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Ambassador Meyer sends a message to Secretary of State Hay concerning a published interview which was taken from the Petit Parisien newspaper. Meyer suggests that a reporter made up the interview.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-17
Senator Lodge informs President Roosevelt he was mistaken about the president’s communication with Massachusetts Representative Augustus Peabody Gardner being published. Only Gardner’s correspondence with Attorney General William H. Moody had been published. Given that Gardner carried his district by over 9,000, Lodge believes no good “can come by reopening it.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-10
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that the Republican party will take up the tariff. Roosevelt looks forward to the appearance of John Burroughs’s next volume, and asks if Burroughs has seen his two recent articles in Scribner’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-11
President Roosevelt was greatly interested in Captain Humphrey’s article. It contained information he was unaware of, which he would like to meet and discuss. He thinks it unwise to publish the article at present.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-18
President Roosevelt received Colonel Lyon’s letter and assures him that the enclosed article it is mostly untrue and irrelevant. Lyon does not need to worry about any negative claims against him because Roosevelt is aware of, and touched by, his devotion. Roosevelt hopes they can meet and discuss the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-18
President Roosevelt is glad that Frederick Courteney Selous is going to publish Julius Fleischmann’s observation of a crocodile attacking a rhinoceros. Roosevelt thanks Selous for the books he sent, and looks forward to the receipt of other publications.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-04
President Roosevelt encloses photographs and a letter from Julius Fleischmann relating to an incident of a crocodile attacking a rhinoceros. Roosevelt has read that a cheetah can “distance” a horse with ease. Roosevelt asks Federick Courteney Selous when he thinks he will publish his book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-27
Theodore Roosevelt thinks it is extraordinary that any human being can believe William J. Long, stating that they “ought to have some sense.” This is in reference to the “nature fakers” controversy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-09
Theodore Roosevelt is delighted with John Burroughs’ article, but thinks Burroughs overstates Roosevelt’s own powers of observations. Roosevelt made two or three corrections to the article. He also believes that there is no purpose in further alluding to William J. Long and the “nature faker” controversy. Roosevelt asks Burroughs if he saw an article in the American Magazine where Whitman made a friendly allusion to Roosevelt’s ranch sketches in 1888.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-29
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that John Burroughs wrote to The Outlook about the “nature faker” controversy. The quarrel with William J. Long is that he “invents the facts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-15
In response to a published statement by New York District Attorney Jerome, President Roosevelt wishes to make it clear to Jerome that he did not authorize the use of his picture or approve the article in Fads and Fancies. William Loeb looked in the Oyster Bay files for Roosevelt and found a letter from Judge Joseph M. Deuel to Loeb, requesting a photograph that Deuel gave the false impression of being approved by Roosevelt by Kate Phelan Hampton. Roosevelt was never informed of Loeb and Deuel’s correspondence and even sent back a copy of the book that William D’Alton Mann sent to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-27
President Roosevelt has very much enjoyed Frederick Courteney Selous’s articles and hopes he will write a book about the natural history of big game. Roosevelt appreciates Selous’s ability to describe sights vividly and accurately.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that John Burroughs has written up the Yellowstone trip. Roosevelt would like Burroughs to send him the proofs of those stories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt has read John Burroughs’ article. He has one important correction to make about blacktail deer. The bulk of the deer Roosevelt saw in Yellowstone Park were blacktail.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-18
Theodore Roosevelt had his message to Congress printed and distributed over a week prior. In order to get in newspapers in the Pacific slope and in Europe it has to be to the press associations at least ten days before Congress meets.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-30
Theodore Roosevelt was almost as pleased with John Burroughs’ inscription as with the volume itself. Roosevelt wishes for a “legitimate opportunity” to skin William J. Long.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends John Burroughs the letter that he sent to William J. Long’s publisher. Roosevelt’s book is less thrilling, but more accurate than Long’s work. Roosevelt would like Burroughs to come to Oyster Bay or Washington, D.C., for a visit. He would like to discuss the question of the intellect and moral sense of animals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-27
President Roosevelt assures Kate Phelan Hampton that she not feel badly about causing him any annoyance over the use of his photograph in the book, which is presumably William D’Alton Mann’s Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. However, Roosevelt wants to again stress that he does not authorize the use of his photo in this case and wants nothing about him to appear in the book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-29
On behalf of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, William Loeb informs John L. Schilling that she is not able to meet his wishes, and cannot consent to the circulation of his publication as he suggests.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-22
On account of John Burroughs’ articles, Theodore Roosevelt has removed everything he said about animals teaching their young to avoid traps and poisons.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-12