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President Roosevelt asks Alma Curtin if she likes the foreword he wrote for The Mongols and gives her permission to edit it as needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-26
President Roosevelt returns the dedication of The Mongols to Alma Curtin and will write a preface as requested. He feels privileged to be involved with the work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-17
Alma Curtin’s letter made President Roosevelt feel as if he had reached out too soon while she was still grieving the death of her husband, and he asks for forgiveness. He is pleased that her husband’s book on the Mongols was complete and appreciates the dedication that was written to him. He hopes her husband’s other books, which are near completion, will be published and is willing to assist in any way needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt gives his condolences to Alma Curtin on the death of her husband, Jeremiah Curtin. He asks whether the book that he was writing was far enough along to be published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
William Loeb sends Alma Curtin two letters of introduction from President Roosevelt for her use.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-09
President Roosevelt tells Alma Curtin that he would be happy to write to any publisher she would like in to ask them to read her manuscript. He believes that if he wrote a direct request for the book to be published it would be ignored, but Roosevelt feels confident that he can get them to read the work and decide based on its own merits whether to publish it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-04
President Roosevelt informs Alma Curtin that he has received a copy of The Mongols in Russia, and was very pleased to see that both it and its companion volume are dedicated to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-14