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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Otto Trevelyan

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Otto Trevelyan

President Roosevelt sends George Otto Trevelyan a copy of his message to Congress, and speaks of some of the accomplishments of his administration in improving the financial situation of the United States government. Roosevelt would be pleased to visit Trevelyan when he comes to England. He heartily approves of Trevelyan’s speech, and has shared it with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Lodge. Roosevelt discusses his preferences for translations of classical works, and finds himself in agreement with Trevelyan in many respects. He relates a story of a recent encounter he had with Simon Bolivar Buckner at the White House, and closes by mentioning a number of other men who were named after famous historical personages.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-01

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt praises Senator Lodge’s speech to the Republican National Convention as one that will certainly go down in history, noting humorously that attacks from the Sun should be considered as the highest praise. What Lodge said was “exactly right,” and “exactly as [Roosevelt] should have wished it.” Roosevelt believes that Presidency is a very powerful office and that power should be used without hesitation, but this requires strict accountability to the people and no one should keep the office too long. After leaving office, Roosevelt is planning a trip to East Africa for a year to hunt and gather scientific specimens for the National Museum at Washington. Scribner’s has offered Roosevelt $50,000 for the serial rights to articles Roosevelt writes during the trip, and while Collier’s offered $100,000, Roosevelt prefers to have the trip sponsored by Scribner’s, as “there is such a thing as making too much money out of a given feat,” even if earned honestly. Roosevelt thinks William H. Taft will win the coming election, unless he makes some kind of hopeless mistake.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Letter from John Burroughs to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from John Burroughs to Theodore Roosevelt

John Burroughs is spending the summer on his farm in New York and working on a collection of essays. Burroughs has not seen the Abbott Handerson Thayer article that Roosevelt mentioned, but believes that Thayer has let his “artistic temperament run away with him.” Burroughs praises Roosevelt’s article on Dante in The Outlook, and notes that he has not yet seen Roosevelt’s Chapman paper. Burroughs believes that “the race of nature fakirs has ceased to breed.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-06

Creator(s)

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Henry Cabot Lodge to Theodore Roosevelt

Senator Lodge agrees that there are dangers with the arbitration treaty. President Taft claims that the treaty will be ineffective without Clause 3 of Article 3 but also states that certain matters cannot be arbitrated, thus ignoring Clause 3. Silas McBee of The Churchman has come out in defense of the Senate’s position and Lodge has sent a letter for McBee to publish. He was pleased to receive a copy of The Outlook with his article and read Theodore Roosevelt’s Dante article with great interest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-01

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Letter from George Otto Trevelyan to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from George Otto Trevelyan to Theodore Roosevelt

George Otto Trevelyan believes that President Roosevelt must be happier with the results of the United States election than he was in 1865 when he was first elected to Parliament. He thinks Roosevelt’s trip to Africa is a “splendid idea” and hopes that Roosevelt will visit in 1910 when he is in England. Trevelyan discusses his current writing projects, and notes that he thinks it is easier to get a literal sense of the tragic poets when they are translated in prose, rather than verse. Trevelyan will enclose a copy of a speech he gave at a publishers’ dinner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-17

Creator(s)

Trevelyan, George Otto, 1838-1928

The education of Theodore Roosevelt part two

The education of Theodore Roosevelt part two

Wallace Finley Dailey presents an exhibit, “Roosevelt Reading: The Pigskin Library, 1909-1910,” that opened at Harvard University in September 2003. Dailey provides an introduction to the exhibit which consists of photographs, excerpts of letters, and illustrations of the numerous pigskin bound volumes that Theodore Roosevelt took with him on his African safari. The exhibit is divided into three parts: “Classics and the Continent,” History and Romance,” and “Americans.” Many of the book illustrations have captions taken from letters or articles written by Roosevelt that comment on the book and its author. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2013

Creator(s)

Dailey, Wallace Finley

Letter from Frances Folsom Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Frances Folsom Cleveland to Theodore Roosevelt

Francis Folsom Cleveland, wife of former President Grover Cleveland, has found the enclosed note in a volume of Dickens but is unable to match it to any of their books. She wonders if the book it refers, to, an edition of Dante sent by the King of Italy, is in the White House library and hopes that President Roosevelt can solve the mystery for her.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-26

Creator(s)

Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947