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Sarah Bancroft Leavitt sends President Roosevelt a boys’ book because she thinks it will remind him of the wild free places and hopes it will console him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-14
Ezra William Decoto, Probation Officer of Alameda County, was instructed to investigate conditions at the Golden Gate Orphanage and Industrial Farm run by Wilfred C. Bourne and his wife, Alice A. Bourne. This report includes testimonials from the State Board of Examiners, the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, all of whom think the management and conditions at the orphanage are positive and benefit the children living there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12
George Wood Wingate writes that President Roosevelt has been elected as honorary vice president of the Public Schools Athletic League and explains more about the association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-10
Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, holds a roll of papers labeled “Charter.” He is looking down at a young boy labeled “Brooklyn” on the sidewalk outside a building labeled “Greater N.Y.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-29
A young boy sharpens a knife as he stands before a large turkey with its feet in stocks labeled 1910; the turkey is perspiring.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-23
A young boy and a large firecracker are locked into stocks labeled “Safe and Sane 4th” with many dogs and cats dancing around them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-29
A young boy labeled “1914” sits in a chair, smoking, and offers Uncle Sam, sitting opposite him, a drink. He gestures toward two bottles labeled “Hope” and “Fear.” Caption: The New Year — Have something on me, old man! What’ll it be?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-12-31
A young boy sits in the rain with an umbrella and a little dog, outside the locked and boarded-up entrance to the “25 cent seats” labeled “Opening Day April 10th Pink Socks vs Green Socks.” The boy has a “Base Ball Guide” in his coat pocket and there is a small basket of food on the ground, at his feet. Caption: “Cheer up, Towse! Only got about a week more to wait!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-04-02
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
Basil Wilson Duke, a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, commends Theodore Roosevelt on his biography of Thomas Hart Benton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1888-05-19