Corinne Roosevelt, 1869, at seven and a half years 46 Theodore Roosevelt at ten years of age 46 Anna Roosevelt at the age of fifteen when she spoke of herself as one of the “three older ones” 46 The Dresden Literary American Club--Motto, “W. A. N. A.” (“We Are No Asses”) 72 Theodore Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, September 21, 1875 92 Theodore Roosevelt, December, 1876, aged eighteen 92 Portrait taken in Chicago, July, 1880, on the way to the hunting trip of that season 114 We had that lovely dinner on the portico at the back of the White House looking toward the Washington Monument 230 A review of New York’s drafted men before going into training in September, 1917 332 MY BROTHER THEODORE ROOSEVELT THE STAR EPIPHANY, 1919 Great soul, to all brave souls akin, High bearer of the torch of truth, Have you not gone to marshal in Those eager hosts of youth? Flung outward on the battle’s tide, They met in regions dim and far; And you, in whom youth never died, Shall lead them, as a star. --MARION COUTHOUY SMITH. MY BROTHER THEODORE ROOSEVELT I THE NURSERY AND ITS DEITIES The first recollections of a child are dim and hazy, and so the nursery at 28 East 20th Street, in New York City, does not stand out as clearly to me as I wish it did--but the personality of my brother overshadowed the room, as his personality all through life dominated his environment. I suppose I must have been about four, and he about seven, when my first memory takes definite form. My older sister, Anna, though only four years older than my brother Theodore, was always mysteriously classed with the “grown people,” and the “nursery” consisted of my brother Theodore, my brother Elliott, a year and a half younger than Theodore, and myself, still a year and a half younger than Elliott. In those days we were “Teedie,” “Ellie,” and “Conie,” and we had the most lovely mother, the most manly, able, and delightful father, and the most charming aunt, Anna Bulloch, the sister of my Southern mother, with whom children were ever blessed.