Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Lewis Childs
President Roosevelt thanks John Lewis Childs for sending him the nest.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-07-24
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Lewis Childs
President Roosevelt’s mind was relieved by the information John Childs Lewis provided about long-eared owls. Roosevelt discusses the breeding and nesting habits of sandpipers and brown thrashers. Roosevelt is disappointed he found a song sparrow rather than a grasshopper sparrow near his home, Sagamore Hill, but pleased a black-throated green warbler showed up in time for him to show it to Childs and John Burroughs.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-22
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Excerpt from memoir on Theodore Roosevelt
Observations of Theodore Roosevelt feeding birds.
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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Creation Date
1912-03
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward William Nelson
President Roosevelt thanks Edward William Nelson for the information and notes that he is unsure if he heard a red-cockaded woodpecker or a hairy woodpecker with a slightly different call.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-10-31
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Wells W. Cooke
President Roosevelt tells Wells W. Cooke of the Biological Survey he is not sure if he will be have time to travel, but he would love to see the sparrows Cooke describes.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-10-29
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frank M. Chapman
President Roosevelt describes the purple finches and black-throated green warblers he has observed near his home in Oyster Bay, and invites Frank M. Chapman to visit him and identify the bird songs there.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Otto Trevelyan
President Roosevelt has enjoyed the book about Giuseppe Garibaldi that George Otto Trevelyan sent, especially as he was able to read it in connection with Pierre de La Gorce’s book on the history of the French Republic. Roosevelt says that since he has been at Sagamore Hill, he has been able to forget about all the stresses of office and go riding with his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. Roosevelt invites Trevelyan or his son, author George Macaulay Trevelyan, to visit at the White House.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-20
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. D. W. Miller
President Roosevelt thanks W. D. W. Miller for the information he provided about purple finches and black-throated green warblers, both of which Roosevelt observed breeding at his home at Sagamore Hill for this first time this year.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-21
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
President Roosevelt has found corroborative evidence for his sighting of passenger pigeons at Pine Knot in Albemarle County, Virginia. Dick, the foreman of Joseph Wilmer’s farm, saw two small flocks and his description of the birds match the passenger pigeon described in the fifth volume of Audubon. Roosevelt believes that Dick is reliable and views him as a “singularly close observer.” He requests that John Burroughs write to Lyman Abbott about the Long controversy.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-06-08
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
John Burroughs’s letter has raised some doubt in President Roosevelt regarding his sighting of a small flock of passenger pigeons. However, he saw around a dozen pigeons, both in the air and perched on a tree, with a “characteristically pigeon like attitude.” The other possibility is doves but the birds Roosevelt saw were larger and in a flock. He will write and see if there were other sightings.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-27
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
President Roosevelt asks if John Burroughs has seen Everybody’s Magazine. He could not help taking a “smash” at William J. Long. Roosevelt has just returned from Pine Knot in Albemarle County, Virginia, and claims to have seen a small group of “wild pigeons,” meaning passenger pigeons. He had not seen these pigeons for twenty five years.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-23
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt that he heard about his experience with one of Robert Bacon’s horses, and tells his son about the Roosevelt family vacation to Pine Knot. Roosevelt wants Kermit to learn how to shoot a shotgun so they can go prairie chicken hunting soon.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05-22
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
President Roosevelt enjoyed a recent article John Burroughs wrote. He wishes Burroughs could have accompanied him on some recent walks around the White House grounds. Roosevelt comments that he has been “trying to obey Emerson’s injunction” to observe birds with field glasses and not shoot them, but Roosevelt comments that there are some birds that are impossible to make out with field glasses.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-14
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Howe Forbush
President Roosevelt writes to naturalist Edward Howe Forbush that he has just read Forbush’s report from last year on the destruction of birds in New England. Roosevelt asks if Forbush has noticed a change in numbers this spring or summer. Roosevelt has not noticed a difference, with many types of birds “as plentiful as ever,” noting he has been observing birds in Oyster Bay for 31 years. Only quail and woodcock numbers seem diminished.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-21
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Letter from John Burroughs to Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt is lucky to have identified the Cape May Warbler as John Burroughs has not seen one. Burroughs is glad that Roosevelt enjoyed his Atlantic article and is sending a copy of his article in the Cosmopolitan. Burroughs advocates doing something about the “unfair advantages” that have benefited Standard Oil.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-05-10
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
President Roosevelt had a great time in Yellowstone and lists the birds he found interesting on the return trip to the East coast. Roosevelt and his wife, Edith, and son, Ted, intend to visit John Burroughs at Slabsides in July.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-08
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Burroughs
Ted Roosevelt enjoyed his time with John Burroughs, especially watching the two parent blue birds.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1900-05-21
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Letter from Alice Hall Walter to Theodore Roosevelt
Alice Hall Walter sends Theodore Roosevelt a list of birds observed around the Biological Lab at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. She wants to do a comparative study of the listed species in surrounding areas and hopes to include Sagamore Hill.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-08-12
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Letter from Edward B. Clark to Theodore Roosevelt
Edward B. Clark describes his European holiday. After staying in the Alps and visiting Paris, he plans to study birds in England for a month. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for a letter of introduction to a “non-official” bird lover.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-04-23
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Letter from Alfred E. Pease to Edward North Buxton
Alfred E. Pease informs Edward North Buxton there is no hurry regarding President Roosevelt’s money. During his next trip to London, Buxton is to have the money paid to Roosevelt’s account with the National Bank of India Nairobi. Pease will write to Major George Hutton Riddell when he returns home next week.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-08-23