Letter from Gordon Johnston to Theodore Roosevelt
Former Rough Rider Gordon Johnston encloses a poem that he promised to send to President Roosevelt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-11
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Letter from Eugene F. Ware to Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene F. Ware sends verse written by a pension bureau employee. The verse was written after the woman read a lot of press criticism about the pension bureau.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-11-21
Letter from William H. Moody to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy Moody responds to a verse written by Commissioner of Pensions Eugene F. Ware regarding the administration of Guam.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-02-28
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
Ted is performing well in wrestling and is troubled by his classmates’ lack of interest in poetry. He has recently started to read Milton for the second time.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-02-08
Extract from Senator Hoar
Copy of a note that was sent to Secretary of the Navy Moody. The note includes some verse by Eugene F. Ware about a tyrant of Guam, and President Roosevelt sent the verse to Moody saying that Moody was the despot in question.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-02-05
Poem To the Wild Sheep, Christmas Eve 1902
Edward Kemeys writes a poem to commemorate a bighorn sheep that he killed and had mounted.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-24
Letter from Edward Kemeys to Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Kemeys sends Christmas greetings to President Roosevelt, along with a poem he wrote inspired by a Bighorn sheep that is now over his mantle.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-25
Letter from Louis Michel to George B. Cortelyou
Louis Michel regrets having not had the opportunity to meet the President. Michel submits requests for materials related to President Roosevelt for newspaper publication. The requests include a portrait of Roosevelt and a couple of poetry excerpts that Roosevelt recited.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-12-19
Letter from Maurice Francis Egan to Theodore Roosevelt
Maurice Francis Egan sends President Roosevelt some literature and sea songs.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-22
Letter from Martha Baker Dunn to Theodore Roosevelt
Martha Baker Dunn thanks President Roosevelt for the letter and shares her thoughts concerning Robert Browning and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-15
Letter from Edward Sandford Martin to Theodore Roosevelt
Edward Sandford Martin has sent President Roosevelt a book of verses.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-12
Valor
Text of “Valor,” a poem by Nathanial Southgate Shaler.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-06-26
The seige of the Alamo
James Lynch dedicated a poem about the Siege of the Alamo to President Roosevelt to help him write a history of Texas.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-19
Extract from a letter from Ella Howard Bryan to Richard Watson Gilder
Ella Howard Bryan, who wrote under the pen name of Clinton Dangerfield, is a fan of President Roosevelt, although the letter only refers to “the President.” She has composed a poem entitled “The Man of Destiny,” based on the life of Roosevelt. She declares that she would not want to meet Roosevelt for fear, although she admires him. She mentions how Roosevelt has reached the heights of life, while she is “still very much on the plains.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-05-12
Letter from Harper & Brothers to Theodore Roosevelt
Harper & Brothers is sending President Roosevelt a special copy of Alfred Austin’s A Tale of True Love & Other Poems in a special binding at the author’s request, as previously mentioned.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-30
The man of destiny
A poem by Clinton Dangerfield originally published as “The New President: A Prayer” in The Century for November, 1901.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04
Letter from John Hay to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of State Hay sends President Roosevelt a “poem from a friendly merchant” who “has a soul above his account books.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-28
Letter from Harper & Brothers to Theodore Roosevelt
Harper & Brothers will be sending President Roosevelt a copy of The Cause of True Love and Other Poems by Alfred Austin at the request of the author. The publishers are preparing a special binding for Roosevelt at Austin’s request.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-04-16
Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Watson Gilder encloses a poem about President Roosevelt by Clinton Dangerfield entitled “The Man of Destiny,” which will appear in the April issue of The Century Magazine.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-03-11
Letter from Robert Barnwell Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt
Robert Barnwell Roosevelt understands that the Jensen legislation could not be initiated and asks if President Roosevelt has seen his poetry.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-02