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Paul Morton thinks that President Roosevelt’s Arbor Day proclamation was admirable and an excellent precedent. Morton inquires after Roosevelt since he has been under stress lately and assures him that “the principles and practices you contend for will prevail.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-15
President Roosevelt tells the children planting trees on Arbor Day as he holds his big stick, “Some day we will have another crop of big sticks.” In the background a teddy bear plants a tree.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-15
Biography of Theodore Roosevelt highlighting his conservation efforts.
1958-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Ernest S. Jaros that Roosevelt will not make a public statement regarding Arbor Day, but that an appropriate quote may be found in the published edition of Roosevelt’s Presidential Addresses and State Papers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-01
President Roosevelt thanks former Secretary of the Navy Morton for his letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-16
President Roosevelt thanks Asa K. McIlhaney for the letter, and assures him that he believes in Arbor Day and the cause that McIlhaney is working for. Roosevelt has difficulty choosing his favorite tree, although he comments on several varieties.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-09
President Roosevelt congratulates the school children of San Diego, California, on the establishment of Arbor Day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-16
Ernest S. Jaros discusses his firm’s plan to purchase and distribute seedlings to schoolchildren to plant on Arbor Day for the purpose of interesting them in the importance of trees. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for his opinion and approval.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-25
Variety marks the “News and Notes” column as it covers twelve topics over five pages. The first three topics involve awards and prizes conferred in 1988, and describe the Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest for the New York public schools, research grants from the American Museum of Natural History, and the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize. The column reprints Tweed Roosevelt’s address on the 100 year anniversary of Arbor Day in Albany, New York, and notes the passing of Paul Russell Cutright who wrote two books about Roosevelt as a naturalist. “News and Notes” also highlights the speaking engagements of John A. Gable, promotes the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s publication of a collection of Roosevelt’s speeches, The Man in the Arena, and refutes assertions made in the media that Roosevelt believed in astrology.
A photograph from the finals of the public speaking contest, an illustration of Roosevelt, and one of both sides of the Theodore Roosevelt Association medallion appear in the column.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
President Roosevelt speaks to a crowd at Grand Island. He states that he is glad to see the types of crops that they are growing, the amount of timber, and the establishment of forest reserves.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-27
This newspaper clipping shows a bear and seven children planting trees. Theodore Roosevelt leans on a big stick, saying, “Some day we will have another crop of big sticks.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1907-04
George S. Benson asks Vice President Roosevelt to deliver an address at the Academy of Music in Brooklyn to secure funding for the project Lincoln Letters & Portrait.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-03-07