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This statement authorizes the use of the photograph “Settlers small boy, with pet gazelle” to be used by Abbot Handerson Thayer in his article published in National Geographic Magazine. The handwritten form is intended to be signed by Theodore Roosevelt and returned to Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-30
Stamped envelope addressed to Charles Scribner’s Sons in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-30
Abbot Handerson Thayer thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the invitation to come to Oyster Bay. Thayer asks Roosevelt to consent to Thayer using a photograph in an article being published in National Geographic by signing the enclosed permission and mailing it to Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-29
Abbot Handerson Thayer apologizes to Theodore Roosevelt for sending a note to his office and his home, but Thayer begs Roosevelt to sign a permission so Thayer might use the photograph “Settler’s small boy with pet gazelle”.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-30
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-21
Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
English
Abbot Handerson Thayer rebukes Theodore Roosevelt and other naturalists who criticize something they will not investigate for themselves, namely animal adaptation and coloring. He invites Roosevelt to experience his imitation zebra and learn for himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-27
Abbott Handerson Thayer rebukes Theodore Roosevelt and his other opponents for failing to study animal coloration from the level at which the animal “needs not to be seen.” If Roosevelt saw Thayer’s artificial zebra from a lion’s height, he could not deny this.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-28
Abbott Handerson Thayer writes to Lyman Abbott about Indiana’s experience during the Civil War, praising the actions of the wartime governor Oliver P. Morton in working to investigate and prevent possible sources of treason during the war. While many people were investigated, no one was found guilty of treasonous behavior.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03
Abbott Handerson Thayer writes about the critical response to his book “Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom.” Thayer provides several examples to support his argument that all animal coloration is camouflage.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-10