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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Fifty-Two
February 1-7, 1916 Pouring rain was the weather report noted by the ever-faithful amateur meteorologist, Kate Roosevelt on the first day of February, 1916. She began many of her diary entries in this...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Fifty-Four
February 15-22, 1916 Last week the woes of the world weighed heavily on Kate Roosevelt, but this week her agenda included some lighter fare, the theater and society doings. On February 15, 1916, she...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Fifty-Five
February 23-29, 1916 Before I can begin sharing Kate Roosevelt’s diary entry for the last week of February, 1916, I must first re-visit the year 1891 and escort readers to a “Charming Wedding,” as...
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The Dowager’s Diary – New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Fifty-Six
February 23-29 And March 1, 1916 1916 was a leap year and so Kate Roosevelt was able to add an extra day to the month of February. Evoking a scene from the Sixth Season of PBS’ series, Downton Abbey...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Fifty-Eight
March 7-15 Residents of New Orleans call it Fat Tuesday and celebrate with a raucous Mardi Gras, and on March 7, 1916, Kate Roosevelt and her reserved fellow Episcopalians called the day before Ash...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty
The Last Week of March, 1916 Music, a matinee and great mourning were on Kate Roosevelt’s agenda for the last days of March, 1916. David Mannes Her week began by going to see, “A recital of Negro music...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty-One
April 1-8, 1916 “To Franklin Simon’s to buy a dress,” and for the first time it was “off the rack” for a Roosevelt. Up until now, the only mention Kate Roosevelt made of fashion was when she traveled...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty-Six
May 9-16, 1916 The second week of May, 1916 found the four Shippen Spinsters safely ensconced in Rumson, New Jersey getting their cottage known as “The Anchorage” ready for the summer season. With...
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Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty-Seven
May 16-23, 1916 During the middle of May, 1916 Kate Roosevelt’s younger sister, Caroline Shippen, had minor surgery. She didn’t go into details about the operation, but Caroline’s recuperation required...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty-Seven
May 25-30, 1916 “To Lusitania Memorial Meeting at Carnegie Hall. Rather a flat affair.” On May 19, 1916 Kate Roosevelt was among an audience that the week before had been denied the right to congregate...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Sixty-Eight
June, 1916 June, 1916 found Kate Shippen Roosevelt at her summertime retreat known as Merdlemouth, nestled among the shady evergreen trees and winding brooks of Hightstown, New Jersey. Her small farm...
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Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Seventy
The roots of the Roosevelt family tree run deep and wide and thanks to Kate Roosevelt’s diary entry for June 18, 1916 another branch on the tree sprouted when she mentioned that Fred Roosevelt had...
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The Dowager’s Diary: New York City’s Downton Abbey – Week Seventy-Five
July 20, 1916. When Dr. Reuel Kimball met a passenger who survived the sinking of the Titantic back in 1912, the New York Sun reported, on a pregnant passenger, “The nervous condition which has caused...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Eighty
August 24-30, 1916 With summer swiftly slipping away, Kate Roosevelt wasn’t letting any grass grow under her feet. After spending a few days at her home at 301 Lexington Avenue in New York City, she...
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The Dowager’s Diary: Week Eighty-Three
September 14-21, 1916 “Dorothy, Anna and I to lunch with Bessie Alexander in Princeton.” The four women mentioned in Kate’s diary entry for September 14, 1916 were her daughter, Dorothy Roosevelt Geer;...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Eighty-Four
September 21-28, 1916 From the hallowed halls of Princeton University to the bright lights of Broadway, Kate Roosevelt was never far from places and events that were important in 1916. Booth Theater...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Eighty-Five
September 28-30, 1916 “These Catholic affairs are horrible. To my mind they are utterly meaningless. There is no help or confirmation in them!” From Kate Shippen Roosevelt’s pen to the ears of...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Eighty-Seven
October 12-19, 1916 “Dorothy and Eva McAdoo arrived in Princeton Junction by the 4:04 train from New York City. Had chauffeur pick them up and drive them here to Hightstown. I gathered all of the...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Eighty-Nine
October 25-31, 1916 “Florence Rhett lunched with me at the Cosmo Club, shopping, taxi to Penn Station. Bella and Maud, the maids, were with me.” By the year 1916, Florence Rhett was long-retired from...
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The Dowager’s Diary – Week Ninety-One
November 8-15, 1916 “I sent Anna Roosevelt’s Christmas check to Paris. $16.50 went out at 10:50 a.m.” Anna Roosevelt was President Theodore Roosevelt’s older sister and first cousin of Kate Shippen...
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