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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edward S. Curtis for inviting him and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to his lecture. However, they cannot attend even though it would be a great pleasure.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-07
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased because Edward S. Curtis is doing work of national consequence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-21
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs Edward S. Curtis that Roosevelt will be a member of that committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt tells Edward S. Curtis that there is no room in the house for a cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
Theodore Roosevelt tells Edward S. Curtis that he does not possess volume five, only volumes one through four. Roosevelt adds that he would “greatly appreciate” having such a cabinet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-02
Theodore Roosevelt will be pleased to receive the picture Edward S. Curtis is sending him. He hopes to see Curtis when he is in Seattle and asks him to write the Reception Committee there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-10
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
These images are presented through a cooperative effort between the Library of Congress and Dickinson State University. No known restrictions on publication.
President Roosevelt believes Edward S. Curtis is doing valuable work for America. He will happily become a patron.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-03
President Roosevelt is pleased with the gift of Edward S. Curtis’s books and has written to Andrew Carnegie.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-04
President Roosevelt has read what Edward S. Curtis sent, and has never heard that three Crow scouts were with George A. Custer. Roosevelt notes that Curtis seems inclined to believe an unflattering theory about Custer’s actions, and cautions him that in writing about an event thirty years after it happened, memories can be faulty. He notes that it is not his or Curtis’s affair if irresponsible men publish the things he wrote about.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-08
President Roosevelt received Edward S. Curtis’s letter and returns it here. While he does not want to criticize it in detail, he is in general agreement with the whole thing. Because he sympathizes with Curtis’s work, he will write the letter of introduction, but he wants to know how long it should be and by when he should have it done.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-28
President Roosevelt suggests to Edward S. Curtis that when he publishes his book, he may wish to contact Natalie Curtis to write up the songs and music of the Native Americans, as she has made a noteworthy study of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-07
President Roosevelt congratulates photographer and ethnologist Edward S. Curtis, and praises the actions of J. Pierpont Morgan. Morgan provided funding for Curtis’s series of books on Native Americans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-06
President Roosevelt thanks Edward S. Curtis for the photographs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-26
President Roosevelt praises Edward S. Curtis’s work. Curtis’s documentation of Native Americans through photographs is an extremely important undertaking, as the native peoples are beginning to assimilate into the broader culture of the United States and lose some of their unique cultural traits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-16
President Roosevelt thanks Edward S. Curtis for the “remarkable Indian picture” as well as for a photograph of Jacob A. Riis. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed the pictures as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-27
The artist and sculptor Gutzon Borglum tells photographer and filmmaker Edward S. Curtis that he has seen his silent film In the Land of the Head Hunters for the third time. Borglum expresses his gratitude to Curtis for lifting the field of educational entertainment to that of the fine arts. Borglum also discusses the importance of the film medium in capturing “the attention of humanity.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-15