Letter from Homer Davenport to Theodore Roosevelt
Political cartoonist Homer Davenport thanks President Roosevelt for his letter as it cheered him considerably in his recent illness. In Aleppo, Davenport acquired twenty-seven horses and mares of blood purer than he and Roosevelt have seen before. Aleppo’s governor was curious about “Americk,” a nation he had heard to be the greatest of them all, and he rejoiced that Davenport carried a letter of friendship from Roosevelt, “The Sheik of All Americk.” Davenport also notes that though William Randolph Hearst has offered to employ him, Davenport will refuse because he feels Hearst unfit for the office he seeks and because he desires “to plod where I know I am on the right side.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-13
