Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Emerson Hough for his letter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was glad to receive the book from Emerson Hough, and proud that the book was dedicated to him. Roosevelt asks Hough to take lunch with him next Monday or Tuesday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt is pleased to have Emerson Hough dedicate his newest book to him, but returns the unread proof. He fears that if he reads the book before it is published, allowing the dedication could be seen as an endorsement of its content.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt praises Emerson Hough’s letter to the “militant socialist” and would like to have it published. Roosevelt says that both he and Hough are individualists, but because they are against lawless individualism and support measures like free public schools, people accuse them of socialism.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt agrees with Emerson Hough that Pat F. Garrett, widely known as the man who killed Billy the Kid, was murdered.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Emerson Hough for the letter and article and expresses his desire that bear hunting be a closed season. Roosevelt tells Hough to inform him if he is in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt regrets to inform Emerson Hough that after two investigations and reports from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, he cannot reappoint Pat F. Garrett as collector of customs in El Paso. Garrett is a personal favorite of Roosevelt’s and he would like to keep him on, but he cannot do so without compromising his ability to remove inefficient men from other positions around the country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Emerson Hough that Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw strongly opposes his friend Pat F. Garrett’s reappointment as collector of customs in El Paso. On-the-ground reports show that Garret is inefficient, away from the office a lot of the time, has bad habits, and is in debt. Roosevelt has heard complaints about him from respectable citizens in Texas and New Mexico, and will call for an investigation on Garrett’s conduct to determine whether he should be reappointed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt extols Emerson Hough’s The Story of the Cowboy. He hoped someone would write such a book and considers it a valuable piece of “genuine contemporary history.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-09-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

George B. Baker compliments a work by Emerson Hough, but says that it isn’t periodically commercial. He says that he thinks the agreement with Victor Freemont Lawson to publish an ad is a good gamble.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06

Creator(s)

Baker, George B. (George Barr), 1870-1948

Seth Low informs Emerson Hough that he has followed the advice of John O’Hara Cosgrave and has given Thomas William Lawson permission to print Hough’s article as an advertisement at his own expense. Low does not believe there is any market for selling the article, as no one would dare publish it, so this is the only way to get it into print. If Hough prints the article during the week of the Republican National Convention, however, Low thinks that it would be very profitable, and instructs Hough to print 100,000 copies to sell. Low will meet up with Hough in Chicago, but says that Hough should make arrangements with the ‘street fakirs’ for these to be sold.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-11

Creator(s)

Low, Seth, 1850-1916

Theodore Roosevelt believes that Emerson Hough will be satisfied with the letter he is writing to the Progressive National Committee. Roosevelt also mentions the difficulties he is having acquiring a new rifle.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-06-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thanks author Emerson Hough for his telegram.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1912-03-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919