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Frederick Courteney Selous, British explorer, writes to President Roosevelt, detailing two separate instances where Selous encountered cheetahs while on horseback in Africa. Selous also thanks Roosevelt for his friendship and a photo.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-31
Kermit Roosevelt discusses a conversation he had with a school dean about his attendance, his concerns about the rifles he and Theodore Roosevelt will take to Africa, and slides he saw at a recent Audobon Society meeting of famed ornithologist Frank Michler Chapman’s trip to Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11
Nicholas Murray Butler encloses a letter to President Roosevelt that Leigh Hunt sent from Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-12
Edward North Buxton asks Theodore Roosevelt to become an honorary member of Buxton’s new society, an association for the protection of the wild fauna in Africa and other parts of the [British] empire. Roosevelt has already been helpful in the Sudan, as people have learned from him what can be done with a national park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-18
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria-Hungary Bellamy Storer informs President Roosevelt of a recent visit by King of the Belgians Léopold II. Storer discusses tensions in the Congo between the British and Belgian governments and European colonization in the Congo, referencing editorials in The Times, the Treaty of Berlin, the French explorer Pierre Savorgnon de Brazza, and rumors of Belgian atrocities in Congo, using Belgian explorer Henry M. Stanley as an exemplar.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-22
Edward Schnick blames Theodore Roosevelt for the Democrats gaining control of New York and the United States and releases his indignation at Roosevelt and his politics. He complains about the activities of Roosevelt at the 1912 Chicago Republican Convention. He thinks that Roosevelt sold President Taft out on account of his ego. He says that Roosevelt’s return from Africa looked like a “Barnum Circus.” He promises never to vote for Roosevelt again and urges him to retire from the public sphere.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-08