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President Roosevelt remembers Nathaniel T. Green’s help and thanks Green for the two volumes by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, who was an impressive hunter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-27
Arthur James Sage tells President Roosevelt about the success of the Atlantic Fleet’s recent visit to Australia. Sage has built a new house, which he named Sagamore Hill without remembering that it was the name of Roosevelt’s house. He is also jealous of Roosevelt’s upcoming hunting trip to Africa, and invites him to visit him in Australia after his safari. In a handwritten postscript, Sage congratulates Roosevelt on William H. Taft’s election victory.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-26
Three works come under consideration in the “Book Reviews” section. Cole Patrick looks at both the 1941 and 1989 editions of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. He comments on the work of Albert Bushnell Hart in compiling and editing the first edition, and he quotes from William Allen White’s foreword from 1941. Patrick explains the various additions made to the 1989 edition by John A. Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), including a bibliography, a chronology of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, and a history of the TRA.
Tweed Roosevelt examines Bartle Bull’s Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure and highlights its coverage of Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari of 1909-1910, and he also looks at other figures, British and American, who made safaris. He praises the book’s organization and illustrations but faults it for not giving a sense of who the hunters were as people, Roosevelt included. Marilyn E. Weigold praises Elizabeth Winthrop’s novel, In My Mother’s House, for its “precise descriptions of life in Manhattan in the last few decades of the nineteenth century.” The novel’s main character is based on the life of the daughter of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Theodore Roosevelt’s sister.