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     l’s head, the young Roosevelt and two of his cousins formed what they called the "Roosevelt Mus
of     atural History". Learning the rudiments of taxidermy, he filled his makeshift museum with   y
anim    s that he killed or     caught, studied, and prepared for display. At age nine, he codified his
observa ’on of insects with a paper titled "The Natural History of Insects".[10]


                cribed his childhood experiences in a 1903 letter, writing:

     As far as I ca   remember they were absolutely commonplace. I was a rather sickly,                 ther timid little
     boy, very fond    fdesultory reading and of natural history, and not excelling in an            form of sport. Owing
     to my asthma I       s not able to go to   school, and I was nervous and self-conscio          ,so that as far as I can
     remember my beli          is that I was rather below than above my average playma            in point of leadership;
     though as I had an i ginative temperament this sometimes made up for my ther short-comings.
     Altogether, while, tha s to my father and mother, I had a very happy chil ood I am inclined to look
     back at it with some wo        er that I should have come out of it as well as       ave! It was not until after I
     was sixteen that I   began t     how any prowess, or even ordinary capaci         ;up to that time, except making
     collections of natural histo       reading   a   good deal in certain narrowl)l imited fields and indulging in the
     usual scribbling ofthe small        y who does not excel in sport, I can ot remember that I did anything that
     even lifted me up to the     average."[11]

To combat his poor physical conditio              ,his father encourag        the young Roosevelt to take up exercise.
Roosevelt started boxing lessons_[12] T 0 trips abroad h                  a   permanent impact: family tours of Europe
in 1869 and 1870, and of the Middle Eas                 872 to 187   .




.Paternal influence


Theodore, Sr. had a tremendous influence on IS n. Of him Roosevelt wrote, "My father, Theodore
Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew.    comb ed strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness,
and great unselfishness. He would not tol ate in us c ildren selfishness or cruelty, idleness, cowardice,

or untruthfulness.
                      ,,[13]


In a 1900 letter, Roosevelt said ofh’


     I was fortunate enough in havi                                             een able to   regard as an ideal man. It
     sounds a little like cant to say     hat I am going to say, but he rea        did combine the strength and courage
     and will an9 energy of the s ongest man with the tenderness, clea ess and purity of a woman. I was a
     sickly and timid boy. He n only took great and untiring care ofm -some of my earliest remembrances
     are of nights when he wo ld walk up and down with me for an hour t a time in his arms when I was a

     wretched mite sufferin     cutely with asthma- but he also most wisel refused to coddle me, and made
     me feel that I must for e m selfto hold my own with other boys and pr        are to do the rough work of the

     world. I cannot say t at he ever put it into words, but he certainly gave     the feeling that I was always
     to be both decent      manly, and that in were manly nobody      would  laugH t my being decent. In all my
     childhood he nev     laid hand on me but once, but always
                                                          I        knew  perfectly     11 that in case it became

     necessary he wo    d not  have the slightest hesitancy in doing so again, and ali     from my love and

     respect, and in  certain sense, my   fear of him, I would  have hated and dreaded      eyond measure to have
     him know tha I had been guilty of a lie, or of cruelty, or of bullying, or of unclea ess or of cowardice.

     Gradually I   rew to have the     feeling on my own account, and not merely on his.,,[1

Roosevelt’s     ster, Corinne, later wrote, "He told me frequently that he never took an
made any v’ al decision for his country without thinking first what position his father
[15]


          arriage and response to catastrophic loss

Alic  Hathaway Lee (July 29, 1861 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts February 14, 1884 in Ma
                                                                                     -

                                                                                                    ttan,
Ne   York) was the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt and mother of their child, Alice. Roosevelt’s wre,
A ce died of an undiagnosed (since it was camouflaged by her pregnancy) case of kidney failure (in
t ose days called Bright’s disease) two days after Alice Lee was born. Theodore Roosevelt’s mother had
 ied of typhoid Ifever in the same house, on the same day, at 3 am, some eleven hours earlier. After the




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