Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Russell Parsons
Theodore Roosevelt has just turned down a request from the Harvard Lampoon and cannot write any more special messages at this time.
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1917-09-19
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Theodore Roosevelt has just turned down a request from the Harvard Lampoon and cannot write any more special messages at this time.
1917-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt heard of Russell Parsons’s raid on the German trenches from his mother, Frances Theodora Parsons. He compares the raid to an attack by the forlorn hope or storming a breached wall. Roosevelt describes the fighting as a “great war” and wishes Parsons good luck.
1918-09-08