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President Roosevelt asks James R. Mann if he can bring Carl Ethan Akeley and Delia J. Akeley to see him, and they can all have lunch together.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt tried to have Stewart Edward White out for lunch with Carl Ethan Akeley and Delia J. Akeley. He asks if he can share White’s comments about the sable antelope with Edmund Heller. Roosevelt feels naturalists have gone to extremes in creating new species without evidence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-08
President Roosevelt thanks Carl Ethan Akeley for the book, and says that he was pleased to be able to take lunch with Akeley and his wife.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-08
Carl Ethan Akeley, Taxidermist-in-Chief of the Field Museum, sends President Roosevelt a manuscript about an elephant hunt in which he and his wife, Delia J. Akeley, participated. The manuscript is bound in the leather of one of the elephants Mrs. Akeley killed, and Akeley hopes it encourages Roosevelt to take a hunting trip to British East Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-04
President Roosevelt thanks John J. Magee for his letter and tells him that he hopes James R. Mann can bring Carl Ethan Akeley and Delia J. Akeley to have lunch with him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-16