Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Oscar S. Straus
President Roosevelt notifies Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus that Robert E. Peary has been directed by the Navy Department to report to the superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Roosevelt tells Straus to instruct the Superintendent to order Peary to make tidal observations in the Polar Sea, which it is believed will illuminate the Coast Survey theory that there is a land mass in the Arctic Ocean.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-07-03
