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Hamilton, Ian, 1853-1947

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir Ian Hamilton

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir Ian Hamilton

Theodore Roosevelt has received General Hamilton’s letter, the contents of which were wired to him in San Francisco. In response to the letter, Roosevelt wrote to Colonel Goethals, Colonel Gorgas, and Joseph Bucklin Bishop at the Isthmus, and he is confident that they will do all they can to help Hamilton. Roosevelt requests that Hamilton come out for the evening on the 8th or 9th.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

President Roosevelt comments on General Hamilton’s two-volume publication, A Staff Officer’s Scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt wishes he could see Hamilton to discuss the book. He expresses particular interest in Hamilton’s description of a gruesome play performed by Japanese soldiers. He wonders how industrialization in Japan will impact “the qualities which give them such an extraordinary soldierly capacity.” He notes that Kuroki will be visiting and that he will speak to Kuroki Tamemoto about Hamilton’s book. Roosevelt comments that he is pleased that the ships are doing well at target practice and that the fleet is satisfactory.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

President Roosevelt has read over Lieutenant General Hamilton’s two volumes again and complements Hamilton on his description of the Japanese army. Roosevelt describes a conversation he had with Tamemoto Kuroki about the superiority of guns over bayonets. Roosevelt notes that Kuroki and Kuroki’s aide like Hamilton’s work. He gives his impression of Kuroki. Roosevelt sends pictures of him jumping a horse named Roswell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ian Hamilton

President Roosevelt praises General Hamilton’s “Staff Officer’s Scrapbook” about the Russo-Japanese War. He agrees with Hamilton’s assessment about the moral and physical fighting qualities of average individual soldiers. In Roosevelt’s own war experience, he finds that soldiers from rural backgrounds were often superior fighters to those from cities. He reflects on the tension between modern materialists, who only think of money, and idealists, who often “construct an ideal which is not only fantastic but excessively undesirable,” which causes the atrophy of “military or warlike virtues.” Roosevelt praises the Japanese army’s conduct.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-24

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919