Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt invites William T. Hornaday to dinner with African hunters.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-06
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Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt thanks William T. Hornaday for his book. Roosevelt will tell Hornaday of his luck in Africa upon his return. Roosevelt states that wilderness means more to him than the game itself and that he kills animals only for meat or scientific purposes.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt will take William T. Hornaday’s recommendation of Mr. Sutherland for marshal under advisement.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt is interested in going on an extended trip after the presidency and wishes to know more about William T. Hornaday’s trip to Mexico.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-12-30
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt thanks Director Hornaday for his letter and the articles he sent. He laments that he gave writer William Joseph Long any press, even if it was to draw attention to his inaccuracies. His stories are complete fabrications, but “he says they are true simple because it pays better.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-02
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt cannot interfere in state government upon the request of William T. Hornaday. He does however, sympathize with Hornaday’s efforts to preserve bison.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-03
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt is pleased to see William T. Hornaday’s book. He invites Hornaday to visit for lunch or dinner.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt thanks William T. Hornaday and remarks on how much work still needs to be learned in the field of the natural history of big game. Roosevelt references German hunter C. G. Schillings’s new book.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt thanks William T. Hornaday for sending the photograph of the cougar and goat. Roosevelt asks for more information on how the cougar eats his kill.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-11-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt thanks William T. Hornaday for the recommendation on a taxidermist. Roosevelt wishes he knew about Hornaday’s experience with the buck before the book was published.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-11-16
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt sends William T. Hornaday a copy of his book. Roosevelt also requests photographs of the cougar and a person to supply poison for game.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-11-11
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
Theodore Roosevelt is delighted to hear about William T. Hornaday’s success, although he was sorry to also hear his comments about the Boone and Crockett Club. Roosevelt compliments Hornaday’s work, and offers his support.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-10-25
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt compliments William T. Hornaday’s natural history book, which will be a gift for his son, Ted.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-05-12
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
In response to a previous letter, Governor Roosevelt sends an enclosed document to William T. Hornaday and asks him to pass it on if it meets his approval.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1899-09-23
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
Theodore Roosevelt endorses William T. Hornaday’s proposal that hunting should be prohibited on preserves.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-11-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
President Roosevelt does not see why there should be any objections to the material in zoologist William T. Hornaday’s speech and he is in agreement with most recommendations. Roosevelt is trying to negotiate a seal treaty with Japan.
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Creation Date
1909-02-01
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
Theodore Roosevelt writes to zoologist William T. Hornaday that he heartily approves of all teachers being forced to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. He says school teachers should stand in loyalty exactly as an officer for the army or navy does.
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Creation Date
1917-11-25
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
Theodore Roosevelt compliments zoologist William T. Hornaday on his pamphlet on the sage grouse. He wants Hornaday to use his name on behalf of a six years closed season on grouse, prairie chicken and quail in most places. Roosevelt is unhappy about the photographs of “the game-boys in automobiles.”
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Creation Date
1916-12-20
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William T. Hornaday
Theodore Roosevelt thinks zoologist William T. Hornaday’s advice about “crowding” President Woodrow Wilson is sound. After Roosevelt’s article appears in the Metropolitan he will avoid “slashing” him.
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Creation Date
1916-04-04