Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

“Teddy” Crombie writes to Theodore Roosevelt about his desire to join the Boy Scouts and that he wants to see Roosevelt. He missed him on his last trip, because Crombie lives on a ranch five miles from town. Crombie also wishes he could have gone to Africa with Roosevelt. He says, “I hope that you will be President and I will try to grow up into as good and honest a man as you are.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-02-25

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt did not connect Herbert Elliott Hamblen with the admirable book On Many Seas and wrote to Rudyard Kipling on the matter. Roosevelt will try to help Hamblen get a position at the Navy Yard if he can. However, most positions are under the civil service. He asks Hamblen to write him again in a month as a reminder.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-20

Edward William Bok understands that Theodore Roosevelt needs to be careful about writing for periodicals other than The Outlook. However, he feels his request will not violate Roosevelt’s commitment. Bok wants to awaken interest in appreciating good pictures by having prominent individuals discuss their favorite pictures to be published with a recreation of the image. He lists the other individuals he has asked for a contribution. The enclosed check is merely an expression of appreciation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-03

Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt on a number of matters happening in England, including the nervous breakdown of Lord Edward Marjoribanks Tweedmouth, whose recent trouble relating to a letter from German Emperor William II was only the latest in a long string of misfortunes. He also offers insight into the English interest in the American Presidential election, and explains that he has told questioners that he believes Roosevelt will answer the call if his party ultimately nominates him against his wishes. Reid also discusses the lack of a profitable liberal newspaper in England.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-06-01

Ambassador Reid sends Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt descriptions of social events and diplomatic gossip from Great Britain. In a handwritten postscript, Reid says his wife and daughter are going to see her sick father in the Adirondacks and he will be alone by the end of summer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-25

John Burroughs writes to Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, to defend the remarks Theodore Roosevelt made about the “nature faker” controversy. Abbott wrote an editorial saying that Roosevelt made a “too sharp distinction between fiction and fact.” Burroughs believes that there is “a legitimate and an illegitimate use of the imagination in writing human history.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-11

The “To-day” section of The Daily telegraph details several goings on in world news, with the largest section focused on the upcoming British diplomatic vacancy in Washington, D. C. Many prominent British politicians and noblemen are named as possibilities for the vacancy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-23

Ambassador Reid has forwarded President Roosevelt’s letter to the people of Salisbury, and he is sure it will promote kindly feeling. Reid hopes that they may be able to bring the “slow-moving” Colonial Office to an early agreement, as the only currently contentious issue between the parties is that of purse-nets. Reports of William Jennings Bryan’s speech in Madison Square Garden produced instant revulsion in Great Britain, as the public thought he “dished” himself by proposing government ownership of the railways. Reid has not yet had a chance to discuss Roosevelt’s letter to Andrew Carnegie with Sir Edward Grey, but plans to bring it up at first chance. Frederick Scott Oliver, author of the new book about Hamilton, does not seem to be a prominent literary figure among the Englishmen Reid has asked. Reid has been watching the Cuban situation with great anxiety, as he has always believed the United States made foolish decisions about Cuba at the beginning of the Spanish-American War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-14

Maurice Francis Egan writes to President Roosevelt that he has heard that only James Fenimore Cooper and James B. Connolly can write about the sea with disparaging remarks about Captains Courageous and The Sea Wolf.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-20

Hamlin Garland praises President Roosevelt’s efforts to take on the oil and beef industries. Garland assures Roosevelt that he is doing the right thing in breaking up monopolies. As a man who espouses the free trade philosophy, Garland wishes Roosevelt would stay another four years, but does not oppose William Jennings Bryan in the upcoming election. Many others, including Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, and more also approve of Roosevelt. Garland has been received very well by Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and saw Roosevelt’s daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, at an event recently.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-06-16

Joe Kerr writes a poem about President Roosevelt and why he supports him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905

Frank Nelson Doubleday is sending a hand-edited copy of the first proof of Rudyard Kipling’s Traffics and Discoveries, which he thinks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt might like. Doubleday has spoken with Arthur W. Page about President Roosevelt’s need for a tutor, and Page suggested Waldo D. Parker.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-12

Secretary of State Hay encloses a letter from Rudyard Kipling that may interest President Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-08

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-1919

Elizabeth E. Roosevelt reminds readers that the Cove Neck peninsula on Long Island, New York, was not the exclusive domain of Theodore Roosevelt and his family. She describes the many Roosevelt families who had estates in the area, and she highlights the frequent gatherings of these clans and the entertainments they enjoyed such as tennis, swimming, and sailing. Roosevelt provides biographical snapshots of some of these family members, including the children of Theodore Roosevelt, and she notes which family members made their homes in the same area where they were raised, including the president’s sons, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Archibald Roosevelt, and his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby. 

Two photographs of Roosevelt cousins and two photographs of sailing ships supplement the text.

Kathleen Dalton explores “a little known side of” Theodore Roosevelt: his love of telling stories. Dalton identifies ghost stories, animal and hunting stories, tales from his days as a cowboy, and stories involving the Rough Riders as some of Roosevelt’s favorite topics. She also says that he liked to talk about his own adventures, such as hiking in Rock Creek Park, or discussing his political friends and foes, and she says that Roosevelt’s favorite audience for his stories was his children. Dalton identifies a number of people who were subjects of Roosevelt’s tales or who, like Rudyard Kipling, were captivated by listening to his stories.

Two photographs of Roosevelt, and an illustration of him telling a camp fire story to children, supplement the article which also has two text boxes with information about the Theodore Roosevelt Association.

This edition of “News and Notes” opens with a report on the 1989 Theodore Roosevelt Public Speaking Contest for the New York Public Schools. It highlights the growth of the program, notes the involvement of members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), and lists the judges and administrators of the annual contest. R. W. Apple, Jr. of the New York Times, compares President George Bush with President Theodore Roosevelt and writes that the two men had some similarities, such as serving in wartime, but that Bush is less flamboyant than Roosevelt. The column notes that Bush had Roosevelt’s portrait placed in the White House Cabinet Room and his bust placed in the Oval Office.

The column reprints letters from John A. Gable and Theodore R. Kupferman from the TRA leadership and lists various speaking engagements undertaken by Gable. A section examines the history of vice presidents running for the presidency after assuming the office and notes that Roosevelt was the first to be elected after the death of the president under whom he served. The column closes with a reminder for TRA members to purchase a new edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia and to purchase past issues of the TRA Journal on microfiche.

Photographs of the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, TRA President Theodore R. Kupferman, and two of Roosevelt on horseback appear in the column along with an illustration of both sides of the TRA medallion.

Obituary of Archibald B. Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, written by his cousin P. James Roosevelt. He discusses Archibald’s childhood antics in the White House with his brother Quentin and his education at various schools. He details his service in both world wars and how he earned his military decorations, and he examines Archibald’s career in finance in New York and Florida and discusses his charitable and volunteer work, especially in conservation, most notably with the Boone & Crockett Club. The obituary includes a poem written by Archibald, “Canada Geese.”

Four photographs of Archibald Roosevelt accompany the obituary: one shows him as a young man; another shows him and his brother Quentin training for service in World War I; another shows him and his wife Grace Stackpole Lockwood Roosevelt on horseback; and the last one shows him holding one of his father’s hunting rifles.

A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and of the members of its executive, finance and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on the second page of the obituary.

Notice about the dedication of the Richards-Theodore Roosevelt Room at the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University in May 1978. The room will house an extensive Theodore Roosevelt Collection donated by Paul C. Richards. The notice lists the speakers and gives a brief synopsis of their remarks. It provides background on Richards, describes the contents of the collection, and quotes from Richards’s remarks.

Photographs of the six speakers at the dedication services and of the display cases housing the collection accompany the notice.

Transcript of a speech given by George Otto Trevelyan at a bookseller’s dinner. Trevelyan discusses many matters relating to bookselling, book buying, and publishing. He also discusses his reminiscences with various literary figures and reflects on the relationship between literature and politics.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-17