Bookplates

Theodore Roosevelt’s bookplate features the Roosevelt coat of arms, along with his family motto.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1990

Creator(s)

Unknown

Ruthven Deane’s bookplate featuring a bird perched on a post against a mountain landscape. “From the Books of” appears across the top and “Ruthven Deane” near the bottom left. A possible family crest occupies the bottom right.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-11

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary apologizes that he does not have any more copies of Roosevelt’s bookplate to send to Adelaide Underhill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-07

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs Daniel A. Knight that Roosevelt does not have any bookplates to send and returns the bookplate Knight sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary writes to Tiffany and Company to request the production of two hundred copies of Roosevelt’s bookplate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-01

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Daniel A. Knight that Roosevelt cannot send him a copy of his bookplate, as he never does this. If he were to do so, he would quickly become overwhelmed by similar requests.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-01

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regrets Roosevelt has no more copies of his bookplate and apologizes to Susan W. Janney.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-27

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary acknowledges Ruthven Deane’s letter and sends a book plate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-18

President Roosevelt returns the Royal Natural History to Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History. He likes Osborn’s bookplate and will send his. George Nathaniel Curzon, Chancellor of Oxford, has invited Roosevelt to give the Romanes lecture, which he plans to give in the spring of 1910.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-17

President Roosevelt thanks Charles William Burrows, as well as the author, for the book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-18

President Roosevelt thanks Howard Pyle for the gift of a bookplate which his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, has appreciated more than any other she has received since coming to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-09

President Roosevelt thinks the bookplate is “admirable” and thanks Joseph G. Butler for letting him see it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-30

Henry R. Howland of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences asks Theodore Roosevelt for one of his bookplates.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-30

Daniel A. Knight requests Theodore Roosevelt’s bookplate in exchange for one of his own he has enclosed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-05

Anna Knight informs Frank Harper that she has forwarded a copy of Hamilton Wright Mabie’s bookplate to the author of the enclosed letter, and told her that she would additionally pass the request along to Theodore Roosevelt for a copy of his bookplate.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-24

Susan W. Janney requests Hamilton Wright Mabie’s bookplate and asks if he can also send one from Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-21

Ruthven Deane recalls the “cordial reception” Theodore Roosevelt gave her at the Press Club gathering and requests one of his bookplates for her collection.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-11

Tiffany and Company requests permission to make an impression of President Roosevelt’s ex libris plate for a collection in the Cincinnati Museum.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-14

Bookplate created by George Elmer Browne for the Salmagundi Club. In the center are two figures underneath the Latin phrase “Ex Libris” and the years 1871 and 1899. Below the figures is the word “Salmagundi” and the club’s emblem, as well as the name George Elmer Browne.

Comments and Context

On April 1, 1898, a committee was appointed to secure a book-plate for the library, which resulted in what was announced as the “Ex-Libris Dinner” and which was really the first of the Annual Library Dinners. It was known as “Book-Plate Night.”… Mr. Clarkson Cowl offered a prize of sixty dollars for the best design for a book-plate. The prize was awarded to the pen-drawing of George Elmer Browne, which was reproduced in facsimile and printed on thin Japanese paper and is still in use as the bookplate of the Salmagundi Club.