Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-06

Creator(s)

Rockwell, James, 1848-1910

Recipient

Brodie, Alexander O. (Alexander Oswald), 1849-1918

George S. Benson asks Vice President Roosevelt to deliver an address at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn to secure funding for the project Lincoln Letters & Portrait.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-07

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-11

Creator(s)

Bailey, Joseph W. (Joseph Weldon), 1863-1929

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

George Bird Grinnell is interested in publishing a book about Theodore Roosevelt’s mountain lion hunt. Grinnell asks Roosevelt to make arrangements with Scribner’s, if they publish it first. Grinnell gives Roosevelt permission to publish the items that he has written for Boone and Crockett Club books. Grinnell also asks for Roosevelt’s help in recruiting additional articles for the book, as he does not wish to send out a general invitation for submissions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-12

William T. Hornaday corrects information he previously gave to Vice President Roosevelt regarding taxidermist J. William Critchley. Critchley is now located in a New York City firm, Murgatroyd & Critchley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-13

W. C. Wilde, a country boy from Trowbridge, Ohio, congratulates Vice President Roosevelt on his inauguration, and wishes him success and advancement. Wilde requests that Roosevelt send him a photograph, preferably one of Roosevelt in military uniform. Wilde notes that, despite his humble background, he takes “pleasure in writing to honorable men.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-18

Gifford Pinchot writes to Vice President Roosevelt with a proposed itinerary for an eight to ten week trip to explore the forests and irrigation of the West. Frederick Haynes Newell of the United States Geological Survey has proposed to Pinchot a way in which press coverage could be controlled.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-27

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-01

Creator(s)

Murray, Arthur, 1851-1925

Recipient

Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909

Both Gifford Pinchot and Frederick Haynes Newell understand why Vice President Roosevelt cannot make the trip. Pinchot would like to meet with Roosevelt before he goes west.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-02

Gifford Pinchot asks Vice President Roosevelt to serve with him and Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson on the committee to draft resolutions for the Society of American Foresters on the death of Benjamin Harrison.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-04

Gifford Pinchot gratefully accepts Vice President Roosevelt’s invitation to take lunch at Oyster Bay, New York. Pinchot thanks Roosevelt for agreeing to serve on the committee and encloses resolutions on the death of Benjamin Harrison.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-05

C. Hart Merriam encloses a leaflet that contains three additions to the “big game.” They have collected eight skins and skulls of the Mexican bighorn. Merriam requests that Roosevelt send the cougar skulls “uncleaned.” Roosevelt’s series of samples will help make determinations about the amount of individual variation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-06

Gifford Pinchot sends Vice President Roosevelt a copy of the resolutions on the death of Benjamin Harrison. Pinchot asks that Roosevelt sign and send them to Harrison’s widow, Mary Dimmick Harrison.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-08

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-10

Creator(s)

Backus, J. Bayard (James Bayard), 1853-

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-10

Creator(s)

Backus, J. Bayard (James Bayard), 1853-

Recipient

Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-15

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Fraser), 1859-1933

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-18

Creator(s)

Allison, William B. (William Boyd), 1829-1908

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-19

Creator(s)

O'Neil, William T., 1850-1909

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-04-25

Creator(s)

O'Neil, William T., 1850-1909

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

C. Hart Merriam is pleased with the skulls and cat skins that Theodore Roosevelt sent. One of the skulls is the largest of the Felis concolor group that Merriam has ever seen. Roosevelt’s series of skulls from Colorado is “incomparably the largest, most complete, and most valuable series ever brought together.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-05-03