Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1900-02-27

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Theodore Roosevelt tells Frank M. Chapman that he will do something if it is possible for him to do so, though he cannot promise.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-08-07

President Roosevelt thanks Frank M. Chapman for the photographs, and thinks that Herbert Lang would be a perfect person to bring on his safari. Unfortunately, Roosevelt is going in service of the Smithsonian Institution, as he promised Charles D. Walcott, and guesses that the American Museum of Natural History would not care to lend Lang to the Smithsonian for this purpose. Roosevelt’s son, Kermit Roosevelt, will come visit soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-06

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-27

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Frank M. Chapman on his election to the American Ornithologists Union. He proposes options for entertaining Chapman, William Brewster, and Charles Sheldon, if he will come. Thayer wrote Roosevelt, asking him to attend some experiments he plans to conduct. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-28

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-08-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1913-10-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Frank M. Chapman and acknowledges their agreement on the importance of both revealing and concealing aspects of conservation, as well as the necessity of uncovering and confronting facts. Roosevelt then requests that Chapman not arrange a public speech, he tries to avoid them and that night will be the last time he will be delivering one.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-20

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank M. Chapman for the handbook.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-28

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes Frank M. Chapman to ask to borrow “the frog swallowing the lizard” which Roosevelt sent to the museum several months ago. The loan is for Mrs. Ella May Howland, the wife of the publisher of The Outlook, and the bearer of the letter will undertake to return it after a day or two.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-12

Theodore Roosevelt reminds Frank M. Chapman that he sympathizes with Roosevelt because Roosevelt prioritizes the facts, unlike Thayer. Roosevelt is pleased that Chapman enjoyed his article on Panama and discusses the United States’ duty in Panama and Cuba and how it does not have that same duty in Russia or Turkey.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-09

Theodore Roosevelt assures Frank M. Chapman that he will look for the camera lens in Kermit Roosevelt’s possession. Roosevelt thinks Kermit may have brought the lens to New Brunswick. Roosevelt forwarded Chapman’s letter to Kermit at Harvard. Roosevelt asks Chapman what dates he will be traveling for, because Roosevelt hopes to see Chapman before he departs. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-29

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Frank M. Chapman for his letters, and writes about his African expedition and how his son, Kermit Roosevelt, defied his father’s advice and came out on top in the end.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-01

Theodore Roosevelt submits footnotes and changes to galley proofs reviewing Abbott H. Thayer’s article in the July issue of Popular Science Monthly. The changes focus on concealing coloration of some species.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-11

Theodore Roosevelt writes Frank M. Chapman of his wish that he could work exclusively as a naturalist — or the more modern “biologist.” He will look at Camps and Cruises, page 235, to see how Chapman views the relationship between color and haunt and may include a few sentences if the galley proofs of Roosevelt’s article arrive. Roosevelt is “well aware that there are plenty of men who could have done this criticism much better” and he would rather do the work than have it left undone. He encloses a page to go in an appropriate place and will include a long footnote to address Thayer’s Popular Science Monthly criticism, even though Thayer’s opinion changes from one page to another.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-05

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Frank M. Chapman about the Popular Science article and a criticism of Roosevelt’s “Appendix E” by Thayer, in a letter to the Tribune. He also finds Chapman’s Trinidad article very interesting and disagrees on several points about the birds of Trinidad, although he concedes that Chapman’s experience and training is greater than his own. Roosevelt further discusses his arguments about the coloration, cover, behavior, and habit of birds in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. He thanks Chapman for the interest in his article, thoroughly enjoyed his visit the other day, and will take his notes on the galley sheets into advisement. He returns The Awk and Osborn’s copy of Nature. In the addendum, Roosevelt answers Thayer’s criticism in the Popular Science magazine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-29

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary invites Frank M. Chapman to lunch at Oyster Bay next Saturday. He suggests Mr. Chapman bring Mr. Beebe, since he has been out for pheasants, and that they take the 11 a.m. train from Pennsylvania Station. As an alternative, he suggests lunch at The Outlook office on Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-20

Theodore Roosevelt relates to Frank M. Chapman that while visiting Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt at his school in Mesa, Arizona, he noticed a number of birds which he failed at the time to recognize as cactus wrens, due to the solid black coloration of their throats and their vigorous, familiar behavior. Roosevelt is forwarding several specimens to Chapman to ascertain whether his identification of the birds was correct. Roosevelt will soon begin writing an article on concealing coloration, as he is surprised that scientists have accepted Abbott Handerson Thayer’s theories on the subject so readily.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-24