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President Roosevelt is happy to hear that Secretary of War Root is going to the Adirondacks and would like to issue directions that he should not be interrupted by messages from the War Department. Roosevelt appreciates the letter from General Grenville Mellen Dodge and will return it for Root’s private files.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-01
Thomas Barbour conveys his satisfaction upon reading Theodore Roosevelt’s “coloration-paper.” He is delayed in reading and remarking on the paper because he has been visiting his family’s park in the Adirondacks. Barbour has great pleasure in remembering time he spent at Oyster Bay. He hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s fall is not serious.
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.
Justice Moody asks William Loeb for a copy of the letter Moody wrote to President Roosevelt yesterday. He sends his well wishes to Loeb and his wife, Katharine W. Dorr Loeb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-10
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. shoots his first deer in the Adirondack Mountains.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899
At center, animals read the epitaphs on the gravestones in a cemetery and laugh at the victims of hunting accidents. Several vignettes show attempts to prevent additional deaths of hunters by checking their eyesight, educating them on the difference between the body of a deer and that of a man, wearing a disguise made from a deer hide, dressing in armor, and using an iron-plated boat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-10-29
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks E. Alexander Powell for his letter and invitation. It will be impossible for Roosevelt to come to the Adirondack Mountains this year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-09
President Roosevelt cannot interfere in state government upon the request of William T. Hornaday. He does however, sympathize with Hornaday’s efforts to preserve bison.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-03
Vice President Roosevelt thanks Charles Gates Dawes for his letter. Two of the Roosevelt children were recently hospitalized, and Mrs. Roosevelt will soon take them to the Adirondack Mountains. Roosevelt might visit them, and then he hopes to see Dawes on his return.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-08-28
C. Hart Merriam thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the skin and skeleton of the dark-colored wolf from north of Quebec. This is the first skin from eastern Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-01-19
J. Alden Loring clearly specified what was fact and what was fiction in his book that Theodore Roosevelt is writing the introduction for and requests a few changes to what Roosevelt has written. Loring should be able to see Roosevelt before he leaves for South America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-09-16
Gifford Pinchot reports to the Camp Fire Club of America about forest conservation in Adirondack Park. He believes the forests are one of New York’s greatest possessions, supplying resources, commerce and recreation. More should be done to protect the forests from misuse and fire. Good laws and properly trained, well-paid firefighters and forest rangers will help the efforts, as well as replanting programs. Pinchot recommends new laws for logging companies, discusses issues with Section 7 of Article 7 of the Constitution, and recommends changes to that article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-02
F. H. Cowles asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would like to see correspondence between Cowles and Governor Dix. This correspondence has led Cowles to believe favoritism is abundant through attempts to get Brooklyn Cooperage Company to utilize oil as fuel throughout the Adirondacks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-17
Baltimore Postmaster W. Hall Harris tells William Loeb that he has found out that Harriet M. Beckwith’s late husband, John D. Murchison, reportedly lived in Charleston, South Carolina. Beckwith may have had “considerable holdings of land” in the Adirondacks, and she may have sold some of this land to John D. Rockefeller.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-12
Jacob A. Riis writes to President Roosevelt to discuss a French sculptor, Paul Nocquet, who wants to mold Roosevelt’s head in clay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-11
Senator Platt reports that politically Theodore Roosevelt has “nothing to worry about” in Connecticut. Platt believes that support is also shifting toward Roosevelt in New York. Platt invites Roosevelt to his cabin in the Adirondacks hoping that the President can help Platt write his speech to be delivered at the Connecticut State Convention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-02
James R. Sheffield discusses strategy surrounding the formation of a Republican political club. Sheffield states he has been advised to wait as forming a club would legitimize the rival organization.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-02
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Paul Russell Cutright examines the thirteen natural history notebooks that Theodore Roosevelt kept during his childhood and young adult years. He notes the dates, the subjects, and the locations of the observations kept in each notebook. Cutright focuses on Roosevelt’s love of birding and most of the notebook excerpts deal with this subject. He highlights Roosevelt’s skill at identifying birds by their calls and songs, notes his considerable observation skills, and credits various naturalists and friends who influenced Roosevelt.
Two photographs of Roosevelt as a child and young man and a full-page picture of a mounted snowy owl that Roosevelt prepared accompany the article.
A listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association along with the members of the executive, finance, and Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace committees is on page two of the article.
Mary M. Tuttle describes scenes in a hotel in the Adirondack Mountains in detail. She includes a “discussion” between a New Yorker and an Ohioan about whose state is greater.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-29
Zoological observations made by Theodore Roosevelt between March 24, 1876 and February 7, 1879. Observations were made in Oyster Bay, New York; the Adirondack Mountains; Forest Hill near Boston, Massachusetts; Island Falls, Maine; Garrison, New York; Long Island Sound; Red Bank, New Jersey; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1879