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Ernst Hertzberg asks Theodore Roosevelt to send a handwritten letter for his autograph collection and offers to bind a book for him in return.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-13
Secretary of War Elihu Root holds a rope that is attached to a “Lieut-Gen. in command” chair on which General Nelson Appleton Miles sits, typing at a typewriter. Miles has typed reports and speeches already, and is currently typing: “My charges against the Army: looting, water cure, murder, favoritism.” Root taps President Roosevelt on the shoulder and presents the rope to him, directing him to pull the chair out from underneath Miles.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-20
President Roosevelt has looked through the report submitted to the Solicitor General involving Charles J. Bonaparte and Holmes Conrad, and advises that he will appoint Bonaparte under the conditions detailed in the letter. Roosevelt also mentions that Senator Cameron has been asked to communicate with Bonaparte regarding the Elliott and Hatch book typewriter business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt sends a bill for a typewriter to be paid by Elon Huntington Hooker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-12
President Roosevelt has asked Mr. Hitchcock to appoint Bonaparte on the conditions named in the letter and Senator Cameron has been asked to communicate with Bonaparte about the “Elliott and Hatch book typewriter business.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-15
Alexander Konta writes of the “scantiness, unreliability and confusion of the records of the past” and modern technologies being used for commercial rather than historical value. He proposes the Modern Historic Records Association be created in an effort to combine efforts at the local, state, and national level to preserve the historic record, including the voices of men of importance. He hopes that Theodore Roosevelt might look kindly on this idea and will consider joining in the planning of such an undertaking.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
This report provides statistics and analysis regarding tariff concessions to the United States by Brazil, including details of specific rates of imports proportionate to Brazilian exports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-29
A document John Allison sent to President Roosevelt earlier contained a typographical omission which materially changed the meaning of a statement he made. Allison explains the error and encloses a new copy of the document.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-11
Political cartoon featuring Theodore Roosevel on horseback in his Rough Rider uniform, with a typewriter, telephone, a hunting rifle, boxing gloves, and Indian clubs.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900
President Roosevelt types on a typewriter as a “scout” stands nearby. On the ground is a paper that reads, “The game has all left the country. Mumbo, the scout, reports cigarette boxes thicker than ever on the trail ahead. Looks hopeless. ($22.00)” Beside Roosevelt’s desk is a box of “asbestos message paper.” Caption: It is reported that three New York men are going to hunt in Africa ahead of Mr. Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-10
President Roosevelt wears a “typewriter” on his back and points his finger at an elephant in Africa as another man photographs the incident. Caption: Mr. Roosevelt’s equipment need not be expensive.
Among a multitude of cartoon speculations on Theodore Roosevelt’s upcoming African safari, artists played variations on the simple theme that wild animals would be cowed by the belligerent Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt fires his “no. 2 for birds” shotgun at a “Panama lyre-bird” (Joseph Pulitzer) in the African wilderness. Meanwhile, a “Congress” lion and “Foraker & Brownsville” hippopotamus stay in the background. Roosevelt is surrounded by his big stick–“for fighting at close quarters”–a typewriter, a notebook, a wireless box, a camera, a “no. 6 for lions etc.” gun, a toothbrush, and a book entitled “Wild Animals and Their Habits.”
This cartoon represents a fair summary of Theodore Roosevelt’s last months in office. He was wildly popular throughout the country, and by common consensus he could have been renominated by the Republican Party if he had not renounced interest on election night of 1904. And even as some Democrats urged him to run again, and recognized that their platforms and Roosevelt’s policies were consanguine, he could have been confident of reelection.
A lion reaches out to claw President Roosevelt as he types on a typewriter. Beside him is a “dictionary,” a gun, and a boy reading a “natural history” book. A snake looks at the boy.
In mid-1908, the American public focused its attention on new items in the headlines. As per usual, they often centered on President Roosevelt as had been the case for the seven years of his administration, and during other positions he held. In some venues he seemed larger than the entire Spanish-American War; and the romance of the American West — much of what the public knew of it — was synonymous with Roosevelt.
Quentin Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson for the book. He has failed to write to Isabella Ferguson with his impressions of the West but he would like to return next year. Roosevelt might work for John Greenway next summer and has plans for another trip to the Southwest.
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George W. Clark believes he may have forgotten to sign his last letter regarding Mr. Brown. In a postscript he expresses frustration at the amount of labor it took to use the typewriter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-09