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President Roosevelt explains the details of his planned visit to Boston, Cambridge, and Chestnut Hill to Guy Murchie and asks for advice about the time needed between stops. Roosevelt also asks Murchie to work out the details with William Sturgis Bigelow.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-14
President Roosevelt proposes a schedule for his visit to Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts to William Sturgis Bigelow, including breakfast and stops at Houghton, Mifflin and Company and Harvard University. Roosevelt asks Bigelow for his thoughts on this plan.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-09
John A. Gable discusses the publication of two books on Theodore Roosevelt. Sagamore Hill: An Historical Guide was published by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and Memories of the American Frontier, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings on the American West, was issued by the Westvaco Corporation. Gable notes the individuals and organizations that helped bring both works to publication. He mentions that author David McCullough visited the offices of the TRA, and he closes with more tributes to Ethel Derby Roosevelt who died on December 10, 1977.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1978
History of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that highlights the role the TRA played in preserving Theodore Roosevelt’s homes in New York City and Oyster Bay, New York along with Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C. The TRA later transferred all of these historic sites to the National Park Service. The article covers the TRA’s work with Harvard University and the Library of Congress in collecting and preserving papers, books, and film on Roosevelt, and it covers the Association’s support of natural history grants awarded by the American Museum of Natural History. Many of the books either published or supported by the TRA are listed. The past Presidents and Directors of the TRA are listed, and aspects of the TRA’s governance and finance are noted.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1978
John A. Gable describes in detail the life and work of Hermann Hagedorn, historian, biographer, and long-time Director of the Roosevelt Memorial Association and its successor, the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Gable covers Hagedorn’s life as a child of German immigrants in Brooklyn, New York, his education and teaching at Harvard, and his early career as a writer and poet. He notes Hagedorn’s difficulties as a German-American during World War I and the start of his friendship with Theodore Roosevelt that would define his career. Gable traces Hagedorn’s leadership of the Roosevelt Memorial Association over nearly four decades, discusses his many publications on Roosevelt, and looks at his other writings, including a number of biographies and many works of poetry.
Two photographs accompany this article. One is a formal portrait of Hagedorn and the other shows Hagedorn with President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the dedication of Sagamore Hill in June 1953.