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President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Durrett for sending a publication by the Filson Club and promises to read it at once. Roosevelt also thanks Durrett more broadly for the letter and was touched by what Durrett wrote. Roosevelt fondly recalls his visit to Louisville, Kentucky where he met with Durrett in person.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-27
Commissioner Roosevelt appreciates Colonel Durrett’s criticisms. He agrees that Mr. Marshall and Mr. Green’s comments should be left out. Roosevelt will also incorporate some of Durrett’s language regarding the Yazoo grants. He hopes that it was made clear that he does not implicate Mr. Brown and Mr. Innes with corruption. Roosevelt agrees that a hundred years ago he would have joined Durrett on an expedition to “wrest Louisiana from the Spaniards.” He might even be willing to currently join a “general national buccaneering expedition” to remove the Spaniard from Cuba or the British from Canada. He also favors the annexation of Hawaii.
1894-04-27