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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Richard Heber Newton for his letter and agrees with Newton’s comments on the use of the long bow versus the rifle in the military.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-17
Sherman Day Thacher asks Lawrence F. Abbott to tell Theodore Roosevelt how delighted the Thacher School would be to have him and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt visit sometime, commenting that he does not write to Roosevelt directly, “because he must be overwhelmed with correspondence at this time.” Thacher also thanks Abbott for previously recommending he read James Anthony Froude’s Life and Letters of Erasmus, which he is greatly enjoying.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-23
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge tells President Roosevelt her thoughts on a variety of books she has read recently. Notably she read and enjoyed George Macaulay Trevelyan’s Garibaldi’s Defense of Rome and Herbert W. Paul’s Life of Froude. She has also read Jane Addams’ book The New Ideals of Peace, and enjoyed Horace Plunkett’s book on Ireland. Her husband C. Grant La Farge has been “splendidly” handling the new arrangements following the death of George Lewis Heins.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-28
Ambassador Reid sends an addition to “the bundle of gossip” he recently sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, noting that this dispatch is a bit more serious and more likely to interest President Roosevelt with his description of a number of political events, in addition to more social fare.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-01
Theodore Roosevelt challenges President William H. Taft’s Philadelphia speech, in which he identified himself as a Progressive. Roosevelt also discusses his opinions on the fair and direct representation of the People, and financial conditions in America.
1912-04-03