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John T. McCutcheon sends Theodore Roosevelt a “six-inch book shelf” of books written by authors from Indiana for the Indiana Banquet held recently.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12
Frederic T. Bowers includes his personal details, business and general experience, education, and the type of position he is hoping to secure on this resume. Bowers is willing to provide unusual references for all the work listed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
President Roosevelt hopes to visit Lord Curzon of Kedleston, and lists the authors he would most like to meet while visiting Oxford. He discusses the issue of the reserves in Africa, and compares the situation to Yellowstone Park in the United States. Roosevelt mourns the loss of former German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg, a great soldier and effective ambassador.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-12
President Roosevelt will gladly support the monument to James Fenimore Cooper and suggests that Thomas R. Lounsbury contact Brander Matthews for additional help. Roosevelt would be pleased if Lounsbury could visit Washington, D.C. next winter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-03
Wayne Whipple informs Theodore Roosevelt that he received his kind note of the 8th and clarifies, humorously, that he is not “Major Whipple,” but simply plain Wayne Whipple.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-11
Little, Brown & Company sends Theodore Roosevelt a complimentary copy of Memories of the White House at the authors’ suggestion, ahead of its upcoming publication.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-11
The author William Frederick Travers O’Connor in an automobile of the period, taken near Lhasa.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-1910
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to say nineteen of his letters arrived in one day. Roosevelt discusses his views on the author Thomas Hardy and literature in general. He writes about Quentin Roosevelt’s death and how Mother and Quentin’s fiancee Flora Payne Whitney are doing. He adds he wrote to General John Pershing regarding Kermit being assigned to machine gun work.
1918-08-04
The memorandum informs authors of the series “The World’s Explorers and their Explorations” of the new subjects should the series be expanded.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-01
Secretary to the President, Benjamin F. Barnes acknowledges receiving James R. Branch’s letter but not the paper and requests another copy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Professor Volwiler for writing an article which included comments from people who knew of Roosevelt’s experiences in North Dakota. The letter includes Roosevelt’s statement, “I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-11-08
Theodore Roosevelt is unable to comply with Charles N. Elliot’s request that he write an appreciation of John Burroughs in his copy of “Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt.” However, Roosevelt is willing to autograph Elliot’s copy of “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter” if he will send it to him. Roosevelt has written a short paragraph about Oom John in the volume Elliot sent him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-22
The secretary of Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Frank B. Lindsay consults his public library and searches for books written by Theodore Roosevelt to find the information he is looking for.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-06
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary confirms receipt of Homer P. Dudley’s letter asking to write an introduction for his book. Roosevelt is unable to write such an introduction, as he would feel obligated to do the same for the hundreds of other requests he receives and would offend those he has already refused.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-10
Theodore Roosevelt has lost a particular pamphlet and so cannot inform O. P. Briggs of its author, but he suggests that “either one of the gentlemen” could tell him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Madison Clinton Peters for sending the book, likely his recent book titled Abraham Lincoln’s Religion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-12
Theodore Roosevelt discusses John Buchan’s review of Roosevelt’s book in The Spectator and invites Buchan to visit him in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt reports to Cleveland H. Dodge that he only read most of Reginald Wright Kauffman’s The House of Bondage as he found it “so sad and painful, so disagreeable.” Even so, he wants to meet Kauffman. Despite his misgivings about Standard Oil, he wants John D. Rockefeller to join as he sent Roosevelt the book and is doing great service in attacking the “white slave business.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-17
Theodore Roosevelt reminds Charles G. Washburn that he sent the address and Washburn acknowledged it. He tells Washburn it was in Progressive Principles. Roosevelt hopes that Washburn has seen his book, America and the World War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-13
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates receiving Hannah Kent Schoff’s The Wayward Child and will enjoy reading it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-27