Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Raymond Lee Ditmars
Theodore Roosevelt will arrange to see Raymond Lee Ditmars and the Matthrew B. Brady pictures. He looks forward to it.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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1911-11-13
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Theodore Roosevelt will arrange to see Raymond Lee Ditmars and the Matthrew B. Brady pictures. He looks forward to it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-13
Theodore Roosevelt wishes to introduce Raymond Lee Ditmars to Secretary of War Dickinson. Roosevelt describes Ditmars as a naturalist, historian, and an “esteemed citizen of New York City” who is now engaged in a study of the Civil War. Ditmars would like to obtain slides from Mathew Brady’s negatives, and Roosevelt would be glad if Dickinson would permit him to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-25
Raymond Lee Ditmars reproduced his pictures by Matthew B. Brady into slides and offers to present them to Theodore Roosevelt at his home.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-09
Raymond L. Ditmars asks Theodore Roosevelt’s help in accessing negatives of Matthew B. Brady’s photographs to reproduce for use in Ditmars’ Civil War lecture.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-20