Bates, Oric, 1883-1918

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Bates, Oric, 1883-1918

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-02-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Bates, Oric, 1883-1918

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-02-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Bates, Oric, 1883-1918

Theodore Roosevelt will try to write the introduction Oric Bates requested, but he is not willing to say that Africa is the possible birthplace of man.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-08

Theodore Roosevelt sends Oric Bates a rough draft and asks him to return it with corrections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-19

Theodore Roosevelt encourages Oric Bates to continue on the work and research, likely referring to Bates’s anthropological studies of North Africa. Roosevelt reports that if soldier and African-explorer William Astor Chanler was not in a hospital in France, he would be fighting for the Allies, and, in any case, Chanler likely does not have much money to help with Bates’s project. Roosevelt tells Bates that he is happy to offer whatever advice he might have and write any letters of introduction that might be helpful, but he regrets he can not do more than that.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-29