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President Roosevelt informs Clinton G. Abbott that he had never seen a black-throated green warbler in the area during the summer until last year. However, it appears they have nested and raised young.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-27
Typed excerpt from Chapter IX of Theodore Roosevelt’s Autobiography, Outdoors and Indoors, in which he reflects on bird songs.
1913
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the article John Burroughs wrote about him. Roosevelt is doing the best he can “to make good what you have said about my attitude about the big trusts.” Roosevelt went for a walk on the White House grounds with Edith and wishes Burroughs was there to identify the various birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-04
President Roosevelt informs Frank M. Chapman that Oyster Bay is not a suitable venue for him to show his wildlife photographs, and invites him to show them at the White House in the fall. Roosevelt also discusses some birds that he recently observed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-07
President Roosevelt will write to his son Theodore Roosevelt about the moose horns, but thinks he will take them without the scalps. Alexander Lambert must have had an interesting time in New Mexico, Roosevelt guesses, even though he did not shoot a grizzly bear. He thinks that the bird Lambert heard was either a rock wren or a canyon wren.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-08
Theodore Roosevelt shares the details of Ted Roosevelt’s travel plans to visit John Burroughs. When Roosevelt lived on his ranch in North Dakota was the only time he could really hear bird songs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-05-05
Governor Roosevelt sends John Burroughs a copy of his book Big Game Hunting. Roosevelt specifically asks him to look at a description of birds, “Again and again as I have listened to those plains birds I have longed to have you hear them.” His son Ted will also be visiting Burroughs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-05-01
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Paul Russell Cutright examines Theodore Roosevelt’s June 9, 1910, bird walk in southern England with Viscount Edward Grey. Cutright discusses the birding the two did in the Itchen River valley and New Forest, and he provides an excerpt from Roosevelt’s An Autobiography in which Roosevelt describes in detail some of the birds and their songs. Cutright discusses Roosevelt’s birding as a young man, and he highlights Grey’s speech and book about his birding with Roosevelt. The article concludes with a section on Grey and Frank M. Chapman retracing the walk in 1921.
A photograph of Roosevelt at Oxford University on June 7, 1910, appears in the article as does a reproduction of a page of the guest book of the Forest Park Inn showing Roosevelt’s and Grey’s signatures. A notice about the dedication of a historical marker in Mississippi denoting Roosevelt’s 1902 bear hunt also appears in the article.
In an excerpt from his work, The Wilderness Hunter, Theodore Roosevelt describes the habits of the American mocking-bird, and an experience he had listening to one sing.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
Joseph Bucklin Bishop thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his article on bird coloration and praises his writing. He recalls the coloration and songs of the birds and hawks of his childhood in detail. He also has a collection of photographs. He mentions that he does not know how President William H. Taft could possibly be re-elected.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
Handwritten draft of chapter four of The Wilderness Hunter. The chapter was published as chapters four and five.
1893
John Burroughs thanks Governor Roosevelt for the book and invites Ted Roosevelt to spend the following weekend with him. He invites Governor Roosevelt to his ranch and talks about the Eastern and Western Meadow Larks and the Mourning Dove Warblers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-05-04