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John Burroughs responds to Theodore Roosevelt’s questions about birds he observed. Burroughs’ article in The Outlook appears to have been well received. Burroughs’ publishers want to make a book out of the Yellowstone Park sketch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-18
C. Hart Merriam thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter that came just as he was leaving Washington, D.C., for the west. He appreciated the information about the pigeons and the context for Shiras’ letter. Merriam also describes work that Nelson is doing to collect opinions from well known naturalists.
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1907-07-04
John Burroughs writes to Lyman Abbott, editor of The Outlook, to defend the remarks Theodore Roosevelt made about the “nature faker” controversy. Abbott wrote an editorial saying that Roosevelt made a “too sharp distinction between fiction and fact.” Burroughs believes that there is “a legitimate and an illegitimate use of the imagination in writing human history.”
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1907-06-11
Timothy L. Woodruff, Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee, responds to President Roosevelt’s telegram about whether Woodruff called on Roosevelt to deny a Hearst publication. Woodruff confirms that he did not publicly suggest that Roosevelt reply to the publication, but explains from where that understanding may have derived. Woodruff also attaches a telegram that generally illustrates his correspondence about Roosevelt’s endorsement for the upcoming New York Governor’s election between William Randolph Hearst and Charles Evans Hughes.
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1906-10-30
Richard Watson Gilder thanks President Roosevelt for his kind words about Gilder’s anti-Hearst letter. Gilder notes that Jacob Riis has procured the printing of his own fierce letter in the New York East Side Jewish papers on a daily basis until the election. Gilders says the Republicans have the millionaire back roads well-beaten.
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1906-10-27
Rear Admiral Mahan is glad to let President Roosevelt use any of his writing that may be of service, without regard to credit. He adds that the book has not been read in the United States as much as in Great Britain. He also notes that his change of address delayed receipt of the president’s letter.
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1906-10-24
Assistant editor to The Century Magazine Clarence Clough Buel encloses proofs for Theodore Roosevelt’s article “The Ancient Irish Sagas” and asks that he give it the “final touches.”
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1906-10-18
Editor Edward Bok of The Ladies’ Home Journal writes to William Loeb with a question concerning the magazine section devoted to President Theodore Roosevelt. While Bok will comply with a request from Roosevelt to change the language of the section heading in “The President,” he requests that Roosevelt reconsider as the change, though minor, may cause unnecessary confusion.
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1906-09-07
William H. Fleming encloses a newspaper clipping containing his reply to an attack made by Judge A. L. Miller on his Athens, Georgia, address on race.
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1906-08-09
Opie Read tells President Roosevelt that he has just finished writing a book about Andrew Jackson, and asks if Roosevelt has any objection to the enclosed dedication page, which he emphasizes is written out of esteem and not “as an advertisement.”
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1906-08-09
William Valentine Alexander, managing editor of The Ladies’ Home Journal, asks William Loeb to deliver the enclosed proof of Maurice Francis Egan’s article to President Roosevelt for review. If Roosevelt finds no occasion to make changes, the article is ready to go to press.
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1906-08-07
Albert J. Beveridge quotes a letter from John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, who recently purchased the Dayton Journal. Shaffer plans to unequivocally endorse President Roosevelt and his policies. Beveridge has been traveling in the depths of the Maine woods, which he feels has restored him and urges Roosevelt to rest over the summer. After he opens the Maine campaign, Beveridge plans to go on another long trip with Gifford Pinchot.
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1906-08-08
Robert Bridges thanks President Roosevelt for sending him a poem written by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Bridges intends to print the poem in Scribner’s Magazine and offers critical feedback for later proofs.
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1906-08-08
Robert Bacon encloses a dispatch from the Legation of Buenos Aires that includes a clipping from La Nacion, a translation of a letter from President Roosevelt to Dr. Miguel F. Rodriguez.
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1906-07-26
Charles Scribner’s Sons has sent President Roosevelt a complete set of Roosevelt’s publications. They have added Outdoor Pastimes to the set.
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1906-07-20
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad President Roosevelt is at Sagamore and done with all of the hand shaking. Her husband William S. Cowles was home for the Fourth of July but has returned to Washington, D.C. Cowles recommends to her brother the volume Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. The Chinese minister mentioned while visiting that he plans to give suffrage to land owners based on a conversation he had with Roosevelt. Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. has been homebound much of the summer to avoid catching the whooping cough which is being passed around children in town, although he is canoeing, playing tennis, and vegetable gardening. The Chinese minister and Cowles both agree that horses are preferable to automobiles, as she is “in deadly terror of running into some one.”
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1906-07-08
Frank Andrew Munsey writes to President Roosevelt to ask him to write a 200,000 word article for Munsey’s Magazine on the topic of “The Populating of an Empire.” Munsey believes that Roosevelt is the most qualified man in the country on this topic. Roosevelt would be paid $50,000 for the article and would reserve the book rights.
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1906-03-06
Praising remarks made by Japanese Admiral Heihachirō Tōgō, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge asks President Roosevelt if he can send it to be published in The Outlook or if she can have permission to have it published in another weekly publication. La Farge thinks the address would be more valuable to the civilian than the military man. She recommends that Roosevelt read the book Religion, a Criticism and a Forecast by G. Lowes Dickinson.
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1906-03-07
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge references President Roosevelt’s troubles with the “Fads and Fancies” publication and thanks him for sending her a copy of the related correspondence between William Loeb, Francis Wayland Palmer, William D’Alton Mann, Joseph M. Deuel, and William Travers Jerome. La Farge is keeping it because she is having dinner with Jerome soon. She plans to tell him that he was foolish for not working with Roosevelt on the matter, as she believes people credit Roosevelt for calling out the fraudulent behavior.
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1906-02-06
Frederick Courteney Selous sends President Roosevelt a copy of Swayne’s Travels in Mongolia, and, as soon as he is able, will send copies of several magazine articles. Selous very much enjoyed meeting Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. If Roosevelt would consent to send Selous a signed photograph, Selous would “value it above all things.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-26