82 My Brother Theodore Roosevelt
of our beloved Madison and Hudson River days. Our cousin John Elliott accompanied us, and the three boys and their ardent little follower, myself, spent endless happy hours in climbing
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with keen regret from the kind family who had made their little American visitors so much at home. A couple of letters from Theodore, dated September 21 and
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the surrounding mountains, only occasionally recalled by the lenient "Fraulein Anna" to what were already almost forgotten Teutonic studies. Later we returned to Dresden, and in spite of the longing in our patriotic young hearts to be once more in the land of the Stars and Stripes, I remember that we all parted
OF SEPTEMBER 21, 1873, TO HIS OLDER SISTER]
October 5, bring to a close the experiences in Dresden, and show in a special way the boy's humor and the original inclination to the quaint drawings which have become familiar to the American people through the book, lately published, called "Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children." On September 21,
