Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Watson Gilder offers some suggestions on the poem by President Roosevelt’s son, Theodore Roosevelt, under the pen name Jacob Van Vechten. Gilder comments that his own son, George Colman deKay Gilder, is enjoying his “rough experience,” and compares him to Roosevelt, saying that “he is in fact not unlike a certain other friend of mine who has such zest that he is always having the time of his life.” In a postscript Gilder mourns the recent death of poet Eugene R. White, and mentions a recent visit by a pair of newly-married artists–E. L. Blumenschein and Mary Shepard Blumenschein.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-07-31