ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Jacob Riis, Camp Wikoff, Montauk, 9 September 1898. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper, slight soiling along edge , WITH 17-WORD POSTSCRIPT IN ROOSEVELT'S HAND. "DEATH TO GRIZZLY-BEAR CUBS!" ROOSEVELT WISHES THE FAMED REFORMER LUCK ON AN BEAR HUNT A stirring association that not only draws together two giants of the American Progress-reform tradition, but also mentions a Spanish-American War parade and highlights TR's red-tooth'd and claw passion for hunting. In the typed portion of this letter, Roosevelt declines Riis's offer to read the proof of his latest work, saying "I don't want to see anything you write until it is published, for I know that it is sure to be exactly what it should be." Then he turns to "the parade: We are not yet mustered out but so very near to it that I don't see how it could be held in time. I haven't heard a word about it from my superior officers, who have the complete say-so." Then in a light-hearted autograph postscript he writes: "Good luck on your hunt! Death to Grizzly-bear cubs! Warm regards to Mrs. Riis." Roosevelt was two months from his charge up San Juan Hill (or Kettle Hill), and now, home to a hero's welcome, he was on the eve of entering the race for New York State governor, a contest he would narrowly win that November, and thus begin his trajectory to the White House. His relationship with Riis, however, dated back to 1890. Reading How the Other Half Lives was one of the crucial intellectual and political events of Roosevelt's life. The two men became political collaborators, with the immigrant reporter taking Police Commissioner Roosevelt on tours of Mulberry Street and other desolate pockets of poverty and want, and Roosevelt pledging to put his political heft behind needed reforms. Riis dedicated his 1902 work, The Battle of the Slum , to Roosevelt. It is the story, Riis wrote, of "some battles in which we fought back to back, and counted it the finest fun in the world." For Roosevelt, Riis was the ideal reformer: passionate but not dreamy and impractical, realistic without being cynical, a patriot and not a radical. The two men also shared a strong belief in the healing and invigorating powers of the wilderness. Riis sponsored "fresh air funds" to move children out of fetid slums and into the country air during the summer--and he liked a big-game hunt as much as Roosevelt. On Riis's death in 1914, Roosevelt called him "the staunchest, most efficient, friend the children of New York City have ever had" and "the ideal American citizen."
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt") to Jacob Riis, Camp Wikoff, Montauk, 9 September 1898. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper, slight soiling along edge , WITH 17-WORD POSTSCRIPT IN ROOSEVELT'S HAND. "DEATH TO GRIZZLY-BEAR CUBS!" ROOSEVELT WISHES THE FAMED REFORMER LUCK ON AN BEAR HUNT A stirring association that not only draws together two giants of the American Progress-reform tradition, but also mentions a Spanish-American War parade and highlights TR's red-tooth'd and claw passion for hunting. In the typed portion of this letter, Roosevelt declines Riis's offer to read the proof of his latest work, saying "I don't want to see anything you write until it is published, for I know that it is sure to be exactly what it should be." Then he turns to "the parade: We are not yet mustered out but so very near to it that I don't see how it could be held in time. I haven't heard a word about it from my superior officers, who have the complete say-so." Then in a light-hearted autograph postscript he writes: "Good luck on your hunt! Death to Grizzly-bear cubs! Warm regards to Mrs. Riis." Roosevelt was two months from his charge up San Juan Hill (or Kettle Hill), and now, home to a hero's welcome, he was on the eve of entering the race for New York State governor, a contest he would narrowly win that November, and thus begin his trajectory to the White House. His relationship with Riis, however, dated back to 1890. Reading How the Other Half Lives was one of the crucial intellectual and political events of Roosevelt's life. The two men became political collaborators, with the immigrant reporter taking Police Commissioner Roosevelt on tours of Mulberry Street and other desolate pockets of poverty and want, and Roosevelt pledging to put his political heft behind needed reforms. Riis dedicated his 1902 work, The Battle of the Slum , to Roosevelt. It is the story, Riis wrote, of "some battles in which we fought back to back, and counted it the finest fun in the world." For Roosevelt, Riis was the ideal reformer: passionate but not dreamy and impractical, realistic without being cynical, a patriot and not a radical. The two men also shared a strong belief in the healing and invigorating powers of the wilderness. Riis sponsored "fresh air funds" to move children out of fetid slums and into the country air during the summer--and he liked a big-game hunt as much as Roosevelt. On Riis's death in 1914, Roosevelt called him "the staunchest, most efficient, friend the children of New York City have ever had" and "the ideal American citizen."
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