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Teddy Roosevelt's diary entry from the day his wife Alice died of kidney failure. He never spoke publicly about her again. (imgur.com)

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[–]Knov 179 points180 points ago

His mother died on the same day.

[–]trazeee 62 points63 points ago

On Valentine's Day.

[–]tchoob 19 points20 points ago

I don't think that was a thing yet.

EDIT: It was.

[–]shanver 44 points45 points ago

And in the same house.

[–]whiskeyonsunday 49 points50 points ago

And it was two days after his daughter was born. Talk about an emotional week.

[–]Cornered_rat 55 points56 points ago

thankfully he was Teddy Fucking Roosevelt and not some sniveling wanker or history may have been a little different. Still a shitty series of events but god damn I get a patriotic boner every time I hear about his exploits.

[–]whiskeyonsunday 36 points37 points ago

It's a really fascinating period of his life! I believe right after this he entrusted his daughter to his sister to raise and he headed out to the Badlands. His daughter's name was also Alice, after her mother, but he never called her that, instead calling her Baby Lee or Mousiekins. It was too painful for him to even say his beloved wife's name. Theodore Roosevelt was a major badass, but he also was a very emotional man who loved his family dearly. There's a book that collected all the letters he wrote to his family, and many are very touching.

[–]Cornered_rat 8 points9 points ago

I'm getting close, what else you got

EDIT: HNNNNNGGGG wikipedia for the sauce

[–]whiskeyonsunday 23 points24 points ago

Sure! Some more about his personal life! He built a beautiful summer home in Oyster Bay, LI. While vacationing there as President he would frequently evade his Secret Servicemen along the rocky coast, as he felt he could defend himself. I think we all agree that wouldn't be an issue.

While there, he would frequently cut his meetings short so he could spend time with his kids. He also refused to talk to press while there, which was a big shift from his personality while in DC. When newspapers took to making up rumors (Including ones about him 'romancing' his wife in open fields) he contacted the paper to complain as he felt it was inappropriate. Instead, he would go to town to tease reporters, by saying he had a big announcement to make, only to tell them his youngest son had captured tadpoles, or something of that nature.

It's here that he also taught his children to swim by throwing them into the water. Alice would later tell stories about how she hated that, and the family would tease her by saying she cried so much she raised the water levels.

While in Oyster Bay, the family kept a zoo! Roosevelt felt that having pets was of utmost importance for his kids, "He wanted them to realize that it was 'inconceivably base' to be cruel to the weak, and this was a lesson he felt his children could learn from the vast array of four-footed creatures that began to fill up every corner of the old barn and rambling house."

It was mostly horses and dogs, but they also bunnies, guinea pigs, kangaroo rats, flying squirrels, and even a black bear for a while!

[–]KERUWA 10 points11 points ago

Mother Fucking Roosevelt, he could tame a raptor with a glance.

[–]IdesignGPU 2 points3 points ago

I wish I was half the man he was.

[–]capgetsreal 2 points3 points ago

He has more manliness in his pinky than Reddit has as a whole.

[–]Ragnalypse 0 points1 point ago

If you mean net manliness, then what you said is literally true.

[–]JacobCurry 14 points15 points ago

I'm sure nobody cares, but: my father's mother's mother's father(my great, great grandpa) was Teddy's vice president. Charles Fairbanks.

[–]MrBoxMan 7 points8 points ago

I care.

[–]KookyGuy 87 points88 points ago

What a shitty day.

[–]XMF 9 points10 points ago

I bet he would've used his AK.

[–]CorporalAris 0 points1 point ago

I can't believe it was a good day.

[–]jb4427 22 points23 points ago

Almost simultaneously.

[–]Lampmonster1 14 points15 points ago

Okay, on three.

One.....

Two.......

[–]thedyinghero 7 points8 points ago

DAMNIT Alice, your timing sucks.... Mom?

[–]shoeler 0 points1 point ago

Just as big. I'm very angry with OP for not including that.

[–]shiny_brine 43 points44 points ago

It's heart warming to see such an awesome manly man have these feelings after such a loss. Having experienced the loss of my wife at a young age I can understand exactly what he means.

[–]NoTimeLikeToday 30 points31 points ago

I am so sorry for the loss of your wife.

[–]thatwasinpoortaste 147 points148 points ago

stalin's was better, sadder and more evenly distributed among the global corps of workers.

"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."

[–]Villainsoft 68 points69 points ago

He sounds like such a nice guy...

[–]ZeitTaicho 38 points39 points ago

Then BAM! Communism...

[–]thatwasinpoortaste 28 points29 points ago

to be fair, the last warm feelings he had for humanity had died.

[–]Thestowaway 15 points16 points ago

I feel like he's the doctor freeze of history.

[–]Chairman-Meeow 3 points4 points ago

This is why I come to reddit.

[–]Lucifersamtaco 11 points12 points ago

Well arguably not pure communism, rather a twisted shell of communism known as Stalinism.

[–]squireofrnew 0 points1 point ago

POW! Right in the Gulag.

[–]VikingFjorden 0 points1 point ago

"Communism" (hint: it wasn't real communism) isn't what made Stalin a villain. The theory of communism is pretty nice, if you read up on it.

Stalinism is a little different. Repeated manslaughter was also kind of bad for his reputation.

[–]Samuel_Gompers 13 points14 points ago

Another bit of history that slightly humanized Stalin for me:

Just before his execution in 1938, Nikolai Bukharin wrote, "Koba, why do you need me to die?" in a note to Stalin. "Koba" was Stalin's revolutionary pseudonym, and Bukharin's use of it was a sign of how close the two had once been. The note was found still in Stalin's desk after his death in 1953.

[–]airnoone 2 points3 points ago

Some people say he was a sociopath, but sounds like he had something inside of him that never got to see the light of day.

[–]Samuel_Gompers 8 points9 points ago

Well, he still did have Bukharin executed, despite whatever feelings the note may have elicited. Facts like these are interesting, but really can't redeem someone who was truly horrible. Heinrich Himmler, for example, was made nauseous by the stench at Auschwitz. Humanizing? Yes. Redemptive? Not in the slightest.

[–]1919 11 points12 points ago

How is that as humanizing as a person holding onto a note from a friend? I could say that Himmler didn't particularly like people shitting in his mouth, that doesn't humanize him.

[–]TheAvocadoBaron 0 points1 point ago

Himmler didn't particularly like people shitting in his mouth

He was the second most powerful man in Germany. I'm sure he would have enjoyed quite his far share of the finest Bavarian Milchmädchen scheisse all over his face whenever he pleased.

[–]exflashkick 1 point2 points ago

TR continued after this to be a great man. Stalin went on from that to be one of the worst people ever.

[–]shoeler -5 points-4 points ago

yeah, take that TR! Stalin's sadness was more sad!!!!

[–]Dust-Is-Eloquent 12 points13 points ago

The manliest of tears have just been shed.

[–]Donkeyfish 11 points12 points ago

Valentines day. Bummer.

[–]CaptnKate 11 points12 points ago

I'm working on cataloging some of the Teddy Roosevelt archives at Harvard and I'm working with some of Quentin Roosevelt's personal effects. Quentin was TR's youngest son from his second wife Edith and by many accounts his favorite. He died as a pilot in WWI in July of 1918. I've been working with some letters sent between him, Ethel Roosevelt Derby (Quentin's sister) and Flora Whitney Miller (his fiancé). There are lots of letters referring to Flora wanting to fly over to France to marry Quentin because she missed him so much. I also believe there one letter from Ethel telling Quentin about how the whole family misses him that is postmarked after his death. Which is sad as shit. TR dies himself less than a year later. Working with that collection was a sad couple of weeks.

[–]briarboyfl 27 points28 points ago

Kinda ruined Valentine's Day.

[–]degandi 2 points3 points ago

I didn't even notice that.

[–]duke7883 7 points8 points ago

I enjoy his handwriting.

[–]fertehlulz 2 points3 points ago

As sad as it is, I came to say the same.

[–]russbustah 12 points13 points ago

I see this posted every once in a while, Teddy was a badass.

[–]nwebb004 4 points5 points ago

Wow this made me tear up the x before the writing is so sad.

[–]hxcn00b666 3 points4 points ago

Can anyone try to see what it says on the page behind it? I can tell the first word is Alice but I am lost from there

[–]Guitarmaggedon 7 points8 points ago

"Alice Hathaway Lee [Roosevelt?] of Chestnut Hill July 29th..." That's all I can decipher. It looks like he might have been writing her obituary.

[–]hxcn00b666 2 points3 points ago

Oh man :(

[–]dont_press_ctrl-W 8 points9 points ago

Here you go

[–]ok-milk 4 points5 points ago

Last sentence: "For joy or for sorrow, my life has now been lived out" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/trhtml/trdiary6.html

[–]hxcn00b666 1 point2 points ago

Awesome! Thank you

[–]nanowizard -4 points-3 points ago

"...wooed her for over a year before I won her..."

Does this kind of shit even happen anymore? I swear you try to "woo" a girl or guy in this age and they just think you're sappy friendzone material.

It's more like, "Oh wow you're so hot and we like the same music and TV shows, therefore we must get married. We'll figure out our potential personality clashes after we get married and have kids because nothing can get in the way of true love!"

[–]faunablues 2 points3 points ago

you may mourn the loss of "wooing", but i don't mourn the loss of "winning"

[–]Ocramzeej66 1 point2 points ago

It DOES work, if you're lucky. So far I've been "wooing" my girlfriend for the past year, and I'm happier than ever. Both of us would rather date for a few years than get hitched right away.

[–]ComradeButterfly 6 points7 points ago

Everyone in the old days was poetic when saying even the simplest things. If I was in his position the entry would say FUCK MY LIFE THIS IS BULLSHIT.

[–]CuriousCursor 0 points1 point ago

The scary part is that your sentence will be poetic 100 years later

[–]No_More_Names 3 points4 points ago

Doing a project on him for History right now. I got the feels when I saw that picture while researching.

[–]PhilliesChamps 2 points3 points ago

This is fucking heartbreaking.

[–]Broshank 4 points5 points ago

Wife and Mother dead, at the same time, on Valentine's day.

Fuck you reddit, this was a good night.

[–]snarik 3 points4 points ago

Weird... I was just thinking about that this morning...

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[–]English_Professor_66 6 points7 points ago

Sorry, but OP has it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hathaway_Lee_Roosevelt

[–]rjaspa 0 points1 point ago

As seen on Modern Marvels' episode of the Library of Congress?

[–]elevenothree 1 point2 points ago

how tragically beautiful

[–]Marchie 0 points1 point ago

This put a frown on my face

[–]pigeonchest -1 points0 points ago

Right in the feels.

[–]Nebakanezzer 0 points1 point ago

as someone with very few emotions, if my wife died, I think I would too would lose all the light I had left in me.

she would claim I'm made of stone or ice, but I think if she was gone, everyone else would really see what a man of stone was like

[–]LaurPar 0 points1 point ago

Can anyone figure out what the next page says? Starts with Alice..?

[–]GeebusNZ 0 points1 point ago

"The light has gone out of my life", I can absolutely understand this sentiment, having lost the most loved people in my life.

[–]Brettersson 0 points1 point ago

She was also the only one who called him Teddy, he hated when anyone else called him that, especially after she died

[–]Bearmaster9013 0 points1 point ago

This makes me a sad bear. :[

[–]TeaDrinkingBarbarian -1 points0 points ago

Right in the feels.

[–]jhezecka -2 points-1 points ago

:'(

[–]wildavchr -3 points-2 points ago

I swear this is posted every month...

[–]mrsrkevin -5 points-4 points ago

How do we know it's about his wife and not his mom? What if Teddy was a momma's boy?

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