Dedications

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-05-29

Creator(s)

Corrie, J. E. (Jessie Elizabeth), 1855-

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks historian Justin Harvey Smith for the book, The Struggle for the Colony, and for dedicating it to him. He looks forward to reading it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-07

President Roosevelt is happy that Walter Phelps Dodge dedicated his book on Sir Richard Francis Burton to him. Roosevelt points out that the explorer James Bruce had qualities similar to Burton.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-25

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-26

President Roosevelt will try to organize his schedule in order to do the dedication that Mrs. Wendall requests.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-09

Bishop Herbert Bury thanks Theodore Roosevelt for accepting the dedication in his book. Bury expresses his gratitude that Roosevelt will be associated with his book and compliments Roosevelt’s great reputation among his countrymen.

Comments and Context

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Frederick Courteney Selous asks if President Roosevelt would consider writing a short introduction for the book he has written about African animals. Selous plans to dedicate the book to Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-19

Owen Wister laments to President Roosevelt that he did not receive the president’s letter until after Wister sent him a telegram. Wister regrets he cannot fulfill a request the president made, although Wister has many questions he would like to ask and hopes to visit in the spring. Wister hopes to dedicate his new biography of George Washington to Roosevelt because he sees many parallels between the two presidents, especially in their conflicts with Congress over fiscal policy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-10

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-23

Baroness Hengelmüller thanks President Roosevelt for sending her his book with the nice dedication. She enjoys his works and always finds them interesting and clever.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-18

William De Witt Hyde’s proposed dedication to President Roosevelt for his book, The College Man and the College Woman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-13

Photograph of the public sitting at the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of musicians from the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation’s Medora Musical at the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of Rocky Mountain Regional Director Glen Bean speaking at the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of United States Representative Mark Andrews of North Dakota speaking at the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of North Dakota Governor Arthur A. Link speaking at the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of chair, speaker’s platform, and musicians set up for the Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of Rocky Mountain Regional Director Glen Bean cutting the ribbon at Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of (left to right) Mickey Farmer, Representatives Mark Andrews (ND) and Ralph Regula (OH), North Dakota Governor Arthur Link, Superintendent John Lancaster, and Rocky Mountain Regional Director Glen Bean cutting the ribbon at Painted Canyon visitor center dedication in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1978-08

Photograph of an audience and horseback riders at the Scenic Loop Drive dedication at Wind Canyon in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1968-09-22