THEODORE ROOSEVELT
                    A REGISTER OF THE ADDENDA TO HIS PAPERS
                          IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                                  Prepared by
             Allan Teichroew and Wilhelmena B. Curry, 1979, 1980;
                           and David Mathisen, 1983

                            Revised and expanded by
                              Nan Thompson Ernst

                              Manuscript Division
                              Library of Congress

                            Washington, D.C.  1997



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                          ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION


      The Addenda to the papers of Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919),
author, civil service commissioner, governor of New York,
president of the United States, and conservationist, consist of
material received by the Library of Congress from 1964 to 1997
through gift and purchase from various sources, including
Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr., a grandson of the president, and his
wife Selwa Roosevelt. 

      Some illustrations and photographs have been transferred to
the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
where they are identified as part of these papers.

      The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of
Theodore Roosevelt is governed by the Copyright Law of the United
States (Title 17, U.S.C.).


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                   Linear feet of shelf space occupied:   1
                   Approximate number of items:         625



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                               BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE


1858, Oct. 27    Born, New York, N.Y.

1880             B.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
                 Married Alice Hathaway Lee (died 1884)

1882-1884        Member, New York State Assembly

1882             Published _The Naval War of 1812_ (New York: Putnam. 
                    498 pp.)

1886             Married Edith Kermit Carow
                 Published _Hunting Trips of a Ranchman_ (New York and
                    London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.  347 pp.)

1887             Published _Life of Thomas Hart Benton_ (Boston and New York:
                    Houghton, Mifflin and Co.  372 pp.)

1888             Published _Gouverneur Morris_ (Boston and New York:
                    Houghton, Mifflin and Co.  370 pp.)
                 Published _Essays on Practical Politics_ (New York and
                    London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.  74 pp.) 

1889-1895        Commissioner, United States Civil Service 

1889-1896        Published _The Winning of the West_ (New York: G. P.
                    Putnam's Sons.  4 vols.)

1891             Published _New York_ (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.    
                    232 pp.)

1893             Published _The Wilderness Hunter_ (New York and London: G.
                    P. Putnam's Sons.  472 pp.) 

1895             President, Board of Police Commissioners, New York, N.Y.

1897             Assistant secretary of the navy
                 Published _American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and
                    Political_ (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.    
                    354 pp.) 

1898             Organized First Regiment United States Volunteer Cavalry,
                    known as "Roosevelt's Rough Riders," and commissioned  
                    lieutenant colonel

1899             Published _Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Great
                    Plains_ (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.  476 pp.) 
1899             Published _The Rough Riders_ (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 
                    298 pp.)

1899-1901        Governor of New York

1900             Published _Oliver Cromwell_ (New York: C. Scribner's Sons. 
                    260 pp.)

1901             Inaugurated vice president of the United States
                 Published _The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses_ (New
                    York: Century Co.  225 pp.)

1901-1909        President of the United States

1905             Published _Outdoor Pastimes of An American Hunter_ (New
                    York: C. Scribner's Sons.  369 pp.)

1906             Nobel Prize for Peace for mediating end of Russo-Japanese
                    War
                 Published _A Square Deal_ (Allendale, N.J.: Allendale Press. 
                    206 pp.)

1909             Published _Hunting the Grizzly and Other Sketches_ (New York
                    and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons.  247 pp.) 

1910             African expedition of big game hunting and scientific
                    exploration for the Smithsonian Institution
                 Published _African Game Trails, An Account of the African
                    Wanderings of An American Hunter-Naturalist_ (New York:  
                    C. Scribner's Sons.  529 pp.)
                 Published _The New Nationalism_ (New York: The Outlook Co.   
                     268 pp.)

1912             Organized Progressive "Bull Moose" Party; nominated as
                    presidential candidate
                 President, American Historical Association

1913             Headed exploring party to South America
                 Published _Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography_ (New York:
                    Macmillan.  615 pp.)

1914             Published _Through the Brazilian Wilderness_ (New York:     
                    C. Scribner's Sons.  383 pp.)

1914-1918        Writer and lecturer on World War I

1919, Jan. 6     Died, Oyster Bay, N.Y.



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                            SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE


      The Addenda to the Theodore Roosevelt Papers span the years 1760-1993
and are organized as Series 16 of the collection.  Subseries are arranged
according to the year each addition was processed.  None of the material in
the Addenda is included in the Library's microfilm edition of the Roosevelt
Papers.

      Material in the 1979-1983 Addition spans the years from 1760 to 1930,
with the bulk concentrated in the period 1892-1930.  It consists of family
papers, general correspondence, speeches and writings, and subject files.  The
largest group is the Roosevelt family file containing letters and memorabilia
of Roosevelt's sons Archibald and Quentin and other members of the Roosevelt
family.  From 1906 to 1916, Roosevelt regularly wrote to Archibald, and those
letters dominate this part of the addition.  Some sparse correspondence of
Mrs. Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, and Kate Shippen
Roosevelt is included in the family papers.

      General correspondence in the 1979-1983 Addition includes both originals
and reproductions with the greater part consisting of photoreproductions of
Roosevelt's letters to William W. Sewell.  The speeches and writings file
contains first, final, and annotated drafts of talks and articles.  Among the
topics covered are democratic ideals discussed in a speech given before South
American audiences, judicial recall, and a report of Roosevelt's prewar tour
of the Middle East and Europe.

      The subject file in the 1979-1983 Addition includes a complete set of
minutes of a meeting in Chicago on 12 February 1912 at which Roosevelt was
boosted as a Republican presidential hopeful.  Complementing this item is the
annotated text of a Bull Moose speech at Madison Square Garden in New York
City later that year.  An eyewitness report by O. K. Davis describes an
assassination attempt on Roosevelt's life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1912.

      The 1997 Addition includes material spanning the years 1891-1993, with
the bulk of the material dated 1891-1917.  It is arranged alphabetically by
subject.  The Civil Service Commission file includes undated typewritten
drafts of speeches, writings, and statements with Roosevelt's handwritten
emendations; typewritten copies of outgoing letters, memoranda, and reports,
1891-1894; and material about Roosevelt compiled by the Information Division
of the commission, 1910-1949.  General correspondence includes one original
letter dated 1895 from Roosevelt as New York City police commissioner and a
photoreproduction of a letter dated 1910 from Roosevelt in his office at _The
Outlook_ magazine.  The Tom A. Raikes file includes a letter to Raikes from
Roosevelt, 1912, and his collected newspaper accounts from 1910 of Roosevelt's
speeches in London concerning British rule in Africa.  The John Willis file
includes photoreproductions of letters from Roosevelt, 1909-1917, and material
dated 1988-1993 about Willis as Roosevelt's hunting guide in Montana and
friend.


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                                CONTAINER LIST



Container Nos.   _Contents

SERIES 16, ADDENDA, 1760-1993, n.d.

Box 1            1979-1983 Addition
                    Family papers, 1760-1930, n.d.
                       Correspondence
                          Roosevelt, Archibald B. (1894-1979), 1902-1916
                          Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius Van Schaack, 1845
                          Roosevelt, Dorothy, 1903-1915
                          Roosevelt, Edith Kermit, 1919, n.d.
                          Roosevelt, Kate Shippen, 1887-1924
                          Roosevelt, Quentin, 1906
                          Roosevelt, Theodore (1831-1878, father), 1861-1867 
                          Roosevelt, Theodore (1887-1944, son), 1928 
                       Miscellany
                          Autograph book, Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr. and
                             Sr., 1893-1929
                          Bullard, Archibald S., statements, 1760-1817
                          Printed matter, 1908-1930, n.d.
                          Roosevelt, Edith (?), "Kings in Rhyme," n.d.
                          Roosevelt cabin, North Dakota, 1924
                    General correspondence, 1879-1926, n.d.
                       Originals, A-Z, 1884-1917, n.d.
                       Reproductions
                          Sewell, William W., 1879-1926, n.d. (2 folders)
                          Miscellaneous A-Z, 1892-1918

Box 2               Speeches and writings, 1911-1912, n.d.
                       Account of trip to Europe, addressed to George
                          Trevelyan, 1911
                       Alaskan natives
                       "Democratic Ideals," Buenos Aires, Argentina
                       "The Democratic Movement in a Republic," Santiago,
                          Chile
                       Essay on industry and labor
                       Judicial recall (fragment) 
                       On the need for social justice in the United States
                       Progressive campaign speech, Madison Square Garden,
                          New York, N.Y., 1912
                       Unidentified and incomplete
                    Subject File, 1912
                       Davis, O. K., eyewitness report of assassination
                          attempt, Milwaukee, Wis., 1912
                       Minutes of meeting held at the Congress Hotel,
                          Chicago, 10 Feb. 1912
                       Miscellany

Box 3            1997 Addition
                    Civil Service Commission file, 1891-1949
                       Letters, 1891-1894
                       Material about Roosevelt and miscellany, 1925-1949
                       Speeches, writings, statements, n.d.
                    General correspondence, 1895, 1910
                    Raikes, Tom A., 1910-1912
                    Willis, John, 1909-1917, 1988-1993


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