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Jacob A. Riis thanks President Roosevelt for allowing him to inscribe a book. He will send another edition when he gets it. Riis hopes that President Roosevelt’s bear hunt is going well and requests a meeting for December to discuss some articles Riis might write. He has given up on writing a full life of Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-14
The publisher Charles Scribner’s Sons informs Cromwell Childe that the pictures found in the October 1901 edition of Scribner’s Magazine were provided by President Roosevelt and Scribner’s has no authority to extend permission to reprint the pictures.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-17
Mrs. Archibald Dixon is a supporter of President Roosevelt, but is of a different opinion on a few issues. She sent Roosevelt a magazine by George B. Cortelyou that included an article on Patrick Henry. She disagrees with Roosevelt’s assessment that Henry made “a slip” in opposing the Constitution without amendments. She also encourages him to leave the North-South issue in the hands of God.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-24
Susan Bullitt Dixon sends President Roosevelt a magazine as a token of her regard as “an old Kentucky woman who admires him greatly.” She mentions that in times past she might have “entertained your party on venison and the accompaniments,” but she is now only able to send good wishes for a successful hunt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-12
Jean N. Ingram sends Theodore Roosevelt his illustrated article on industrial New Zealand and urges him to plan a hunting trip there. He briefly describes the Maori people and the landscape. He discusses the ancient moa bird and the modern kea, “tigers on wings.” Ingram asks if The Outlook would be interested in an article on Australia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-18
Rudyard Kipling writes Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asking him to meet with his friend Sidney Low, editor of the London Gazette, when he visits the United States in February.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-21
Vice presidential candidate Thomas E. Watson writes Police Commissioner Roosevelt regarding Roosevelt’s recent article in the Review of Reviews, which criticized Watson’s populist platform. Watson explains his position as tied into his advocacy for the poor, upon whom the burdens of government most often fall. He believes Roosevelt has misjudged him and asserts that if the two spent time together, Roosevelt would see that they have much in common.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1896-08-30
Thomas E. Watson praises Police Commissioner Roosevelt for a recent article in the Review of Reviews which gave him “good reason to congratulate myself for having written you.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-01-04