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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary relays to Walter P. Myers that Roosevelt thanks him for the poem, but has no intention of getting it published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-05
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with the Yale Book of American Verse which was edited by Professor Lounsbury. He is jealous that the Elizabethan Club and Yale University published such a valuable work instead of Harvard University, his own alma mater. Roosevelt would like to write a notice for the book to appear in The Outlook.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-10-24
Theodore Roosevelt will be given Julia Ditto Young’s new book Barnham Beach. Frank Harper thanks her for sending it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-03
President Roosevelt explains to Reverend James O’Brien that although he approves of his educational ideals and thinks O’Brien’s choice of poems is “excellent,” he cannot write a preface for his collection as he would be inundated with such requests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-11
Eunice Harrison Reynolds asks Theodore Roosevelt if he thinks she might be able to make any money from marketing a poem she wrote as a song. She sends Roosevelt the verses, and asks that he return them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03