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President Roosevelt tells Secretary of the Interior Garfield that he will send him the letter from William Kent. He directs Garfield to name the park Muir Park.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-05
President Roosevelt tells William Kent that he is right, and that it is enough to do the deed and not “stencil one’s own name on the benefaction,” regarding the naming of Muir Woods National Monument. Roosevelt congratulates Kent on his five sons who will carry on his name, and says he has four of his own sons who he hopes will do the same thing for the Roosevelt name.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-05
President Roosevelt thanks William Kent for the generous gift of land for the protection of redwood trees and the creation of the Muir National Monument. Roosevelt asks if a portion of the land could be designated the Kent memorial to recognize him for the gift.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-22
In “News of the Association,” John A. Gable discusses plans for the Quasquicentennial of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth during 1982 and 1983. He provides a detailed look at an article about Roosevelt’s conservation legacy in National Geographic Magazine and also examines Paul Schullery’s article about Roosevelt and fishing in The American Fly Fisher. Gable discusses Roosevelt’s use of the Antiquities Act, notes the passing of members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), and quotes extensively from a letter from Alton A. Lindsay praising the value of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal to scholars. Gable notes the TRA’s support of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in Buffalo, New York, praises the documentary film My Father the President about life at Sagamore Hill, and acknowledges the work of Wallace Finley Dailey of Harvard University in compiling a bibliography of journal and magazine articles about Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
John A. Gable examines Theodore Roosevelt’s connections to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He looks at its founding by Roosevelt’s father, notes the many specimens donated by Roosevelt, and highlights contributions made to the museum in various capacities by other members of the Roosevelt family. Gable details the design, construction, and contents of the museum’s Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall, including its murals and dioramas featuring scenes from Roosevelt’s life and work.
Photographs of the interior and exterior of the Memorial Hall as well as one of James Earle Fraser’s equestrian statue of Roosevelt outside of the museum accompany the article. A full page photograph of one of the dioramas, depicting a scene near Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch, is also found in the article.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association as well as the members of its executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is found on the second page of the article.
In this chapter excerpt from his book John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement, Stephen Fox examines efforts to expand Yosemite National Park, the battle between preservationists and conservationists over the use of forests, and provides portraits of John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, John Burroughs, and Theodore Roosevelt. He looks at the work undertaken by the conservation movement to preserve Niagara Falls, the redwood forests of California, and Mount Desert Island in Maine. Fox concludes the chapter with a look at the battle over the city of San Francisco’s desire to build a dam at the southern end of Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. In addition to looking at the life and work of Muir, the chapter provides information on many lesser known figures in the turn of the twentieth-century conservation movement.
A listing of the officers and the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on the second page of the excerpt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1981
Two paragraph excerpt from Paul Russell Cutright’s Theodore Roosevelt: The Naturalist that describes President Theodore Roosevelt’s decision to establish the Pelican Island bird refuge in Florida along with a number of other bird reservations from 1903 to 1909. The Cutright excerpt is followed by two paragraphs that describe Roosevelt’s creation of national parks and monuments and closes with a quotation on conservation from his A Book-Lover’s Holiday in the Open.
A picture of Roosevelt examining a bird egg along with two unidentified men at a federal bird reservation in 1915 accompanies the article.
President Roosevelt thanks William Kent for his donation of Redwood Canyon to the government, to be used as a park for the preservation of redwood trees. The park will be named Muir National Monument. Roosevelt believes that Kent has “conferred a great and lasting benefit upon the whole country.”
1908-01-22
William Kent thanks President Roosevelt for his message of appreciation and hopes Roosevelt knows Kent will “attempt to save more of the precious and vanishing glories of nature.” Kent appreciates Roosevelt’s suggestion to change the name of the park but cannot accept it. Kent tells Roosevelt that he has five “good husky boys” who will carry on the family name, and if they cannot keep it alive, he is willing to let it be forgotten. Kent sends Roosevelt several photographs of Muir Woods.
1908-01-30
President Harding proclaims that the land donated by William and Elizabeth Thatcher Kent in Marin County, California, will be added to Muir Woods National Monument pursuant to the Antiquities Act of 1906. The proclamation describes the boundaries of the addition and states that the land is significant due to its extensive redwood trees.
1921-09-22