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President Roosevelt is happy Kermit has been acting as cox on the rowing team. Roosevelt describes his trip into the Grand Canyon and all the animals and plants he has seen. He has collected a variety of treasures which he will bring home for Kermit and the other children. These treasures include a badger named Josiah.
1903-05-10
President Roosevelt is impressed with Major Brown’s ability to shoot targets at night. He remembers the good shooting Brown and Stewart Edward White did when they visited.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-26
President Roosevelt assures William Lawrence that the gathering of couples on Tuesday is not a lunch party. If Lawrence and his wife do not want to attend on Tuesday, then Roosevelt would like to have lunch alone with him the Saturday prior, as he needs to see him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-18
Theodore Roosevelt asks Johann Heinrich Bernstorff to read the enclosed letter from Stewart Edward White. Roosevelt requests Bernstorff and his government grant White’s request to shoot in Germany, and he vouches for White’s character and conduct.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-13
Theodore Roosevelt sends Alfred E. Pease a pamphlet he wrote on protective coloration in animals, which he also sent to Frederick Courteney Selous, C. H. Stigand, and Edward North Buxton. “Homesick for the wilderness,” Kermit is out hunting in the Mexican desert and will soon finish his course at Harvard. Edmund Heller wrote Roosevelt about Paul James Rainey’s lion hunt using bear hounds. Unfortunately, Leslie J. Tarlton and V. M. Newland are in poor health. Roosevelt has “settled down into a perfectly quiet life” and does not “intend ever again to go away from Sagamore Hill.” He shares his recent rowing trip with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-15
Theodore Roosevelt found R. J. Cuninghame’s recent letter “extremely interesting” and was particularly amused at the Swedish scientists’ decision to leave the elephants alone. The description of elephant behavior was intriguing. He is glad the Holland rifle worked and hopes Cuninghame likes Stewart Edward White. Edmund Heller recently wrote about Paul James Rainey’s success hunting lions with dogs and sent his pamphlet about white rhinoceros. However, Roosevelt is irritated that Heller did not describe the giant eland specimens. Roosevelt sends his pamphlet on animal coloration and expresses concern about Leslie J. Tarlton’s and V. M. Newland’s health.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-11
Theodore Roosevelt sends William E. Coffin the list. However, he is confused by the question of guides and professional hunters. He describes how during the kills on his safari, he was usually alone or had another amateur, white hunter with him. The native gun-bearers typically found the game. As such, Roosevelt does not feel he deserves “high honor” in these cases. The same is mostly true for his American hunts, although sometimes he did have guides.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-25
Theodore Roosevelt was delighted to read his son Ted’s letter describing the political situation in California, and was especially glad that he and his wife Eleanor Butler Roosevelt have not been unduly swayed by “nine-tenths of the social leaders,” who he feels are gradually moving away from what he believes is right. He wholeheartedly approves of the way that Ted has sought to avoid the spotlight and publicity, and Roosevelt is especially proud of his son and daughter-in-law’s actions in “bearing out [his] preaching by their practice.” Roosevelt inserts, in the private letter to his son, a portion which he says Ted can share with several people in which he comments on how he would like to support Hiram Johnson for governor of California, but explains why this is impossible for him to do directly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-10
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
President Roosevelt has heard a rumor that there has been an effort to detach Frank K. Hill from the General Board of the Navy as punishment for his attitude regarding the armor belt controversy. Roosevelt wants Hill to stay where he is. He asks Secretary of the Navy Metcalf to comment on the enclosed telegrams from Stewart Edward White and Frank T. Underhill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-08
President Roosevelt informs all military commanders, forest supervisors, and forest rangers in the service of the United States that Stewart Edward White is to be shown every courtesy while traveling through the Rocky Mountain and Sierra Nevada regions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-21
President Roosevelt would like golden trout to be propagated in hatcheries throughout the United States to prevent their extinction from overfishing in Volcano Creek near Mount Whitney, California. Commissioner Bowers should discuss the matter with Stewart Edward White and periodically send progress updates to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-21
Emlyn M. Gill thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his suggestions. Gill informs Roosevelt that he will send him a small, bound volume of certificates awarded to Roosevelt by the Camp Fire Club the year before. Roosevelt won the awards for feats he performed during his African safari.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-22
R. J. Cuninghame thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the letter and pamphlet on animal coloration. He reports the success of several safaris and gives updates on some of their friends and fellow hunters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-26
President Roosevelt cautions against extending forest reserves too quickly. He encloses a letter from Edward Stewart White and asks Gifford Pinchot if it is possible to do what White asks.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-09
Editor and owner of Outing magazine, Caspar Whitney, writes that he would be happy to publish President Roosevelt’s book containing the “deer article.” Whitney states that he espouses “wholesome living in the broadest sense.” He also volunteers to assist with the Bureau of American Republics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-08
Aloysius A. Norton asserts that Theodore Roosevelt “did not study Zen; he lived it.” Roosevelt’s total immersion in the task at hand, accepting of the circumstances in which he found himself, and his childlike nature all speak to his living a life of Zen.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
George Meade Bowers replies to a letter from President Roosevelt regarding the status of the Golden Trout in the Mt. Whitney region of the California Sierras. Bowers describes the habitat and distribution of this fish, as well as risks to its extermination, and proposes a study by the Bureau of Fisheries to determine the necessary steps for its preservation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-22
In his article for Ladies’ Home Journal, Theodore Roosevelt describes the benefits of reading and provides advice on how to get people of any age interested in reading “serious literature.” Roosevelt elaborates on his reading habits and book selection processes, which stem from both his current mood and educational desires.
1915-04
Special issue of the magazine section of the Evening Mail commemorating the return of Theodore Roosevelt from his hunting trip in Africa. Contains pictorial accounts of Roosevelt’s travels, articles by Jacob Riis and others, and excerpts of speeches by Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910-06-18
William Bailey Howland sends a copy of The Forest, autographed and inscribed by the author, Stewart Edward White. Howland also comments on the Panama Revolution.