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Letter from Ernest McGaffey to Theodore Roosevelt

McGaffey summarizes a hunting trip to Mississippi.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-03

Letter from Winthrop Chanler to Theodore Roosevelt

Winthrop Chanler inquires about Ted Roosevelt’s unnamed condition, mentioning that boys tend to do fine with this particular disease. He also relates the events of his hunting trip to Oklahoma. He mentions some of the game that he shot and describes the poor Indians and whites that he saw. There has been no rain in Oklahoma since June and the ground is dry. Spring is about to return. Chanler tells President Roosevelt to call him if there is any change.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902

Summary of letter from Ernest McGaffey

Ernest McGaffey outlines an Arkansas hunting trip. A “lively fight” is expected in Chicago, Illinois, regarding the election for mayor, and Carter H. Harrison is going to be elected mayor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-03

Poem To the Wild Sheep, Christmas Eve 1902

Edward Kemeys writes a poem to commemorate a bighorn sheep that he killed and had mounted.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-24

Letter from William W. Mangum to George B. Cortelyou

William W. Mangum expresses his thanks to George B. Cortelyou for conveying President Roosevelt’s message. Roosevelt thanked Mangum for his hospitality on a recent hunt. Mangum regrets that Roosevelt did not get a kill on a recent hunt. Mangum thanks Roosevelt for his recent book, which he read with “keen pleasure.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-18

Letter from Edward North Buxton to Theodore Roosevelt

British conservationist Edward North Buxton thanks President Roosevelt for the book The Deer Hunter and enjoys following President Roosevelt’s career. He hopes to accept the President’s proffered hospitality, but he does not travel much in consideration of his wife. He closes his letter with a note, “In England we recognize only two strong men, yourself and Chamberlain, with the Prussian Emperor a bad third.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-19

Letter from John B. Goff to Philip Battell Stewart

John B. Goff writes to Philip Battell Stewart regarding the logistics for a hunting trip. Goff describes the success of a recent hunting trip to Wyoming. He says that there is a need for the horses to be ready for the upcoming hunt and that air mattresses and sleeping bags are needed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-21

Letter from Alexander Lambert to Theodore Roosevelt

Alexander Lambert has sent the two caribou heads to President Roosevelt. He relates the hunting activities of himself and several acquaintances, as well as discussion of taxidermists. He hopes that Roosevelt can make it out to hunt after Congress adjourns and wishes the Roosevelt family a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-23

The classics of old venery I

Review of French literature on hunting and the chase.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10

The classics of old venery II

Review of German and English literature on hunting and the chase.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11

Memorandum on bear measurements

This memorandum includes measurements of three bears, one male and two females.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-14

Letter from Jacob A. Riis to Theodore Roosevelt

Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for allowing him to inscribe a book. He will send another edition when he gets it. Riis hopes that President Roosevelt’s bear hunt is going well and requests a meeting for December to discuss some articles Riis might write. He has given up on writing a full life of Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-14

Letter from Ansley Wilcox to Theodore Roosevelt

Ansley Wilcox requests President Roosevelt’s opinion and comments on an article he is writing about Roosevelt’s visit to Buffalo, New York, for the benefit of a teacher’s retirement fund. Wilcox is not sure of some of the little details. He is glad that Roosevelt enjoyed a hunt in Mississippi, but offers condolences that Roosevelt did not get a bear skin. Wilcox’s regular hunts have halted due to rabies in the dogs, although he has had some good hunts in the Genesee Valley.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-20

Letter from C. Hart Merriam to Theodore Roosevelt

C. Hart Merriam thanks President Roosevelt for the specimens from his recent hunt in the South and requests the data for labeling. Roosevelt sent a deer and bear and Merriman wants the locality, date, and sex. Merriman just returned from California and wants to see Roosevelt soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-26

Letter from C. B. Nordhoff to Theodore Roosevelt

C. B. Nordhoff has read President Roosevelt’s The Wilderness Hunter and is interested in the goats that Roosevelt describes as living in Southern and Baja California. Nordhoff argues that he has hunted in this region and has never heard of any goats such as Roosevelt described, although he does admit to seeing bighorn sheep.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-27

Summary of letter from Newton A. Throop

Newton A. Throop invites President Roosevelt to hunt on his land along the Little Sun Flower River in Mississippi.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-08

Letter from Newton A. Throop to Theodore Roosevelt

Newton A. Throop has heard that President Roosevelt is planning a hunting trip to Mississippi and invites the President to hunt on his land. He claims to have plenty of bears, deer, and turkeys for hunting. Also, he says that a group known as the Houston Boys owns much of the land along the river, but that they would probably let Roosevelt hunt on their forest land. They are Republican-leaning on all issues except black suffrage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-08

Letter from Mrs. Harry Goff to Philip Battell Stewart

Mrs. Harry Goff writes on behalf of John B. Goff who is with a client out hunting. John B. Goff was recently injured but will recover and is preparing for Philip Battell Stewart’s arrival in March.