Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Bryant Bigelow
President Roosevelt is extremely pleased by Henry Bryant Bigelow’s skill of writing scientific works. Roosevelt believes that it is better for a book to be worth reading but dull than it is to have a well-written work that is not worth reading. The best case, however, is for a book to both be worth reading and well written. He suggests that Bigelow may be the sort of author to write an important scientific work that is able to be read and understood both by scientists and the general public, and encourages him to not be content with only sending pieces to magazines, but to write a book himself.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-29