Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-29

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Language

English

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-29

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-05-26

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-29

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-09

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Charles D. Walcott acknowledges a letter from Theodore Roosevelt from earlier in the month regarding collections from Roosevelt’s African safari and the American Museum of Natural History, addressing some of his questions and concerns specifically about white rhinoceros specimens and a research paper on giant elands. Walcott agrees with Roosevelt that the collections should be used by the museum and may send Waldron DeWitt Miller to discuss things with Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-13

Charles D. Walcott wishes he could lunch with Theodore Roosevelt, but his position necessitates his presence at the New York Library. He will contact Roosevelt at a later date.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-11

Charles D. Walcott signed a letter to Henry Fairfield Osborn notifying him of the transfer of two white rhinoceros skins that Theodore Roosevelt collected. He was sorry to hear of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident and hopes she is recovering, especially as he knows what it is like to have someone close experience a serious accident. Childs Frick and Edmund Heller are in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to augment the specimens collected while on safari with Roosevelt. Walcott will soon be in New York City and hopes to see Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-03

Charles D. Walcott notifies Theodore Roosevelt on the state of the plant collection from the Smithsonian African Expedition. The collection requires identification and reports made on it. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-16

Charles D. Walcott recently received Theodore Roosevelt’s letter upon returning from a trip, and promises to take up the matter and respond to him during the following week.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-10

Charles D. Walcott informs Theodore Roosevelt that Edmund Heller’s pamphlets on the white rhino and giant eland will be mailed soon. Walcott tells Roosevelt of his sons’ future endeavors in the West and his wife and daughter’s summer plans in the East. Walcott is glad the political climate feels like “old times.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-16

Charles D. Wolcott thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the African safari hunting trophy. He will likely be in New York City on Friday or Saturday and would like to discuss the volume of large mammals if Roosevelt is to be in town.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-25

Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, assures Theodore Roosevelt that it will not interfere with publication of studies on Roosevelt’s specimens from Africa if Edmund Heller accompanies Paul James Rainey on another expedition to Africa. Heller will put the finishing touches on the white rhinoceros publication on the boat to Naples and send it back for publication. The time that Heller is away will allow the remaining mammal skins to be labeled and prepared for a broad study of the collection. It is too late to change the plan and find another man to go in Heller’s place.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-08

Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, is glad that Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the zoologist Edmund Heller should go accompany Paul James Rainey on a trip to South Abyssinia. Senator Thomas Henry Carter, chairman of the Senate Irrigation Committee, is writing a report of the committee’s investigation into reclamation projects in the west, which Walcott believes discredits work done during Roosevelt’s administration. If this is the case, Walcott is sure that the minority report by Senator Francis G. Newlands will dispute it.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian, informs Theodore Roosevelt that the zoologist Edmund Heller has an opportunity to travel to northern British East Africa for eight months with the hunter Paul Rainey. The fauna there will supplement Roosevelt’s collections and Heller is willing to go, but hesitant because it would delay is report on mammals. Walcott asks Roosevelt whether he thinks a delay in the report is warranted under the circumstances.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-02

Charles D. Walcott explains that Edmund Heller has the opportunity to collect zoological specimens in British East Africa with Paul James Rainey. However, Heller is hesitant to delay work on Theodore Roosevelt’s collection. Walcott asks Roosevelt to persuade Heller to accompany Rainey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-30

Charles D. Walcott acknowledges the receipt of a Turkish saddle which President Roosevelt lent to the Smithsonian Institution.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-03-03

Charles D. Walcott will make sure J. Alden Loring and Edmund Heller are explicitly instructed to not publish anything until after President Roosevelt has published his own articles and book about his safari trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-08

Charles D. Walcott tells Theodore Roosevelt that Emma Baker Kennedy was not enthusiastic at the idea of aiding in publishing scientific works. Instead, Kennedy’s interests were in “home and foreign mission work, and philanthropic endeavors in and about New York.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-16

Charles D. Walcott updates Theodore Roosevelt on the progress of the specimens being preserved by James L. Clark from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition. A number of white rhinoceroses and different types of antelopes are in the process of being quoted by the taxidermist. Walcott thinks the Smithsonian will be able to publish Roosevelt’s article soon as well. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-16