Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kuno Meyer
President Roosevelt has received Heinrich Heine’s Travel Pictures and discusses his views on the Nibelungenlied.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-22
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856
Letter from George Otto Trevelyan to Theodore Roosevelt
George Otto Trevelyan believes that President Roosevelt must be happier with the results of the United States election than he was in 1865 when he was first elected to Parliament. He thinks Roosevelt’s trip to Africa is a “splendid idea” and hopes that Roosevelt will visit in 1910 when he is in England. Trevelyan discusses his current writing projects, and notes that he thinks it is easier to get a literal sense of the tragic poets when they are translated in prose, rather than verse. Trevelyan will enclose a copy of a speech he gave at a publishers’ dinner.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-11-17
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Letter from Thomas R. Lounsbury to Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas R. Lounsbury has been working on a book recently, and asks for President Roosevelt’s assistance to make sure that he has clearly expressed an idea of Roosevelt’s. Lounsbury also tells Roosevelt about a recent visit William H. Taft made to Yale during its commencement week.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-06-25
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Letter from G. P. Putnam’s Sons to William Loeb
G. P. Putnam’s Sons sends William Loeb a copy of Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine, which includes Heine’s remarks on the Nibelungenlied.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-07-20
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“Sheol”
A number of historical figures enjoy the pleasant atmosphere of “Sheol” after suffering the flames of Hell. At left is a dejected Devil sitting beneath a sign that states, “This Business is Removed to Sheol, Opposite.” Among those ferried across the river by “Charon” are “Hypatia, Fanny Elssler, Voltaire, Frederick [the] Great, Socrates, J. Offenbach, Darwin, J. S. Mill, Rousseau, George Sand, Galileo, Jefferson, Th. Paine, Goethe, [and] H. Heine.” Caption: According to the new version of the Old Testament, many respectable people who have been writhing in the old fashioned Hell will have to be transferred to the pleasant watering-place known as “Sheol.” This is Puck’s notion of the evolution of Hell to Sheol.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-05-27