Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to C. S. Maynard
President Roosevelt thanks C. S. Maynard for the letter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-03-19
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Archibald B. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt thinks the poem was great and agrees with its sentiment. He wishes Jane Addams’s admirers might send it to her, otherwise the poem will just have to be for the enjoyment of Archibald B. Roosevelt’s “warlike” family. Roosevelt encourages Archie to read the next issue of the Metropolitan where he will see something about his pacifistic and German-American father.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-03-13
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert B. Rogers
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Robert B. Rogers likes what has been done in connection with the American Legion, and he thanks him for the poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-03-18
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer for sending Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem. He will show it to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-22
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edwin Arlington Robinson
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Edwin Arlington Robinson for the book. Roosevelt is pleased with the translations of the anthology and enjoyed Robinson’s poem that will appear in The Outlook.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-22
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Temple Scott
Theodore Roosevelt writes that the matter with Alexander Smith Cochran is arranged. Roosevelt asks that Temple Scott keep the matter private except for Mark Sullivan. To save Bliss Carmen’s feelings he will have him work some with the Elizabethan club.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Smith Cochran
Theodore Roosevelt write to Alexander Smith Cochran, founder of the Elizabethan Club, to inquire about employment opportunities for poet Bliss Carman. Roosevelt mentions that when he was President, he angered the “ultra-civil-service Reformers” by encouraging a similar poet, Arlington Robinson, to pursue writing instead of his work at a millinery store.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-02-04
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Gorham Rice
Theodore Roosevelt allows William Gorham Rice to use a quotation and compliments Rice on his book and also asks Rice about a poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-19
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to W. A. Sharman
Theodore Roosevelt received the volume of poems from W. A. Sharman and looks forward to reading them.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-14
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mark Sullivan
Theodore Roosevelt has a negative opinion of Arthur Ruhl and will not provide a letter to help him in Russia and Serbia. He suggests Mark Sullivan write to Ambassador Jusserand. Roosevelt enjoyed the Jonas story and approves of John Waterbury’s poem, especially since Waterbury styles himself as an appropriate type of hyphenated American, an “American-American.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-04
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Harold Bagbie
President Roosevelt thanks Harold Bagbie for the book of poems and hopes he will see the “little volume.” Roosevelt is writing on the World War.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1915-01-04
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Samuel Johnson
Theodore Roosevelt tells poet William Samuel Johnson that he loves the poem “Prayer for Peace” and would like to use it as the foreword to his book America and the World War.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-12-29
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Emily V. Hammond
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Emily V. Hammond for the book of poetry by Angela Morgan. He appreciates the poetry as well as Hammond’s thoughtfulness.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-12-16
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Seamus MacManus
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he is unable to write the note that Seamas MacManus requests. While he enjoyed MacManus’s stories, Roosevelt explains that he receives so many requests for literary endorsements that he has to stick to the rule of only writing such expressions on special occasions.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-12-16
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to F. E. Hipple
Theodore Roosevelt thanks F. E. Hipple for his note and poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-24
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alfred Noyes
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased with the letter and poem from Alfred Noyes. Roosevelt believes in peace but it must be “backed by physical force” in order to “appeal against the brutal, the disorderly, the homicidal.” He thinks Noyes’s verses will be helpful as too many “Peace people have degenerated into the ultra-pacifist type.” For example, none of the American peace organizations have denounced Germany for its actions in Belgium.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James H. Kidder
Theodore Roosevelt thanks James H. Kidder for the poem and says it was very good. He also states that the fox hunt is “only a pleasure deferred.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-17
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Percy MacKaye
Theodore Roosevelt has been very busy but will read Percy MacKaye’s poem.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-14
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Christopher LaFarge
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Christopher LaFarge on his quatrain “In the Grot.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-04
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George D. Talbot
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George D. Talbot for the book of poems written by Talbot’s wife, Sophronia Maria Westcott Talbot, and offers his condolences for George D. Talbot’s loss.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1912-12-24