July 20th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
                   I quite agree with Judge Lindsey that the Boy Scout
movement is a movement of peculiar good for the whole country.
It has already done much good throughout our land, and it will
do far more, for it is in its essence a practical scheme through
which to impart a proper standard of ethical conduct, proper
standards of fairplay and consideration for others, and courage
and decency to boys who have never been reached and never will
be reached by the ordinary type of preacher.    I have been
particularly interested in that extract of a letter from a
Scoutmaster in the Philippines, which runs as follows.
                   "It might interest you to know that at a recent fire
in Manila which devastated acres of ground and rendered 3,000
people homeless, that two patrols of the Manila scouts reached the
fire almost with the fire companies, reported to the proper
authorities and worked for hours under very trying conditions,
helping frightened natives into places of safety, removing valuables
and other articles from houses that apparently were in the path
of the flames, and performing cheerfully and efficiently all the
tasks given to them by the firemen and scoutmaster.    They were
complimented in the public press, and a kind editorial about their


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work."
"During the recent Carnival the services of the boys
were requested by the Carnival officers, and for a period of ten
days they were on duty performing all manner of services in the
Carnival grounds, directing strangers to hotels, and acting as
guides and helpers in a hundred ways."
What these Boy Scouts of the Philippines have just done,
I think our Boy Scouts in every town and country district should
train themselves so that they can be able to do it. The movement
is a movement for efficiency and patriotism. You don't try to
make soldiers of Boy Scouts, but to make boys who will turn out
as men to be fine citizens, and who will if their country needs them
make better soldiers for having been scouts. No one can be a good
American unless he is a good citizen, and every boy ought to train
himself so that as a man he will be able to do his full duty to
the community. I want to see the Boy Scouts not merely utter fine
sentiments, but act on them; not merely sing My Country 'Tis of Thee,
but act in a way that will give them a country to be proud of. No
man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually
uses the ten commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his
life conduct - and I don't mean by this in exceptional cases under
spectacular circumstances, but I mean applying the ten commandments

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and the Golden Rule in the ordinary affairs of every day life.
I hope the Boy Scouts will practice truth and square dealing,
and courage and honesty, so that when as young men they begin
to take a part not only in earning their own livelihood, but in
governing the community, they may be able to show in practical 
fashion their insistence upon the great truth that the eighth 
and ninth commandments are directly related to every day life,
not only between men as such in their private relations, but
between men and the government of which they are part. Indeed
the boys even while only boys can have a very real effect upon
the conduct of the grown up members of the community, for
decency and square dealing are just as contagious as vice and
corruption.
Every healthy boy ought to feel and will feel that in
order to amount to anything, it is necessary to have a constructive
and not merely destructive nature;-and if he can keep
this feeling as he grows up he has taken his first steps towards
good citizenship. The man who tears down and criticises and
scolds may be a good citizen but only in a negative sense, and
if he never does anything else he is apt not to be a good
citizen at all. The man who counts and the boy who counts, are
the man and boy who steadily endeavor to build up, to improve,

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to better living conditions everywhere and all about them.
But the boy can do an immense amount right in the present
entirely aside from training himself to be a good citizen in the
future; and he can only do this if he associates himself with other
boys. Let the Boy Scout see to it that the best use is made of
their parks and playgrounds in their villages and home towns. A
gang of toughs may make a playground impossible; and if the Boy
Scouts in the neighborhood of that particular playground are fit
they will show that they wont permit any such gang of toughs to
have its way. Moreover, let the Boy Scouts take the lead in
seeing that the parks and playgrounds are turned to a really good
account. I hope, by the way, that one of the prime teachings
among the Boy Scouts will be the teaching against vandalism. Let
it be a point of honor to protect birds, trees and flowers, and
so to make our country more beautiful and not more ugly because we
have lived in it.
The same qualities that will mean success or failure
to the nation as a whole, means success of failure in men and
boys individually. The Boy Scouts must war against the same foes
and vices that most hurt the nation, and try to develop the same
virtues that the nation most needs. To be helpless, self-indulgent,
or wasteful, will turn the boy into a mighty poor kind of a man,

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just as the indulgence of such vice by the men of a nation means the
ruin of the nation. Let the boy stand stoutly against the enemies
from without, let him show courage in confronting fearlessly one
set of enemies, and in controlling and mastering the others. Any
boy is worth nothing if he has not got courage, courage to stand
up against the forces of evil, and courage to stand up in the right
path. Let him be unselfish and gentlemanly. It should be a matter
of pride to him that he is not afraid of anyone, and that he scorns
not to be gentle and considerate to everyone, and especially to
those who are weaker than he is. If he doesn't treat his mother and
sisters well, then he is a poor creature no matter what he does else,
just as a man who doesn't treat his wife well is a poor kind of
citizen no matter what his other qualities may be. And, by the way,
don't every forget to let the boy know that courtesy, politeness,
and good manners must not be neglected. They are not little things
because they are used at every turn in daily life. Let the boy
remember also that in addition to courage, unselfishness, and
fair dealing, he must have efficiency, he must have knowledge, he
must cultivate a sound body and a good mind, and train himself so
that he can act with quick decision in any crisis that may arise.
Mind, eye, muscle, all must be trained so that the boy can master
himself, and thereby learn to master his fate. I heartily wish all

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good luck to the movement.
Very sincerely yours,



Mr. James E. West,
Boy Scouts of America,
200 Fifth Avenue,
New York City.


[1965]July 20th, 1911.
My dear Mr. McGowan:
I have just received the Journal of the American
Irish Society, and thank you for it. I congratulate you
upon the excellent work that is being done. Do let me see
you sometime.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Patrick F. McGowan,
225 Fifth Ave,
New York City.
13643July 20th, 1911.

Dear Judge:
I don't believe you yourself realize what a very nice letter
you have just written me. I sent for Rosebery's "Chatham" at once.
I know his "Pitt" well. Do let Mrs. Rose know how much we regretted
that she wasn't here. I wonder if you couldn't both of you come out
to lunch with us on your way back to Baltimore?
Yes, in the twenty-seven years since I first met you, you
and I have worked steadily on behalf of causes for which it was
worth while to work, and he have accomplished something. Of course
I very highly prize, my dear fellow, such opinions as that you
hold about me when they are held by men like yourself; and now I
hope you wont think me priggish or affected or conceited; when I
add that I concern myself comparatively little with what the general
repute in which I am held is or will be. I am entirely sure that
whatever may be said of me at the moment, in the long run decent
people will think fairly well of me, so that my children and my
children's children will not have cause to feel ashamed of me, and
my living friends will not have cause to regret their friendship.
Further than this I care very little. If at Santiago I had been
shot, I should not when dying have wasted any thought as to how
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remember me at all. I should have thought of my family and should
have been glad that they and a few friends would know that I had
done my duty fairly; and as for the rest, my code is that that the
duty must be done and that the doing of it must be the chief reward
and often the only reward, and though I could not very clearly give
my reasons why I do hold this code, yet I am perfectly sure it is
the right code to hold. It has always seemed to me that popularity
was a prime use only as the means to an end. It is very pleasant
to have people think much of you and speak well of you, and it is quite
right to enjoy it within reasonable limits, if you are careful to
keep in the back of your mind a full and complete understanding of
just what the popularity is worth, and the estimate of its probable
evanescence. But it is a mighty poor end of and by itself. It was
chiefly as a means when I was Governor or President that I welcomed
popularity when it came, because it was an instrument which enabled
me to accomplish certain things which I had at heart. For instance,
to get the State or National Legislature to pass certain acts which
I thought ought to be passed. But I feel a good deal of impatient
contempt for a man like Lafayette, for when popularity was everything,
and for being in a position where he received applause, but he cared
very little for the use he made of that position, or what in the way
of permanent achievement it permitted him to do. I don't know when
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I have been happier than for the last eight months. Twenty years ago
or even ten years ago, I should have felt sorry to retire from the
activities of the universe, because I should have felt that I had not
earned the right thus to retire, but now I feel that I have worked
hard for thirty years, I have done everything I could, and have
accomplished a certain amount. If the need comes for me to take up
any task again, I should be ashamed of myself if I failed to take it
up whatever it was, in a war, or statecraft, or literature; and I am
perfectly contented to die in harness if duty comes that way. But I
no longer feel that I am recreant unless I have the harness on, and
if, as at the moment is the case, it is obvious I am called upon to
do and know work that it is wise and proper for me to do, I am glad to
rest and to turn my attention to other things, and I am enjoying myself
to the full for I feel that I thus enjoy myself with a full heart 
and without any unpleasant suspicion that I am not doing my duty unless
I am hard at work.
It is very curious when you know that on the whole I have
always found myself in more complete sympathy with your ways of
looking at political and social problems and duties, than with the ways
and thoughts of any other man, even among my close friends. I feel
just as you do as to the advisability of my having some work of a
wholly non-political kind which should absorb me, and which would
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enable me to refuse with a clear conscience to interfere in any way
with the problems of the moment, just as I now do refuse ninety-nine
out of every hundred such requests, and indeed the whole hundred
when they concern things purely political.  But there is no use of
my taking up a big work for the sake of being engaged in a big work.
If I did that it would turn it at once into hack work which would 
not be worth doing.  I accept the work on The Outlook because I
felt that I really ought to do some kind of work that would bring
in some money and where money would not be the chief element, and
because The Outlook offered the work and association which would be
most congenial to me.  As you know I am not a rich man, and if
possible I want to continue earning some money until all my boys
get started in life.  Eight years hence Quentin will have graduated
if things go as they should go, and I can then feel that all the
members of my little brood have been launched, that I will have
reached the age at which Army and Navy officers retire and will
feel that I have a right to retire from my duties.  Of course I am
quite prepared to retire before that time if any necessity arises,
and am so fortunately situated that the lack of the money I earn
would merely be the cause of small and unimportant discomforts,
and not of anything more serious; and I only need a certain amount


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and accept it from The Outlook, a salary of only between a fourth
and fifth of what I was offered elsewhere, because I could afford
to treat the question of salary as one in which I had some importance
but only an entirely subsidiary importance compared to other things -
just as you treated the question of salary when you finally decided
to accept the judgeship. In the Outlook I now have a legitimate
reason for giving my views of various political, social, economic,
and literary questions which interest me, and where I am glad to
help in keeping up the standard. At the moment for instance, I
have been really interested in writing on subjects as diverse as
Morrissey's address to his fellow union men of the Railroad Brotherhood,
Intercollegiate athletics between Yale and Harvard, and Oxford
and Cambridge, Chamberlain's work on the foundations of the Nineteenth
Century, and Weigall's interesting and altogether excellent "Treasury
of Ancient Egypt". All this work is interesting of course, but it
needs no great exertion on my part and what little effect it has is
good, and the proper thing for me. But I could not settle down in
a big work unless I was heart and soul in it. If I felt myself really
drawn to such a work I should be delighted to do it, and I would then
out myself off from all other kinds of work; and my dear fellow, and
should do it with the determination not to be drawn back into public
life. The chances are infinitesmal that there ever will be any

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demand for me to go into public life. The kaleidoscope changes
continually and the same grouping of figures is not every repeated.
Someone else must do the new work, the elder men have had their day
and done well or ill and their time is over. The appeals that are
constantly made to me, are made partly by self-interested men who 
care only for their self-interest, and partly by good men who do
not understand that they are asking impossibilities that the
conditions have changed so that if I did what they wished me to do
the result would be bad - and then they themselves would be the first
to turn around and blame me because I had done what they urged me.
However, at present I don't see any big work which I can
do. Both The Century and Scribners made me very big offers to do certain
pieces of work for them, but they wanted me to do this work this
very year when my name still had a value and it was the kind of
work (in one case the life of Lincoln) which I was not willing to
do unless I took ample time so that the best that was in me should
be put into it, and so that I could at least try to make it the
very best of its kind.
Good bye and good luck,
Every yours,


Judge John C. Rose.

13649July 20th, 1911.

Dear Tarlton:
Abercrombie notifies me that he has sent on the cartridges.
If they are not satisfactory will you let me know, and I will see
if we can't make them satisfactory. I was immensely interested in
your last letter. First, let me speak of the part of it that was
pleasant. That description of the lion hunt filled me with admiration,
envy and home-sickness for dry, barren East Africa. By George! how
proud I would be if I had such a feat to my credit. The stalk itself
and the killing of two charging lions were equally good. I didn't 
like your failing to give me any description of the final moment.
Now, I may want to use your experience sometime and we please write
me just what happened when they charged. As I understand it, the 
second lion charged first and then the already mortally wounded lion
got up and charged. How close did they get before you dropped them,
and which did you drop the first? Please give me the details. It
may be that sometime I can use the account of this hunt and the
description which Alfred Pease sent me of the hunt in which George
Grey was killed, to illustrate the two phases of lion hunting - the
phase where things go right and the phase where things go wrong. I 
am very much pleased with White's success. I have always liked
White. I hope you and R. J. have found him satisfactory. If you

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see R. J., by the way, tell him that I very much enjoyed his letter
and shall write him soon. I am waiting until a pamphlet appears which
I have written on "Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals".
      Now for the part of your letter which gives me concern.  I 
hate to think of the worry you and Newland are having and particularly
on account of the fact that both of you have suffered from sickness.
Indeed you must have been in agony. Poor little Mrs. Safari!  I am
even more sorry for her than for you. It is just like you to have
borne it so pluckily. I do wish Newland could see a first class
doctor and have the treatment he ought to have. How are Mrs. Newland
and the baby? From what you say to me I don't wonder your dread of
having nervous prostration. I hope they are getting along in fair
shape noe, [sic] and that they are able to keep up with the work and find
the work satisfactory.
      Through a nice old jeweller, [sic] who is visiting Germany, I
have ordered sent to your care three watches like those I had which
were fitted out with radium so that the time could be told at night;
I think they also have an alarm arrangement. Sometimes I found them
quite convenient for finding out the time when out late at night or
even in the house. I don't know whether they will really be sent,
but if they are and there is any duty upon them, please pay it and
let me know the amount. I told him to have one of them better that


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the other two, that one I wish you would take if you think it would
be of any use to you on your trip, or give it to Mrs. Tarlton, or
to Mrs. or Mr. Newland, or do anything else you want with it. The
two others I wish that when the chance comes that you would give them
to Ali and [blank?] from me. Find out if by any chance they have
such watches or don't want them, and if such is the case will you
find out what they do want and give it to them from me and tell me
the cost, disposing of the watches in any way you desire. Finally
please don't take any trouble about this of any kind or sort. You
have too much on your hands now, and this will be a burden upon you,
you will really oblige me by not doing anything in this matter. But
I have very kindly feelings for Ali and [blank?], especially the
former, but the latter also, and I would like to have them know
that I remember them.
       With heartiest regards to all,
                  your friend,


Leslie J. Tarlton Esq.,
    c/o Newland, Tarlton & co.,
          Nairobi,
             British East Africa.

[13652]Beck. J.C

July 21, 1911

My dear Mr. Beck:

I gained so favorable an impression
of the work being done by the Government
officials in Wisconsin that I am particularly
interested in what those that are associated
with you are doing that I hate to have to
refuse your request. If I could accept a single
other engagement to speak it would be yours,
but it is not possible. I have done all the
speaking that I feel I can with advantage do,
and my dear Mr. Beck, if I make an engagement
to speak at Lincoln I should have to speak all
the way there and all the way back.
I am very sorry to refuse you
because I absolutely agree with what you say.
There is no more important cause than that
held by the man who works on a bureau of labor.
The man who I appointed at the head of the National
Bureau of Labor when I was President was my 
right hand advisor on all labor matters, a man
of such high character that I regarded him as fit to
hold a cabinet position if the need should
arise. It is bad of course to use any office as
a political dumping grouns [sic], or to make an appointment
of any responsible official purely because
he can furnish most votes, but it is unpardonable
to do this in the case of the chief
of such a bureau. If you come to New York do
let me see you.

Sincerely yours,


Mr. J. D. Beck,
Madison, Wis.

[3988]July 21st, 1911.

Dear Joe:
       (Please go back to the days before the war and call me
Theodore hereafter!)  I am really pleased to find that you had
asked Talbot to correct those statements, for he doubtless unconsciously
gave the impression to The Outlook people that he
was merely giving Goethal's and your views, and this especially
on the very matters where I made corrections.  (You see you had
written "approved", with your signature, on his manuscript; an
approval which our people wished particularly, in view of Talbot's
connection with the World).  I shall not be in New York on either 
Wednesday or Thursday, but if by any chance you are to be here 
on Tuesday, come in to The Outlook and take lunch with us.
                                  Sincerely yours,



Mr. Joseph Bucklin Bishop,
      Falmouth Heights, Mass.

                                                                                   [5660]COPY

                                               The Outlook
                                                   287 Fourth Avenue
                                                        New York City.

                                             July 21st, 1911.



Dear Bonaparte:

        Was it when you were Attorney General that we began the
suit against the Standard Oil and the American Tobacco Company?
                 Sincerely yours,

                    (Signed)  Theodore Roosevelt

The Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte.



25226
July 21st, 1911.

My dear Chadwick:

      You raise interesting points which I don't feel
quite able to discuss off-hand.  I will look up your
article in The Outlook of course.  It is a pleasure to
hear from you.  I hope you are well.
                    Sincerely yours,


Mr. F. E. Chadwick,
     Coombe House,
       Westbury-on-Trym,
           Bristol, England.



8268July 21,1911
My dear Mr Dalzell,
All right, you shall have
that check. Good luck to you.
Faithfully yours,

Mr.Fred B.Dalzell,
70 South St.
New York City
13653July 21st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Dickirson:
If I were accepting any invitations this year, I
would accept yours first, but it is out of the question for
me to make any speech of any kind this Summer. I have made
just as many speeches as I feel it is possible or desirable
for me to have made, just as many as I think which will do
any good. And now, my dear sir, I simply cannot make any
others at present. I am very sorry. All I can do is to
wish you well.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. J. K. Dickirson,
Illinois State Board of Agriculture,
Springfield, Ill.
13654
July 21st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Attorney General:
I will read your paper with great interest,
and thank you for sending it to me.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. George Gosson,
Department of Justice,
Des Moines, Iowa.
13655July 21st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Green:
I appreciate your writing me and sending me that
very interesting brief, and I believe that you have a very
sound idea in your proposal to encourage private suits in
such cases.
Again thanking you, I am,
Sincerely yours,

Nathaniel T. Green, Esq.,
Norfolk, Va.
13656July 21,1911
My dear Sir:
Mr.Roosevelt has no photographs
of himself, and he has been nearly overwhelmed
with requests for them. All that he can do is
to promise that if you will send him one of
his photographs, with stamps for return, he will
gladly autograph and return it. He is obliged
to make this answer to very many people, and
regrets his inability to send each of them a
photograph as desired. You could obtain one
from Messrs Harris & Ewing, Washington,D.C.
Faithfully yours,
Asst.Secretary
Mr.James George Irvine,
Springfield,Mass
13657July 21st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be
very glad if you could call at The Outlook office on
Tuesday next at one o'clock, and take lunch with him.
He hopes this will be quite convenient for you.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Horace G. Knowles,
6445 West Austen Road,
Philadelphia, Pa.
13658July 21,1911
My dear Prof.Larsen,
I have just received your very
courteous letter and the volumes you
sent me. I have read and enjoyed the
specially printed address on " Mankind
and War". I should particularly like 
to read the sketches which give a picture
of Danish life in various American states,
but unfortunately I do not read Danish.
With renewed thanks,
Sincerely yours,

Prof.Karl Larsen,
Copenhagen,Denmark
13659
July 21, 1911

My dear Miss Macomber:
                                        It seems to me that your
proposed creed is admirable. Of course this is
rather a horseback judgment on my part. I do
not wish definitely to say that there should not
be some changes in or additions to whay you propose
but with your general thesis I am in hearty
accord, and as far as I know it seems in accordance
with each of your progressive points. In
particular I wish to express my agreement with
what you say under heading four. Directed class
play has a large and useful part, and in my mind
this must always be a part wholly subsidiary to the
part which should be taken by real play. I believe
there are many cases where directed play will do
what real play cannot do, but I am equally certain
that in at least and possibly in a far more numerous
body of cases, the direct play is either a very 
poor substitute for real play or no substitute at all,


13660and of no advantage.
Above all the playgrounds should not be used
for political position hunters. It should be understood
that the directors and their assistants
occupying positions of peculiar importance wholly
removed from politics and that just because they
are doing a work so important as to entitle them
to our hearty respect and support. We have the
right to expect from them the performance of their
work in the best possible fashion.
Sincerely yours,

Miss Mabel E Macomber
Brooklyn, N.Y.
13661July 21,1911
My dear Sir:
That is not a quotation from me.
Some of the sentences are sentences I have
used in different speeches, but others are
inventions. For instance I never said "that
ten acres would produce as much as between
twenty and eighty thousand dollars in cash,
loaned out at six percent", and I never used
such an expression as "knuckle to the boss"
nor "strained his conscience", and so forth.
Evidently the writer has simply taken some
sentences I have used and strung them together
with some I have not used.
Very truly,

Mr.W.J.Marquis,
13662
July 21,1911
My dear Mr.McBrien:
I remember the time
I was held up by you and your four colleagues.
I wish I could say Yes, but
at present I am not able to make any
lecture engagements.
With all good wishes,
sincerely yours,

Mr.J.S.McBrien,
Lincoln,Neb.
13663July 21,1911
My dear Mr.McGrane,
I thank you for your very
kind letter and the accompanying article
on Weights and Measures. I will gladly
read it.
Sincerely yours,

Mr.N.T.McGrane,
121 Worth St.,
New York City
13664July 21,1911
My dear Mr.Purdy,
That is a very interesting
work. I doubt however whether we can
well comment on it in the magazine. You
have no idea of the multitude of admirable
pieces of work that we have to leave uncommented 
upon, simply because we cannot
deal with local matters.
Faithfully yours,

Mr.Frederick F Purdy,
811 Lafayette Ave,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
13665July 21, 1911

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your 
letter and he wishes me to say that he never 
gives his opinion upon public questions in 
letters to friends for quotation. The only
way you can obtain his views upon the question 
you put to him is by referring to his published
speeches. Most of these have been issued 
in book form and may be consulted at almost
any public library. He feels sure on thinking 
it over you will see how impossible it would 
be for him to answer in personal letters all 
the queries that are put to him by correspondents, 
if he were to try to do so, it would 
entail such a drain upon his time and energy that
would be simply unbearable. He is very 
sorry that he cannot comply with your request.
Faithfully yours,

Miss Lucille Reed
Bloomington, Ind

13666July 21, 1911

My dear Mr. Renner:
I thank you for your
courteous letter and the clippings which
tell the fate of poor Bill Jones.
Twenty years ago and over he was a friend
of mine on the Little Missouri. We worked
in the round up together; when he was
sheriff I was his deputy and he always was 
one of my hired hands as teamster and haymaker.
He had many fine traits.
Again thanking you I am,
Very truly yours,



Mr. Fred S Renner,
Gardiner, Mont.

13667July 21st, 1911.
Dear Nick:
I do not know either of the gentlemen you mention,
but I think if you show this letter to either of them, it
will serve as an introduction. I vouch for the fact that
you are my cousin, and responsible and a good fellow, and
I hope that you will be given all the information you desire.
Archie got eight points in his examination, making three
D's. I am so glad you and Aspinall are having a good trip.
Your affectionate cousin,

Mr. Nocholas Roosevelt,
Flagstaff, Arizona.
13668July 21,1911
My dear Sir:
Mr.Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge 
receipt of your letter, and to say that
since he left the White House he has not spoken
on behalf of a single person with regard to an
Official position or promotion of any kind or
sort. If he were to do so in one case he would
be compelled in common fairness to do the same
things in hundreds of similar cases about which
he is approached. He feels sure on thinking
it over you will see how impossible it is for
him to help you. He is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,
Asst.Secretary
Mr.Ezra R.Sammis
Middletown,N.Y.
13669
July 21, 1911
My dear Mr. Sickles,
I am sorry to have to tell
you that I cannot sign recommendations for
any one for appointment to office. I am
sure you will understand on thinking it
over the numerous requests that would be
entailed upon me if I made such a recommendation
in one case. I have had to refuse
to make these requests even for the
members of my regiment. If I do it in
one instance I should have to do it in
literally thousands of cases.
Faithfully yours,


Mr. David B. Sickels
215 West 125th St.
New York City

13670July 21st, 1911.
Dear Sir:
The letter purporting to be from me giving a
recommendation to Madame Vera Rose, is an impudent
forgery. I never heard of Madame Rose, and she is
evidently an imposter.
Very truly yours,

Mr. J. O. Staples,
Warrensburg, Mo.
13671July 21,1911
My dear Mr.Starr:
I thank you for your
letter, and I thank you for your article
on "The Merchant and the Law". I shall
look it over at once.
With kind regard,
Sincerely yours,

Mr.Louis Starr
Boston,Mass.
13672July 21,1911
My dear Mr.Tokaji:
I greatly appreciate
the honor you have done me, but please
dont make me an Honorary Vice President.
I am trying to keep out of all connection
with active politics for the time being,
and I dont want to be put in as an Honorary
Vice President of an association even
like yours.
Faithfully yours,

Mr.Bela Tokaji,
302 Broadway,
New York City
13673
Albany, N. Y.

July 21st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I received your telegram stating that "Burgess
corts of Albany claims you a life member". I do not know
which organization it is to which you refer, and even if
I did know, I am not sure if I could answer your question.
During my public career I was given honorary membership
of a great number of bodies and organizations, so that I
cannot be sure as to which the exact one were. What is
the reason that you ask the question.
Faithfully yours,

Adjutant General William Verbeck,
Albany, N. Y.

13674July 21st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Waldo:
When I was Police Commissioner among the men I 
appointed as patrolmen was Theodore Dulfer. I took an
interest in him because of his previous career, and
observed him rather carefully. He always did his duty
well. He has come to me now, showing papers which seem
to justify his claim for retirement on full pay. My 
interest in him is purely the interest that I take in a 
man who served well and faithfully under me. May I ask
that you will look into the claim yourself personally and
do whatever is just and right?
Sincerely yours,



The Hon. Rhinelander Waldo.

13675July 21st, 1911.
Dear Governor:
I appreciate your courtesy, but I cannot do as you
desire. I don't want to go to any public meetings. I would
only care to see an aviation meet if I were to go up, and I
do not want to go up under any circumstances that would
imply the slightest notoriety - in other words, I don't 
desire to go up at this time.
With renewed thanks,
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. Timothy L. Woodruff,
Aero Club of America,
Garden City Estates, L. I.
13676July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand.
In reply he wishes me to say that unfortunately he is
unable to do anything in the matter which you bring to
his attention. I am returning the enclosure herewith.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Frederick Carel,
St. Albans, W. Va.
13677July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I was on the summit of Mount Tahawus.  I walked
down for three or four hours, and drove in a waggon
eight or ten hours through the night.
Yours truly,

Mr. H.H. Carruth, 
Cleveland, Ohio.

13678July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your post card, and in
reply he wishes me to say that the rats at Sagamore Hill
are now well under control.
With thanks for your courtesy in writing.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Albert J. Eugster,
524 West 145th Street,
New York City.

13679July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Freeze:
I wish I could do as you desire, but it really is not
possible for me to send messages. I am approached in hundreds
of cases for messages of various kinds and if I were to comply
in one case it would give offence to all those whom I have
already refused. There are many causes in which I thoroughly
believe and which I should like to help, but if I were to send
a letter in one case I would be inundated with applications
for similar letters for other worthy causes. Now, my dear sir,
it is not the burden of writing such letters that I am thinking
of, but the fact that if I did write them they would, by reason
of there being so numerous, be entirely worthless. I am very
sorry, but I am sure you will see why it is not possible for me
to oblige.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. Homer J. Freese,
462 Forest Ave,
Bellevue, Pa.

13680July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
very courteous letter. Unfortunately it is not possible
for him to take such a trip as that mentioned in your
letter, and therefore it is impossible for him to avail
himself of your very kind offer.
With regret,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Magnus K. Ginever,
Tromso, Norway.

13681July 22nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge receipt 
of your letter, and to express his regret that unfortunately
he is unable to send the message you desire. He is approached
in so many hundreds of cases for messages to be read at meetings, 
that if he were to comply in one case he would be compelled 
in common fairness to do so in all the other cases, 
and this would mean such a drain upon his time and energy 
that it would become simply unbearable. Besides this, the 
messages, by reason of their being so numerous, would 
utterly fail to achieve the object desired. He feels sure on 
thinking it over you will see how impossible it is for him 
to comply.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary

Mr. J. D. Martin,
Methodist Episcopal Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.

13682July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge receipt
of the volume which you very kindly sent to him.  He
much appreciates your courtesy.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. F.S. Mordant,
2641 Michigan Ave,
Chicago, Ill.

13683
July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and in
reply he wishes me to say that he never gives his opinion
upon such matters in letters to friends for quotation.  He
is sure on thinking it over you will see why it is impossible
for him to do so.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Albert M. Robinson, 
Seattle, Wash.

13684

July 22nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and he
wishes me to say that if you will submit a statement of
your proposed plans to him he will be glad to look it
over and see if there is anything that he can do.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. H.N. Spoda,
The Benmore,
449 West 133rd Street,
New York City.

13685July 22nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret that unfortunately he is unable to do anything in the matter which you bring to his attention. He is approached in hundreds of similar cases, and if he were to respond favorably in one case he would have to do so in all the others. He is very sorry he is unable to do as you desire.
     Faithfully yours,

               Assistant Secretary

Mr. J. H. Taft,
     Halfway, Mo.

13686July 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for your 
courtesy in sending him a copy of your paper. He much 
appreciates your kindness.
Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary

Mr. S Takaishi,
The Osaka Mainichi Shimbun,
Osaka, Japan.

13687July 22nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to express his regret that he is unable to do anything in the matter which you bring to his attention. He has no special knowledge of the subject on which you write, and he could not do anything if he were to see the experiments. He is very sorry.
          Faithfully yours,

               Assistant Secretary

Dr. F. L. Talcott,
     Hotel Lincoln,
          New York City.

13688July 23rd, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand. Unfortunately, however, he is not interested in the purchase of the books which you mention in your letter. He much appreciates your courtesy in writing to him.
          Faithfully yours,

               Assistant Secretary

Mr. W.M. Wilkes,
     The Van Camp Packing Co.
          Indianapolis, Ind.

13689July 24th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Buxton:
I am sending herewith a note of introduction to your
daughter to the Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park. I hope
it reaches you in time, and if she does not sail until August
as I gather from your letter, it will do so. If possible I do
hope that she will return via New York, and will come out for a 
night to our house. We shall be glad to see her and her friend
too.
Just think of your mother having seen the coronation
of Queen Victoria! Mrs. Roosevelt was as much interested in it
as I was. We were much amused at the horror she felt at the
gay clothes. The other day we attended a wedding in the Old
Friends' Meeting House in Stuyvesant Square, New York; the
Congressman from our district, who is a very good fellow, is a
friend. Although the Meeting House was full we noticed that
there were only three or four of the very oldest who wore the
plain clothes that were universal among friends a century ago.
Personally, as I told Mrs. Roosevelt, I like the wedding ceremony
better than any other I had ever witnessed. I belong to the Dutch
Reformed Church myself, but we were married in St. George, Hanover
Square, because Mrs. Roosevelt is an Episcopalian; and she answered2

she preferred the Episcopalian form! Indeed we well know the fortitude
with which your dear wife endured her growing blindness; when I was at
your house a year ago, I told Mrs. Roosevelt how I had loved seeing
you leading Mrs. Buxton by the hand into and out of Church. After all
when we have reached the age that we now have reached all of us, and
our ambitions and hopes are chiefly with our children, we must expect
various physical infirmities, and really they matter but little, for
the great point was to keep our physical strength until that portion
of our life work which demanded the physical strength was done. In a
very few years now the last of my brood will have been launched, and
then the need for any active work on my part will be entirely through,
and of course it is already infinitely smaller than it was. In fact
really Mrs. Roosevelt's part of the work is infinitely more important
than mine now, for the chief thing that we have to do is to keep the
house as a centre for the children, a home to which they can come back.
An ex-President has only a small field of possible work open
to him. This the penalty he must pay, and ought to be very glad to
pay for the fact that while President he has far more power than
either a Prime Minister or a Constitutional monarch, and against the
intensity of his power and effort he must balance its short duration.
I can do a certain amount and do do it, but it is not advisable, and3

indeed is not possible that I should try to do much more. Twenty years
ago or even ten, I should not have been content to be as much out of
active life as I am. I don't mind it in the least now, and if anything
I am rather glad of it, for I am devoted to my home. I have my books
and all the things with which I have association around me, plenty to
interest without and within, and Mrs. Roosevelt and I ride together
and row together, and my life is very full and happy. Aside from my
work on The Outlook, I have just been writing a pamphlet of so 70,000
words on Revealing and Concealing Coloration in Birds and Mammals. It
will be out in a few weeks, and I will send it to you, and I shall also
send copies to Alfred Pease and Selous. I don't know whether Selous
has got back from the Nile or not. I am very anxious to hear from him
all about his success. While in Africa, and afterwards in England, I
met a very good fellow named Hamilton, I think Major Hamilton, who was
in charge of the game preserves in Africa. He was about to write a
book on them, and on South African game and wild beasts. Apparently
it has never come out. Can you tell me anything about him or it? It
would be a real misfortune if he were not to write it, because he had
knowledge that no other man could possess, and moreover, he possessed
great charm of style. I have seen several of his articles. Kermit
has been back for the holiday, and before he returns to Harvard he

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will make a short trip into Mexico on the off chance of mountain 
sheep, and another trip to New Brunswick for moose and caribou. He 
is to keep the skins and skulls for the Natural History Museum, 
which particularly wants the Northeastern forms of caribou and 
beaver. My eldest boy Ted is very happily married and is living in 
San francisco. If things go well within a month I shall hope to be 
a grandfather.
     I do wish I could see your family and Selous and Mrs. Selous 
and Alfred Pease. I think of Lady Pease often and always with a pang. 
She was so kind and sweet and gentle.
          Always yours,


Mr. Edward North Buxton,
     Knighton,
          Buckhurst Hill,
               Essex, England.

[4941]July 24, 1911

My dear Mr. Frisch:
Indeed you have every right to be
proud of such a family and Mrs. Frisch has an
even greater right. Giver her my warmest regards.
After all the very highest and most
fundamental work of good citizenship is to
leave the next generation in right shape and
the father and mother who have a large family
like yours, and are able to bring them up and
turn them out to do their work in the world
are the best of all citizens.
I don't wonder when you say your
life has been a happy one for the first twenty
five years.
Sincerely yours,



Mr. Charles J. Frisch
Reno, Nevada.

13690July 24, 1911

I only wish that I could have done
more in that matter.  Your work deserved a
much more extended notice than I was able to
give it.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. Ernest Ingersol
The Authors Club
New York City

13691July 24, 1911

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desired me to thank
you for your kindness in sending him that
volume.  He much appreciates your courtesy.

Sincerely yours,

Assistant Secretary

Rev. W. T. Manning
27 West 25th Street
New York City.

13692July 24, 1911

My dear Sir:

It is not possible for me to give
opinions such as you ask, even for very ex-
cellent institutions when I am not personally
acquainted with their work.

All that I can say is that I wish 
well to any organization that intelligently and
in good faith works along to helping our boys
to be better citizens in the time of peace and
to be ready to be good soldiers if ever the
need should arise.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. E.A. Pilgram
Editor, The Reveille
Pittsburgh, Pa.

13693July 24th, 1911.

My dear Mrs. Post:
Your letter rather puzzles me, simply because I don't
know what advice I can give that will be helpful. Of course
I will see Mr. Post, but I really don't think there is anything
I can say to him that will be of service. No man can
both eat his cake and have it, and in politics my usefulness
has been conditioned upon having absolutely kept clear from
ever asking any financial man directly or indirectly for a
favor either for myself or for anyone else, and in consequence
I simply have not the slightest idea where there is
money for investment such as you suggest. I am very sorry
to have to answer you in this way.

Sincerely yours,


Mrs. Alfred Post,
Ridgefield, N. J.

13694July 24, 1911

My dear Sir:

I thank you for having sent me
that pamphlet.  I am glad that our people
are at last waking up to the hideous evils
of certain offences on which my article
dwelt.

Sincerely yours,

Mr. John MacL. Richardson
First Presbyterian Church
Bridgeport, Conn.

13695July 24, 1911

Gentlemen:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank
you for your courtesy in sending him the copy
of the volume entitled "The New Politics."
He looks forward with pleasure to
reading it.
Sincerely yours,

Assistant Secretary

The Oxford University press
35 West 32nd Street
New York City

13696July 24, 1911
Mr dear Mr. Townsend:
The first chance I get I will come
down to the Aquarium, but I don't know when I
will have another holiday.
I thoroughly enjoyed the one I took
which resulted in the luncheon at the Natural
History Museum.  I had already carefully read
that article when it appeared in the Century,
and now I shall re-read it.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. C. H. Townsend
New York Aquarium
New York City

13697July 24th, 1911.

Dear Sir George:
Alas and alas! I had no idea what a hopeless task I
was preparing for myself when I said that I would write you an
account of the intimate side of my trip from Khartoum to London.
I sat down and solemnly dictated a kind of a journal letter to
you. I have not yet gotten as far as England in it, and already it
seems evident it is not the kind of letter to write. Your idea was
that I ought to put down on paper the various things I told you and
which amused or interested you because you thought that sometime in
the far future, when both of us are dead, it may be of interest to
publish them. I quite see that they would be of interest; I know
that I would be interested now in reading a similar letter by John
Quincey Adams or Palmerston, if either after leaving the Presidency
or the Prime Ministership had taken a trip through Europe such as I
took. But it is a very different thing to tell those incidents to
a thoroughly sympathetic listener, who understands everything about
the men and the situations, from what it is to write them down in
cold blood. The last proceeding makes me feel such a frightful
egoist that I am ashamed of my letter even if it is only for you!
You see, as the experiences were purely personal and as their interest
and importance can only be brought out if I give the facts about

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myself which made it possible for them to happen, it inevitably
results that I have to be continually talking about myself and complacently 
alluding to how much the populace cheered me, or how very
polite a given king was to me, or how surprised the Hungarians were
that I know about Hungarian history and so forth, and so forth. The
consequence is that I write myself down as most awful type of

I have stopped the letter in utter disgust, after it already
had reached a portentous length. I have not looked at it for several
months. If I can make up my mind, which I doubt, I shall try to
finish it, but really I don't believe that after it is finished that
I can do anything with it except burn it. There are some people that
could write such a letter; you are one, but I don't think I can.
Naturally  I am enormously interested in what's going on
with you at present. There are periods when a country's history becomes 
very interesting. For the decade folling the Spanish War ours
was, but at present we are rather in an absurd position, for each
party loudly proclaims its firm intention to do certain things which
down at bottom neither party wishes to do, and in consequence the
two parties have almost the same nominal principles, and almost the
same insincerity in their advocacy. In consequence there is no very
sharp issue of policy upon which to carry on a party contest, and it

136993
is difficult to carry on such a contest with a view to the personality
of the participants in this country because of the really shocking
untruthfulness of our public press.  There is much to cause us
alarm as to the standards of our politicians and business men, but
the mendacity, vulgar sensationalism, corruption and utter irresponsibility
of the press and the magazines is far worse.  Yet down at
bottom I think our people are sound, and I believe where a clear cut
position is presented to them, they will go all right.
However, in England you really are having a most interesting
time at the moment.  It seems to me, looking at it as an outsider,
that you are doing pretty well.  Do write me a few lines as
to the situation.
Give my warmest regards to Lady Trevelyan and to your sons.
Very sincerely yours,

The Right Hon. Sir. George Otto Trevelyan,
8 Grosvenor Crescent,
London, S. W.

13700July 24, 1911

My dear Sir:
     I am very sorry to say that it is not in my power to do anything. I am ap-pealed to in many case to interfere as re-gards promotions, demotions, appointments and removals. I could not do it in one case with-out being asked to do it in innumerable others and, of course, it would be wholey improper for me thus to act.
     With regret,
          Sincerely yours,

Mr. Peter Twamley
     639 Walton Avenue
          New York City

13701July 24th, 1911.

My dear Mr. White:
I look forward to receiving those bulletins, and
shall read them with interest.  I was very much struck
while in Egypt with the great desirability of having
education proceed primarily along industrial lines, and
it seems to me that should be our course in the Philippines.
One thing I hope we wont do is to turn out men onlu fit
to be clerks, instead of being men capable of earning
their living in industrial professions, and women capable
of being good housewives.  Now that you have been good
enough to write me, may I ask you if in the Philippines
we are turning our attention more and more to industrial
training?
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Frank R. White,
Bureau of Education,
Manila, P. I.

13702July 24th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Postmaster:
     I don't know whom else to write to in Yuma, and so I take the liberty to write to you. I shall ask you to do one or two things for me. Will you send a bill for the expenses incurred. Let me thank you in advance for your kindness. 
     My son Kermit, who was with me in Africa, wishes to make a short trip across the border into Mexico and he wants to take with him as guide Cipriano Dominguez, Calonia, Lerdo, Sonoro. Will you hire a messenger for me and have the enclosed letter taken out to Dominguez, and ask the messenger to write word to my son Kermit Roosevelt, c/o Robert Munro Ferguson, Silver City, New Mexico, telling him whether he found Dominguez, and whether Dominguez will as requested in the letter meet Kermit at Yuma on Wednesday August 9th. Will you also ask the messenger to tell Kermit the name of some big grocery store in Yuma where he can get provisions for a short trip, then will you send the bill to me. I thank you much and hope I am not intruding too much on your kindness.
          Very truly yours,


The Postmaster,
     Yuma, Ariz.

13703July 25th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I will with pleasure read the papers that you
send me, but I must say that I hold very strongly that
pure democracy, in the sense that you use the word, is
one of the forms of republican government, and that the
States of our Republic have precisely the same right to
use the initiative and referendum that the Cantons of
Switzerland have.  From my point of view, it is rather
absurd to deny that Switzerland is a republic.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Ralph R. Duniway,
Portland, Oregon.

21241July 25th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Bishop:
It is a pleasure to hear from you.  I am glad
that Mrs. Bishop and you liked that editorial.  Poor
Tristan Johnson's death was a very sad thing.  Come in
any Tuesday or Friday morning to see me.  Friday is the
best time for me.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. E.W.R. Bishop,
142 East 18th Street,
New York City.Bishop

July 25th, 1911.

Dear Joe:
First about your son. Tell him to come to me and I will
introduce him to the Outlook people, on the off chance - I am afraid
the very off chance - of there being something to do in the office,
and if there is anyone else that I can introduce him to, I will
be more than pleased. He is a fine fellow. At any rate, whether
I can help him or not, tell him to consult me freely. It will be
a real pleasure to me if I find I can be of use. But alas, there
is all to much truth in the Russian proverb "Once in ten years you
can help a man". I wish I could have seen you both. I will tell
The Outlook people as to your C.K. on the canal interview, but
really it is of no consequence.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. Joseph B. Bishop,
The Broztell,
New York City.


[5661][*Brett*]

July 25th, 1911.

My dear Colonel Brett:
     Will you permit me to introduce to you Miss 
Buxton, an English lady and a daughter of an old and 
valued friend Edward North Buxton. Miss Buxton and her 
friend intend to visit the Yellowstone Park, and I 
trust I am not trespassing on your good nature when I ask 
to give them any assistance in the way of advice and couns[el]
that they desire. Thanking you in advance for your 
courtesy, I am, 
          Very sincerely yours,



Lieut-Col. Lloyd Brett,
     Superintendent,
          Yellowstone Park.

5221 [inverted]July 25th, 1911.

My dear Governor:
Well, I guess I will have to read that correspondence! 
But you know I really don't want to. I shall 
send you back all of the papers as soon as I have read 
them, including the broadside for which many thanks. If 
you are to be in New York at any time, I wish you would 
stop in at The Outlook office. I should like to see you 
and go over especially the things you have said in 
connection with child labor.
Faithfully yours,


The Hon. B. B. Comer,
Birmingham, Ala.

7223July 25th, 1911.

Dear Governor:
That's fine! Now remember to let me know well 
in advance when you come on.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. Herbert J. Hadley,
Jefferson, Mo.

13704July 25th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     In the immense mass of newspapers, rolls of manuscripts, etc., which come to me, it is possible that yours will be mislaid. I hope not, and shall endeavor to keep a look out for it, but it is unwise to send me such a paper in such a form, as I cannot possibly open all of my mail myself. I cannot undertake to criticise such an essay on such a subjects, as I am sure you will understand on thinking it over. I will return the paper as soon as it comes.
          Faithfully yours,

Mr. J. E. Hatch,
     West Eaton, N. Y.

13705July 25, 1911

My dear Mrs. Hay:
I wrote you an answer in my own hand.
Now I respond in typewriting simply because
thereby I shall gain a little time, as I am
in The Outlook office. I do not remember anything
about that vase. I never heard of it
and I am puzzled as to the circumstances in
which it could have been sent. Root and Lodge
and I once sent a vase or loving cup of some
kind to George Trevelyan, but I do not remember anything
about a vase to Lerd Alverston.
I wish I could help you.
Faithfully yours,



Mrs. Clara S. Hay
Newbury, N. H.
13706July 25th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Buntington:
     I shall be here at the end of August and it will be a pleasure to see you at The Outlook office on some Tuesday or Friday morning. I don't know that I can be of any assistance to you, but of course I wish you well in any such effort.
          
          Sincerely yours,

Mr. Harwood Huntington,
     Lake Edward, P. Q.

13707July 25, 1911

My dear Mr. Johnson:
It is a real pleasure to hear from you, and
to know what you tell me about the increase of moose
and deer in the preserve. Indeed the region you treat
of must be one of the most beautiful there is, and I
wish I could be able to go through it. I fear however
that there is no such good luck for me in the
immediate future.
My dear Mr. Johnson, do not send me the enlarged
photograph simply because there is not any room
in my house for one in a hundred of the photographs
which are sent to me and so I cannot do anything more
with them.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. H. Johnson
Duluth, Minn.

13708July 25th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Hoffman:
The first chance I get to come down town, I will
let you know.  The trouble is it is very difficult for
me now to get down town.  I don't suppose that Mr.
Olyphant is ever by any chance passing the Outlook office
on some Tuesday or Friday?
With thanks,
Sincerely yours,

Mr. F.B. Hoffman,
New York State Society of the Cincinnati,
25 Broad Street,
New York City.

13709
July 25th, 1911.

My dear General Kerwin:
If I could write such a letter at all, I would gladly do it
at your request, but because of my association with Mr. Stimson, so
many people have asked me to write to him that I have been obliged
to make an invariable rule not to ask a favor for any man at all.
I have confined my self in a very few cases where I have written him,
to stating what I personally know of the individual with whom my
letter dealt. Now, my dear General, I know nothing of Lieut. Ray,
and nothing of the facts of the case. I am sure that if Mr.
Stimson can do what you desire he will be glad to do it for your
sake without an extra letter from me, but if you wish I will very
gladly send him at the same time a letter stating who you are, and
asking his careful consideration of any request that you make.
Sincerely yours,


General M. Kerwin,
Department of the Interior,
New York City.

13710July 25th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Kracke:
I have been following that with real interest 
as of course you can imagine. Good luck to you in your
leadership! You know how emphatically I believe in you.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. F. J. H. Kracke,
11 Kenmore Place,
Flatbush, Brooklyn.

13711July 25th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Manning:
I thank you for your book, and appreciate your
having sent it.
Faithfully yours,

Rev. William T. Manning,
187 Fulton Street,
New York City.

13712July 25th, 1911.

Dear Cal:
Send me those letters or copies of them. It does not
seem to me that private and confidential letters from me to you
should be published, and there is not the slightest reason why
you shouldn't say that you communicated with me in writing and ve
verbally, and that I took great interest in the case. If 
they wish to get what I said to Lodge and Root, they ought not
to get it from my letters to you, but from Lodge and Root themselves.
I should object to having letters in which I wrote you anything
about them made public. I should not in the least object to
having made public my own personal opinions about Lorimer; but
not what I said as to the attitude of other men about him. The
same thing applies as regards Beveridge. Send me the letters
or copies of them and then I can write you definitely.
I wish I could see you. I am greatly interested as to
what you say as to the Presidential nomination, and your views
as to the outcome of my position. I have limited my activities
and shall limit my activities to seeing to it that no friends
of mine shall favor any movement looking towards my nomination.
That is a most amusing cartoon of McCutcheon's. Do let me see
you. I wish I could see him to.

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With all good wishes,
Sincerely yours,

Mr. J.C. O'Laughlin,
The Chicago Tribune,
Washington, D.C.

13714July 25th, 1911.
Gentlemen:
Yesterday, when Mrs. Roosevelt was coming in from Oyster
Bay in the 11 o'clock train, the train ran into two automobiles at
the grade crossing just before reaching the entrance to the 59th
Street bridge. One man was killed in one of the automobiles. When
Mrs. Roosevelt changed at Jamaica the train into which she got was
so crowded that the aisles were jammed with people standing up, the
conductor finding it difficult to get through much as in a street
railway car in New York during the busy period of the day. Baggage
was taken on this train although there war apparently no baggage car.
Small trunks were put on the platform and one in the doorway nearest
to Mrs. Roosevelt's seat, creating an obstruction such that it there 
had been a serious accident no one could have got out. It seems to
me that this condition is sufficiently serious to warrant my calling
your attention to it. I suppose you know all about the grade
crossing at which the accident took place. I continually come over
it in an automobile, and there are so many trains that I have myself
had to wait until either thirteen or fourteen went by, covering a
space of perhaps a quarter of an hour. The men at the crossing
always struck me as very attentive to their duties, but the situation
was such that it was a physical impossibility that there should not

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be accidents there from time to time, as long as the highroad and 
the railroad at this particularly busy point continue to cross on 
the same grade.
Very truly yours,

The Management, 
L. I. Division Pennsylvania Railroad,
New York City.

13716July 25, 1911

My dear Mr. Peters:
The report has come, and I read it with great interest
and was glad to see that in the essential it seemed to take substantially
the same attitude that the Chicago Commission took. I
am inclined to agree with you as to the appointment of a National 
Commission, although I should not like to commit myself definitely
without thinking the matter more carefully over. I believe
we can do a certain amount by changes of law, both federal and
state, and there must also be a change of Public Action.
In Chicago I am informed that it is absolutely impossible
to get anything like adequate sentenses imposed upon
the infamous creatures engaged in the White Slave Trafic, because
the Juries do not take a sufficiently serious view of the
character of their offense, but I am also informed that they
are steadily becoming more sensitive to the iniquity. I thank
you for writing.
With all good wishes.
Sincerely yours,


Rev. John P. Peters, D.D.
Lakeside, N. J.

13717July 25th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Rikis:

     I am asked to become a life or honorary member of 
so many different political organizations that I feel it
is best that I should not join anyone.  As you will readily
understand, if I joined one then I could not refuse to
join the others, and I fear now that I have refused so many
it would give just offence if I accepted any.  Believe me,
I appreciate your courtesy.
             Sincerely yours,


Mr. D. H. Rikis,
     National Republican Alliance,
              366 Fifth Avenue,
                    New York City.


13718
July 25th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Squires:
The Winchester people have sent out the Winchesters
but I have yet to receive back the double barreled Holland
.450 and the Springfield.  Now, my dear Mr. Squires, I don't
want to seem disagreeable, but you have had these rifles
nearly eight months and it has been a matter of inconvenience
to me to have them away so long.  Have they not been cleaned
and put in order?  Can you not send them back at once?
Both of them are naturally very valuable to me because of
their association, and in addition the double Holland has
very large intrinsic value.
Faithfully yours,


Mr. Henry C. Squires,
40 Cortlandt Street,
New York City.

13719July 25th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Stevens:
I will look over that Bill at once, and take it
up with The Outlook.   I am not familiar enough with the
subject to answer you off hand.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. W. D. Stevens,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C.

13720July 25th, 1910
My dear Countess Teleki:
The enclosed note explains
itself. I fear that if Scribners will not take
the manuscript in spite of their evident good opinion of it
no other American firm would, and I hardly know whom
else to try. If you have some English friend, I
should think that some English publisher like MacMillan
ought to see it. I can try some other firm of publishers
if you desire, and I keep the manuscript awaiting
the expression of your desire.
With profound regard and with great regret
that I have so far not been successful, I am,

Very sincerely yours,


Countess Teleki,
Budapest,
Hungary.

13721July 25th, 1911.
My dear Senator:
That's fine!  I congratulate you upon this
as well as upon many other things.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. J.M. Wainwright,
The Senate,
Albany, N.Y.

13722

July 25th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Wickersham:
If that course is proper, I should like to have
you follow it.  Would any comment be caused, that is, would
the Committee have the right to make a row if they called
me before them and find you sent me the files?  I cannot
hardly imagine so, but I ask you anyhow.  If entirely convenient
then, would you send them on to the District Attorney,
and ask him to have some clerk bring them up to my office
here next Friday morning?  There really is not very much for
me to go over in them because the whole assault is idiotic,
and when that is the case it is difficult to answer it by
reason; but of course I might as well know the facts.  I
am very much obliged to you for your courtesy and genuinely
appreciate it.  Give my warmest regards to Mrs. Wickersham.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. George W. Wickersham,
Attorney General,
Washington, D. C.

13723July 25th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
     Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to acknowledge receipt of your letter, and to say that it would give him much pleasure if you could arrange to take Admiral Togo to lunch with Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, either on Saturday August 12th, or Sunday August 13th. You could either take a train from the Pennsylvania Station, or motor out. It is a very pleasant automobile trip. Perhaps you will let me hear from you which of the dates is more convenient for you.
     Faithfully yours,


          Assistant Secretary

General Stewart L. Woodford,
     1 Madison Avenue,
               New York City.

13724July 25th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Wynkoop:

     I thank you for having sent me that editorial,
and appreciate it.  I feel that I was rendering a real 
service to civilization when I spoke as I did in Cairo,
and I feel so more strongly now than ever.

              Sincerely yours,


Rev. T. S. Wynkoop,
        Secretary,
             British and Foreign Bible Society,
                    Allahabad, India.



13725
     Benson
July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express
his regret that unfortunately it is utterly
impossible for him to accept another invitation
of any kind, sort, or description.  During 
the past few months he has been compelled
to decline literally thousands of invitations,
some of which he would really like to accept,
but is physically unable to do so.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Arthur T. Benson,
Dover Plains, N.Y.July 26, 1911
My dear Mr. Bryant:
It was good of you to send me your
kind letter.  I sincerely appreciate all that
you say and thank you for writing.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. H. Bryant,
2042 Haste Street
Berkeley, Cal.

Mr. Roosevelt presents his compliments
to the Executive Committee of the 
Colorado Springs Summer Carnival for their
very kind invitation for the evening of
July 31st, but regrets that owing to a 
previous invitation he is unable to accept.

July 26, 1911

7939July 26, 1911
My dear Madam:
In reply to your letter to Mr. 
Roosevelt, I beg to say that he does not
intend to visit Michigan next month and it
will therefore be impossible for him to
accept your very kind invitation.
With regret,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mrs. Helen Connable
204 State Street
Petoskey, Mich.

13726

July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
I wish I could accept, but it is
a simply impossibility.  I have received
literally thousands of similar requests and
with the best wishes in the world it has
proved impossible for me to accept one in
a hundred of these invitations.  I deeply
appreciate the courtesy and kindness of
those who ask me to speak, but you have no
conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that 
I am physically able to accept, and I could
not greatly increase this proportion or
accept more of the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought
of any other work.
Faithfully yours,

Rev. Ferris D. Cornell
485 North Main Street
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

13727July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
I wish I could accept, but it is
a simple impossibility.  I have received
literally thousands of similar requests and
with the best wishes in the world it has
proved impossible for me to accept one in a 
hundred of these invitations.
I deeply appreciate the courtesy
and kindness of those who ask me to speak,
but you have no conception of the drain it is
upon me even to accept the very limited proportion
that I am physically able to accept,
and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations
that come to me without absolutely abandoning
all thought of any other work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. Charles H. Darling
Burlington, Vt.

13728

July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express 
his regret that he is unable to help you in the
way you mention.  He is approached in hundreds
of similar cases and if he were to respond in
one he would have to respond in all the others.
I am sure on thinking it over you
will realize how impossible it would be for
him to do this.  He is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Eugene Daucher
137 E. 48th Street
New York City.

13729July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt regrets greatly that
the demands upon him are such that it is
physically impossible for him to answer favorably
in all the cases that are brought to his
attention.
He already has hundreds of calls
upon him for worthy objects and he cannot go
into anything more.  He is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Robert Lee Dunn
1170-Broadway
New York City

13730

July 26, 1911

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank
you for your letter and to say that since
the bill is now passed he will not make any
further inquiries in the matter.

Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary

Colonel M. M. Dunspaugh
Albany, New York.

13731July 26th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Earl:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that
he would be very pleased to receive some copies of
the volume containing his lectures delivered in the
Spring, if they have now been published.
Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary

Edwin T. Earl, Esq.,
Los Angeles, Cal.

13732July 26th, 1911.

Gentlemen:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Harper, I beg
to say that the photograph which you submitted is in
every way pleasing to Mr. Roosevelt.
With thanks for your courtesy,
Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary

Messr s Harris & Ewing,
Washington, D. C.

13733July 26, 1911

My dear Mr. Johnson:
I must just send one line of
hearty congratulation to you and especially
to Mrs. Johnson.   You are the kind of
American citizens in whom I heartily believe.
With all good wishes,
Sincerely yours,

Mr. E. C. Johnson
Washingtonville
New York.

13734July 26, 1911

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret
that unfortunately he is unable to do anything
in the matter which you bring to his attention.
Since leaving the White House he has not interfered
in any national matter whatever and he is sure you
will realize, on thinking it over, that if he would
do so in your case he would be inundated with requests
to do the same in hundreds of others.  He
is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary

Mr. A. Kolle
Portland, Oregon

13735July 26, 1911

My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter Mr. Roosevelt
desires me to express his regret that he is unable
to give you the information which you desire.
Probably if you would write to the
official in charge of the Genealogy Department
of the New York City Public Library, he will
be able to give you some of the information
which you desire.
Faithfully yours,
                 
Assistant Secretary

Dr. G. B. Kuykendall
Pomeroy, Wash.

13736July 26, 1911
My dear Madam:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to tender
to you his thanks for your kindness in sending
him a copy of that rhymed list of our
presidents.  He much appreciates your courtesy.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mrs. L.A. Lucy
413 S. Second Street
Janesville, Wisc.

13737
July 26th, 1911.
My dear Mr. McCarthy:
That's a mighty interesting record.  I shall
go through it carefully with some of the editors of The
Outlook.  I thank you for writing to me.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. C. McCarthy,
Wisconsin Free Library Commission,
Madison, Wis.

13738
July 26th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would be
very glad to see you if you could call at The Outlook
office on Friday morning next at 10.30.  He hopes this
will be quite convenient for you.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. R.B. McClure,
45 West 34th Street,
New York City.

13739
July 26, 1911
My dear Madam:
In reply to your letter, Mr.
Roosevelt wishes me to express his regret
that the demands upon him are such that
it is physically impossible for him to
respond in but a few cases.  He has already
undertaken as much as it is possible
for him to undertake and he cannot go into
anything more.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Miss Agnes Meyer
6231 Lakewood Ave.
Chicago, Illinois

13740July 26, 1911
My dear Madam:
In reply to your letter to Mr.
Roosevelt I beg to say that there is no
truth in the report which appeared recently
in the Danish newspaper.  I am sure you will
realize, on thinking it over, that it would
be quite impossible for Mr. Roosevelt to
obtain work for all the Danes who made application
to him.  To do so would mean a
literally endless task.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mrs. Constance Moller
Kenmar, N. Dakota

13741July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has no photographs of
himself, and he has been nearly overwhelmed with
requests for them.  All that he can do is to
promise that if you will send him one of his
photographs, with stamps for return, he will
gladly autograph and return it.  He is obliged
to make this answer to very many people, and regrets
his inability to send each of them a
photograph as desired.  You could obtain one
from Messrs Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. J.E. Peacock, Jr.
Jacksonville, Fla.
13742July 26, 1911
My dear Mesdames:
In reply to your letter Mr.
Roosevelt wishes me to express his regret
that the demands upon him are such that
it is physically impossible for him to respond
in but a few cases.  He has already
undertaken as much as it is possible for
him to undertake and he cannot go into
anything more.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Sisters of the Holy Cross
Sacred Heart Academy
Fort Wayne, Ind.

13743July 26, 1911
My dear Mr. Schaff:
It was good of you to send me your
kind letter.  I sincerely appreciate all that
you say and thank you for writing.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Anselm Schaff
Irvington, N.Y.

13744

July 26, 1911
My dear Mr. Sinclair:
I thank you for your courtesy in
sending me the honorary membership ticket
to the Aero Club of New York and sincerely
appreciate it.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. R.R. Sinclair
Aero Club of New York
Garden City Estates, L.I.

13745
July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has
come to hand and in reply I beg to say that
he does not intend visiting Syracuse in the
near future and therefore it will be quite
impossible for him to accept your kind invitation.
With regret,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary


Mr. E. Carlton Sisson
Binghamton, N.Y.

13746
July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has received your letter and he
wishes me to say that he never gives his opinion ipon
public questions in letters to friends for quotation.
The only way you can obtain his views upon the question
you put to him is by referring to his published speeches
and editorials.  Most of his speeches have been published
in book form and may be consulted in almost any public
library.  On thinking it over, I am sure you will realize
that for Mr. Roosevelt to respond in personal
letters would mean a burden too great for him to bear
and would be literally an endless task.  He is sorry he
is unable to comply with your request.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

13747

Dr. W. B. Short
Peoria, IllinoisJuly 26th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Stephens:
I will look over that Bill at once, and take it
up with the Outlook.  I am not familiar enough with the
subject to answer you off hand.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. W.D. Stephens,
House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C.

13748

July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt has no photographs
of himself and he has been nearly overwhelmed
with requests for them.  All that he can do is
to promise that if you will send him one of
his photographs, with stamps for return, he
will gladly autograph and return it.  He is
obliged to make this answer to very many people
and regrets his inability to send each of them
a photograph as desired.  You could obtain one
from Messrs Harris & Ewing, Washing, D. C.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Dr. F. J. Stephenson
Burlington, Vt.

13749July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
I wish I could accept, but it is a
simple impossibility.  I have received literally
thousands of similar requests and with
the best wishes in the world it has been proved
impossible for me to accept one in a hundred
of these invitations.
I deeply appreciate the courtesy and
kindness of those who ask me to speak, but you
have no conception of the drain it is upon me
even to accept the very limited proportion
that I am physically able to accept, and I
could not greatly increase this proportion or
accept more on the invitations that come to
me without absolutely abandoning all thought
of any other work.
Faithfully yours,

Mr. H.H. Thomas, Jr.
Mechanicsburg, Pa.

13750July 26, 1911
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express
his regret that the demands upon him are such
that it is physically impossible for him to
answer favorably in all the cases that come
to his attention.  He already has hundreds of
calls upon him for worthy objects and he is
doing as much as it is possible for him to do.
He cannot go into anything more.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. D.M. Walker
Wilmerding, Pa.

13751July 26, 1911

My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr.
Roosevelt I beg to say that if you will
send the photograph to this office, it
will give Mr. Roosevelt much pleasure to
autograph it.
Faithfully yours,
              
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Lea Woodruff
Demopolis, Ala.

13752July 27th, 1911.

My dear Colonel Copp:
I have just received your interesting book, I
look forward to reading it, and appreciate your having sent
to me.
Sincerely yours,

Colonel Elbridge J. Copp,
Telegraph Publishing Co.,
Nashville, Tenn.

13753July 27th, 1911.

My dear Mr. President:
       I take genuine pleasure in asking you to look over
the really noteworthy manuscript of Captain Young on the
"Military Morale of Nations and Races".   Captain Young, as you
know, is the only officer in the United States Army who is a
colored man.  In that position he has had to contend not only
with the ordinary race prejudice, but against the fact that
more than once in the past colored men whom it was sought to
make officers of the Army have turned out badly.  I happen to
know personally that Captain Young is a most excellent officer,
a man fit to uphold the high traditions of the American Army
as only our best officers uphold them.  That he has a scholarly
aptitude of a noteworthy kind, I think you will find through
reading this manuscript.  It impressed me greatly; indeed that
it did impress me is proved by the fact that this is the only
occasion for a number of years in which I have written such a
letter as I am now writing.  I feel that it is a study which
on every account ought to be published, and it would be a fine
thing if it could be published by the University of Chicago Press


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Very earnestly hoping that Captain Young's wish may be
realized, I am.

                        Very sincerely yours,





President Harry Pratt Judson,
       University of Chicago,
              Chicago, Ill.




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                                            July 28th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Bonaparte:

            Many thanks for what you tell me about the suits.
You give me just the information that I wished,  As for the
alliance, I feel just as you evidently tend to feel about
it.  I don't know enough of them to join -- perhaps my reluctance
is heightened by the fact that the special
sponsor for my own State is Senator Depew.   I didn't join
the Progressive League, and I made up my mind myself that I
would not join this either.

                         Sincerely yours,


The Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte.

25227COPY
The Outlook
New York.
July 28th, 1911.
Dear Mr Bonaparte:
Many thanks for what you tell me about the suits.  You
give me just the information that I wished.  As for the alliance, I
felt just as you evidently tend to feel about it.  I don't know
enough of them to join - perhaps my reluctance is heightened by the
fact that the special sponsor for my own State is Senator Depew.  I
didn't join the Progressive League, and I made up my mind myself that
I would not join this either.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt

The Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte.

25228COPY

The Outlook
New York.
July 28th, 1911.


Dear Mr Bonaparte:
Many thanks for what you tell me about the suits.  You
give me just the information that I wished.  As for the alliance, I
felt just as you evidently tend to feel about it.  I don't know
enough of them to join - perhaps my reluctance is heightened by the
fact that the special sponsor for my own State is Senator Depew.  I
didn't join the Progressive League, and I made up my mind myself that
I would not join this either.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt

The Hon. Charles J.  Bonaparte. 

25229July 28th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Bowen:
I thank you for your interesting pamphlet, but
I am sure you will understand it is very doubtful how far
The Outlook can properly go in backing up private enterprises
however worthy.  I shall put your paper and letter
before the Editors however.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Millard P. Bowen,
730 Ellicott Square,
Buffalo, N.Y.July 28th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Bowers:
While I do not wish this letter published, you
are most welcome to show it, or a copy of it, to anyone
who is interested.  I feel that Archie was well tutored
this year and I feel very appreciative of what you and
Mr. Leslie did for him.  The results speak for themselves
in his passing the Harvard examinations which he attempted.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. F.T. Bowers,
127 Washington Street,
Tarrytown, N.Y.
July 28, 1911
My dear Mr. Buchholz:
I wish I could help you as you suggest,
but I lack the knowledge.  My studies necessarily
take a form of work based on expert reports.  I
am not in a position to make one of these expert
reports myself.
I am sorry I cannot give you suggestions
of value for your work, with the purpose
of which I have such complete sympathy.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Arthur E. Buchholz
Room 395, City Hall
Philadelphia, Pa.July 26th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Burr:
     Indeed, it would be a real pleasure to see you and Captain Russer on Sunday. If possible, could you come either between two and three, or between six and seven, the intervening hours I am never sure of on Sunday. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Burr.
          Sincerely yours,


Mr. George H. Burr,
     43 Exchange Place,
          New York City.

[4449]July 28th, 1911.

My dear Sir:
I doubt very much whether I can be of any
use in that matter.  I have communicated with Professor
Brander Matthews about it.  I am afraid, however, that
I can be of no assistance.  I thank you for writing.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. A. Deane Butcher,
25 Earls Court Square,
London, S.W., England.

4450July 28th, 1911.

My dear Miss Clagett:
It is good of you to tell me.  I mourn with 
you at the death of my old comrade and valued friend.
He was a staunch, gallant gentleman and soldier.
Pray accept my very deep and sincere sympathy.
Sincerely yours,

Miss Rebecca Clagett,
Frederick, Md.

8214July 28th, 1911.

My dear Senator Crawford:
I wish I could accept, but it is impossible.  I
cannot accept any invitation now. I don't want to make
another speech if I possibly can avoid it.  I have refused
literally hundreds of invitations for this Summer.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. C. J. Crawford,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

6402July 28th, 1911

Darling Bye:
       I thoroughly enjoyed Will's stay.  I only hope he
didn't find it too dull.  We lead such a quiet life and do so
little outside that it sometimes is difficult for us to realize
that there is absolutely nothing to amuse a guest. Will didn't
care to do by himself to the golf ground and none of us play
golf, and we never go out to any of the clubs nearby as you 
know.  I suppose this is partly because the kind of life we
have led has made us prize inordinately the mere fact of being
able to be entirely quiet in our own home.  However, I do
hope that Will in any degree cared to be here as much as we
cared to have him.
       You remember when Edith's perennial source of interest
was the very large baby carriage?  The place of that very carriage
has now been taken up as part of a new road.  She has grown to
feel quite properly that the change from the horse to the motor
age ought not to have implied that we ourselves and all our
visitors should use as the front road the road which leads up
by the stable, kitchen and drying ground, but this is exactly
what has happened.  The grading and curves of the front road
taken together make it a very difficult matter to go up it, and

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even down it. In consequence, everybody uses the back road which is not a pleasant approach to the house. In addition to this, we have always wished that the back road did not lead past the tennis court and in view of that part of the piazza on we always sit. Finally and most important is the fact that if we were to stay out here and motors to be used at all we should have to macadam the road. Indeed, this is very desirable without a motor. The hills are steep and when unmetalled the ruts in the road become something frightful in the Winter and Spring. There were days last Spring when it was almost or quite impossible to get a motor up the hill, and particularly during mid-day while the thaw was on. Accordingly we are going to put the back road and the front road both out of commission and build a new road which we have got permission to build. It will go into the woods at the right hand side of our present road as you come toward the house, the divergence from the old road being seen after passing stable, which will swing to the right through the woods as a gentle curve back to our present front road about where the entrance of Emlen's cow path is. This will all mean much expenses, but as we had to macadamise the road anyhow, the additional expense of the new road will be but trifling, and it seemed far better to gain something permanent

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for the money than to have another makeshift job, or a permanent
road that would force us always to come to the front door via the
stable and kitchen.  Emlen has been a trump about it as he always
is.
            Teresa Richardson is staying with Edith for a few
days.  I really think she is the guest whom Edith most enjoys.
for she herself is thoroughly at home and doesn't care to do much
of anything beyond bathing, so that Edith doesn't have the uncomfortable
feeling that she ought to be more of a hostess and
take her friend out in the Oyster Bay equivalent for the gay
world.  I am amused to see the effect of the motor on Ethel and
Kermit's friends.  They have been over often to see the Hitchcocks,
Rumseys, and Dorothy Whitney, instead of limiting themselves to
what friends can be found within a half mile radius of Sagamore
Hill.  Of course the Hitchcocks, Bacons, Whitneys and others
have always come over here more or less in their motors, but far
more now that Ethel and Kermit go over to visit them.  I am glad
that we didn't have the motor before, because I don't particularly
care to have the children in with the Meadow Brook set.  But
there has been no harm in it this summer, which is the last
Summer Kermit will be at home, and the last Summer that Ethel can
really be considered as a young girl entitled to think


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primarily of her amusement -- for she will be twenty in a few days
and she has enough seriousness of character to make her wish that
from now on to turn her attention to more serious things than
just having a good time.  Archie is studying very hard, really
almost too hard.  Edith helps him in his French studies and I
devote an hour each evening to history and civics.  He has passed
eight points for Harvard, and he hopes to pass some additional
subjects this Fall, but he is not confident about it, and
personally I don't care whether he succeeds or not. If he gets
in a year hence he will spend four years in college, whereas
if he gets in two years hence he will probably pass with three
years, which will really be the same.  He is not really strong, and
next winter in Arizona will do him good.  He and Quentin, I am
happy to say, have begun to play tennis with one another.  He is
a very thoughtful considerate little boy, and when Edith has a 
headache he cares for her and nurses her in a really tender way.
He has become a good rider and loves my new horse The Sirdar,
which is a beauty.  Ethel, by the way, has my old jumping horse
Rosswell, but I am sorry to say that he seems to be rather gone
in his fore legs.  Quentin is an affectionate, soft hearted,
ever grown puppy kind of a boy, absorbed in his wireless and in


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anything mechanical.  He and James play baseball together.  All
our adherents, by the way, are now of the type that give the
keenest satisfactions.  The two black men in the house and the
two black men in the stable, that is,  James and Lee and their
respective understudies, are really the best representatives of
the devoted colored family servant type, their attitude varying
from one of warm personal friendship to the injured dignity of
a big child detected in shortcomings.  The gardner and his
temporary assistant and Arthur Merriam, the chauffeur, are all
native Americans who might have walked out of the pages of our
history, and who take the most friendly and slightly patronising
interest in my feats in the hay field or in driving the machine.
        I do hope you can visit us sometime this fall or next
Spring.  I am so glad that I was able to get up to Farmington
this Spring.
       The Emlen Roosevelts have had a very hard time because of
dear Aunt Lizzie.  At last they have moved her out here, but
she is not only very feeble and ill, but always wandering a little
in her mind, and it is a time of unceasing sadness and anxiety
for them.  Life has been only a burden to her for some years
now and at present it holds out less than nothing to her.  She

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has not been able to or cared to see either Edith or I since she
came out, and most of the time she does not care where she is,
and is not quite sure even about Christine and the children.
Little Christine looks and is far from well.  Isn't it strange
when you think what a very strong active, healthy girl she was.
She and Jim Shelly will have to give up the idea of going to
Chile because in her health she could not leave the United States.
                 Ever yours,






13761July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mrs. Corbett:
      The photo of young Theodora and her teddy bear has
come and I am so pleased that I am taking it right out with
me to show Mrs. Roosevelt. I don't know whether you are
still in England, and I don't know where your husband is.
Is there any chance of ever seeing you on this side of the 
water -- all three of you or only the two elders will be
equally welcome at Sagamore Hill. By the way, a neighbor
of mine here named Rainey has just gone with a pack of hounds,
specially trained on bears, to East Africa and is trying them on i
lions and he has killed thirty-seven.  But nothing will ever
equal the excitement of the lion hunt that thanks to your
husband and yourself I enjoyed seeing. By the way, do tell
your husband that I read the Gobineau he gave me with absorbed
interest.  There is a curious book of somewhat the same style
that has just come out called "The Formation of the Nineteenth
Century" by an English writer in German -- Chamberlain.  I send
you herewith a brief review that I wrote of it.
                With all good wishes to you and your family,
                                       Sincerely yours,


Mrs. Eleanor Corbett.

13762July 28th, 1911.

Dear Will:
      The peaches were delicious.  I didn't know whom they
came from for quite some time.  I wrote Corinne a report of
the present condition of the Roosevelts at this neck of the
woods.  It was fine to have you here, and I only wish there
had been more amusement for you.   Teresa is spending a few days
with Edith and is apparently happy although her only amusement
outside the house is bathing.  I see the President assumes
the entire responsibility for the Controller Bay matter.  I
am sure he meant to act with full regard for the interest of
the people.   The trouble is that he really knew nothing about
the whole subject and took no interest in it, and when he
dismissed Garfield from the Interior Department and replaced
him by Ballinger, he had insured trouble for the people and
trouble for himself.
                                 Ever yours,


Rear-Admiral W. S. Cowles,
            Farmington, Conn.


13763July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Dalsell:
     I am very sorry, I simply cannot come. I have found by actual experience that to accept one invitation means that I hurt the feeling of literally hundreds of other bodies that I refuse. I simple cannot accept this invitation, much though I should like to do so.
     With hearty good wishes,
          Sincerely yours,

Mr. Fred B. Dalzell
     Amityville, New York

13764July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Dannenbaum:
     I do not know whether the Outlook would wish to publish that article or not. I will glady submit it to them, however, and ask them to communicate with you direct.

          Sincerely yours,

Mr. Henry J. Dannenbaum,
     Bureau of Investigation,
          Department of Justice,
               New York City.

13765July 28th, 1911.

My dear General:
     Your letter crossed mine. For Heaven's sake don't think of coming to New York on purpose to see me, but I should like to have you meet the Editors of The Outlook. Now, when in November you are coming through again, cannot you make it some Tuesday or Friday? Do let me know in advance so that I may be in The Outlook office and then you can take lunch with us.
          Very sincerely yours,

General James A. Drain,
     Arms and the Man,
          Washington, D. C.

13766July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Eugster:
     I am sorry to say tha t on inquiry I find that the rats are nearly as numerous as ever. I had not know of this until a few days ago because it was only during those few days that they began to be as active in the walls of my room as formerly but I find that they have been as plentiful as ever around the house for a fortnight. I need not say that I am very much disappointed. Is it not possi-ble for you to do something.
     James tells me that he has used the poison which did some good, but which is now all gone, and James did not know your address for getting any more.
          Sincerely yours,

Mr. Albert J. Eugster
     New York City.

13767July 28th, 1911.

My dear Dr. Gladden:
           If I could accept such a request, I would do it for
you, but it is a simple impossibility. You have no conception
of the enormous mass of invitations I receive.  In
the mail with your letter came, aside from various requests
that I did not care to accept, three invitations of real
importance, no one of which I could have refused if I had
accepted any of the others, or if I had accepted yours.  I
am really sorry to have to say No.  Let me see you if you
come this way at all.
                Sincerely yours,


Dr. Washington Gladden,
      Columbus, Ohio.

13768July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Grattan:
     I have just received the volume which you were so kind as to send me. I look forward to reading it, and thank you.
          With all good wishes,
               Sincerely yours,

F. W. Grattan, Esq.,
     Woodside, L. I.

13769July 28th, 1911.

Dear Charlie:
     Two Hammond boys who said they were cousins or nephews of yours met me at Los Angeles, and presented me with a fine Navaho head star. I am sending you for them a buffalo foot and a rhinocerous tail. Would you mind sending them to the boys and letting me know if there is any expense?
          Sincerely yours,

Charles Hammond Esq.,
     Upper Lake Clear,
          Lake County, Cal.

13770July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Harvier:
     That's a nice note of yours, and I thank you for it.
          Sincerely yours,

Ernest Harvier, Esq.,
     1193 Broadway,
          New York City.

13771July 28th, 1911.

Dear Heller:
     I can't say how much I am obliged to you for your letter. It was most interesting. Good for you lion-hunter! After your feats with leopards, I knew you would handle lions all right whenever the occasion arrived. Do congratulate Rainey from me. I take a certain amount of national pride in the fact that after Buffalo Jones had shown what could be done in the way of roping lions and rhinocerous, we can now show what can be done in making a big bag of lions with a man with dogs. Will you ask him if he would object to my using some of his experiences when I write up the life history of the lion for your volume on African animals, which of course will be practically a volume not only of my trip but of his. Your letter will give much of the very kind of material that ought to be put in that volume, and it will add immensely to the interest of thise [sic] volume to have full accounts of the life history of big game. I want that volume to be something unique of its kind. I gather you wont be back until the beginning of the Winter. I am very glad you sent in the White Rhinocerous paper, but do send in that Giant Eland paper. In some ways it is more important, because you are the first man that has had the material which enabled him to point out the bongo-like aptitudes of the giant eland, and as this material was collected by us, I think

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that we should have the benefit of one of our own number announcing the discovery, and not have the British Museum people the first ones to announce such a discovery, on the basis of information collected a year after ours by a first rate fellow given information by us - for Selous went after us with a map which Kermit had drawn for him telling him where to go.
     Cunninghame wrote me a very nice letter the other day giving me a description of his experiences in the Northern district. I was particularly interested in what he said about the elephants, including the fact that one had charged with trunk tightly curled up. Those that charged me charged with their trunks straight down, although one when shot brandished his trunk in the air. Do ask Rainey to make notes of this point, and also will you makes as many notes as possible as to the time that the different antelopes in the different sections of the country produce their fawns, and as to the ages of the fawns you found. I got contradictory observations on this point. I have an article of sixty or seventy thousand words on Concealing and Revealing Coloration in birds and Mammals coming out through the American Museum, of Natural History within a few weeks. As they have your name on the list of those who receive their publications, I shall not send you a copy myself - unless you don't receive theirs. I cannot help wishing I was to be with you on your great trip northward. Give my warmest

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regards to Rainey, and of course to Cunninghame, Tarlton and Newland. I am much distressed that Tarlton and Newland should be in such poor health. I have just written Tarlton. Give my regards to White also if you should see him, but I suppose that he will return here long before you do. It is fine that you have made such a success of everything. Do write that giant eland pamphlet, however. Good luck to you! Congratulate Rainey again from me on what he has been able to do. I wish I could take part in some of those lion hunts.
                                                  Very sincerely yours,



Edmund Heller, Esq. , 
          c/o Newland Tarlton & Co.,
                       Nairobi, B.E.A.



13774


                                                                                        July 28th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Hoggatt:
             I am much much pleased with your letter. You put the case exactly when you say we must have a leasing system for use in the coal lands, and on the other hand that it is from the public standpoint sheer iniquity not to have that systems liberal, so that ample profit will be made by the miner, especially the small miner. Pray come in next Tuesday at one o'clock and go to lunch, and I will get you to meet some of The Outlook people.
                                                  Very sincerely yours,



Mr. W. B. Hoggatt,
              Harts Hotel,
              Whitesboro, N. Y. 



13775July 28, 1911
My dear Mr. Jacobs:
I thank you for your courteous
letter and I shall be pleased to receive the
book.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Leon R. Jacobs
#20 Nassau Street
New York City.

13776July 28, 1911
My dear Mr. Laughlin:
That is very kind of you. I thank
you for what you did for Mrs. Dickinson and
for so kindly writing me. Do let me see you
whenever you come to this side.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Irwin B. Laughlin
Berlin, Germany

13777July 28, 1911
My dear Mr. Lucas:
By all means give one of those cases
to the Childrens Museum in Brooklyn if you would
like to. I sent them to the American Museum to
make any disposal of them which they might desire.
I mounted the Egyptian birds in the winters
of '73 and '74, the owl at the time it was
shot.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. F. A. Lucas
American Museum of Natural History
New York City.

13778


                                                                                        July 28th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Mayor:
               Your very courteous letter to me, and the invitations to Mrs. Roosevelt and my daughter Miss Ethel Roosevelt, have come. Indeed, my dear Mr. Mayor, I appreciate the courtesy very greatly as we all do. I wish it were in my power to accept, and if I were accepting any invitation to attend any celebration this Summer I would certainly go to this, but I have had to make my rule invariable, because I found that if I made any exceptions at all it simply prevented my being able to guard myself in any way, for one acceptance led to countless others. I would not in any event think it wise that my daughter should officiate as you so kindly ask, but if I were able to come on myself I would certainly do so. Your celebration will be most interesting, and naturally I take a particular interest in it in as much as it was one of my name who built the first steamboat, a replica of which is to appear in the parade. Believe me, my dear Mr. Mayor, I am extremely sorry not to be able to accept.
               With hearty good wishes, I am,
                                                  Very sincerely yours,



The Hon. William A. Magee.
  


13779
July 28th, 1911.
Dear Brander:
The enclosed explains itself. What do
you think of it? I don't suppose there is anything 
for me to do?
Sincerely yours,

Professor Brander Matthews.

13780July 28, 1911
My dear Comrade:
I am not sufficiently acquainted with
the facts to give you an opinion upon that subject.
I thank you for writing to me.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. John P. Maxwell
201 Symes Building
Denver, Colorado

13781


                                                                                        July 28, 1911


My dear Parsons:
               Indeed I do believe most cordially in the Amenia Field Day as Prof. Spingarn describes it to you, and it is just the kind of thing that ought to be done. I feel churlish in refusing myself to attend, but I have not any alternation. If I attempted to accept an invitation for a thoroughly worthy cause, in which I thoroughly believe, I would not only find myself speaking every day, but find myself having to outrage the feelings of large numbers of people by my drawing the line against them and their causes, which I would not think as worthy as the others and which they would. I cannot now make another engagement of any kind, sort, or description. After coming home, as you know, I tried to speak in each state or at least each section of the country and in my speeches I tried to cover broadly all the different interests -- this being my way of trying to express my appreciation to the people for all they had done for me in the past and to try say that my interest had not been due merely to a lively sense of the present or to come.



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But the longer I continued to speak, the greater the pressure to speak became. Every time I speak it means a series of other invitations which I have to refuse, and if I accept any invitation I have to accept such a number that I absolutely destroy all point in any speech.
             I write this rather long explanation because I would like Prof. Spingarn to understand how sorry I am.
                                                  Sincerely yours,



Mr. Herbert Parsons,
               52 William Street,
               New York City.



13783



                                                                                      July 28th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Peters:
              I thank you for your letter, which I appreciate. Good luck!
                                                   Sincerely yours,



Ralph Peters Esq. ,
              Long Island Railroad Co. ,
               New York,



13784


                                                                                       July 28th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Pinchot:
              Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to say that he would particularly like to see you if you could come in to the Outlook office next Tuesday. He wishes to talk over with you President Taft's message on the Controller Bay matter, as he is inclined to think this is important. Will you kindly let me have word if this is convenient for you?
                                                  Faithfully yours,

                                                  Assistant Secretary



The Hon. Gifford Pinchot,
             1617 Rhode Island Ave,
              Washington, D. C. 



13785


                                                                                         July 28th, 1911.


My dear Mr. Ambassador:
               A fortnight ago or so, two or three kindly creatures came to me to point out the alleged "dig" or "hit" in question; I answered that even in the quotation it seemed to me that you had been paying to me a very high tribute, and that the only comment I would have to make upon it was that I was inclined to think that when you spoke of me as great man, and the career I have had as a very great career, you were letting friendship color your judgement so as to make it much more rosy than a wholly dispassionate judgement would be; and I did not think of the incident again until I got your letter. Yes, I am sorry to say that the average modern journalist in this, as in other matters, takes a view that is literally incomprehensible. Here they gleefully proceeded to twist into some kind of an attack upon me a statement made by you, which on its face was a very high compliment, altogether too high, my dear sir, but expressed with such dignified choice of language as to make me feel genuinely pleased it had been uttered. Let me take the opportunity of thanking you for it very cordially.
            Ogden and Mrs. Ogden spent a night with us a fortnight ago, and we thoroughly enjoyed it, I do hope we shall have a 



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chance during the coming year of having both you and Mrs. Reid with us for a night. Now, in ending, let me tell you that I think your letter was mighty nice letter, and I am glad that the absurd story was circulated in as much as it brought me this letter.
             Give my love to Mrs. Reid.
                                                 Very sincerely yours,




The Hon. Whitelaw Reid,
             London, England.



13787


                                                                                        July 28th, 1911.


Dear Jake:
             Indeed, I am more than pleased if I was of the slightest use in that matter.
                                                  Sincerely yours,



Mr. Jacob A. Riis,
             Richmond Hill, L. I. 



13788July 28th, 1911.

Darling Corinne:

I like the poem even better now that it is out than
I did in manuscript.  It expresses a fine and high purpose, and
the expression itself shows real power - I don't like to be
hyperbolical or I could say great power.  You have a right to 
feel genuine pride in it.  I am very much impressed with it.

I thought our lunch delightful, and it was the greatest 
pleasure to find the attitude that Teddy was taking.  He is doing
exactly right.  Sooner or later he will be a power in this county, 
in one way or another, and it is all the more certain to come
because he is not demanding that it should come instantly, as the
Arab proverb says "All thing come to those who wait, if they
know how to wait" - and of course this kind of waiting means
working also.

Give my love to all.

Ever yours,


Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Henderson House,
Jordanville, 
Horkimer Co., N. Y.


13789

July 28, 1911.

My dear Madam:

I thank you for your letter.  I 
am greatly interested in the conserve of
our birds and have always tried to do what
I could for that purpose.

Sincerely yours,


Madam Alice Roseley
My. Washington, Md.


13790

July 28th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Rossiter:
      I should be glad to see that memorandum published.
Do, however, go over carefully and see that you don't convey a
false impression.  I thoroughly grasp the point you make, but
you must remember there are a great multitude of people who
need to have every i dotted and every t crossed.  Emphasize
that there are different conditions in different countries,
that failure to limit population is one cause, and perhaps the main
cause of China's weakness, and yet that the limiting of population
in France has made her go back compared with Germany, and has not
resulted in easing the strain in her social and economic life.
Above all, point out the fact that if here in America the best
stock dies out it will be bad for America, and to take a seeming
paradox, and to show that the best stock so-called is tainted
with cowardice and selfishness, and was so unwilling to dare the
great adventure without which nothing can be hoped for.
                          Sincerely yours,


Mr. W. S. Rossiter,
      Brookline, Mass.

13791July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Sands:
I am very sorry, but I know of no position in 
which I could place you.  In the first place, as you 
must know, the request to be appointed to some position,
without making any specific application as to what position
it is, means nothing.
In the next place, even if you specified a 
position, I have absolutely no means of getting the 
position or finding it out.  What you must do is to find
the position yourself, a position where there is a 
vacancy which you can fill, then go to then with the
recommendation of the places you have filled and with
your discharge from the regiment and try and see if you 
can get it.  Neither I nor anyone else can help you
just vaguely to get a position of some kind, which you 
could fill.
Faithfully yours,


Mr. Geo. H. Sands
Syracuse, New York


13792July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Shartle:

I am sincerely obliged to you for 
having sent me that paper.  I quite understand
how it was published.

With thanks.

Sincerely yours,


Mr. Samuel G. Shartle 
Konigin Augusta str, 22
Berlin, Germany


13795


July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Thompson:

We are greatly concerned to learn of the death of
Mrs. Thompson.  I wish there were some way I could show my
sympathy.  I beg you to accept my sincere regard, and with 
renewed expressions of concern and regret, believe me,

Very faithfully yours,


The Hon. David Thompson,
Ex-Ambassador to Mexico, 
Lincoln, Nebr.


13794

July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Ton:

If you realized the innumerable requests I receive
to make speeches, you would understand that it is
simply out of the question to consider anything in the 
nature of a private invitation, no matter how attractive.
All I can do is to express my cordial good wishes
to the whole Ton family.

I like to read of an American family of five
hundred and seventy living members of the type I am
sure the Tons are, which five hundred and seventy
have been accumulated in little over half a century.

Good luck to you!

Sincerely yours,



Mr. Cornelius J. Ton
1325 First National Bank Bldg.
Chicago, Illinois


13795

July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Van Valkenburg,

I thank you for those letters, which I return.
They are excellent, and I am specially pleased with
what Mr. McClatchey said as to the treatment of the
Supreme Court question.  Good for him!

Sincerely yours,


Mr. R. A. Van Valkenburg,
The North American,
Philadelphia, Pa.


13796

July 28th, 1911.

My dear General:
That's most kind of you. I don't believe I was ever
a member of that Burgess Corps at all.  I certainly have no
knowledge of it, and am in doubt if I ever heard of it.  Now,
my dear sir, I wish I could accept your invitation to visit
Pine Camp.  I would do it in one moment if it were not that
whenever I go anywhere it means that I am literally flooded
with invitations to go elsewhere, for good people and for
good causes, and I then cause offence by refusing.  I have
found that I just have to refuse all invitations if I wish to
stay at home at all, or if I wish to have any time to myself.
I am very sorry.
Sincerely yours,


Adjutant General William Verbeck,
Albany, New York.


13797July 28, 1911

My dear Mr. Walker:

I know well the extensive and disinterested 
studies you have made upon that subject.
I am thoroughly convinced that while some good
can be obtained along the lines of the Sherman
Law, the greatest good can only be obtained as
I have suggested.  Either the state will have
to supervise this corporation as I have outlined 
or else there will be no efficient control 
over them. 

Sincerely yours,


Mr. Albert H. Walker
Park Row Building
New York City.

13798


July 28th, 1911.

My dear Mr. Wickersham:

Your letter has come, and shortly afterwards the papers
came up from the District Attorney's office.  I looked them over
and as far as I could see they contain nothing except the letters
also contained in the printed communication and Senate document
which accompanied them.  You said, by the way, that you enclosed
a copy of that Senate document in your letter.  No copy came in
the letter, but there were two copies in the file of papers and 
therefore I took the liberty of retaining one which of course
will be sent back to you if you wish it.  Would it bother you too
much to have a clerk go over the files and see if by any chance
I failed to find some letter in the files about the Earl matter
which was not in the printed document.  I did not find any such
letter.  Evidently the letter in which Earl appealed to me as
one Harvard man to another Harvard man to come to his aid, I 
either did not think sufficiently important to send to the 
Attorney General, or else the Attorney General mislaid it or
disregarded it.

You are exactly right in your supposition as to why no
proceeding was brought during my administration.  The attorney
General was inclined to think that the decision was colored

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by the Court, and did not wish to bring a suit on behalf of the 
Government.  And moreover, he did not wish to bring a suit which
would seem to be in aid of pending private litigation.  He told
me at the time that if the private litigation turned out as it
has turned out the government would naturally act, just as in
fact you have acted.

Barry Stimson lives in my neighborhood.  I wonder if Mrs.
Wickersham and you will by any chance be visiting them this Summer?
If so, I do wish you would run over and take lunch with me.  In
any event we are now only a good motor ride from New York, and 
I wish that if you are in New York and have the time to spare,
you would either alone, or better still with Mrs. Wickersham,
come out to lunch.  

Very sincerely yours,



The Hon. George W. Wickersham,
Attorney General,
Washington, D. C.


13800

July 28th, 1911.

My dear Captain Young:

Is the enclosed all right?  I only hope it 
will be of assistance to you. That is really a noteworthy 
study of yours.

Sincerely yours,


Captain Charles Young,
Ft. D. A. Russell, Wyo.



13801

July 29th, 1911.

Dear Cal:

Mrs. O'Laughlin has just sent me my letters to you in
the Lorimer case.  Will you thank her warmly, by the way, and give
her my regards?  These letters should certainly not be published.
Almost everyone contains my views as regards some one of the 
Senators who voted against what I thought right in the Lorimer
case, or expressions of opinion upon the men who ultimately voted
as we thought they ought to have voted, for instance, Lodge and 
Crawford.  It would be grossly improper to print broadcast my
opinion as to these men and their attitudes, and it has nothing
whatever to do with the Lorimer case.  I did speak to, or write
to, Lodge, Root, Beveridge, Crawford and la Follette about Lorimer
and if the Committee wishes to know what I said, let them ask these 
men, but most certainly they are not entitled to receive and should
not receive, either the original letters, or copies of the letters,
which I sent you confidentially in answer to your confidential 
letters as to the attitude of certain Senators, and as is the probable
outcomes of the case.  In other words, I am entirely willing
to state to the Committee, or have stated to the Committee, anything
that I did, both as regards my own speech at the Hamilton Club, or 
as regards my words spoken or written to the Senators whom I have

13802named.  But I am not willing to have what I said about other men in 
private letters to you made public.  I wish you could come on here 
and let me talk a little with you.

Sincerely yours,


Mr. J. Callan O'Laughlin,
Washington, D. C. 


13803

July 29th, 1911.

Dear Mr. Prichard:

Many thanks for your interesting letter and the 
photograph.  By the way, I am much interested in your incidental
statement that the tame barren ground Norwegian deer interbreed
freely with the woodland wild deer of Newfoundland at St. Anthony.
This seems to bear out my belief that the caribou is a genus which
is in process of differentiation inter-species, but where the 
differentiation has not gone far enough to enable us clearly to
separate the species as, for instance, we separate black tail and
white tail deer.  Certainly your No. 2. head looks intermediate
between 1 and 3.  I am interested as to your experience as to the 
deer being more numerous in Quebec than in Labrador.  I am also
interested in what you tell me about that new sub-species from 
the West coast of Africa.  I believe there has already been
described a diminutive or pigmy form of West Coast eland.  I 
wish I could have the chance of seeing you again.

Sincerely yours,


Mr. H. H. Prichard,
Prae Wood,
St. Albans, England.

13804


July 29th, 1911.

My dear Sir:

In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I 
beg to say that if you will call at The Outlook office
on Tuesday morning or Friday morning next, Mr. Roosevelt
will have much pleasure in seeing you for a minute.

Sincerely yours,


Assistant Secretary

Mr. Henry Riesenberg,
The Royal Luskoka,
Muskoka Lakes, Canada.


13805

July 29th, 1911.
My dear Professor Schoenfeld:
I thank you for your courtesy. I appreciate your very
kind allusions to me, and are pleased to hear that you are engaged
with my friend Count Seckendorff in connection with the getting
of American news for Europe. Your paper is to me very interesting.
I do not suppose The Outlook will want it, and I don't want to
submit it to The Outlook myself, as it is a thing I always dislike
doing, but it would be entirely proper for you to submit it.
Fundamentally I agree with your article. I think, however, you
state the case too strongly when you say that universal peace is a 
dream for all time. I should prefer to say a time when it must
remain a dream either until there is a far more world wide expanse
of justice than at present, or until better means have been devised
for securing justice than war. The dream of peace is only noble
as long as it is thoroughly understood that the peace is to be based
upon righteousness. Peace gained by the acquiescence in the perpetuity
of injustice and unrighteousness is thoroughly base and
ignoble.
Sincerely yours,



Professor H. Schoenfeld,
Cosmos Club,
Washington, D. C.

13806Boak


July 31, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me 
to express his regret that unfortunately 
it is utterly impossible for him to accept another 
engagement of any kind sort or description. 
During the past few months he has had to refuse
literally thousands of invitations some of 
which he would really like to accept, but is 
physically unable to do so. With regret
Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary


Mr. Edward K. Boak,
29 Bolton Street,
West End, Portland, Maine

[3809]July 31st, 1911.

My dear Dr. Corrigan:

I am really pleased with the pamphlet you sent me
on The Law and the American Child, and I appreciate very
much your kind words on the title page.  If you are in New
York at any time, pray let me see you at The Outlook office.

Sincerely yours,


Dr. Thomas C. Carrigan,
340 Main Street, 
Worcester, Mass.


13807

July 31st. 1911.
My dear Mr. Dodge:
It is a pleasure to hear from a brother of
my father's old friend. By the way, I know both of your
nephews Earl and Cleve well, and I am glad to see the
way their sons are growing up. I cannot advise you on
the matters you speak of. You have no idea, my dear Mr.
Dodge, how many people ask me for advice where I am
really powerless.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. A. G. Phelps Dodge,
1227 No Vermilion Street,
Danville, Ill.

13808July 31, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express
regret that unfortunately he is unable
to help you in the way you wish.  He has hundreds
of such applications made to him and if
he were to respond favorably in one case he
would be compelled in common fairness to do so
in all the other cases.  He feels sure that on
thinking it over you will see how impossible
this would be.  He is very sorry he is unable 
to oblige.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Dr. W. A. Gabbert,
Paris, Ill.


13809

July 31st, 1911.

Dear Coudert:

Many thanks for your brief, which has just come,
and which I know I shall enjoy.  After our talk the other
day I at once ordered Boutroux lectures.

Thanking you,

Very sincerely yours,


Frederic B. Coudert, Esq.,
Oyster Bay, N. Y.


13810

July 31, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to tender
you his thanks for your very courteous invitation.
Unfortunately, however, he does not intend 
to visit Kansas City at the time you mention 
and therefore it will be quite impossible 
for him to accept your invitation.  with regret

Faithfully yours,

Assistant Secretary


Mr. W. W. Hall, General Agent, 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ryw. Co.,
381 Broadway, New York City


13811

July 31, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me 
to thank you for your courtesy in sending
him that clipping.  He much appreciates
your kindness.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Mr. Wells F. Harvey,
The Grand Rapids Press,
905 Colorado Building, 
Washington, D. C.


13812

July 31, 1911.

My dear Madam:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to 
express his regret that unfortunately he is 
unable to refer you to any one with regard
to the matter which you mentioned in your
letter.  He is very sorry.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Miss Bertha V. A. Kuns,
100 Manhattan Street,
New York City


13813

July 31st, 1911.
My dear Judge:
Even though you say that I am not to answer your letter,
I cannot resist sending you a line to express my cordial sympathy
and my indignation at the outrageous conduct of this mis-called
humane society. I absolutely agree with you in the course you
are following. I applaud it with all my heart, and I wish I were
in Colorado to help you. However, I absolutely agree with your 
view that the National and State Constitutions should prohibit
absolutely appropriations made to any private association,
charitable or religious, that is not in absolute control of the
State. I hope you understand that I have enlisted for the war
as far as these fights are concerned, and anything I can do in The
Outlook or otherwise, to help you I will have done. You tell me
as to anything you would like to have done. I think it would be better
to wait until we have made our final comment in The Outlook upon 
the issues raised by the Humane Society with you and me, then you 
send me the documents about the fight you are making, and I will
have an editorial put in heartily and as strongly as I know how,
backing up your position.
Very sincerely yours,


Judge Ben B. Lindsey.

13814July 31st, 1911.

My dear Mr. Lopez:
I thank you for your courtesy in sending on
those relics.  It was indeed kind of you to do so.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. J. O. Lopez,
Elvaton R. F. D.1
A. A. Co., Fd.


13815July 31st, 1911.

My dear Sir:

I thank you for your courtesy.  I look
forward to receiving the magazine with the life of Mr.
Paulson.

With all good wishes,

Sincerely yours,


Mr. Carl Lorentzen,
507 Fifth Ave.
New York City.


13816

July 31, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me 
to tender to you his thanks for your courtesy
in sending him a copy of that poem. He
much appreciates your kindness.
Yours faithfully,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Gilbert McClurg, Gen. manager,
American Land & Irrigation Exposition,
26th Floor, Singer Building,
New York City

13817July 31st, 1911.
Darling Corinne:
Our two letters must have crossed yours. We
sent them to Jordanville, so I hope you got them. I
have been reading the poem again, and I like it better
each time I read it. Jake Riiu was in the office the other
day and spoke to me about it, saying how much he admired
it, and how fine he thought it was.
Love to all,

Ever yours,

Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Henderson House,
Mohawk, N.Y.

13818July 31st, 1911
My dear Madam:
Mrs. Roosevelt desires me to
express her regret that unfortunately she has
no use for the articles mentioned in your letter,
nor does she know any one to whom she
can refer you. With regret,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Miss Edna Rogers,
Pendleton, Ind.

13819July 31, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me 
to express his regret that unfortunately 
it is utterly impossible for him to accept another 
engagement of any kind sort or description. 
During the past few months he has had to refuse
literally thousands of invitations, some of 
which he would really like to accept but is
physically unable to do so. With regret
Faithfully yours,


Mr. A. J. Titman, Secretary
Board of Education, 
Dover, N. J.

13820July 31, 1911.
Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter, Mr.
Roosevelt wishes me to say that he does not
contemplate having any work of the kind you
mention, done in the immediate future. He
greatly appreciates your courtesy in writing
to him.
Yours sincerely,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. G. A. Wakefield,
Appleton & Sewall Company,
156 Fifth Avenue,
New York City

13821July 31, 1911.

My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to 
express his regret that he is unable to comply
with your request. He is approached in hundreds 
of cases for similar messages and if he
were to respond favorably in one case he would 
have to do the same in all the others. He 
feels sure on thinking it over you will
realize how impossible it would be for him to
do so. With regret 
Sincerely yours,


Assistant Secretary

Mr. R. A. Wallace,
Royal Insurance Buildings,
414 Collins Street,
Melbourne, Australia

13822July 31st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Whitman:
I am very much pleased by your kind letter and really
appreciate it, but I don't quite know what to do with your brother.
Don't you think it would seem a little queer for me to make the
kind of comment you propose. I wonder if your brother would not
be willing sometime when in New York to let me have both of you
to lunch say at the Harvard Club or the Century Club, where I could a
speak to him more at length, and without seeming to force matters
as would be the case if I were to write to him. Off hand, it seems
to me I would be a little uncomfortable to suddenly write such a 
letter as you suggest. I should be a little bit afraid it might
be resented as patronizing on my part. I would really like to
meet you both. There is much about Mr. Hearst which I most heartily
condemn, and I have loathed that side of the Hearst papers which
you speak of your brother trying to eliminate, the side that has
scare headings, front page domestic scandals, and the exaggerated
statements so common in the Hearts papers. But Hearst has really
fought for some important reforms on many occasions,  and I mind him
less than I do other men like Pullitzer, Ogden, Vellard and Bennet,
to mention only the editors of four other New York papers.
I am really pleased at what you say of your experience of
138232

the South End House settlement in Boston. Now, as you live in
Colorado, it is possible you won't be in New York at any time your
brother will be apt to be there. Would it do for me to write 
him, and ask him to come and see me and take lunch with me? I
would rather of course have you present.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. John P. Whitman,
Graneros, Colo.

13824Bloomingdale

August 1st, 1911.

Dear Mr. Bloomingdale:

I do not think that The Outlook has any intention of
seeking to attack department stores. It of course feels, as I
feel personally, that we ought to expect much from those who
have much, and that just as The Outlook ought to treat its
employees with scrupulous justice and consideration, so big
department stores ought to treat their employees with like consideration,
and while in a way it is just as bad for the store
keeper as for the head of a big department store not to do its
duty, yet it excites a little more indignation when the big
man fails to do his duty.
But I am really obliged to you for having pointed out to
me the pages you pointed out in that Federal report on the
conditions of women and child workers. I shall show it to Mr.
Abbott. I hope you will have a delightful Summer.
Sincerely yours,


Mr. N. W. Bloomingdale,
100 Broadway, New York City.

5780August 1st, 1911.
Gentlemen:
I thank you for the resolution which I have just
received. I do not believe I shall be consulted as to
where the Encampment will be. If I am I shall carefully
consider the auguries you advise, the force of which I
thoroughly understand.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. F. C. Bowyer,
Mr. W. B. Powell,
The Tampa Board of Trade,
Tampa/ Fla.

13825August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Dudley:
I thank you for your courtesy. Doubtless that man
was at least my collateral ancestor. Let me also thank you
for your very nice letter to me personally. I wish you
had been in my regiment.
Good luck and many thanks.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. W. B. Dudley,
Box 37, Union, B. C.

13826August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Hart:
I am very sorry, but such countless requests have
made to me to use my influence for the retention, promotio[n]
or appointment of good and valued friends of mine, that I
have been obliged to make an invariable rule not to interfere.
An ex-President cannot do what very naturally each
individual thins and ex-President can do. if I did it in
one case, I would literally have to do it in thousands. I
am very sorry. Why do you not write to Senator Root direc[t]
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Morris H. Hart,
445 G Street N.W.,
Washington, D.C.

13827August 1st, 1911.
Gentlemen:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to acknowledge receipt
of your check for $33.40.
With thanks,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Messrs Houghton Miflin Co.,
Boston, Mass.

13828August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I have not a copy of the letter which you received from Mr.
Hoyt, and he is at the moment absent in Boston. I have seen Mr. Earl
Howland and he informs me that The Outlook has stopped publishing any
of the Rexall advertisements, excepting Rexall Hair Tonic, which he
also informs me is in entirely innocent form, and is published under
a contract which binds The Outlook to publish it until a year from
now or there abouts. Did not Mr. Hoyt tell you that we had stopped
publishing the Rexall advertisements? I took it up at once with the
publishers of The Outlook, although, as you know, I have nothing to
do with The Outlook, excepting contributing the articles that appear
over my own signature. In as much as The Outlook has stopped publishing
all of the Rexall advertisements to which you object, it
hardly seems to me to be worth while going into the fact that they
once did publish them (and in only one issue); and incidentally I
might mention they are all sorry they made that publication. The
Hair Tonic advertisement appear in entirely innocent form, and in
as much as the form of the pamphlet which you enclose seems to be
objectionable, I wish it were not published at all. The Publishers
do not feel they can break the contract they are under, but they inform
me that they do not intend to renew that contract for the Hair Tonic.
138292

Of course you understand that the advertisement that you sent me is
not the type of advertisement that has ever appeared in The Outlook.
The objection seems to be that for the Outlook to publish the proper
kind of advertisement gives a standing to the Company which publishes
the advertisements that ought not to be issued.
Very sincerely yours,

Mr. R. A. Leet,
Box 492,
Oakland, Cal.

13830August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Lepes:
I thank you for your courtesy in sending me
these carvings. It was very good of you to remember me.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. J. O. Lopes,
Elvaton R.F.D.1,
A. A. Co., Md.

13831August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I am sorry to say I do not see how I can aid you as
you suggest. It seems to me that if you know Mr. Hornaday
you already know the man who would be far more apt to help
you than any other individual of my acquaintance. On any
Friday I shall be glad to see you at The Outlook office,
but I must warn you in advance that I am afraid I can be
of no assistance to you.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. H. W. Martin,
370 8th Ave,
New York City.

13832August 1st, 1911.
My dear Madam:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt, I beg
to say that Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to send to you four
volumes of The Winning of The West. The books have gone
forth by express today, and I trust you will receive them
safely.
Sincerely yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mrs. George F. Milton,
Circle Park,
Knoxville, Tenn.

13833August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Morawets:
I wish I could accept, but it is an absolute
impossibility. Naturally if I could come anywhere, I
would particularly like to come to a town named Roosevelt,
and to a celebration of the Roosevelt Hose Co. No. 1.
It is impossible for me to accept another invitation of
any kind or sort.
With all good wishes,
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Edward R. Morawets,
c/o A. Elipstein & Co.,
New York City.

13834August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Parker:
I am much obliged to you for your letter, and
amused at the editorials. They are a tribute to your
fine work. My dear fellow, I cannot say how proud I am
of all that you do, and how I believe in you and admire
you. Good luck to you!
Sincerely yours,

Mr. John M. Parker,
816 Union Street,
New Orleans, La.

13835August 1st, 1911.
Dear Mr. Robinson:
Mr. Roosevelt has asked me to send you the
enclosed check for $33.40, received from Houghton Mifflin
Co., and being royalty on books. He will be glad if you
will endorse it and pay it into his account.
Sincerely yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Douglas Robinson,
146 Broadway,
New York City.

13836August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter Mr. Roosevelt wishes me
say that he would be very pleased to see you and Mr. Colli
if you could call at Sagamore Hill on Thursday morning. Y
could take the train leaving the Pennsylvania Station at
9 o'clock. It will be a pleasure to him if he can be of
any assistance to you.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. E. M. Scull,

13837August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Stevens:
Many thanks for your letter. Evidently Martin
is not a man whom I can afford to back up.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Paul Stevens,
Warren, Ariz.

13838August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I thank you for your telegram and your courteous
letter, but it is not possible for me to do anything
whatever as regards the matter on which you write. You
must remember that I am now simply a private citizen.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. A. Virmin,
San Juan, Puero Rico.

13839August 1st, 1911.
My dear Mr. Walker:
Don't misunderstand me. I believe to the full
in utilizing the Sherman Law just as you say, that is,
as the best instrument now at hand, only I don't accept
it as being in the end all sufficient.
With hearty good wishes,
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Albert H. Walker,
Park Row Building,
New York City.

13840August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I am sorry to say I don't know when Mr.
Greenway is coming back.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Leslie H. Webb,
Greenwich Point, Pa.

13841August 1st, 1911.
Dear Governor:
It is fine to hear from you, and I look
forward to seeing "Good Old Days". More power to your
elbow!
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. M. E. Willson,
Office of the Governor,
Frankfort, Ky.

13842August 1st, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In the absence of Mr. Harper, Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to
say that he never gave any approval of a plan to have Mr. Brenner
make a bas relief of himself. On the contrary Mr. Roosevelt would
emphatically object to anything of the kind being done. Washington
and Lincoln have their places in history as the two greatest men
in the American Republic, the two greatest men of all time. He is
of the opinion that it is highly inadvisable to make a bas relief
of Washington and Lincoln with any other American, and above all
any living American. Mr. Roosevelt feels very strongly that save
in wholly exceptional cases it is not wise to make any statue or
bust of a living man, and certainly the bust or bas relief of any
living man should not be coupled with the bas reliefs of men like
Washington and Lincoln. Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for
your courtesy in writing to him.
Sincerely yours,


Assistant Secretary

13843August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Sir.
Mr. Roosevelt has so many magazines and
periodicals of various kinds sent to him that it is
impossible for him to subscribe. Mr. Roosevelt
greatly appreciates your courtesy, but under the circumstances
hopes you will discontinue sending the
magazine.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Edward F. Bigelow,
Sound Beach, Conn.

4215August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Madam:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand and in
reply I beg to say that it is quite impossible for Mr.
Roosevelt to do anything in the matter which you bring to
his attention. Since he left the White House he has not
interfered in any official matter of any kind, and I am
sure on thinking it over you will see how impossible it
would be for him to make an exception to this rule. He is very sorry.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mrs. C. O. Burns, Larchwood,
Iowa.

4451August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Your letter to Mr. Roosevelt has come to hand.
Since he left the White House he has not interfered in any
official matter of any kind, and he feels sure on thinking
it over you will see how impossible it is for him to do
anything in the matter which you bring to his attention.
If he were to do so in one case he would be literally
inundated with similar requests.
With regret,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. J. B. Calvert,
Kingfisher, Okla.

13844August 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
courtesy in writing to him.  He however has no use for 
the books which you mention in your letter, and he will
not trouble you to send them to him.  He does not know
anyone who might be interested in the purchase of such 
books.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary

Mr. Jas B. Dayton,
142 Academy Street,
Trenton, N. J.


13845

August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Egbert:
An ex-President can hardly give letters of
that nature. I think you ought to get them through the
State Department. I am sorry not to be able to do as
you desire.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Jerome William Egbert,
134 Monroe Street,
Chicago, Ill.

13846August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Houston:
I thank you for sending me the book. Doubtless
it will soon come. Will you also thank the Abernathy
boys from me?
Sincerely yours,

Mr. Herbert H. Houston,
Garden City, N. Y.

13847August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Mrs. McMillan:
I wish I could accept, but it is a simple
impossibility. I have received literally thousands of
similar requests and with the best wishes in the world
it has proved impossible for me to accept one in a
hundred of these invitations. I deeply appreciate the
courtesy and kindness of those who ask me to speak, but
you have no conception of the drain it is upon me even
to accept the very limited proportion that I am physical
able to accept and I could not greatly increase this proportion
or accept more of the invitations that come to 
me without absolutely abandoning all thought of any other
work.
Very sincerely yours,

Mrs. Frank R. McMillan,
Daughters of the American Revolution,
Chicago, Ill.

McMullin

13848August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
Mr. Roosevelt desires me to express his regret
that unfortunately he is unable to do as you desire. He is
now Contributing Editor to The Outlook and anything he writes
as first to appear in that magazine. He receives numerous
requests to write articles of various kinds, and if he were
to respond favorably in one case he would have to do so in
all the other cases. He feels sure on thinking it over
that you will see how impossible it would be for him to
do this.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. R. J. Miller,
305 Publication Building,
Pittsburg, Pa.

13849August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Mesdames:
In reply to your note I beg to say that Mr.
Roosevelt was born on the 27th October 1858.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Miss Ann Murdock,
Woodsville, N. H.

13850August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I beg to
say that unfortunately he is unable to advise you in the
matter which you bring to his attention. As you will readily
realize on thinking it over, he does not and cannot know the
whole facts of the case and therefore it is impossible for
him to give an opinion upon the matter. He receives hundreds
of similar requests and if he were to respond favorably in
one case he would have to do so in all the other cases.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Henry I. Nicholas,
Summit Hill, Pa.

13851August 2nd, 1911.
My dear Sir:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I
beg to say that unfortunately he is unable to give you
the information you desire. If however you were to get
into communication with any taxidermist he would be able
to give you the information you desire.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Mr. Edura Paulet,
1670 Marshall Ave,
St. Paul, Minn.

13852August 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to express his regret
that unfortunately he is unable to avail himself of your
very kind invitation.  He was very much interested in
looking over that pamphlet.

With all good wishes,

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Mr. R. Le Ray Piper,
Camp Sagamore,
Oyster Bay, L. I.


13853

August 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt desires me to thank you for
your courtesy in sending him a copy of that book.  He 
much appreciates your kindness.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Mr. J. H. Price,
Pittsburg-Buffalo Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa.


13854

August 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:

Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for your
very courteous letter and to say that he does not intend 
visiting Boston in the near future.  It will therefore be 
quite impossible for him to avail himself of your very kind 
invitation.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Mr. John F. Reed,
61 Gross Street, 
Malden, Mass.


13855

August 2nd, 1911.

My dear Sir:

In reply to your letter Mr. Roosevelt wishes
me to say that he has not the slightest remembrance of
having received such a manuscript as that described in 
your letter.  As you will readily realize on thinking it
over it is absolutely impossible to keep track of the 
hundreds of packages of manuscript of various kinds which
come to him.

Faithfully yours,


Assistant Secretary


Mr. Alex von Nuber,
Austro Hungarian Consulate,
123 East 17th Street,
New York City.


13856

August 3rd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Bloomfield:
I wish I could do as you request, but you have no
idea of the multitude of requests I receive to write such
statements. I cannot do it. The few cases I have done it
in the past have resulted in my being literally overwhelmed
with similar requests. I need not point out to you that if
I could write statements to all the movements which I
believe in - and of course I should endorse no other - I
should endorse so many that it would be useless to endorse
any.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. M. Bloomfield,
The Vocation Bureau,
5 Beacon Street,
Boston, Mass.

6157August 3rd, 1911.

My dear Mr. Bishop:

It is not possible for me to do as you desire.
I have had to refuse every request made to me to make speeches
this Summer.  If I accepted one I should have to accept 
scores, and probably hundreds, of others.  It is out of the 
question for me, therefore, to do as you desire.  I am very 
sorry.

Sincerely yours,


Rev. Samuel H. Bishop,
American Church institute for Negroes,
416 Lafayette Street,
New York City.


13857

August 3rd, 1911.
My dear Mrs. France:
I have just heard of your recently celebrating
your ninety third birthday, and the fact that you have
been the mother of eleven children, and have twenty six
grandchildren and twenty eight great grandchildren. My
dear madam, you are the kind of citizen whom every good 
citizen must respect and admire. I beg you to accept
my warm congratulations.
Sincerely yours,

Mrs. H. C. France,
944 Main Street,
Danville, Va.

13858August 3rd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Hofer:
The copy of Political Disquisitions has come.
I thank you for your courtesy in sending it, but I do
not know what disposition you wish me to make of it.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. T. E. Hofer,
813 Railroad Ave,
Seattle, Wash.

13859August 3rd, 1911.

My dear Dr. Leech:

If you are to be in New York, pray let me see
you.  The only thing I wish now to say is under no
circumstances must any friend of mine fail to do everything
in his power to stop any such movement looking 
towards my nomination as that of which you speak.  I 
appreciate your letter and I am sure you will agree with
me.

Sincerely yours,


Rev. Dr. B. V. Leech
The De Soto, 
Washington, D. C.


13860

August 3rd, 1911.

My dear Madam:

Mrs. Roosevelt thought your note so kindly and
friendly that she handed it to me.  I thank you and I 
am glad to tell you that my voice now seems to be all 
right.

Sincerely  yours,


Miss S. G. Porter,
55 East Pearl Street,
Nashua, N. H.


13861

August 3rd, 1911.

My dear Mrs. Post:

Of course I will keep you in mind, but I must not
give you false hopes.  Never in my experience has anyone
sought my advice along the lines you suggest, and I think
it very unlikely anyone will do so now.  Believe me, I 
understand exactly your feelings, and sympathize most warmly 
with you.  I am indeed sorry I cannot do anything.

Sincerely yours,



Mrs. Alfred Post,
Ridgefield, N. J.


13862

August 3rd, 1911.
My dear Mr. Robertson:
I thank you for your consideration, and
appreciate what you have done.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. D. A. Robertson,
Secretary to the President,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, Ill.

13863August 4th, 1911.

My dear Sir: [A. Chapman]

The book has come and I am delighted with it, but that
really goes without saying, for I like all your books whether
dealing with Northumberland, Norway, Spain or Africa.  If The
Outlook will permit me, I shall write a review of them as a whole,
taking the arrival of this volume as an excuse.  The more I read
your "On Safari", the more highly I think of it.  Unfortunately
men with very great experience of big game are usually wholly
unable to see the things of most interest or to tell of them when
seen.  Your book gives a more vivid picture of East Africa and
its game and wild life, than the average big game hunter could 
give if he lived there ten years on end.  In fact, thanks to your
being not only a hunter but a naturalist, I don't know any other
book I would put in the same category as yours.  Newman's and Stigand's 
are of course very valuable books, but they deal practically only 
with the big game and there are many things even about the big game
which they don't tell at all, and yet which ought to be told.

I greatly like the photographs.  Not a few of the heads I 
recognize at once from your books; two or three of the moose heads
and both of the rhinoceros heads.  In my own house I have kept 
very few trophies.  You see this is not a shooting box, but the

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house in which I permanently live, my only house, and I had so many
other things that I could not put in many heads. Moreover my
African collection was for museum purposes, and I merely kept for
myself a few elephant and hippo tusks and lions skins, a good set
of rhino horns and the heads of a buffalo, eland, oryx, and wildebeeste.
I wish you were coming over to this side. Surely you ought to hunt
in Alaska or Newfoundland sometime, and in that case I do hope you
will pass through New York and spend a night with me.
Sincerely yours,

8326August 4th, 1911.
Gentlemen:
In reply to your letter to Mr. Roosevelt I beg
to say that Miss Ethel Roosevelt has herself gotten into
communication with you. You will doubtless have received
her letter by this time.
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Messrs Charles H. Mitson,
12 East 34th Street,
New York City.

13864August 4th, 1911.
Gentlemen:
Mr. Roosevelt wishes me to thank you for
your courtesy in promising to send him a copy of the
American Stallion Register. When he has received it,
he will send a note of acknowledgement to Mr. Battell.
With thanks,
Faithfully yours,
Assistant Secretary

Messrs F. H. Gilson Co.,
Stanhope Press,
Boston, Mass.

13865August 4th, 1911.
My dear Governor:
I was not able I am afraid to convey fully to 
the readers of The Outlook in the different things I have
written, the very deep impression my visit to Wisconsin
made upon me. You are the kind of man, my dear Governor,
in whom I most heartily believe, the kind of man whom I
regard as doing most for our politics. You seem to me to
combine what I might say the Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian
spirit, and we never have accomplished anything save under
the lead of some man like Lincoln who did combine them.
I shall read your message and record with great interest.
It is a magnificent record.
Sincerely yours,

The Hon. F. E. McGovern,
Madison, Wis.

13866August 4th, 1911.
My dear Mr. Stebbing:
I have just received your volume of essays,
and I anticipate reading them. It was kind of you to
remember me.
Very sincerely yours,

William Stebbing Esq.,
c/o Henry Frowds,,
Oxford University Press,
London, England.

13867August 4th, 1911.
My dear Sir:
I appreciate your letter both as regards its kind
personal expressions and the purpose you set forth. The manuscript
has not yet come. Probably you are not acquainted as I am with the
business of book publishing. No publisher will take a book unless
he thinks that it will be read to a degree that will make it profitable
to publish it. Otherwise he could not run his business, and
moreover to print books however excellent which are not read does
no good. No publisher is worth his salt who accepts the opinion
of anyone else, and at any rate no publisher has ever accepted my
judgement in such a matter. Since I returned from my trip in Africa
and Europe, I have received fifteen or twenty manuscripts written
by Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, and Hungarians. For
the most part by men or women whom I had met on the other side. I
sent these manuscripts to the few publishers that I knew. In not
one case were they accepted (although in one case where I had sent
some short stories from Africa on my own initiative, I having been
struck by the style of the writer, they were accepted). All I can
do is to have the manuscript read. If you desire it I will have
this manuscript submitted to some firmm but please remember that
the publisher neither will or ought to accept any statement

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from me in the matter.
Sincerely yours,

Mr. W. A. Sutherland,
3 Bishops Lane,
Vepery, Madras, India.

13869