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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about current happenings in Oyster Bay, New York. He describes the scenery around Oyster Bay. He reports that the Maxwells arrived yesterday. Roosevelt and wife Edith have been spending time with the Underhills and will be playing tennis with them the next day. His son Ted is absorbed in the dogs and new kittens.
1888-05-20
A photograph of an unidentified painting by Theodore Rousseau which accompanied an article discussing the show and sale of paintings owned by Theron R. Butler, great-grandfather of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Part of the article is pasted under the picture.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01
A picture of the painting Un torrent dans les romagnes by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot which accompanied an article discussing the show and sale of paintings owned by Theron R. Butler, great-grandfather of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Part of the article has been pasted under the painting.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01
John Burroughs disagrees with President Roosevelt, although he believes Roosevelt is a trained naturalist and experienced sportsman. It is possible this note was once attached to a longer document.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna about his honeymoon with Alice Lee Roosevelt in Ireland, traveling around and touring the area. Roosevelt describes many of the places they have been to visit and gives descriptions of what he saw, including Bray, the Wicklow Mountains and Powenscourt Manor. He informs his sister they will be traveling to Liverpool next.
1881-05-26
Typescript of interview with Edward B. Clark, with President Roosevelt’s autograph corrections. Interview is regarding the nature fakers controversy about sentimental nature writing. Published in Everybody’s Magazine, June 1907. Inserted in the volume are two clippings from the Chicago Post (November 18, 1920) and the New York News (December 7, 1921) concerning the presentation of this manuscript to the Roosevelt Memorial Association.
1907
President Roosevelt in hiking attire standing on Glacier Point, Yosemite.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt writes Frank M. Chapman of his wish that he could work exclusively as a naturalist — or the more modern “biologist.” He will look at Camps and Cruises, page 235, to see how Chapman views the relationship between color and haunt and may include a few sentences if the galley proofs of Roosevelt’s article arrive. Roosevelt is “well aware that there are plenty of men who could have done this criticism much better” and he would rather do the work than have it left undone. He encloses a page to go in an appropriate place and will include a long footnote to address Thayer’s Popular Science Monthly criticism, even though Thayer’s opinion changes from one page to another.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-05
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Frank M. Chapman about the Popular Science article and a criticism of Roosevelt’s “Appendix E” by Thayer, in a letter to the Tribune. He also finds Chapman’s Trinidad article very interesting and disagrees on several points about the birds of Trinidad, although he concedes that Chapman’s experience and training is greater than his own. Roosevelt further discusses his arguments about the coloration, cover, behavior, and habit of birds in the United States, Africa, and Latin America. He thanks Chapman for the interest in his article, thoroughly enjoyed his visit the other day, and will take his notes on the galley sheets into advisement. He returns The Awk and Osborn’s copy of Nature. In the addendum, Roosevelt answers Thayer’s criticism in the Popular Science magazine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to W. C. Willitts that he is not an angler, but he does love nature and all the wild creatures. He also appreciates Willitts’ work on the volume of poems that he has sent, although he is unable to comment on them. He thanks him for his courtesy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-27
Author Abel Chapman expresses his honor and pride in reading Theodore Roosevelt’s article on his book in The Outlook. Chapman, now in his seventh decade, shares his intentions in writing his books and what he has planned next.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
President Roosevelt describes his experiences with a local cat while camping in Louisiana to his son Quentin Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-13
President Roosevelt thanks Ludwig Salvator, Archduke of Austria, for the gift of books. He praises the way in which the Archduke describes nature. Roosevelt responds that he has mostly traveled within his own country, but hopes that the illustrations of American plains and mountain forests in his work The Wilderness Hunter, which he sends a copy of, may interest the Archduke.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt sympathizes with John Muir in his grief over the death of his wife Louisa Wanda Strentzel Muir. Roosevelt advises him to get out among the mountains and the trees, “They will do more for you than either man or woman could.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-17
John Burroughs was very interested to hear Buffalo Jones and the Yellowstone grizzly bears with tin cans stuck on their feet. If President Roosevelt has read any of his latest articles, Burroughs would be glad to receive his thoughts and criticism. Burroughs is considering buying a farm in the southern Catskill region and offers it as a place of rest for Roosevelt and his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
Anna Roosevelt Cowles expresses how much she misses Theodore Roosevelt. Cowles describes a recent drive she took and the different aspects of nature she saw. Cowles mentions a book she has recently read and wants to discuss it with Roosevelt. Cowles informs Roosevelt she reads everything about him, and references his recent “interesting trip.” Cowles mentions Corinne Roosevelt Robinson’s account of Roosevelt during their last encounter with Frances Griscom Parsons, and mentions visiting with Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-10
Annie Nathan Meyer wishes she had known about President Roosevelt’s recent trip to Henderson House, as it is near the preserve that she has tried to persuade Roosevelt to visit. She describes a recent “glorious experience” in the preserve. She and her husband, Alfred Meyer, will be in Washington, D.C., for the upcoming Tuberculosis Congress and hopes to visit and discuss women’s rights. The prestigious magazine, The Studio, published Meyer’s article on American artist Homer Dodge Martin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-29
Sarah Bancroft Leavitt sends President Roosevelt a boys’ book because she thinks it will remind him of the wild free places and hopes it will console him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-14
Lawrence F. Abbott responds to a letter to the editor from President Roosevelt in The Outlook. Abbott argues that he believes in facts in regards to nature as opposed to John Burroughs and William J. Long, and he is pleased Roosevelt agrees. He concludes the note by explaining that his son was just born.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-06
Archduke Ludwig Salvator expresses his appreciation for President Roosevelt’s recently-published book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. Salvator wishes to send Roosevelt several books he wrote that express “the same feeling,” and he hopes Roosevelt will accept them as evidence of his admiration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-12