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Theodore Roosevelt informs John B. Burnham that he heartily agrees with the aims of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association. He wishes New York was as successful as Maine, and laments the loss of the American wild pigeon. He believes arms manufacturers that do not support conservationism are working against their own future business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-19
President Roosevelt remembers Nathaniel T. Green’s help and thanks Green for the two volumes by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming, who was an impressive hunter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-27
President Roosevelt appreciates William D. DeWeese’s letter, but says that as an old hunter himself, DeWeese should understand when Roosevelt says that he prefers to hunt alone, and does not think that more than two rifles can hunt together. Roosevelt and his son Kermit “must” be the two rifles.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-21
President Roosevelt received Ben Lilly’s second letter, and sends him a copy of his first letter. However, Lilly moves around so much, Roosevelt is not sure that either letter will reach him. He asks Lilly to write him whenever he can. Lilly is the best hunter of “the real old Leatherstocking type” that Roosevelt has ever met.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-19
President Roosevelt invites William T. Hornaday to dinner with African hunters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-06
Archibald B. Roosevelt is recovering well from his surgery and is excited to return to Groton. President Roosevelt was touched by the fondness Archie showed Kermit Roosevelt before and after the surgery. Roosevelt also tells Kermit about a walk he had taken with several friends in which they lost French Ambassador J. J. Jusserand in the woods and an enjoyably informal dinner with several hunters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-08
President Roosevelt thanks Harry Storey for sending a copy of his book, Hunting and Shooting in Ceylon. Roosevelt has been corresponding with hunter Frederick Courteney Selous and hopes that he will write a book “on the natural history of big game.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-12
President Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot will second Ted Roosevelt’s nomination to the Boone and Crockett Club. Ted has killed deer, moose, and elk.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-17
C. Hart Merriam is in the process of revising a review of Roosevelt’s Life Histories of African Game Animals. Merriam says that the book is “one of the most complete and useful works ever written on the game animals of any country.” The delay has been caused by the desire for books about the war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-01-15
John M. Phillips encloses a copy of the magazine “In The Open” which is popular with sportsmen interested in environmental conservation and updating game laws. Phillips also says he is sorry that Roosevelt could not join him on the “Mexican Jaguar Hunt” last fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-02
George Shiras is glad that President Roosevelt has taken an interest in his wildlife photography, and he describes the circumstances under which a large number of his recent prints were acquired by National Geographic Magazine. Shiras tells Roosevelt that his previous appeal did not “fall on deaf ears,” and he will decline to be nominated for Congress this year. Shiras hopes that Roosevelt will “keep within reasonable distance of the eight hour law.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-28
In this New York Times article, businessman Philip B. Stewart reveals President Roosevelt’s plans to write two articles about hunting and wild animals. Stewart mentions that Roosevelt’s articles will be based on his and Roosevelt’s hunting trip together, and the articles will be featured in a magazine and book. The article also notes that Roosevelt’s hunting spoils such as animal skulls were contributed to the Smithsonian Institution’s museum collection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-17
Twelve books compete for space and attention in this crowded edition of the “Book Reviews” section which includes four feature reviews, two brief children’s book reviews, and notices about six other titles. Matthew Glover counters some of the assertions made by Louis Auchincloss in his Theodore Roosevelt by citing the work of historian John Milton Cooper. John A. Gable provides profiles of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Eleanor Roosevelt, the subjects of Linda Donn’s The Roosevelt Cousins, and he notes the outsize influence that Theodore Roosevelt had on the extended Roosevelt clan. An anonymous review of Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy, and the Spanish-American War lists the nine chapters that resulted from a conference of the same name, and it notes some of the authors’ ties to the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
Gable identifies four themes found in the ten essays that make up European Perceptions of the Spanish-American War of 1898, including most European nations’ hostility to the United States in the conflict, and he emphasizes the role played by the Roosevelt Study Center in fostering the emergence of a cohort of European scholars of American history. Two books aimed at children are reviewed in the “Kids Corner” section, and “Other New Books” highlights six titles published in 2001-2002, including new paperback editions of the Roosevelt biographies written by Edmund Morris and his wife Sylvia Jukes Morris.
Brown postcard with a color illustration of a bear and a startled hunter. Written on the front of the postcard is “I’m looking for you in Yellowstone Park.”
1901-1907
Two sequences of John Burroughs, naturalist, eminent author, and hunting companion of Theodore Roosevelt. A close-up of Burroughs talking and a long shot of him sitting in a chair reading a book; immediate background is filled with trees and vegetation, location unknown. The final sequence is of a bird moving around on a window ledge.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1910
Photos of Theodore Roosevelt (dressed in safari garb), J. Alden Loring “Naturalist”, Col. E. A. Mearns “U.S.A., retired, Surgeon,” and R. J. Cunninghame “Guide and Manager.” On reverse side is a description of the upcoming Smithsonian African Expedition.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1909
President Roosevelt sits in a forest with a spyglass pointed at a tiger. Two teddy bears sit near signs. One sign says, “Notice – Dont shoot at the animals,” and the other says, “Posted. Reporters, Dogs, or Hunters Not Allowed.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
Handwritten draft of chapter one of The Wilderness Hunter.
1893
President Roosevelt writes to W. Cameron Forbes and asks him to bring his cousin Gerrit Forbes to a dinner that will be attended by two or three African hunters.
1908-10-22