Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
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Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Telegram from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Telegram from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister laments to President Roosevelt that he did not receive the president’s letter until after Wister sent him a telegram. Wister regrets he cannot fulfill a request the president made, although Wister has many questions he would like to ask and hopes to visit in the spring. Wister hopes to dedicate his new biography of George Washington to Roosevelt because he sees many parallels between the two presidents, especially in their conflicts with Congress over fiscal policy.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-04-10
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister congratulates his friend President Roosevelt on his son, Theodore Roosevelt, joining the Porcellian Club at Harvard University. Wister considers his ten year association with the club while an undergraduate and in law school as having been good for his character. Although Wister recalls some who wasted their time in the club, he does not believe members drink as much as they previously did. Wister wishes he could pass some wisdom on to the younger Roosevelt, and hopes to visit him at school soon.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-12-19
Telegram from Owen Wilson to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wilson writes to President Roosevelt requesting to meet with him at the White House.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-01-12
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to visit. Wister will bring the work of an African American author to share with Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-12-06
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister is pleased with the overwhelming support of the country for President Roosevelt, which was evidenced by his strong showing in the election. While “deeply moved” by the President’s destiny, Wister is very disappointed in the treatment Roosevelt has received from the “educated gentlefolk” of the country, his own class, which should have supported Roosevelt but did not. When he hears the President being impugned, Wister shares his “impregnable conviction” of Roosevelt’s character. He assures Roosevelt that despite these naysayers, the “great national heart” beats for him.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-11-17
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister relates a deleted passage about former Secretary of State Elihu Root from his Scribners article regarding Theodore Roosevelt’s second presidential administration.
Collection
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Creation Date
1913-1914
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister encloses a letter for President Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-06-16
Dried flowers from grave of Quentin Roosevelt
Dried flowers picked from Quentin Roosevelt’s grave, sent in a letter from Owen Wister to Edith Roosevelt
Collection
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Creation Date
1921-04-04
Letter from Owen Wister to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Owen Wister writes to Edith Roosevelt and encloses flowers that he picked from Quentin Roosevelt’s grave. In the letter he describes sunlight, bird songs, and the blossoms by the grave. Envelope included.
Collection
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Creation Date
1921-04-04
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister remarks how Ethel Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt’s kind letters tempt Wister into traveling to Sagamore Hill the next time he is able. Wister is planning a trip to Wyoming, though is delayed due to an emergency on the part of his attendant. He discusses the “books of length” he plans to take on his journey, including A Pluralistic Universe by William James that explores the work of Henri Bergson. He also suggests From Kant to Nietzsche by Jules de Gaultier.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-27
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister has enclosed a letter from Eva M. Bicknell, a fan of Theodore Roosevelt’s from Lincoln, England. Wister misses Roosevelt and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and hopes this illness will pass soon so that they might get together.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-20
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister sends President Roosevelt a note of “good luck and God speed” as he departs the presidency.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-03-02
Telegram from Owen Wister to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Owen Wister regrets that he is still laid up.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-01-18
Letter from Owen Wister to Theodore Roosevelt
Owen Wister asks President Roosevelt to wait to appoint the “lay” member of the Mint Assay Commission because he has someone “honorable, eminent, and apt” to suggest for the role.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-01-12