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President Roosevelt returns the dedication of The Mongols to Alma Curtin and will write a preface as requested. He feels privileged to be involved with the work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-17
Alma Curtin’s letter made President Roosevelt feel as if he had reached out too soon while she was still grieving the death of her husband, and he asks for forgiveness. He is pleased that her husband’s book on the Mongols was complete and appreciates the dedication that was written to him. He hopes her husband’s other books, which are near completion, will be published and is willing to assist in any way needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt asks the gentlemen at Little, Brown and Company if they know the whereabouts of Alma Curtin, as she has not replied to his letter. He feels her husband Jeremiah Curtin’s book on the Mongols should be published and there is no one better to produce the work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-19
President Roosevelt wishes that he could do as Ernest McGaffey requests, but he cannot write introductions to books because he gets too many requests to do so. He asks McGaffey if there is anything else he can do to help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-03
President Roosevelt gives his condolences to Alma Curtin on the death of her husband, Jeremiah Curtin. He asks whether the book that he was writing was far enough along to be published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
President Roosevelt tells the publishers at Little, Brown & Co. that he was shocked and saddened by the death of his friend Jeremiah Curtin. Roosevelt inquires on the status of Curtin’s partially-completed book on the Mongols, and he wonders if there are any plans to publish the title.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-20
Alma Curtin deeply appreciates President Roosevelt taking the time to write a preface for The Mongols, written by her late husband, Jeremiah Curtin. As to the length of the preface, Curtin says anything Roosevelt sends will be “received with great gratitude.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-21
Alma Curtin thanks President Roosevelt for his words of encouragement and assures him that no part of her husband’s work will be lost.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-31
Alma Curtin thanks President Roosevelt for his kind letter upon her husband’s death a few weeks prior. She mentions various works of his that are still unpublished and requests that Roosevelt look over the dedication of her husband’s book The Monguls.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-23
An obituary of Jeremiah Curtin, a scholar and linguist who translated and transcribed many folktales and legends.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-15
President Roosevelt introduces Alma Curtin to Charles Scribner. Curtin hopes to publish some manuscripts of her late husband, Jeremiah Curtin. Roosevelt does not ask Scribner to publish the works, but asks him to examine the manuscripts and give Curtin a fair chance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-09
President Roosevelt introduces Alma Curtin to Richard Watson Gilder. Curtin is the widow of Jeremiah Curtin, and would like to publish some of her late husband’s manuscripts. Roosevelt does not ask Gilder to publish these, but hopes that Gilder will consent to examine the manuscripts and judge them on their merit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-09
President Roosevelt is pleased to receive Frederic Harrison’s letter and has often considered the topic himself. As the end of his presidency nears, Roosevelt must square his desire to serve with the people’s fear of long running service leading to dictatorship. Ultimately, Roosevelt feels that he can retain the people’s belief in his sincerity by taking their fears into account, demonstrating that his actions have not been driven by a desire for power but by a “devotion to a high ideal” and the greater goal of putting an end to greed. He hopes Harrison will read Jeremiah Curtin’s recent book on the Mongols.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-18
President Roosevelt thanks Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz for the telegram of sympathy on behalf of the American people. Roosevelt also tells Sienkiewicz how much of a fan he and his family are of Sienkiewicz’s books.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-25
President Roosevelt informs his son Kermit Roosevelt that Groton rector Endicott Peabody has agreed to allow him and his cousin Hall Roosevelt to travel to Washington to attend Alice Roosevelt’s wedding. However, given their standing in their classes, they have to return to school on Sunday afternoon. Kermit’s aunt and uncle, Corinne and Douglas Robinson, visited the White House, where Douglas rode with Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Secretary of State Elihu Root, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Roosevelt tells Kermit that he believes that Congress will pass most of the bills he wants, though not always in exactly the form he wants, and he laments the exhausting nature of dining during the social season.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-27
Alma Curtin thanks President Roosevelt for his previous assistance in helping publish her husband Jeremiah Curtin’s books, The Mongols and The Mongols in Russia. She describes the manuscript about Mongol myths and religion that her spouse wrote before his death, and asks if Roosevelt would be willing to mention the work to a publisher. This would greatly increase the chances of it being published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-02
Alma Curtin, the widow of ethnologist Jeremiah Curtin, asks President Roosevelt to review the dedication of her husband’s book, The Mongols. Additionally, she requests Roosevelt write a short introduction to the work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-13