Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick Courteney Selous
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt will see if he can find anything out about the monograph of the deer of North America. Roosevelt is critical of authors Percy Selous and Colonel Pollock, and wonders if Frederick Courteney Selous is familiar with them. Although Roosevelt is happy with his work and family life, he does envy Selous’ life, “spent going through the waste places, in all parts of the world, after big game.” In a postscript, Roosevelt thanks Selous for thinking of sending him a book, but says that if he has not sent it yet he would prefer to get the next book Selous himself publishes.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-01-17
