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President Roosevelt looks forward to meeting Martha Baker Dunn’s son, but wonders if she would be able to come to Washington, D.C. herself as well. If she can come, he would like her to meet Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-24
President Roosevelt praises Martha Baker Dunn’s essays and also thanks her for sending him the Walt Whitman poem, which he had never seen before. They seem to have similar taste in poetry. He has sent her work, along with that of William De Witt Hyde, to George Otto Trevelyan to “show him that there are Americans who write things worth reading.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-09
President Roosevelt tells Martha Baker Dunn that he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will “enjoy that volume to the full.” He asks Dunn to let him know in advance if she will be coming to Washington.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-01