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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Stewart Edward White

Theodore Roosevelt tells Stewart Edward White that he has read White’s book Rediscovered Country about a hunting expedition in East Africa and was delighted by it. Roosevelt compares it to one of his own trips and earlier expeditions from European explorers including Sámuel Teleki, William Louis Abbott, and Arthur Henry Neumann. Roosevelt remarks that he felt better about bringing a camp chair on his South American expedition since White took one on his. Roosevelt notes how much the Wilson Administration is annoying him, and hopes that White and his wife Elizabeth White will visit soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-04-06

The lion

Draft manuscript containing an essay, “The lion,” by Frederick Courteney Selous. Selous recounts many stories of lions attacking people and animals, and of adventures involving lions. He also addresses lions more scientifically, and offers a description of the habits and living conditions of lions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-03

Letter from Richard Kearton to Theodore Roosevelt

Author Richard Kearton recently read and reviewed President Roosevelt’s book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter for the London Daily Chronicle. Kearton appreciates Roosevelt’s non-slaughter attitude towards birds and animals. Kearton encloses copies of his two newest books, Wild Nature’s Ways and Pictures from Nature.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-23

Letter from the Country Calendar to William Loeb

The Country Calendar has heard President Roosevelt’s announcement to publish an account of his hunting trip in two magazine articles and assumes that magazine is Scribner’s. If is it decided that Scribner’s will not get all of the material, The Country Calendar wishes William Loeb, Secretary to the President, to let President Roosevelt know of their ambition to be able to obtain some material for their magazine.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-18

Ted Roosevelt: A life in words

Keith Muchowski focuses on the literary life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt. Muchowski shines a spotlight on two types of books written, co-written, or edited by Roosevelt: stories and tales from the battlefields of World War I and hunting stories based on expeditions to Asia with his brother Kermit Roosevelt. Muchowski also looks at Roosevelt’s role in the founding of the American Legion and his time as governor general of the Philippines, and he laments that Roosevelt’s death in July 1944 prevented him from chronicling his service in World War II.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2016

Postcard from Eva McKensie to Dessie Minick

On reverse: “TALES OF HUNTING EXPLOITS. In the course of their travels, Mr. Roosevelt and his party have had to spend many hours on board small river and land steamers. Thrilling tales by Mr. Roosevelt, who has had many years’ experience hunting in the wild animals of North America, and by Mr. Selous, Africa’s most famous hunter, made the time pass quickly and pleasantly. This picture shows Mr. Selous (the gentlemen to the right of Roosevelt) relating his experiences in East Africa in 1888.” Postcard is number twenty-seven in a series.

Handwritten message says: “Hello dessie how are you getting a long by this time how did youre get home asunday I got home fine how is Pearl and all the rest youre come out all right again tell Pearl I said she was to answer my post card and you must ans to.”