Young TR does not look like the public Teddy, with the showman's grin under triumphant mustaches, glasses aglitter as he charges up San Juan Hill. ``We have all his other diaries: his childhood, Harvard years, out West, several when abroad in Africa and Europe, and the diary he kept during the Spanish-American war,'' Mr. Roosevelt, referred to in press materials as Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, left his presidential memorabilia to the Library of Congress, but many personal items are here. ``The news value of this is that this is material that was thought to be lost,'' he adds, leading the way down the Pusey Library's modern white corridor to three modest glass cases where some letters in faded ink and a number of stiffly posed and properly Victorian photographs are on view. ``He gathered together materials relating to this incident in his life and saw that they were handed on,'' notes Harvard curator Wallace Dailey, explaining the importance of the new collection. It was a real case of love at first sight, and my first love to.'' But I do not think any outsider suspected it I have not written one word of it in my diary since a year ago Thanksgiving. ``I have been nearly crazy over my wayward willful darling. In his diary, Nov 28, 1878, for instance, he writes: ``As for pretty Alice Lee, I think her one of the sweetest, most ladylike girls I have ever met.'' The next two pages are torn out, and 14 months later we learn why: Together with Roosevelt's diaries and some photographs, they shed light on a hitherto unseen Teddy Roosevelt, a romantic, fervent, totally heart-smitten young man. In this case, the Victorian hand is visible in 23 letters from Theodore Roosevelt and 16 from Alice Lee, a recent gift from their great-granddaughter, Joanna Sturm, on display here at Harvard's Pusey Library. That's what you say to yourself, trying not to breathe on the glass as you squint to decipher a faded Victorian hand. After this tragic event, Roosevelt never mentioned her again.Ĭuriosity that is unsavory in relation to one who is alive is perfectly respectable if the person Belongs to History. About two years later, Alice died, a few days after giving birth to a daughter. He courted her for 15 months, then married her after graduation. Theodore Roosevelt met his first wife, Alice Lee, while he was a student at Harvard.
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