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President Roosevelt thanks Natalie Curtis for the “interesting song” and will ask the Indian Commissioner for the permit Curtis desires.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-02
Selina Katzenstein had previously sent a song she wrote to Theodore Roosevelt during his presidency, but she doubts he was ever shown the song. Katzenstein is going to send the song once again for Roosevelt to read.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-16
Joseph E. Haviland asks Theodore Roosevelt for his opinion on his song, “I’m going to be a Boy Scout, Grandpa.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-15
Eunice Harrison Reynolds asks Theodore Roosevelt if he thinks she might be able to make any money from marketing a poem she wrote as a song. She sends Roosevelt the verses, and asks that he return them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-03
W. T. Buckley sends Theodore Roosevelt the song he composed celebrating Roosevelt’s return to New York in 1910. He asks Roosevelt, a master freemason, to rededicate the song to members of another fraternal organization, the Medinah Temple Shriners of Chicago, Illinois.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-21
J. Morton Darrohn asks Theodore Roosevelt for his opinion on the song he wrote about Mother’s Day, so it becomes popular and “bring[s] joy and happiness to some poor mother.” If Roosevelt’s secretary receives the letter, Darrohn requests he give it to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
Invitation to the Annual Outing to Rockaway Bay on Monday, August 31st, 1911.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-31
Handwritten lyrics to a song in praise of California. The author mentions several symbols of California, including grizzly bears and poppy flowers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-29
Sheet music for “Theo’ Roosevelt,” a short, biographical song about President Roosevelt.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1907
Lyrics to a song with a repeating refrain of “Jackson” selling the paddles and “Williams” turning the wheel.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
Unknown
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Joseph Kyle Orr of the Knights Templars, Atlanta, Georgia, to thank him for the first of a bound book of songs from Georgia. Roosevelt congratulates him on the choice of songs and expresses his appreciation for having them bound.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-06-14
As President Roosevelt hastily signs a document, Uncle Sam asks him, “Bid me ‘Howdy’ before you go.” William Loeb checks when the next “presidential train” is due to leave while a teddy bear looks through a songbook of “23 Jingles” which includes the song “In again, out again, presidential train!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-1909
Concert program for the 1905 inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt and Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks. Program includes song lyrics, schedule, and committees.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1905-03-06
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Charles T. Burke for sending Roosevelt a copy of his song, but notes that Roosevelt cannot endorse it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-25