Letter from Rudolph Forster to Charles Scribner’s Sons
Rudolph Forster acknowledges the letter and royalty check from Robert Bridges.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-08-31
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Bridges, Robert, 1858-1941
Letter from Charles Scribner to Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Scribner sends Theodore Roosevelt a statement on book sales and royalties. Scribner hopes Roosevelt was not disappointed by the drop off in sales of African Game Trails.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-09-25
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mary Fanny Youngs
Theodore Roosevelt writes that he is delighted with the book by Mary Fanny Youngs, Nursery Songs of Oyster Bay Cove. He offers to write the foreword and advises her to take the book to Robert Bridges of Charles Scribner’s Sons for publication.
Collection
Creation Date
1918-02-01
Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur Gilchrist Bredeur
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Arthur Gilchrist Bredeur the letter from Scribner’s Magazine refusing Bredeur’s manuscript submission. Roosevelt had sent Bredeur’s sagas to Scribner’s editor Robert Bridges on Bredeur’s behalf.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-05-08
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Theodore Roosevelt received Corrine Roosevelt Robinson’s messages. He and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt are pleased to be grandparents. Robert Bridges told him about the acceptance of Corrine’s second poem and its “power and purpose.” Bridges regards it as one “written about and for those who have toiled and…have known defeat and triumph.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-08-21
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Cochran
Theodore Roosevelt ask Alexander Cochran to pick up a two volume edition. Roosevelt also asks Cochran to lunch.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Scribner
President Roosevelt is pleased that Charles Scribner will publish McGaffey’s work. He would like Scribner to come for lunch or dinner sometime soon and speak about politics.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-02-17
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles M. Taintor
President Roosevelt received Charles M. Taintor’s letter and photographs from Robert Bridges. He thinks Taintor’s find is interesting and asks which periodical he will provide with the account of his discovery.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-10
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Lambert
President Roosevelt tells Alexander Lambert that he looks forward to seeing the enlarged pictures from their recent hunt. He gave several of the pictures to other people, including Robert Bridges and Albert Shaw. He would like to hunt a grizzly with Lambert, but is afraid Lambert will have to go alone this time. Roosevelt invites Lambert to visit him at Oyster Bay and play tennis as soon as Roosevelt arrives.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-06-19
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Shaw
Robert Bridges of Scribners informed President Roosevelt that he spoke with Charles D. Lanier of the Review of Reviews about Roosevelt writing an article about his upcoming hunting trip. Roosevelt reiterates for Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, that he does not want anything about his hunting trip published. The article in question is supposed to be only about Roosevelt’s life at Oyster Bay.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-22
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Albert Shaw
President Roosevelt likes Albert Shaw’s proposal for an article in The Country Calendar, and encourages him to write the article himself from Alexander Lambert’s notes. Shaw can use any of Philip Battell Stewart’s photos not needed by Scribner’s. Roosevelt asks that the article be confined to his “country life” at Oyster Bay, as he is writing an article about the hunt in question for Scribner’s himself.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-18
Letter from Lynn Helm to Theodore Roosevelt
Lynn Helm asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak to the College Men’s Association while in Los Angeles, California. Several prominent men addressed the Association last year.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-01-30
Letter from Abram Woodruff Halsey to Theodore Roosevelt
Abram Woodruff Halsey forwards an invitation to President Roosevelt to visit the Presbyterian West Africa Mission when he is in Africa, and attests to the character and experience of the people there. The area the mission is in has many elephants, and Halsey is confident that Roosevelt will also be able to shoot leopard if he visits the Congo. Halsey also gives his personal advice on how to remain healthy while in Africa.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-12-18
Letter from Charles Scribner to Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Scribner is very happy about Robert Bridges’s success in arranging for the articles President Roosevelt writes while in Africa to be published in Scribner’s Magazine. The company will send a formal letter and contract to Roosevelt soon, which will be sufficient unless Roosevelt wants a more defined agreement. Scribner has given the news to his reporters, as he could not keep it secret any longer.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-07-09
Letter from Robert J. Collier to Theodore Roosevelt
Robert J. Collier is disappointed by the news that President Roosevelt has made a decision regarding his African articles before Collier was able to meet with him in person. Collier recalls that he had been one of the first, nearly two years ago, to suggest a trip after Roosevelt leaves the presidency; and he understood that Roosevelt would talk with him before making a decision. He argues that Roosevelt’s articles would reach a greater number of people if Collier’s publishes them than they would if they appear in Scribner’s, and he increases his earlier offer of $50,000 to $100,000 for the rights to publish them serially, with the understanding that Scribner’s would subsequently publish them in book form.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-07-09
Letter from Alexander Lambert to Theodore Roosevelt
Alexander Lambert received a copy of one of President Roosevelt’s books from Robert Bridges. He has not had a chance to read it yet, but will do so soon. Lambert discusses some of the books he has been reading recently, particularly one on the Mongol conquests. He also remarks upon a current bill before the Senate Military Committee that he urges Roosevelt to help pass.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-02-18
Letter from Alexander Lambert to Theodore Roosevelt
Alexander Lambert thinks President Roosevelt’s articles are very interesting. He has added a few ideas and made some small corrections, but he encourages Roosevelt to rewrite the insertions in his own style, if he thinks them worthwhile. Lambert showed his pictures to Robert Bridges and Edward Burlingame, but they will not finalize their choice of picture until they have the text of the articles from Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-06-03
Letter from Albert Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt
A magazine, The Country Calendar, is seeking permission from Dr. Alexander Lambert to obtain some photographs to accompany a serial article about President Roosevelt. Lambert demurs, as he has promised the photographs to Scribner’s. Albert Shaw asks Roosevelt whether he thinks it appropriate to approach Philip Battell Stewart if an arrangement cannot be made with Scribner’s.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-03-16
List of people to be invited
Robert J. Collier suggests an edited list of people to invite to a breakfast in honor of President Roosevelt before he leaves on his safari.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-12-04