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Letter from J. H. Patterson to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from J. H. Patterson to Theodore Roosevelt

J. H. Patterson, who has been hunting big game in Africa, just received President Roosevelt’s letter and was delighted with it. He is glad Roosevelt liked The Man-Eaters of Tsavo. He gives a description of his recent hunting trip with an Englishman and his American wife, and hopes that when Roosevelt is no longer president he will have a chance to hunt in Africa.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-15

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt writes Theodore Roosevelt and exclaims the convention must have been “extraordinary.” He informs Roosevelt that Rudyard Kipling placed a bet on Roosevelt during the Republican primaries against an American who thought he was dead. Kermit Roosevelt and Helen Robinson Roosevelt visited Frederick Courteney Selous and learned his trip to British East Africa was very successful although he had a close call with a buffalo. Kermit tells his father that Edmund Heller is fine and an intelligent progressive.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-1919