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President Roosevelt thanks Henry Fairfield Osborn for the books he sent. Recently, Roosevelt enjoyed a visit from Frank M. Chapman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary Frank Harper describes their journey through South America along with George Kruck Cherrie and Leo E. Miller, representatives of the American Museum of Natural History. It details specimens collected for donation to various museums. Photograph of Anthony Fiala, Cherrie, Father J. A. Zahm, Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Harper, and Miller is included.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-05
President Theodore Roosevelt [with Dr. Chapman and Mr. Stewart] on horseback, mountains in background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-07-10
President Roosevelt and fellow hunters each on horseback in the Rocky Mountains
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-23
President Roosevelt and two men all saddled on horses on a hunting trip
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-08-23
President Roosevelt and two men mounted on horses in a valley. Notation on back of stereograph is the same as the title.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates L. C. Sanford’s invitation to the dinner before Frank M. Chapman’s lecture and wishes he could attend. However, he cannot make it up to New Haven, Connecticut.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-11
Theodore Roosevelt is glad Charles Sheldon is coming with him to Boston, Massachusetts. He invited Sheldon, Frank M. Chapman, and William Brewster to breakfast next Saturday. Roosevelt has an anecdote to share about Abbott Handerson Thayer using one of F. R. N. Findley’s photographs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-28
Theodore Roosevelt tells Professor Osborn that he is pleased with J. A. Allen’s comments and accepts his list of contents. He wonders whether Osborn’s statement about not being able to make any further corrections also means that the changes he mentioned to Frank M. Chapman last month, particularly the footnotes answering Abbott Handerson Thayer’s Popular Science article, can be adopted. He would be very sorry if the corrections to the galley could not be made and would like to know more. He is also writing to Chapman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary advises Charles N. Sellers to write to Frank M. Chapman at the American Museum of Natural History for the information he needs.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt believes that Carl Ethan Akeley should be satisfied with getting a bull elephant with tusks that weigh sixty pounds apiece while in Africa. Roosevelt is starting a study of concealing coloration and asks Henry Fairfield Osborn if the American Museum would be interested in publishing such a study. Roosevelt is disappointed that no one in the scientific community has questioned the absurdities in Abbott Handerson Thayer’s book on the subject. Roosevelt adds that he would like to come to the Museum in a few days to see Osborn and Frank M. Chapman.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-21
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes that he will not be able to attend the dinner for the Linnean Society of New York to honor Frank M. Chapman due to other longstanding plans.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-06
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Witmer Stone, editor of The Auk, regarding a recent article that inaccurately criticized Roosevelt’s prior work on “concealing coloration” and “counter-shading” in response to Abbot Handerson Thayer, including in African Game Trails. Roosevelt also defends photographs he had taken of birds.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-22
President Roosevelt returns the letter to his son, Kermit Roosevelt, and tells him that he thinks it was probably well-meaning. Roosevelt is pleased that Kermit had a good time at Geneseo, and would have liked to have seen Kermit on the hunt. Winter has come to Washington, D.C., and Roosevelt has gone horseback riding. He has also tested some of the guns that he is going to bring on his safari, and thinks they are good. He proposes that he and Kermit test them together during the week of Christmas, and then pack them up for shipping. He asks Kermit if he would like to see a presentation of slides by Frank M. Chapman sometime during the holidays.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-03
President Roosevelt sends Charles D. Walcott an enclosed letter from Frank M. Chapman. Roosevelt thinks it may be good if he is able to get a taxidermist who has been to Africa before, and wonders if it would be possible to get the man whom Chapman mentions. It would be nice to get a taxidermist who knows something about medicine as well, but Roosevelt is not sure of the chance of that.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07-07
President Roosevelt was delighted to receive a letter from George Shiras and to see Shiras’s pictures in the copies of the magazine that he sent. Roosevelt is pleased that Shiras is making good progress in his book. Kermit Roosevelt plans to do some photography while they are on safari in Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-25
President Roosevelt addresses the entire editorial board of The Outlook, as he is unsure which particular editor “had his mind all turned askew” by the writings of William J. Long. Roosevelt appreciates The Outlook’s coverage of topics such as the Brownsville Incident, race relations in San Francisco, and railroad rate legislation, but he takes strong exception to The Outlook describing his distaste for Long’s writing a “controversy.” Roosevelt condems Long’s writings and describes him as a “cheap imposter” who does not observe nature but fabricates nature stories that could not possibly happen. Roosevelt takes issue with The Oulook’s assertions about his comments on Long’s writing, and discusses in detail the “mechanical”—not “mathematical”—impossibility of a wolf killing a caribou with a single bite as Long describes. Roosevelt suggests several naturalists in New York the editors can consult in matters of “nature fakers,” and offers to go page by page through one of Long’s books with The Outlook special nature editor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-03
George Cherrie makes plans to see Theodore Roosevelt in New York City.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-21
J. Alden Loring knows little about Kermit Roosevelt’s camera, but Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds at the American Museum of Natural History, can tell Frank Harper, Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary, what he wants to know.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-09-22
L. C. Sanford invites Theodore Roosevelt to an informal dinner on January 6 with a few guests and Frank M. Chapman before his lecture at the Graduate Club. He suggests Roosevelt stay overnight and play tennis on the outdoor winter courts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-10