Letter from George Otto Trevelyan to Theodore Roosevelt
George Otto Trevelyan thanks President Roosevelt for the volume of his addresses and his letter. Trevelyan has copied and sent a portion of Roosevelt’s letter, wherein Roosevelt discusses Thomas Babington Macaulay, to his sister, Margaret Jean Trevelyan Holland. He discusses Sir John Fenwick’s house, Wallington, and its connection to the Trevelyan family as well as a literary association in Geoffrey Chaucer’s works. Trevelyan wants to show Roosevelt Macaulay’s books with his marginal notes. He is encouraged by Roosevelt’s interest in the seventeenth century and sends Roosevelt a copy of his son George Macaulay Trevelyan’s latest book on the topic. Trevelyan likes Roosevelt’s sentence that reads, “A great free people owes it to itself and to mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.” He believes it will stick in the “memory of mankind” for a long time.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-12-08