Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Boyd
President Roosevelt appreciates being made an honorary member of the Irvine Burns Club.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-02-11
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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to A. Gordon Murray
President Roosevelt wishes he could be in Nashville for the celebration of Robert Burns’s Anniversary.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-01-26
Letter from Edward Goodwillie to Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Goodwillie is writing a book about the memorials of Scottish poet Robert Burns. Goodwillie plans to include tributes to Burns by prominent Americans and hopes that Theodore Roosevelt might contribute a few lines.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-01
Letter from Robert Boyd to Theodore Roosevelt
President Roosevelt has been named an honorary member of the Irvine Burns Club. The club has several manuscripts from Robert Burns. Club president Robert Boyd asks Roosevelt for an acknowledgment of this honor, preferably in the form of a letter entirely in Roosevelt’s own handwriting.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-01-31
Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt
Ambassador Reid tells President Roosevelt about a recent meeting between William Jennings Bryan and King Edward VII, as well as the general attitude toward Bryan among Englishmen after a series of speeches he gave in London. Reid also mentions that he will be sending a report on a conversation he had with Sir Edward Grey about a notice sent to Russia of England’s desire to have “a reduction of armaments made a subject for the next Hague Conference.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-07-27
Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
Postcard showing Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. Charles C. Myers notes the statues represent notable men, but the individuals are not buried in the Abbey. Myers lists several of the men who have statues in this corner of the Abbey.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Here is one view of the Poets corner in the Abbey and in this corner are statues erected to the memory of noted men who are buried elsewhere than in the Abbey. Some of these are, Joseph Addison, Lord McCauley, Thackery, Shakespeare, Robt. Burns and others.”
Collection
Eloquence and irreverence
The author of the article comments on the pairing of humor with religion, and expresses their displeasure both in the use of humor in sermons and in the humorous use of religious themes in non-religious addresses.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-03-07