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Alexander Lambert will go to see President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt after visiting Sherwood Alfred Cheney on Friday. His moose head has finally been displayed on his wall and the moose antlers set aside for Roosevelt’s son are stored in his attic.
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1907-04-11
Edgar Alexander Mearns writes to Theodore Roosevelt to request his help in obtaining a permit for the collection of moose, caribou, and beaver for the U.S. National Museum. Kermit Roosevelt will obtain the specimens while he is in New Brunswick.
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1910-1919
Frank Harper relates how the bull moose was adopted as the emblem of the Progressive Party.
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1912-10-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Julian LaRose Harris that he has distributed thousands of a clipping of a bull moose from the Philadelphia North American.
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1912-08-21
Theodore Roosevelt provides A. T. Richardson with information about the seasonal changes of the antlers of moose, deer, and wapiti.
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1912-08-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Everett Colby for sending a picture of a bull moose. The picture has been sent to Progressive Party headquarters in Manhattan.
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1912-08-17
Theodore Roosevelt thanks H. Schuyler Cammann for the calendar entitled “The Call of the Moose.”
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1912-08-15
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a letter from W. J. Littlejohn, in which Littlejohn enclosed a photograph of several moose taken as hunting trophies. Roosevelt says, “Those are a fine set of heads.”
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1912-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt tells Horace G. Soloman “three cheers for the small Bull Moose rooter,” to whom he sends his photograph.
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1912-08-12
Theodore Roosevelt encloses a drawing of a moose head that might make an effective campaign button.
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1912-07-31
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by Cyrus Thompson’s letter. Roosevelt’s son Kermit Roosevelt told him about Thompson’s son getting a moose.
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1912-06-08
Theodore Roosevelt informs John B. Burnham that he heartily agrees with the aims of the American Game Protective and Propagation Association. He wishes New York was as successful as Maine, and laments the loss of the American wild pigeon. He believes arms manufacturers that do not support conservationism are working against their own future business.
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1911-09-19
Theodore Roosevelt informs Dougald Macgillivray that he wishes he was able to visit Nova Scotia to hunt moose, but is unable to do so.
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1911-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt explains to Le Baron Russell Briggs, the dean of Harvard College, that his son Kermit Roosevelt has been asked by the Smithsonian to gather certain specimen of moose, caribou and beaver in New Brunswick for the National Museum. In order to fulfill this request, Kermit will need to be a few days late in reporting at Harvard, so Theodore Roosevelt asks Briggs if he can excuse his son’s absence.
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1911-09-01
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased to hear about the increase of moose and deer in the preserve. Roosevelt asks Johnson not to send the enlarged photograph.
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1911-07-25
Theodore Roosevelt thanks W. B. Rogers for his generous offer. Roosevelt went hunting with Alexander Lambert, where he killed the number of moose allotted by law. Then was forced to kill another moose, with the permission of the Secretary of Mines and Fisheries.
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1915-10-20
President Roosevelt tells Assistant Secretary Franklin Roosevelt that he killed two moose and that both had good antlers.
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1915-10-07
President Roosevelt tells Clarence Hawkes that he is not precisely sure what evidence he based his statement on about moose galloping, as the book in which he made that statement was written so long ago. Roosevelt guesses that he made it on hearsay evidence and on a set of footprints of a young moose, but admits that young animals often act in ways that older animals do not.
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1908-11-27
President Roosevelt does not believe he ever made remarks about a moose becoming tired and lying down after galloping for five or six hundred yards. Clarence Hawkes might mean that Roosevelt was speaking about elk. In a postscript, he discusses footprints that may have suggested a gallop.
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1908-11-14
President Roosevelt tells Alexander Lambert that he put the sentence backing the pure food and drug bill in the report. He also wrote Lambert yesterday about Ted’s moose head and horns, and now asks if he could send Roosevelt’s rifle to “the Winchester people” and tell them to put in a new barrel.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-25