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Theodore Roosevelt believes that the “blow about the African Game Animals is more to you than to me.” Roosevelt appreciates Charles Scribner’s willingness to publish African Game Animals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-24
Theodore Roosevelt is angry that David Saville Muzzey’s book says that the United States government knew about the revolt in Panama. The Metropolitan Magazine will contain Roosevelt’s statement on the business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt sends Rudyard Kipling a copy of his, America and the World War. Roosevelt kept silent as long as he could, but there is no chance of President Wilson creating worthwhile policy. Roosevelt wants it known that he was not part of the route the country has chosen.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George Putnam for the volume of his memories. Roosevelt also sends final proofs of a volume of his World War I articles that is being published by Scribner’s.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-04
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Huelin C. O’Neill liked the article. Roosevelt appreciates that there are some native-born Americans who take the correct perspective on these issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-07
Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Meyer Lissner wrote to William English Walling. Roosevelt has no doubt that Walling knew the quotation was a lie. Roosevelt has never seen or heard of George Creel except in relation to his attack on Hiram Johnson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-13
Theodore Roosevelt reminds Truman Handy Newberry about articles on socialism that he wrote five years ago. Roosevelt explains that he does not always agree with the editorial stance of the newspapers that publish his articles. Roosevelt takes responsibility for all that he has published, but does not consider himself accountable for what others may have written in the newspapers’ editorials.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt has already written a review of the booklet for The Outlook. He was struck by Nelson’s part of it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-31
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Charles Scribner that this book is only a performance of duty. Roosevelt is annoyed that John Murray left out Roosevelt’s map in his book. Murray is the publisher of Through the Brazilian Wilderness and used a map drawn by Joao Salustiano Lyra, who accompanied them in Brazil as a friend of Rondon’s, rather than a map drawn by Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-28
Theodore Roosevelt would like J. Scott Keltie to look at the American edition of a book in order to prove that his map featured in the book should be included in the English edition as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-29
Theodore Roosevelt asks William H. Van Benschoten if he can read the things said about William Barnes by Collier’s Weekly and McClure’s Magazine. The magazines asked Barnes why he had never sued them for libel. Roosevelt also hopes that he can meet with Van Benschoten soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-17
Theodore Roosevelt will send the pamphlets to Henry Needham when they are printed. Roosevelt explains what happened in the last election as the people began getting tired of reformers, including himself. Roosevelt also appreciates Needham’s characterization of the British, French, and Belgians “as not being scoring machines but as being impossible to score against.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-16
Theodore Roosevelt will look up the copy of the satirical magazine Punch at once, of which Owen Seaman is the editor. Roosevelt sends Seaman a pamphlet that fully states his views on the matter Seaman raised.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-16
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Moses Koenigsberg and William Randolph Hearst for their courtesy, but he has decided to accept a three year offer from one of the big magazines.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-04
Theodore Roosevelt might have known that Flavel Sweeten Luther would have approved of his article in the Times. Roosevelt plans to quote Luther’s letter in an article on which he is working. Roosevelt appreciates the last paragraph of the letter, in which Luther says that his relations to the rising generation made it improper for him to fully express himself about the election. Roosevelt got over the difficulty by quoting the Bible, which he considers an ever-present help in that kind of time of trouble.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-28
Theodore Roosevelt tells F. M. Barton that he never made a particular statement in the form that Barton gave it and he does not have time to write anything for publication.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-30
Theodore Roosevelt knows that the blackbird was really a black thrush. He wishes it could be naturalized here. Roosevelt is glad that Richard Henry Tierney remembers his article on English birds. In the ninth chapter of his autobiography, Roosevelt speaks of the birds around Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-17
President Roosevelt suggests that Benjamin Franklin Sherman see Leonard Wood, as there is nothing he can do in the matter of such a national publication.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-19
Theodore Roosevelt has finished the war articles and is open to considering offers of publication from McClure or the Wheeler Association.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-11-09
The Collier’s staff gave Theodore Roosevelt sixty manuscripts to review. Roosevelt took the manuscripts with him to Europe and it would not have been possible for him to read any more manuscripts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-10-05