European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Love letter from Teddy by Carolyn Lumsden associated press o Young Teddy Roosevelt. Alice Lee was a bewitching mile Sunbeam who nearly drove him to dementia until he captured her in marriage. But irom lha Day she died following the birth of Ito Only daughter he Nover spoke of her again and historians had believed the Lurn of the Century president destroy Raj therr courtship letters in his grief. All hut six of the 39 letters were thought to be Tost until a Small packet of letters dance cards and photographs were donated last year to Harvard University s Houghton Library by Joanna slum of Washington slum is a granddaughter of Alice Longwi in the child born to Alice Lee two Days Beloro her death from kidney disease for the first Lime she has her  said Wallace Dailey curator of the Library which houses the largest col tech Ion of Teddy of Roosevell Memorabilia outside the Library of Congress three letters Are on display As Par of the Observance of Harvard s 350th birthday. Michael Teague who wrote mrs. L conversations pith Alice Roosevelt Longworth said Long Wilh hinted about the letters before her death in 1980, saying their sentimental prose made me want to dry my  Belicen their Gushy endearments. The letters give a glimpse of the Briel and sometimes torn marriage a the prot y woman and the eccentric Man who became one of America s most interesting presidents. Sweetest Lille wife Roosevelt wrote in september 1b83 during a trip out West to shake a depression thai began during her pregnancy i think All the time of Rny Little laughing leasing Beauly and How pretty she is and How she goes to sleep in my arms and t could almost cry f love you  i think the Hunting will do me Good and i am very anxious to kill some Large game " until the letters came o Ligh the courtship was told almost entirely through Roosevelt s letters to his family and diaries he Aler edited to his liking even cutting out a Page that described Lee s refusal to marry him the asthmatic Young Man considered Odd by his classmates at Harvard whole thai he fell in love with Iho daughter of a Rich Boston banker the moment he met her he became obsessed walking the six Miles to her Home when he could t ride and wandering sleepless through the Cambridge Woods tormented by her cod notes. Eventually Lee returned his ardor. You must Naver think it would have been Betler or me if we had never met she whole him three weeks before their wedding in october 1680, i should die without you Teddy and there is nol another Man i Ever could have loved in this  he called her his pretty Pink baby but occasionally his irritation showed. My Litlie Sweet pure Queen to wrote in March 1881 during one of Many separations i have had no one to jog my Arm and make me Boot the paper while 1 was writing it always made me feel a Alicr bad tempered but i loved it All the same " Roosevelt was at the legislature in Albany . When his wife whole what was to be her last letter warning rom "1 am feeling Well tonight but am very much warned Over your Little Mother her lever is still very High and the doctor in rather afraid of typhoid he made no move then or the  Day when tie Learned that she had just borne him a daughter until a second Telegram Ai Rived with Giaver news his wife and Mother died within hours of each other on file  Teddy Roosevelt s newly discovered letters reveal a different Side of the president. Is Valentine s Day 1884. Tour years to the Day irom his formal engagement two years later he married Edith Kermit Calrow. Who died in 1948 after publishing a memorial. Roosevel never mentioned his lir twite again Teague said he probably was a rid photo John Ertic Tumart it found Imit i m Unfer. People he said. I know satire has never gotten Over  he said referring to William Safire. The new York times columnist who was a Nixon speechwriter whose Telephone was tapped because Kissinger thought he was leaking National Security secrets la the press. Ehrlichman is working on another Book his first that does not draw heavily on his Washington experience. Excuse me for not talking about it but i be found i leave myself a Little More flexibility when i Don the said. It s a contemporary novel. It s Lime la be moving on he enjoys writing Book and Magazine articles and going to the nation s capital As an author rather than a High powered while House stator this i3 the Way to see Washington he said they hire you Acar. It s hard  White a Tutto of the vicious old Ehrlichman creeps into his Book John Ehrlichman is relaxed smiling and genial these Days. His head is even Balder he prefers sweaters and open collars to pin striped suits and the Square jutting Chin 1$ covered with a full Beard thai gels a Little grayer every year. I can truthfully say there is not any bitterness the said of the watergate period that resulted in his 16 months in a Federal prison Camp. Thai really is a dosed chapter in my life there s no  he says he is beginning to see a change in the Way America views its Only president forced to resign in disgrace. We re just beginning to get a eel for How history May treat him he said. I m beginning to see a lot of historians. They can t gel in the archives so they come around and interview the players. A Good Many of them have perspective they re beginning la see this As an administration with mixed results instead of a pure unadulterated  Ehrlichman has t seen Nixon and Seldom mixes with his old cronies from the while House years. If it had t been for watergate. I d probably to wearing a pin striped suit and working in some office building in maw York he said. There s no question i d be  happier Tomsu Rewt Here fed. So was there a Silver being in the watergate Cloud there have been some blessings in this you  Page in the stars and stripes saturday. June 26,1986