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Kermit Roosevelt thanks Isabella Ferguson for the “most wonderful blanket.” He recently attended a polo tournament and is working on his final examinations. Roosevelt hopes to visit the Fergusons in August.
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Kermit Roosevelt describes his recent hunting trip in New Brunswick and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident.
1911-08-26
An unpublished excerpt from The Birch Bark Roll on hunting big game.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-11
Handwritten draft of chapter eleven of The Wilderness Hunter.
1893
A moose hunter uses a bullhorn labeled “Insatiate Egotism” to call moose. A large bull moose with the face of Theodore Roosevelt stands off in the distance. The reflection in a body of water shows a bull moose.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-28
Commissioner Roosevelt briefly describes a trip to his Dakota ranch accompanied by his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. He has decided that this will be the last year the ranch house will be kept open. In closing, Roosevelt questions if someone could kill a moose by sneaking up on it with snowshoes.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1890-10-20
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates George B. Clark’s kind letter. He was pleased to hear Kermit Roosevelt has been hunting well on his trip. Roosevelt congratulates Clark on his moose and bear kills. Roosevelt hopes to see Clark when he is next in New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-29
Theodore Roosevelt informs Dougald Macgillivray that he wishes he was able to visit Nova Scotia to hunt moose, but is unable to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George Bird Grinnell to support the admission of Hamilton Fish Jr. to the Boone and Crockett Club.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Charles Sheldon about an Alaska big game hunt that his son, Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt, would like to take in the summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt would like to take a trip to Alaska with his son, Archibald “Archie” B. Roosevelt. Roosevelt would like to give the younger Roosevelt a chance to kill giant moose, big bear, white sheep, and caribou, and asks E. Marshall Scull for his advice on whom Roosevelt should contact to help set up the trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-08
Theodore Roosevelt expresses his pleasure to Belle Roosevelt at hosting her and Kermit. He hopes that they have reached South America, as sea travel is dangerous because of the First World War. Roosevelt does not know what outcome will be reached but is increasingly impatient with the attitude toward the war of the United States government. He believes the Progressive Party to be at an end and his own chances in his libel suit to be small on account of the electoral victory of Republicans connected to the party machine. In addition to these opinions, Theodore Roosevelt sends Belle news of his other children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-07
President Roosevelt congratulates Henry S. Washburn on killing a moose with a rifle Roosevelt gave him. Roosevelt sends regards to Washburn’s family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-04
President Roosevelt recommends hunting literature to Baron Kassherr, and wishes to give him more information about the moose. Roosevelt believes he has little experience hunting moose, as he has only shot two. Roosevelt’s oldest son, Ted, shot a bull moose with the help of a Native American who called the animal with a birch horn. Roosevelt looks forward to receiving a copy of Kassherr’s book when it is published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-01
President Roosevelt congratulates Charles B. Hazeltine on getting the “magnificent horns” and comments on the gun he used to shoot the moose.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-10
President Roosevelt sends to Maurice Francis Egan a copy of a letter that he wrote as Police Commissioner of New York. In the letter, Roosevelt rejects the suggestion that he practiced religious discrimination in organizing the police force. Roosevelt also sends to Egan a copy of an article about the “ethnic side” of the New York police force.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-03
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt discusses with E. A. Geiger which caliber of firearms he has used for big game hunting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-16
W. J. Littlejohn encloses a postcard showing several men standing behind what appears to be a railroad car piled with moose which have been taken as hunting trophies. The caption of the photo reads, “at the First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.” Bay City was where the Progressive Party became associated with the bull moose.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-1919
August Belmont has been in the wilderness hunting moose, and only recently heard of President Roosevelt’s accident. He hopes that Roosevelt’s life will not be similarly endangered again, and is grateful that he escaped injury. Belmont briefly describes his experience hunting moose with his sons, and hopes one day to be able to invite Roosevelt or his son, Theodore Roosevelt, on a similar hunt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
William T. Hornaday is disturbed by events at home and abroad. The American Defense Society is fighting against pacifism and working hard to prevent “disloyal meetings” from taking place in New York. Hornaday is alarmed by a bill drawn up Congressman Sulzer and the Department of Agriculture, and supported by Charles Sheldon and Edward William Nelson, allowing the sale of Alaskan big game all year round.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-03-02