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Elizabeth B. Knapp McClellan, member of the Birmingham Women’s Literary Club, has been tasked with researching Jacob A. Riis and hopes Theodore Roosevelt will be able to provide some information on Riis and confirm the rumor that Riis died recently.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-09
Lawrence Merriam writes Allyn F. Hanks, enclosing a memo from Omar Hagen. Merriam is sending it in preparation for research.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-28
Historian Ray H. Mattison requests information about the location of the Elkhorn Ranch site from Hermann Hagedorn.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-03
President Roosevelt will ask the naval authorities if the writer Ralph Delahaye Paine will be able to travel with them. He believes that Paine will be able to get good material if he can travel with the fleet.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-12
President Roosevelt is interested in Dr. Lee K. Frankel’s work at Ellis Island and would like to speak with him after the completion of the investigation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Bliss to send reports, maps, and books on Alaska and the Yukon gold fields to Lincoln Steffens of the New York Evening Post. If there is any cost for the requested materials, Roosevelt asks that the bill be sent to Steffens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-04
William T. Hornaday thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter which was sent to William Beebe. Hornaday believes Beebe is the world’s greatest ornithologist in part because, like Hornaday, he is committed to “making interesting zoological knowledge available to the millions who are interested in birds.” Hornaday would like Roosevelt to attend the opening of the Heads and Horns Collection in the Spring of 1918.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-10-10
Frank M. Chapman tells Theodore Roosevelt the National Academy of Science meetings are open to the public and discusses Roosevelt’s research paper and opinions on animal coloration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-16
Abbot Handerson Thayer rebukes Theodore Roosevelt and other naturalists who criticize something they will not investigate for themselves, namely animal adaptation and coloring. He invites Roosevelt to experience his imitation zebra and learn for himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-27
Having exhausted other options, A. S. Livingston turns to Theodore Roosevelt for information, and hopes he can tell him what the history of Lake Ronkonkoma’s name is.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-21
H. Dora Stecker is engaged in historical research regarding the early period of the steamboat transportation industry, and asks Theodore Roosevelt if he could provide any information on the relationship between his ancestor Nicholas J. Roosevelt and his relations with the Fulton-Livingston Company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-06
J. H. Hetley was involved in a previous Commission on Country Life while Theodore Roosevelt was president. He is looking for more information on country life, as he studies the “Rural School Problem,” but has been unsuccessful. He hopes Roosevelt might be able to point him in the right direction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-22
Unknown author reminds himself to ask Professor Williamson where one of Theodore Roosevelt’s letters and three of William Loeb’s letters are located. The answers are included in a different hand.
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Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt replies to Edwin Brockholst Livingston and confirms receipt of the photograph and genealogy materials he sent. Roosevelt shares his interests in researching and learning more about the Dutch half of the Roosevelt lineage and New York history.
1891-07-22
Ray H. Mattison writes to David H. Welsh in reference to Welsh’s research on the range cattle industry and Pierre Wibaux.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-04
Lucinda B. Scott encloses a copy of a biographical sketch of A. W. Merrifield from the book Progressive Men of Montana.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-05-11
Ray H. Mattison informs Lucinda Scott that he is writing an article on Roosevelt’s contemporaries along the Little Missouri River. Also, Mattison tells her that his article on Roosevelt and the Stockmen’s Association will be out soon.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-05-05
Ray H. Mattison writes to John C. Eaton regarding references he found to Eaton’s grandfather Howard Eaton, Jonathan Chase and his partner George Fry, who operated two cattle ranches in the Badlands area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-04-18
Allyn F. Hanks acknowledges receipt of John C. Eaton’s letter to Ray H. Mattison and tells Eaton that Mattison is currently conducting research in Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-03-09
Allyn F. Hanks acknowledges Herbert Oliver Brayer’s letter to Ray H. Mattison and informs Brayer that Mattison is currently away doing research in Washington, D.C.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-03-14