Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank Hall Scott
President Roosevelt thanks Frank Hall Scott for sending him H.G. Wells’s book. Roosevelt likes some of Wells’s writing but believes this book to be a “very foolish volume, and rather hurtful,” and although it holds merit from the “sensation-lovers” standpoint, the didactic qualities are absurd. (In the Days of the Comet is a science fiction novel published in 1906 about a comet that transforms humanity.)
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-02