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There have been many requests to translate President Roosevelt’s books and the policy of Charles Scribner’s Sons has been to withhold translation rights unless a publisher has been secured. The request from Charles Carrington has been denied as Carrington has been “associated with some very shady books.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-15
On behalf of the Macmillan Company, William Stone Booth encloses payment for President Roosevelt’s articles and requests that Caspar Whitney forward the check. Roosevelt’s wishes regarding advertising will be followed and he will not be referred to as president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-10
Joseph Benson Gilder sends a copy of William Henry Drummond’s Johnnie Courteau & Other Poems and directs President Roosevelt to two poems.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-11
G. P. Putnam’s Sons has requested a copy of Heimskringla as translated by William Morris from their London office. A list is provided of the other sagas that were translated by Morris.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-11
Winston Churchill thanks President Roosevelt for the book suggestions and invites him to go hunting. Churchill is preparing to go to Europe but plans to stop in Washington for a day to see Roosevelt. He looks forward to shaking the hand of a president.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-03
William Allen White is pleased that John S. Dean has been nominated as United States District Attorney for Kansas rather than B. H. Tracy. White hopes Cyrus Leland can receive an appointment soon. White has received many offers for a book on President Roosevelt’s life but has turned all of them down.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-03
Murat Halstead sends President Roosevelt the first copy of his biography of William McKinley. Halstead will be able to visit Roosevelt within a week.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-04
President Roosevelt’s Winning of the West was selected for summer reading and C. W. Ernst thanks him for the “purely American book.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-05
Guy Murchie sends President Roosevelt a book written by one of his friends that was privately printed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-05
Murat Halstead concedes that President Roosevelt may have been correct about not increasing his guard. The anarchists seem “cowed and disheartened” after the severe public reaction to William McKinley’s assassination. Halstead is going to send Roosevelt proofs of his new novel that just commenced publishing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-29
James Carleton Young thanks President Roosevelt for the two inscribed books.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-30
John Kendrick Bangs is interested in writing a book on the American trusteeship of Cuba. He offers to write the book as a “labor of love” if it meets with Roosevelt’s approval or to step aside if Roosevelt likes the idea but wants another to write it. Bangs believes that the public is unaware of the accomplishments made by the administration in Cuba.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-02
Rand McNally and Company has offered Rossiter Johnson the opportunity to write a biography of President Roosevelt. He asks if this would be agreeable to Roosevelt and, if so, if there is any material Roosevelt could provide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-25
Text of The Radical Cross Roads by Murat Halstead.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Philip G. Peabody complains about a passage President Roosevelt wrote that referred to Thomas Paine as a “dirty little Atheist.” In a note to Roosevelt, Owen Wister states that he has no idea what Peabody is talking about and will not respond.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-22
A. Maurice Low encloses a copy of his recent book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-23
Clara Ruge inquires about translating some of President Roosevelt’s books into German.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-19
John Thomas McDonough is sending President Roosevelt a set of the revised debates of the Constitutional Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-20
Joseph F. McMullen read in a newspaper that Vice President Roosevelt would be writing the history of New Mexico troopers in the Rough Riders. McMullen provides information about his son, Samuel J. McMullen, who served in Company G and recently passed away from tuberculosis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-04
Charles Scribner’s Sons encloses a report from G. P. Putnam’s Sons regarding their edition of The Rough Riders and a check from Putnam’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-04