-12", "text": "while Alfred takes me for about what I am worth,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-13", "text": "Ran a mile through the woods at speed; shall probably repeat this every day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-14", "text": "Materialism and superstition are equally repugnant to me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-14", "text": "But 'Trust in the Lord and do good!'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-15", "text": "hotter than tophette", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-17", "text": "In all about 35 miles and the horse as fresh as when he started.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-18", "text": "Very hot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-19", "text": "In all I rowed rather over 25 miles.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-21", "text": "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-25", "text": "I like them ever so much, they are so sweet and homelike.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-26", "text": "Returned to Oyster Bay.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-27", "text": "She beats very badly, but is stiff and sails pretty fast off the wind.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-29", "text": "At high tide it is good fun to paddle through the lagoons and among the winding channels, with an occasional shot at a heron or snipe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-07-31", "text": "Rowed round Centre Island in Alfred's boat in 1h 24m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-02", "text": "Portage took but four minutes, tide being dead high.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-03", "text": "My horse has done wonderfully this season; I have not missed riding him a single day when at home", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-04", "text": "I am no believer in faith without works.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-04", "text": "With Gods help I shall try to lead such a life as Father would have wished me to.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-05", "text": "I shot wretchedly; missing over half my birds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-06", "text": "It being Edith C's 17th birthday, I sent her a bonbonierre", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-07", "text": "Dear old Jack Elliott arrived today, to stay five or six weeks.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-09", "text": "Oyster Bay is the perfection of a place for fellows; I often wonder if any one could have a happier time than I am having.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-09", "text": "Six months ago", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-09", "text": "it seems so much longer.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-10", "text": "I am well satisfied; + and my dearest Father would have been so pleased.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-10", "text": "Funnily enough I am rather laid up by an attack of cholera morbus.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-11", "text": "As usual when I have nothing to do (a rare event, thank fortune) I have been thinking a great deal of Father.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-15", "text": "I tried my new knickerbockers gaiters and hunting shoes, which worked to a charm.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-15", "text": "had glorious sport, +, funnily enough, feel fresh as a lark.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-20", "text": "It is really touching to see how much in love he is.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-21", "text": "spending a lovely morning with her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-22", "text": "My ride today was so long and hard that I am afraid it may have injured my horse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-24", "text": "rolling it over with my revolver very neatly as it ran alongside the horse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-25", "text": "I like our custom of having family prayers in the morning and evening of Sunday very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-27", "text": "It is very lazy but very pleasant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-28", "text": "I never slept or ate better in my life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-29", "text": "I passed a good deal of time in the cross trees", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-08-30", "text": "Have most heartily enjoyed the cruise,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-01", "text": "I have absolutely no idea what I should do when I leave college.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-01", "text": "my duty is clear - to study well and live like a brave Christian gentleman.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-03", "text": "staunch though the little boat is, we shipped a good deal of water.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-04", "text": "he is as sweet and gentle a fellow as I have ever seen, and very bright; and a true friend to me", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-05", "text": "Called on poor Cassin; he is dying by inches.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-06", "text": "Father's death has taken away much of my capacity for grieving.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-07", "text": "Have a pretty bad attack of asthma", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-08", "text": "I try whenever I can only to recall his grand and beautful life. Oh Father, Father!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-09", "text": "Spent the day hunting partridges but did not even see one.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-10", "text": "I had good fun paddling, and tramping through the woods", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-11", "text": "he and I are great companions and he is a true friend.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-13", "text": "I killed a bat and a nighthawk.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-14", "text": "I am disgusted with myself.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-15", "text": "Read my bible in the morning", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-16", "text": "But enjoyed the walk greatly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-18", "text": "I like moccasins to walk through the woods with very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-20", "text": "Was nicely sold by the boys with a dead duck placed in a life like attitude in a pond.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-21", "text": "The leaves are now beginning to turn and the woods are perfectly beautiful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-22", "text": "Spent the day much as last Sunday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-24", "text": "There has been absolutely no disagreement between any members of the party.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-27", "text": "To my great surprise I was offered the Porcellian; of course I could not accept, being a member of the A.D. - but I wish I could.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-29", "text": "I shall not take up my sunday school till next Sunday or the one after.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-09-30", "text": "I joined the rifle club; I am going to practice pretty regularly with the rifle this year.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-01", "text": "Was elected into the Glee club.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-02", "text": "I shall not begin smoking till I am twenty one; as it is, I drink very little.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-03", "text": "Attended the first meeting of the Art Club, and found it very pleasant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-04", "text": "Of my studies this year I like best the philosophy and political economy", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-05", "text": "Spent the morning at the rifle range.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-06", "text": "Communion Sunday", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-07", "text": "I am working pretty hard now", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-08", "text": "Darling, beloved, little motherling", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-09", "text": "it is terribly hard to know what is the honorable thing to do.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-11", "text": "Have finally decided to go into the Porcellian", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-12", "text": "Charley Ware is a capital fellow and a thoroughly good one too", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-13", "text": "It makes it very homelike to have old Charley Dickey in the same house with me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-13", "text": "Over half my college career is done.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-15", "text": "The A.D. men have behaved like trumps.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-18", "text": "All his family are just too sweet to me for anything, and the whole house is so homelike.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-19", "text": "a very sweet pretty girl.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-22", "text": "It was good fun to see the crew wade in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-23", "text": "I am very much interested in the Political Economy, although I by no means altogether agree with Mill.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-24", "text": "He is a disgrace to the family - the vulgar brute.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-25", "text": "as soon as I come home from this holiday I shall set to with a will.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-26", "text": "It is just lovely to be back with the family again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-27", "text": "Oh, Father, sometimes I feel as though I would give half my life to see you but for a moment!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-28", "text": "I sailed home from Pine Island at a tremendous speed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-29", "text": "The wind was light and baffling and we saw but few birds but had capital fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-30", "text": "I missed a good shot at a grebe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-10-31", "text": "Rainy again! I have had most awful luck in weather this time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-01", "text": "Went on to Cambridge", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-02", "text": "Still, I could wind up my watch. Wine always makes me awfully fighty.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-03", "text": "Took up my sunday school class again; the scholars were all delighted to see me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-05", "text": "To my utter astonishment Nell [Elliott] + Mother turned up, on for the day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-10", "text": "Miss Alice Lee was there, as sweet and pretty as ever; and I enjoyed myself most heartily.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-10", "text": "Remember me to Annie and Fanny, and give my love to Edith - if she's in a good humor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-12", "text": "Had a sparring match with Billy Gaston.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-18", "text": "have been studying like a Trojan lately.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-27", "text": "I really feel almost as if I were at home when I am over there.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-11-28", "text": "They all call me by my first name now.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-01", "text": "The food is capital, and it is pleasant to be with the fellows.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-02", "text": "it was great fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-05", "text": "getting the worst of it of course; but I gave him his work.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-09", "text": "spend more time in the club than I ought to, playing whist and billiards, and at partridge suppers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-10", "text": "We have started a Finance Club which bids fair to do very well", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-11", "text": "It seems so terrible to think that he will not be with us at Christmas,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-11", "text": "But with the help of my God I shall try to lead such a life as he would have wished", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-15", "text": "I was afraid I should break down in church, It has made me feel very homesick.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-18", "text": "I like him very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-19", "text": "Have gotten pretty good marks so far, this year.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-21", "text": "Truly, these are the golden years of my life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-22", "text": "but now the sweet is overcoming the bitter in our memories of him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-23", "text": "All the Roosevelts are getting engaged.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-24", "text": "It is a relief to find some one not in love.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-25", "text": "He was the perfect life of all our enjoyments.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-25", "text": "Received beautiful presents - chiefly books", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-26", "text": "it seems to look more + more as if 1 was going to be a Naturalist.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-27", "text": "What a wonderful set of relations I have got - cousins and all, especially my own family.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-28", "text": "and I shot an Ipswich sparrow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-29", "text": "He is the best companion on a trip of this kind I know.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-30", "text": "Tired, rather.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1878-12-31", "text": "but have never had a more glorious day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-01", "text": "We had a very jolly time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-04", "text": "What an old trump Nell is.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-05", "text": "I wonder if ever a man had two better sisters than I have!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-06", "text": "have begun studying with a will.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-11", "text": "The sleighing was splendid; we could not have had a better day - cold, clear and calm.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-11", "text": "the need of someone to talk to about my favorite pursuits.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-12", "text": "Started my Sunday School class again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-15", "text": "One of my old flames, pretty Helen White, is a bridesmaid.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-18", "text": "I was dressed nolens volens, taken up to the club and all around, and did not get to bed till 6 a.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-20", "text": "Began running for the Pudding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-24", "text": "Was initiated into the Pudding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-25", "text": "Tom Lee came in and we had a grand theological discussion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-26", "text": "I never had better fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-26", "text": "The whole family call me 'Thee' now.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-31", "text": "We had capital fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-01-31", "text": "I like the two girls more and more every day - especially pretty Alice", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-03", "text": "Began grinding like a trump.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-06", "text": "Semiannuals began.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-09", "text": "One year ago today the man who was not only my father, but was my dearest loved friend, died.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-16", "text": "Have been working hard all the week.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-21", "text": "I have been working hard since Christmas, and shall now take a rest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-22", "text": "How I wish I could ever do something to keep up his name!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-02-28", "text": "It was bitterly cold, but still, and we were well wrapped up, so I enjoyed the ride very much,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-01", "text": "Tried snowshoing for the first time. Went about six miles, making the round of Will Dow's \"lucivee' [lynx] traps, which however contained nothing. The woods looked simply perfect, all the evergreens being loaded with snow; I have never seen a grander sight than these northern forests in winter. I got along very well, except in a cedar swamp. We saw many tracks of lucivees, foxes, otters and rabbits; and found a porcupine up in a hemlock. I brought him down quite neatly with the rifle.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-02", "text": "Read my bible in the morning. In the afternoon took a tramp through the woods; I can not get used to the extreme beauty of the snow covered pine and spruce forests. The cold does not bother me at all in the woods, but if there is any wind it is very disagreeable in the open. I get along very well on snow shoes, but the swamps are very tough work - although perhaps not so bad as in summer. There is very little life in the woods.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-03", "text": "Went off on a tramp through the woods with Will Dow. Walked up to Dyer Brook, then a couple of miles along it, and then struck out in the woods. The best walking was on the hard wood grounds; it was fearfully hard work in some of the thick, swampy spruce and cedar thickets, but not as bad as in summer. I saw an arctic woodpecker by a stream and some Halldronian chickadees in a spruce wood, and two whiskey jacks came round us at lunch time; we saw two or three hare tracks, and once the round footprints of a canada lynx, and found where a spruce partridge had passed the night; but in an 8 hour tramp, these were the only traces of life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-04", "text": "Spent the day tramping through the woods with Will Seawall. We saw a good many tracks of lucivees, foxes, rabbits, otters, minks, weasels, squirrels, porcupines + c; but the only living creatures were a couple of chickadees and a woodpecker. Finally we found the footprints of a partridge on some hardwood ground, and following them up roused the bird from under a fallen birch top, and I shot it. The snow shoing [sic] is poor, the snow being wet or heavy, and the weather warmish. 1 ruffed grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-05", "text": "Otherwise I am enjoying myself to the utmost, but the asthma keeps me up a good deal at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-06", "text": "When we started the thermometer was 10° below zero, but I was too well wrapped up to heed the cold", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-07", "text": "I caught a glimpse of him as he vanished not thirty yards distant, but had no chance to fire.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-08", "text": "Generally he trotted, coming down not only on his hoofs but on his whole lower legs, the snow being over three feet deep, but in bad ground he made great jumps like a huge rabbit.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-09", "text": "I like these lumbermen very much, and get on capitally with them - great, rough, hospitable fellows. I am great friends with one in especial, Charley Brown.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-10", "text": "In the evening we had a royal venison supper - a pleasant change from the ordinary routine of pork + beans.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-10", "text": "I have got enough health to last me till next summer.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-11", "text": "Several times when the horse floundered off the track into the deep snow drifts we had to unharness him and drag the sleigh ourselves for a hundred yards or so.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-12", "text": "The snowshoing, for the first time since I have been up here, was capital.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-13", "text": "I enjoyed the walk extremely.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-14", "text": "However I have had good success this trip, and I have never passed a pleasanter two weeks. The skins of the fox, lucivee [lynx], coon and buck make quite a set of trophies;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-15", "text": "I am now going to study all the time till Easter, doing double work to make up for my holiday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-16", "text": "Got home this morning at 11 o'clock, too late for church.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-22", "text": "Sparred for the light weight cup; won against my first man but was beaten by Hanks, the champion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-22", "text": "have been studying extremely hard the past week and have succeeded in making up pretty much all I lost while I was in Maine.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-23", "text": "2nd best in sparring contest", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-26", "text": "They were so cordial and so glad to see me that I felt exactly as if I were at home.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-26", "text": "I passed the evening at the Lees, with pretty Alice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-27", "text": "D.K.E. theatricals. They were very good", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-28", "text": "Pudding Theatricals. They were excellent - I have never seen better.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-29", "text": "I enjoyed myself very much indeed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-30", "text": "Had a very unusually interesting time at Sunday School, showing the boys a lot of eastern photographs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-03-31", "text": "I sat by pretty Alice Lee before and during the performance, and spent most of the remainder of the evening with Nana Rotch; so it is needless to say I enjoyed myself very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-01", "text": "Otho Williams, Jim Wright, Charley Sprague and myself had a very pleasant game supper in the Porc.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-02", "text": "I gave Alice the lynx skin, made into a rug; and Rose the fox. Alice is making me a pair of slippers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-03", "text": "Edith is just the same sweet little flirt as ever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-03", "text": "Pet Pussie: At last the deed is done and I have shaved off my whiskers!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-04", "text": "Darling little Muffie has gotten sick; and it makes me feel miserable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-05", "text": "We enjoyed ourselves extremely.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-06", "text": "Poor old Em has been rejected by Grace Parish!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-06", "text": "It is awfully hard on him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-07", "text": "Emlen gave us a lunch in the Down Town Club", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-08", "text": "Motherling is almost well again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-09", "text": "Started work again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-11", "text": "teaching her the five step waltz.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-18", "text": "My horse has arrived; I determined to keep him in Cambridge this Spring. I keep him at Pikes Stable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-19", "text": "Snowed heavily all day long!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-19", "text": "In the evening we played whist and read ghost stories.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-20", "text": "After Church we went to the Francises.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-21", "text": "In the afternoon took my horse out for the first time; he went beautifully, but of course is full of the Old Harry - which adds greatly to the enjoyment.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-22", "text": "It was the one thing wanting for perfect enjoyment.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-23", "text": "Besides the rides through all this country round Boston are beautiful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-24", "text": "a bright, clever girl.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-25", "text": "I am trying to sweat the horses winter coat off him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-26", "text": "I sincerely wish I had not", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-26", "text": "In vino veritas.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-27", "text": "They have been very good this year.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-28", "text": "Rode over to Chestnut Hill and afterwards to Jamaica Plains.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-29", "text": "Spent the evening at the Rotches.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-04-30", "text": "Alice and I sat just behind the others", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-01", "text": "Rode over to the Jamaica Plains to call on the Welds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-02", "text": "Had a rifle match beating Sam Skinner and being beaten by Fred Sharon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-03", "text": "At four o clock George Minot called for me", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-04", "text": "Alice and I soon seperated from the others and we did not return till nearly six.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-07", "text": "Woodbury Kane is 1st man of the 1st ten from '82; Charles Dickey 2d.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-08", "text": "What a royally good time I am having. I can't conceive of a fellow possibly enjoying himself more.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-09", "text": "I like Miss Julia very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-10", "text": "we had our photographs taken.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-11", "text": "After Church again went out walking with sweet, pretty Alice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-12", "text": "It was the best stroke I ever made, getting him on here.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-13", "text": "I rode like Jehu, both coming and going, and as it was pitch dark when I returned (about 10.15) we fell, while galloping down hill - a misadventure which I thoroughly deserve for being a fool.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-14", "text": "I have been an awful fool to ride the horse so hard.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-17", "text": "I went in the morning to see the class races, which were exceedingly good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-18", "text": "the scenery around here is very beautiful, and the country is now simply perfect.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-19", "text": "I took tea with the Lanes, and had a very pleasant evening", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-20", "text": "am afraid I have lamed my horse hopelessly; it is very tough luck; but at least I did have royal sport for the three weeks and a half I had him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-21", "text": "Our photographs are a great success.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-22", "text": "In the afternoon acted as judge at the Harvard Athletic Ass.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-23", "text": "I had some lovely waltzes with Alice, Rose, Lulu Lane + Miss Francis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-24", "text": "It is frightfuly tough luck; but I deserved it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-24", "text": "I have never passed a pleasanter evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-25", "text": "In the afternoon I drove over in a buggy to Chestnut Hill", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-27", "text": "(we are very intimate now)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-29", "text": "I walked over to Chestnut Hill", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-30", "text": "the whole thing was a great success.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-05-31", "text": "I like both Miss Nellie and Miss Julia very much", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-02", "text": "My first annual examination.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-04", "text": "Dick S. and I drove over to the Whitneys", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-07", "text": "It makes me feel like a new man to have the horse well again; I had a most glorious ride.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-08", "text": "spent the evening there, very pleasantly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-10", "text": "Rode over to Chestnut Hill and spent the afternoon at the Saltonstalls.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-13", "text": "Passed my last examination.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-14", "text": "walking home next morning in a dress suit nearly walked over a proctor.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-15", "text": "I came within an ace of smashing up against a wagon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-16", "text": "I am living a life of most luxurious ease at present.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-16", "text": "It is very pleasant - but I do not suppose it would be healthy to continue it too long.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-17", "text": "2 two {sic] young ladies have cost me over $150 so far.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-18", "text": "In the evening I went to the Pudding Strawberry Night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-19", "text": "I got into a row with a mucker and knocked him down; cutting my knuckles pretty badly against his teeth.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-20", "text": "Class day; I think I have never passed such a pleasant day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-20", "text": "I never saw her looking sweeter or prettier.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-21", "text": "In the evening there was a Porc. Supper.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-22", "text": "Any number of fellows came in to call during the afternoon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-23", "text": "My horse is looking and feeling beautifully, and is in wild spirits.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-24", "text": "I shall be even more sorry to leave Chestnut Hill than to leave Harvard.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-25", "text": "the ball match with Yale, which we won.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-26", "text": "Like my other Boston friends they have been exceedingly kind to me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-27", "text": "I have absolutely no voice left, thanks to the shouting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-28", "text": "So ends my Junior Year; and I can not possibly conceive of any fellow having a pleasanter time than I have had.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-28", "text": "I doubt if I ever shall enjoy myself so much again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-29", "text": "Muffie and the two darling girls greeted me so lovingly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-30", "text": "I lead just the same active, out of door life that I always enjoy so much, - with my horse, gun and row boat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-06-30", "text": "The swimming is capital.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-03", "text": "at one fence we got a regular cropper, the horse rolling right over on me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-04", "text": "We all spent the day together", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-05", "text": "I am leading the most delightful life a fellow well could.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-06", "text": "I like our simple Presbyterian form for this service so much; it always makes me think - and I generally do not do very much thinking on serious subjects.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-07", "text": "I like and respect both Earl and Cleve very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-09", "text": "Naturally I am in magnificent health and spirits.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-10", "text": "I am now training my horse to go in harness.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-11", "text": "a delightful sense of ease and absence of care - that consititutes the chief charm of Oyster Bay to me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-12", "text": "Am teaching my horse to trot, as I think of putting him in a tilbury next winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-14", "text": "Rowed across the sound to Sheffield Island light and back, a distance of 30 miles.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-18", "text": "This trip we have sailors hammocks , which we sling in the cock pit - great improvment to our former way of sleeping on the boards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-19", "text": "I saw a good many terns and gulls and a few coots - also a stormy petrel.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-20", "text": "I don't like sailing on Sunday but we are short of water + must reach New London.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-21", "text": "Saw a shark or two and a good many porpoises", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-22", "text": "At 7.30 we came to anchor under the lee of Charles Island.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-23", "text": "Al and Doc are not only good friends but extremely pleasant companions.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-23", "text": "The trip has been a great success.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-26", "text": "By Jove, those five are friends worth having.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-27", "text": "I have not done much collecting this summer for, as you know, I don't approve of too much slaughter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-07-30", "text": "As atheletes we are about equal; he rows best; I run best; he can beat me sailing or swimming; I can beat him wrestling or boxing. I am best with the rifle, he with the shotgun", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-01", "text": "He is a pretty good shot - I am not.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-04", "text": "I really shot very well today - rather an unusual incident with me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-05", "text": "I have had several very pleasant rows and rides with her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-06", "text": "To Edith K. Carow on her eighteenth birthday from her sincere friend Theodore Roosevelt.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-07", "text": "We had to make several portages.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-11", "text": "I often take Motherling out walking, or Bysie or Pussie out rowing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-14", "text": "The birds were moulting, however, and were very much scattered", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-16", "text": "In Zoology and Political Economy I lead every body.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-17", "text": "Every Sunday we have morning, and evening prayers; I wish we could have them every day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-17", "text": "These three, and my best friend, old brother Nell, give me as happy a home as a man could possibly have.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-18", "text": "am thinking pretty seriously as to what I shall do when I leave College; I shall probably either pursue a scientific course, or else study law, preparatory to going into public life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-19", "text": "I wonder if there could be two better guardians than Uncle Jim Roosevelt and Uncle Jimmie Gracie! I can't imagine it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-20", "text": "dear old Dick gave me the most hearty and enthusiastic greeting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-21", "text": "The Whitneys are exceedingly hospitable and cordial.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-22", "text": "Alice was so bewitchingly pretty that it was frightfully hard to refuse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-23", "text": "I shall make a short trip with them to Katahdin.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-24", "text": "I have taken both rifle + shot gun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-25", "text": "Em + Arthur are capitel fellows for a trip of this kind -unselfish, good natured, and not minding a little fatigue + hardship.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-26", "text": "I carried about 45 lbs, including my gun + cartridges.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-27", "text": "It is very pleasant + Like old times in the evenings, round the roaring logs of the camp fire.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-28", "text": "wet, tired and hungry - but happy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-29", "text": "I find I can endure fatigue + hardship pretty nearly as well as these lumbermen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-30", "text": "Trout of small size are very plentiful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-31", "text": "You get pretty dirty in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-08-31", "text": "but I am enjoying myself exceedingly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-01", "text": "Am in beautiful condition; + I find I can walk, wrestle + shoot with most of these lumbermen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-02", "text": "I have enjoyed the trip exceedingly; the boys are most pleasant companions.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-03", "text": "Spent the afternoon driving about in a buckboard looking for partridges; but saw none.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-04", "text": "I shall go in a canoe alone with Seawall.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-04", "text": "I shall only use moccasins.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-05", "text": "fare and sleeping accomodations being both primative to a degree.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-06", "text": "The scenery is very beautiful and wild; I saw no trace of man - but also no trace of game.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-07", "text": "I compromised by not shooting or fishing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-08", "text": "Tired out, + wet through, hungry + cold - but am having a lovely time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-09", "text": "although the work is very hard, I am enjoying the trip greatly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-10", "text": "I am very fond of the evenings round the camp fire, beneath the little tent.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-11", "text": "we have shot our own meat", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-12", "text": "The walking was pretty good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-13", "text": "Wore one of my moccasins almost out, which made me rather footsore.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-14", "text": "I don't know a better or more intelligent race of men than these shrewd, plucky, honest Yankees - all of them hunters, lumbermen or small farmers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-14", "text": "our trip to Katahdin was absolute luxury.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-15", "text": "Rained all day, so did not start.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-16", "text": "Started with Bill, in a rough wagon with a rougher horse; the roads were rougher still; and the cabin we are now staying in, after going about 30 miles, is roughest of all.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-17", "text": "where we were very well treated.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-18", "text": "as tough as a pine knot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-19", "text": "Walked down through the woods", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-20", "text": "I shot very well, but not as well as Dow and Seawall.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-21", "text": "What glorious fun I am having this year!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-21", "text": "And my life has such absurd contrasts. At one time I live in the height of luxury; and then for a month will undergo really severe toil and hardship - and I enjoy both extremes almost equally.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-22", "text": "I shall be very sorry to end this trip; and yet how I shall enjoy getting back to Harvard.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-23", "text": "both it + the fish ducks were very good eating!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-24", "text": "Am feeling as strong as a bull.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-24", "text": "By jove, it sometimes seems as if I were having too happy a time to have it last. I enjoy every moment I live, almost.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-25", "text": "I intend to have lovely fun this winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-26", "text": "I felt as if I had come home.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-27", "text": "My cart is the greatest success of the season.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-28", "text": "I am having a lovely time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-29", "text": "I am perfectly delighted with the horse and cart", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-29", "text": "tough as a pine knot", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-09-30", "text": "9-1 work at my zoology course in the Museum, 2-5 Field work in Geology.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-01", "text": "Old Dick I place on a par with the Roosevelts.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-02", "text": "The drive home was delightful, there being a most beautiful full moon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-03", "text": "a most charming girl, Harriet Lawrence.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-04", "text": "In all I work 36 hours a week - generally a little more.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-05", "text": "Recommenced our usual Sunday morning Porcellian breakfasts.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-08", "text": "Am training for running.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-09", "text": "only stayed a very short time", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-10", "text": "I have my hands altogether too full of society work", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-11", "text": "Had a great Porc. Supper", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-12", "text": "Dick being decidedly under the weather from last nights spree", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-13", "text": "the cart rides as easily as a cradle.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-13", "text": "I stand 19th in the class.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-15", "text": "loveliest kind of an evening with Rosy, Alice and Rose", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-16", "text": "had a most amusing time.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-17", "text": "a small silver fan chain", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-18", "text": "I like the Guilds very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-19", "text": "Walked home from Church with the Miss Bacons", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-20", "text": "it was a divine morning and the little horse went like Sancho.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-20", "text": "I do not have much spare time.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-20", "text": "I think I can certainly get away to the White Mts. for a Saturday and a Sunday this October.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-22", "text": "Nothing was hurt however.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-23", "text": "I find I don't get to bed very early.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-24", "text": "Took the night boat for New York.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-25", "text": "It is perfectly lovely to see all the family again", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-26", "text": "Passed the usual dear old Oyster Bay Sunday", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-27", "text": "My 21st birthday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-27", "text": "I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalenced them, And yet on this day I can not help thinking with sadness about Father, my best and most loved and revered friend; may God help me to live as he would have wished.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-28", "text": "Spent the day playing tennis, walking and Towing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-29", "text": "a dense catbriar jungle which scratched my hands and arms till my shirt became soaked with blood", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-30", "text": "so I did not get a shot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-10-31", "text": "The quail were plenty; but scattered easily and had to be whistled together.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-01", "text": "Went out shooting, spending the whole day tramping about through the woods and fields. Game was plenty but I shot badly", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-01", "text": "2 squirrel 3 rabbit 5 quail.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-02", "text": "In the afternoon I left Oyster Bay with much reluctance and came in to New York to spend the night at Uncle Jim's.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-03", "text": "Went on to Boston.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-04", "text": "Started studying with a will; by the end of this week I shall make up all I have lost.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-05", "text": "Drove Harry Shaw over to the Lymans, afterwards dined at the Saltonstalls.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-08", "text": "Miss Bessie I like more and more", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-09", "text": "Drove back to Cambridge in time for my Sunday School. Passed the evening very pleasantly with pretty Lulu Lane.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-10", "text": "The horse and cart go beautifully.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-11", "text": "Oh, the changeableness of the female mind.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-12", "text": "I spend most of my spare time in Cambridge in the club; and I also go a good deal to the A.D., where the fellows are very pleasant and intellectual - a rare thing with college boys.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-14", "text": "Went on to New York to see our football team play Princeton", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-15", "text": "Our team was beaten.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-16", "text": "she is the most cultivated, best read girl I know.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-17", "text": "Came on to Boston with the girls. Class meeting at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-18", "text": "I nearly died laughing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-20", "text": "Snowing heavily; Dick + I drove over to the Saltonstalls for dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-21", "text": "Dined at the Lawrences passing a very pleasant evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-22", "text": "It was the greatest success imaginable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-22", "text": "Everything went off to perfection; the dinner was capital, the flowers very pretty and we had great fun with the toasts and speeches.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-23", "text": "It has been very pleasant to have them on here, and they have enjoyed themselves greatly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-26", "text": "I am now most thoroughly and happily at home here, and I really love every member of the family.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-27", "text": "Afterwards we had great fun, playing games, dancing + acting charades.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-28", "text": "I stayed up till all hours with dear old Mr. Saltonstall, talking poetry and theology", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-29", "text": "telling stories to Phil + Cotty", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-11-30", "text": "After Church I left the Hill, with the deepest regret that the lovely five days were over", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-02", "text": "I am going out into society this winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-03", "text": "Had a little supper up in the Porc.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-06", "text": "I enjoy my horse and cart more and more every day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-07", "text": "My Sunday School is getting along swimmingly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-10", "text": "They have been very sweet to me, and I like them both very much, especially pretty miss Lulu.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-11", "text": "dancing with Rosy Lee, who looked as pretty as a picture.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-13", "text": "Ran 3 miles (slowly, in 21 m) in the morning", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-15", "text": "They are both perfectly radiant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-17", "text": "Pudding Theatricals in the evening, very good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-18", "text": "Had an awfully jolly evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-20", "text": "It is perfectly delightful to see all the family again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-22", "text": "We had capital fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-23", "text": "Snowed hard; sleighing excellent.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-25", "text": "Xmas. Lovely time, Received beautiful presents.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-28", "text": "Spent the afternoon at the Newsboys Lodging house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1879-12-31", "text": "danced the old year out and drank the new year in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-01", "text": "We had great fun, dancing waltzes, polka redowas and the Virginia Reel.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-02", "text": "we have enjoyed their visit exceedingly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-03", "text": "of all sexes + ages.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-05", "text": "the horse goes beautifully now though sometimes a little frisky.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-11", "text": "I was requested to resign my Sunday School Class, as I am a Presbyterian and would not become an Episcopalian!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-11", "text": "Please send my silk hat on at once; why has it not come before?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-12", "text": "I am very fond of dancing: it is my favourite amusement, excepting horseback riding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-13", "text": "Tried my horse in the sleigh for the first time; he went beautifully.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-17", "text": "I am exercising pretty regularly in the gymnasiam single stick, vaulting, sparring, and running 3 or 4 miles a day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-18", "text": "Spent the evening very pleasantly at the Rotches.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-21", "text": "Went to a rather stupid dinner party at the Wales.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-25", "text": "At last everything is settled; but it seems impossible to realize it. I am so happy that I dare not trust in my own happiness.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-25", "text": "after much pleading my own sweet, pretty darling consented to be my wife.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-26", "text": "she gave me her favour.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-27", "text": "I am only just beginning to realize it", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-28", "text": "I have a pretty important piece of information to impart.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-30", "text": "I have been pretty nearly crazy, over my wayward, wilful darling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-30", "text": "It was a real case of love at first sight - and my first love to.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-01-31", "text": "who of course were all perfectly delighted and too sweet for anything, though very much surprised.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-01", "text": "I still feel as if I were in a dream; it is too good to be true.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-02", "text": "Chose a diamond ring for my darling", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-03", "text": "Coming home I was upset in a great drift, and dragged about 300 yards, holding on to the reins, before I could stop the horse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-04", "text": "it is awfully hard to- keep away from her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-06", "text": "I am almost too happy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-08", "text": "I have certainly got a marvellously hightoned and honorable set of friends; they are not brilliant, but they are plucky, honourable and rigidly virtuous, and with plenty of common sense.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-08", "text": "I only saw Alice twice last week.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-09", "text": "it was a splended sleigh ride.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-10", "text": "Thank heaven I am absolutely pure. I can tell Alice everything I have ever done.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-12", "text": "It was one of the pleasantest dinners I have ever been to", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-13", "text": "I do not think ever a man loved a woman more than I love her", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-14", "text": "announced my engagement to the Club, and 'set up' champagne.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-15", "text": "how pretty the little witch looked!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-18", "text": "Alice has received 42 bouquets.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-19", "text": "I sat by pretty Miss Sunshine, who 'matronized'!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-20", "text": "The drive home, in the bright, cold moonlight over the smooth, frozen roads was just perfect.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-21", "text": "Got to bed at 12 oclock - after being 44 hours without sleep.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-23", "text": "Oh, how I love my little darling!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-25", "text": "For a wonder did not go over to Chestnut Hill", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-27", "text": "Salem is a quaint old place", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-02-28", "text": "had a cosy tete-a-tete lunch at Parkers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-01", "text": "while plucky Lightfoot bowls us along famously: and I feel so proud of my pretty companion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-01", "text": "I am delighted to say that Alice wishes to get married next autumn.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-02", "text": "Delivered a lecture before the Nat Hist Society.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-05", "text": "took my pretty, laughing love out for a drive", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-06", "text": "Dined at the Whitneys.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-10", "text": "These bowling parties are great fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-11", "text": "I do not believe any man ever loved woman more than I love her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-11", "text": "going to bring a pretty Boston wife back to New York next winter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-11", "text": "Elliott, of course, will be best man", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-12", "text": "I made a dismal failure of an effort to go sleighing in the Lee's cutter with Rose.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-15", "text": "I enjoyed the day very much, with my sweet, pretty love, in the quaint old house, and its still queerer inmates.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-18", "text": "he means to try again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-25", "text": "I have always studied well in college, so I can afford to cut now; and it is my last holiday, as I shall study law next year", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-03-26", "text": "there is not one thing secret between us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-01", "text": "In spite of being engaged my own sweet, pretty Queen was certainly the belle.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-02", "text": "No mortal ever could be happier than I am.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-03", "text": "how bewitchingly pretty she is!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-05", "text": "I love to have sweet Birdie perched up beside me in the cart", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-07", "text": "We were met with open arms", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-08", "text": "I have to spend most of the days working over my thesis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-11", "text": "Mother + the girls are just splendid. All my friends are behaving beautifully.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-13", "text": "We gave a large party for Alice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-14", "text": "Emlen gave me a stag dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-17", "text": "The past three months have been almost a dream of happiness; no man could lead a more ideal life than I do.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-21", "text": "with my bag under the seat", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-23", "text": "I generally have an hour or two by myself with my own sweet little queen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-25", "text": "Everything out here is perfectly ideal.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-26", "text": "This is a Four sample of my days; and no wonder. I am supremely happy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-04-28", "text": "my marks were so good the first three years that I can afford to be idle now.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-01", "text": "it is the most beautiful weather imaginable for driving and tennis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-02", "text": "Chestnut Hill is an absolutely ideal place", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-05", "text": "I have certainly lived like a prince for my last two years in college.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-05", "text": "No man ever had so pleasant college course.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-10", "text": "we had a delightful drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-05-24", "text": "Spent the whole day with my dearly loved darling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-04", "text": "do'n't think any man ever could have had such a darling, pretty, little witch of a sweetheart as I have.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-07", "text": "I shall work like a trojan for the days.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-13", "text": "I have missed my darling dreadfully.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-16", "text": "Passed my last examination. I have worked well these last ten days; and in fact I had to.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-18", "text": "The weather was just sufficiently cool, and the country marvelously beautiful", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-20", "text": "The families get on beautifully together; and they are all just as lovely as possible.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-25", "text": "At 8.15 I took possession of my darling, and had my reward.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-27", "text": "She grows sweeter and prettier every day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-29", "text": "To think of the four years being over!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-29", "text": "My cup of happiness is almost too full.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-06-30", "text": "Commencement Day. Received my degree; I actually am an alumnus!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-01", "text": "Looking back at my college career it is very pleasant to feel that there is nothing I should care to change in it", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-02", "text": "It is perfectly delightful to have my sweet Queen here.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-04", "text": "How I love her! and I would trust her to the end of the world.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-04", "text": "No matter how long I live I know my love for her will only grow deeper and tenderer day by day; and she shall always be mistress over all that I have.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-05", "text": "eager, restless, passionate pursuit of one all-absorbing object - Alice Lee.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-06", "text": "How intensely happy I am: Most of the day is spent with my love.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-10", "text": "How I hate to part with my bewitching little queen, even for a week!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-14", "text": "I miss Alice too much to care so much as I used to for things.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-17", "text": "how lovely it is to see my darling once more!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-18", "text": "She is the sweetest, prettiest, purest, gentlest, and noblest of women.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-23", "text": "the scenery is perfectly magnificent.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-24", "text": "Rather laid up by the cholera morbus; so stayed in the house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-24", "text": "very embarrassing for a lover.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-29", "text": "Alice's nineteenth birthday!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-29", "text": "If ever a man has been blessed by a Merciful Providence, I am.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-30", "text": "its worth while being sick to find out what perfect trumps my friends are.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-07-30", "text": "What a tresure I have won!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-01", "text": "There was a very good sermon in the morning.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-02", "text": "The Welds are just too sweet to us for anything.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-07", "text": "I am extremely fond of all the Lees, and love to be with them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-08", "text": "Oh, how happy I am!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-15", "text": "I am frightfully homesick all the time for Alice", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-17", "text": "It is great fun to be off with old Nell; he and I can do about anything together", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-18", "text": "Boiling hot; do'n't know where to go; in a general stew.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-19", "text": "It is great fun to try this open plains shooting, to which I am entirely unaccustomed", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-21", "text": "I have rarely passed a pleasanter day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-22", "text": "Elliott is a good shot; I am not. But I am improving steadily.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-23", "text": "I never shot worse", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-25", "text": "Nell and I are travelling on our muscle, and do'n't give a hang for any man.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-25", "text": "We are dressed about as badly as mortals can be.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-26", "text": "Alice is always the first thing I think about in the morning, and the last at night", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-27", "text": "The country is shot out, and we shall leave tomorrow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-08-31", "text": "Dear old Nell and I always enjoy ourselves when together", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-02", "text": "certainly is a marvellous city; of enormous size and very rich.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-06", "text": "Not only the hunting itself is great fun, but I enjoy greatly riding across country in the wagon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-08", "text": "Am in splended walking trim, and can tramp all day easily.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-12", "text": "But it has done my health a world of good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-12", "text": "We have had very fair sport, though scarcely as good as we expected.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-16", "text": "I am now feeling in superb health and strength.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-20", "text": "now I am feeling in superb health.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-23", "text": "I have never had a better hunt", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-25", "text": "The trip has been great fun; but how glad I am it is over and I am to see Alice!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-09-30", "text": "I am so happy that I hardly know what to do.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-01", "text": "Spent the day with my own hearts darling, my sweetest mistress.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-02", "text": "I am living in a dream of delight with my darling, my true-love.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-03", "text": "it makes me so happy I am almost afraid.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-06", "text": "Three weeks from today we are married! I hardly dare believe it; it is too good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-11", "text": "I like the law school very well so far.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-13", "text": "Only two weeks from today; my happiness is so great that it makes me almost afraid.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-17", "text": "if ever man loved woman I love her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-27", "text": "At 12 o'clock, on my 22d birthday, Alice and I were married.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-27", "text": "Our intense happiness is too sacred to be written about.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-10-30", "text": "We breakfast at 10; dine at 2; and take tea at 7.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-01", "text": "she is such a tender and devoted little wife.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-02", "text": "I drove over to Norwich to deposit my first vote for president - for Garfield.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-04", "text": "I am living in dreamland; how I wish it could last forever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-10", "text": "doubt if there was ever a happier honeymoon than ours has been.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-12", "text": "This is the last day of our honeymoon; how sorry I am! We have had an ideal time; but what a happy life we look forward to!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-11-24", "text": "The law work is very interesting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-04", "text": "like the law school work very much.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-08", "text": "Great ball at our house for Alice + Conie; every living individual I knew came.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-11", "text": "Alice is universally and greatly admired; and she seems to grow more beautiful day by day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-12", "text": "Now we are one in everything. My cup of happiness is almost running over.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-15", "text": "How I marvel at my good luck!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1880-12-31", "text": "Thus ends by far the happiest year I have ever spent, for in this year I have won the fairest and purest and sweetest of women for my wife.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-01-06", "text": "Every moment of my time occupied.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-01-14", "text": "Greatest kind of fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-01-15", "text": "Ideal day: perpetual spree.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-01-21", "text": "Argued case in moot court; successful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-02-06", "text": "Am very glad. He is splendid fellow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-01", "text": "Have been studying law pretty hard.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-02", "text": "Took Alice a long drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-03", "text": "I went to a primary (Republican) after.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-07", "text": "Took Alice out in the cart for Spring seems to have set in at last.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-09", "text": "Took Alice a lovely drive up the Riverside park.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-10", "text": "Small dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-11", "text": "Republican Primary (+ Opera) in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-14", "text": "Dinner at Free Trade Club. Addressed Republican Association on new charter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-15", "text": "Took Corinne a long drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-16", "text": "Took Alice a long drive up Riverside Park.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-18", "text": "Am elected a trustee of the Orthopaedic Dispensary + the New York Infant Asylum. Kudos; but work.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-21", "text": "Took Alice a long drive. Am now working very hard at my law: have been rather loafing lately. Opera in evening; at Hilly's Box, + dined with him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-22", "text": "Took Fanny Smith out driving - as Alice always receives on Tuesdays.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-23", "text": "Drove Bamie in the Park. Walk up and down town every day - about 6 miles That (+ driving in the park) is my only exercise.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-24", "text": "Take Alicy a long drive every day. Am still working hard at the law school; + at one or two unsuccessful literary projects.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-25", "text": "Dear Uncle Jimmie arrived in the evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-27", "text": "Darling Wifie and I went to church in the morning to Doctor Halls as usual; Newsboys in the evening of course. The Regular family Sunday tea, cousins, aunts + all.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-28", "text": "Darling Wifie went on to spend a fortnight at Chestnut Hill; I miss my sweetest queen more than I can tell.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-28", "text": "Took Uncle Jimmie out driving.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-30", "text": "Am studying very hard at the Law school.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-03-30", "text": "Tod + Bigelow dined with me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-01", "text": "Took Edith [Carow] to drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-02", "text": "Dinner Party: sat between Maria Potter + Christine Kean: afterwards talked to Lulu McAllister. Pleasantest one I have been to this winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-04", "text": "Took Bamie to drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-05", "text": "Gave a whist party in the evening to Beekman, Sedgwick, Iselin, Colgate +c +c.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-06", "text": "Took Conie to drive.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-07", "text": "George Minot is staying with us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-08", "text": "Took mother to drive. Went to Republican Primary: grand row: very hopeless. Afterwards to the John Taylor Johnstons.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-09", "text": "Went on to Chestnut Hill. Perfectly delightful to see my darling wife, and all the dear family again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-10", "text": "Church as usual in the darling little chapel. Tea at the Saltonstalls.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-10", "text": "Took Georgie + Bella to walk.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-11", "text": "Went to the Porcellian Club, and to see Cotty Peabody.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-12", "text": "Played with the children, and loafed round all day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-13", "text": "Came back to N.Y. Succeeded in arresting a swindler: had quite a struggle with him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-16", "text": "Took Alice a long drive. Dinner party in the evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-18", "text": "Meeting of executive committee of Young Mens Republican Ass[ociation].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-19", "text": "Had the swindler indicted by the Grand Jury.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-19", "text": "The weather is superb for driving.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-22", "text": "Corinne acted Private Theatricals with Paul Tuckerman. Excellent. Dancing afterwards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-23", "text": "Mamie Saltonstall + Hattie Lee arrived for a few days visit. I am working tolerably hard at my law.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-24", "text": "Went to the News boys lodging house for the last time till October.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-24", "text": "Douglas Robinson is a perfect old trump.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-27", "text": "Went down to the 'Newsboys dinner' which of course was great fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-29", "text": "The driving is perfectly delightful, and my horse never went better.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-30", "text": "I had the swindler put in the penetentiary for six months.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-04-30", "text": "to whom the students looked up held certain standards which were difficult to recognise as compatable with the idealism I. supposed every high minded young man is apt to feel.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-01", "text": "Rosy Lee is staying with us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-02", "text": "Besides working pretty well at the law, I spend most of my spare time in the Astor library, on my 'Naval History.'", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-04", "text": "Every afternoon I take the little wife out driving; generally up the Riverside, by the beautiful Hudson.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-05", "text": "Went round to the 'Primary meeting [sic]; as usual, rather a free fight.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-05", "text": "only some half-dozen votes out of three or four hundred", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-06", "text": "Dear, funny old Dick Saltonstall has come to stay with us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-07", "text": "Little theatre party for Rosy, Dick + Fanny Smith + Romy Colgate.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-08", "text": "Excellent sermon at Dr. Halls.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-08", "text": "We have had no end of bother packing up", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-09", "text": "Went~to a meeting of the Directors of the Orthopaedic Dispensery.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-10", "text": "The weather is perfectly beautiful and the drives lovely.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-11", "text": "My law school work is over; my will drawn up; and my horse going to the country.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-12", "text": "At 3 o clock sailed on the 'Celtic' for England. Lots of people down to see us off.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-12", "text": "Hurrah! for a summer abroad with the darling little wife.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-13", "text": "I am perfectly well, but poor little Alice is sicker than the devil.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-14", "text": "Alice gets worse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-15", "text": "Alice is sicker than ever; I am still in beautiful health.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-18", "text": "Confound a European trip, say I! Alice wretchedly sick; I have'n't been at all sick but tired out by taking care of her.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-21", "text": "Landed at Queenstown. Alice revived at once, very much. Steamed up the River to Cork; most beautiful sail. At Imperial Hotel good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-22", "text": "Flowers all out; birds singing; everything lovely.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-23", "text": "Boat home. Scenery lovely. Hurrah!", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-24", "text": "We drove to Dunloe's Gap; Alice on pony, I walked through it; very wild and grand", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-24", "text": "Poor devil fainting from hunger. Had him fed + sent to cork.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-25", "text": "Alice is best travelling companion I have ever known. By Jove, what luck I have had! This is the lovliest trip I ever was on.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-26", "text": "Lovely scenery. Are leading most luxurious life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-27", "text": "They are all too kind for anything.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-29", "text": "Spent the afternoon with Uncle Irvine + Aunt Ella; they have a most lovely little house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-05-31", "text": "Came on to London, at Queens Hotel. Harry Shaw, Minot Weld + Harry Chapin came round to see me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-01", "text": "I am very fond of Rembrandt + Murillo. Turner - idiotic.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-02", "text": "Crown Jewels + armour, very interesting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-03", "text": "Great Fun. Theatre in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-04", "text": "South Kensington Museum; very interesting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-05", "text": "St. Pauls in morning, lovely music. Westminster Abbey in afternoon; excellent sermon from Dean Stanley.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-06", "text": "British museum (beautiful sculptures)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-07", "text": "We went out on coach to Windsor Castle; rainy but great fun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-07", "text": "Dined with Chapin, Weld + Shaw.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-08", "text": "Grosvenor Gallery; shopping; Shaw + Chapin to dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-09", "text": "Bought presents. Tried on clothes.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-10", "text": "Shopping; British museum.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-11", "text": "Came on to Paris. Hotel Bellevue; very good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-11", "text": "Channel very smooth.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-13", "text": "Magnificent Arc de Triumphe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-14", "text": "Venus de Milo, Rubens and Murillo. Superb.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-17", "text": "Left in morning train for Venice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-18", "text": "But Venice is lovliest place we have been to yet; fairy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-19", "text": "In evening rowed through the waterstreets. Beautiful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-21", "text": "San Marco; in evening again rowed through Venice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-22", "text": "Came on to Milan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-23", "text": "Saw the beautiful Milan Cathedral.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-25", "text": "The Lake is too beautiful for anything. Nicholas Fish + his wife are here.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-27", "text": "good driver + nice fellow", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-28", "text": "The pass was very grand.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-06-29", "text": "Torrent waring under our windows.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-01", "text": "Took Alice out donkey riding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-02", "text": "lovely view; excellent exercise.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-05", "text": "Just heard of Garfields assassination; frightful calamity for America.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-06", "text": "Later news say Garfield is not dead. This means work in the future for all men who wish their country well.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-07", "text": "Crossed the snow-covered Stelvio; very grand.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-08", "text": "Lombardino knows no german; so I have to translate for him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-10", "text": "Came on through the beautiful valley of the Inn to Innsbruck.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-12", "text": "Went through the Picture Gallery + c.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-13", "text": "Came on to Lucerne.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-15", "text": "Excellent walk; rather tired.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-16", "text": "Some how or other we got it into our heads that it was Sunday and only found out mistake in the afternoon", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-17", "text": "Poor sermon at the English Church.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-18", "text": "Ascended the Rigi Kulm and saw a most glorious sunset.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-19", "text": "Arose at three to see a beautiful sunrise and then came down to Lucerne.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-24", "text": "with the guides Peter Egger and Hans Baumann - both excellent.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-25", "text": "Great fun coming down.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-25", "text": "Rather tired.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-28", "text": "Took carriage and drove to Kandersteg.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-30", "text": "who is very good company.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-07-31", "text": "Sermon poor, as usual.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-02", "text": "Alexander left us, to our regret.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-04", "text": "very laborious and rather dangerous, but I am not very tired. Am in excellent training.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-05", "text": "Very laborious and rather dangerous", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-07", "text": "The Chapmans are staying here. Church poor.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-08", "text": "We drove on in the diligence to Geneva.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-11", "text": "especially in the medieval collection.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-12", "text": "Cathedral very beautiful and imposing, especially the outside. Bought some very handsome old silver.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-13", "text": "Came on to Mayence.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-14", "text": "Turn - verein in full force.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-15", "text": "Took the boat to Cologne.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-16", "text": "Saw Cathedral; liked it better than any except that at Milan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-17", "text": "General and Mrs. Cullum are here; very pleasant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-17", "text": "Went down to Amsterdam.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-18", "text": "In the afternoon drove out to clean little Brock.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-19", "text": "Came on to the Hague.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-20", "text": "Went to the Picture Gallery, and Dutch Museum, and walked all round the town.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-22", "text": "Went to Antwerp. Saw the Cathedral.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-23", "text": "Came on to Brussels.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-24", "text": "Picture gallery in the morning.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-08-25", "text": "Came on to Paris.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-01", "text": "Tomb of Napoleon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-02", "text": "To London. Bath Hotel.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-05", "text": "This summer I have passed travelling through Europe and though I have enjoyed it greatly, yet the more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-07", "text": "Capt. A. Thompson gave us a dinner and a box at the theatre.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-09", "text": "Went to see Colonel Sawler at the Tower.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-10", "text": "Came on to Liverpool to stay with Uncle Irvine.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-14", "text": "Have enjoyed the time so much. Spend most of the day with the dear old sea captain, Uncle Jimmie Bulloch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-22", "text": "Bob Grant aboard very pleasant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-09-27", "text": "Alicey really enjoys the voyage.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-03", "text": "Arrived. All of both families met us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-06", "text": "Am going to try to kill our last years legislator.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-08", "text": "Out to Oyster Bay to pass Sunday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-14", "text": "Alice is up in Boston. Am living entirely alone in the house, with old Dora to take care of me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-17", "text": "Am working fairly hard at my law, hard at politics, and hardest of all at my book, ('Naval History.') which I expect to publish this winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-21", "text": "Much to my surprise was nominated to the Assembly from the 21st district. My platform is; strong Republican on State matters, but independent on local and municipal affairs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-22", "text": "Uncle Jim, Em + Al bitterly opposed to any candidacey [sic] of course.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-26", "text": "Most of my friends are standing by me like trumps.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-26", "text": "Have a good chance of being elected if I am not sold out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-10-28", "text": "Much to my surprise was nominated to the Assembly from", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-01", "text": "All my friends stand by me like trumps, except Al, Em + Uncle Jim.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-01", "text": "owned by no man", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-01", "text": "untrammelled and unpledged", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-04", "text": "My platform is Republican, but Independent on Municipal matters.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-08", "text": "Was elected to the Legislature from the 21st Assembly District by a majority of 1501", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-10", "text": "I have become a \"political hack!\"", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-15", "text": "All of the family are in town.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-11-20", "text": "News Boys lodging house as usual.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-12-03", "text": "Book is in the hands of the publishers - Putnams.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-12-06", "text": "The going out has fairly begun; all are it, from dinners to Balls.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-12-15", "text": "Am trying to work up an Aqueduct Bill.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-12-21", "text": "I think we shall live with Mother another winter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1881-12-26", "text": "Celebrated Xmas as usual.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-01", "text": "Alice is at Montreal with the girls on their great party; so I am keeping house with Mother, while wee Wifie is absent.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-02", "text": "Went up to Albany to begin my duties in the legislature. Attended the Republican Caucus, at which 'Old Salt' Alvord was nominated for speaker; I voted against him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-03", "text": "The Assembly opened. We were all sworn in, and then adjourned.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-03", "text": "The legislature has assembled in full force; 128 assemblymen, . . . 61 Republicans, 8 Tammany among 67 Democrats - Tammany holds the 'balence of power'", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-04", "text": "Ballotted for speaker. There are 61 Republicans in the house; there are 67 democrats, but of these 7 are Tammany Hall men, who are 'striking' for their own candidate, and so a deadlock has come about, Adjourned till Monday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-05", "text": "My book seems to be getting on rather slowly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-09", "text": "Back to the legislature again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-10", "text": "I very much like my fellow members as a whole, especially those from the country; the city members are of a much poorer stamp, especially the democrats, who are mainly Irishmen. The wrangling goes on with great bitterness between the Tammany and Anti tammany factions; while we Republicans can look on with indifference.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-12", "text": "They are a stupid, sodden vicious lot, most of them being equally deficient in brains and virtue.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-13", "text": "I went on to Boston.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-16", "text": "Came back to Albany.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-16", "text": "By God, McManus, I understand you are going to toss me in a blanket. If you try anything like that, I'll kick you, I'll bite you, I'll do anything to you.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-16", "text": "You'd better let me alone.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-17", "text": "Attended the funeral of Senator Wagner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-20", "text": "Adjourned and Alice and I went down to New York.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-23", "text": "Returned to Albany.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-24", "text": "Made my first speech (which was very well received) advising a policy of strict neutrality between the warring democratic factions.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-24", "text": "Mr. Spee-kar, Mr. Spee-kar", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-27", "text": "Adjourned; but as Alice and I are all settled here, with our books and everything, as comfortable as possible, we decided to spend Sunday here in Albany.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-01-30", "text": "Legislature reopenned. Deadlock still in force.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-02", "text": "Deadlock broken at last: the Tammnay [sic] men made some sort of bargain, and the Regular Democratic candidate for speaker was elected and installed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-03", "text": "Alice and I shall stay in Albany.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-08", "text": "The Tilden and Tammany Democrats combined to elect speaker Patterson - (apparently a good man) but the deadlock seems to be as complete as ever as regards the rest of the slate.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-10", "text": "Adjourned,- without doing anything - Alice and I went to New York.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-13", "text": "Bamie came up to Albany with Alice and myself; she will stay at the Knickerbocker.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-14", "text": "Speaker announced his committees; I am just where I wished to be, on the committee on cities.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-14", "text": "Alice and I went to a most amusing commerce party at the Knickerbockers in the evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-14", "text": "Most of the members are positively corrupt... singularly inconstant", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-15", "text": "Introduced bill to provide for water supply of New York", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-15", "text": "Pleasant party at Lansings in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-21", "text": "Mister Spee-kar! Mister Spee-kar!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-21", "text": "It was at once known that I was bound to fight it as hard as I could.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-21", "text": "firmly and sweetly declined", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-22", "text": "Black Horse Cavalry", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-02-24", "text": "I honestly mean to act up here [in the Assembly] on all questions as nearly as possible as I think Father would have done.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-03-01", "text": "I have introduced several bills, the most important being one to build a new aqueduct which has no chance of passing. I also have one to make aldermen elected by assembly districts, which I expect to have pass in spite of the opposition of some of my New York Republican colleagues, such as Brodsky the German stalwart, a good natured little fellow but the lowest kind of spoils politician, and Crane, whose intellectual capacity about equals that of an average balloon.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-04-05", "text": "sharks", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-04-05", "text": "swindlers", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-04-05", "text": "Mr. Spee-kar, . . . the men who were mainly concerned in this fraud are known throughout New York as men whose financial dishonesty is a matter of common notoriety. I make that statement deliberately; that the three or four wealthy stock gamblers who are interested in those read; are men who would be barely trusted in financial operations by any reputable businessman...", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-04-05", "text": "I am aware that it ought to have been done by a man of more experience, .. . but as nobody else chose to demand it, I certainly would in the interest... of New York.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-11-12", "text": "The next House will contain a rare set of scoundrels, and we Republicans will be in. . . a hopeless minority.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1882-11-22", "text": "Though elected as an Independent Republican, I hardly know what to call myself.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-01", "text": "I received the complimentary Republican nomination [made by Issac Hunt] for Speaker of the Assembly. The Stalwarts made a strong fight against me; but the Independents stood firm, and we beat them two to one.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-01", "text": "Hunt, a lean, meloncholy, humorous yankee, and O'Neil, a bright, straight forward backwoodsman, were my two main backers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-01", "text": "Howe, my colleague from New York is a very good man; a gentleman of broad culture.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-02", "text": "The Legislature organized, and the Democratic majority elected as speaker Chapin of Brooklyn, by all odds the ablest man on either side of the House", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-02", "text": "Chapin appointed a committee on priviledges and elections, of which I am one, to hear the cases of the contestants for seats. The committee went down to New York.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-03", "text": "Back again in my own lovely little home, with the sweetest and prettiest of all little wives - my own sunny darling. I can imagine nothing more happy in life than an evening spent in my cosy little sitting room, before a bright fire of soft coal, my books all around me, and playing backgammon with my own dainty mistress.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-04", "text": "Today we heard the evidence in the case of the contested election between Sprague and Bliss. The former was counted out beyond a shadow of doubt.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-05", "text": "Went to drill my company (B. of the 8th Regiment) as usual.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-06", "text": "All through to day, as also yesterday, the committee has been wading through the mass of perjury involved in the Brooklyn contested election cases.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-07", "text": "Church in the morning at Dr. Halls. The family dinner was at our house: in the evening we took tea with motherling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-08", "text": "Committee sat all day. In evening passed my examination for Captain in the 8th.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-09", "text": "Crane, of my New York colleagues, is honest but light weight; House is marvellously conceited and noisy. I think he will prove a nuisnance [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-09", "text": "Old Cleavland is a very fine fellow, with a grand head, his hair and beard both snow white.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-09", "text": "Hunt, O Neil, Howe and myself sit together a pleasant quartette.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-10", "text": "Had another fight with the stalwarts in the caucus to nominate a regent, and beat them again, my nominee, Matthew Hale receiving the somewhat empty honor.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-01-10", "text": "On the floor of the house I openned [sic] the session by a brush with Murphy + 'Tim' Campbell, and got the better of those 'renowned leaders'.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-02-20", "text": "My speech went off very well", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-03-02", "text": "are common thieves . . . they belong to the most dangerous of all classes, the wealthy criminal class. Nevertheless, it is not a question of doing justice to them, it is a question of doing justice to ourselves.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-03-15", "text": "There is a strong and growing feeling of indignation among the people at the actions of these great corporations . . . it is incumbent upon us to see that this feeling takes a lawful shade.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-03-15", "text": "If it becomes evident that these great public robbers cannot be reached by law, then among the people at large the temptation to take action that is outside the law becomes very strong.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-03-15", "text": "For the sake of protecting honest capital, we ought to punish, if we legally can, the deeds of the dishonest wealthy for fear that someday an uprising might come that will overwhelm innocent and guilty alike.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-04-18", "text": "The criminal, is simply a wolf who preys on society and who should be killed or imprisoned like the wolf of the forest.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-04-18", "text": "I represent neither capital nor labor. I represent every American citizen", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-04-19", "text": "I can only say that I will try to do them justice.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-07-09", "text": "settle down with a definate purpose in life.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-07-09", "text": "This place is monotonus enough to give an angel the blues.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-08-23", "text": "I am fond of politics but fonder still of a little big game hunting", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-09-03", "text": "Today I leave for a hunting trip in Dakotah.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-09-04", "text": "Feeling like a fighting cock", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-09-14", "text": "By godfrey, but this is fun!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-11-20", "text": "I am a Republican, pure and simple, neither a 'half breed' nor a 'stalwart'.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1883-12-22", "text": "I stand an excellent chance of winning [the Speakership].", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-02-06", "text": "I love you and long for you all the time, and oh so tenderly; . . . I just long for Friday evening when I Shall be with you again.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-02-14", "text": "The light has gone out of my life.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-02-21", "text": "I have taken up my work again, indeed, I think I should go mad if I were not employed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-03-19", "text": "Some of the members have been unkind enough to call me arrogant in pushing my measures so closely.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-03-26", "text": "We are now holding evening sessions and I am glad we are, for an evening in an Albany Hotel leaves much to be desired; indeed the more we work the better I like it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-04-23", "text": "There, damn you, we beat you for last winter.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-05-01", "text": "My recreations are reading, riding, and shooting.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-05-05", "text": "we are are breaking up the house.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-05-26", "text": "Blaine is still the most dangerous man.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-08", "text": "Our defeat is an overwhelming rout.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-09", "text": "Arrived at my cattle ranche ('Chimney Butte Ranche') on the Little Missouri.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-09", "text": "I shall bolt the nomination of the Convention by no means.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-13", "text": "One jack rabbit, one curlew.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-13", "text": "Both killed with double barrelled express rifle, 50 calibre 150 grains of powder.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-14", "text": "Two curlew, one on wing, both with rifle; good shots.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-15", "text": "Four days hunt after antelope", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-16", "text": "One badger; found out on plains away from hole, gallopped up to him and killed him with revolver.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-17", "text": "I just saw my alledged St. Paul Interview for the first time. It is wholly ficticious.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-17", "text": "glorious June", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-17", "text": "I am absolutely ignorant of what has been said or done since the convention.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-18", "text": "1 buck antelope, fine horns.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-18", "text": "A group of buck six or eight feeding together started to run across my path, while I was riding alone on the prairie; I was on a first rate pony, and galloped at full speed diagonall to their course; I leaped off as they passsed within twenty five yards, and have them both barrels, killing a fine buck, shot through both shoulders.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-18", "text": "I wish to see you at once.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-18", "text": "We can take part in no bolt", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-21", "text": "One antelope.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-21", "text": "On riding round a little knoll, I saw two antelope a long distance off, looking at me; I dismounted and fired off hand, with careful aim, holding a foot over him, and breaking his neck near the shoulder. By actual measurement the distance was three hundred yards; the best shot I ever made with the rifle.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-21", "text": "in timber", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-23", "text": "Two field plover: shot with rifle, for pot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-23", "text": "I have been playing at frontier hunter in good earnest.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-25", "text": "One mallard drake, shot with rifle for pot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-06-27", "text": "One cock pintail grouse, shot with rifle, for pot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-19", "text": "I intend to vote the Republican Presidential ticket.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-20", "text": "been busily engaged in running amuck among the Mugwump population of Boston.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-24", "text": "I like the west and I like ranching life.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-28", "text": "Most of my friends seem surprised to find that I have not developed hooves and horns.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-29", "text": "an intellectual heavy weight,", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-07-29", "text": "gentleman", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-10", "text": "She was beautiful in face and form, and lovlier still in spirit; as a flower she grew, and as a fair young flower she died . . . and when my heart's dearest died, the light went from my life for ever.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-11", "text": "I grow very fond of this place, and it certainly has a desolate, grim beauty of its own, that has a curious facination for me.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-12", "text": "You would be amused to see me, in my broad sombrero hat.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-12", "text": "stir Rich and Lorenzo up every now and then", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-16", "text": "Have been spending a couple of weeks on my ranches, on the Little Missouri. I now intend starting out for two month's trip overland to the Bighorn Mountains.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-16", "text": "My companions are my foreman, William Merrifield, who is to hunt with me, and an old french halfbreed named Lebo, who is to drive the team and to cook +c.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-16", "text": "One of these is Blackie, a stout, swift rather vicious pony; Splitear, very enduring; Brownie, willing and swift, but very nervous; and Roachie, quiet and rather small.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-16", "text": "Rode 72 miles between dawn and darkness", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-17", "text": "We will go in all nearly 1000 miles.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-17", "text": "I grow very fond of this place.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-18", "text": "Made late start. Left wagon on prairie. Merrifield + I rode in and spent night at Langs. Out in prairie got caught in driving hail storm; sheltered in a wash out. Wind so strong could hardly stand; ponies would not face it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-18", "text": "The Winchester 45-75 shoots beautifully.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-19", "text": "Heavy rain storm all day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-19", "text": "Made fire of logs of old station house; good supper fried ducks.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-20", "text": "M. + I rode off; skirting some deep, branching brush bottomed coolies we spied a white tail buck feeding; I shot him through both shoulders at a hundred yards; good horns, but still in velvet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-20", "text": "Went through rolling prairies; and then in the abruptly broken and fantastically shaped Bad Lands.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-21", "text": "Early in morning a great herd of 1500 beef steers passed us; they had been bedded near us, and all night we had heard the cowboys singing and calling as they circled slowly round the herd.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-21", "text": "Saw no living game; but hundreds of buffalo skulls and old carcasses.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-21", "text": "Lebo is a chatty, tough old plainsman, full of expedients, and ready with both wits and hands. Merrifield is a good looking fellow, who shoots and rides beautifully; a reckless, self confident man.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-22", "text": "Camped for the night near a most beautiful natural park; green sward thickly dotted over with small, steep, isolated sand cliffs of most fantastic shap[e], crowned with pines.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-23", "text": "saw several herds of cattle, which have now taken the place of the buffalo, whose carcasses can be seen every where; this is already well occupied as a cattle country.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-23", "text": "Coyotes howling.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-24", "text": "There are quite a number of cattle ranches along this river.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-24", "text": "a character", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-24", "text": "I heartily enjoy this life.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-25", "text": "M's pony turned two complete somersaults down a sandy cliff some thirty feet high. Saw beaver + whippoorwills.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-26", "text": "Cowboys are a jolly set; picturesque, with broad hats, loosely knotted neckerchiefs, flannel shirts, leather chaparajos.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-27", "text": "Country prettier; bottoms narrower, hemmed in by bold bluffs, with pines scattered over them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-28", "text": "Country very pretty.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-29", "text": "two stood side by side; taking careful aim I broke the backs of both with one bullet; distance 431 paces (near 400 yards) actual walking. Best shot I ever made. Kept bullet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-30", "text": "Have had a bath in the river every day lately.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-31", "text": "Have for last three days been in sight of the snow streaked Bighorn Mts.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-08-31", "text": "Nowhere, not even at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-01", "text": "Reached Buffalo, Wyoming, quite a frontier town.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-02", "text": "Here we leave our wagon and go in on pack ponies. Have seven horses, 3 to ride, 3 to pack, 1 spare.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-03", "text": "Camped on willow creek. Already pretty cold.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-03", "text": "Ascent to the Bighorn Plateau was very steep. Ice formed at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-04", "text": "I found fresh tracks of a band of elk, and followed them up till I came on them; killed an old cow and a bull calf as they ran off through the woods, M afterwords killed two.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-05", "text": "An old bull elk, whistling and calling, almost came in to camp last night; today I went off alone on foot to trail him up; was absent all day but never saw him", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-06", "text": "Stormed all night; when we waked up snow covered the ground, bending down the willow bushes and loading the tall pines", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-07", "text": "we found three bulls; we wounded all three (I two + M. one) and went after them helter skelter, running, tumbling, jumping, falling and shooting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-08", "text": "I rode out alone; saw a doe and two fawns, which I did not touch, as we have more than enough meat", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-08", "text": "Meanwhile M, ran a black bear up a tree and shot him; by bad luck I was not with him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-09", "text": "in the moonlight at night the scenery is very beautiful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-09", "text": "The bear meat is very good eating; I have never been in better health.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-10", "text": "These pine and spruce forests with their sights + sounds or more often, absence of sound, remind me of the great woods of Maine and the Adirondacs [sic]; they have a weird, melancholy facination for me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-11", "text": "Pretty tired, and glad to get back to camp and a first class trout supper.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-12", "text": "I got a shot 'at a great bull elk with magnificent antlers as he stood facing me 75 yards (81 paces off, [sic] killing him very neatly.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-13", "text": "found a grizzly bear track in a dense forest; followed the trail noiselessly up, and found him in his bed; I shot him through the brain at 25 feet distance.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-13", "text": "I was very proud over my first bear.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-14", "text": "Down to canyon; superb scenery.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-14", "text": "I mortally wounded the old one; she turned to bay and M, who was ahead, finished her", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-15", "text": "M. has not yet got one solely his own gun; so I made him shoot it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-16", "text": "running at top speed in my light moccasins, I got another shot and broke his back.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-17", "text": "Broke camp and started off the mountain. Three pack ponies heavily laden with hides and horns", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-18", "text": "California all done up, having fallen into a creek.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-19", "text": "Went (with wagon again) to Fort McKinney. Dined at Fort.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-20", "text": "Fair days Journey. Camped above Piney Fork.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-21", "text": "Camped where we lunched on Aug 30th; under a great Balm Tree.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-22", "text": "Horses are not in good condition.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-23", "text": "Bear skins drying, so did not break camp; hunted to north of creek; no game.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-24", "text": "Skins not yet dry; hunted to south side of creek; no game", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-25", "text": "Out of fresh meat, so went out shooting; shot awfully", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-26", "text": "Rained all night; drew wagon sheet over us, but pretty wet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-27", "text": "Made pasture by S H ranche. Rained at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-28", "text": "Shot two bluewinged teal with rifle, and eight teal and two shovellers with a right and left from shot gun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-29", "text": "water bad, from mud hole; team nearly done out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-09-30", "text": "It was after dark when we went in to camp among the fantastic 'medicine buttes'; a most picturesque camp, blazing pitch pine fire, is angle of a sand stone cliff, under pine trees.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-01", "text": "Furious hurricane blowing, with driving rain squalls. Afraid to venture on prairie so stayed in camp all day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-02", "text": "Still rainy; beds pretty wet; horses had strayed; could not find them till noon; then one of the team was in a mud hole; worked two hours to get her out; she could hardly stand, so had to stay in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-03", "text": "Very windy, and a little rain; camped on the big sand; been out of meat for two days; went out with shot gun and killed three teal and two chickens.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-03", "text": "3 duck 2 sharptail grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-04", "text": "Clear and cold; drove to the Muddy Creek; on the way killed a jack rabbit and two sharptail grouse with the rifle + then by moonlight M. + I rode in 50 miles to the ranche, between 9 p.m. + 6 a.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-04", "text": "the hoof-beats of our horses rang out in steady rhythm through the silence of the night, otherwise unbroken save now and then by the wailing cry of a coyote. The rolling plains stretched out on all sides of us, shimmering in the clear moonlight.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-06", "text": "let the killing begin now", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-18", "text": "one of the archsnakes from the foul old copperhead nest.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-10-31", "text": "Will support Mr. Grace.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-07", "text": "Here everything is at sixes and sevens. I shall be happy if we get clear without bloodshed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-16", "text": "Reached Little Missouri; went out to Chimney Butte Ranche.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-17", "text": "Rode down (alone) to the first shack on Elkhorn Ranche; very cold; had to rustle for myself.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-18", "text": "Shot five sharptail grouse from trees with rifle for Breakfast. Went on to where Seawall and Dow are hewing logs for ranche house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-19", "text": "Located ranche house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-20", "text": "Rode round range with Captain Robbins. Shot seven grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-21", "text": "Rode up to Chimney Butte Ranche through snow with Seawall + Dow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-22", "text": "Shot six grouse. Seawall + I rode into town + back, thermometer 20° below zero.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-23", "text": "Shot 5 cottontail", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-23", "text": "give many kisses to wee baby", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-24", "text": "Went out to wait for beaver; shot 3 grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-25", "text": "Seawall + I rode up to Lang.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-26", "text": "Rained.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-27", "text": "Rode home.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-28", "text": "Rained.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-29", "text": "Shot 2 sharptail grouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-29", "text": "Rode in town and lunched with Marquis", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-11-30", "text": "Sent Seawall + Dow back.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-01", "text": "Tramped all round Square Butte after deer 'saw none; shot 5 grouse from tree.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-02", "text": "M. + I went all day after sheep; saw none.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-03", "text": "Feverish; so stayed in house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-04", "text": "Went out near house on battom; killed a whitetail doe at 40 yds with rifle and four sharptail grouse with shotgun.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-05", "text": "M. + I went out after sheep but saw none. Need meat for winter killed 3 blacktail; a doe at 50 yards a young buck at 120; a buck at 60;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-06", "text": "Sylvane arrived with 52 ponies, spent day breaking.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-07", "text": "Sent for Seawall and Dow to get Elkhorn ponies.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-08", "text": "Spent day after Mountain sheep.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-09", "text": "again out after mountain sheep.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-10", "text": "Seawall + Dow arrived.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-10", "text": "1 cottontail rabbit.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-11", "text": "Breaking ponies.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-12", "text": "George in buckboard, Merrifield and I on horseback started on sheephunt.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-12", "text": "Rode and walked all day through frightfully rough ground, but saw nothing. Camped in shack on Oxbow.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-13", "text": "Tramped all over Bullion's Butte; saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-14", "text": "Rode off three miles on horseback; then tramped a mile on foot through the roughest kind of ground; came on a Bighorn ram and shot him at about 90 yards. Came back to Chimney Butte ranche.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-14", "text": "Shot a young ram with a fine head", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-15", "text": "Bitterly cold.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-16", "text": "Bitterly cold.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1884-12-17", "text": "Went out hunting in snow through brush; shot a fine white tail buck, + a prairie chicken.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-04-29", "text": "Had to strike my own line for twenty miles over broken country [after crossing a flooded river] before I reached home and could dry myself", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-05-15", "text": "Tomorrow I start for the round-up... I have just come from taking 1000 head of cattle up the trail", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-05-17", "text": "I honestly think that it will.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-05-19", "text": "When utterly tired, it was hard to have to get up for one's trick at night-herd. Nevertheless, on ordinary nights the two hours round the cattle under the vast empty sky and the silence in which the breathing of the cattle sounded loud . . . combined to give one a sense of subdued interest.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-06-05", "text": "I can now do cowboy work pretty well.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-09-06", "text": "Most emphatically I am not your enemy; if I were you would know it, for I would be an open one, and would not have asked you to my house nor gone to yours. As your final words, however, seem to imply a threat it is due to myself to say that the statement is not made through any fear of possible consequences to me; I too, as you know, am always on hand, and ever ready to hold myself accountable in any way for anything I have said or done. Yours very truly, Theodore Roosevelt", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-09-29", "text": "unhung traitor", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-09-30", "text": "I am only a private in this battle", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-10-01", "text": "Never knew the old horse go better . . . was second in at the death", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-10-30", "text": "It was very good of you and your wife to write even before you heard from me. You needn't feel in the least melancholy about me. I viewed the affair from the first as mainly comic in character. Now I can dress myself all right, and do about everything but ride and row; all I minded missing was the rest of the hunting season. . . Every now and then I like to drink the wine of life with brandy in it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1885-12-31", "text": "I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians but I believe nine out of every ten are and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-01", "text": "Dinner at G.K.L.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-02", "text": "Dinner Party", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-04", "text": "Opera", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-05", "text": "Fanny Dana 2.30 pm; Lizzie Cary 6.30", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-06", "text": "Civil Service Ref 12 went 31st; 8:30", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-07", "text": "Corinne's; 7:00", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-08", "text": "Dinner party at home.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-09", "text": "Amateur theatricals", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-11", "text": "E.K.C. dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-12", "text": "Speak at institute", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-13", "text": "Theatre", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-14", "text": "Authors Club 19 West 24th", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-15", "text": "Dinner at Aunt Annie's, 7:00", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-16", "text": "Dinner party at home", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-18", "text": "Dinner, Lana Verbruc, Roxy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-20", "text": "Theatre party at Anna's", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-23", "text": "Eastlake dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-24", "text": "(Went to Chicago; cut engagements)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-26", "text": "Miss Marbruyn", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-27", "text": "Speak at Princeton", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-28", "text": "Cabot comes", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-29", "text": "Dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-01-30", "text": "Dinner at Annes", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-01", "text": "Dinner at Corrines", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-02", "text": "Dinner at Lizzie", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-03", "text": "Theatre party", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-04", "text": "Dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-05", "text": "Theatre party", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-06", "text": "Centry", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-07", "text": "I feel a little appalled over the Benton.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-08", "text": "Dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-09", "text": "Dinner at McCooks", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-10", "text": "Theatre with E.K.C.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-11", "text": "Dinner at Kean", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-12", "text": "Speak at Morton Hall", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-16", "text": "Dinner at Whitelaw Reids, 271 Lexington Ave, 7.30", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-17", "text": "Dinner at home. Lizzie Cary at 4.30.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-20", "text": "McCooks", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-20", "text": "Among the trophies I brought back from the west was a pretty fawn skin which I had made into a footmuff. I send it on to you.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-20", "text": "You see I never make friends at all easily; out side of my own family you two are really the only people for whom I genuinely care.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-02-21", "text": "Eastlake; cut it; E", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-06", "text": "E", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-07", "text": "Centry E.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-10", "text": "E", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-14", "text": "E; lunch; t; Beekman Place", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-15", "text": "Started for Medora, Dakota, to spent the summer on my cattle ranche", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-16", "text": "Chicago", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-17", "text": "St. Paul", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-18", "text": "Reached Medora", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-19", "text": "Drove down to Elkhorn Ranch", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-20", "text": "Shot 4 sharptails for supper. Things are looking better than expected. Ice gorge in river in front of ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-21", "text": "Tramped across hay plateau to Tomkins Ranche; very muddy", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-22", "text": "Tramped over to get deer; mountain lions had got them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-23", "text": "Shot 4 prairie chickens", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-24", "text": "Thieves stole boat; started to build another to go after them.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-25", "text": "Went out after deer; saw nothing. Boat being built. River very high. Ice piled upon banks several feet.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-26", "text": "Boat building.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-27", "text": "Boat built. Too cold to start. Shot 4 chickens.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-27", "text": "Writing is horribly hard work to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-28", "text": "Bitter cold", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-28", "text": "Life has settled down into its usual monotonous course here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-29", "text": "Furious blizzard", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-30", "text": "Weather milder. Started in boat with Seawall + Dow downstream after them. Camped below Eaton. Shot 3 prarie chickens.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-03-31", "text": "Bitter cold 4 prarie chicken", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-01", "text": "Shot white tail doe; 75 yards. Captured the three boat-theives. We took them absolutely by surprise.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-01", "text": "As they knew there was no other boat on the river but the one they had taken, and as they had not thought of our building another, they were completely taken unawares, one with his rifle on the ground, and the others with theirs on their shoulders; so there was no fight, nor any need of pluck on our part. . . I told them to throw up their hands, they saw that we had the drop on them completely, and I guess they also saw that we surely meant shooting if they hesitated, and so their hands went up at once.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-02", "text": "Came on with our prisoners till hung up by ice-jam.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-03", "text": "Hung up by ice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-04", "text": "Hung up by ice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-05", "text": "Worked down a couple of miles till again hung up by ice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-06", "text": "Worked down a couple of miles again to tail of ice-jam.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-07", "text": "Worked down to C Ranch. 2 prarie chickens.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-08", "text": "Rode to killdeer mountains to arrange for a wagon which I hired.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-09", "text": "Walked captives to killdeer mountains", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-10", "text": "Drove captives in wagon to Captain Brown's Ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-11", "text": "Drove captives to Dickinson + gave them to sheriff.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-12", "text": "Came to Medora", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-12", "text": "What day does Edith go abroad", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-13", "text": "Stock meeting", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-14", "text": "Rode down to Elkhorn Ranche with Merrifield.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-15", "text": "Rainy", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-15", "text": "I endorse a card to send with the flowers to Edith when she starts off.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-16", "text": "Rode up to Medora", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-17", "text": "Rode out to Chimney Butte Ranche", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-18", "text": "Went to Miles City with Sylvane", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-19", "text": "Stock meeting", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-20", "text": "Stock meeting", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-21", "text": "Meeting of Executive Committee", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-22", "text": "Back to Medora", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-04-22", "text": "Stockmen's Convention at Miles City", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-12", "text": "I really enjoy this life.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-15", "text": "Civil Service piece in Princeton Review", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-20", "text": "I have got the Benton about half through.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-25", "text": "There were half a dozen wagons along . . and the morning we started, sixty men in the saddle splashed across the shallow ford of the river.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-26", "text": "at dawn we were in the saddle, the morning air", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-27", "text": "the red sunrise saw us loping", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-28", "text": "All forenoon we spent riding the long circle with the cowpunchers of the round-up", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-30", "text": "then came the excitement and hard labor", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-05-31", "text": "Soon after nightfall we lay down in a log hut or tent, if at a line camp; under the open sky, if with the round-up wagon.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-08", "text": "I have been on the round-up for a fortnight and really enjoy the work greatly...Do have all the friends you can out to Sagamore Hill.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-18", "text": "Rode to Medora on Sorrel Joe", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-19", "text": "Out on roundup with Maltese Cross wagon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-19", "text": "The round up has stopped for a day or two", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-19", "text": "Jolly parties at Sagamore.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-20", "text": "Worked down to South Heart", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-21", "text": "Worked up to Rocky Ridge.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-22", "text": "Worked to Davis Creek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-22", "text": "In the saddle at 2 AM. . . did not stop working till 8:15 PM", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-23", "text": "to Andrew's Creek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-23", "text": "The round up is swinging over from the east to the west divide. I rode in to get my mail and must leave at once. We are working pretty hard.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-24", "text": "To Gardiner Creek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-25", "text": "To Bullion's Creek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-26", "text": "Down Bullion's Creek", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-27", "text": "To Chimney Butte", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-28", "text": "Rode into Medora", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-28", "text": "The round up is now over", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-28", "text": "All but 30 pages", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-29", "text": "Rode back to Elkhorn Ranch with Merrifield", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-06-30", "text": "As late as June 10th, there is not a green thing in all the region I have been over.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-07-01", "text": "Benton; rode out with Bill Rowe to get and brand calves.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-07-02", "text": "Benton; Rode out with Bill Rowe after calves; got them into corral and branded them. Rode little black horse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-07-03", "text": "Rode up to Medora on Manitou", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-07-05", "text": "Much has been given to us, and so much will be expected of us; and we must take heed to use aright the gifts entrusted to our care.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-07-05", "text": "It will fairly break my heart to have to give up this life, however if I continued to make long stays here I should very soon get to practically give up the East entirely.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-08-07", "text": "I am greatly attached to the ranch and the life out here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-08-20", "text": "As you know, I am no judge of looks but I think her really handsome.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-09-18", "text": "I never felt less enthusiastic over a hunting trip.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-09-20", "text": "I am engaged to Edith and before Christmas I shall cross the ocean to marry her.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-10-17", "text": "With the most genuine reluctance I finally accepted.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-10-21", "text": "I took the nomination with extreme reluctance.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-10-22", "text": "No classes this side of the water", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-10-27", "text": "The time for radical reform has arrived.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-10-30", "text": "not in the least exhausted", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-11-01", "text": "I have written Nannie telling her that on Saturday next I sail for England to marry Edith Carow.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-11-02", "text": "I am badly defeated - worse even than I feared.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-11-21", "text": "Having begun by treating all the Englishmen I met with austere reserve.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-11-21", "text": "quite a lion", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-12-13", "text": "It is delightful to idle one's days here with a clear conscience, for the time is our own this winter and is to be spent for nothing else.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1886-12-14", "text": "which we can look over the bay.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-01-07", "text": "I do love Sagamore Hill", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-01-10", "text": "We can decide it all when we meet.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-01-17", "text": "the charm of almost absolute novelty", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-01-22", "text": "I had no idea that it was in me to enjoy the 'dolce far niente' even as long as I have. Luckily, Edith would hate an extended stay in Europe as much as I would.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-01-30", "text": "I am delighted to have seen Italy once more.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-02-08", "text": "The Italians simply can't be as dirty as they would like to be... I have a nice, charitable feeling towards foreigners, you see.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-02-14", "text": "I am delighted you are pleased with the Benton.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-03-06", "text": "I have been having great fun in London.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-03-09", "text": "Hoare, an M.P., showed us the House of Commons", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-03-12", "text": "Lunched at Castle of Lord Saye and Seale", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-04-01", "text": "The loss among the cattle has been terrible.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-04-20", "text": "We have had a perfect smashup all through the cattle country of the North West.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-05-16", "text": "visionary beings whose careers were varied and picturesque to a degree.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-06-06", "text": "Rowed Edith to Lloyd's Neck, portaged across . . . into Huntington Harbor, then rowed out into the Sound.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-08-20", "text": "The male oysters have had several spasms of sociability recently", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-09-05", "text": "not as congenial to me as the life of Benton, I don't know whether I have done well or not.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-09-18", "text": "[Edith] was extremely plucky all through", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-09-18", "text": "I am very glad our house has an heir at last!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-09-29", "text": "Edie is still pretty weak, and the small boy has colic", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-09-29", "text": "Edie wants a pair of nursing corsets.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-11-13", "text": "As you know, I really prefer to be alone while on a hunting trip.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1887-11-20", "text": "The Republican Party seems moribund", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-01-15", "text": "My literary work occupies a good deal of my time . . . I shall probably never be in politics again.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-06-17", "text": "Elliott has had a really hard illness during this last week", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-07-01", "text": "It seems impossible to write more than a page or two a day", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-07-01", "text": "if it would do any good to talk to [Elliott] seriously about his imprudence!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-07-15", "text": "will, I rather regret to say, probably be gratified about the end of next January.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-09-18", "text": "Rough and hard trip", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1888-10-05", "text": "I'm a literary feller, not a politician these days", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-03-25", "text": "I have made up my mind that I will go in especially for literature, simply taking the part in politics that a decent man should.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-04-17", "text": "a Platt machine", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-05-14", "text": "I hated to take the place", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-05-15", "text": "I hope you do go into diplomacy.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-06-02", "text": "I 'went it strong' into the custom house people.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-06-17", "text": "We have to do two things. One is to make the officials themselves understand that the law is obligatory, not optional, and the other is to get the same idea into the heads of the people.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-06-24", "text": "We had only a week's trip but we stirred things up well.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-06-29", "text": "I have made this Commission a living force . . . I am a great believer in practical politics; but when my duty is to enforce the law, that law is surely going to be enforced, without fear or favor. I am perfectly willing to be turned out - or legislated out - but while in I mean business.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-06-30", "text": "Literature must be my mistress perforce, for though I really enjoy politics I appreciate perfectly the exceedingly short nature of my tenure.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-01", "text": "I have been a real force.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-06", "text": "The Commission will relapse nearly into the much desired condition of innocuous desuetude.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-11", "text": "The old boy is with us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-13", "text": "I am much pleased that you like the book", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-17", "text": "Tomorrow we get out our report in the Milwaukee case; in it I hit Paul between the eyes. He's a regular oily gammon.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-23", "text": "Great pressure has been brought to bear on the President to keep Paul in.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-24", "text": "I am rapidly sinking into a fat and lazy middle age.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-07-28", "text": "Struggle as I will, my life seems to grow more and more sedentary.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-08-28", "text": "Having finished my month off, I am now on my way home, By Jupiter, I feel well.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-08-31", "text": "Made a great bag, of two moose, a mountain bison, two bear and cougar. One of the bears charged me in the most determined way.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-09-07", "text": "I never was in more superb health and condition . . . I am dreadfully homesick without my darling and I now hope to be home even before the 20th.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-09-07", "text": "you must come to the Yellowstone with me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-10-10", "text": "No pleasure in trampling upon a weakling", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-10-13", "text": "Edith can't say enough of what a comfort you were to her. Again and again she says, 'Oh, that dear Bysie.'", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1889-12-25", "text": "Edie and the Blessed Bunnies", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-02-13", "text": "pretty carefully", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-02-13", "text": "I have not seen Edith since her marriage enjoy going out as much as she has enjoyed the dinners here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-03-04", "text": "I am worked up to my eyes here at this moment.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-03-30", "text": "Bear Scrape", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-04-04", "text": "utterly frivolous life", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-04-04", "text": "eaten into her character like an acid", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-04-10", "text": "Both Edie and I have missed you dreadfully", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-04-23", "text": "Ted well now", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-05-02", "text": "Half measures simply put off the day, make the case more hopeless, and render the chance of a public scandal greater.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-05-08", "text": "colorless", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-05-12", "text": "During the last two days I have spent half my time, busy as I am, in reading your book,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-05-23", "text": "A man named Butterfield", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-08-27", "text": "I did not leave enough of Grosvenor to be put in a coal scuttle.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-09-23", "text": "Have just reached here", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-10-18", "text": "I have rarely seen Edith enjoy anything more than she did the six days at my ranch.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-10-22", "text": "had a very short and cold interview with the President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-11-10", "text": "I have felt too down hearted over the election to write you since.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1890-12-26", "text": "A merry Xmas to you, and may you spend the next with us, without fail.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-01", "text": "I am very glad to have been in this position", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-01", "text": "I think I have done good work", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-01", "text": "genuinely wish we could be with you, for we know what a terrible trial you have to go through.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-08", "text": "The fight in Congress is now chiefly over free silver.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-13", "text": "In the present crisis I do not want to be away from Washington.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-02-22", "text": "It is horrible, awful; it is like a brooding nightmare.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-04-05", "text": "Poor Bob Fergie has been very sick and is now staying on here at Mrs. Camerons", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-04-11", "text": "I am now busily engaged in investigating some Baltimore matters.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-04-19", "text": "Give my best love to Elliott and Anna.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-05-10", "text": "I think I become more bound up in Edie and the children every day.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-05-23", "text": "a nightmare of horror", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-06-17", "text": "He is evidently a maniac morally no less than mentally", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-06-20", "text": "Springy and I have been having very pleasant times together.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-07-01", "text": "Throughout the interview he was disagreeable", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-07-01", "text": "at work on Annual Report", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-08-13", "text": "Elephant Johnnie", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-08-22", "text": "It is all horrible beyond belief", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-08-22", "text": "the only thing is to go resolutely forward", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-08-24", "text": "so sane, yet so absolutely lacking in moral sense.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1891-10-10", "text": "As usual I come back to rumors of my own removal,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-01-21", "text": "Won!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-01-21", "text": "He signed the deed for two thirds of all his property (including the $60,000 trust); and agreed to the probation", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-01-25", "text": "Edith and I miss you greatly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-05-27", "text": "Finally when I had to strike", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-05-27", "text": "to strike hard.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-07-27", "text": "the record pretty bad for both Cleveland and Harrison.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-10-03", "text": "so much more affectionate than she used to be", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-10-03", "text": "devoted to Edith", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-10-03", "text": "Ethel is a jolly, naughty, whacky baby", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-10-16", "text": "I have just come back from an absurd, though useful, 'Indian' conference at Lake Mohonk.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-11-10", "text": "Well, as to the general result I am disappointed but not surprised, save as to the size of the majority in New York.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-12-05", "text": "When I leave [office] on March 5th, I shall at least have the knowledge that I have certainly not flinched from trying to enforce the law during these four years.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-12-25", "text": "A merry Xmas to you, from myself and Mrs. Roosevelt", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-12-25", "text": "we think constantly of you, including Ted; we've had to put him in specticles on account of his eyes, and he looks more like the paddy brownie than ever", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1892-12-25", "text": "Henry Adams is back, and we have been there once or twice for the usual pleasant dinners and evenings.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-01-05", "text": "communicate with Mr. Cleavland [the President-Elect] through you", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-01-14", "text": "Cabot and I ride together when we get a chance; and this morning Willie Phillips joined me in taking the children for a wild scramble.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-02-04", "text": "recently, while sitting 'reading' stark naked, he upset a lamp and burnt himself badly", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-04-22", "text": "I am a bit of believer in the manifest destiny doctrine. I believe in more ships; I believe in ultimately driving every European power off of this continent.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-04-26", "text": "saw Cleveland the other day and he asked me to stay a year or two longer.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-06-04", "text": "Did you ever receive the Indian Agent Report by me? When you are entirely through with it I should like it back.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-06-08", "text": "Indeed Chicago was worth while. The buildings make, I verily believe, the most beautiful architectural exhibit the world has ever seen.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-06-13", "text": "You are the one man to write a history of Nelson.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-07-04", "text": "As far as my work is concerned, the two administrations [Harrison and Cleveland] are much of a muchness.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-08-15", "text": "at a time when none of the rest of us could do", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-08-15", "text": "Cabot has done well in the Senate.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-08-23", "text": "I have a very lively appreciation of the active work you are doing for the cause of Civil Service Reform and decent government.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-09-10", "text": "It is bad enough to allow a man who is dishonest to stand", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-10-19", "text": "The Interior Department is certainly no better than it was and Joe Quincy has out- Heroded Herod as a spoilsman.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-11-21", "text": "To my real relief the fight in the Commission has come to a head.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-12-09", "text": "Called on the Whites, who were out, and bought Keats for Bob.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1893-12-30", "text": "hangs fire badly", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-01-15", "text": "Alice and Ted love Prince Prigio", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-04-06", "text": "She suffered less than ever before, and is now so happy!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-04-16", "text": "The baby was born at twenty five minutes of one this morning", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-04-16", "text": "The baby, a boy, will be named Archibald Bulloch after his great-great grandfather.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-04-16", "text": "She suffered less than ever before, and is now so happy!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-04-22", "text": "I begin to think that this particular branch of the Roosevelt Family is getting to be numerous enough", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-05-27", "text": "We have had a fierce brush in the House over Civil Service Reform, and I won.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-06-24", "text": "I am having my usual rows over Civil Service matters. Not even Wannamaker was a meaner, smaller cur than Carlisle; he is dishonest, untruthful, and cowardly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-07-23", "text": "fretful and peevish", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-07-29", "text": "The poor fellow [Elliott]; if only he could have died instead of Anna.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-08-18", "text": "some stricken, hunted creature", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-08-29", "text": "I only need to have pleasant thoughts of Elliott now. He is just the gallant, generous, manly boy and young man whom everyone loved.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-08", "text": "When we meet I'll tell you my own experience in the mayoralty matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-12", "text": "I wish I was out of this office for a short while, just long enough to say publicly about a dozen things I much wish to say.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-22", "text": "I simply had not the funds to run", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-24", "text": "I would literally have given my right arm to make the race.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-24", "text": "It was the one golden chance, which never returns", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-24", "text": "the fault was mine, not Edith's", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-10-24", "text": "But it is one of the matters just as well dropped.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1894-12-26", "text": "Finally I refused, after much hesatation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-01-20", "text": "She will not take care of herself, do what I can.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-02-17", "text": "Practicing on Norwegian snowshoes", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-02-17", "text": "Long ride with Cabot this morning.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-02-27", "text": "disgusted with Bissell", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-03-09", "text": "common little monkey face", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-03-19", "text": "not an educated man", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-03-19", "text": "but of course there won't be any war", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-03-26", "text": "It had not occured to me that you would really press my name upon the mayor", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-04-07", "text": "Spring has come", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-04-14", "text": "Usual Sunday afternoon scramble", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-06", "text": "Now then, what'll we do?", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-13", "text": "I have never worked harder than in these last six days.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-18", "text": "I think I shall move against Byrnes at once", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-19", "text": "I have the most important and most corrupt department in New York in my hands.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-29", "text": "It was absolutely necessary that Byrnes should go.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-05-31", "text": "All the blessed children were just sweet.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-06-02", "text": "I have now undisputed sway", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-06-26", "text": "The only one I have ever been to", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-06-30", "text": "Edith says that she is literally exhausted with making Alice write the enclosed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-07-04", "text": "To say that your cable and letter surprised us is a hopelessly imadequate way of saying what we felt. We were dumbfounded. But we were sincerely, very sincerely, glad.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-07-07", "text": "The chief thing we talk about and think about is your engagement", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-07-23", "text": "These midnight rambles are great fun.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-07-23", "text": "I get a glimpse of the real life of the swarming millions", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-08-07", "text": "I hope to see the time when a man will be ashamed to take any enjoyment on a Sunday which shall rob those who should be dearest to him", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-08-27", "text": "I have spoken again and again in packed halls on the East-Side during the summer with the temperature at boiling point, both as regards the weather and the audience.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-09-08", "text": "Never had such a success as in the last four months.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-09-15", "text": "My entire time has been taken up with the Police Board.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-09-25", "text": "Ich Bin Hier!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-09-28", "text": "affairs look rather black here politically", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-10-11", "text": "I can't help writing you for I literally have no one here to whom to unburden myself; I make aquaintances very easily, but there are only one or two people in the world, outside my own family, whom I deem friends or for whom I really care.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-10-18", "text": "parochial politics", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-10-27", "text": "Thank heaven there is only a week more", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-10-28", "text": "Gods are against us a little", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-06", "text": "The Board will not tolerate the slightest relaxation of the enforcement of the laws.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-10", "text": "I had discounted in advance the fact that I should, as a matter of course, be held responsible for the defeat.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-15", "text": "city unusually quiet", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-16", "text": "I shall be legislated out of existence in a couple of months.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-18", "text": "to think that when this reaches you, you will be married", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-11-19", "text": "I would give very much to be with you; and to see you both", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-12-02", "text": "I should very much like to take 'a holiday'", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1895-12-27", "text": "The clamor of the peace faction has convinced me that this country needs a war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-01-02", "text": "We all came into town today", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-01-19", "text": "would rather welcome a foreign war!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-02-02", "text": "at present I literally have not got a friend in this city of any note, whether a newspaperman or a politician.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-03-09", "text": "Platt and his people", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-03-30", "text": "Though I have the constitution of a bull moose", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-03-30", "text": "is beginning to wear on me a little", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-04-05", "text": "does not legisltate me out", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-04-11", "text": "Grant is a broken reed", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-05-06", "text": "lost my temper with Fitch", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-05-18", "text": "petty rows with Fitch & Parker", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-05-24", "text": "I wish you could see [the boys'] costumes, especially Kermit's; he wears blue overalls, which are perhaps the finest triumph of Edith's genius, and which are precisely like those of our hired man, with a cap... a pair of shabby tennis shoes, and as his hands are poisoned . . . gloves... + in this costume, turning somersaults", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-06-02", "text": "Unfortunately I can't be sure of Parker's financial honesty", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-06-14", "text": "In the larger field of politics I feel very nervous. McKinley, whose firmness I utterly distrust", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-06-21", "text": "pretty well satisfied with the outcome at St. Louis", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-06-24", "text": "I think that we have got an excellent platform at St. Louis, and I believe that McKinley will make a good candidate and a good President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-06-28", "text": "Ted and Kermit go clad in the national garb of the American hired man, and revel in dirt. Ethel is a chubby darling. Archie is too sweet for anything, and Alice just the best elder sister that ever was.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-07-05", "text": "Out of condition, as well as stiff and flabby, I came back sore all over.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-07-14", "text": "parker is still in", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-07-14", "text": "what a witches sabbath they did hold at Chicago", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-07-30", "text": "will have to be handled with some care", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-08-02", "text": "should like to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-08-10", "text": "I suppose it would be well for me to accept the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-09-11", "text": "I wish I could persuade the general public to take a broader view of me as historian.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-09-14", "text": "Black is a Platt man", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-09-21", "text": "McKinley stays at home", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-10-04", "text": "McKinley was pleasant to us, but we are not his favorites.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-11-04", "text": "Pleased and interested", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1896-12-13", "text": "It would be a mistake for me to go to Canton.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-01-02", "text": "Cuba Libre", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-01-08", "text": "in any wranglings or bickerings of this board", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-01-11", "text": "If the strikers are law abiding and peaceable they can have no possible objection to the presence of the police.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-02-28", "text": "My own work is becoming of almost intolerable difficulty.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-03-09", "text": "Grant is one of the most interesting studies", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-03-09", "text": "I am sure his brain must reproduce that of some long-lost arboreal ancestor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-04-06", "text": "Sindbad has evidently landed the old man of the sea.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-04-16", "text": "I am very glad to get out of this place, for I have done all that could be done.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-04-18", "text": "For these two years you have been my main prop and comfort", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-04-27", "text": "I am mourning the fact that during this summer I shall hardly be at all", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-05-03", "text": "If I had my way I would annex those islands [Hawaii] tomorrow", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-05-17", "text": "All I can do toward pressing our ideas into effect will be done", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-06-02", "text": "No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-06-22", "text": "I hope you will go to Portsmouth", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-07-23", "text": "The United States is not in a position which requires her to ask Japan, or any other foreign power, what territory it shall or shall not acquire.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-03", "text": "Cuba Libre", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-13", "text": "You happen to have a mind which is interested in precisely the things which interest me", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-16", "text": "It would be horrible folly to stop", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-19", "text": "I am having immense fun running the Navy", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-21", "text": "immensely interested in all this Navy work", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-08-23", "text": "We cannot rival England as a naval power... but I do think we ought to stand ahead of Germany.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-09-17", "text": "professes much satisfaction with all I have done.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-09-30", "text": "A great navy does not make for war, but for peace", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-10-15", "text": "a very nice house, just opposite the British Embassy", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-10-28", "text": "Took the two little boys round and put them in the public school.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-11-19", "text": "Very unexpectedly Quentin Roosevelt appeared just two hours ago.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1897-11-19", "text": "Archie by no means approves of Quentin the others love him.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-01-01", "text": "As usual you gave me the very book I wished.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-01-22", "text": "my fear in view of the fact that the Administration seems to be traveling in the footsteps of its predessor as regards Cuba.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-03", "text": "It's great fun", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-05", "text": "Of all the nations of Europe it seems to me Germany is by far the most hostile to us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-15", "text": "Maine sunk by act of treachery", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-19", "text": "Hereafter I shall never press Ted either in body or mind.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-25", "text": "DEWEY, HONG KONG: ORDER THE SQUADRON, EXCEPT THE MONOCACY, TO HONG KONG, KEEP FULL OF COAL. IN THE EVENT OF DECLARATION WAR SPAIN, YOUR DUTY WILL BE TO SEE THAT THE SPANISH SQUADRON DOES NOT LEAVE THE ASIATIC COAST, AND THEN OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. KEEP OLYMPIA UNTIL FURTHER ORDERS. ROOSEVELT", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-02-25", "text": "Pray remember that in some shape I want to go.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-06", "text": "We are certainly drifting towards and not away from war", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-15", "text": "I shall chafe my heart out if I am kept here instead of being at the front.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-16", "text": "McKinley is bent on peace, I fear.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-21", "text": "slowly crawling back to life", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-21", "text": "Personally, I feel that it is not too late to intervene in Cuba.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-26", "text": "We will have this war for the freedom of Cuba", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-26", "text": "Can you start getting up that regiment when the time comes?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-26", "text": "It looks to me as though matters were coming to a climax and we should see actual trouble with Spain.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-27", "text": "Today I took a hard walk with Dr. Wood and we both discussed how we could get into the army that would go to Cuba.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-28", "text": "I have been worked up to the handle here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-29", "text": "I have no desire before my time has come to go out into the everlasting darkness.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-29", "text": "I am utterly disgusted at the present outlook in foreign relations. I can only hope that the Senate, under the leadership of men like Lodge, will rise to the needs of the hour and insist upon immediate independence for Cuba and armed intervention on our part.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-29", "text": "Hereafter, I shall never press Ted either in body or mind.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-03-30", "text": "The President is resolute to have peace at any price.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-01", "text": "I'd give all I'm worth to be just two days in supreme command.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-02", "text": "I ought to go.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-06", "text": "The resources of diplomacy have been exhausted.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-16", "text": "The President still feebly is painfully trying for peace. His weakness and vacillation are even more ludicrous than painful. Long. At last awake; and anyway I have the Navy in good shape. But the army is awful. The War Dept. is in utter confusion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-17", "text": "Alger has no force whatever, & no knowledge of his department. But he wishes war, at least. Miles is merely a brave peacock.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-18", "text": "They both [Alger and Miles] told me they could put 100,000 in Tampa in 24 hours! The folly, & lack of preparation, are almost inconceivable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-19", "text": "Reed, backed by Cannon and Boutelle, is malignantly bent on preventing all preparation for war so far as he can. I really believe that if it does come, he wishes it to be a failure.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-21", "text": "The Senate Committee on foreign affairs is our one standby in the present crisis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-30", "text": "When the chance came for me to go to Cuba with the Rough Riders, Mrs. Roosevelt was very ill and so was Teddy. It was a question if either would ultimately get well. You know what my wife and children mean to me; and yet I made up my mind that I would not allow even a death to stand in my way; that it, was my one chance to do something for my country and for my family and my one chance to cut my little notch on the stick that stands as a measuring-rod in every family", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-04-30", "text": "I know now that I would have turned from my wife's deathbed to answer that call.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-02", "text": "Ordinary cavalry lieutenant colonel's uniform in blue cravenette.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-05", "text": "disentangle knots of red tape", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-05", "text": "Edith keeps improving", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-06", "text": "Commissioned as Lt. Col. 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry. Wood as Col., by my choice. The colonelcy was offered me.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-07", "text": "The delays and stupidity of Flager & the Ordnance Dept. surpass belief. The Quartermasters Dept. is better, but bad. The Commissary Dept. is good. There is no head, no management whatever in the War Dept. Against a good nation we should be helpless.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-12", "text": "Start for San Antonio 10 p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-15", "text": "Reach camp at San Antonio", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-16", "text": "Major Brodie good man.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-19", "text": "The drilling is incessant, & the progress of the regiment wonderful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-19", "text": "Here we are working like beavers to get the regiment into shape.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-20", "text": "The Harvard & New York men etc. are getting on capitally with the cow punchers.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-21", "text": "The blunders and delays of the Ordnance bureau surpass belief. They express US stuff we do not need, and send us the rifles by slow freight! There is no head, no energy, no intelligence in the War Dept. The President is of course really to blame.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-25", "text": "We are in fine shape", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-26", "text": "Quota nearly filled. It is astonishing how rapidly we have armed, mounted & drilled these men. Wood's hours of work & executive capacity are wonderful.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-29", "text": "Started for Tampa, in train of 7 sections. I had charge of rear four.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-30", "text": "Railway system tends to break down. Interminable delays; no proper facilities for unloading horses to rest, water & feed, etc. etc.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-05-31", "text": "Up each night, for all night, loading & unloading.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-03", "text": "Reached Tampa in morning. Railway system in wildest confusion; it took us twelve hours to get into camp with our baggage.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-03", "text": "(E. [Edith] came down for 4 lovely days.)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-04", "text": "Horses very tired. Drilled on foot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-05", "text": "No word can paint the confusion. No head; a breakdown of both the railroad & military system of the country.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-06", "text": "Mounted drill, very good, much admired by foreign attaches.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-06", "text": "No plans; no staff officers; no instructions to us. Each officer finds out for himself & takes his chances. We are doing as well as the regular regiments. Have very light baggage.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-06", "text": "whenever you wish.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-07", "text": "We are at the point of embarking for Cuba.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-07", "text": "We would rather crawl on all fours than not go.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-08", "text": "Told to go aboard transport. Worst confusion yet. R.R. system utterly mismanaged. No allotment of transports. Utter confusion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-09", "text": "After we were embarked had us stay still! and the maladministration here beats everything.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-10", "text": "No words could describe to you the confusion and lack of system and the general mismanagement of affairs here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-11", "text": "Delay in harbor under the tropical sun very bad for men.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-12", "text": "Still in bay.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-12", "text": "This is our sixth day sweltering on this troop ship under the semitropical sun in Tampa harbor. It is not a large ship and has a thousand men aboard.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-12", "text": "If we are kept here much longer it cannot fail to have a bad effect on the men.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-13", "text": "Transports weighed anchor in afternoon; went down bay & anchored.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-14", "text": "Left Tampa Bay lighthouse in afternoon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-14", "text": "We are about to sail.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-15", "text": "Late in Evening saw Tortuga lights & those on Key West", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-15", "text": "Steaming southward", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-16", "text": "Progress very slow, chiefly because of the follow which has caused schooner and a scow to be towed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-18", "text": "Sent back by Shafter to convoy another transport which is towing a schooner. This is simply idiotic. We cannot help the other transport in any way, as we have no tow rope, and the schooner would be towed under if she went any faster. We merely add another ship for the Bancroft, the rear gunboat, to protect.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-19", "text": "In company with towed schooner; fleet out of sight ahead.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-20", "text": "Reach Santiago.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-20", "text": "All day we have steamed close to the Cuban coast.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-22", "text": "Landed", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-23", "text": "Marched", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-24", "text": "Fight - Las Guasimas (7). We drove enemy in fine shape. Lost 60 men killed & wounded, 20 slight.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-25", "text": "Rested.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-26", "text": "Moved on three miles.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-27", "text": "Continued in camp, & I went on scout.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-28", "text": "In same camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-29", "text": "In same camp. I went back to coast to hurry up ammunition & food.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-06-30", "text": "Marched late in afternoon. Camped at 9 p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "The great day of my life.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "Rose at 4. Big battle. Commanded regiment. Held extreme front of firing line.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "All men who feel any power of joy in battle know what it is like when the wolf rises in the heart.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "Are you afraid to stand up when I am on horseback?", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "Then let my men through, Sir!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-01", "text": "Look at all these damned Spanish dead.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-02", "text": "Under shell & rifle fire.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-03", "text": "Truce at noon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-03", "text": "Spanish fleet destroyed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-04", "text": "Truce. Mismanagement horrible. No head to army.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-05", "text": "criminally incompetent", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-10", "text": "Bombardment again.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-11", "text": "Truce again. Shifted camp a mile, to extend lines. Heaviest rain yet, at night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-17", "text": "Surrender of Sandiago.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-18", "text": "Shifted camp to foothills. 1/2 of men of my regiment dead or disabled by wounds or sickness.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-19", "text": "'Triumph tasted' . .. I cannot explain the breakdown of the transportation service, the commissariat, or the hospital service.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-19", "text": "I am as proud of the men as I well can be.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-22", "text": "Half of my men are dead, wounded or down with fever.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-24", "text": "Service. The health of the camp has very slightly improved.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-25", "text": "Tarantula-bay. tLost my hat in the creek.' Pollock & Paunce; 'Don't want to wear my hair long and look like a wild Indian in civilized warfare.' Deep voice.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-27", "text": "Frankly, it did not enter my head that I could get through without being hit.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-27", "text": "Tt seems to me that one of the best features in this fighting is the conduct of the young Harvard fellows who have enlisted in my regiment as troopers.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-28", "text": "Crockett; the wound; the coffee; rescue by Russell. The parson Morrison, How he ground coffee.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-28", "text": "so typically American", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-29", "text": "Darnell the broncho buster. Smoky Moore the broncho buster.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-30", "text": "Happy Jack who had fought for the light weight championship. His belief that Providence would not let him catch yellow fever from the old women he helped.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-07-31", "text": "If I could get down to national politics instead of dealing with sewers and police boards in New York, I should greatly prefer it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-15", "text": "I am feeling disgracefully well .. - I feel positively ashamed of my appearance when I see how badly off some of my brave fellows are - - Oh, but we have had a bully fight!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-18", "text": "Ballard the ex-sheriff. How he shot Hayes & broke up the Black Jack gang.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-19", "text": "Surf baths - Jack, Dave, Hal & all. Funny Capt. Curry.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-20", "text": "Saucies of La, the singer. The Eagle. Cuba's safe arrival. Isabel the fighter; his sweetheart; his duel with Davis.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-23", "text": "Just a line about the Alger incident. My letter to him was written in what I might call a spirit of calculated imprudence.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-27", "text": "I am 'running' in the same kind of way that you did. I am just letting events take their course.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-08-30", "text": "If the organization wants me to go before the convention, I will do it, without any regard as to whether or not Gov. Black puts up a fight.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-03", "text": "I haven't bothered myself a particle about the nomination.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-11", "text": "Mustering out will take place Thursday or possibly Friday.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-13", "text": "So all things pass away - but they were beautiful days.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-19", "text": "I do not see how I can accept the independent nomination and keep good faith with the other men on my ticket.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-22", "text": "My name will probably be presented for Governor at the Republican state convention at Saratoga.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-24", "text": "By Gad, I'll run!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-09-30", "text": "Evidently we shall have to make a hard and aggressive fight.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-10-02", "text": "Changes seem to be in our favor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-10-05", "text": "We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-10-05", "text": "I believe a speech from you in the city would be of very great use to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-11-04", "text": "I have no idea how this fight is going.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-11-04", "text": "Blifil and Black George", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-11-25", "text": "bull luck", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-12-06", "text": "I am entitled to the Medal of Honor, and I want it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-12-12", "text": "I have always favored allowing women to vote.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1898-12-27", "text": "I do not think the War Department has treated me well in the matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-01-10", "text": "Women are . «+ + wronged because they are not treated as equals.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-01-13", "text": "I want to see boys able to box, wrestle, play football and hold their own stoutly .. > and I also want them brought up to feel that it is incumbent upon every true man to be gentle and tender with the weak — with women and young children, and with dumb animals.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-01-19", "text": "As for that infernal medal of honor, I really wish and ask that you do nothing more about it at all.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-02-07", "text": "Do you think that you are the best hated nation? Sometimes I think we are, and sometimes I think England is.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-02-08", "text": "I was glad to have my children see you. I want them to admire courage and manliness and belief in ideals.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-03-18", "text": "the adoption of a system whereby corporations in this state shall be taxed on the public franchises which they control.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-04-07", "text": "I am inclined to think that Ford's bill is a good one. ... I shall sign the bill if it comes to me, gladly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-04-10", "text": "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-05-08", "text": "would intimidate no one unless he was anxious to commit lawlessness, and... in that case it would be my especial care to see that he was intimidated.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-07-01", "text": "I don't mean to do one single thing [this] month except write a life of Oliver Cromwell.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-07-08", "text": "If I am sure a thing is either right or wrong, why then I know how to act, but lots of times there is a little of both on each side and then it becomes mighty puzzling to know the exact course to follow.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-08-15", "text": "Would you mind giving me a hint about trusts? I have been in a great quandary over them. I do not know what attitude to take. I do not intend to play a demogogue.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-08-31", "text": "I wish [the Germans] well where they do not conflict with the English speaking peoples.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-09-25", "text": "a fighting man", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-10-23", "text": "If I hadn't happened to return from the war in a year", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-10-23", "text": "I should probably not now be Governor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-10-28", "text": "certainly am favoring expansion.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-11-28", "text": "I regret to state that my family and intimate friends are delighted with your review of my book.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-12-14", "text": "how he does get at any joint in the harness!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1899-12-29", "text": "Platt does not want me to fight Payn.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-03", "text": "must be courageous and effective remedial legislation", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-08", "text": "if I was certain you could be confirmed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-09", "text": "I have always regarded Germany while the present Kaiser lives as our most probable serious opponent.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-16", "text": "Certain of your articles those for instance on the Dreyfus Case", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-22", "text": "a little too much strenuous life", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-26", "text": "I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-29", "text": "How proud I am of the navy and the army!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-01-29", "text": "I won a great victory in the Payn matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-01", "text": "I have, of course, done a great deal of thinking about the Vice-Presidency.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-01", "text": "a filthy little atheist", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-01", "text": "The more I think over the Vice-Presidency, the less attractive it seems to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-05", "text": "They would like to see me put in the Vice Presidency because they think I will be harmless there.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-05", "text": "I do not intend to run for the Vice-Presidency.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-12", "text": "Under no circumstances could I or would I accept the nomination for the Vice Presidency.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-27", "text": "Seriously I think I can say with absolute truthfulness that I have administered this Governorship better than it has ever been administered before in my time - better than Cleveland administered it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-02-27", "text": "I hope that the great historian of the future will also be a great literary man.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-03-06", "text": "A very resolute effort is being made to beat my nominees.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-03-21", "text": "I was greatly shocked and grieved at the news of Aunt Laura's death.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-03-29", "text": "thoroughly vicious", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-04-09", "text": "given an efficient, upright administration", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-04-14", "text": "When is the Cromwell going to be published in book form?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-04-26", "text": "I believe I can be of more service to my country as Governor of the State of New York.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-06-11", "text": "some planks for the labor part of the platform.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-06-12", "text": "The organization pressed by the corporations is still very anxious to have me nominated.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-06-25", "text": "The thing could not be helped . . . I would be both ungrateful and a fool not to be deeply touched by the way in which I was nominated.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-06-25", "text": "It was a very melancholy little party that returned from Philadelphia.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-06-27", "text": "I am as strong as a bull moose, and you can use me to the limit.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-07-10", "text": "the West likes me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-08-19", "text": "as regards my shooting the Spaniard {on San Juan Hill]... I shot him in the left breast", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-08-24", "text": "I fear there is nothing to do save take Odell.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-08-25", "text": "he is honest.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-11-23", "text": "grown both fat and stiff.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-11-24", "text": "fat and stiff", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-12-10", "text": "I hate a stage.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-12-21", "text": "whipped the Welsh", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1900-12-31", "text": "I think I have been the best governor of my time.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-11", "text": "Reached Meeker 8 p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-12", "text": "Hunted all day. Shot a bay lynx which the dogs treed 18 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-12", "text": "Spent night at Goff ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-13", "text": "Hunted all day. Dogs worried another lynx.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-13", "text": "Pack puzzled by cold cougar trail. Spent night at Keystone ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-14", "text": "Knifed a cougar which the dogs held. Four of them were more or less hurt. Were over 2 hours on trail. Cougar a full grown but small", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-14", "text": "length exactly 6 feet; weight a little over 80 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-15", "text": "Knifed another cougar while the dogs held her. She had 3 kittens in cave in cut bank a few days old. Length 6 feet 7 inches, weight 118 lbs. Pack rather used up.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-16", "text": "Rode all day - 5th day. Shot lynx in pinon after excellent run. Weighed 21 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-17", "text": "Webb shot lynx, 29 lbs", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-17", "text": "Rode from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Two good runs after lynx. Climbing very rugged mountains to the top. Big lynx had killed an 8 months fawn. Could kill a yearly deer.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-18", "text": "Stewart sick. Webb killed cougar; tree small, on cliff face; dogs but 6 feet away. Length 6 feet 5 inches, weight 107 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-18", "text": "I killed lynx, 25 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-19", "text": "Rode all day - 8th day. Stewart killed cougar; young", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-19", "text": "Two beasts, killed in open had been dragged (not carried) some distance under trees.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-20", "text": "Rested. Nailed up skins; shot at target; bathed.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-21", "text": "Rode all day. Stewart shot a bobcat on a rock", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-22", "text": "Rode all day; got nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-23", "text": "Rode all day; got nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-24", "text": "Rode all day. Treed lynx which Stewart shot;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-24", "text": "Got cougar in cave;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-24", "text": "1 dog killed, 5 wounded.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-25", "text": "Snowed all day. Stewart & Webb left.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-26", "text": "Snowed until noon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-27", "text": "Rode 13 hours. Killed cougar", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-27", "text": "length 7' 8\" weight 164 lbs. Chase in all 4 hours. It ran 3 miles after being jumped. Shot it by moonlight, on cliff; Goff held up", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-28", "text": "Killed mate of cougar shot yesterday;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-28", "text": "Shot in tree; saw her get up before the dogs", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-29", "text": "Killed a big lynx", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-29", "text": "31 lbs. Ran him over an hour. One dog went into hole after another lynx and never came out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-30", "text": "Rode to Mathers Ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-01-31", "text": "Killed cougar in spruce.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-01", "text": "Hunted lost dogs. Snowy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-02", "text": "Found dogs. Snowy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-03", "text": "Saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-04", "text": "Heavy snowstorm.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-05", "text": "Killed cougar in pinyon 2 hours run, hard scramble coming up on foot.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-06", "text": "Snowy. Saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-07", "text": "Do.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-08", "text": "Went to Foreman's ranch. Killed cougar in pinyon off Colo Row Mt.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-09", "text": "Hunted; saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-10", "text": "Back to Mathers ranch", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-11", "text": "Back to Keystone Ranch", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-12", "text": "Killed 1 lynx & 2 cougar. Knifed while held by dogs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-13", "text": "Killed cougar after 3 hours cold trailing. Splendid view of run.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-14", "text": "Killed huge cougar. He ran three hours after being jumped, tree'em. Treed him. we gave it up thought it was old track. 67 8' long 227 lbs. weight shot & knifed him.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-02-15", "text": "Rode in to Meeker", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-03-04", "text": "A great work lies ready to the hand of this generation. As we do well or ill, so shall mankind in the future be raised or cast down.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-03-08", "text": "Send all twelve mountain lion skins", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-03-11", "text": "I usually wear a tie straight along until it gets worn out.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-03-16", "text": "I should like a more active position.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-03-27", "text": "never draw unless you intend to shoot .. + don't bluster, don't flourish your revolver.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-04-26", "text": "I am just living out in the country, doing nothing but ride and row with Mrs. Roosevelt.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-06-19", "text": "I see in the papers that the President is not going on to commencement.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-06-22", "text": "What a scoundrelly hypocrite [General Nelson A. Miles] is!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-07-03", "text": "We do not want to expand over another people [Philippines] capable of self-government unless that people desires to go in with us - and not necessarily even then.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-07-06", "text": "unless one is prepared to strike hard.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-07-16", "text": "I think it all right for [Ted] to collect in moderation birds eggs and occasionally birds too.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-07-16", "text": "avoid all possible waste of bird life, or of harmless life of any kind.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-07-16", "text": "When I was young I fell into the usual fashion of those days and collected 'specimens' industriously.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-08-02", "text": "We hold work not as a curse", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-08-02", "text": "we regard the idler with scornful pity.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-08-08", "text": "I always told you I was more of a westerner than an easterner.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-08-27", "text": "Succession of mild calamaties", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-02", "text": "Speak softly and carry a big stick.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-07", "text": "The President is coming along splendidly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-07", "text": "When you receive this the President I am sure will be out of danger.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-09", "text": "assault upon free government.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-22", "text": "I have realized it as I signed various papers all day long, and I feel that it is a good omen.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-23", "text": "It is a dreadful thing to come into the Presidency this way; but it would be a far worse thing to be morbid about it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-24", "text": "absolutely no appointments in the insular possessions will be dictated or controlled by political considerations.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-09-25", "text": "dirty little atheist", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-07", "text": "Unconsciously I always find I am trying to model myself with my children on the way he was with us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-09", "text": "delighted", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-21", "text": "If I were not President I should call on you.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-24", "text": "As to the Booker T. Washington incident, I had no thought whatever of anything save of having a chance of showing some little respect to a man whom I cordially esteem as a good citizen and and good American,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-24", "text": "contemptuous indifference", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-25", "text": "I suppose you have been amused at finding that our innocent dinner to Booker T. Washington has not only become a national but an international affair.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-28", "text": "I shall have [Booker T. Washington] to dine just as often as I please.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-10-29", "text": "Mr. Cridler has accepted the position of Representative of the St. Louis Exposition abroad.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-11-01", "text": "When are you going to be in Washington", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1901-12-03", "text": "The forest and water problems are perhaps the most vital internal problems of the United States", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-01-18", "text": "Damn the Dutch", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-01-22", "text": "I don't think it would be well for you to have an interest in the purchase of Government property.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-01-25", "text": "they are to be rangers in fact and not in name.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-02", "text": "I have been worked pretty nearly to the limit for the past month, having had every variety of question, big and little, to settle as best I could.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-02", "text": "Almost every afternoon I go out for a ride on Bleistein, with Mother on Yagenka and sometimes Senator Lodge and Secretary Root with us", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-02", "text": "we have just had snow and Kermit and Archie have been making life a burden for those walking outside.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-15", "text": "By the way, when we come to go into the state dinner how in the name of heaven will we avoid hurting various Teutonic susceptibilities? Will the Prince take Mrs. Roosevelt, while I walk in solemn state ahead by myself? How do we do it anyhow?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-19", "text": "Yesterday afternoon Uncle Will [Cowles] and I took a walk which ended in a crawl down Rock creek - for the snow had become ice.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-02-28", "text": "I feel it inadvisable for [Alice] to go", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-03-08", "text": "I have as yet received on encouragement whatever in reference to my desire to have you here", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-03-10", "text": "It is with very sincere regret that I accept your resignation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-03-10", "text": "Be not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-03-24", "text": "Miles is a perfect curse. He has been a detrement to the army for the last eight years.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-03-25", "text": "I very earnestly wish I could be at the meeting over which you are to preside in honor of the eightieth birthday of Edward Everett Hale.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-04-02", "text": "before taking any action or allowing any publication or statement in the newspapers in connection with our economic troubles with Germany over borax.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-04-28", "text": "'Bob' enjoyed the cartoon.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-05-02", "text": "We all of us earnestly hope that the occasion for war may not arise, but if it has to come then this nation must win; and in winning the prime factor must of necessity be the United States Navy. If the navy fails us then we are doomed to defeat. It should therefore be an object of prime importance for every patriotic American to see that the navy is built up", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-05-03", "text": "As regards the cruelties in the Philippines, I know I need not tell you that I will be as active in stopping them as any man can be.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-05-10", "text": "One thing I want definately understood . . . and that is the question of expedition.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-05-15", "text": "is of course the one artist who. should paint the portrait of an American President", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-05-30", "text": "to find out every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-06-09", "text": "have read all your stories to the children.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-06-25", "text": "No man has a right to arrogate to himself one particle of superiority or consideration because he has a college education, but... it makes it doubly incumbent upon him to do well and nobly in his life...", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-01", "text": "the great bit of work of my administration.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-02", "text": "irrigation business", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-10", "text": "dangerously near blackmail", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-10", "text": "right up to the mark", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-16", "text": "police duty", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-17", "text": "for heaven's sake take a real and thorough rest", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-25", "text": "Dear Mr. Speaker", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-07-29", "text": "I spent the entire day on a long row and picnic with Mrs. Roosevelt, going down the sound some seven or eight miles and rowing back in the evening.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-08-12", "text": "Many thanks for what you did on the friar question.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-08-15", "text": "Is this true?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-08-19", "text": "I do not believe a single vote will be cast against your confirmation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-09-06", "text": "Pray accept my hearty thanks for your kind and thoughtful inquiry - my hurts were trivial.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-09-15", "text": "I want to talk over several matters connected with the tariff and so-called trusts.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-09-19", "text": "Mitchell has announced . « that under no circumstances will he. . . call the strike off and that there must be a compromise", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-09-25", "text": "The bruise on my leg developed into a small abscess and I had to give up my western trip and come home and go to bed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-09-27", "text": "Panama title is all right.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-01", "text": "should greatly like to see you on Friday next, October 3,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-01", "text": "in regard to the failure of the coal supply.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-02", "text": "cutting into leg", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-05", "text": "The attitude of the coal operators . . was very exasperating. They used language toward Mitchell and his colleagues which was well calculated to make them so angry that they would consent to nothing.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-08", "text": "You sent me exactly the books I wished . . . it has been such a delight to drop everything useful...", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-12", "text": "I can now get about on crutches.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-16", "text": "Eminent sociologist", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-17", "text": "sociologist", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-20", "text": "as nurse to two wee guinea pigs", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-10-20", "text": "Nothing that you have ever written can begin to approach in screaming comedy the inside of the last few [coal strike] conferences.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-11-26", "text": "I am awfully sorry, old man; but after faithful effort for a month to try to arrange matters on the basis you wanted I find that I shall have to bring you home and put you on the Supreme Court.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-11-29", "text": "You may be assured that I will not commit myself on the Venezuela matter until 1 see Secretary Hay.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-12-02", "text": "Not a cloud on the horizon.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1902-12-08", "text": "I do not think my eyes are blinded by affection when I say that she [Edith] has combined to a degree I have never seen in any other woman the power of being the best of wives and mothers, the wisest manager of the household, and at the same time the ideal great lady and mistress of the White House.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-01-06", "text": "We felt very melancholy after you and Ted left and the house seemed empty and lonely.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-01-19", "text": "Greetings", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-01-31", "text": "I have a horror of trying to save any money out of my pay", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-04", "text": "I note with great pleasure your success in securing the prompt consideration and passage through the Senate of the bill to expedite the trial of cases under the antitrust law.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-08", "text": "Yesterday the new French Ambassador was presented to me", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-08", "text": "He is a nice little man, very dark & dapper, and is really a fine scholar. Having the diplomats presented to me is an awful bore as a rule. But this was a different matter; I kept him talking half an hour.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-09", "text": "good as gold", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-11", "text": "I enjoyed Shakespere and Voltaire so much that I feel I must tell you so.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-26", "text": "pass a resolution reciting the amended Cuban Treaty and saying that whenever the Senate adopts such a treaty it shall take effect?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-02-28", "text": "My conception of duty seems to me to require that I should nominate", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-05", "text": "I should like to talk over some forestry matters with a practical lumberman.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-10", "text": "Tyner has been asked to resign.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-12", "text": "I am now sweating blood in the effort to get the two treaties confirmed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-13", "text": "In the principle involved", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-13", "text": "there will of course be no compromise.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-13", "text": "American People will never consent to allowing one of the American Republics to come under the control of a European power.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-15", "text": "coasts of the countries around the Caribbean Sea.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-18", "text": "I was greatly interested in your criticism of Herodotus' account of the Battle of Salamis. I am always glad when Herodotus is vindicated.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-30", "text": "We are too big a people to be able to be careless as to what we say.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-03-31", "text": "In the course of your field work in the west you must come across many Indian tribes", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-02", "text": "assured us in explicit", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-02", "text": "that there was not the slightest intention on their part to", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-04", "text": "mostly townsbut even more largely of rough-coated, hard-headed, sinewy farmers and hired hands", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-05", "text": "in a German Lutheran church of very humble folk", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-06", "text": "speaking from the end of the train, sometimes going in solemn procession with the local notables to a stand specially erected for the occasion, the procession being heralded by the town brass band, which usually played 'Hail to the Chief! as a brilliant novelty as I stepped off the train.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-07", "text": "it was something to talk over and remember and tell their children about. But I think that besides the mere curiosity there was a good feeling behind it all.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-16", "text": "I have had a most interesting trip and every opportunity of observing the game which is certainly more plentiful than when I was last in the park, twelve years ago.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-04-16", "text": "I wish you could be here and see how tame all the wild creatures are.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-05", "text": "the strange old civilization of the desert", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-06", "text": "The most impressive piece of scenery I have ever looked at . . . it is beautiful and terrible and unearthly.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-06", "text": "I could have sat and looked at it for days.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-08", "text": "that wonderful paradise of Southern California - a veritable hotbed of fruits and flowers", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-10", "text": "I saw seals, cormorants, gulls and ducks.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-10", "text": "semi-tropical country . . . with palms and orange groves and olive orchards and immense quantities of flowers.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-16", "text": "snowstorm among silver firs near the brink of the cliff", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-17", "text": "in the open valley, fronting the stupendous rocky mass of El Capitan, with the falls thundering in the distance on either hand.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-21", "text": "Please consult with Root and Cortelyou and decide if it would be advisable for me to contribute", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-22", "text": "The mendacity of the Russians is something appalling.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-25", "text": "I have not asked any man for his support . . . of course those who favor my administration and my nomination will favor endorsing both and those who do not will oppose.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-27", "text": "a real service", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-27", "text": "You will like Josiah the Badger.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-28", "text": "I was struck by the growing beauty of the town, by the trees, the well-built Public library, the good taste and refinement evident in the dress, the bearing, and the homes", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-29", "text": "In many of the leading men in Utah, I was particularly struck", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-05-29", "text": "a queer combination of", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-01", "text": "first-class steer roping and riding of mean horses", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-06", "text": "Josiah, the young badger, is hailed with the wildest enthusiasm by the children.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-09", "text": "When I leave the Presidency I shall not mind in the least going back to the utmost simplicity of life and I wish to live simply as President .", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-11", "text": "What a ridiculous creature the Rev. Long is!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-13", "text": "friendly position toward", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-21", "text": "Mr. Mellen told me of what you did in connection with the Ohio endorsement episode, and I write you to say how deeply I appreciate your kindness.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-06-22", "text": "Manchurian business", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-01", "text": "I am angered over what I regard as the impertinent action of the Russians in this matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-02", "text": "our course of procedure about the petition under present circumstances.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-04", "text": "If anyone else views action taken in American interest from the standpoint of either friendship or hostility to a foreign power, I shall be sorry, but it certainly will not alter my own conduct.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-15", "text": "Loomis wires me that Cassini did not say to him officially that the Russian Government would not receive the petition.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-16", "text": "If those labor: union men strike", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-16", "text": "not one man jack of them will do another stroke of government work while I am President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-18", "text": "I have not the slightest objection to the Russians knowing that I feel... irritated at their conduct in Manchuria.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-21", "text": "an ugly fight", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-07-25", "text": "not only . .. will [there] be no arbitration of the matter, but . . . in my message to Congress I shall take a position which will prevent any possibility of arbitration hereafter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-13", "text": "I am totally in the dark as to what the outcome in the isthmus will be.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-19", "text": "If under the treaty of 1846 we have a color of right to start in and build the canal, my off-hand judgement would favor such Proceeding.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-19", "text": "I do not think that the Bogota lot of jack rabbits should be allowed perminently to bar one of the future highways of civilization.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-21", "text": "while thanks to my father and mother, I had a very happy childhood I am inclined to look back at it with some wonder that I should have come out of it as well as I have!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-24", "text": "Taft has accepted", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-24", "text": "criminal poor", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-08-26", "text": "Our currency system is on the whole good.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-01", "text": "I do not believe in an unrighteous peace, and I do believe in righteous war; but an unrighteous war is something so hideously wicked that the world's condemnation thereof should be unsparing.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-03", "text": "You have often and often given me wise advice, but never wiser than to refrain from committing myself about currency legislation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-03", "text": "Ethel is a perfect little housewife and mother.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-06", "text": "I was glad to read The Frogs at the same time with the Hippolytus.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-10", "text": "the trouble is that for me to announce my feelings would undoubtedly be taken as equivalent to an effort to incite an insurrection in Panama,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-11", "text": "under the circumstances it was out of the question for us not to send our squadron to Beirut, and out of the question to withdraw it afterwards.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-12", "text": "it may not be possible now to undo it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-15", "text": "This winter we may start the Nicaragua Canal, or . . . take action in Panama.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-18", "text": "I have been at my wits end what' to do in reference to the municipal election", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-26", "text": "stiff row home against wind and tide.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-09-28", "text": "We have had a lovely summer - as lovely a summer as we have ever passed . . . Alice has been at home very little spending most of her time in Newport and elsewhere, associating with the four hundred - individuals with whom other members of the family have exceedingly few affiliations.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-02", "text": "I enjoy being President, and I like to do the work and have my hand on the lever.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-05", "text": "warn those cat-rabbits that great though our patience has been it can be exhausted.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-10", "text": "be delighted if Panama were an independant state.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-20", "text": "I rose like a rocket.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-21", "text": "very important and probably decisive", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-10-24", "text": "I am sorry to say that I am falling behind physically. The last two or three years I have had a tendancy to Rheumatism, or gout, or something of the kind, which makes me very stiff.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-11-13", "text": "at that time I urged that Spain should be notified that we would treat the sailing of Spanish armed vessels and torpedo boats as an act of war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-11-15", "text": "vice-mother", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-03", "text": "the result is satisfactory in every way.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-07", "text": "offered signal proof of the fairness and good will with which two friendly nations can approach and determine issues.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-09", "text": "just at the moment I am more concerned about Panama than anything else.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-12", "text": "I feel that it is far and away the best account of the [American] Revolution written by anyone.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-21", "text": "if there should come a brush with Columbia, I want to be dead sure that Columbia fires first.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-24", "text": "In the interest of both the white and the black in the Southern States, I could not afford to connive at, and thereby strengthen, a movement of retrogression which in its essence was aimed at depriving all colored men, good and bad, intelligent and degraded alike, of the elementary rights of citizenship. In short, I wanted to add my mite toward the effort to persuade the southerners simply to treat negroes as they would other people.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1903-12-26", "text": "We had a delightful Christmas yesterday just such a Christmas 30 or 40 years ago we used to have under Father's and Mother's supervision in 20th Street and 57th Street.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-01-04", "text": "did not go far enough", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-01-09", "text": "I feel ashamed on reading your biography of me, for I feel as though I ought to be dead in order to justify it!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-01-23", "text": "Ethel is as good as gold with both the little boys.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-01-29", "text": "Senator Hanna and the Wall Street crowd are causing me some worry but not of a serious: kind. I doubt if they can prevent my nomination.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-01-30", "text": "my nomination has become assured.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-13", "text": ". . . next cabinet meeting I think we ought to consider whether there is any need of sending additional ships to Asia.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-16", "text": "Hanna's death has been very sad . . . no man had larger traits than Hanna. He was a big man in every way and as forceful a personality as we have seen in public life in our generation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-17", "text": "Poor Hanna has just died. Thank Heaven, before he became sick the whole opposition to me had collapsed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-20", "text": "Reports indicating a condition of serious disturbance and grave danger to important American interests have been coming to me for a considerable period from Santo Domingo.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-26", "text": "I hope to minimize . . . interference in Santo Domingo.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-02-27", "text": "Quentin's sickness was purely due to a riot in candy and ice cream with chocolate sauce.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-05", "text": "I am wrestling with two Japanese wrestlers three times a week.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-08", "text": "Old Chief Joseph will have to have his fare paid back from Washington.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-19", "text": "Yesterday, unexpectedly, a vote was taken and you were confirmed", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-19", "text": "I am entirely sincere in my purpose to keep this government [the U.S.] neutral in the war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-19", "text": "Can't you bring Mrs. Spring Rice here as soon as you are married?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-21", "text": ". . . let me heartily congratulate you . . .", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-03-26", "text": "Would it not be well to have some statement made as to what has been done about the Beef Trust, so that people will be advised? Sometimes things of this kind ought be to be hammered in.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-04-05", "text": "Root absolutely cannot take the Chairmanship [of the Republican National Committee].", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-05-14", "text": ". . . a couple of scrambles. . .", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-05-20", "text": "If a nation shows that it knows how to act with decency in industrial and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, then it need fear no interference from the United States ... Brutal wrong-doing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society, may finally require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the United States cannot ignore this duty.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-05-24", "text": "Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-05", "text": "Renown is dead", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-05", "text": "when we all get home I shall propose... a 'point to point' walk, which shall be taken so as to necessitate swimming across fleet pond, wading eel creek marsh on the return, etc;", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-05", "text": "Mother and I have just had a lovely ride on the Virginia side.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-15", "text": "We have gone as far as we possibly can go for Perdicaris.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-15", "text": "if Perdicaris is harmed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-17", "text": "There is opposition to you which I do not understand.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-06-17", "text": "if I am to run for President then you are to be Chairman of the Committee, and I regard disloyalty to you as simply disloyalty to the Republican party.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-06", "text": "What the Democratic Convention will do I do not know, but as regards the right of the matter, it does not make any difference. Whether we shall be beaten or not this fall I cannot say; but I can say if we are beaten it will be a disaster to the Republic unless our opponents turn straight around and carry out every single one of our policies.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-11", "text": "Mrs. Storer is an awful trial. I wish to Heaven she would either quit her professional sectarian business or get Bellamy to leave public life!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-13", "text": "I had six boys with me... We swam the millpond (which proved to be very broad and covered with duckweed), in great shape, with our clothes on; executed an equally long but easier swim in the bay with our clothes on; and between times had gone in a straight line through the woods, through the marshes, and up and down the bluffs... I did not look exactly Presidential when I got back from the walk!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-26", "text": "we may be of genuine service, if Japan wins out, in preventing interference to rob her of the fruits of her victory.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-29", "text": "for a scramble down Rock Creek", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-29", "text": "not feeling any too kindly about", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-07-30", "text": "have made an honorable name to leave the children and will have completed by March 4th next pretty nearly seven years of work", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-08", "text": "Our squadron will go to Smyrna, I am well aware that I have no right to make war and have not the dimmest or remotest intention of doing so.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-11", "text": "The Northern Securities suit is one of the great achievements of my administration.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-11", "text": "I look back on it with great pride, for through it we emphasized", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-11", "text": "the fact that the most powerful men in this country were held to accountability before the law.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-11", "text": "I think Parker's speech is poor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-13", "text": "I hear good reports from New York.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-14", "text": "we had a real honeymoon time together.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-19", "text": "I have just seen Mr. Robb about the paper trust matter, and he has explained to me that the facts are not yet before the department in shape to allow it to act.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-21", "text": "Quentin now goes down to Aunt Lizzie's all alone. He has a new boat, a toy sailboat.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-27", "text": "My action on labor should always be considered in connection with my action as regards capital, and both are reducable to my favorite formula - a square deal for everyone.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-29", "text": "down in the bottom of my heart I all along felt just exactly as you express yourself in your letter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-29", "text": "The Russians think only with half a mind. I think the Japanese will whip them handsomely.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-08-30", "text": "deferred until after election", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-01", "text": "I wish there was any such chance of rest ahead of me as a visit to you, but it is simply out of the question.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-05", "text": "I never play bridge. I have gone shooting but once since I was President, and my riding is now only of a decorous kind.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-07", "text": "I will say that I am by no means satisfied with Venezuela's present attitude.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-08", "text": "unless we throw it away ourselves, we have the victory.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-19", "text": "I return Spring Rice's letter, which interested me greatly. It is curious how they all think that Russia will win. I do not.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-19", "text": "Jefferson Davis was an unhung traitor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-21", "text": "Mrs. Roosevelt read me your letter aloud, and I like it so much that I must send you a line to say so.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-21", "text": "I like to think of you reading my letter of acceptance in the intervals of putting up the preserves. I wish you could vote for me, but I am very glad you have a husband, and four sons, and an adopted son, and three kinsfolk, who I hope have your views.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-23", "text": "at present there is nothing to see you about.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-09-29", "text": "attack Parker", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-02", "text": "sick unto death", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-06", "text": "We have had a rather dull campaign so far, but it is getting lively now.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-14", "text": "quite funny", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-18", "text": "it looks rather favorable to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-25", "text": "look favorable, but I have a mind steeled for the outcome!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-26", "text": "I enclose you a check for $5.00 with which you can celebrate after election if we win, or console yourself if we lose.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-26", "text": "stand or fall", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-10-31", "text": "A week ago my horse put his foot through a rotten plank on a bridge and turned a somersault. I landed on my head and skinned my forehead. Most fortunately the papers", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-08", "text": "under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-08", "text": "majorities which astound me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-10", "text": "I have the greatest popular majority and the greatest electoral majority ever given a candidate for President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-11", "text": "We have received between eight and ten thousand", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-15", "text": "Can you send me on three pairs of boxing gloves.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-16", "text": "Would you accept an appointment on the Interstate Commerce Commission?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-18", "text": "people do not realize that I do not like to sit for photographs.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-23", "text": "your philosophy has a real effect upon this country.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-26", "text": "one day at the fair and that was a perfect whirl. I was taken through a lot of the buildings, streaking along pretty nearly as hard as I could walk from one place to another, while Mother, who was in beautiful walking trim, kept right up behind", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-26", "text": "I thought the Exposition beautiful, especially when the buildings were illuminated at night.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-29", "text": "I am half southern. My Mother's kinsfolk fought for the Confederate side, and I am proud of them.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-29", "text": "We are greatly rejoiced over the good news", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-11-29", "text": "I am as fond of Eleanor as if she were my daughter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-12-02", "text": "am going to make every effort to get something of what I desire in the way of an amendment to the present tariff law; but I shall not split the party on the matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-12-12", "text": "Tell dear Eleanor that I can attend the wedding", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-12-13", "text": "A couple of days ago I spent a good afternoon with Ted and one of his football friends and a couple of young army officers sparring, playing singlestick, etc. and I am sorry to say I have wrenched my thigh again and succeeded in breaking a blood vessel in one eye.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-12-26", "text": "to avoid any blustering or threatening", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1904-12-26", "text": "be able to act decidedly when any turn of events menaces our interests, and to be able to make our words good once they have been spoken.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-03", "text": "pink tea men", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-10", "text": "I most earnestly hope that there will be no halt in the building up of the navy.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-11", "text": "on the tariff, which I regard as a matter of expediency, I shall endeavor to get the best results I can.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-23", "text": "Ted and I continue to box with Grant, the wrestler. He isn't a very good boxer for a prizefighter", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-23", "text": "Little Corinne, with Isabella Selmes, Lorraine and two other girls have been here for the Diplomatic Dinner", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-01-23", "text": "Archie and Quentin had the grip [sic], and Quentin is still in bed. I have finished reading The Deerslayer to them.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-02-16", "text": "I cannot believe that England has any intention of taking part in the partition of China.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-03", "text": "tomorrow I shall come into my office in my own right. Then watch out for me!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-04", "text": "Much has been given us, and much will be expected of us.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-04", "text": "Lodge, did you see Bacon turn pale he heard me swear to support the Constitution?", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-06", "text": "You stood to me for him and for all that generation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-09", "text": "Life is a long campaign, where every victory merely leaves the ground free for another battle.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-09", "text": "It has been peculiarly pleasant to me to find that my supporters are to be found in the overwhelming majority among those whom Abraham Lincoln called the plain people", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-09", "text": "Our internal problems are of course much more important than our relations with foreign powers.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-09", "text": "This country is, I think, learning to take its position more seriously.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-14", "text": "But I do unqualifiedly condemn easy divorce.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-14", "text": "All that would be done would be to put in men that were honest and capable", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-23", "text": "the ultraconservatives may make it necessary to accept what is radical.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-23", "text": "His and my views on politics rarely coincide.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-03-27", "text": "I have enjoyed your poems, especially 'The Children of the Night' so much that I must write to tell you so. Will you permit me to ask what you are doing and how you are getting along?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-02", "text": "I felt that much less trouble would come from action", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-07", "text": "There is much to admire in them", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-07", "text": "Abernethy the homesteader & wolf catcher; he catches them with hands; his grayhounds; they will hold but not kill a big wolf", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-08", "text": "First coyote seized by dogs in creek. Alec Lambert's good riding.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-08", "text": "You are handling everything just right.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-09", "text": "Today we opened our hunt successfully, killing two coyotes as the result of several headlong gallops.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-09", "text": "Beautiful camp; in bend of Big Red branch of Red River", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-10", "text": "In afternoon went out again; extraordinary 10 mile run", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-11", "text": "Up before dawn. Spent morning with train hounds in fruitless hunt after bobcats. Nothing. Rested in afternoon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-12", "text": "Killed 6 coyotes. Only one unsuccessful chase.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-13", "text": "Hunted in morning. In at death of 2 coyotes.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-14", "text": "thrusting his gloved hands down between their jaws so that they cannot bite.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-15", "text": "Rode about 20 miles to our camp on upper waters of East Divide Creek. Very comfortable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-15", "text": "Snow in drifts. High rugged country.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-16", "text": "Rode for 11 hours, over exceedingly difficult country. Horses climb like cats; wonderful endurance.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-17", "text": "Got him after chase of 1 3/4 hours. 330 lbs. Stomach empty.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-18", "text": "Rode 6 hours, mostly in snowdrifts; saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-19", "text": "Loeb spent night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-19", "text": "Rode all day; in high mts. Saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-20", "text": "Snowy. In Camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-20", "text": "I do not feel that as a government we should interfere in the Morocco matter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-21", "text": "Stewart photographed it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-22", "text": "Cuban fever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-23", "text": "Stayed in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-24", "text": "I shot her dead through heart.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-24", "text": "Stomach contained rosebuds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-25", "text": "I broke her neck.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-26", "text": "Touch of fever. Stayed in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-27", "text": "Fever. Stayed in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-28", "text": "Bee martin, tame, stays round buildings, rather plaintive & pleasant note.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-29", "text": "Fever. Stayed in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-30", "text": "Church at little blue school house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-04-30", "text": "I emphatically agree with the Japanese view that there should be direct negotiations on all terms of peace between Russia and Japan.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-01", "text": "Rode eight hours. Saw nothing. Loeb spent night.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-02", "text": "Storms. Stewart came out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-03", "text": "Heavy, wet snow storm.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-04", "text": "Snowy. Rode 6 hours; saw nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-05", "text": "Snowy. Rode 6 hours. Killed bobcat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-06", "text": "Rode to Glenwood.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-07", "text": "Glenwood Springs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-08", "text": "House finches singing in Denver.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-08", "text": "Many flowers. Did not see blue columbine, the State flower.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-15", "text": "received with wild enthusiasm", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-22", "text": "It is perfectly hopeless to try to bring about a better understanding between England and Germany. I attempted it in vain.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-24", "text": "to beat it means to increase the danger of the movement for the government ownership of railroads.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-25", "text": "You will be pleased to know that", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-05-25", "text": "your poet, has been appointed and is at work in New York.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-01", "text": "I do not want to do anything futile.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-01", "text": "I shall see whether or not anything can be accomplished by such an offer of mediation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-12", "text": "I answered with an acerbity which, being a young man, struck me as clever.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-12", "text": "it does not strike me in the least so now.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-16", "text": "If they now make peace, Russia giving up Sakhalin and paying a reasonable indemnity, then we shall have Russia with the territory she possessed in East Asia a dozen years ago still practically intact. Japan will have gained enormously by the war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-23", "text": "The French Government informs me unofficially through the ambassador that it has ceased its opposition to a conference of the powers on Morocco.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-23", "text": "It is a diplomatic triumph of the first magnitude.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-30", "text": "Oh lord! I have been growing nearly mad in the effort to get Russia and Japan together.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-06-30", "text": "Japan has a right to ask a good deal and I do not think that her demands are excessive; but Russia is so soddenly stupid and the government is such an amorphous affair that they really do not know what they want.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-01", "text": "I shall never forget the hour I used to spend each Sunday after church with you and him", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-06", "text": "Give my love to Alice if she has not received a letter from me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-15", "text": "The American Government and the American people at large have not the slightest sympathy with the outrageous agitation against the Japanese in certain small sections along the Pacific slope", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-17", "text": "I wish I could be hopeful that Congress will reduce expenditures.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-18", "text": "I took the two smallest boys in my boat. Each of us had a light blanket to sleep in, and the boys are sufficiently deluded to believe that the chicken or beefsteak I fry in bacon fat on these expeditions has a flavor impossible elsewhere to be obtained.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-18", "text": "Ted passed all his examinations for Harvard and got four points extra.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-19", "text": "I am fond of tennis, but I am not a good tennis player at all. I am not really good at any games.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-19", "text": "In short, I am not an athlete; I am simply a good, ordinary, out-of-doors man.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-21", "text": "Not a posterity letter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-07-24", "text": "No such policy as that of the Monroe Doctrine can remain fossilized while the nation grows.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-03", "text": "I have always acted upon the cardinal principle of the Western man... 'never draw unless you mean to shoot.'", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-12", "text": "The 'twilight of the poets' has been especially grey in America", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-16", "text": "It was my son Kermit who first called my attention to Robinson's poems.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-27", "text": "Peace can be obtained on the following terms: Russia to pay no indemnity whatever and to receive back north half of Sakhalin for which it is to pay Japan.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-29", "text": "I am overjoyed at the news", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-31", "text": "I congratulate you upon the outcome and I share the feelings of all other sincere well-wishers to peace.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-08-31", "text": "of course I am very much pleased at the outcome", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-02", "text": "they would not have made peace", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-02", "text": "The last three months have left me feeling rather tired.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-03", "text": "I intend to keep the island in statu quo until the Senate has time to act on the treaty", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-05", "text": "only by disregarding the old conventional diplomatic methods", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-05", "text": "I communicated personally with the Czar, the Mikado, the Kaiser, Balfour, Rowier, and so forth.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-06", "text": "I need hardly say how delighted I am at the peace that has been made.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-19", "text": "I do not suppose there is anything that I can do to try to bring about a better feeling between England and Germany.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-23", "text": "Archie is a little trump, so loving and polite and honorable.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-29", "text": "I have been really concerned by the reported outrageous conduct of the news papers in reference to Ted", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-09-29", "text": "The boy is an ordinary boy, who I believe will study well, who is fond of sports but not especially proficient in them.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-10-02", "text": "I have just seen Archie dragging some fifty foot of hose pipe across the tennis court to play in the sand box.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-11-15", "text": "The Chinese are not showing a good spirit.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-11-28", "text": "Remember that I abhor a demagogue as much as I abhor a corruptionist", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-11-28", "text": "I do not want to do anything that the courts will probably declare to be worthless.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-11-30", "text": "through Booker Washington or some similar man, try to get a good colored man for Freetown, Sierra Leone.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-12-07", "text": "If you enjoyed your visit to the White House half as much as we enjoyed having you, I am more than content.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1905-12-21", "text": "that is interesting and just what I would expect. But Mr. Sullivan is mistaken about Mr. Cromwell having had my confidence!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-09", "text": "useless to talk to me of accepting a third term. Under no consideration would I do so.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-12", "text": "Schiff, so far from helping, distinctly hurt the situation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-13", "text": "The wedding presents have begun to arrive for Sister.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-18", "text": "as one state", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-22", "text": "I find it a great comfort to like all kinds of books.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-01-30", "text": "new President and the new Congress should go into office together on the first of the New Year.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-02-12", "text": "It is good of you to remember the engagement of my daughter, who will be married this week. Longworth is a good fellow. He is a Harvard man", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-02-12", "text": "the Porcellian, and was and is much the best violinist who ever left Harvard.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-02-13", "text": "I cannot write to Wadsworth and Higgins about any matter of legislation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-02-17", "text": "hysteria and sensationalism, never do any good.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-03-10", "text": "HOW ARE YOU?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-03-11", "text": "different natures", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-03-15", "text": "A Moral standard must be set up for the very rich.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-03-28", "text": "in sympathy", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-04-14", "text": "the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck-rake.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-04-16", "text": "the grown people", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-04-28", "text": "eight-guinea-pig-power", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-04-29", "text": "lonely spot", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-05-03", "text": "The [Hepburn] bill accomplishes a real step forward in that movement of reform which will be effective only if it is not made too violent, and if it is made by steps each of which will disappoint the extremists. From the standpoint of perminent achievement I should feel a great regret if the bill did not pass.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-05-09", "text": "Suppose, after all, that should prove to be right, and it all ends in your butterflies and morlocks. That doesn't matter now. The effort's real. It's worth going on with. It's worth it. It's worth it - even so.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-05-19", "text": "Chandler-Bailey-Tillman matter", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-05-20", "text": "The rate bill went through in fine shape.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-05-20", "text": "worn by one of the old damios", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-06-09", "text": "Opened the house", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-06-11", "text": "There isn't anyplace in the world like home like Sagamore Hill", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-06-24", "text": "Lordly Ted", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-06-24", "text": "The Tyrant", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-06", "text": "I have been having a real rest, this summer.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-09", "text": "though I would not like to bet on it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-18", "text": "pagan philosopher", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-20", "text": "I have a very great sympathy with the causes of spelling reform.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-24", "text": "Let the Battalion take the accused men with it to San Antonio and turn them over to the military authorities there, to be confined and guarded until further direction from me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-08-27", "text": "P.S. This is my first spelling reform letter!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-09-08", "text": "It seems advisable to send two war vessels to Cuba . . . to protect American interests . . . Immediate action necessary.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-09-20", "text": "Is it possible to institute investigations to see what Americans, if any, have been furnishing funds to the [Cuban] Revolutionists?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-09-23", "text": "are just going out for a row.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-09-23", "text": "little birds", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-09-29", "text": "LAND MARINES AT ONCE", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-10-26", "text": "Thru the Department of Justice we are already taking steps in San Francisco to see if we cannot remedy the matter thru the courts.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-10-27", "text": "I would loath to see [the U.S.] forced into a war in which it was wrong.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-11-05", "text": "discharged without honor", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-11-13", "text": "a little bored", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-12-07", "text": "imprest", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1906-12-16", "text": "I could not by fighting have kept the new spelling in.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-01-08", "text": "I have entire confidence in your genuine friendliness to my country.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-01-22", "text": "The British Government has behaved very well under very trying and mortifying circumstances", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-04", "text": "howling and whooping and embarrassing me in every way", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-09", "text": "cocky and unreasonable", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-14", "text": "You have done excellent work on the Isthmus and I am sorry to lose you; but in view of your attitude towards the work, as exprest in your letter, I agree with you that it would be better for you to leave the commission. I accordingly hereby accept your resignation.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-15", "text": "Don't you think we ought to communicate with Japan and start that treaty [on immigration] at once?", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-23", "text": "In popular government results worth having can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-28", "text": "I did not care a rap about his letter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-02-28", "text": "Congress is about to adjourn. I have had what I suppose is the usual measure of success with legislative bodies; that is, I have succeeded in getting thru some things that I very much wisht, altho not always in the form I most desired; and I have failed to get two or three other things which, tho not necessary, were certainly desirable", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-02", "text": "If I did not act, reserves which I consider very important for the interest of the United States would be wholly or in part dissapated.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-10", "text": "You will be pleased to know that I finally proved unable to contain myself, and gave an interview or statement, to a very good fellow, in which I sailed into Long and Jack London and one or two other of the more preposterous writers of 'unnatural' history.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-25", "text": "wildeyed revolutionist", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-28", "text": "I will not deviate one hand's breadth from the course I have marked out.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-30", "text": "I have been really deprest over this Brownsville", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-31", "text": "and as quaint and funny as ever", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-03-31", "text": "I do not like to seem to talk just for the effect upon the Stock Market.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-04-15", "text": "We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-04-15", "text": "So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-04-17", "text": "at present it looks to me as if Taft was the man we ought to unite on.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-04-26", "text": "usual speech, held usual reception, went to the usual lunch, etc., etc.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-05-12", "text": "wee turtles in the bathtub, and a small alligator in the basin.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-06-06", "text": "we felt that we would like to thank you for just having existed and written!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-08", "text": "A President ought not to go into anything outside of his work as President", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-08", "text": "that is rather a hard proposition to live up to.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-13", "text": "will have a pacific effect to show us that it can be done", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-13", "text": "absolutely necessary for us to try in time of peace to see just what we could do in the way of putting a big battle fleet in the Pacific.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-24", "text": "Is Admiral Manney a lunatic? He has sent me some thoughts on the Japanese and on our fleet going to the Pacific which really would do discredit to an outpatient of Bedlam.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-26", "text": "heads seem to be swollen to a marvelous degree.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-07-29", "text": "a gross miscarriage of justice", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-08-20", "text": "certain malefactors of great wealth", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-08-20", "text": "to bring about as much financial stress as possible, in order to discredit the policy of the Government and thereby secure a reversal of that policy.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-08-27", "text": "our people do not desire to hold foreign dependencies, and do believe in self-government for them", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-10-01", "text": "I am now on what I believe will be my last trip of consequence while I am President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-10-10", "text": "All your dear, dear letters have come; I love them so; and after reading them again and again I can hardly make up my mind to tear them up.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-11-06", "text": "The results [of the elections] yesterday were checkered.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1907-12-02", "text": "all through", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-01-01", "text": "two hours good hard ride with four of my children and a dozen of their cousins and friends.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-01-01", "text": "The Historian of the American Revolution", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-01-15", "text": "Ted thinks he can get thru college in three years, and will get out; so that he may earn money for himself!!!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-01-20", "text": "philosopher", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-01-27", "text": "The campaign for Taft seems to be getting along well.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-02-15", "text": "Altho his judgment and his temper were so bad that I finally lost all confidence in his actions.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-02-29", "text": "Dickens was an ill-natured, selfish cad and boor, who had no understanding of what the word gentleman meant, and no appreciation of hospitality or good treatment.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-03-04", "text": "good reading for pacifists", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-04-11", "text": "Ethel has bought on trial", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-04-15", "text": "simply a prodigious memory with a lot of hair on it.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-04-24", "text": "As regards the Brownsville matter I wish to reiterate . . . that an exhaustive investigation has proved beyond all possible doubt .. . that the murderous assault was committed by from ten to twenty of the Negro soldiers, and that a large number of their comrades had guilty knowledge either before or after the event.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-05-07", "text": "I am often accused of violating the Constitution.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-05-12", "text": "lost his head", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-05-23", "text": "It gave me quite a pang to receive your letter and feel that you are really making up your mind to what you are going to do next fall. Of course I feel sad to think of the little bear going out into the world at last.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-05-30", "text": "pointless and stupid", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-06-06", "text": "we must be very cautious. We must always be ready to back one another up, and probably we ought each to have a spare rifle when we move in to the attack.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-06-17", "text": "a sexual degenerate", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-06-22", "text": "I am already looking away from politics and toward Africa. Ted is out of Harvard, and starting work.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-06-23", "text": "I am extremely pleased with the result of the convention. I think Cabots handling of it was masterly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-07-07", "text": "I believe in you, Peary, and I believe in your success ~ if it is within the possibility of man.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-07-19", "text": "When I am thru with anything I am thru with it, and am under no temptation to snatch at the fringes of departing glory.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-07-19", "text": "I have a perfectly definate philosophy about the Presidency - I think it should be a very powerful office, and I think the President should be a very strong man who uses without hesitation every power that the position yields.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-07-21", "text": "simply can't bind myself up now.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-07-22", "text": "the Monroe Doctrine unbacked by a Navy is an empty boast.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-08-05", "text": "I very much wish I could study the Socialistic movement in Denmark.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-08-19", "text": "I like plenty of salt.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-08-24", "text": "I am shocked and grieved at the news of the death of", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-08-28", "text": "It was delightful to see you two in your lovely home.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-01", "text": "Don't answer Bryan, attack him!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-09", "text": "We [T.R. and Taft] have the same views as to what is demanded by the national interest and honor, both within our borders, and as regards the relations of this nation with other nations.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-11", "text": "Hit them hard, old man!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-12", "text": "I do hope that you will be there", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-17", "text": "I should like to have stayed on in the Presidency.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-17", "text": "your handling of the situation at Saratoga was masterly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-09-21", "text": "personally, I wish Taft would hit harder, would smash into Bryan in effective fashion.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-10-20", "text": "bigoted, narrow-minded, honest, evangelical", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-10-24", "text": "the election is now absolutely assured", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-10-30", "text": "am entirely confident of Mr. Taft's election.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-11-03", "text": "We have beaten them to a frazzle.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-11-06", "text": "No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-11-06", "text": "having my hands on the levers of the great machine.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-12-20", "text": "I have achieved a large proportion of what I set out to achieve and I feel that I have measurably realized my ideals.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1908-12-26", "text": "Three cheers! I am simply overjoyed that you are going out", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-01-10", "text": "Q turned up last night", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-01-10", "text": "I have had to give him a severe whipping the first real whipping I have ever had to give one of my children.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-01-18", "text": "and, by the way, you have me in the costume in which I took my hundred mile ride the other day.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-02-04", "text": "I am up to my ears finishing my work as President and am having no easy job of at.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-02-22", "text": "In my own judgment, the most important service that I rendered to peace was the voyage of the battle fleet round the world.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-02-28", "text": "There is one ex-President as to whom [the people] need not concern themselves in the least", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-02-28", "text": "I emphatically do not desire to clutch at the fringe of departing greatness.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-02", "text": "My future is in the past, save as I may do the decent work that every private citizen can do.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-03", "text": "One closing legacy - under no circumstances divide the battleship fleet between", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-04", "text": "Opened the house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-07", "text": "I really think the people at Washington sorry to have us go.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-10", "text": "I have had a great time as President, and have accomplished a reasonable proportion of what I set out to accomplish, and I have fought up to the very end.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-16", "text": "Up to November [1909] my address will be c/o Newland, Tarlton & Co., Nairobi, British East Africa, and after that c/o the Sirdar, Khartoum.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-23", "text": "Sailed from N.Y.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-26", "text": "I was touched by the numbers of acquaintences who came down to see me off.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-03-26", "text": "homesick for Edith", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-05", "text": "Naples", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-06", "text": "Messina", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-06", "text": "The scene is terrible beyond description.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-14", "text": "Neither Kermit nor I like sea voyages.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-14", "text": "he is never sulky or cross, and always interested and interesting.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-15", "text": "Aden", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-21", "text": "Mombasa P.M. Stayed with Governor Jackson. Deluge.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-22", "text": "At train for Kapiti plains", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-23", "text": "Kapiti Plains", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-24", "text": "Hunt in afternoon", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-25", "text": "Rode to Pease Ranch - shot Hartebeest bull", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-27", "text": "Blank day . . . Kermit after 10 miles run rode down + shot hyena.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-29", "text": "Off for 12 hours, with Sir Alfred + Lady + Miss Pease.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-30", "text": "The McMillans + Selous came to lunch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-04-30", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-01", "text": "Shot very old hartebeest bull.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-01", "text": "Bad shooting: 10 cartridges at 100 to 250 yards; hit bull 4 times. Rode over to tea with Mrs. McMillan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-02", "text": "13 hours hunt; camped at Potha in the plain.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-02", "text": "I killed 3 lions.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-03", "text": "In afternoon moved to Bondini; small pond.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-03", "text": "Safari very picturesque; + wild pagans: men chant, blow horns, blow whistles, tom-toms as they march.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-04", "text": "Blank day after hours", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-05", "text": "Awful. Kermit killed hartebeeste and grant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-06", "text": "Rode all day with Captain Slatter.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-06", "text": "Walked up to rhino bull.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-06", "text": "he charged viciously; killed at 14 paces.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-07", "text": "killed a good male chanlers after awful shooting.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-08", "text": "Missed waterbuck bull + wild dog...", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-09", "text": "Killed 2 giraffes: medium sized bull, spine at 350 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-09", "text": "Kermit killed one giraffe", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-10", "text": "Skinning giraffe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-11", "text": "Safari to Polka.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-12", "text": "To Machachos [sic]", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-13", "text": "Rode to Juja farm.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-15", "text": "Out night hours", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-16", "text": "Off by 5:30; cow rhino charged us + I had to it.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-17", "text": "I am really proud of Kermit. It is hard to realize that the rather timid boy of four years ago has turned out a perfectly cool and daring fellow.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-18", "text": "Impalla [sic] buck 300 yards 144 lbs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-19", "text": "I missed everything.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-19", "text": "The three naturalists are splendid fellows.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-20", "text": "To Kamiti, the property of Hill, Heatley.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-21", "text": "In moving killed 2 bull buffalo; one surely mine", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-21", "text": "Got 3d bull in swamp", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-22", "text": "killed for camp 2 zebra, 2 hartebeests.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-23", "text": "In morning went after buffalo; saw none.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-24", "text": "Myriad game trails; dusty and swampy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-25", "text": "To Heatley's house.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-26", "text": "To Narobi [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-28", "text": "To MacMillan's [sic] townhouse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-29", "text": "Worked. 'Nairobi Hollies' in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-05-30", "text": "Episcopalian Church.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-01", "text": "Sir Alfred dines with us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-02", "text": "To the Govenors [sic], for tea.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-03", "text": "To Ki jabe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-04", "text": "Lunched at mission.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-05", "text": "Started on trek across the thirst with safari + 4 oxwagons,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-06", "text": "Trek across the thirst.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-08", "text": "Oxwagons came in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-09", "text": "Trekked to the Nyarok", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-10", "text": "To the Guaso Nyero. Shot wildebeest [sic] bull, running; 300 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-12", "text": "Kermit killed 2 cheetahs", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-13", "text": "2 impalla [sic] 1 standing 130 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-14", "text": "1 hyena 350 yards 1 boar running 160 yards 1 lioness 80.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-18", "text": "One rhino, gallopped . . . 1 wildebeeste bull.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-19", "text": "Kermit rides down eland . . . I went out alone.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-20", "text": "Kermit + I out shooting; rhino cow + calf.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-21", "text": "Lion near camp in morning.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-21", "text": "I have not looked at a newspaper since I left home.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-22", "text": "Roberts buck . . . zebra. . . old bull wildebeeste.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-23", "text": "Lion, 8 yards + 4 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-24", "text": "Shifted camp to pool near Masai encampment - at foot of range of high hills.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-25", "text": "Maned lion; fatal shot in chest as he charged, 100 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-26", "text": "Stayed in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-27", "text": "Shifted camp. 1 zebra 230 yds", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-28", "text": "2 topi 350 + 400 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-29", "text": "1 rhino 60 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-06-30", "text": "Impalla doe 80 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-01", "text": "Mail came.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-02", "text": "Dikdik buck, running, 50 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-03", "text": "Shifted camp to salt marsh.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-04", "text": "Big grant buck 200 to 285 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-05", "text": "Wildebeeste buck, running 280 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-06", "text": "Shifted camp to old camp by Guyaso Nyero.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-07", "text": "Wrote.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-08", "text": "To Nyarok.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-09", "text": "To our old camp after Thirst.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-10", "text": "Left ox wagons; march towards Lake Naivosha [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-11", "text": "Found water at 10 a.m. Camped at night fall at Naivasha.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-12", "text": "Moved to Attenborough's place.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-13", "text": "In launch: Kermit killed hippo.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-14", "text": "In marsh with rowboat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-15", "text": "Hippo charged", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-16", "text": "Wrote - fever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-17", "text": "Wrote fever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-18", "text": "Getting Better.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-20", "text": "5 hippo", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-21", "text": "Worked.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-21", "text": "It was, of course, not a promise any more than my statement that I would not run again for President was a promise.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-22", "text": "Rode to Naivasha, 2 ibis . . . 1 on wing", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-23", "text": "Pelican from boat, 100 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-24", "text": "To Nairobi", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-25", "text": "Church", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-26", "text": "Dinner, Edwards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-27", "text": "Dinner at Wards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-27", "text": "I am happy to say that I know nothing whatever of politics at home, and I hope to keep in the same blessed state of ignorance until I return.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-28", "text": "Hobley's dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-29", "text": "Turf Club dinner, Norfolk Hotel, 8 p.m. races,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-30", "text": "Gov. Jackson", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-07-31", "text": "Aviator . . . races.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-01", "text": "Scotch Presbyterian Church.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-02", "text": "Dance at Narobi [sic] Club.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-03", "text": "Dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-04", "text": "To Naivasha.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-05", "text": "Raining in forenoon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-06", "text": "Raining afternoon", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-07", "text": "Horrid misses; one good shot", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-08", "text": "Started for Aberdare Range.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-09", "text": "To foot of Aberdare Range.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-10", "text": "Crest of Aberdares; very cold", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-11", "text": "To Neri Range.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-12", "text": "Neri. Kikyuyu dance.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-13", "text": "Kermit + Tarlton started north.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-14", "text": "Towards Kenia [sic] fever.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-15", "text": "Towards Kenia [sic]. Camp in foothills. Better.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-16", "text": "In camp. Slight relapse.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-17", "text": "Rainy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-18", "text": "Started, with Whymper tents, on elephant hunt.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-19", "text": "Killed bull elephant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-20", "text": "Walked back to home camp, leaving", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-21", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-22", "text": "Marched to Nyeri.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-23", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-24", "text": "Getting ready.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-25", "text": "In afternoon marched + camped in glade in forest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-26", "text": "Marched 18 miles.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-27", "text": "Marched 10 miles; to camp . . . Heavy thunderstorm in P.M.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-28", "text": "Hunted all day . . . Heavy rain in P.M.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-29", "text": "1 Bull eland 280 yd.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-30", "text": "1 cow oryx 450 yds", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-08-31", "text": "Missed waterbuck. Wounded Oryx 350 yards but escaped.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-01", "text": "Wounded Oryx", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-02", "text": "Fine oryx, 125 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-03", "text": "Cunninghame + Heller arrived P.M.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-04", "text": "Towards Meru.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-05", "text": "On safari. Frost at night. Marching equator.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-06", "text": "Reached Meru. Met Kermit + Tarleton [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-07", "text": "Bull elephant 50 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-08", "text": "Wrote.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-09", "text": "Kermit killed [bull] elephant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-10", "text": "Cunninghame + Heller came in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-11", "text": "Bull elephant, 70 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-12", "text": "Nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-13", "text": "1 Cow elephant 80 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-14", "text": "To Meru", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-15", "text": "To Lake Ingunga.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-16", "text": "Kermit + I killed rhino + elephant", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-17", "text": "Blank", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-18", "text": "To Meru", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-19", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-20", "text": "Fixing safari", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-21", "text": "Crane at 90 yards, flying", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-22", "text": "Oryx, 400 or 500 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-23", "text": "Dreadful miss at ostrich.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-24", "text": "Hen ostrich, 60 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-25", "text": "Missed cock ostrich again; horrid.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-26", "text": "Cock ostrich 85 yards. Giraffe, after Gallop, 180 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-27", "text": "A belt full of cartridges", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-28", "text": "To the Guaso Nyero; near the deserted Boma of Nyama Yango.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-29", "text": "Serumik, 90 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-09-30", "text": "Serumik, 70 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-01", "text": "Blank hunt; wrote.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-02", "text": "Trekked along Guaso Nyero", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-03", "text": "On up the river. Waterbuck 120 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-04", "text": "lost buffalo bull; inexcusable.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-05", "text": "On upriver to Mamba camp;", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-06", "text": "5 zebra for porters", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-06", "text": "I am now an elderly man, not fit for very hard exertion.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-07", "text": "2 gazelle", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-08", "text": "Wrote.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-09", "text": "Shifted camp. 3 hours march up Guaso Nyero. Lions morning. Monkey.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-10", "text": "To Waterhole in gorge. Bull oryx 330 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-11", "text": "and then proceeded to miss (or rather hit too far back) a running oryx at 100 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-13", "text": "Long trek; camped at marsh where I shot the eland bull on Aug 29. High rolling downs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-14", "text": "Trek towards Neri.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-15", "text": "To Neri", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-16", "text": "At Neri", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-17", "text": "To foot of Aberdares.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-17", "text": "That Peary reached the pole I am sure; .. . Cook, though a capable man, is a fake.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-18", "text": "To middle of plateau", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-19", "text": "To an hour beyond foot of [Aberdare] escarpment.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-20", "text": "To [Lake] Naivasha.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-21", "text": "Nairobi", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-21", "text": "a sexual and moral pervert", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-22", "text": "Dine with Hobley's.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-23", "text": "Dine at Nanderman's.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-24", "text": "Dine with Jackson. Lunch with Loran.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-25", "text": "Leave for Sundian.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-26", "text": "Sundian - Camped - 5 miles out.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-27", "text": "Marched to the revine", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-28", "text": "12 miles from revine [sic].", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-29", "text": "Hunted; young de Farsa waterbuck bull, 125 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-30", "text": "Blank day.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-10-31", "text": "Made another march. ten hours.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-01", "text": "Marched 7 hours. 2 bull Jackson's hartebeeste 330 + 230 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-02", "text": "Hunted all day", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-03", "text": "To Sergoi Lake", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-04", "text": "Shifted Camp. Hyena running, 70 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-05", "text": "1 Kongori at 150 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-06", "text": "1 orib running, 30 yd. Missed any number of Kongori", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-07", "text": "Hunted. 2 hartebeeste", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-08", "text": "Marched to spring in swamp", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-09", "text": "Marched to 'Nzor River.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-10", "text": "Hunted. 1 Waterbuck bull...", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-11", "text": "2 kob 70 yards; in very tall grass.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-12", "text": "2 bushbuck", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-12", "text": "Oh sweetest of all sweet girls, last night I dreamed that I was with you.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-13", "text": "We turned in to give the safari a feed of meet - I shot a dozen buck", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-14", "text": "Camped by swamps. Akeley joined us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-15", "text": "Went off with Akeley, shot 3 elephants (+ Kermit 1)", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-16", "text": "Back to the swamp camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-17", "text": "Moved camp to a valley. All shot meat for safari.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-18", "text": "To Sergoi Lake.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-19", "text": "Blank lion hunt with Nandi.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-20", "text": "Nandi killed lion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-21", "text": "Marched to Impey's.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-22", "text": "To Boma in Nandi country.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-23", "text": "Drove swamp with porters; missed shot at lion.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-24", "text": "Drove swamp, blank, meat for porters", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-25", "text": "Shifted camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-26", "text": "Shifted to old camp, on Londiani road, at edge of juniper forest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-27", "text": "To stream in Juniper belt.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-28", "text": "To Little Lake. 3 roan", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-29", "text": "Through rain to camp Kongoni", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-11-30", "text": "Reach Lundiani [sic] to Delamere's", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-01", "text": "To camp in forest of foot-hills.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-02", "text": "Bongo hunt; blank.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-03", "text": "2 colobus monkeys in tree tops", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-04", "text": "To Delameres.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-05", "text": "2 Colobus", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-06", "text": "To camp in forest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-07", "text": "Hunted; nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-08", "text": "Hunted; nothing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-09", "text": "1 Colobus", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-10", "text": "To Delamere's.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-11", "text": "Nairobi.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-12", "text": "Dine with Governor.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-13", "text": "Dine with Watts.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-14", "text": "Dine with Milne.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-15", "text": "Dine with Tarlton. Lunch with Sanderson.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-16", "text": "Badelu lunch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-17", "text": "Farewell lunch + dinner.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-18", "text": "Leave for Uganda.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-19", "text": "Lake Victoria Nyanza.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-20", "text": "Entebbe.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-21", "text": "Kampala", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-22", "text": "Situtang hunt. Kermit killed one.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-23", "text": "Leopard hunt. Safari started.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-24", "text": "Overtook safari.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-25", "text": "Marched with safari", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-26", "text": "Marched", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-27", "text": "Marched", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-28", "text": "After reaching camp killed bull elephant", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-29", "text": "Cut out tusks; wrote in camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-30", "text": "Marched. 1 bull Uganda Hartebeeste 80 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1909-12-31", "text": "Marched 2 Gunia [sic] fowl,", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-01", "text": "Marched 19 miles.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-02", "text": "To Hoima", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-03", "text": "At Hoima", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-04", "text": "Marched", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-05", "text": "To Butiaba.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-06", "text": "At Butiaba", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-07", "text": "On boat to Koba", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-08", "text": "On Boat, past Wad Elai", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-09", "text": "Camped in Lado.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-10", "text": "Cow + calf white rhino, 60 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-11", "text": "2 orib; 30 yds. Fought fire in evening", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-12", "text": "In camp; skins of rhinos brought in.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-13", "text": "Kermit killed bull rhino. Waterbuck bull, 120 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-14", "text": "2 kob, 90 yds, 180 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-15", "text": "Hunted; blank.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-16", "text": "2 rhino, bull + cow", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-17", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-17", "text": "We have just heard by special runner that you have been removed. I cannot believe it. I do not know any man in public life who rendered quite the service you have rendered; and it seems to me absolutely impossible that there can be any truth in this statement.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-19", "text": "Kermit killed cow rhino.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-20", "text": "1 Crocodile 40 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-21", "text": "2 orib 90 + 100 yds", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-21", "text": "Gifford Pinchot has been dismissed; I cannot believe that it is true.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-21", "text": "Certainly our trip has been a complete success,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-22", "text": "Rhino meat good.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-23", "text": "Marched to Sukuni village.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-23", "text": "Hot January noon of the mid tropics.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-24", "text": "To lilypond camp.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-25", "text": "Saw 9 rhino.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-26", "text": "Back to Sururis village.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-27", "text": "Buffalo bull, 80 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-28", "text": "To river camp. Cow rhino 60 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-29", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-30", "text": "Out with Loring in boat.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-01-31", "text": "Writing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-01", "text": "In boat. Young bushbuck 60 yds.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-03", "text": "To Nimule", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-04", "text": "Reached Nimule", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-05", "text": "At Nimule.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-06", "text": "At Nimule", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-07", "text": "First march towards Gondokoro; camped by shallow river, fringed with palms.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-08", "text": "Marched + camped under 2 big leafy trees by antheap; water a mile off with bamboos.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-09", "text": "Marched, camped under 3 big leafy trees, near old native smithy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-10", "text": "Marched; first whistle at 2.45 a.m. Camped beyond dry river, near pool in the bottom.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-11", "text": "Early made camp by creek near trees.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-13", "text": "Early march; camped under big tree.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-14", "text": "Early march; camp by village, under trees, near rocky hill.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-15", "text": "Early march; 18 miles, very hot; 112° in shade. Men done up.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-16", "text": "Vain expectations of elephant.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-17", "text": "To Gondokoro", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-18", "text": "Marched towards Redjaf.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-19", "text": "To Redjaf - thence on safari to Kabo river.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-19", "text": "3 days hard work before I got my eland.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-20", "text": "To camp 2 hours short of Koda river", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-21", "text": "Out for 14 hours. 1 hartebeest", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-22", "text": "Out for 13 hours; found roan. 1 shot yesterday.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-23", "text": "Out for 11 hours. 1 bull giant eland 120 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-24", "text": "Taking care of the skins. 1 orib 60 yards", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-25", "text": "17 miles march towards Redjaf, march in p.m.; on Kabo River, dry.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-26", "text": "To Redjaf + Gondokoro.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-27", "text": "Maj. Gen'l Reginald Wingate, had sent to take us down the Nile to Khartoum,", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-02-28", "text": "Lado + Mongalla", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-02", "text": "Down Nile to Bor.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-03", "text": "Down Nile.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-03", "text": "Through the Sud.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-04", "text": "keep absolutely still about home politics.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-11", "text": "Newspaper men + O'Sullivan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-12", "text": "Northward", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-13", "text": "Northward", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-14", "text": "Khartoum.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-14", "text": "I don't like the political outlook.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-17", "text": "I welcome you with all my heart, into a family that will now include your mother as well as you; and I still more heartily congratulate Ted.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-21", "text": "If I had wished to choose an ideal wife for my son, it would have been exactly the sweet, wise, charming girl that she", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-24", "text": "Reach Cairo in a.m. Reception by Khedive. Out to spend night by pyramids + sphinx", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-27", "text": "Dinner, Wingate", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-29", "text": "proposed presentation is of course now impossible.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-03-30", "text": "Leave Cairo + Alexandria.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-02", "text": "Naples.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-03", "text": "Reach Rome in P.M. Dine at Embassy.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-04", "text": "King.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-05", "text": "Pope", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-06", "text": "In late p.m. leave for Spezia.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-07", "text": "Spezia in a.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-08", "text": "On road.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-09", "text": "In p.m. to Genoa", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-10", "text": "To Porto Maurizio.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-11", "text": "I don't think that under the Taft-Aldrich- Cannon regime there has been a real appreciation of the way the country felt.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-12", "text": "Porto Maurizio", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-13", "text": "Leave Genoa in P.M.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-14", "text": "Venice; in p.m. for Vienna.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-15", "text": "8.50 a.m., Vienna", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-16", "text": "Vienna.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-17", "text": "To Budapest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-18", "text": "Budapest.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-19", "text": "B.P. leave midnight.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-20", "text": "1 a.m. on train at B.P.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-21", "text": "7.30 a.m. Paris.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-22", "text": "Paris.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-23", "text": "Institute and Sorbonne", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-27", "text": "the other side", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-28", "text": "Leave in a.m. for Brussels", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-29", "text": "Leave at noon for Hague + Amsterdam.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-04-30", "text": "Holland", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-01", "text": "Leave in a.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-02", "text": "In p.m. reach Copenhagen.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-03", "text": "Leave for Christiana", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-04", "text": "Christiana, noon", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-05", "text": "Nobel lecture", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-05", "text": "It would be a master stroke if those great powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-05", "text": "Our own party leaders did not realize that I was able to hold the Republican Party in power only because I insisted on a steady advance, and dragged them along with me. Now the advance has been stopped.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-06", "text": "1 p.m. leave for Stockholm", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-07", "text": "Stockholm", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-08", "text": "Leave Stockholm in p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-09", "text": "Reach Berlin in p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-10", "text": "Berlin to meet Kaiser + lecture.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-12", "text": "Lecture at University", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-14", "text": "The Germans did not like me, and they did not like my country.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-15", "text": "Leave Berlin early in a.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-16", "text": "Must reach London in a.m. Whitelaw Reids. Call on King.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-17", "text": "To Oxford?", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-18", "text": "Harcourt in evening.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-19", "text": "To Curzon.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-19", "text": "on with the revel!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-20", "text": "Motor to London; embassy dinner", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-21", "text": "Wrest Park", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-23", "text": "Arthur Lee", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-26", "text": "If a man lives a decent life and does his work fairly and squarely so that those dependent on him and attached to him are better for his having lived, then he is a success", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-05-31", "text": "The present condition of affairs is a grave menace to both your Empire and the entire civilized world", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-04", "text": "I have refused to meet Winston Churchill, being able to avoid causing any scandal by doing so. All the other public men, on both sides, I was glad to meet.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-05", "text": "Sir George Trevelyan.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-07", "text": "Willingness to admit ignorance is a prime factor in developing wisdom out of knowledge.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-08", "text": "I am of course much concerned about some of the things I see and am told; but what I have felt it best to do is say absolutely nothing.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-10", "text": "Southampton, sail in Kaiserin", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-18", "text": "I am more glad than I can say to get home, to be back in my own country.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-23", "text": "already has a big waiting list.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-06-28", "text": "In all probability, Taft has passed his nadir. He is evidently a man who takes color from his surroundings. He was an excellent man under me, and close to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-06", "text": "I shall be lucky if my throat does not give out.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-09", "text": "and the way he is handling himself.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-10", "text": "I have really more work on hand than I can attend to", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-10", "text": "correspondence is an intolerable burden.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-16", "text": "As you know, I am a genuine radical. I believe in what you would call an 'imperialist democracy'.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-17", "text": "as wide and as deep as it could be.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-17", "text": "and effectively prevents anyone else from doing it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-22", "text": "a factional leader", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-23", "text": "Taft is utterly helpless as a leader.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-08-23", "text": "This summer has marked the definate end of the old Oyster Bay life that all of you children used to lead.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-09-03", "text": "My friends, I never can sufficiently express the obligations I am under to the Territory of Dakota, for it was here that I lived a number of years in a ranch house in the cattle country", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-09-07", "text": "If the average man and the average woman are not of the right type, your public men will not be of the right type.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-09-16", "text": "The situation here politically is anything but pleasant.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-10-11", "text": "It was Great! . . . First Class! It was the finest experience I have ever had. I wish I could stay up for an hour...", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-09", "text": "Well! We got thoroughly thrashed yesterday but I am enlisted 'for three years or the war', and we will see this thing through.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-11", "text": "Every dog has his day; but the nights belong to the cats.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-11", "text": "We have had a smashing defeat.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-11", "text": "At present Taft hangs back in hopeless fashion.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-16", "text": "If I had come out more strongly for Taft, or less strongly, the disaster would have been even greater.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-17", "text": "In New York there was the general feeling that I was too radical.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-19", "text": "On every hand, personally and by correspondence, I have been asked to make a statement regarding the election. So far as I am concerned, I have nothing whatever to add or to take away from the declaration of principles which I have made in the Osawatamie speech and elsewhere, east and west, during the past three months. The fight for progressive popular government has merely begun.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-21", "text": "to face the very unpleasant task of deciding whether or not to accept the nomination in 1912.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-11-28", "text": "If I was of any use to you in the campaign, I am more than pleased.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-12-04", "text": "we sat in the North Room before the blazing log fire, while a snowstorm outside gradually turned into a blizzard.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-12-05", "text": "fresher than paint, and like the simple little ostrich, he knows it all", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-12-12", "text": "Mrs. Roosevelt and I have been out here in our own home, with our books and pictures and bronzes, and big wood fires, and horses to ride, and the knowledge that our children are doing well, though only one [Ethel] is with us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-12-25", "text": "We had the stockings, tables, everything; just as usual.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1910-12-28", "text": "By his death John Brown gave the North a martyr which it needed, but his invasion of Virginia was of course an act of mere criminal folly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-02", "text": "I am in New York Tuesdays and Fridays.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-02", "text": "Whenever I go in town [New York City] in the auto by the Jericho Route, I always look at your house and think of all of you... The only child in the house at the moment is Quentin; very chubby and affectionate, who has electrified the people of Groton by standing high in his class, something which neither he nor any of his brothers ever did before.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-07", "text": "stay out", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-12", "text": "admirable from every standpoint . . . [It] may damage the Republican Party for awile, but it will surely benefit the party in the end.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-14", "text": "Three cheers! Mother and I are almost as delighted as darling Eleanor and you.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-22", "text": "Really, the prospect of grandchildren was all that was lacking to make perfect Mother's happiness and mine.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-01-29", "text": "Just a line to say that we are all really proud of the way you have handled yourself. Good luck to you! Give my love to dear Eleanor.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-02-10", "text": "I earnestly believe in the Boy Scout movement.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-02-19", "text": "You and Ted, and especially you, now occupy the largest space in our thoughts; we think of you, and love you, and plan about you all the time.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-03-02", "text": "I need not say how proud I have been over your standing in school. It is simply fine! Heavens! To think of one of our family standing as high as that! .. . The poor motorcar is showing the results of hard work this winter.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-03-07", "text": "I am rather in favor of the suffrage, but very tepidly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-03-16", "text": "looking well but thin", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-03-23", "text": "I took the Isthmus, started the canal, and then left Congress - not to debate the canal, but to debate me . . « but while the debate goes on the canal does too; and they are welcome to debate me as long as they wish, provided that we can go on with the canal.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-04-01", "text": "coming to the end of the last speaking tour I shall ever make.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-05-30", "text": "If they will read the utterances of men who really do desire revolution, they will see that those men hate me, and dread me more than those men who call themselves conservative.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-06-13", "text": "Your statements are false, and you know them to be false.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-06-19", "text": "no man is fit to live unless he is ready to quit life for adequate cause.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-07-20", "text": "I accepted the work on The Outlook because I felt that I really ought to do some kind of work that would bring in some money and where money would not be the chief element, and because The Outlook offered the work and association which would be most congenial to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-07-20", "text": "No one can be a Good American unless he is a good citizen, and every boy ought to train himself so that as a man he will be able to do his full duty to the community.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-07-28", "text": "Teresa Richardson is staying with Edith for a few days. I really think she is the guest whom Edith most enjoys, for she herself is thoroughly at home and doesn't care to do much of anything beyond bathing, so that Edith doesn't have the uncomfortable feeling that she ought to be more of a hostess and take her friend out into the Oyster Bay equivalent for the gay world.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-08-06", "text": "She loved her presents. I gave her one 'surprise' (four volumes of drawings from Punch) which she had chosen herself, and one, a thermos pitcher for afternoon tea, of which she knew nothing.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-08-19", "text": "That both motives were in their minds I thought possible, and now think possible . . . The question was of saving the plain people from dreadful misery and suffering.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-08-22", "text": "I have been much disappointed in Taft.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-08-22", "text": "Gifford Pinchot is a dear, but he is a fanatic.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-09-01", "text": "I am by no means sure that the government working of the coal fields is not the right alternative.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-09-05", "text": "We ought to strive for good government on non-partizan lines in [New York] City.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-09-22", "text": "The trouble with my friends the Progressives, with whom I am in such hearty sympathy, is that they tend to try to do too much.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-10-20", "text": "At last Edith is really better, but she has had an awful seige [sic].", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-10-27", "text": "If we had to lead a forlorn hope . . . I [am] the best person to lead it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-11-09", "text": "Your letters have really been the greatest comfort to mother.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-11-13", "text": "continues to improve", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-11-14", "text": "any attempt to bring religion into politics.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-11-16", "text": "powerful", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-05", "text": "I very emphatically feel that to me personally to be nominated in 1912 would be a calamity.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-12", "text": "plans are so wild that he tends to alienate men from the movement.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-23", "text": "Quentin turned up last night. He is half an inch taller than I am, and is in great shape.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-23", "text": "I am not a candidate. I will never be a candidate", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-25", "text": "solemnly chopped, an occupation in which he is even worse that I am,", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-25", "text": "plays the piano pretty fairly.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-26", "text": "Christmas loses some of its fine edge when the youngest child is a boy a half inch taller than his father!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1911-12-27", "text": "I don't want the nomination under any circumstances, and I would not consent [to] take it even as a public duty unless it comes as an overwhelming public sentiment .", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-01-09", "text": "All that is necessary to make me the most ferociously intense believer in woman suffrage instead of its moderate supporter as at present, is to convince me that women will take an effective stand against sexual viciousness . . . especially against male sexual viciousness.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-01-22", "text": "Things are boiling in the political pot.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-20", "text": "I am in this fight purely for a principle, win or lose.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-21", "text": "My hat is in the ring. The fight is on and I am stripped to the buff.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-24", "text": "I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-26", "text": "I favor direct nominations, direct primaries.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-29", "text": "A thoroughly loyal friend", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-02-29", "text": "My hat is in the ring and the fight is on!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-01", "text": "You could not do anything that would make me lose my warm personal affection for you.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-05", "text": "The old-time leaders are against us; or else they are frightened and afraid to lead.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-08", "text": "We hold that the object of this contest is not to secure rewards for individuals but to secure the more effective government of the people, by the people, and for the people.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-11", "text": "every federal office holder, the whole congressional delegation, all the oldschool politicians, all the newspapers and an unlimited supply of money make a hard combination to fight.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-16", "text": "an immense Progressive victory", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-20", "text": "We need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-20", "text": "We stand for the rule of the many in the interest of all of us, for the rule of the many in a spirit of courage, of common sense, of high purpose, above all in a spirit of kindly justice toward every man and every woman.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-03-21", "text": "At present I am much alone here. I do not think that there is more than the very smallest chance of my winning the fight", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-16", "text": "the political thugs in our own party", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-16", "text": "I never have seen more infamous conduct than that of the Taft managers in this campaign and of course Taft is conniving at it and profiting by it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-24", "text": "Why Gussy [Augustus Gardner] should have seen fit to make a personal attack upon me, I do not know.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-25", "text": "puzzlewit", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-25", "text": "fathead", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-04-30", "text": "ours is only a fight of minutemen under sergeants and corporals, and all the generals and mercenaries are against us.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-09", "text": "Be sure that nothing whatever is done that will seem to put me in opposition to Nick Longworth, or to embarrass him by my campaign.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-11", "text": "cheap thing to do", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-11", "text": "I never drink whisky at all, and on none of these trips have I ever drunk wine.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-14", "text": "Taft is not merely a fool, but he is a good bit of a blackguard", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-14", "text": "I regard the integrity and prosperity of the British Empire as all-important for the peace of the world.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-05-31", "text": "HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS. IF OUR MEN ARE UNSEATED I HOPE THEY WILL HOLD A SEPARATE CONVENTION.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-06-17", "text": "This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-06-17", "text": "We stand at Armageddon, and we do battle for the Lord.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-06-22", "text": "Thou shalt not steal!", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-06-28", "text": "It is a fight that must be made, and is worth making.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-07-01", "text": "The Democrats will probably win if they nominate a progressive.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-07-10", "text": "I am leading rather a forlorn hope this year.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-07-15", "text": "I take the view that Mr. Taft's nomination is fraudulent.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-07-16", "text": "I am well aware that I have but a small chance of being elected.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-07-27", "text": "Kermit sailed for Brazil via England to begin work on R.R.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-08-10", "text": "I am in what is in all probability a losing fight, and although I have all the press and nine-tenths of what regards itself as cultivated opinion against me, I really do not think I was ever in my life better contented.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-08-14", "text": "will win, and... I will do better than Taft.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-09-01", "text": "I am just leaving for the west. It has been a very interesting fight, and never was there a fight better worth making, but the exertion is tremendous, and I look forward to election day as the end of a battle.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-09-15", "text": "Of course this trip is inconceivably wearing, but what a fine fight it is anyhow!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-10-06", "text": "I seem to have cost my friends very much, in all kinds of ways, in this campaign; that was one of the reasons why I so hated to go into it.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-10-14", "text": "I am going to make that speech if I die doing it.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-10-19", "text": "I am dictating this in bed, and it will have to be signed for me by Edith.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-10-19", "text": "been a positive spree", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-10-27", "text": "I just loved the birthday remembrance. How I wish I could see you and Will! I am in fine shape now. The wound is still open but practically does not bother me at all.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-04", "text": "Indeed, this has been a fight worth fighting, win or lose, we have accomplished something.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-08", "text": "We have fought the good fight, we have kept the faith, and we have nothing to regret. Probably we have put the ideal a little higher than we can expect the people as a whole to take offhand.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-11", "text": "The Progressive Party has come to stay.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-12", "text": "Three cheers! but now I feel horribly at not being President.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-12", "text": "It was a phenomenal thing to bring the new party into second place and to beat out the Republicans.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-11-12", "text": "that the Progressive Party has come to stay", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-12-03", "text": "Mother is not well. She never has been well since she was thrown off that infernal horse a year ago. I anticipate, however, that after a little while she will begin to recover the tone of her nerves and body.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-12-16", "text": "Just one word about the madman who shot me. He was not really a madman at all; he was a man of the same disordered brain which most criminals, and a great many noncriminals, have. I very gravely question if he has a more unsound brain than Senator LaFollette or Eugene Debs. He simply represents a different stratum of life and of temperment, which if not more violent is yet more accustomed to brutal physical expression. He had quite enough sense to avoid shooting me in any Southern state, where he would have been lynched, and he waited until he got into a state where there was no death penalty. I have not the slightest feeling against him.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-12-27", "text": "It looks as though we have all the members of our team working in pretty fair harmony.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1912-12-31", "text": "I did not care a rap for being shot. It is a trade risk, which every prominent public man ought to accept as a matter of course.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-02-05", "text": "I was getting into the barouche, having just left a lighted hotel, so that I could not see the ground distinctly. What I said when the man was caught was: 'Don't hurt him. Bring him here. I want to look at him.' After the bullet I had no real pain. The wound felt hot . . . When I began to speak my heart beat rapidly for some ten minutes but aside from that about all the real trouble I had was that on account of my broken rib.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-02-25", "text": "practical industrial betterment", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-03-05", "text": "more than than if it were in my waistcoat pocket.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-03-18", "text": "I am sure you will enjoy yourself to the full as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and that you will do capital work.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-04-02", "text": "We stand for the rights of the people.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-04-04", "text": "the best young fellow I know.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-01", "text": "Mother and I have dear evenings together, but I wish I played cards and was more of a companion to her.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-02", "text": "been hopelessly weak", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-06", "text": "While I think the Progressive Bill was the best bill introduced, I nevertheless most cordially back the bill urged by Governor Sulzer.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-08", "text": "I have received all three cables from you. I have been doing all that I can, but I am absolutely powerless.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-10", "text": "I do not anticipate trouble with Japan, but it may come, and if it does it will come suddenly.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-10", "text": "be caught with our fleet separated.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-05-31", "text": "The libeller finally capitulated.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-06-03", "text": "exactly as much one of the family as", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-09-10", "text": "small boy again", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-09-10", "text": "My left eye has gone entirely... I play tennis even worse than I did before.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-09-30", "text": "The problems connected with the trusts . . . child labor, and all similar matters can be solved only by affirmative national action. No party is progressive which does not set the authority of the national government as supreme in these matters. No party is progressive which does not give the people the right to determine for themselves . . . what the standards of social and industrial justice shall be . . . This is a government of the people, to be used for the people, so as to better the condition of the average man and average woman of the nation...", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-09", "text": "Started from Asuncion at 3 p.m.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-10", "text": "Cannibal fish.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-11", "text": "Left Concepcion about 9 a.m. Shot 2 crocs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-12", "text": "Col. Rondon joined us.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-13", "text": "Shot 4 crocs.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-14", "text": "passed Coimbra.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-15", "text": "Reached Corumba", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-16", "text": "Arranging & packing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-17", "text": "Up the Taquary; shot many crocs; killed 1 tamandua, giant ant eater.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-18", "text": "Rode to las Palmeiras hazenda.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-19", "text": "Hunted all day; Kermit killed another tamandud.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-20", "text": "Kermit killed two swamp deer.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-21", "text": "Shot jaguar 70 yards.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-22", "text": "Shot wood ibis on wing.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-23", "text": "Rode to boat jabiru.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-24", "text": "To Corumba.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-25", "text": "On Paraguay.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-26", "text": "On San Lorenzo", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-27", "text": "On Cuyaba", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-28", "text": "San Juan ranch.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-29", "text": "Killed peccary with spear.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-30", "text": "Down Cayuba River.", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1913-12-31", "text": "Shot Capybara", "kind": "diary", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-01-16", "text": "We are now about to go into the real wilderness . . . In a month or 6 weeks we shall reach the headwaters of an unexplored river.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-05-04", "text": "I've had a bad fever bout and two abscesses, and am still in bed.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-05-19", "text": "You see I have the big stick,", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-06-11", "text": "I believe that Kermit and Belle have as good a chance of happiness as any two lovers can have.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-06-29", "text": "As soon as I got back here I was plunged into politics.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-07-06", "text": "It would merely mean free rum and utter lawlessness in our big cities.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-07-11", "text": "an attack upon the honor of the United States", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-07-22", "text": "The two bosses will always be found on the same side openly or covertly, giving one another such support as can with safety be rendered.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-08-08", "text": "Like every humane man I am very much cast down over the war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-08-12", "text": "I am in every fiber of my body a radical.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-10-05", "text": "I am very sad over this war.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-11-06", "text": "people as a whole had grown tired of reformers and especially of me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-11-14", "text": "I sincerely regret that your body of frontiersmen could not be mounted and sent to the front.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-12-04", "text": "I wish I were in the war myself!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-12-05", "text": "He was one of those few men who leave a permanent mark on history and literature.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1914-12-31", "text": "My dear little Miss Harriet: I think I must decide the bet in favor of you and against your father. I think a teddy bear is a kind of doll. Your friend, Theodore Roosevelt.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-02-18", "text": "I think this administration is the very worst and most disgraceful we have ever known...I think Wilson worse than Bryan; and that's saying a good deal, for I loathe Bryan!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-03-03", "text": "There is great comfort in being no longer responsible for the welfare of a party.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-03-06", "text": "first reserves for national defense", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-05-14", "text": "I am sick at heart over the way Wilson and Bryan have acted toward Germany.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-05-19", "text": "by the solid flubdub and pacifist vote.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-05-31", "text": "We never can be thankful enough to you for what you have been and meant to Kermit.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-06-17", "text": "I only wish I and my boys were beside you in the trenches.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-06-26", "text": "got drenched in a thunderstorm", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-07-22", "text": "Just at the moment I am not in sympathy with the bulk of my people.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-09-28", "text": "not an invariable result of my attempting gifts.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-10-15", "text": "I emphatically do not believe that between men and women there ever can be identity of function but this has nothing to do with giving them equality of right. This they are entitled to and this they ought to have.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-11-08", "text": "ahead of the men", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1915-12-07", "text": "As for Hughes, I thoroughly dislike him.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-01-24", "text": "Judge Nortoni and Bob Bacon have been out here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-01-27", "text": "Edith and I sail on Feb. 8 for Barbadoes and Trinidad . . . It will be good for her.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-02-03", "text": "I most earnestly hope the Republicans will not nominate me... Wilson is a very adroit and able... hypocrite.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-03-09", "text": "I do not wish the [Republican] nomination . . . It would be a mistake to nominate me unless the country has in its mood something of the heroic.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-03-29", "text": "We do not want to find that we have merely swapped Wilson for another Wilson with whiskers.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-04-17", "text": "there were 182 this morning", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-04-27", "text": "The country is not waked up.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-03", "text": "As for your being old, you are not nearly as old as I am, and the country has just as little use for me as for you!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-27", "text": "I don't believe they will nominate me.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-30", "text": "I hope you will like the speech I am about to make here.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-31", "text": "I speak for universal service based on universal training. . . We should stand up for the weak when the weak are wronged by the strong.", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-31", "text": "I am no pussy-footer", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-05-31", "text": "weasel words", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-06-16", "text": "We are passing through a thick streak of yellow in our national life.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-06-23", "text": "the bearded iceberg", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-07-18", "text": "I believe Mr. Hughes to be honest and to have the good of his country at heart.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-07-23", "text": "it is worthwhile to continue the Progressive Party in this state.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-09-02", "text": "I am wholly unable to imagine how you can support Mr. Wilson.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-09-06", "text": "Mr. Hughes, I believe . . . will win; but he will have to win for himself. I can't win for him.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-10-12", "text": "complete breakdown of the code of international rights", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-11-03", "text": "When I spoke of the Progressive Party as having a lunatic fringe, I specifically had you in mind. On the supposition that you are of entire sound mind, I should be obliged to say that you are absolutely dishonorable and untruthful.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-11-29", "text": "I shall always be proud of having supported Mr. Hughes.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-12-02", "text": "I am too deeply committed on the principles for which I have been fighting to go back on them.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1916-12-31", "text": "We who supported Mr. Hughes will always be glad that we supported him. We believe that his triumph and the national welfare were closely interwoven. We now, for the sake of the nation, earnestly hope Mr. Wilson will meet with every success in the task ahead of him.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-01-01", "text": "He [Hughes] did a trifle, but only a trifle, worse than I expected.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-01-01", "text": "This is yellow my friend! Plain yellow!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-02-17", "text": "[Wilson] is a very cold and selfish man, a very timid man when it comes to dealing with physical danger.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-03-18", "text": "I have kept silent for seven weeks . . . I am utterly sick of the gush about 'supporting the President'.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-05-28", "text": "My dear White; I am genuinely shocked at your praising Wilson.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-05-30", "text": "I fairly revel in them.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-06-27", "text": "I miss the little family very much.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-08-03", "text": "I think on the whole it has been badly done.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-08-31", "text": "Must We Be Brayed in a Mortar Before Our Folly Depart From Us?", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-10-01", "text": "The Foes of Our Own Household", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-10-10", "text": "lose a little weight and get my wind back", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-10-31", "text": "The German Kaiser and the German People", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-11-16", "text": "National Strength and International Duty", "kind": "speech", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-11-17", "text": "This is the 32nd anniversary of Mother's and my engagement, and I really think I am just as much in love with her as I was then.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-11-30", "text": "A Permanent Training Policy", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-12-25", "text": "As for Sister, she has more political sense than almost anyone I know.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-12-27", "text": "Broomstick Preparedness", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1917-12-31", "text": "Put the War Through", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-01-31", "text": "The Countrymen of Muhlenberg and Custer", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-02-28", "text": "Service and Self Respect", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-03-11", "text": "The Bolshevists seem to have absolutely ruined Russia.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-03-12", "text": "on the high road to recovery", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-04-04", "text": "to do everything in my power to make the Republican Party the party of sane, constructive radicalism just as it was under. Lincoln.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-04-14", "text": "I have written General March, the Chief of Staff, to find out whether Kermit can now be transferred to our army in France.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-04-19", "text": "filthy little Atheist", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-07-21", "text": "Mother has been wonderful as she always is in a great crisis.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-07-21", "text": "is young, and time will mercifully heal her sorrow . . . If only she had married Quentin!", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-08-03", "text": "ease the dull, steady aching", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-08-10", "text": "Mother will carry the wound green to her grave.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-09-17", "text": "Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are part of the same Great Adventure.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-10-25", "text": "hammering of guns . . . not clicking of typewriters.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-10-27", "text": "I am glad to be 60, for it somehow gives me the right to be titularly as old as I feel.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-10-27", "text": "It was dear of you to remember my birthday . . . You are as young as I am old.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-10-27", "text": "Methusaleh's understudy", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-12-23", "text": "it is mere folly", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1918-12-29", "text": "I hope to see you all home as soon as possible.", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}
{"date": "1919-01-05", "text": "James, please put out the light.", "kind": "remark", "verified": false}
{"date": "1919-01-05", "text": "see him; he must go to Washington for 10 days; see Senate & House; prevent split on domestic policies.", "kind": "writing", "verified": false}
{"date": "1919-01-06", "text": "Home, wife, children, they are what really count in my life. I have heartily enjoyed many things; the Presidency, my success as a soldier, a writer, a big game hunter and explorer; but all of them put together are not for one moment to be weighed in the balence when compared with the joy I have known with your Mother and all of you", "kind": "letter", "verified": false}