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President Roosevelt is happy that Walter Phelps Dodge dedicated his book on Sir Richard Francis Burton to him. Roosevelt points out that the explorer James Bruce had qualities similar to Burton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-25
President Roosevelt thanks Senator Elkins for the gift of an edition of Richard Francis Burton’s Kasidah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-03-03
William M. Wilkes offers to sell Theodore Roosevelt a 45-volume set of the works of Sir Richard Francis Burton for $225 and lists the titles included in the set.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
E. H. Hawley has been working on a descriptive card catalog of African musical instruments with information on their native names, distribution, and differences in tribal use. He asks Theodore Roosevelt for information on the native Ugandan equivalents of “drums” and “horns.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-24
President Roosevelt sits at his desk studying a “map of Africa.” Kermit Roosevelt cleans a gun beside him. President Roosevelt’s “big stick” “malefactor of great wealth” costume, “mud,” “undesirable citizen,” and “big noise” drum are hanging up on the wall. To the right of his desk are a number of books with African explorers’ names in them: David Livingstone, Henry M. Stanley, Paul Kruger, John Hanning Speke, and Richard Francis Burton.
Democratic cartoonist W. A. Rogers evidently was convinced that Republican candidate William H. Taft would win the presidency four years hence — or he displayed President Roosevelt’s confidence, as per the title of the drawing, and the preoccupation in the White House.