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Theodore Roosevelt asks Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to tell C. Grant La Farge that Roosevelt will be at the Boone and Crockett dinner next week. Roosevelt also asks if he might use Florence La Farge’s house to have a meeting with William L. Ward, who wants to meet somewhere other than The Outlook office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-15
Theodore Roosevelt confirms he will attend the Boone and Crockett Club dinner and will make an appointment to follow up with William E. Humphrey when they meet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt asks C. Grant La Farge where and when the Boone and Crockett dinner will be held. Roosevelt also asks where William Austin Wadsworth and his family will be staying in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-12
December 12 will be a good date for the Boone and Crockett Club dinner. President Roosevelt encloses a letter for First Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-02
President Roosevelt recommends Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon for membership in the Boone and Crockett Club, as he is an excellent hunter and could assist with an exhibition in Austria.
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1908-10-02
President Roosevelt tells Austrian Ambassador Hengelmüller von Hengervár that he believes the Boone and Crockett Club will be able to undertake the planning of an international hunting exhibition and suggests Hengelmüller von Hengervár contact William Austin Wadsworth, the president of the club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-12
Madison Grant, secretary of the Boone & Crockett Club, invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend a meeting of the club’s Executive Committee in New York City on September 27, 1911.
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1911-09-22
Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit to congratulate him on being elected to the Boone and Crockett Club. He wants to know if Kermit wants his article back from Collier’s because if they publish it he will get very little money. Roosevelt wishes he could advise Kermit more about Elon Huntington Hooker and David M. Goodrich and their companies but Kermit must make up his own mind. He will have Mother send him Hooker’s pamphlet.
1912-04-06
George Bird Grinnell is updating the membership information for the Boone and Crockett Club. Theodore Roosevelt lets Grinnell know that Ted Roosevelt is a Lieutenant Colonel and that Kermit is a Captain.
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1918-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe the elk in Yellowstone National Park need additional winter grazing grounds. He believes their numbers need to be kept down or “…they would inside of a century, fill the whole United States; so that they would then die of starvation!”
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1918-04-17
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept an invitation to dinner or to make a speech. If he was to accept an invitation it should be from an organization he has not been to since he went to the Camp Fire Club of America immediately after returning from Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes a letter to introduce his old friend D. M. Barringer to Ambassador Reid.
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1911-05-19
Theodore Roosevelt likes Joseph C. Grew and wants him to be part of the Boone and Crockett Club.
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1911-03-07
Theodore Roosevelt needles William E. Coffin for thinking he would not remember him. He is glad Coffin liked his book and is amused at its effects regarding Coffin’s views of foreign missions. Numerous other demands prevent Roosevelt from attending the Camp Fire Field Day in June. He encloses the requested list of game animals and their values of “honor” and “high honor,” but questions some of his choices.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-28
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George Bird Grinnell to support the admission of Hamilton Fish Jr. to the Boone and Crockett Club.
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1915-03-01
President Roosevelt tells William Austin Wadsworth that he believes the Boone and Crockett Club is the right kind of organization to undertake the planning of an international hunting exhibition proposed by Austrian Ambassador Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár in two enclosed letters. Roosevelt believes the United States should be represented by the type of men who belong to the club, and that undertaking such a project would be a good opportunity to justify its existence. Roosevelt suggests a few men to appoint to a committee.
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1908-08-06
President Roosevelt informs Ambassador Hengelmüller von Hengervár that he will be in Africa during the year preceding a planned exhibition, and is hesitant to lend his name to anything which he is unable to either work on or supervise. If the right people are involved, however, he would feel more comfortable in doing so. Roosevelt will consult the Boone and Crockett Club before giving an answer.
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1908-07-27
Theodore Roosevelt loans Kit Carson’s rifle to the Boone and Crockett Club. The gun was given to him by General Edward F. Beale, who was a close friend of Carson’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-23
President Roosevelt informs C. Grant La Farge that the Executive Committee of the Boone and Crockett Club should use the letter as they see fit. He especially wants it shown to the member who claims that his letter recommending Charles A. Moore to the Club’s committee was merely in return for political favors granted by Moore’s father, Charles A. Moore. While a man of excellent reputation, the elder Moore strongly opposed Roosevelt and never supported him. Instead, Roosevelt recommended the younger Moore because of his character and good views on sport and the serious work of life, which is precisely the type of member the Club needs more of.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-06
President Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will second Ted Roosevelt’s nomination to the Boone and Crockett Club. Ted has killed deer, moose, and elk.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-17