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President Roosevelt thanks Bishop Tuttle for sending a copy of his memoirs, and he looks forward to reading the collection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-17
Frederic Harrison informs Theodore Roosevelt that on his 80th birthday MacMillan will be publishing his autobiography. The book includes some letters Harrison wrote to his wife while in the United States, and these letters may contain incidental references to Roosevelt. Harrison also wishes Roosevelt an early happy birthday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-27
Samuel Howard Shepley praises Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiography and asks him to write a lecture on the development of the average man.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-01-04
Ray H. Mattison thanks Roy P. Johnson for his hard work gathering and sending him research materials regarding the authenticity of Theodore Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross cabin. The information Mattison has gathered from interviewing old timers backs the authenticity of the cabin thus far, although he still has more people to interview. Mattison believes Hermann Hagedorn is incorrect in saying that Roosevelt went to Red River country in Nebraska in 1882, because there is Red River in Nebraska. He notes a paragraph in Roosevelt’s 1920 autobiography in which the President talks about his first trip to Fargo, North Dakota in 1883, not 1882.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-07-23
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Anson Rogers Graves for the autobiography.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks the gentlemen of A. C. McClurg & Co. for sending Roosevelt the autobiography of Dr. Max Kullnick, translated from the German by Professor Frederick E. von Reithdorf. Roosevelt was very happy to receive it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-26
Theodore Roosevelt suggests that Charles Cornell Moore, President of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, use the statement he made to Buchanan, consult his autobiography, or his messages to Congress. Anything else he would add would be a repetition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-06-14
Theodore Roosevelt has just received the autobiography of George C. Sprague’s grandfather and will read it “with the utmost interest.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-24
President Roosevelt thanks Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, as well as all the others who contributed, for the gift of the memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully. The signatures of all those who contributed to the gift make the book, “not merely one of the two or three in my library which I value most, but that one which I value most.” Roosevelt expresses his affection for France, and wishes everyone who contributed to the gift could visit him in the United States as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-23
President Roosevelt thanks Justice Holmes for sending him a copy of a biography written by President Charles William Eliot of Harvard (probably John Gilley: Maine Farmer and Fisherman) and thinks that in time it may be considered a classic. Roosevelt reflects on Eliot’s message of how people are remembered after their deaths and for how long. Roosevelt thinks that ultimately it is best for a person to feel internally that they lived honorably and did not shirk any duties, regardless of how long civilization as a whole remembers them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-05
John S. Phillips shares advance sheets of the first chapter of Senator Robert La Follette’s autobiography with Theodore Roosevelt. He praises the work’s quality and simplicity and asks for Roosevelt’s opinion, noting the content is confidential until its publication on September 23, 1911.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
Elbridge J. Copp sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of his book, Reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion, and hopes that he will find the time to read it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-26
Joel Chandler Harris provides a biographical sketch of his life to Erastus Brainerd, giving details of his youth and how he came to write his stories featuring Uncle Remus.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1885
Erastus Brainerd offers to send Theodore Roosevelt Joel Chandler Harris’ autobiographical sketch. He notes the omission of the reason for Harris’ “impersonable shyness.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-08
William Loeb returned the proofs of the preface and introduction to Geronimo’s autobiography with Theodore Roosevelt’s edits and suggestions. Duffield & Company will make the advised changes to the manuscript.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-05
Holmes E. Offley suggests a template that Theodore Roosevelt could use to attest to his service in the United States Armed Forces from the United States Civil War to 1876, and state the value of his service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-14