Alsop February 21, 1917. Dear Joe: That's very interesting. Now, will you tell anyone you think fit for the job, to get the kind of outlined statement which you would like to have me make, and I will take it, and make it. I don't know enough about that matter to make an intelligent statement. Sincerely yours, Mr. Joseph Alsop, 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn.[774] 991 February 21, 1917. My dear Dr. Arters: I thank you for your letter of February 15th, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Rev. John M. Arters, Rumford, Maine.February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Baker: That's very nice! I thank you, and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Lawrence C. Baker, Hudson Falls, N.Y. 22991819 February 21, 1917. Dear Beebe: The enclosed letter, and copy of my answer thereto, may amuse you. Sincerely, Mr. William Beebe New York Zoological Park, New York.2271 February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Blant: Your letter of February 17th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking this matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Jos. A. Blant, Supt., First Baptist Church, Syracuse, N. Y.5440 Bobspa February 21, 1917. My dear Sir: I thank you cordially, and appreciate your courtesy in sending Miss Le Prade's book. It was very kind of you to think of me. Sincerely yours, Mr. D. Bobspa, 2814 Altura Street, Los Angeles, Cal.3052 February 21, 1917. My dear Sergeant Boyce: I wish I were able to do something to aid you. I admire the patriotism of your boss more than I can say. I am utterly unable to understand the apathy of the masses of the American citizens at this time. Sincerely yours, Sergeant A. L. Boyce, M. T. C. A. , 31 Nassau Street, New York.February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Craig: Your letter of February 15th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking this matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Eugene Craig, Mt. Holly, N. C. [*8740*] February 21, 1917. My dear Mr Culver, Your letter of February 16th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending you this line to say that of course it is impossible for Colonel Roosevelt to recommend anyone he is not personally acquainted with. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles M. Culver, 149 West 142nd Street New York. 8829 February 21, 1917. Sir: Mr. A. D. Barlow tells me that he has filed an application with you for a position in the Quartermaster Corps of the Officers Reserve Corps. Of course, I cannot speak of Mr. Barlow's military fitness. He served in Mexico as Consul General from 1897 to 1904, the last three years being while I was President. At this time he had a great amount of important work to do in the way of reports on business conditions in Mexico. These reports were regarded as of such consequence that in addition to being published by the State Department, they were quoted at length in many of the leading newspapers, and I am informed that two or three of them were translated into other tongues. These reports are still on file in the Department of State, and I believe have never been traversed in any way. It is a pleasure to write this in behalf of Mr. Barlow. Sincerely yours, Major General Leonard Wood, Governor's Island, N. Y. February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Chittenden: Your letter pleases me very very much. I am proud to receive such a letter from a veteran of the Civil War, now eighty years, whose son also served in the Army. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. William F. Chittenden, Lansing, Mich. 29818 [*Coleman*] February 21, 1917. My dear young friend: That's a very nice letter of yours. I thank you for it, and appreciate your writing me. Good for you! If the aunt who named you is still alive , give her my warm good wishes. Sincerely yours, Theodore Roosevelt Master Marcus Roosevelt Coleman, Hayesville, N. C. [*29819*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. de Castro: I thank you for your letter of February 15th, and regret it is not possible for me to express an opinion in such matters. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. A. de Castro, 1556 E. 18th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 29820February 21, 1917. My dear Dr. Doidge: I thank you for your kind invitation of February 19th, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Rev. William Doidge, 160 High Street, Passaic, N. J. 29821Eredes February 21, 1917. Colonel Roosevelt greatly regrets that he has no facility whatever, and no special knowledge that would enable him to deal with the very important subject which Mr. Eredes raises. 29872February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Ford: Your letter of February 17th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking this matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Clifford M. Ford, Grafton, Ohio. R. F. D. #1. 29823February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Forster: That's very nice of you. I thank you for your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry A. Forster, 76 William Street, New York. 29824February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Geiger: Your letter of February 14th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year, he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking this matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. L. D. Geiger, Osceola High School, Kissimmee, Fla. 29825February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Govern: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter of February 15th, together with photographs, which I am returning herewith. He is very sorry, but he is absolutely powerless, and there is no way in which he can be of assistance to you. With respect, Sincerely yours, Mr. Joseph M. J. Govern, 109 No. Lincoln Street, Wilmington, Del. 29826February 21, 1917. Dear President Hibben: Won't you let me now what days you are apt to be in New York? Could I get you to come and have lunch with me at the Hotel Langdon? Sincerely yours, John Greer Hibben, President, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 29827February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Hitchens: I thank you for your letter of February 14th, and think that what you propose should be done. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. P. T. Hitchens, Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, Kans. 29828February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Hodges: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter of February 17th, and has directed me to send you this line of acknowledgment and thanks. Sincerely yours, Mr. Z. T. Hodges, Springdale, Ark. 29829[*Hoffman*] February 21, 1917. Colonel Roosevelt greatly regrets his inability to accept the very courteous invitation of the Society of the Cincinnati to dinner on the anniversary of the birth of General Washington. F. B. Hoffman, Secy., 25 Broad Street, New York. 29830[*Host*] February 21, 1917. My dear Sir: Movements like that must come at the right time. I fear the movement you mention is several hundred years too soon. Sincerely yours, Mr. Harold Host, State Sanatorium, Wallum Lake, Rhode Island. 29831February 21, 1917. Dear Mrs. Hoyt: Will Sunday afternoon, March 4th, be convenient? Will you kindly let me know the hour and the place? Sincerely yours, Mrs. Colgate Hoyt, Jr., 122 East 82nd Street, New York. 29832February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Kirk: That's very nice of you. I appreciate your courtesy; and will you kindly express my thanks to your wife? Sincerely yours, Mr. Walter Radcliffe Kirk, James S. Kirk & Co., Chicago, Ills. 29833February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Knox: I thank you cordially, but unfortunately I have no knowledge whatever of that matter. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles W. Knox, San Jose, Calif. 29834 February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Laurie, That's mighty nice. I deeply appreciate the honor, and accept it of course with eagerness. Again heartily thanking the club, I am Sincerely yours, Mr. Archibald Laurie, Secy., Tourilli Fish & Game Quebec, Canada. 835 Metropolitan THE LIVEST MAGAZINE IN AMERICA 482 FOURTH AVENE, NEW YORK Office of Theodore Roosevelt February 21, 1917. My dear Miss Leland: I don't know anything about that. Will you communicate with "Everybody's" and get the information you desire? I am sorry I cannot be of assistance to you. Sincerely yours, Miss Abby P. Leland, 540 West 112th Street, New York. 29836February 21, 1917. My dear Professor Libby: I thank you for your kind invitation of February 17th, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Prof. Herbert C. Libby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine. 29837February 21, 1917. My dear Mrs. Manly: You have no idea how very busy I am. It is simply out of the question for me to act as judge in your "America First" contest. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. M. M. Manly, Hotel Stafford, Baltimore, Md. 29838February 21, 1917. My dear [Mr]. Marvin: Something must have happened to my letter, regretting your kind invitation of the 5th. An answer was duly sent to you. I am very sorry indeed, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Langdon Marvin, Secy., Harvard Club of N. Y. City, 27 West 44th Street, New York. Good Luck! 9839Minister of Colon- February 21, 1917. My dear Sir: Please accept my cordial thanks. I deeply appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, The Minister of Colonization, Mines & Fisheries, Quebec, Canada. 29840February 21, 1917. My dear Miss Nash: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physicail impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Bessie A. Nash, Secy., 1207 Greenwood Street, Pueblo, Colo. 9841February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Palmer: That's such a very nice letter of yours of the 18th, that I must send you just this line of acknowledgment and thanks. Good for your son! Tell him I appreciate his [*high*] regard of me. Sincerely yours, Mr. William K. Palmer, c/o Mr. Hallis H. Palmer, R.F.D. #3, Norwich, Conn. 29842February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Patch: That's very kind of you indeed. Of course, if you have dedicated the book to me, and it is out, I have only to thank you. I have to make an invariable rule not to permit books, poems, and the like, to be dedicated to me, because it is not possible for me to assume responsibility for them. But frequently books, and poems, and songs have been dedicated to me without the author speaking to me at all. Very sincerely, Mr. William M. Patch, Penn Ave., & 7th Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. 29843February 21, 1917. Dear Mr. Physioc: That's fine! I will use some of those stamps. Sincerely yours, Mr. Willis J. Physioc, U. S. Junior Naval Reserve, 25 West 45th Street, New York. 29844[*Pick*] February 21, 1917. My dear Sir: I am not an Egyptologist, and I am not able to give you any assistance, or express any opinion, in such a matter. I would not be competent to write such a [letter] piece as you suggest. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert F. Pick, 108 Locust Street, Hampton, Va. 29845February 21, 1917. My dear Colonel Rhodes: That's very nice of you. I thank you, and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Lieut. Colonel Charles D. Rhodes, Fort Riley, Kans. 29846Roosevelt February 21, 1917. Dear Bertie: I am very much pleased. I hope the boy will both do well himself, and be a credit to the school at Mesa. Give my warm regards to Mrs. Bertie. Sincerely, Mr. Robert Roosevelt, 2009 Mass. Avenue, Washington, D.C. 29847February 21, 1917. Gentlemen: On the 15th of February, I addressed a note to your Company, enclosing check for $100. to be placed to Colonel Roosevelt's credit. On February 19th, it was acknowledged to the "Metropolitan Company, 432 Fourth Avenue." These checks of course are entirely personal, and I am sure that Colonel Roosevelt would much prefer them not to go through the hands of anyone connected with the Metropolitan Magazine. Will you please see to it that acknowledgements are either directed to him personally, or to me, as his Secretary? Sincerely yours, Roosevelt & Son[s], 30 Pine Street, New York. 29848February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Seligman: I wish I could accept your kind invitation, but it is not possible. On the particular evening in question, I shall be out of the city. I am very sorry it is not possible for me to do as you request. Sincerely yours, Mr. Isaac N. Seligman, The Civic Forum, 17 West 44th Street, New York. 9849February 21, 1917. Dear H. Smith: I was glad to autograph that picture for you this morning, and it has already gone forward by express. Good luck always! Sincerely yours, Mr. Harry Worcester Smith, Worcaster, Mass. 29850February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Taylor: Your letter of February 15th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking the matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. John Adams Taylor, University of No. Dak., Grand Forks, University, N. D. 29851February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Tirpak: Your letter of February 16th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. During the year, he receives literally thousands of similar requests, and I am sure, upon thinking this matter over, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Edward G. Tirpak, 31 Burgess Place, Passaic, N. J. 29852February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Tyrrell: I thank you for your courtesy, and am sorry I cannot comply with your request. I receive literally hundreds of similar requests during the year, and of course it is not possible for me to comply in one case without doing so in others. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Jerome Tyrrell, 247 W. 135th Street, c/o Mrs. Hill, New York. 9853February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Surles: I thank you cordially for your very kind invitation, and if I were in a position to accept any such invitation, it would be yours; but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. William H. Surles, 222- 7th Street, East Liverpool, Ohio. [*29854*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mrs. Warren: I think it inadvisable to use my name, even for such a worthy purpose. There are so many organizations and committees I am asked to join, that it just is not possible for me with wisdom to do any more. I am very sorry, but I don't think it wise, either from your standpoint, or from mine. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Whitney Warren, 22 East 47th Street, New York. [*29855*]February 21, 1917. My dear Madam: Your letter of February 14th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. He is absolutely powerless to be of any assistance in that matter as of course he has no influence with the Administration, even if you are right in your supposition. Sincerely yours, Mrs. C. L. Westbay, 107 S. Pine Street, Wapakoneta, Ohio. [*29856*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Wildman: I thank you for your letter of February 16th, and appreciate it , but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Nat Wildman, Advertising Club of Baltimore, 1204 Munsey Bldg., Baltimore Md. [*29857*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Williams: Your letter of February 16th is at hand, and I am sorry I cannot comply with your request. Of course you understand it is absolutely impossible for me to recommend anyone, unless I am personally acquainted with them. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W. D. Williams, Sidney, N. Y. [*29858*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mrs. Wilson: I thank you for your courteous letter of February 17th, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. C. L. Wilson, 90 Myrtle Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. [*29859*]February 21, 1917. My dear Mr. Wright: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of February 17th. He appreciates your courtesy, and admires your fine patriotic spirit. Sincerely yours, Mr. G. G. Wright, International Life Ins. Co., Kansas City, Mo. [*29860*]February 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Abbott: Will you please see that a copy of the article Colonel Roosevelt wrote on "Selous" is sent to Mr. C. Sheldon, 16th & Webster Streets, Washington, D.C. ? Sincerely yours, Mr. Lawrence F. Abbott, The Outlook Co., 381 Fourth Avenue, N.Y.February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Arnold: That's a very nice letter of yours, but I have nothing whatever to do with the navy. In the event of war, I have asked to be allowed to raise a division, but of course this has nothing to do with the navy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Alfred Arnold, Lewiston, Idaho.611 February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Canaday: Your letter of February 20th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending this line in reply to say that Colonel Roosevelt is very sorry, but he cannot comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon him, and upon thinking the matter over, I am sure you will appreciate how utterly impossible it would be for him to begin to comply with such requests. He receives literally thousands of them during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Harper D. Canaday, 55 Hanson Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 6094 February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Carter: Your letter of February 19th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending this line in reply to say that Colonel Roosevelt is very sorry, but he cannot comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon him, and upon thinking the matter over, I am sure you will appreciate how utterly impossible it would be for him to begin to comply with such requests. He receives literally thousands of them during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Carl L. Carter, Medora, Ills. 6011 February 23, 1917. Private. My dear Mr. Crane: I regret tp say that there is altogether too much truth in your poetry, and I feel as bitterly as you do. To turn to a more pleasant subject, I am interested in your picture of the moose head, and in knowing that you are a friend of Fred Herrig. I am a very busy man just at present, but a little later when I am more at liberty, it will be a pleasure to see you. Sincerely yours, Mr. William I Crane, 810 Birch Street, Richmond Hill, L. I. 815February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Dameron: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. E. Lee Dameron, Chairman, Young Mens Republican Club, Star, N. C. 29861February 23 , 1917 . My dear Miss Hemptinne : Your letter of January 30th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending this line in reply to say that Colonel Roosevelt is very sorry, but he cannot comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon him, and upon thinking the matter over, I am sure you will appreciate how utterly impossible it would be for him to begin to comply with such requests. He receives literally thousands of them during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Marie de Hemptinne . War Baby's Cradle, Quiri du Danube, Calais, France . 29862February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Engle: I thank you cordially for your letter of February 19th. I am sorry I am unable to send you an autographed photograph of myself, but during the year I receive literally thousands of similar requests, so that I have found it utterly impossible to try to comply with them. If you care to send one to me , I shall be glad to autograph it, and return it to you, Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert H. Engle, 201 Milford Street, Clarksburg, W. Va. 29863February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Engle: Relative to your letter of February 19th to Colonel Roosevelt, I am enclosing this line to let you know that Pach Brothers, 570 Fifth Avenue, New York, have a very fine plate of Colonel Roosevelt, and many people place their order with Pach Brothers, who attend to sending it down to Colonel Roosevelt for autograph, and then see that it is properly sent to the owner. Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert H. Engle, 201 Milford Street, Clarksburg, W. Va. 29864February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Estabrook: I thank you for your kind invitation of the 21st of February, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make any engagements. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. H. A. Estabrook, c/o Lee Warren James, U. B. Bldg., Dayton, Ohio. 9865 Garfield February 23 , 1917 . Dear Jim : I am enclosing herewith , for your attention , copy of a letter by Charles E. Perkins to my nephew , Teddy Robinson , which is self- explanatory . Will you write to Perkins about this ? I am also en- closing some correspondence from Henry M. Ward . Will you look these letters over , and return with any suggestions you have to make ? Sincerely , Mr. James A. Garfield , Garfield Bldg . , Cleveland , Ohio . 29866 February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Gordon: I thank you for your courtesy, and I am sorry I am unable to take advantage of your kind invitation. Sincerely yours, Mr. Oswald H. Gordon, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. [*29867*]February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Gregorie: Your letter of February 20th, to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. Colonel Roosevelt is sorry, but it is not possible for him to avail himself of your services, and of course he could not recommend you to anyone, unless he was personally acquainted with your qualifications. Sincerely yours, Mr. George Gregorie, 1922 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ills. 29868[Jusserand] February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am very much pleased with your letter. I earnestly hope that the plan can be brought to success exactly as you suggest. Under any ordinary circumstances, I most earnestly believe in peace, and not in war. But exactly as after the firing on Fort Sumpter, my [views] voice would have been for war [then], and for the continuance of war [under no matter what discouragements] until the great object was achieved, so I now earnestly hope - more earnestly than I can express - that President Wilson, and his advisors, will see their way out, and act without further delay. As I wrote you, I gravely question whether an ex-President of the United States ought to leave his country [and] to fight in a war, in which his country is not taking part. But the minute we are at war, I intend to do everything that is in me, to serve in a manner that will be of most benefit to my people, to France, and to Belgium, and to the Allies generally, and to humanity. And I believe that the best service I can render as an ex-President of the United States, is to be sent with my division to the front, just as soon as it is possible to get [men there] my men in shape. That is, just as soon as the division is fit to render service. With love to Mme. Jusserand, Faithfully yours, His Excellency, M. Jusserand, French Embassy, Washington, D.C. P.S. I am sick at heart - because our Government still fails to take the decisive step. But if we go to war finally even with the intention of only going to war a little, I shall do my best not to go to war merely a little 29869February 23, 1917. Dear Comrade Kelly: That's a good letter of yours. Give my warm regards to all the other American boys, who are with you. I expect this country to go to war with Germany, and in that event I shall try to raise a division for service at the front myself. Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert C. Kelly, with the British Expeditionary Force, Royal Canadian Regiment, Somewhere in France. 9870February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Lansburgh: You are very kind, and I congratulate you, but it is not possible for me to make any engagements at present. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry Lansburgh, Washington, D. C. 71 [*Ledrum*] February 23, 1917. My dear Sir: I thank you cordially for sending me the book, but you must excuse me from making any comment on it. You have no conception of the demands made upon me. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. William Ledrum, c/o J. B. Lippincott Co., Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 9872February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Matthews: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W. D. Matthews, Con . Com. Vass Graded School, Vass, N. C . ? 873February 23, 1917. My dear Miss Merrill: Will you give my very warm regards to your mother? I appreciate very much what you tell me about your mother, and her friend, the Methodist. With hearty thanks from Mrs. Roosevelt and myself, I am Faithfully yours, Miss Olive E. Merrill, 626 Astor Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 74 February 23rd , 1917 . My dear Mr. Metzger : Three cheers for you ! I did not know what Colonel Reeves had done , but I want that regiment , and I want especially to have you . Personally , if I could do it , I would like to have in my division no one that was not whole , or in part , of Ge- rman blood , as you and I are ! I would like to show that we are Americans , and nothing else , and that we would serve against England , or Germany , or any other nation , if the interests of hu- manity , and the interests of the United States demanded that we should do so . I am very glad of that advice you gave the Gov- ernor . The Holy Alliance fiasco is an exact case in point . As you say , I think it is for us to work out our salvat- ion , not merely to speak it out , or gesture it out . Three cheers for your final sentence ! By George , you are an American of the kind that is dear to my soul . Faithfully yours , Rev. Fraser Metzger , Bethany Church , Randolph , Vt. 29875 February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Oagood: Your letter gives me real pleasure. I am taking the liberty of sending it on to Beebe, who is responsible for the bat photograph. Now, as to your main thesis; in some ways we are not apart, but I can best illustrate what i mean by taking one of the examples you use. You speak of the pamphlet as being like an article on the Outlook. The Outlook article and the pamphlet both serve a real purpose; but there is always the tendency to treat them, not as the foundation for, but as a substitute for, work of permanent form. I believe that in literature the utmost damage has been done here in America by the tendency to turn creative scholars to the only field which financially pays them, that is, into magazine or newspaper writing; and such writing is not only evanescent, but must be suited to the desire for momentary enjoyment of large classes of readers, so that there is always a tendency to turn out reams of pretty good second rate stuff, instead of a small quantity of the first rate work that alone will endure. I myself for instance, have always found that I was paid almost an inverse proportion to the value of my work. Now, in a different way, the pamphleteer is subject to the same temptations. He gets no money return; but turning out pamphlets in almost mechanical work and therefore earns; to write a really great book is excedingly hard. You have mentioned Merriam and Nelson. Merriam had it in him to be the greatest writer of faunal natural history in this country, or in the world. He was fitted to be a 29876- 2 - great architect. He has gone into the laborious and useful trundling of wheel-barrows with bricks instead. He has done capital work of its kind in this wheel-barrow business; but it would have been infinitely better if he had rigorously cut out a good portion of it, for instance, turning the details of the exceedingly interesting craniological studies of Mexican gophers, and Alaskan bears, to young subordinates, and dealing in a broad way with the results they obtained. This would have been to work in the spirit of Cuvier, (Humboldt), Darwin, Huxley. [He] Merriam has phenominal capacity, but I don't believe he will ever leave any book which will, to subsequent generations, perpetuate the full results of his achievements. I quite seriously regard his study of the Adirondack Mountains, made when he was a very young man, as the best thing he has yet done. I hope he will soon get out his monograph of the bears; but if he does, it will only be a monograph, and he ought to get out a book on the mammals of temperate America, which would last as long as our language lasts, which [It] would be the best thing of the kind ever written about any continent. It should deal with the matter from the Darwin Huxley standpoint! So with Nelson. Nelson's observations show that his power as a field observer is extraordinary, and in a little study, or sketch, of his of Alaskan birds, he produced real literature. But these observations are scattered here and there, and when Wilson is still read, Nelson, an infinitely younger man, living a hundred years later, will be accessible only to a limited number of specialists, who, in all human probability, will be utterly blind to his best quality. 29877- 3 - I cannot help thinking that my comparison with history is just. I respect the wheel-barrow man in history, and in science - as far as I have any place, even of the most humble description, in either branch, it is as one of their number. But it is a very evil thing if, with smug self-satisfaction, we think there is no need of the big men to deal in a big way, with the big problems. When I see you, I will tell you about Beebe's observations on the Tinamous, and illustrat[ing]e them by just exactly what I mean. It will be a very great pleasure to see you, if you come on here, and I will get Chapman, and some others to lunch, and we will talk over this matter. Sincerely yours, Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood, Chicago, Ills. 29878[*Parks*] February 23, 1917. My dear Sir: Your letter of February 12th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and upon looking over the books, he has at hand, I do not find any of the volumes you mention, but I am having sent to you, under separate cover, two volumes of his speeches, in which I am sure you will be interested. Sincerely yours, Mr. Eugene Parks, Koch Hospital, Koch, Mo. 29879February 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Phillips: Your letter of February 20th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending this line in reply to say that Colonel Roosevelt is very sorry, but he cannot comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon him, and upon thinking the matter over, I am sure you will appreciate how utterly impossible it would be for him to begin to comply with such requests. He receives literally thousands of them during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W. W. Phillips, Galion, Ohio. 29880[*Robinson*] February 23, 1917. Dear Teddy: That's excellent; and I at once forwarded Perkins' letter to Jim Garfield. Affectionately, Hon. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Senate of the State of New York, Albany, N. Y. [*29881*][*Roosevelt*] February 23, 1917. My dear Franklin: This will introduce to you Mr. Ernest Haskell, the painter and outdoor man, a great friend of your Aunt Corinne's. As you will see by the enclosed letter, he has certain schemes which he thinks will be of very great [instance] interest to the army and to the navy. He is a man of character and repute, and is entitled to have his proposals seriously considered and judged on their merits. Will you have the proper persons take them up? Affectionately, Hon. Franklin D Roosevelt, Asst. Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. 29882February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Sands: Your letter of February 21st, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. Inasmuch as he receives literally hundreds of requests during the year for his photograph, you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply. However, if you will place an order with Pach Brothers, Photographers, 570 Fifth Avenue, with instructions to have the photograph forwarded to the Metropolitan Magazine office, Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to autograph it for you. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. B. Sands, 27 Madison Avenue, New York. 29883Feb 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Schall: If you can be one of that committee of fifteen, I shall be overjoyed. I hope they have sense enough to put you on. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thos. D. Schall, 189 House Office Bldg, Washington, D.C. [*29884*] February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Shelden: Now, I hate to answer you as I must, but because of two or three experiences of the past, I feel I cannot do that kind of thing. If you would be willing to put those quotations in this form - "I have already expressed my views again and again on this subject. Here is part of what I said in the past" - and then follow the quotation [with this,] - "What I have said in the past, I now say;" [I'd stand for it!] Sincerely yours, Mr. Alger Shelden, [617] Yale Station, New Haven, Conn. [enclosure returned 2/27/17] 29885 February 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Steep: I greatly regret the death of General Funston. He was a most gallant soldier, and a natural born fighting man. I thank you for sending the clipping. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thomas W. Steep, Hotel Netherland, 5th Ave. & 59th Street, New York. 29886February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Straight: The bearer, Mr. William J. Hayes, acted as one of my secretaries for about nine months last year. He is willing, and thoroughly loyal, and worked well. He has asked me to give this note to you, so that if there is some type of work under you for which he is fitted, and if there is a vacancy, you may examine him to see if you are willing to give him a trial in it. Sincerely yours, Mr. Willard Straight, 120 Broadway, New York. 29887February 23, 1917. My dear Sir: In reply to your letter of February 22nd, I am returning the letter in question. Sincerely yours, Mr. Joseph E. Thropp, Galen Hall, Atlantic City, N. J. 29888February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Warner: That's a fine letter of yours, but you tell your grandson to keep his name just as it is. I, too, am [?] part German descent, and my name is a Dutch one. We are Americans through and through. We stand against Germany now, because she has wronged us, just as we stood against England in 1812 - and as a matter of fact, we ought to have stood against both England and France at that time. Names dont matter! Sincerely yours, Mr. George G. Warner, Cresskill, N.J. 29889February 23, 1917. My dear Miss Warrick: Your letter of February 19th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and I am sending this line in reply to say that Colonel Roosevelt is very sorry, but he cannot comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon him, and upon thinking the matter over, I am sure you will appreciate how utterly impossible it would be for him to begin to comply with such requests. He receives literally thousands of them during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Gertrude L. Warrick, West Mansfield, Ohio. 29890February 23, 1917. Dear Mr. Watrous: I appreciate the work you are doing, but it is not possible for me to accept any other position of any kind or sort. You have no idea of the demands made upon me. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Richard B. Watrous, Secy., 119 West 40th Street, New York. 29891February 23, 1917. My dear Mr. Weld: I am very sorry I am unable to comply with the request contained in your letter of February 19th. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Leroy D. Weld, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 29892February 23, 1917. Dear White: That's right! I should suppose that Frost would be a good man. Tell him to find out what Californians he can bring with him in case I am able to accept him. Of course, I have no idea of what the Administration will do. Sincerely yours, Hon. Henry White, 1624 Crescent Place, N.W., Washington, D.C 29893[*Williams*] February 23, 1917. Dear Sir: That's a really first class picture of four generations, and all such good looking American citizens! I congratulate you! Sincerely yours, Mr. James H. Williams, Chief Attendant, N.Y. C. R.R. Co., Grand Central Terminal, New York. 29894February 23, 1917. Dear Miss Williams: Your letter of February 20th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. Colonel Roosevelt is sorry, but of course you will quite readily understand, that it is impossible for him to recommend anyone, unless he is personally acquainted with their qualifications. He is very sorry. Sincerely yours, Miss Margaret J. W. Williams, 339 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 29895February 23, 1917. My dear Admiral Winslow: Colonel Roosevelt has received your note of the 22nd, and will be very glad to see you Thursday next, at 3 P.M., at the Hotel Langdon, 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. Sincerely yours, Rear-Admiral C. McR. Winslow, Newport, R.I. [*29896*]February 25, 1917. Dear Bonaparte: If I were accepting such invitations at all, I should of course accept yours, but I cannot accept one invitation to speak without accepting a number of others, and I am refusing them all. I regret to say that I absolutely agree with your view of the President, and the present crisis. I fear that even if provided, with those extraordinary magnifying eyes wherewith Sam Willer stated that it would be possible to look through a ceiling and two doors, the President would still be unable to find an overt act. We know by the process of exclusion that the murder of Americans, and the sinking of American ships do not constitute overt acts, in his eyes. Faithfully yours, Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq. 216 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. 29897February 25, 1917. [*Bunn*] Dear Paul: I heartily congratulate you, and I am as pleased as possible. Indeed, if I ever get the chance to come to St. Louis, yours is the kind of organization under which I should take peculiar pleasure in speaking. Sincerely yours, Mr. Paul V. Bunn, Simmons Hardware Co., St Louis, Mo.February 25, 1917. Dear Mr. Finley: Replying to your note of February 19th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, I beg to advise you that Scribners have published a little volume entitled "History as Literature and other Essays", which undoubtedly is the volume to which you refer. Sincerely yours, Mr. James G. Finley, Craig, Finley & Co. 137 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. [*29898*][*Col R letter by hand*] [*for file*] COPY. Sagamore Hill, February 26, 1917. Dear Ickes: If the enclosed is all right, will you send it on? I have written it in the precise form you see because I regret that Bradley in his denunciation of "militarism" did not see that to denounce it in terms that include both Germany and some at least of her opponents in the present war is as wrong as to have denounced it in 1864 in terms that would have included on an equality both Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. We have been in a terrible world crisis during the past 2-1/2 years; as a nation we have played a sorry part; I feel this in the innermost fibres of my being; and therefore I try to subordinate other wrongs, other issues, to the great wrong, the great issue. This especially applies to the difficulties among the Progressives! Yours always, (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt Mr. Harold L. Ickes, Harris Trust Bldg., Chicago, Ills. 29899February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. April: Of course I cordially sympathize with your feelings, but I don't see what I can do more than I have already done. Sincerely yours, Mr. Nathan April, 51 Chambers Street, New York.530 [*Bacon*] February 27, 1917. My dear Madam: I am extremely sorry, but I haven't an idea how to help you. I trust your son was not indiscreet in the connections he formed on this side. I can only suggest that you get men of the highest character, who know him intimately, to testify of his standing, and you then again ask our representative[s] to take up the cane. I am utterly powerless otherwise. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Charrie A. Bacon, 760 Fillmore Street, Gary, Ind. 1727 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Baskin: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I thank you for it. Also, I am ashamed to confess that I don't even know enough to defend the use of the adverb instead of the adjective in connection with the verb "feel"! With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. John Bryce Baskin, Inter-Southern Bldg., Louisville, Ky.4574 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Bishop: That's very interesting. Down in South America, and in Africa, as well as up here, I have seen night hawks and whippoorwills under conditions that made their colorations striking examples of protection. Many bright colored birds, however, have nothing protective about their coloration, the females being as brightly colored as the males. With good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. John H. Bishop, 612 E. Vilas Ave., Guthrie, Okla. 1846 February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Braun: Since I wrote you, my attention has been called, through certain United States Officials, to the charge made against you in connection with the Dumba and Bernstoff business. It seems to me that until you have definitely cleared yourself of these charges, you are not entitled to write me as you did the other day, nor entitled to such an answer as that which I gave you. Yours truly, Mr. Marcus Braun, 35 West 39th Street, New York. 5851 February 27, 1917. My dear Dr. Brayton: That's mighty nice of you. I appreciate your letter, and the enclosure. Sincerely yours, Dr. Alembert W. Brayton, 328 Newton Claypool Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind.5860 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Brown: I don't know anything of that "Life ," but it is to me astounding that any author should make such a statement without giving the clearest substantiation. I don't, for one moment, believe it. Sincerely yours, Mr. Foster V. Brown, Times Bldg., Chattanooga, Tenn.1871 February 27, 1917. My dear Miss Burnett: That's very kind of you, and I appreciate your having sent me the clipping. Sincerely yours, Miss Burnett, 1 Warren Street, Newark, N. J.1260 February 27, 1917. Dear Major Burnham: In speaking with Colonel Roosevelt yesterday afternoon, relative to the engagement I made for you for Thursday next at 12o'clock, he suggested that I change the time to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the place to the Hotel Langdon, 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. Sincerely yours, Major F.R. Burnham, c/o Rocky Mountain Club, 65 West 44th Street, New York. 1268 February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Coles: Many thanks for your letter, and the interesting enclosure. I don't mind anything, so long as the frost doesn't keep the devil-fish away! I would not know how to get a description of the submarine. I rather think I will bring my Springfield rifle down with me. Sincerely yours, Mr. Russell J. Coles, Danville, Va. 29900February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Deming: Good for the boy! That's the type of an American, who is worth while. Sincerely yours, Mr. E. W. Deming, c/o Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C.. [*29901*]February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Desmond: Colonel Roosevelt has asked me to send the enclosed letter to you from Brig. Gen. Hodges. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thomas Desmond, 110 West 34th Street, New York. [*29902*][*Ferguson*] February 27, 1917. Dear Bob: Your letter gives me the utmost pleasure. I have just written Isabella and the Cutcheons to take lunch with me. Of course, I agree absolutely with everything you say. I cannot help feeling that the men o[f]n the border, the men I have been accustomed to look up to, on the whole made the worse showing than anyone else during the last three years. Of course, Wilson's dreadful leadership is responsible for the bulk of the nation short comings, but it isn't the only thing. Either our soul is rotting out, or else, as I hope, we are passing through a cold fit, and need the appeal of some great leader, [and we will] in order to make us rouse ourselves. I am sick at heart at the shilly-shallyings of Wilson in this great crisis. He is playing an utterly contemptible part. If we go to war, no matter how much he tries to make it a war of limited liability, I shall endeavor, through the French and British Governments, to raise a division, perhaps in Canada, to get to the front. But it is almost impossible to do work that amounts to much, with such a creature in the White House. I am up to my ears in work, and so can only send you this line. Faithfully yours, Mr. R. H. M. Ferguson Burro Mountain Homestead, Tyrone, New Mexico [*Will you have that battery Commander write me just what he decides to do and thinks he can do?*] 29903 [*Ferguson*] February 27, 1917. Dear Isabella: Could you and Mr. & Mrs. Cutcheon [and her husband] lunch with me at The Langdon on Wednesday, March 14th, at 1:30 P.M.? Sincerely Mrs. R.H.M. Ferguson, 147 East 36th Street, New York. 29904February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Gardner: Miss Stricker has delivered your message to me, and of course it is needless to explain that I am up to my ears in work. I am awfully sorry, but it is a physical impossibility for me to comply with your request. I am asked all the time to make speeches, and write letters. As things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort, and I cannot say anything more than I have already said in my Metropolitan Magazine articles. I think it would be much better for you to try to get General Wood yourself. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Halbert P. Gardner, 390 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. 29905February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Gilbert: You were right! I wrote to Lenroot exactly along the line you indicated, as soon as I had seen his speech. Sincerely yours, Mr. Clinton W. Gilbert, New York Tribune, New York. 9906February 27, 1917. My dear M. Giraud: I greatly appreciate your courtesy, and I shall read the book at once. I trust I need not say how ardent I am in my championship of France. Sincerely yours, M. Paul Giraud, 5 - 7 Rue des Beaux Ratix, Paris, France. 9907[*Glynn*] February 27, 1917. My dear Governor, Your telegram came too late for me to answer it as you desired. If it is of any consequence now, pray use the following. I very cordially hope that the Times Union will meet with success in its effort to persuade the people of Albany to join [largely] the Red Cross. This nation seems to be awaking to the needs of preparedeness, that means preparedness both of the soul and of the body; preparedness for the tasks of peace and for the tasks of war. Exactly as I urge military training, so I urge that there shall be a very large membership of the Red Cross, and that those joining it shall take an active part in securing the best possible results [for] from it. With all best wishes, Sincerely yours, Hon. Martin H. Glynn, Albany, New York. [*The time for that break is drawing closer!*] 29908February 27, 1917. Dear Grant: That's very interesting. I shall look it up at once. Sincerely yours, Mr. Madison Grant, 22 East 49th Street, New York. 29909February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Hackett: I don't believe there is the least use of my investigating such an affair. I am not an expert - I know nothing about machinery or electricity; I should be acting entirely out of my province. I very earnestly suggest that you get some military or naval man to look at it with you. This is the wise course to follow. Sincerely yours, Mr. James K. Hackett, 56 West 71st Street, New York. 29910February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Huhner: That's most interesting. I am really obliged to you. I think the speech, to which you refer, is one I made at Ossawatamie in 1910, which you will find in my collected speeches, in the Library. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. Leon Huhner, 52 Willian Street, New York. [*There were many Jews in my Rough Riders; and they had their full proportion of men of distinguished gallantry.*] 911February 27, 1917. Dear Mr. Jones: That's mighty nice of you, and I appreciate it. I look forward to seeing the volumes. Sincerely yours, Mr. A. Marshall Jones, 212 Summer Street, Boston, Mass. 29912February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Jones: I have read the galley proofs of your book, and I wish to say, with all emphasis and heartiness, that you are doing this country a great service in publishing it. Your statements are evidently for the most part based on official Government records, happening in the course of prosecuting the various criminals, who by the direct instigation of the German Government, have for the last two and one half years been using this country as a base for war against the Allies, and more than this, have in effect been waging war on us within our own boundaries, no less than on the high seas. Our people need to know certain of the facts that you set forth. They need to understand that Germany has waged war upon us, and has waged war against our property, and has waged war against the lives of non-combatants, including women and children, and therefore a far more evil war than one waged openly. Our people also need to understand what you so clearly set forth that very much of the pacifist movement has been directly instigated by German 29913- 2 - intrigues, and paid for by German money, and that the entire pacifist movement in this country, during the past two and a half years, has really been in the interest of German militarism against the rights of small nations, and against our own honor and vital national interests. You have done a capital work, and I wish it could be put in the hands of all good Americans. Sincerely yours, Mr. John Price Jones, The Sun, New York. 29914[*prosecuting*] [*Jusserand*] February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am greatly pleased with your letter of February 23rd. Will you give my warm regards to your Government? To you, my dear Mr. Ambassador, I need hardly say that I will be in no sense a political general; that I will do the best there is in me; that I will not expect any money if I do ill, nor expect any favors - save the very great favor of being sent to the front as speedily as possible. I would ask even this only because as an ex-President of the United States my usefulness in going, both to my own country and to yours, would largely depend upon its being clearly understood that my going was not a sham, but that I was to be sent to where [I believe] men of your nation are fighting and dying. Moreover, the men who would come eagerly with me, would largely be influenced by their belief that I would get them to the front as speedily as they could learn to perform their dutues. I earnestly hope that the next few days may see this country take such steps that I can make you the offer without conditions. All that is necessary is that this country shall [should go] to war, or be at war, with Germany. Then I can act against my country's enemies even though my 29915-2- action differs from that which the Government may conceivably plan. But I should probably have grave legal trouble with the Government if I tried to take any steps until there is such a condition of war, and moreoever, I doubt whether, even if [it] there were not [for] such trouble, it would be proper for me, as an ex-President, to go to war against a country with which my own nation continued nominally to be friendly. Faithfully yours, His Excellency, M. Jusserand, French Embassy, Washington, D.C. 29916 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Kneale: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Elmer Kneale, Springfield, Ills. ?9917 February 27, 1917. My dear Mrs. Lander: That's most interesting! It is the only case, bearing upon the instance I gave, which I have ever come across. I am very much pleased that you should like my book, and I want to thank you as an American for the "activities" you describe! Again expressing my appreciation, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Malcolm M. Lander, 216 West 6th Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 29918 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Laybourne: That's very kind of you. Give my regards to Mr. Kurtz, if you should run across him. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. John Laybourne, 1102 Summit Street, Kansas City, Mo. 29919 [MacDonald] February 27, 1917. Sir: Mr. Pirie MacDonald has applied for a commission in the Quartermasters' Corps of the Officers Reserve Corps. I know Mr. MacDonald well. I can testify to his high standing as a citizen, and to his executive ability, and to his experience in the handling of men. He is peculiarly a man fitted to do good service. With high regard, Sincerely yours, Adjutant General. U. S. Army. ?920 February 27, 1917. My dear Dr. Millet: I wish I could accept. You know that both Mrs. Roosevelt and I are very fond of you, but it is out of the question for me to accept any invitations at present. With regret, Sincerely yours, Dr. Charles S. Millet, 23 Main Street, Brockton, Mass. 29921 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Moore: I greatly appreciate your sending me a copy of your poems. I look forward to reading them. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. J. Brooks Moore, c/o Thrash-Lick Publishing Co., Fort Smith, Ark. 29922February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Murrill: That's mighty nice of you. I appreciate the gift. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. W. A. Murrill, Asst. Director, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, N.Y. 29923February 27, 1917. Dear Professor Myers: Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to see you Wednesday afternoon, March 7th, at 3:30, at the Hotel Langdon, 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. Will you be good enough to let me know if this is a convenient time for you? Sincerely yours, Prof. William Starr Myers, Princeton University, 15 Alexander Street, Princeton, N.J. 29924February 27, 1917. My dear Dr. Nies: That's very kind of you! I was greatly interested in the article. Mrs. Roosevelt and I talk often of the pleasure we had when you and dear Mrs. Nies were at lunch with us. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Rev. J. B. Nies, Hotel St. George, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. 29925February 27, 1917/ Dear Mr. Odell: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I thank you for it. I am more than pleased to learn what Dr. Gowen said. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Wallace Odell, The Tarrytown Daily News, Tarrytown, N. Y. 29926February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Peyton: Nothing could have pleased me more than the two-volume copy of the Illiad as translated by your grandfather. It will have an honored place in my library. Believe me, I appreciate your courtesy. Faithfully yours, Mr. William Madison Peyton, Martinsville, Va. 29927February 27, 1917. My dear Mrs. Railey: I thank you for your courteous letter, and for the opportunity you offer me, but I shall not be here in April. I regret that I cannot be of assistance to you. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Elise Castleman Railey, Lexington, Ky. 29928February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Ralph: I thank you for your telegram, and appreciate your having sent it, but I hardly think it is well for me to send open telegrams about the death of anyone save a few very distinguished people. I am sure you will understand what a multitude of similar requests I receive. With hearty good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Murray A. Ralph, Watertown, N.Y. 29929February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Regan: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. John W. Regan, Pres., The Canadian Club, Halifax, N.S. 29930February 27, 1917. My dear Mrs. Rockhill: I am heartily glad at the news you tell me. Of course, if I can be of any assistance, you can count upon me. I hope that Mr. Dwight doesn't try to hurry the book. When he gets his material a little in shape, if he would care to see me, it would be a real pleasure to see him. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Edith Rockhill, Litchfield, Conn. 29931February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Samson: It is a matter of record that all the continental European powers were hostile to us, and I believe that the proposals were made to England as you say, but I doubt whether there would be an official record of it. Germany, Austria, and France were almost equally hostile, and Russia followed suit. England and Japan were friendly. Sincerely yours, Mr. G. W. Samson, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 29932February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Shaw: I wish to thank you, and congratulate you [for] on the course you took. It is astounding to me the way that good Americans will permit, and condone, or sanction outright, such offenses as those of Professor Appleman. Imagine the fate of an American who, under reversed conditions, behaved in such a manner in a German university! With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry B. Shaw, Howard National Bank Bldg., Burlington, Vt. 29933February 27, 1917. My dear Mrs. Stockbridge: I appreciate what Mrs. Pruden did, and at the same time I must ask her to transfer my membership to someone else. I would gladly send the dollar myself were it not that I am literally overwhelmed with requests, and to accept in one case [,] makes a precedent for all others. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Henry Stockbridge, Jr., 11 No. Calhoun Street, Baltimore, Md. 29934 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Walker: I thank you for your kind letter of February 24th, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Allen Walker, "Beverley", Port Washington, L.I. 29935 February 27, 1917/ My dear Mr. Warren: Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to see you on Thursday afternoon at 3:30 at the Hotel Langdon, 56th Street and Fifth Avenue. Sincerely yours, Mr. Whitney Warren, 16 East 47th Street, New York. 29936 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Waugh: I delivered your message yesterday to Colonel Roosevelt, and he says that he will be glad to have you call at the Metropolitan Magazine office, 432 Fourth Avenue, at 12 o'clock Thursday next. Sincerely yours, Mr. B. A. Waugh, c/o Hotel Belmont, 42nd Street & Park Ave., New York. 29937 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Welton: I thank you for your kind letter of February 21st, and appreciate it, but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Dr. Thurston Scott Welton, 842 Union Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 29938 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Wheeler: I wish I could be present at your meeting in honor of William Dean Howells. Mr. Howells has played a peculiar part in the history of American literature, because he has contributed to a very useful degree, the acceptance of the artist, and the influence of the best type of good citizen. I was a very young man when I began to read Mr. Howell's books, and they not only gave me the greatest pleasure, as works of literature, but they helped [me] a little in striving to be a decent citizen. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Edward J. Wheeler, Secy., 15 Gramercy Park, New York. 29939 February 27, 1917. My dear Mr. Williams: Colonel Roosevelt directs me to say that if you will look in his autobiography at the end of the chapter on applied idealism, you will find exactly what he said, and you will see that if those statements have been garbled and misrepresented, then any such interview that you ask would also be subject to garbling and misrepresentation. Colonel Roosevelt will soon take the matter up in an article in the Metropolitan Magazine. Sincerely yours, Mr. Carl E. Williams, Physical Culture Publishing Co., Flatiron Bldg., N.Y. 29940 February 28, 1917. Dear Mr. Abbott: When the memorial to Selous appears in your paper, will you kindly send one to Mr. A. Stuart Baker, Honorable Secretary, 5 Harold Road, Upper Norwood, London, S.E., England? Sincerely yours, Mr. Lawrence Abbott, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York. [*31*] February 28, 1917. My dear Dr. Allaben: Upon receipt of your letter of January 9th, Colonel Roosevelt asked for the information you requested and we have just received it. He has asked me to enclose it to you, and hopes this is the information you desire. Sincerely yours, Dr. J. E. Allaben, c/o Captain Welsh's Cottage, Miami Beach, Fla.[*459*] [*Boys' High School*] February 28, 1917. Gentlemen: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. T. Myron Arms, Mr. C. M. Hanson, Mr. J. R. Rhinehart, Mr. Jacob P. Rosenbaum, Boys' High School, Cor. Putnam & Marcy Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.4958 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Baker: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter of February 21st, and directs me to send you this line of acknowledgment and thanks. Sincerely yours, Mr. George H. Baker, 149 Livingston St., New Haven, Conn. 1810 [*NY State Forestry*] February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Beede: I am very sorry, but it is out of the question for me to go into anything else at present. You have no idea of the demands made upon me, and I do not care to go into much things unless I can take some active part in the work. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Victor A. Beede, N.Y.S. Forestry Ass'n, Chamber of Commerce, Syracuse, N.Y. 2358 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Bishop: I thank you for your letter of February 24th, and regret that it is impossible for me to go into that matter at this time. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles F. Bishop, Evans Building, Washington, D.C. 1839 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Cairns: That's mighty interesting! I congratulate you on your good luck, and hope that I [will] shall have as good luck. Sincerely yours, Mr. Thomas C. Cairns, 915 First National Bank Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. 6512 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Crafts: That's very nice of you; I appreciate it. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. Storer P. Crafts, Commonwealth Hotel, Inc., Boston, Mass. 8743 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Faust: That's a very nice letter of yours. I appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Mr. R. D. Faust, Lakeview, Idaho. 29941 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Franklin: Your letter of February 16th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. I am sending this line to you in reply to remind you that during the year thousands of similar requests are received by Colonel Roosevelt, and of course it is utterly impossible for him to give the advice asked, or even make personal acknowledgments. I am sure you will appreciate this. Sincerely yours, Mr. James H. Franklin, Huntland, Tenn. 29942 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Goble: That's such a very nice letter of yours, that I must send you just this line of acknowledgment and thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending your poem to me. Sincerely yours, Mr. Lloyd Goble, River Falls State Normal School, River Falls, Wisc. 29943 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Hammond: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to acknowledge with thanks your letter of February 23rd. Sincerely yours, Mr. John Hays Hammond, Pres., Rocky Mountain Club - Hoover Fund, 65 West 44th Street, New York. 29944 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Harwood: That's very kind of you. I appreciate your courtesy, and hope to have an opportunity to look over your speech when it arrives. Sincerely yours, Mr. William Harwood, Duluth, Minn. 29945 February 28, 1917. My dear Dr. Hocker: I thank you for your very courteous letter of February 21st. You are taking just the right course for a chaplaincy. Sincerely yours, Rev. Harvey H. Hocker, 142 E. Amerige Ave. Fullerton, Cal. 29946 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Hodges: Colonel Roosevelt has asked me to acknowledge with thanks your letter of February 22nd, and to say that he is sorry, but he is so overwhelmed with work at this time, that it is impossible for him to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Mr. Leigh Mitchell Hodges, Doylestown, Penna. 29947 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Hooper: I thank you for your letter of February 22nd, but that is not a matter upon which I care to make comment. Sincerely yours, Mr. D. N. Hooper, Room 1482, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. 29948 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Kent: I thank you for your letter of February 23rd. I am now doing everything in my power. Sincerely yours, Mr. Warren T. Kent, Clifton Heights, Penna. 29949 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Lockey: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to send the enclosed autograph to you with his compliments. Sincerely yours, Mr. J. A. Lockey, Middletown, Ohio. 29950 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Lee: I am extremely sorry, but I do not know anything about such a bill as you mention. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. James H. Lee, 221 S. Forsyth Street, Atlanta, Ga. 29951 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Lichtenstein: I am sorry I am not able to comply with your request. You have no idea of the demands made upon my time. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Arthur Lichtenstein, "The Observer," Neighborhood Center 188, Lewis & Third Streets, New York City. 29952 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Lowenstein: I thank you for your letters of February 23rd and 24th, but my dear sir, you must excuse me from making comments. I am sorry not to be able to comply with your request. Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry Polk Lowenstein, New York Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 29953 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Lyon: That's very kind. I thank you, and appreciate your courtesy. Sincerely yours, Mr. Colbert E. Lyon, Uplift Service, Troy, New York. 29954 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Metcalfe: That's very nice of you. Please give my warm regards to your father. Sincerely yours, Mr. Buehler Metcalfe, c/o Omaha Nebraskan, 256 Brandeis Theatre Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. 29955 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Patchin: I am very sorry I am not able to comply with the request of the Weekly Graphic, and so advised them in response to their inquiry. Sincerely yours, Mr. Philip H. Patchin, 1906 Florida Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. 29956 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Price: I thank you for your letter of February 24th, and regret it is impossible for me to go into anything new at this time, no matter how interesting. I am very sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. L. A. Price, Jamestown, N.Y. 29957 [*Putnam*] February 28, 1917. Gentlemen: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to acknowledge with thanks your very kind letter of February 24th. He appreciates your courtesy in the matter. Sincerely yours, Messrs. G. P. Putnam & Sons, 2 West 45th Street, New York. 29958February 28, 1917. Sir: Henry H. Saylor is applying for a position in the Officers Reserve Corps. I most gladly testify, from my personal knowledge of his character, and his conduct as a citizen, that in my belief he will make a first class officer. He is the Editor of "Country Life in America". He is an out-of-door man of high ideals. I am glad to be able to write this letter in his behalf. Sincerely yours, Commanding General, Eastern Division, Governor's Island, N.Y. 29959February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Sawyer: I am very sorry I neglected to enclose your manuscript. I am sending it to you herewith. Sincerely yours. Mr. Eugene T. Sawyer, 360 N. 16th Street, San Jose, Cal. 29960February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Schweitzer: Your letter of February 25th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for photograph, is received. Literally hundreds of similar requests are received during the year, and I am sure you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to comply with them. However, Pach Brothers, Photographers, 570 Fifth Avenue, have a very good plate, and if you will place an order with them, with instructions to have it forwarded to the Metropolitan Magazine Office, Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to autograph it for you. Sincerely yours, Mr. Hermann Schweitzer, Montclair Academy, Montclair, N. J. 29961February 28, 1917. My dear Mrs. Shepard: I am sorry if you received the envelope open, as I had returned all of your enclosures in it. I presume the contents were too heavy for the mucilage, and I shall call the attention of the mailing department to this matter. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Elizabeth Murray Shepard, 403 Douglas Ave., Elgin, Ill. 29962February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Sleicher: I am sorry to say that I haven’t an idea where that Union League Club address is. My feeling is that no immigrant should be allowed to vote unless he has served under [a] the proper system of military training [bill], just as long as one of our own citizens serve. Sincerely yours, Mr. John A. Sleicher, “Leslie’s” Magazine, New York. 29963February 28, 1917. My dear Dr. Smith: Your letter of February 23rd, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for photograph, is received. Inasmuch as Colonel Roosevelt receives literally hundreds of similar requests during the year, you will of course realize how impossible it would be for him to comply with them. However, Pach Brothers, Photographers, 570 Fifth Avenue, have a very good plate, and if you will place an order with them, with instructions to have it forwarded to the Metropolitan Magazine office, Colonel Roosevelt will be glad to autograph it for you. Sincerely yours, Dr. E. C. Smith, Jakin, Ga. 29964February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Smith: I thank you for your letter, and appreciate it. I shall certainly carefully consider that suggestion. Sincerely yours, Mr. Edward N. Smith, Powers Block, Watertown, N. Y. 29965February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Smith: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of then I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Ernest E. Smith, Boys High School, Brooklyn, New York. 29966 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Stillman: I wish I could do as you suggest, but just at present it isn't possible. You have no idea of the demands made upon my time. With real regret. Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry P. Stillman, 8413 Bay 15th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 29967 February 28, 1917. My dear Captain Taylor: I am very sorry, but I would not know how to advise you in such a matter. I think you had better communicate with your own Ambassador. Sincerely yours, Captain William T. Taylor, 89 Muswell Ave., Muswell Hill, London, N., England. 29968 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Teegarden: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 300 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. H. B. Teegarden, Pres., The Oratorical Association, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, Mich. 29969 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Upshur: I thank you, and appreciate your courtesy in sending me your poem, "America Awakes". Sincerely yours, Mr. George L. Upshur, 1790 Broadway, New York. 29970 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Watrous: I am very glad that the American Civic Association is to take the action you speak of about Mr. William B. Howland. I wish it were possible for me to attend in person, but as that is out of the question at the present time, I write to express my earnest approval of what you are doing. Mr. Howland was not only a private citizen of the highest class, but also, in the proper sense of the word, a most useful public servant. He possessed a singular gentleness and sweetness of nature, and both in public and in private life, he endeavored to shape his actions in accordance with really high ideals. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. Richard B. Watrous, University Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C. 29971February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Weekes: With further reference to your letter of February 23rd, to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for a photograph, I beg to say that Pach Brother, 570 Fifth Avenue, New York, have a very good plate. They will be glad to receive your order, and they will see to it that the picture is properly sent down to Colonel Roosevelt for autograph, and return to you. Sincerely yours, Mr. John M. Weekes, 209 South West Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 29972 February 28, 1917. My dear Mr. Weekes: That's a very nice letter of yours. If I had any photographs, I would gladly send one to you. During the year I receive literally thousands of requests for photographs, so you can see how utterly impossible it would be for me to try to supply these demands. I am sorry. Sincerely yours, Mr. John M. Weekes, 209 South West Street, Syracuse, N.Y. 29973 March 1st, 1917. My dear Mr. Bryan: That's a very nice letter of yours. I hope your son, who is named after me, won't feel too lonely in view of the names of the rest of his brothers! But, when you write that if we have war with Germany, you will be there with two of your sons, that makes me know that we are both of us fundamentally Americans of the same type. Give my special regards to the mother of those children! Sincerely yours, Hon. W. R. Bryan, House of Representatives, Santa Fe. N. M. 1359 [*Butler*] March 1st, 1917. Dear Senator: That's fine! I thank you, and I greatly appreciate the clipping. Sincerely yours, Hon. Marion Butler, Southern Building, Washington, D. C.4844 March 1st, 1917. My dear Mr. Cash: Your letter gives me real pleasure. I thank you for it from the bottom of my heart. What you say about our people, and about the causes for their attitude, I believe to be absolutely just. I, too, believe that there are hundreds of thousands of men in this country today - I believe millions - who are absolutely all right, if only the right kind of an appeal can be made to them. Will you give my warm regards to all your family, and my best wishes to the second boy, who is named after me? Sincerely yours, Mr. Oliver H. Cash, 8 South 3rd Street, Walla Walla, Wash. 29974March 1st, 1917. My dear Mr. Chandler: It did me good to get your letter. I thank you! [from my heart] I wish more men felt the same way. Faithfully yours, Mr. George Chandler, Workmen's Compensation Commission, Hartford, Conn. 29975[*Fair*] March 1st, 1917. Dear Billy: That's a capital article of yours on the Columbia Treaty, and I am very glad you wrote it. There is one small point I would like to make. If MacVeagh told you that he and I called on Hay to ask him about our abandoning [leaving with Columbia] [?] for Columbia, he told you what was not true. Perhaps he called on Hay with Reyes but I am inclined to think he did not come to me at all until he had made the proposal to Hay. Hay and I merely expressed amusement over it. By the way I never said a word to Lawson Vairely about the course which is the best I followed. He is a shrewd fighting Frenchman and misled by a personal interview to sign me up and see if I too was of the "not too proud to fight" variety - and concluded that I was. Faithfully yours, Mr. William Roscoe Fair, Cambridge, Mass. 29976 March 1st, 1917. Dear Mr. Garland: Colonel Roosevelt was unusually busy to-day, and asked me to write this note to you, introducing Mr. G. Preston Hersey. Will you see Mr. Hersey, and give him whatever advice you can? Sincerely yours, Mr. Hamlin Garland, 71 East 92nd Street, New York. Mr. Fish's introduction attached. ?411 March 1st, 1917. My dear Lord Northcliffe: If I could respond favorably to any such request, it would have been to yours, but you have no conception of the multitude of requests of the kind which I receive, and I have to make an invariable rule of responding to none. Moreover, I do not believe that under existing conditions, such messages are worth while. There is very much I would like to talk over with you, if you are to be here any time. Sincerely yours, Lord Worthcliffe, "The Times", London, England. 29977[*Robinson*] March 1st, 1917. Dear Teddy: I am sending the photograph to Steele, as you request. I am extremely glad you brought up that census matter, and hope you will push it as strongly as possible. Introduce the bill yourself. [Sincerely] your[s] aff. Uncle Hon. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Senate of the State of New York, Albany, New York. 29978 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Barlow: That is capital! I shall keep that clipping; and I wish it could be learned by heart by every public servant, and put in every school in the land. Faithfully yours, Mr. John T. Barlow, 60 West Lake Street, Chicago, Ills. 3455 March 2nd, 1917. Dear Comrade Bell: That's an interesting letter of yours. The only thing that I can suggest is that you write to my nephew, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt. He is opposed to me politically, but he is a good fellow, and if you send him this letter, it will show that you are one of my old troopers. I am sure that he will have your proposal put before the proper authority. Sincerely yours, Mr. D. M. Bell, Pressed Steel Equipment Co., Chicago, Ills.4013 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Boyce: Three cheers for you, and for Corporal Burke Boyce! You are dead right. He must not be brought up to be the only soldier. Sincerely yours, Mr. A. L. Boyce, Military Training Camps Ass'n. 31 Nassau Street, New York City. March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Cameron: I thank you for your letter. I am devoting my best consideration as to what ought to be done. Sincerely yours, Mr. Wm. Duncan Cameron, 3208 Third Avenue, New York. March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Corwine: Of course I think you are right, but all of that is implied in universal service! I am fighting for the latter with all my heart and soul. Sincerely yours, Mr. William R. Corwine, 13 Astor Place, New York. 8499March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Crysler: That's a mighty nice letter of yours. I appreciate it, and appreciate the spirit shown by the clipping you enclosed. Sincerely yours, Mr. Frank E. Crysler, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. 8849[*Cavender*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Comrade: I have a great admiration for Buffalo Bill, but I do not think such a society would be advisable. I have accepted the Honorary Vice-Presidency of the Colorado Committee, which is trying to raise a monument to him. Sincerely yours, Mr. Glen Cavender, c/o Mack Sennett Keystone Co., 1712 Allesandro, Los Angeles, Cal. 29979March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Chandler: That’s a capital speech! Your first letter was mildly cryptic,* but it was so emphatically sound that it did not need any accompaniment; [but] however I am mighty glad to have seen the speech. It is really so good a speech, that I was it could be circulated as a tract throughout the land. I am mighty glad to have a copy. Sincerely yours, Mr. S. B. Chandler, Workmen’s Compensation Commission, Hartford, Conn. *[*but, Heavens, I wish you could see some of the really cryptic letters I receive.*] 29980 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Dahlgren: That's a mighty nice letter of yours, and I appreciate it. If you come on here, you must let me know, and come out to lunch so that I may see you. I return Governor Hadley's letter. He has shown himself to be a real American in this crisis. Sincerely yours, Mr. G. V. Dahlgren, 908 Clark Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 29981 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Diggs: I thank you for your kind invitation of March 1st, and appreciate it; but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Dabney W. Diggs, Chairman, 156 Broadway, New York. 29982 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Durnall: That's such a nice letter of yours, and shows such a good patriotic spirit, that I must send you my thanks. Sincerely yours, Mr. F. W. Durnall, Chittenden Hotel, Columbus, Ohio. 29983 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Earle: I thought I had explained to you that it is impossible for me to undertake any active part whatever. Now, if there is any mistake in this matter, I will resign the Honorary Presidency, which I had accepted. You do not understand the amount of work I have to do. Sincerely yours, Mr. Henry M. Earle, 24 Broad Street, New York. 29984 [*Fenderson*] March 2nd, 1917. Dear Madam: Your letter pleased me particularly. I believe with all my heart, that the true American women, just as much as the true American men, will in the end take the position you take. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Louise Fenderson, Owego, New York. 29985[*Gleason*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: I much appreciate the honor conferred upon me by the D. K. E. Club, and accept the honorary membership with pleasure. Sincerely yours, Mr. Carlisle J. Gleason, Secy., Delta Kappa Epsilon Club, 30 West 44th Street, New York. 29986 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Green: I am greatly pleased to learn the things you tell me. If ever two children deserve that medal, those two children deserve it. I thank you for the photograph of them, and of the panther. Sincerely yours, Mr. John R. Green, 208 Belmont Bldg., Victoria, B.C. 29987 MEMORANDUM TO Mr. William Hard: Three cheers for the principal collaborator: I wish I was half as good a man. Theodore Roosevelt. March 2nd, 1917. 29988March 2nd, 1917. [*Private*] My dear Senator Harding: I wish to thank you for your recent reference to me, and [state that] incidentally I am certain [exactly what] that what you said is true! We have invited war by our futile, timid, shuffling course. Sincerely yours, Hon. Warren G. Harding. U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C. 29989[*Houston*] March 2nd, 1917. Gentlemen: I entirely agree with you, but feel that far more drastic action should be taken as regards our foreign policy, than you have indicated. I am, however, powerless; it rests with the Government. Sincerely yours, Mr. S. M. Houston, Mr. J. M. Baragwanath, On Board S. S. Havana, Havana, Cuba. 29990[*Huntington*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: I greatly appreciate having been made an honorary member of the Hispanic Society. Through you, I desire to thank the members of the society, and to say how much I [appreciate the honor] value what they have done. Sincerely yours, Mr. Archer M. Huntington, Hispanic Society of America, New York City. 29991 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Dr. Huntington: That's a capital speech. I congratulate you as an American for having made it! Sincerely yours, Dr. W. C. Huntington, Beach Building, Howell, Mich. 29992 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Ireland: Good for you! I am glad you took the course you did. With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, Mr. J. O. Ireland, 1246 East 40th St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 29993 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Janorin: Good for you! I thank you for sending me the clipping, and I especially appreciate it coming from the former rider of the "old horse Frank". Sincerely yours, Mr. Dennis A. Janorin, 118 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 29994 March 2nd, 1917. Dear Joy: Your monograph on National Highways is admirable. I am greatly interested in it, and pleased with it. I particularly liked your phrase "Tightening the Union" under the Border Highway map showing your Lincon Way. [is fine] You use exactly the words to express the idea! Wishing you all good luck, I am Faithfully yours, Mr. Henry B. Joy, Lincoln Highway Ass'n, Fair Acres, Grosse Point, Mich. 29995 March 2nd, 1917. Mr dear Father Joyce: I have written confidentially to General Wood, to know if it is possible, without my appearing in the matter, to get what you desire done. I have less than no influence with the Secretary of War, and I think to have him know that I was interested in you, would surely defeat your purpose. Sincerely yours, Rev. Francis P. Joyce, Chaplain, 7th Field Artillery, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 29996 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Lafferty: I would not have the right to let you use that title without the consent of the publishers and can only refer you to them. (G. P. Putnams New York) With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. W. T. Lafferty, Lexington, Ky. 29997 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Lanaci: I congratulate you upon what you and your two sons have done. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Mabel Thayer Lanaci, 133 East 40th Street, New York. 29998 March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Larsen: I am enclosing herewith, at Colonel Roosevelt's request, his autograph. Sincerely yours, Mr. Webster G. Larsen, 3210 Artlington Street, Chicago, Ills. 29999March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Leonard: You credit me with an influence over Congress that I do not possess. I am fighting hard for universal military training. Of course, I could not take up the case of any single school. Wishing I could do more for universal military training, I am, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Elizabeth Prescot Leonard, Colorado Springs, Colo. 30000[*Llewellyn*] March 2nd, 1917. Dear Mr. Speaker, and Major, and Friend: Good for Theodore Roosevelt Llewellyn, and Charles Stanley Llewellyn, and in view of what you tell me of yourself, I guess I [?] may have to call on you, too. It is fine to hear from you! Sincerely yours, Mr. W. H. H. Llewellyn, Speaker, 3rd Legislature, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 30001March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Lovett: That's mighty nice of you, and I look forward to receiving the book. With hearty thanks for your kindness, I am Faithfully yours, Mr. Edgar Odell Lovett, The Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. 30002March 2nd, 1917. My dear Dr. Odell: That's a capital sermon of yours. I am beginning to be very proud of the way that the clergymen of the United States are waking to the needs of this nation. With hearty thanks, as an American, I am Faithfully yours, Dr. Owen D. Odell, Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, Ind. 30003[*Odell*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: Three cheers for you! You are the kind of an American [of the type] worth having! Sincerely yours, Mr. Wallace Odell, Tarrytown Daily News, Tarrytown, N. Y. 30004March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Ohlinger: What you say is exactly the truth. There was every reason why Mr. Wilson should have been beaten, but the fact that Mr. Hughes failed to speak out plainly - failed to grapple manfully with the real issues of the day deprived us of all right to feel as we would have otherwise felt about his defeat. As you say, his attitude and the attitude of Wilson toward the Americans of German origin, has been grossly unjust to them. If, instead of pussy-footing on righteousness and justice, and if, instead of playing the part of mean and timid demagogues, our leaders had appealed to the Americans of German descent on the footing of straightout Americanism, and in the name of justice and righteousness, and national honor, and international morality, I am certain that the response would have been overwhelmingly right. Faithfully yours, Mr. Gustavus Ohlinger, 1512 Second National Bank Bldg., Toledo, Ohio. [* P.S. By the way, what do you mean by redundancy in connection with China*] 30005March 2nd, 1917. My dear Senator Phipps: I am greatly interested in reclamation, but at this moment there are other matters in which I am so absorbed that it just is not possible for me to take up even such an important subject as you suggest. With real regret that I cannot be of help, I am, Faithfully yours, Hon. Harve H. Phipps, Senate of the State of Wash., Olympia, Wash. 30006[*Pisani*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: Colonel Roosevelt will be please to see you next Wednesday at the Metropolitan Magazine office, at 11:30 A. M. Sincerely yours, Comte Ferri Pisani, 46 East 34th Street, New York. 30007March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Preston: I thank you, as an American, for what you have written. Well, for two and a half years I have been trying to give the right lead to my countrymen. I believe that in the end they will adopt the principles for which I am striving. I only hope it may not be too late. Sincerely yours, Mr. Robert L. Preston, Lessburg, Va. 30008[*Raftery*] March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: The poem you enclose shows such a fine patriotic spirit, exactly the spirit in which I believe - that I answer your letter, although I am wholly at a loss to understand how you can possibly yourself fail to understand that I have never changed, and that any man who backed me as a good American eighteen years ago, should back me as a good American today. If I have lost the love of any man because of what I have said on Americanism, then it sepaks badly for the man, and not for me. Get out of the library, my book called "Fear God And Take Your Own Part", and read in the appendix the address I made a little over a year ago to the Knights of Columbus. How any good American fail to support what I then said, I don't know. Now, [for] as to what you say about the "hyphenates." You say that you were born in Ireland, and that your wife was born in Germany, and you speak of your boy, who was born in this country. In your poem you say that the boy is to stand by the flag of his country, whether the foeman be kin or stranger, and you speak of yourself as an "alien." Why, my dear sir, I don't regard 30009- 2 - you as an alien at all, so long as you have that kind of sentiment; on the contrary, I regard you as the best kind of an American. Don't you understand that I am trying to prevent any distinction such as would be implied by calling your boy a native American, his father an Irish-American, and his mother a German-American? I object to the term "native" as a hyphen, just as much as I object to any other term. Get hold of my autobiography; read about Joe Murray, who brought me out in politics. He was born in Ireland, but Joe and I are Americans, and nothing else. We did not associate on the basis that I was a "native American," and he an "Irish-American." Neither of us had any hyphen - we were both just plain Americans! Your fellow American, Mr. John Patrick Raftery, 707 East 45th Street, Chicago, Ills. [*P. S. I wish to repeat that all good Americans matter where born, should as a matter of duty [?tily] support me in all that I have said about Americanism during the last 2 1/2 years - which is what i have been saying for 40 years.*] 30010March 2nd, 1917. Dear Dr. Reisner: In a clipping sent to me, in a sermon of yours, you are quoted as saying that it is my "alleged practice" to deny my statements, if they are revealed through a broken confidence, coupling this allegation of yours with various other similar statements about "diplomats" and "Jesuits." You are a clergyman, and you have no business to make a public statement about any man, which is discreditable to him, unless you know your facts. The statement that you make about me is pure slander, which the slightest inquiry would have taught you was slander. Neither you, nor anyone else, can, in all my career, find any instance in which I have ever denied a statement I have actually made. Sincerely yours, Rev. Christian F. Reisner, Grace M. E. Church, 2626 Broadway, New York. 30011[*Roosevelt*] March 2nd, 1917. Dear Phil: Will you yourself, or Amery come over at the earliest opportunity, and tell Miss Stricker how this mass of division material, which has accumulated, is to be answered? You and Amery did some of the work, but Miss Stricker doesn’t know just what you did, and where you left off, and so we have been at a standstill. Sincerely, Mr. Philip J. Roosevelt. [?]584March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Sommes: I wish I could do as you request, but you have no idea of the multitude of such requests I receive. It is not possible for me to take action in one case, if I do not take it in many others, and it creates a precedent. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. John Sommes, 10 East Eager Street, Baltimore, Md. March 2nd, 1917. My dear Sir: I am very glad that you liked the Elkhorn Edition of my books. I wish my recent works were in it, but the publishers will not put them in until, in their judgment, it pays them to do so. As to the second part of your letter, read a book by a fellow California “The Old Testament in the Light of Today” by Bade. It is published by Houghton Mifflin Co. Sincerely yours, Mr. Edward D. Spaulding, Mission Canyon, Santa Barbara, Cal. March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Thomas: I must ask you to use that old letter as you deem wise. It is impossible for me at this time to write another letter. In great haste. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles M. Thomas, Teachers Ass’n of the D. C. Washington, D. C. 30014March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Thomson: That’s mighty nice of you. I thank you, and appreciate it. Good luck always! Sincerely yours, Mr. W. Stewart Thomson, c/o The Royal Trust Co., Queen and Yonge Sts., Toronto, Canada. 30015March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mr. Walrath: I wish I could be present at that dinner. As it is not possible, will you give my warmest regards to all who are present, and my heartiest congratulations to Mr. Fish. I wish I could be present to join with Mr. Knapp, and Mr. Colby in expressing my appreciation. Sincerely yours, Mr. Russell J. Walrath, Chairman, Citizens Testimonial Committee, 123 Liberty Street, New York. 30016March 2nd, 1917. My dear Mrs. Ward: I am sorry that my letter does not seem to have reached you. Here is a copy of it. If there is anything else you would like me to do, count on me at once. I normally dread war, but as conditions are, I am praying that we go to war, and that I be allowed to raise a division, and to take it to the front with my four sons in it. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Mary A. Ward, Stocks, Tring, England. 30017March 2nd, 1917. Dear Leonard: The enclosed papers explain themselves. Father Joyce is a Catholic Chaplain, who has at boiling point over the Mexican outrages, and our shameful laxness as regards them. Do you think the Adjutant General would make this transfer, or not? Sincerely yours, Major-General Leonard Wood, Governor’s Island, N.Y. I wish I could speak at Michigan; but it just is not possible. I wish you could speak in Maine. 5:30 XXX March 2nd, 1917. Dear Leonard: The enclosed is from a member of the regiment. Is there anything that can be done for him down at Governor’s Island? If not, will you return the enclosure to me? Sincerely yours, Major-General Leonard Wood, Governor’s Island, N.Y. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Arms: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of more than 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Theodore Myron Arms, The Boys’ High School, Cor. Putnam and Marcy Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Avella: I thank you for your very kind invitation, and regret that it is impossible for me to accept. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of more than 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. C.M. Avella, Secy., Italian American Scoutcraft Ass’n, Hester and Elizabeth Sts., New York. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Cinnotti: Your letter of February 23rd, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for a photograph, is received. During the year literally thousands of similar requests are received, and I am sure you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to supply the demand. However, Pach Brothers, 570 Fifth Avenue, have a very good plate, and if you will place your order with them, with instructions to have it forwarded to the Metropolitan Magazine office, Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to autograph it for you, and they will see that it is sent on to you. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. C. Cinnnotti, 141 Franklin Street, Johnstown, Pa. 30021[*Davinson*] March 3rd, 1917. My dear Madam: I am very sorry, but my judgement on such a matter is not worth having. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Louis S. Davinson, Bimingham Rectory, North Walsham, Norfolk, England. 30022March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Davis: That’s fine! I thank you, and appreciate your note. Sincerely yours, Mr. G.G. Davis, Apt. 408, Dumbarton Court, Wahington, D.C. March 3rd, 1917. Dear Dr. Fordyce: I thank you for your courtesy in sending me the book, but my dear sir, you must excuse me from making any comment. During the year I receive literally thousands of similar requests. It is a physical impossibility to comply with them, and of course I cannot do it one case without creating a precedent. Sincerely yours, Dr. Claude P. Fordyce, Falls City, Nebr. 30024March 3rd, 1917. My dear Miss Goddard: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to acknowledge with thanks your courteous letter of February 27th, and to assure you of his appreciation of the song. Sincerely yours, Miss Marion G. Goddard, 24 Illinois Avenue, Somerville, Mass. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Hagerman: I am really very much obliged for your note of February 27th, and appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Mr. R. E. Hagerman, Nevada, Ohio. 30026March 3rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Hibben: I have today sent a note to Comte Ferri Pisani, asking him to call at the Metropolitan Magazine office, next Thursday at 11:30, to see Colonel Roosevelt. Sincerely yours, Mr. Paxton Hibben, c/o Princeton Club, 121 East 21st Street, New York. March 3rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Houchins: Your letter of February 23rd, to Colonel Roosevelt, is received. I suggest that you procure a copy of Colonel Roosevelt’s Autobiography. In view of your letter, I am sure you will find it extremely interesting. Sincerely yours, Mr. J.F. Houchins, Randsburg, Calif. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Husted: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter of February 24th, and suggests that you communicate with the War and Navy Department in Washington. Sincerely yours, Mr. C.H. Husted, 1039-41 South 17th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. March 3rd, 1917. Gentlemen: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter, and directs me to send an acknowledgment, and to tell you how much he admires your patriotic spirit. He is sorry, however, that he is unable to comply with your request for equipment, as he has nothing on hand that he could send you. Sincerely yours, Gen. Alfred Kohl, Brig. Gen. Bruce Winter, Col Gordon Biddle, Col. Gerald Fincke, 405 West Avenue, Jenkintown, Pa. March 3rd, 1917. Gentlemen: I thank you for your kind invitation of February 26th, and greatly regret it is not possible for me to speak as you desire. But as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours. Mr. F.D. Mitchel, Mr. G.H. Jantz, 4106 Woolworth Bldg., New York. March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Muir: I thank you for your letter of February 24th from Cleveland, but my dear sir, I cannot possibly do more than I am now doing. Sincerely yours, Mr. R. D. Muir, Beechmont Park, New Rochelle, N. Y. 30032[*Myers*] March 3rd, 1917. My dear Sir: I am returning herewith the drawing enclosed with your letter of February 25th, and suggest that you take this matter up direct with the Government, as I have no influence whatever with the present Administration. Sincerely yours, Mr. I. W. Myers, Hampton, Iowa. 30033March 3rd, 1917. My dear Professor Myers: I am so sorry you are unable to come in town Wednesday next. We will wait until spring, and then I will have you come out to Sagamore Hill to lunch. Sincerely yours, Prof. Wm. Starr Myers, 15 Alexander Street, Princeton, N. J. 30034March 3rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Pach: I am sorry if you are under the impression that any photographs Mr. Hayes, or anyone else-with the exception of Miss Stricker, who has asked for two pictures since November last-may have procured from you, that you were conferring a faver upon me. I have rebuked Mr Hayes most emphatically. I am very much surprised that anyone, aside from my active Secretary, should, by inference of any other way, suggest to you that you were doing me a favor in supplying any demands they make upon you. I want to take this occasion to add that I will be glad to autograph photographs for you any time you send them down with the full data as for whom they are intended. This, of course, is the only way that I can consistenly autograph photographs. Appreciating your courtsey always, Sincerely yours, Mr. G. Pach, 580 Fifth Avenue, New York. 30035March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Selden: There is no use in my answering Mr. Jordan on that one point. He is merely lying about me, and I don’t mind his doing that. What I mind in his ceaseless effort to debauch the country. I trust you see my writings, in which I [try to] express myself so clearly that no one can mistake my position, except wilfully. Sincerely yours, Mr. A. A. Selden, General Delivery, Seattle, Wash. 30036March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Stevens: Colonel Roosevelt has directed me to acknowledge with thanks your letter of Sunday last. Sincerely yours, Mr. L. M. Stevens, c/o Babcock Paper Mfg. Co., Otsego, Mich. 30037March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Stewart: Colonel Roosevelt has received your letter of February 26th, and directs me to send you this line of acknowledgment and thanks. Sincerely yours, Mr. C. W. Stewart, 1314 Hartford Bldg., Chicago, Ills. 30038March 3rd, 1917. Dear Mr. Stocker: Colonel Roosevelt thanks you for your very kind message, but he is not able to do any amount of work. He is only beginning to sit up. Sincerely yours, Secretary. Mr. Allison Stocker, Denver, Colo. [?]28March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Thomas: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. L. J. Thomas, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 30039March 3rd, 1917. My dear Miss Thomas: I am very sorry, but I am absolutely unable to give you any information in that matter. With regret, Sincerely yours, Miss Margaret M. Thomas, Poplar Street. Harrodsburg, Ky. 30040March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Troy: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. J. H. Troy, Pres., Y. M. C. A. New Rochelle, N. Y. 30041March 3rd, 1917. My dear Miss Turle: Your letter without date, to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and in reply I beg to inform you that during the year literally thousands of similar requests are received by Colonel Roosevelt. Under the circumstances, you will realize of course how impossible it would be to supply the demand. However, if you care to order a photograph, and have it sent here, Pach Brothers of 570 Fifth Avenue, New York, will gladly take care of your order, send it down here for autograph, and then send it on to you. Sincerely yours, Miss Penelope Turle, Pembroke East, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 30042March 3rd, 1917. My dear Mr. Wagner: Your letter of February 28th to Colonel Roosevelt, is received, and for your information, I am sending you herewith a copy of his speeches made during the 1916 campaign. You will probably gather from these the information you desire. Sincerely yours, Mr. Roy E. Wagner, c/o Safford’s Business College, 147 West High Street, New Philadelphia, Ohio. 5:30 XXX March 3rd, 1917. Dear Dr. Worcester: I appreciate your courtesy in sending me a copy of your sermon, and my dear sir, I am beginning to be very proud of the way that clergymen of the United States are waking to the needs of this nation. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Rev. Elwood Worchester, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. [*Abbott*] March 5th, 1917. Dear Lawrence: That's a capital editorial of yours on the Columbia Treaty, and a characteristically mean and improper one from The Independent. I wrote a line about poor Mr. [Howell] Howland. He was a good, and kindly fellow, and I am sorry for his death. Of course, your account of my connection with The Outlook is absolutely correct, and I summerize it below. It was your father and you yourself who personally brought my attention the idea of my joining The Outlook as a Contributing Editor. This was in the White House at the beginning of the year 1906. I spoke of it again with your father that summer and in the following year. But I came to no definite decision until in the spring, or early summer of 1908, when your father came to see me at Sagamore Hill, and I agreed definitely to go in with you on practically the basis upon which afterwards I did go in. Up to that time, Mr. [Howell] Howland had taken no part in the conferences, nor, so far as I can recollect, had I hear from him in the matter. But you and your father [took] brought him down to be present at the final formal meeting, whe[re]n we exchanged letters of memorandum. It was your father who was [a] the decisive factor in getting me to accept.2 I might have accepted your request alone; but I have a peculiar feeling for your father. I regard him, and have long regarded him, as a man who in a way stands entirely apart from all others in our national life, and, if the expression does not seem exaggerated, my regard for him has in it a little of that feeling of reverence, which is perhaps the finest feeling an old man can inspire in younger men-even when these younger men have, like myself, become old men! I feel honored [was glad] to be associated with him-and I was also very glad to be associated with the rest of you! Faithfully yours, Mr. Lawrence Abbott, The Outlook 381 Fourth Ave., New York.March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Barcas: I am very sorry, but it is impossible for me to comply with your request. You have no conception of the demands made upon my time. With regret, Sincerely yours, 404 Fourth Avenue, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Professor Barrell: I was greatly interested in both pamphlets. Permit me to say that it is refereshing to find a man who does not generalize from insufficient data, but who yet recognizes that some generalization, some type of general deduction from observed and accumulated data, is essential, if American scientific work is every to rise above the mere collecting of bricks in wheelbarrows. May I make one suggestion? In Africa I actually saw certain monkeys apparently in the state of becoming terrestrial, instead of arboreal, creatures. One of these species I met only on open plains, with very thin thorn-tree forest scattered over them. They galloped off like hare, or foxes, whenever they saw us approaching; and we obtained only one or two specimens. The other I had found purely arboreal, in the dense wet mountain forests but to my utter astonishment, I also found it along the White Nile, on plains with [of] thinly scattered thorn trees; and although it took to the trees at times, its normal method of trying to escape was by [trying to run away] running away on the ground. Sincerely yours, Prof. Joseph W. barrell, Yale University Museum, New Haven, Conn.March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Beede: Your letter of March 3rd is received. I am very sorry, but I am absolutely powerless in that matter. Sincerely yours, Mr. L.J. Beede, 1096 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Mich. 3801 March 5th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Bisgard: I do not think that is of enough general interest to warrant my answer. Sincerely yours, Mrs. James Bisgard, 407 Durant St., Harlan, Iowa. 1836 March 5th, 1917. My dear Judge Campbell: Is the enclosed all right? Sincerely yours, Judge Richard Campbell, c/o Hotel Seville, 29th St. & Mad. Ave., New York. 6104 March 5th, 1917. My dear Judge Clark: Judge Richard Campbell desires to be admitted to the Bar of New York State. I know Judge Campbell well, and can vouch unqualifiedly for him. He was appointed by me as Assistant in the Department of Justice in the Philippine Islands, in August, 1902, and has risen since, through the various grades, to the Bench of the First Instance. I have had the highest reports of him, and I can personally vouch for his loyalty and disinterestedness, and unrighteousness. Sincerely yours,March 5th, 1917. Dear Mr. Conick: It gives me real pleasure to send the enclosed. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles E. Conick, c/o District Attorney’s office, Brooklyn, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Creighton: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. John B. Creighton, Ex. Secy., Brooklyn Civic Club, 127 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Crosman: That’s very kind of you. I thank you, and appreciate your courtesy; I am very sorry I am unable to accept your invitation. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. F.E. Crosman, 128 West 46th Street, New York City. March 5th, 1917. My dear Congressman Gardner: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the mollycoddles and reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Augustus P. Gardner, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Congressman Hicks: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Frederick C. Hicks, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Congressman James: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. W. Frank James, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Senator Johnson: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Hiram W. Johnson, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Senator Kellogg: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries and mollycoddles generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Congressman Lenroot This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries and mollycoddles generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Irvine L. Lenroot, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Cabot: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the mollycoddles generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. H.C. Lodge, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Medill: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Medill McCormick, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Senator Poindexter: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Miles Poindexter, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Congressmen Temple: This will introduce to you, Mr. Porter Emerson Brown of McClure’s Magazine. If you have not seen some of his articles on the pacifists, and on the reactionaries generally, you certainly ought to see them. I beg of you, as a personal courtesy, that you give him all the aid possible. He is a close friend of mine, absolutely trustworthy, and an American of the best type. Sincerely yours, Hon. Henry W. Temple, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Agee: I thank you for your letter of February 27th, and appreciate it; but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. J.H. Agee, Superior, Nebraska. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Coburn: Your letter of February 28th, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for photograph, is received. During the year thousands of similar requests are received, and I am sure you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to supply the demand. However, Pach Brothers, 570 Fifth Avenue, have a very good plate, and if you will place your order with them, with instructions to have it sent to the Metropolitan Magazine office, Colonel Roosevelt will be very glad to autograph it for you, and they will see that it is sent on to you. Sincerely yours, Mr. Chelsea E. Coburn, Muskogee, Okla. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Coles: I am just in receipt of a confirmation of reservations for Punta Gorda. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad have reserved lower No. 12 for you, to be taken at Richmond, Virginia, and lower No. 12 in car “FM” train 83, leaving Jacksonville at 9:30 P.M. on March 24th, for Punta Gorda. Drawing Room “A” has been reserved for me in both coaches for the trip. With hearty good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Russell J. Coles, Danville, Va. Corrected Copy for File. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Coles: I am just in receipt of a confirmation of reservations for Punta Gorda. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad have reserved lower No. 12 for you, to be taken at Richmond, Virginia, and lower No. 12 in car “FM” train 83, leaving Jacksonville at 9:30 P.M. on March 24th, for Punta Gorda. Drawing Room “A” has been reserved for me in both coaches for the trip. I leave New York at 2:12 P.M. March 23rd, as by your directions. With hearty good wishes, Sincerely yours, Mr. Russell J. Coles, Danville, Va. Shall I bring that harpoon, with both the dummy head and the real head? March 5th, 1917. My dear Sir: I am very sorry, but it is utterly impossible for me to do as you request. You have no idea of the multitude of similar requests I receive. I have no method whatever of placing articles. I am returning your manuscript. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. W.M. Colles, The Authors’ Syndicate, Ltd., 3-7 Southampton Street, Strand, W.C, England. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Davidson: I am very sorry, but I have no information whatever on the matter about which you write. Sincerely yours, Mr. Clifford E. Davidson, Franklin, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. Dear Desmond: This is from my nephew, Hall Roosevelt. I am not prepared to say what position he is fitted for; but he is a thoroughly good man with much power of handling men, and has had considerable experience as an engineer in Alaska, and in Schenectady. Would you be willing to get in touch with him? Sincerely yours, Mr. T.C. Desmond, 110 West 34th Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Dr. Dickey: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and I thank you for it. Sincerely yours, Dr. R.W. Dickey, Massillon, Ohio.March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Dickinson: I have applied for leave to raise a division in the event of war. Under the circumstances, ??? it is certain that we are not going to war, I feel that it is very doubtful whether I ought to speak although my own view of the intolerable condition of affairs is as keen as that which you so admirably express. However, it does seem to me that I have about covered all that ought to be said now by what I said during the two and half years prior to February 1st. Sincerely yours, Mr. John W. Dickinson, 542 Fifth Avenue, New York City. March 5th, 1917. My dear Dr. Dumm: That’s a capital sermon of yours, and a capital letter. I agree with you with all my heart, and as an American, I thank you. Sincerely yours, Rev. B. Alfred Dumm, Congregational Church, Plymouth, N.H. [*Emerson*] COPY FOR FILE March 5th, 1917. To the University of Buffalo, My dear Mr. Emerson, I wish I could accept the invitation of the University Club to attend the dinner given to the members of the National Guard from Buffalo who have returned from service on the border; but unfortunately it is impossible I would greatly like to join with you in expressing hearty admiration and respect for the patriotism and self-sacrifice of the men who have rendered this service; and still more would I like to express my empathetic disapproval of the unpatriotic and inefficient system which rendered it necessary for these few individuals at immense personal cost to do the work which by rights was the work on the whole country. The system is utterly unjust to the private individual, and utterly inefficient from the standpoint of the nation as a whole. What we most need in this country at present is the immediate enactment into law, as our permanent policy, of the system of universal obligatory military training of all our young men in time of peace and universal obligatory service in time of war by every man and woman in the land in whatever place he or she is deemed best able to render such service. Sincerely yours, Mr. E.D. Emerson, Pres. University Club of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. 30055 March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Everson: That’s mighty nice of you. I thank you, and appreciate your letter. Sincerely yours. Mr. Chas. W. Everson, 88 Chambers Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Farnham: Just at present it is out of the question for me to promise to come, or even to consider coming. My dear sir, don't ask me to write a letter. I gave you the best letter I could write for your other meeting. One of the great troubles in our American life-and I mean this literally- is that instead of [writing] being content with one good letter or speech, even our best people want public men to make scores of second rate speeches, or write scores of second rate letters. Take Lincoln's famous letter to Mrs. Bixby, who had lost her five sons in battle. It was a classic, but if he had then tried to write other letters to all the other women just as heartbroken, and just as sorrowing as Mrs. Bixby, who had lost their sons, he would have done no good; [and] he would have destroyed the usefulness of his first letter, and would have tended to make himself and the cause, slightly ridiculous. This is exactly as true as regards the different speeches or addresses he made. Nothing but damage comes from the incessant demand on public men to write different letters to different people all the time, [although] on the same subject, or on [a] similar subjects. From [advocaters] advocates of the boy scout movement and Y.M.C.A. movement, up to [advocaters] advocates of military service, and the performance of international duty, I have one incessant stream of demands for 30057 2 these letters. Nothing but damage would come by my yielding to these demands. For example, if the letter I wrote to you is worth anything, it is worth too much to have it cheapened by my writing numerous other letters of the same kind. It wouldn’t do you any good, and it would do the cause harm; for it would impair my ability to serve the cause. Now, my dear Mr. Farnham, I write you this fully, because I believe in you and in what you are attempting to do. Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles W. Farnham, Merchants National Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Fisher: I hate to have to write you as I must, but it is not possible for me to write such an introduction. I thoroughly enjoyed the one or two occasions when it was my good fortune to meet your brother, but my acquaintance was not such as to warrant my doing as you request. Wirth regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Robert C. Fisher, 140 West 71st Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. Dear Mr. Gardner: I wish I could come, but it is a physical impossibility. If I accept your invitation to speak, I should have to speak at scores of other places, where I have refused, and above all, I would have to speak in both Chicago and Minneapolis, and it is even more important to speak in the west than in the east. Moreover, just at this moment, we need much plainer speaking than I can give, having in view the fact that I have applied for a division, and that if war comes I do not believe that it would be either proper or expedient for me to be making speeches of the only kind I would be willing to make. I am helpless to get anyone else for you. As I said above, this is one of at least 200 applications that have been made upon me, [and I really think] It is more important [even] to speak in the west, than even in the east. Yet I can't and ought not to at this time speak even in the west. I hate to have to ans. this way. Sincerely yours, Mr. Halbert P. Gardner, 390 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. 30060March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Giovannoli: That’s capital. I appreciate your courtesy in sending me the clipping. Sincerely yours, Mr. H. Giovannoli, Lexington Leader, Lexington, Ky. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Goodsell: I thank you for your letter of March 1st, but my dear sir, I am now doing all that is in my power. Sincerely yours, Mr. P. Hamilton Goodsell, Tenacre, White Plains, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Hobbs: I thank you for your kind invitation, sent through General Wood, and I hate to have to refuse, but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. William H. Hobbs, 1705 Hill Street, Ann Arbor, Mich. March 5th, 1917. My dear President Hutchins: I thank you for your kind invitation, but my dear sir, as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. H.B. Hutchins, Pres., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. March 5th, 1917. My dear Key: I don’t wonder that you feel badly. So do I. It would be impossible to overstate the immense damage done to this country by President Wilson’s actions. He has a positive genius for letting the iron grow cold before striking. But by far the worse feature of it is that he debauches public sentiment until it finally becomes so timid and lazy as actually to approve the man who has debauched it. One month ago this country would have gone to war practically as a unit; but now, if we go to war at all, we shall drift in stern foremost. I wish I could see you. Sincerely yours, A.L. Key, Esq. Volunteer State Life Ins. Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Miller: I appreciate your letter; and of course at present I do not know what I shall be allowed to do, if anything. Sincerely yours, Mrs. John E. Miller, 546 West 124th Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Lenroot: Your letter gave me real pleasure, even though I do not agree with the details of the policy that you have attempted to outline. But you are the first man who has made a serious and understandable argument on your side of the case; an argument that can be properly advanced by a self-respecting and patriotic American, even though I do not personally agree with it. What you say is very interesting. I shall not try to go over the matter in full, but I do want to put a couple of ideas before you. In the first place I never wished to take part in the European war, until the sinking of the Lusitania and the other boats. I believe we could have taken effective action about Belgium in ways that would have been much short of war, but [it] which would have gone much beyond the mere severence[sic] of diplomatic relations, which [in] by itself means nothing, and accomplishes nothing. We could for instance have at once put economic pressure to bear on behalf of Belgium. When the Lusitania was sunk, however, the time had come for us to strike, and if the President had struck within the next 24 hours, this country would have been solidly behind 30066 -2- him, and there would have been none of that hesitation and division of which you speak. Therefore I think that you will find that all I have said in any way looking toward war, or action that would [possibly] probably bring on war, has been said with reference to wrongs committed by Germany upon us. But the one thing that is absolutely unbearable is to indulge in mushy talk about "protecting small nations in the future", and "standing for neutral rights' and [in] upholding the cause of [the world's] world-morality, and yet never [living] to live up to these grand/eloquent phrases in the present. It is sheer nauseous hypocricy[sic] for Wilson to prattle as he did about "leagues to enforce peace", and the "championing of neutral's rights", and everything of the kind [as to] in the future, and yet not dare to take one step about the infamies committed before his eyes in the present. I could not overstate the damage I think Wilson has done to the American people by the course he has followed. He has tended to make us hypocritical and cowardly-and I am sorry to say that the Republican Party, so far as its official action was concerned last year, conveyed the impression that it was mighty little better than Wilson. My own view is that the only way to awaken 30067-3- patriotism is by action [of] on a 100% basis. When Wilson is 93% wrong and we advocate a course that is only 89% wrong, I don't think that we arouse very wild enthusiasm. I believe in practical politics; I believe within proper limits in opportunism, but there are times when and cases [when and] as to which, it becomes worth while to hoist the black flag and fight for a [good] great ideal without giving or taking quarter. The last two and a half years have witnessed the greatest drama, the most supreme crisis in world history, for over a century. I know that [our] the cosmopolitan character of population rendered it necessary for a leader to have some courage, some nerve, but if we had had such a leader in power, a leader [however] utterly unlike the Wilson's and Taft's, a leader with something of Andrew Jackson in him. I believe the American people would have responded to his call. If this had been done, we would have [had] made a record [to review], greater than any [of our Presidents, and the people here coming- as you say-from cosmopolitan sources, would have felt not that] we had established in the past. This would have unified all our people, no matter how cosmopolitan their origin. It would have made them all intensely American [?????] an electric shock. Hereafter they could have thought what they had done for the flag, not what the ancestors of somebody else had done for it. Thereafter, on the fourth of July or Decoration Day, they would felt not that they were praising merely the founders and [savers] saviors of their adopted land, when they spoke of the great deeds [of] in the history of the United States, but that they themselves were the architects [to] of the honor and glory of the land; that they themselves stood as the men who had handed over a heritage of honor to all who 30068 4 were to come after us in the land. What a service to our nation that would have been! Faithfully. Hon. Irvine L. Lenroot, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Morse: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours. I thank you for it, and appreciate it. Sincerely yours, Mr. Stearne Morse, 112 East 40th Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Nicolson: I thank you for your very kind invitation of March 2nd, but as I have applied to the War Department for permission to raise a division, in the event of war, it seems to me advisable that I should not make any speeches or addresses at this time. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. John Nicolson, 32 Nassau Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Major: Your letter is interesting, and there are times when I sympathize with the views that you express in your last paragraph. When I was President, I could wake up the people to our naval needs, but I was, however, unable to wake them up to our military needs. The last two and a half years I have been doing my level best to wake them up to both needs! In great haste, Sincerely yours, Major John H. Parker, Columbus, New Mexico. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Parker: I thank you for your courtesy in sending your poem to me, but my dear sir, I am unable to make any comments on it. You have no idea of the multitude of similar requests I receive during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Harris Parker, 401 Convent Avenue, New York City. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Parker: I thank you for your courtesy in sending your poem to me, but my dear sir, I am unable to make any comments on it. You have no idea of the multitude of similar requests I receive during the year. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Harris Parker, 401 Convent Avenue, New York City. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Rhule: That is both interesting and amusing. I thank you for sending me the clipping. Sincerely yours, Mr. George M. Rhule, 307 S. Front St., Philipsburg, Pa. March 5th, 1917. Dear Teddy: Look at the enclosed; that constabulary bill should, in this matter, be modeled exactly on the Pennsylvania basis. Of course politics must be kept out of it; but I don’t know enough about the civil service references to know if there advice is worth following! Affectionately, Hon. Theodore Douglas Robinson, Senate of the State of New York, Albany, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Sawyer: For two and a half years I have been endeavoring to head exactly that type of campaign, the campaign, as you phrase it, for pro-Americanism. Anything I have said, I have meant. I have nothing to take back; I only wish more people had followed me. Sincerely yours, Mr. William T. Sawyer, 280 No. Broad Street, Elizabeth, N.J. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Sigel: I wish I could help you, but there is absolutely no way in which I can. The boy’s Congressman or Senator is the only person, as far as I know, who can get him the appointment. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mr. Franze Sigel, 2nd, c/o Hotel McAlpin, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Silvernail: I thank you for your letter of March 2nd, and the amusing clipping enclosed. Sincerely yours, Mr. M.R. Silvernail, 33 Jay Street, Albany, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. My dear Dr. Taylor: Alas, it looks too much as if the United States could be terrorized by far less formidable foes than the Japanese! I am entirely unable to explain our attitude for some years on any other basis. Please treat this letter as Private. With many thanks, Sincerely yours, Dr. Wilfred Taylor, Thompson, Conn. March 5th, 1917. Dear Mrs. Vanamee: That’s a very nice letter of yours of March 1st. I thank you, and appreciate your particle spirit. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Grace D. Vanamee, 522 West 147th Street, New York. March 5th, 1917. My dear Professor Van Tyne: I thank you for your very courteous letter of February 28th. I am sorry that I am unable to accept your kind invitation, but as things are now, I dare not make an engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Prof. C.H. Van Tyne, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Ward: Your letter of March 1st, addressed to Colonel Roosevelt, asking for photograph, is received. During the year, literally thousands of similar requests are received, and I am sure you will realize how utterly impossible it would be for him to supply the demand. However, Pach Brothers, Photographers, 570 Fifth Avenue, have a very good plate, and if you care to place an order with them, they will see that it is forwarded to the Metropolitan Magazine office for Colonel Roosevelt’s autograph, and then send it on to you, Sincerely yours, Mr. George J. Ward, N.Y. Military Academy, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Weller: That’s a mighty nice letter of yours, and I am sorry I cannot help you. I know nothing beyond the fact that I was interested in seeing the clover on those uplands almost under the equator. I am surprised that the Department of Agriculture cannot help you. With hearty thanks, Sincerely yours, Mr. Charles S. Weller, Mitchell, S.D. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mr. Whitted: I thank you for your courteous letter of February 28th. I am sorry, however, that I am unable to give you any information with reference to the matter of which you write. Sincerely yours, Mr. Ivanhoe Whitted, Department of Agriculture, Des Moines, Iowa. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Wyeth: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Eva. Wyeth, 604 West 125th Street, New York City. March 5th, 1917. My dear Mrs. Wyeth: I regret I must refuse your kind invitation. Since election I have received in the neighborhood of 400 requests for speeches, and many of them I am sorry to have to refuse. I am simply overwhelmed with work just now, and it is a physical impossibility for me to make another engagement of any kind or sort. With regret, Sincerely yours, Mrs. Eva. Wyeth, 604 West 125th Street, New York City.