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Theodore Roosevelt thanks the Houghton Mifflin Company for the Life of Tom Reed volume and will most likely not be able to write a review for it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt tells Hall Caine he does not have time to write an article for Caine’s book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-05
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howell acknowledges and thanks the editors of The Bookman for the check received for his review of Life of Nelson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-28
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asks William P. Trent to send him a copy or two of the Sewanee Review in which his review of Charles H. Pearson’s book was published. Roosevelt asks Trent to tell his wife, Alice Lyman Trent, he is only unhappy that his new position as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy has separated him from his wife and children. Roosevelt complains to Trent about about a recent review of his work on John Sevier by one of Sevier’s descendants, Hoss.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-18
Author Richard Kearton recently read and reviewed President Roosevelt’s book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter for the London Daily Chronicle. Kearton appreciates Roosevelt’s non-slaughter attitude towards birds and animals. Kearton encloses copies of his two newest books, Wild Nature’s Ways and Pictures from Nature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-23
William L. Riordon writes to President Roosevelt to discuss a book he has just written entitled Plunkitt of Tammany Hall. Riordon had requested permission to include a conversation he had with Roosevelt concerning Senator George Washington Plunkitt but Roosevelt refused. Riordan now asks Roosevelt to send him a line of commentary on the work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-04
William A. Baillie-Grohman thanks President Roosevelt for praising his edited work The Master of Game. Baillie-Grohman hopes that Roosevelt will not mind if he quotes Roosevelt’s flattering opinion about the book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-09
Advertisement for Wilbur Aldrich’s book, Money and Credit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-26
The “Book Notes” column has two separate articles dealing with the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. In “Paperbacks on T.R.,” John A. Gable looks at seven works, mostly biographies and mostly published in the 1960s, about Theodore Roosevelt and notes the contributions that each makes to the study of Roosevelt. Frederick W. Marks reviews ‘A Good Innings’: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham in “A Special English Friend: Arthur Hamilton Lee.” Marks traces the history of the Roosevelt-Lee friendship, examines the editing of the volume by Alan Clark, and remarks on Lee’s descriptions of prominent Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1977
Newspaper article with a positive review of The Deer Family, which features five chapters written by President Roosevelt. Roosevelt’s comments on big game hunting as preparation for service in the military is highlighted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s service as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and reviews of American Ideals.
1897-1898
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to the 1884 election, Republican politics, civil service reform, and reviews of Hunting Trips of a Ranchman.
1884-1891
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly, his political campaign, the City Reform Club, and reviews of The Naval War of 1812.
1882-1883
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly, the Westbrook scandal, and reviews of The Naval War of 1812.
1882
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the New York State Assembly, the Westbrook scandal, and reviews of The Naval War of 1812.
1881-1883
Scrapbook of clippings from various periodicals related to the activities of Theodore Roosevelt Sr. and his son, Theodore Roosevelt. The clippings related to Roosevelt Sr. generally reference his work with the allotment system during the American Civil War and his charity work. The clippings related to Roosevelt are generally reviews of his books and articles regarding his work on civil service reform.
1862-1896
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1831-1878; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Theodore Roosevelt did not need to write the review but felt they were entitled to it. He would like to see William Roscoe Thayer to discuss “amusing things” connected with Henry Adams’s biography.
1915-11-20
Theodore Roosevelt favorably reviews Edward William Nelson’s The Wild Animals of North America even though the book has been poorly arranged. Published in The Outlook, November 6, 1918.
1918
George A. B. Dewar, editor of The Young England Library, plans to send the first two volumes. He hopes that President Roosevelt can review the books and give his approval. Dewar praises Roosevelt for his comments in an essay concerning what American boys should be, and adds that those comments apply to English boys, as well. Dewar closes by stating that Roosevelt’s words on this topic “carry me away.” After his signature, a note in parentheses says “author of Wildlife in Hampshire Highland, In Pursuit of the Trout, etc.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-11
Commissioner Roosevelt will have the review sent to The Atlantic Monthly by the deadline and it will be 1,800 words. He doubts there would be any interest in a Civil Service article and he could not write it at this time.
1892-03-14