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President Roosevelt regrets that he must decline Emily Binney Smith’s invitation to visit Amesbury, Massachusetts, for the centennial of poet John Greenleaf Whittier’s birth. Smith served as president of the Whittier Home Association. Roosevelt praises Whittier as a leader in “matters of the spirit no less than of the intellect.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-09
President Roosevelt thinks that Edwin Arlington Robinson’s newest poem, Miniver Cheevy, which Robinson sent to Roosevelt’s son Kermit as a manuscript, represents his “queer genius.” He would like Robert Bridges to come speak with him about Bridges’ brother George Bridges’ situation at the post office, which Roosevelt is unable to assist with.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-16
President Roosevelt wishes Charles M. Graves well in his mission to establish a monument for Edgar Allen Poe. Roosevelt calls Poe “among the three or four greatest” literary geniuses that America has ever produced.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-06
President Roosevelt hopes for the success of B. H. Warner’s movement to build a monument to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who Roosevelt believes to be one of the greatest of American poets.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-13
President Roosevelt does not think it is advisable for Edwin Arlington Robinson to go to England, because he thinks that America’s literary men are “always hurt by going abroad.” Roosevelt asks Richard Watson Gilder to find out how Robinson is doing. He wants to give Robinson a government position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-31
President Roosevelt enjoyed Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poems, and asks Robinson to tell him how he is doing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-27
Richard Watson Gilder sends a photograph of Clinton Dangerfield of Dillon, Georgia. President Roosevelt had previously inquired about Dangerfield. Gilder is pleased with the New York election results and had spent the last two or three days of the campaign on the east side of New York, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-07