Essays

Letter from Edward Sandford Martin to Theodore Roosevelt

Edward Sandford Martin informs Theodore Roosevelt of a private dining room on the top floor of The Century where he could host Taylor, James G. Croswell, and three of four other men for lunch. Martin suggests it will pay to meet Croswell. Martin will be reading Roosevelt’s recent editorial from The Outlook tonight and asks if Roosevelt has read History of Freedom by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, mentioning it works well in Taylor’s book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Warren F. Hickernell

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Warren F. Hickernell letter and is glad to hear of the publishing of the translation of Ferdinand Lassalle’s “Essay on the Nature of a Political Constitution” but he cannot write a sketch as Hickernell desires. If Roosevelt were to write such a sketch he would have to do so for every other case he receives.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-23

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward L. Burlingame

Theodore Roosevelts is pleased that Edward L. Burlingame enjoyed his son, Kermit Roosevelt’s essay. Roosevelt also invites Burlingame for lunch at his home in Oyster Bay, New York.

Comments and Context

Edward L. Burlingame was editor of Scribner’s Magazine from 1887 to 1914. Kermit Roosevelt contributed articles to Scribner’s Magazine throughout the 1910s and 1920s.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. E. Hatch

Theodore Roosevelt will keep a “look out” for the paper J. E. Hatch is sending. Roosevelt receives a “mass of newspapers, rolls of manuscripts, etc.” and cannot open all the mail himself. Roosevelt cannot “undertake to criticize such an essay on such a subject” and will return Hatch’s paper as soon as it comes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-25

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Horace Curzon Plunkett

Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed Sir Horace Plunkett’s letter, and he will read the essays with interest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin T. Earl

Theodore Roosevelt returns the corrected lectures to Edwin T. Earl, noting that speeches and essays are quite dissimilar, as speeches rely greatly on the personality of the speaker. Roosevelt enjoyed giving the lectures and meeting Earl.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Roscoe Thayer

Theodore Roosevelt regrets that The Outlook has already reviewed William Roscoe Thayer’s essays, but in a way that would make them difficult to review again. He notes a paradox regarding different factions of the Catholic Church in America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-07

Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to Helen B. Bennett

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary relays that Roosevelt has no objection to Helen B. Bennett’s request to copy one of his essays, but says that Bennett must secure the permission of the publisher and copyright.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William S. Culbertson

Theodore Roosevelt feels that William Smith Culbertson has done a good job of grasping the real Alexander Hamilton in the piece he sent. Roosevelt invites Culbertson to visit in New York if he is able.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-10-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Flannery

Theodore Roosevelt looks forward to reading the essays.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-03-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Culbertson Clayton

Theodore Roosevelt is thanking and apologizing to Joseph Culbertson Clayton. He is thanking Clayton for his letters and essay while apologizing because he is skeptical that him sending Clayton’s essay will be more effective than Clayton giving the essay himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

Theodore Roosevelt has begun the novel and is interested in the problems it presents. He would like to discuss it with Ambassador Egan. Roosevelt believes Egan’s essays are his best works, and he especially enjoyed “The Simple Life.” Roosevelt is going to send Egan a small book he wrote about the ongoing war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Argen Guimaraes

President Roosevelt thanks Argen Guimaraes for sending him a copy of his essay on the Free Canal between Free Seas.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. B. Sheffield

Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to hear from Dr. Sheffield, an “undefeated Progressive.” He will read Sheffield’s essay with pleasure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-30

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joaquim Nabuco

President Roosevelt will read the four essays Brazilian Ambassador Nabuco sent with interest and pleasure. He wishes he knew Portuguese.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Jacob A. Riis

President Roosevelt is glad Jacob A. Riis is going after the priest, because slander should be “met sharply.” He looks forward to reading the article on playgrounds that Riis is sending.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-21

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel H. Baker

President Roosevelt thanks Ethel H. Baker for the complimentary commencement essay that she wrote about him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry S. Pritchett

President Roosevelt thanks Henry S. Pritchett for sending the essays, which he will read with “real interest.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-10

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John D. Whish

President Roosevelt thanks John D. Whish for sending him Richard Jefferies’s essay “Pageant of Summer,” which he will read with delight.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Dudley Rhodes

President Roosevelt congratulates Captain Rhodes and says he will read his essay “with real interest.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-27