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Description: Printed proofs for Roosevelt's magazine article have been mounted and bound in a volume; they contain autograph edits and additions by Roosevelt and his signature. Volume also contains a copy of a portrait of Roosevelt. Article published in Century Magazine, November 1, 1886.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880.
Call number: mssHM 6010
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of May 1932.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Gettysburg and Waterloo :

Manuscripts

Manuscript draft of Roosevelt's article with autograph edits, signed by Roosevelt with "Sagamore Hill, June 1889" added. Item has been bound in leather and includes a handwritten title page. Published in Century Magazine, June 1, 1891.

mssHM 6013

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Theodore Roosevelt, Albany, New York, letter to Hamilton Holt, New York City :

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Roosevelt states that he cannot write an article for Holt's Fourth of July issue of The Independent magazine. Written on State of New York Executive Chamber letterhead.

mssHM 23534

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Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letter to James Wilton Brooks, New York :

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Roosevelt thanks Brooks for his response to his letter, referring to Roosevelt's request for Brooks' support for his nomination for Speaker of the New York State Assembly (1882 December 12, mssHM 23521), and states that he appreciates Brooks' desire to not commit himself. Includes addressed envelope; items are mounted.

mssHM 23522

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Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letters to Walter W. Strong

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Seven typescript letters signed and one autograph letter signed (1916 November 13); some typescripts have autograph edits. Letters are addressed to Walter W. Strong, mostly in Chicago, who is referred to in one as Chairman, Progressive County Central Committee of Du Page County (Illinois). The letters concern Progressive Party politics and the 1912 platform, Roosevelt's opinions on being an American and on William Jennings Bryan, who he refers to as "a good-hearted man of precisely the temperament best fitted to make a success as 'barker' for patent medicine" (1916 December 15). Some are written on letterhead for The Outlook magazine or Metropolitan magazine; most letters have addressed envelopes. Dates of letters: 1911 May 11, 1912 November 22, 1913 January 30, 1915 December 31, 1916 April 15, 1916 November 13, 1916 December 15, 1917 January 26.

mssHM 48507 (1-8)

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Life of Gouverneur Morris :

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Draft of Roosevelt's publication Life of Gouverneur Morris (1888) with autograph edits. Incomplete; draft begins in Chapter VI: The Formation of the National Constitution and continues to the end of the manuscript. Pages have been inserted into paper mounts and bound into three volumes. Each volume has a portrait of Roosevelt; the photograph of him wearing a military uniform in volume one is signed.

mssHM 6287

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Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letter to Russell Benedict, New York :

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Roosevelt writes that he cannot accept Benedict's invitation to speak, presumably at a Society of Mayflower Descendants event. Written on letterhead for The Outlook magazine, Office of Theodore Roosevelt.

mssHM 23540

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