Periodicals

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. Alden Loring

If J. Alden Loring wishes to join the expedition to Africa, President Roosevelt will inform Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. However, he advises Loring that no member of the expedition party will be able to write about the trip until after Roosevelt has published his own articles and book as per his agreement with Scribner’s. The big game hunting will also only be done by Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1909-01-02

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lawrence F. Abbott

President Roosevelt returns some documents to Lawrence F. Abbott to avoid continuing to tweak them without any significant benefits. The articles should be published sometime during the six months after Roosevelt leaves the presidency.

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1908-12-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Collier

President Roosevelt is glad that Robert J. Collier liked his speech, and would be pleased if Collier printed it as he proposes. Roosevelt jokes that he is glad that his speech cannot be printed side by side with the Gettysburg Address, however, because while it might be a good speech of the day, it would “be ruined if put side by side with one of the two or three great classics of human eloquence.” Roosevelt will look forward to reading Collier’s tribute to his father, Peter Fenelon Collier.

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1908-12-29

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

President Roosevelt sends Lyman Abbott, editor-in-chief of The Outlook, two more articles on which he would like feedback, and which he expects will be the last ones he sends. Roosevelt will do his best to have criminal libel suits brought against the New York World and the Indianapolis News. While Douglas Robinson or Charles P. Taft had clear cases for libel suits, it is difficult for private individuals to proceed against newspapers, which is why he is taking the lead.

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1908-12-15

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Maurice Francis Egan

President Roosevelt thanks Maurice Francis Egan, the American Minister in Denmark, for sending a magazine and newspaper, which Roosevelt plans to have translated. Roosevelt appreciated Egan’s letter, and comments on several of the subjects which Egan raised, including morality and the marriage of prominent Americans to foreigners.

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1908-12-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

President Roosevelt tells Lyman Abbott that his reason for wishing that the letter not be made public was so that it did not seem like he was challenging the matter. He thinks that as long as Abbott omits some sections of the letter no harm could come from publishing it. Roosevelt also requests that Abbott send him a proof of his article on socialism, as he might have some portions to add to it.

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1908-11-27

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John St. Loe Strachey

President Roosevelt was very interested in John St. Loe Strachey’s article about American ex-Presidents, although he is not sure if he entirely agrees with him about his own particular position. After leaving the presidency Roosevelt is looking forward to being an entirely private citizen once more, and says it would be “an unpleasant thing to be pensioned and given some honorary position.” He plans to go on a hunting safari in Africa, write for The Outlook, and, in the case of war, would like to serve in another volunteer cavalry division if he is still physically fit. Roosevelt does acknowledge, however, that his position is somewhat unique, and that the issue of how to support ex-presidents still stands in the abstract. He hopes to see Strachey sometime when he visits England, as well as Evelyn Baring Cromer and Frederick Courteney Selous.

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1908-11-28

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyman Abbott

President Roosevelt discusses several dates when Lyman Abbott, and perhaps his sons Lawrence F. and Ernest Hamlin Abbott, could come for dinner. He would like to discuss political matters, but also editorial matters for The Outlook. Roosevelt also encloses a letter which he would like The Outlook to publish after March 4, when he starts his formal work there. He also encloses other articles, which can be published at Abbott’s discretion.

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1908-11-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Sidney Rossiter

President Roosevelt enjoyed William Sidney Rossiter’s article in The Atlantic Monthly and looks forward to discussing it when he returns to Washington, D.C.

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1908-08-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julian LaRose Harris

President Roosevelt, responding to a request from Julian LaRose Harris, provides a letter eulogizing Harris’s father, Joel Chandler Harris, for publication in Uncle Remus’s Home Magazine. Roosevelt hopes that Harris will publish his own letter about his father, as well, because although it is personal, it will reach the readers of the magazine, which Joel Chandler Harris founded and Julian LaRose Harris manages, in just the right way.

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1908-07-17

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Collier

President Roosevelt is sorry that Sarah Steward Collier will not be able to travel with Robert J. Collier when he visits on August 4. Roosevelt has been treated very nicely by both Collier and Mark Sullivan, and he feels very differently about Collier’s Weekly than he did four years ago. If an opportunity arises for Roosevelt to write something that Collier wants, Roosevelt will be glad to do so.

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1908-07-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julian LaRose Harris

President Roosevelt is fond of Julian LaRose Harris and would like to help Uncle Remus’s Magazine in the wake of Joel Chandler Harris’s death. Roosevelt does not think that it is very likely he would be able to write a piece for the magazine, as he has already promised articles to several others; but he offers to write a letter for publication, standing in support of the magazine and honoring the memory of Harris’s father. Roosevelt views Uncle Remus’s as not only a Southern magazine, but an American one.

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1908-07-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Caspar Whitney

President Roosevelt thanks Caspar Whitney for the letter. Roosevelt thinks he will accept the offer from Scribner’s.

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1908-07-06

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to S. S. McClure

President Roosevelt thanks S. S. McClure for the generous offer, but has decided in favor of the offer from Scribners. He wishes he could accept the offers of all four publications that wished to publish his articles.

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1908-07-07

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert J. Collier

President Roosevelt is sorry that he did not connect his presently planned hunting trip with Robert J. Collier’s previous offer. Scribner’s Magazine has handled Roosevelt’s past hunting trips, so he naturally thought of them first. Roosevelt is glad that Collier did not make his present offer when he first visited, as Roosevelt would have had a much harder time making a decision between the two magazines. Roosevelt hopes to be able to give Collier articles in the future, and hopes to meet with him and Mark Sullivan in person soon. In a handwritten postscript, Roosevelt assures Collier that if he were going on a world trip, as Collier initially proposed, he would definitely have turned to him first.

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1908-07-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Julian LaRose Harris

President Roosevelt is distressed to hear that Julian LaRose Harris’s father, Joel Chandler Harris, is still not well. Roosevelt is pleased that Harris like the article that Roosevelt wrote, and explains his reasons for writing it. He believes in Harris’s magazine and wants to see it succeed, but he is also glad that the magazine will use the article to promote an idea Roosevelt wants to draw attention to.

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1908-06-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George Horace Lorimer

President Roosevelt comments on an article that George Horace Lorimer recently published in The Saturday Evening Post, which commented on America’s Envoys Extraordinary. Roosevelt thinks that the article had some good points, but wishes that the article did not also misrepresent several other facts. He acknowledges that there have been some people in the past who have not been fit for their positions, but maintains that ambassadors and envoys currently appointed are by and large good men who are qualified for their positions.

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1908-06-26

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Marion Reedy

President Roosevelt was very impressed with William Marion Reedy’s article, and wishes that it could be circulated throughout the United States. Roosevelt was struck by Reedy’s description of newspapers, when he wrote that the people driving the policies of these are plutocrats who wish to oppose anything that could threaten them, but who, by doing this, foster socialism and anarchy in response. Roosevelt feels that his actions in trying to reduce the evils of plutocracy are the only thing that can answer a movement toward socialism and anarchy.

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1908-06-29

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Bridges

President Roosevelt writes to Robert Bridges of Scribner’s to apologize for not being able to give the magazine any of his articles that he plans to write during his African safari. Collier’s offered more money for the articles, and as the safari promises to be expensive, Roosevelt did not think he could turn the offer down. He still hopes to give Scribner’s the rights to publish his book.

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1908-06-30

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert Bridges

President Roosevelt contacts Robert Bridges regarding the articles he plans to write on his upcoming African safari. Roosevelt asks if Charles Scribner’s Sons would pay him $50,000 for all serial rights of his African trip and 20% on the book. He has been receiving offers from other magazines, but would prefer to deal with Scribner’s if they can offer the deal he mentioned, even though he has been offered more money elsewhere. If the difference is extreme, however, Roosevelt may have to instead sell his articles to McClure’s or Collier’s.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-02