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President Roosevelt is always interested in what Charles DeKay writes, and he is particularly interested in the subject of “primitive homes.” Roosevelt would like to see DeKay if he comes to Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-07
Charles N. Elliot sends Theodore Roosevelt John Burroughs’ book about his Western trip with Roosevelt and requests that Roosevelt write a brief appreciation of the author for inclusion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
Francis W. Halsey asks President Roosevelt to review a brief description of himself for any errors. The passage will be part of a volume describing the homes of a number of American authors.
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1902-01-02
Theodore Roosevelt tells Booth Tarkington that he was amused by the incident he mentions. When he sees Tarkington again, Roosevelt will tell him the reason of his difference with the Judge. Roosevelt enjoyed Tarkington’s company.
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1915-12-09
Theodore Roosevelt tells Ernest Poole that Philip Roosevelt recommended his novel, The Harbor, to him. Roosevelt was going to buy a copy, but now he will wait until Poole sends him one.
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1915-03-29
President Roosevelt thanks Couleon Kernahan for the letter and book. He believes what Lord Roberts said is as applicable in the United States as it is in England. Roosevelt takes this view in his recently published book, America and the World War.
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1915-01-15
President Roosevelt thanks Stewart Edward White for sending him two books. Roosevelt is particularly excited to read White’s novel Arizona Nights, and compares White’s writing favorably to the author William J. Long, who was embroiled in the “Nature Fakers” controversy. Roosevelt has also requested that White be given permission to watch target practice by the USS Maryland.
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1907-11-18
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that John Burroughs is getting well. Roosevelt gave a statement about William J. Long and Jack London, writers of “unnatural history.”
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciate Hamlin Garland’s writing.
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1907-03-12
President Roosevelt thanks James B. Connolly for a copy of his book “The Seiners,” and asks if Connolly is familiar with Hopkinson Smith. Smith dined with President Roosevelt and shared a story about a lighthouse man which was reminiscent of fictional characters within his books.
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1904-05-28
President Roosevelt enjoys James B. Connolly’s work and is pleased to see an American author who “strikes a new note.” Roosevelt inquires whether Connolly liked Owen Wister’s recent novel, The Virginian.
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1902-09-29
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that George Bird Grinnell liked his Rough Rider articles.
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1899-02-18
Robert Bridges concurs with President Roosevelt’s decision to use the pseudonym “Jacob Van Vechten” in publishing Ted’s poem “Sunset on the Marsh” in Scribner’s Magazine. Bridges will notify Baron Christian Karl Bernhard von Tauchnitz that Roosevelt approves of the terms for issuing an edition of Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter in Tauchnitz’s series. Recently, a firm in Amsterdam expressed interest in a Dutch translation of Roosevelt’s Oliver Cromwell, but Bridges says that no arrangements have been finalized. He sends the latest book by Jesse Lynch Williams and notes that he has not yet heard from James B. Connolly but expects his agreement with the plan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-17
Andrew Dickson White discusses the political turmoil in Russia and the problems Russians cause in the United States and abroad. White thinks it wise that Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine, has avoided involvement with Maxim Gorky, and he wishes that Mark Twain and William Dean Howells had done the same.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-18
Article about a lecture given by author David McCullough in Oyster Bay, New York as part of a series of lectures to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of Sagamore Hill as a historic site. McCullough spoke about Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal. The article notes the other works written by McCullough, discusses the history of Sagamore Hill as a historic site, and previews the other two lectures in the series.
Two photographs accompany the article. One shows John Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) with David McCullough, Raoul Amador, and Peter Fisher, and the other shows the exterior of Sagamore Hill.
A listing of the officers of the TRA follows the article.
A man, identified as the “Pirate Publisher,” stands at center with one foot on a large book labeled “Law.” He is wearing 17th century court dress, a large hat with four plumes labeled “American, French, German, [and] English,” and a long cape that appears to be made from the title pages of pirated works of literature; and he is carrying two moneybags. Authors from “America, Germany, France, [and] England” form a half-circle behind him, including “Mark Twain, C. D. Warner, G. W. Cable, E. C. Stedman, F. Brete Hart [i.e., Bret Harte], J. Hay, O. W. Holmes, F. R. Stockton, J. G. Whittier, T. B. Aldrich, W. D. Howells, J. R. Lowell, Heyse, Ebers, Scheffel, Zola, Sardou, A. Daudet, Jules Verne, Gilbert, Browning, Burnard, Hughes, Tennyson, [and] W. Collins.” Some hold papers labeled “James Payn, Louis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, [and] R. L. Stevenson.” They are accusing the man of illegally publishing their work without compensating them, while the man maintains that he has a legal right to publish their books. There is a jack-in-the-box labeled “The Hugh Conway Posthumous Producer.” The jack holds a knife in one hand and a gun in the other. Includes choruses “of British Authors…French Victims…German and other Sufferers, [and] Humble American Authors.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-02-24