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President Roosevelt writes Mark Sullivan, of Collier’s, in response to Jack London’s article recently published in the magazine. London’s article incorrectly quotes Roosevelt on multiple accounts. Although Roosevelt thoroughly disagrees with London, his disappointment lies with Collier’s for publishing such a poorly constructed and argued piece.
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1908-09-09
President Roosevelt thanks Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith for sending copies of the Empire Review. He will be pleased to read the articles, but cannot write as Kincaid-Smith suggests.
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1908-04-22
Theodore Roosevelt hopes that he can appoint Aaron Johns as Justice of the Peace. Roosevelt is fine with any title John Burroughs selects for the book. Roosevelt is glad that Burroughs liked his final word on the “nature faker” controversy.
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1907-09-03
President Roosevelt asks Alma Curtin if she likes the foreword he wrote for The Mongols and gives her permission to edit it as needed.
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1907-08-26
President Roosevelt sends Ernest Hamlin Abbott, and the Abbott family as a whole, an advanced copy of Caspar Whitney’s upcoming article on nature-fakers for The Outing. Roosevelt wants the family to review it, so they understand “not to lend the weight of names . . . to help a noxious impostor.”
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1907-08-23
President Roosevelt agrees with Caspar Whitney that “it is intensely irritating to be obliged to make a serious argument against a creature” like William J. Long, but says he felt compelled to do so.
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1907-08-14
President Roosevelt tells Brander Matthews that he was unable to keep “the new spelling in.” He feels that the new spelling version of the word “thru” was “more responsible than anything else for our discomfiture.” He is glad he made the attempt, and will continue using new spelling in personal correspondence.
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1906-12-16
J. W. Ogden wishes to send Theodore Roosevelt a copy of a manuscript he has just written titled “The Big Stick, or Uncle Remus and Sambo on Marse Theodore Roosevelt,” which includes songs and “Negro dialect.” Ogden says the manuscript is favorable to Roosevelt, not critical.
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1911-10-14
Benjamin La Bree is writing a thorough book about the Diplomatic and Consular Service and would like Theodore Roosevelt to contribute a few lines, since he was involved in that department. He says the book will be very widely read.
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1911-10-12
Charles Heald Weller asks Theodore Roosevelt to consider writing about the declining study of Greek in this generation.
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1911-10-04
Thomas Barbour conveys his satisfaction upon reading Theodore Roosevelt’s “coloration-paper.” He is delayed in reading and remarking on the paper because he has been visiting his family’s park in the Adirondacks. Barbour has great pleasure in remembering time he spent at Oyster Bay. He hopes Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s fall is not serious.
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt had been thrown from her horse on September 30, 1911, causing her to hit her head and remain unconscious for several days.
James Yereance asks Theodore Roosevelt to write a tribute to be read, among others, at the memorial service for Reverend John B. Devins.
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1911-10-02
John Burroughs read Theodore Roosevelt’s reply to Abbott Thayer in The Outlook, “You cut the ground from under him every time.” Burroughs has not yet seen Thayer’s article in Popular Science Monthly, but plans to get it upon his return home. Burroughs sends Roosevelt the table of contents for his new book. The volume he hopes to put out next year will include Pine Knot. Burroughs suggests that Roosevelt read Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution.
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1911-09-29
William Bayard Hale asks Theodore Roosevelt if he would be willing to write a statement for The World’s Work on the possibility of universal peace in a time of increasing global communication and modern transportation.
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1911-09-15
Author B. S. Osbon sends William Loeb a copy of his book to enjoy during the time away from his “strenuous office life.” He also sends his recently written satire on nature fakers and asks Loeb to give it to President Roosevelt.
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1907-08-24
Alma Curtin deeply appreciates President Roosevelt taking the time to write a preface for The Mongols, written by her late husband, Jeremiah Curtin. As to the length of the preface, Curtin says anything Roosevelt sends will be “received with great gratitude.”
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1907-08-21
Richard Watson Gilder is amazed that President Roosevelt finished the piece of writing, likely referring to “Ancient Irish Sagas,” which Gilder would publish in The Century shortly after. Gilder also writes that Alexander W. Drake, The Century‘s art director, has found the right artist. Gilder also believes that his wife, Helena de Kay Gilder, “will be useful in the archaeology of the pictures.”
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1906-05-22
George Haven Putnam sends President Roosevelt a letter of introduction for his friend, Dartmouth Professor Justin Harvey Smith. Smith is working on a book regarding the relations between Mexico and the United States. Smith had begun writing about the Mexican War of 1847-1848, and when this came to Putnam’s attention, he advised Smith that Roosevelt intended to write about this in his series on the Winning of the West. Putnam thinks that perhaps the two authors might collaborate in some way, and suggests that Roosevelt discuss this with Smith, who is in Washington and will be seeking an appointment.
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1907-03-19
Alma Curtin thanks President Roosevelt for his kind letter upon her husband’s death a few weeks prior. She mentions various works of his that are still unpublished and requests that Roosevelt look over the dedication of her husband’s book The Monguls.
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1907-01-23
Theodore Ayrault Dodge asks for a letter of introduction to Henry White, the new ambassador to France. He reports that the former ambassador, Robert Sanderson McCormick, treated him well. He comments on President Roosevelt’s Irish Saga and promises to send copies of his biographies of Napoleon I by April.
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1907-01-17