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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Paul Caspar Freer

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Paul Caspar Freer

President Roosevelt thanks Paul Caspar Freer, Director of the Bureau of Science of the Philippines, for the copy of the Philippine Journal of Science and congratulates him on its publication. He is interested in Professor Shibasaburō Kitazato’s proposal for an international commission, and has inquired with the State Department regarding whether such a thing is possible.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Bryant Bigelow

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Bryant Bigelow

President Roosevelt cannot understand why magazine editors would have rejected a recent article by his friend Henry Bryant Bigelow. He encourages Bigelow to not let his talents atrophy by becoming too absorbed in collecting materials and writing scientific studies of specific groups. Roosevelt says that “it is not once in a generation that a real scientist is born with the literary touch,” and that Bigelow should not waste his talents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-12