misswendybird:

ohgodwhatamidoing:

mscasey:

exp3ctopatr0num:

Teddy Roosevelt’s diary entry from the day his wife died. He never spoke of her death again.

Quite possibly my favorite post on tumblr.

I will always reblog this

I can’t even imagine how much it hurt that guy.

This beautiful.

Did a little more research:

From wikipedia:

In 1880, Roosevelt married Alice Hathaway Lee (July 29, 1861 – February 14, 1884) of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She died young of an undiagnosed case of kidney failure (in those days called Bright’s disease) two days after their infant Alice was born. Her pregnancy had masked the illness. Theodore Roosevelt’s mother Mittie died of typhoid fever on the same day, at 3 am, some eleven hours earlier, in the same house. After the nearly simultaneous deaths of his mother and wife, Roosevelt left his daughter in the care of his sister, Anna “Bamie/Bye” in New York City. In his diary, he wrote a large ‘X’ on the page and then, “The light has gone out of my life.” (See diary photo).

God damn.