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John H. Johnston encloses cards about great grandchildren to Theodore Roosevelt. He thanks Roosevelt for the photos, which he has framed alongside letters and photos from other notable men.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-21
Johnston, John H. (John Henry), 1837-1919
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary discusses a fund transaction with F. E. Edmonston.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-08
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Caspar Whitney that there is no organization collecting funds to the monument of Frederic Remington. Homer Davenport was doing most of the fundraising, and the secretary suggests Whitney get in contact with his estate. Theodore Roosevelt would really like Whitney to bring the matter to completion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-29
Frank Harper writes to William H. Wood to inform him that Theodore Roosevelt is not responsible for the bill, but Harper has written to Homer Davenport about it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-20
President Roosevelt thinks that cartoonist Homer Davenport should not be allowed to get away from them, and wishes that Secretary of War William H. Taft would take the matter up with the committee. Davenport will do better work than any other man, and Taft cannot afford to let “the Hearst crowd” take him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-28
President Roosevelt may decide not to appoint a judge just yet. Although he holds Attorney General William H. Moody in high esteem, Roosevelt reminds Gifford Pinchot that Moody was “hand-in-glove with the Simon people.” Roosevelt has enclosed a letter from W. Sloan Simpson and cautions Pinchot to “not let the civil service people frighten you out of getting really good men.” Homer Davenport can assist with creating favorable public opinion about forest reserves, and Roosevelt would like to see his father appointed to an unnamed position if Pinchot agrees.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-22
President Roosevelt directs Thomas Henry Carter to an article in the San Francisco Examiner of May 31, 1903, that shows Homer Davenport to be a “slanderer and a liar.” Roosevelt wishes to have no dealings with Davenport.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-13
Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart sends Theodore Roosevelt his story about Abraham Lincoln, which Homer Davenport has made a picture for. Iglehart has often compared Roosevelt to Lincoln, and would be honored if he would read and comment on the article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Secretary of War Taft encloses a letter from his brother, Charles Phelps Taft, which he would like to have returned. He sends it because it answers a question President Roosevelt had asked about Homer Davenport.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-04
John R. Arbuckle writes to President Roosevelt about the Arbuckle Brothers coffee business and thanks Roosevelt for helping him earlier in his life. Arbuckle also presented Roosevelt with a twenty-five pound can of coffee. In a second letter on the same date, Arbuckle comments on the cartoonist Homer Davenport.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-29
A commentary on the character of William Randolph Hearst in relation to how he has used his newspapers to shape public opinion about people in public office and current events. Focuses especially on the political cartoonists Hearst has employed, the editorials featured in his papers, and how he has used his ability to report and shape the news to aid his political efforts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-06
Robert Wexelblatt describes Rick Marschall’s Bully! The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt as a picture book illustrated with a biography, and he asserts that the scores of political cartoons found within it are “the real glory of the book.” Wexelblatt believes that Marschall has produced an illustrated biography that is both fun and useful, and he provides background on Marschall’s expertise as both a historian and as a political cartoonist which makes him uniquely qualified to pen such a work. Two cartoons found in Bully! accompany the review.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2011
Leslie H. Southwick provides a comprehensive history of the 1904 presidential election, surveying the Republican and Democratic candidates as well as those of the Socialist, Populist, and Prohibition parties. Southwick describes Theodore Roosevelt’s path to securing his election, touching on his service as Vice President, his political battles with Senator Marcus Hanna, and his selection of George B. Cortelyou as his campaign manager. Southwick also covers Alton B. Parker’s path to the Democratic nomination, highlighting the roles played by former nominees William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland. Southwick describes the dull fall campaign, enlivened by the musings of Finley Peter Dunne’s fictional barkeeper, Mr. Dooley, which Southwick quotes frequently in the course of the article.
Photographs of the four candidates for president and vice president of the Republican and Democratic parties appear in the article, along with an electoral map of the election, and Homer Davenport’s famous cartoon endorsing Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2004
Edmund Morris argues that “the more one analyzes Theodore Roosevelt in the harsh light of historical research, the more authentic an American hero he becomes.” Morris looks at different episodes in Roosevelt’s life, such as his service during the Spanish-American War, to make his case, and he compares Roosevelt’s life to heroic figures from mythology and literature such as Hercules, Beowulf, and King Lear.
Homer Davenport’s famous cartoon, “He’s good enough for me,” featuring Uncle Sam and Theodore Roosevelt is on the first page of the article.
Book reviews take center stage in this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Two historical novels are reviewed by members of the association, and there are articles devoted to Edmund Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and John A. Gable’s The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. Each of those articles draws on reviews found in major newspapers, magazines, and historical journals.
This issue also has articles on the attempted assassination of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s invocation of his distant cousin to further his own political career and causes.
The front cover features a political cartoon showing Theodore Roosevelt with Uncle Sam. The cartoon is accompanied by a paragraph that provides historical context for the image.
Advertisement for the book Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The ad gives a brief overview of the history of the home, talks about the authors, Hermann Hagedorn and Gary G. Roth, and describes in detail the contents of the book.
An illustration of Theodore Roosevelt in a rocking chair with the caption “In His Favorite Chair On The Piazza” accompanies the text.
An order form is included at the bottom of the page.
Advertisement for the book Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The ad gives a brief overview of the history of the home, talks about the book’s authors, Hermann Hagedorn and Gary G. Roth, and describes in detail the contents of the book. A picture of the book’s cover accompanies the text. An order form is included at the bottom of the page.
Advertisement for the book Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The ad gives a brief overview of the history of the home, talks about the book’s authors, Hermann Hagedorn and Gary G. Roth, and describes in detail the contents of the book. A picture of the book’s cover accompanies the text.
An order form is included at the bottom of the page.
Advertisement for the book Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The ad gives a brief overview of the history of the home, talks about the book’s authors, Hermann Hagedorn and Gary G. Roth, and describes in detail the contents of the book. A picture of the book’s cover accompanies the text.
An order form is included at the bottom of the page.
Advertisement for the book Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association. The ad gives a brief overview of the history of the home, talks about the book’s authors, Hermann Hagedorn and Gary G. Roth, and describes in detail the contents of the book. A picture of the book’s cover accompanies the text.
An order form is included at the bottom of the page.