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President Roosevelt’s horses are still ill. John Willis and Buffalo Bill visited. Roosevelt walks with Granville Fortescue but admits he needs to get more exercise. He relates a story about Archie and Quentin reciting poems.
1904-02-19
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
After talking with George Horace Lorimer, President Roosevelt went back and read The Plum Tree through all the way, after previously having read only half of it. The ending of the book reconciles Roosevelt to many of the problems he had with it throughout, but he still holds many issues with the book which he lays out for Lorimer. The author, David Graham Phillips, falls into the trap of overstating the sort of corruption that is present in politics, and while Roosevelt freely admits that corruption is present–which, he points out, he is working against–there are also many good people working in politics as well. In a postscript of several days later, Roosevelt comments on several of Phillips’s articles on the Senate, in which he acts similarly by taking “certain facts that are true in themselves, and […] ignoring utterly a very much large mass of facts that are just as true and just as important.” Roosevelt criticizes Phillips for working with William Randolph Hearst to achieve notoriety.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-12
The Winthrop Chanler family did come out strong from the election but President Roosevelt is sorry for Low’s loss. Roosevelt wishes he could hunt with Chanler at Genesco but his “advanced middle age” requires a horse “which has good manners and which can jump anything.” Letter incorrectly dated as November 5, 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-05
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Bliss if John Willis would be eligible for the government surveying expedition to establish a border between Alaska and Canada without taking the civil service examination. Roosevelt vouches for Willis and praises his skills as a guide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-19
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association
Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt describes his recent hunting trip with Alexander Lambert and Sylvane M. Ferris. He also shares anecdotes about Ethel Roosevelt, Ted Roosevelt, and John Willis.
1893-10-01
John Willis has been trying to locate bear for President Roosevelt to hunt. Willis’s ranch is at Roosevelt’s disposal and he is welcome to hunt at any time.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-20
John Avery McIlhenny discusses an upcoming hunting trip to Glasgow, Montana, with Alexander Lambert, and invites President Roosevelt to visit his family in Louisiana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-05