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Historian Don Rickey has returned to Custer Battlefield National Monument and is resuming his historian duties. He is also writing the report for Theodore Roosevelt National Park and is planning another trip to “prowl for relics.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1957-04-23
Historian Don Rickey would like to interview Casey E. Barthelmess as part of his research for Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1957-04-25
This edition of the “News and Notes” section features a report on an exhibition entitled Theodore at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. The report lists the various entities that donated materials to the exhibition, quotes from the catalog introduction written by John A. Gable of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), and notes some of the other exhibitions hosted by the Johnson Library. Readers are also reminded that two documentary films about Roosevelt, My Father the President and The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt, are available for sale. The report provides more information about each film as well as contact information to enable purchases.
“News and Notes” also highlights the lectures and appearances of Gable and TRA President William Davison Johnston at various schools, notes the passing of Jean Schermerhorn Roosevelt, and praises the work of Nicholas LaBella, the Superintendent of Youngs Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, New York. This issue of the Journal is dedicated to LaBella. The section closes with a reminder that there are still aspects of Roosevelt’s life that need study, and it declares that the TRA is open to helping those who wish to pursue this work.
Two photographs are found in the section: one of Roosevelt standing in the back of an open car and another of LaBella. A detail of the Roosevelt photograph appears on the front cover of this issue.
A nonfiction book about determining the average cost of living in the twelfth century in Europe. The first eight pages are included in this record.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09
Military Secretary Fred C. Ainsworth reports to General G. C. Gillespie that the Military Secretary’s Office has not found any records relating to a sword given to George Washington by Frederick II, King of Prussia, but suggests that the Washington Papers collection held by the State Department may have some information on the subject. He also cites a source which quotes Henry T. Tuckerman as having mentioned the sword.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt encloses the two letters and will look for John Hay’s notes. He will be pleased if William Roscoe Thayer completes his project regarding Hay and himself.
1915-01-15
Theodore Roosevelt offers additional information on the “Venezuelan affair” for the next edition of William Roscoe Thayer’s Life and Letters of John Hay.
1916-08-11
Representative Breckinridge sends a letter of introduction for Theodore Roosevelt, who will be in Lexington, Kentucky, to research the “formative days of Kentucky” and Isaac Shelby, Kentucky’s first governor.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1888-03-10
Theodore Roosevelt recalls receiving publications from the Robert Clark Company during his historical studies. He is pleased to hear from Alexander Hill.
1910-09-19
Ray W. Lingk encloses notes from his Yellowstone trip where he was researching Sully Trail.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1955-10-27
Summary of the Stanley expedition of 1872 on behalf of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Summary of the Stanley expedition of 1873.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Unknown handwritten notes. Possibly related to the Peaceful Valley Ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
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Olaf T. Hagen encloses a letter from Dr. Albert T. Volwiler as well as Volwiler’s comments on Hagen’s article, “Lessons in Democracy in the Badlands of North Dakota.” Volwiler was in possession of four letters from Theodore Roosevelt, and he believes that copies were sent to the park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-07-12
Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. Cherouny for the letter and pamphlets. Roosevelt does not entirely agree with Cherouny’s estimate of the old Federalists and plans to send him a copy of his book Gouverneur Morris when it is published.
1887-07-27
Representative John Sharp Williams writes to correct a mistake in one of President Roosevelt’s writings concerning Jefferson Davis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-05-24
Clarence Greeley Degman is interested in “the incident of Jenny Geddes’s stool” that was mentioned in Oliver Cromwell, a book written by President Roosevelt. He asks where further information on the subject can be found.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-08