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President Roosevelt writes his son Kermit from his trip down the Mississippi River. Roosevelt discusses his views on hunting and describes his current bear hunt. He also comments on Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill.
1907-10-13
Along with his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt has always admired Lucy Bethia Walford’s books. Roosevelt also expresses his esteem for her father, John Colquhoun, and his book The Moor and the Loch. Roosevelt agrees with Colquhoun’s thoughts on sport and hopes that his sons take the same view.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-28
Aloysius A. Norton asserts that Theodore Roosevelt “did not study Zen; he lived it.” Roosevelt’s total immersion in the task at hand, accepting of the circumstances in which he found himself, and his childlike nature all speak to his living a life of Zen.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982