Manuscripts

Ranch life in the far west :

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Description: Manuscript draft with autograph edits of chapter one, "The Cattle Country of the Far West" and chapter two, "Out on the Range," of Roosevelt's Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (New York: The Century Company, 1888). Chapter two begins on page 17. Item has been bound in leather with the title page Theodore Roosevelt Original Manuscript Ranch Life in the Far West. Signed by Roosevelt in pencil.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1888.
Call number: mssHM 6012
Creator: Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Baker, 1918.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Life of Gouverneur Morris :

Manuscripts

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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Gettysburg and Waterloo :

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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, White House, Washington, D.C., letter to David Pell Secor, Bridgeport, Connecticut :

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Roosevelt thanks Secor for his letter and is glad he likes his book Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, praises Frederic Remington's illustrations for the book.

mssHM 2104

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The common sense of civil service reform :

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Open letter to the editor of Century Magazine written while Roosevelt was a commissioner on the U.S. Civil Service Commission in Washington, D.C. and signed by him. He discusses federal appointments during the Benjamin Harrison administration, in particular those of Southern white Democrats and Black Republicans; he also highlights the benefits of the civil service reform law for the government and for employees and contrasts them with the old patronage system. The letter is bound in a leather volume and includes a title page and portrait of Roosevelt. Written on United States Civil Service Commission letterhead. Published in Century Magazine, May 1894.

mssHM 6011

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Theodore Roosevelt correspondence with William M. Van der Weyde concerning Thomas Paine

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Volume contains correspondence between Theodore Roosevelt and William M. Van der Weyde regarding Roosevelt's reference to Thomas Paine as a "filthy little atheist" in his publication Gouverneur Morris (1888). Roosevelt alleged his description of Paine was partly based on a quote from statesman Gouverneur Morris's journal. The letters discuss the origin of the Morris quote and histories of Paine by authors Jared Sparks and Moncure Daniel Conway. Roosevelt expounds upon the definitions of "atheist" and "deist" in several letters. The final Roosevelt letter is sent by his secretary on his behalf (1918 September 4, mssHM 6026). Roosevelt's letters to Van der Weyde are all signed typescripts; most contain autograph edits. In addition, the volume contains typescript and facsimile copies of a letter from Roosevelt to "Mr. Hartmann," 1917 October 23 (FAC 50). Van der Weyde's letters are typescript signed copies. An introduction to the correspondence by Van der Weyde and images of Paine, Morris, Roosevelt, Van der Weyde, and others are also present in the volume. Two images are original photographs of Roosevelt, one a portrait and the other at his desk, taken by Van der Weyde and signed by him (undated). Items were bound together by Van Der Weyde for preservation purposes; title on binding is "Roosevelt - Van der Weyde Correspondnce concerning Thomas Paine." Volume contains five Theodore Roosevelt typescript letters signed dated: 1918 April 4 (mssHM 6015), 1918 April 19 (mssHM 6016), 1918 July 1 (mssHM 6019), 1918 July 9 (mssHM 6021), and 1918 August 21 (mssHM 6024).

mssHM 6014-6026

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Theodore Roosevelt, New York, letter to Walter J. Ballard, Los Angeles :

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Roosevelt thanks Ballard for his letter. Written on letterhead for The Outlook magazine, Office of Theodore Roosevelt. Includes addressed envelope.

mssHM 13401

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