Your TR Source
President Roosevelt is intrigued by the photos sent to him by Max C. Fleischmann, and has sent them on to Frederick Courteney Selous.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-27
Printer’s proof of William J. Long’s detailed response to President Roosevelt’s recent attack on his work in Everybody’s Magazine. Long argues that Roosevelt holds himself to be an expert in animal behavior, when there are many more qualified men than he. Further, Long says that Roosevelt claims to know the “heart of wild things,” but really all he does is kill those animals. Long provides details, witnesses, and a point by point rebuttal to prove Roosevelt’s attack is unwarranted. A handwritten note indicates the article will appear in “the important papers of New York, Boston, Chicago, etc.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-02