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Theodore Roosevelt tells Tracy I. Storer, assistant curator of birds at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley, that he thinks Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Vernon Bailey, Florence Merriam Bailey, George Shiras, and Edward William Nelson could write a “monumental” and “genuine” natural history of land vertebrates in North America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-06
Advertisement and order form for seven books from Peregrine Smith books. Theodore Roosevelt: Wilderness Writings edited by Paul Schullery dominates the advertisement, and it is also included in a five volume Literature of the American Wilderness set. The two page advertisement features a one page excerpt from Roosevelt’s writing about the bighorn sheep which is reproduced in cursive handwriting intermixed with a drawing of Roosevelt, pen in hand, and a drawing of three bighorns. The second page of the advertisement depicts the covers of the books, has summaries of each title or collection, and includes the order form.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1986