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Theodore Roosevelt encloses money for a ticket to the banquet, but he cannot attend. Once Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is feeling better Roosevelt plans to invite the Brothers to come see his trophy collection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Alexander Lambert sends President Roosevelt several cartoons and expresses a little surprise to learn that Secretary of War Taft is likely to receive the nomination for president to succeed Roosevelt. Lambert inquires into the possibility of collecting specimens on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-18
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Heinrich Sander for his letter and photographs. Roosevelt also discusses the preservation of his zoological specimens.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-10
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks D. P. Brannin for his letter to Roosevelt. While some of Roosevelt’s specimens from his recent Africa trip are on display at the National Museum of Natural History, the remainder have not yet been mounted due to lack of Congressional funding.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-08
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Edmund Heller that he and Kermit Roosevelt read everything with great interest, but he is concerned that the two pamphlets have not come. He worries that Richard Lydekker or someone else will use Frederick Courteney Selous’s specimens for a similar publication, which would allow the British Museum to publish first “simply because they worked it up and we did not.” He asks that the pamphlets be sent now. Roosevelt will begin working on the life histories of big game for Heller’s book and he may use or reject them at will. He will also send Heller the article on concealing coloration when it is completed. Roosevelt mentions that he has received an interesting letter from R. J. Cuninghame and one from Leslie J. Tarlton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-27
Theodore Roosevelt writes to J. Holz about specific specimens in the Smithsonian Museum, some of which are being mounted by the museum, including the big lion in question. He notes that the process is slow, in part because Congress failed to allocate the necessary funding.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-24
Theodore Roosevelt asks Dr. Walcott if he is correct in telling friends that Walcott cannot express any dissatisfaction with the level of appropriations from Congress. Walcott does need an adequately large appropriation to complete the mounting of the specimens quickly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt will be away the following week, so he chooses June 16 for his meeting with Henry Fairfield Osborn. Roosevelt is sending a corrected copy of his manuscript and wishes Osborn to return the other one. If Osborn is interested in the manuscript, then Roosevelt will illustrate it by drawing specimens from the American Museum of Natural History. Roosevelt asks if Osborn has gotten the white rhinoceros skin and praises William T. Hornaday’s mounted rhinoceros head.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt was sorry to have missed William T. Hornaday at the park and if he had known he was not going to be there, Roosevelt would have come on a different day. Roosevelt praises the mounted white rhinoceros head and says he will also write to Clark on the subject.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-02
Theodore Roosevelt is happy with the elephant tusk gong and compliments James L. Clark on a white rhinoceros head that he had mounted.
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1911-06-02
After speaking with Edmund Heller further, Theodore Roosevelt has concluded that it is not wise for Heller to travel to Africa at the current time. He notes that there is a history of collectors collecting many specimens for museums and then not studying them further. He thinks it will be more valuable for Heller to remain in the United States and finish writing a full report on the specimens collected during Roosevelt’s African expedition.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-06
W. P. Carr informs Theodore Roosevelt that he is planning a collecting trip to India and Ceylon, present day Sri Lanka, to obtain study specimens of small mammals, plants, and fungi to distribute to various American agricultural colleges and natural history museums. Carr would appreciate Roosevelt if he could secure a short interview with him for advice and help in the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-21
L. C. Sanford introduces himself to Theodore Roosevelt, and asks him if he might be willing to write a letter of introduction to the government of Newfoundland, Canada, in order to allow himself and Edward William Nelson to travel there for some time to collect biological specimens. Nelson is in poor health, and may stay in the more healthy climate there for some time, but requires a permit from the government in order to do so. Sanford has written to the Newfoundland government previously, but has not gotten any results and hopes that Roosevelt’s influence may help produce an answer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-08
Harris Dickson informs President Roosevelt that he recently stayed with Leo Shields, who claims to have caught and killed a stinging snake. As Roosevelt does not believe such an animal exists, Shields has given Dickson the preserved animal to show to Roosevelt in order to prove that he is not a “nature fakir.” Dickson will be in Washington, D.C. on June 21 or 22, and would be happy to either send Roosevelt the snake or stop by in person.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-06-17
United States Representative William E. Humphrey of Washington recently donated several stuffed and mounted mountain sheep to the University of Washington. Humphrey hunted the sheep during a recent trip to Mexico.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-11
Kermit Roosevelt thanks Isabella Ferguson for the “most wonderful blanket.” He recently attended a polo tournament and is working on his final examinations. Roosevelt hopes to visit the Fergusons in August.
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Kermit Roosevelt describes his recent hunting trip in New Brunswick and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s accident.
1911-08-26
Corinne Roosevelt has arrived to stay with them for the summer. Theodore Roosevelt accompanied the Minkwitz family to a castle and a service at the German Reformed Church. His language studies are going well and the children have started a club that meets once a week. The boxing gloves are a “great amusement” and Roosevelt relates his “best round yet.” Elliott Roosevelt is the best boxer but Theodore would win “rewards” for bloody noses.
1873-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt received boxing gloves from his father and has been sparring with his companions. He is getting along with his hosts, the Minkwitz family. However, they do not approve of Roosevelt’s scientific pursuits. His arsenic was confiscated and mice thrown out. Roosevelt responded by waving a mouse close to one of the ladies’ faces and provides an illustration of the scene. His German studies are going well and he can read and understand French.
1873-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt writes Anna Bulloch Gracie about his family’s trip to the Levant. The Roosevelts have been traveling on the Nile River for a month, and Theodore Roosevelt is having a great time. He has been shooting and exploring ruins. Roosevelt particularly enjoyed Karnak, which they saw by moonlight. He has added one to two hundred skins to his collection. All the sporting has been “injurious” to his trousers.
1873-01-26