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FRAGMENT, Theodore Roosevelt writes frankly to an unknown person with a laboratory who performs “artificifial conditions” for experiments on various birds and mammals, such as the oryx and zebra. Roosevelt openly calls this unknown person’s theories nonsensical, and proceeds to explain why the person is wrote before the letter cuts off.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-29
Theodore Roosevelt shares his observations on animal coloration with C. Hart Merriam and asks where he can get some of Merriam’s lectures on protective coloration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-04-09
Handwritten draft of life history descriptions of African game animals. The descriptions were published in Life Histories of African Game Animals.
1914
Theodore Roosevelt describes his current camp in the “African wilderness” which has been made less comfortable due to early rains. With the help of several African attendants, he has been hunting eland and oryx. Everyone has been behaving excellently and are “amply supplied with meat.” Roosevelt keeps a photograph of Ethel Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on his table.
1909-09-02