By Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt is well-known as the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, colonel of the Rough Riders
(1st United States Volunteer Infantry), governor of New York,
award-winning author, recipient of the Medal of Honor and the
Nobel Peace Prize. It is sometimes overlooked that he was also a
loving father. Roosevelt was married twice. His first wife,
Alice, died days after the birth of their first child, also
named Alice. Roosevelt eventually remarried, this time to Edith
Carow. The couple had five more children - Theodore Jr.
(interestingly, Theodore's father was Theodore Sr., and his son
Theodore Jr., ...Theodore himself was just Theodore), Kermit,
Archibald, Ethel and Quentin. Roosevelt was close to all of his
children all of his life, though his relationship with Alice was
somewhat strained at times. The following is one of the letters
to his young children, written while the Rough Riders were in
Florida awaiting orders for movement to Florida. The letter
concerns a visit of Edith to th