Hides and skins

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-07

Creator(s)

C. G. Gunther's Sons

Recipient

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt informs Mrs. C. H. Miller that Theodore Roosevelt does not wish to buy the bison robe she is selling.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-14

When Henry Fairfield Osborn is available, President Roosevelt will arrange for him to meet with Secretary of War Elihu Root regarding the deer. He believes that First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt can be convinced to allow Osborn to have the cougar skin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-14

Uncle Sam holds a rifle labeled “Prosperity” in his right hand and a hammer in his left hand. He has just nailed a fox pelt labeled “Bryanism” to the wall of a log cabin.

comments and context

Comments and Context

As a summary, a simple post-mortem, of the 1900 election, by the end of November Puck expressed the situation, and the hope, that “Bryanism” was dead. William Jennings Bryan ran again in 1908, and served as king-maker, and Secretary of State, in Woodrow Wilson’s political career in 1912 and afterwards, but Keppler’s cartoon expressed the current situation. Perhaps unknowingly, for all the issues enunciated by Bryan, it was prosperity that made his economic cure-alls practically irrelevant. Ironically, “Bryanism” itself did not wholly die, as Theodore Roosevelt and others eventually transformed or absorbed many of its aspects into their programs.

Theodore Roosevelt asks James L. Clark to repair a poorly lined lion skin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-24

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary apologizes for not replying to Carl C. Young’s letter earlier. It would be best for Young to send the karakul lamb skin after it has been tanned and dyed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-01

Theodore Roosevelt agrees about the colliers and hopes that his statement was on point. He thought that Coe Isaac Crawford gave a powerful speech in the William Lorimer case. The zebra skin has been sent and Roosevelt is attempting to locate the missing book.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-17

Theodore Roosevelt thinks that there was “universal corruption” in the Lorimer case and believes “that things will turn out right in Massachusetts.” He has been reading Fraser’s first volume and has sent Senator Lodge one of his African trophies, a zebra skin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-03

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Carl C. Young for the offer to send him a lamb, either live or taxidermied. Roosevelt has no place to put an animal, but would accept a flat skin of one.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-20

Theodore Roosevelt jokes to Victor Murdock that he cannot divide up the bearskin until he receives it. Roosevelt has not seen the Nobel Prize Fund money yet.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-25

Theodore Roosevelt has received the remains of the Mylodon (an extinct species of ground sloth) and considers them the “most valuable things” in his home. He is especially interested in the skin and hair fragment. Roosevelt fondly recalls spending time with Francisco P. Moreno in Argentina. He hopes Moreno has received his book on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-04

Theodore Roosevelt is concerned about some of the specimens from the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Exposition which have not arrived at the museum. He is concerned that they might have gone down with the S. S. Vandyck, which was sunk by a German cruiser off the coast of Brazil. Roosevelt requests that Edwin T. Morgan investigate what has happened to the specimens. He is pleased that Morgan translated his Outlook article and will send Morgan a pamphlet of his writings about the ongoing war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-28

Theodore Roosevelt appreciates the skin he received from Theodore Roosevelt Skinner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-23

President Roosevelt cannot answer Frank B. Noyes on the matter since the bear is still alive and that he prefers not to divide the skin ahead of time. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-01

President Roosevelt gives Governor-elect Guild permission to make his statement public. He says that there is no sign that any leaders in Congress are willing to take up tariff revision, and Roosevelt feels it is foolish to attempt to bring up the issue if it has no effective backing. He also praises Lieutenant-Governor-elect Eben S. Draper.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-12

President Roosevelt sends Emperor Meiji of Japan the skin of a bear that he shot as a token of respect. He thanks Meiji for the courtesy he and his country have shown his daughter Alice Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-06

President Roosevelt asks D. P. “Phy” Taylor when the skins were shipped.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-27

President Roosevelt is sorry to hear that Senator Lodge has been sick. He is afraid that election results in Maine will be less strong than they were in Vermont. Roosevelt received a nice letter from Robert C. Winthrop. There was an order regarding pickled sheepskins that Roosevelt has stopped. He is not sure who is responsible for it, but will find out.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-10

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Henry N. Pancoast for the letter about wolves. He would be pleased if Pancoast could send the wolf skin for him to inspect.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-08

President Roosevelt thanks Perkins for the bear skin and believes it will be a great ornament in the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-23