New Britain herald., 1920-02-10
ROOSEVELT LETTER
 N0W PUBLISHED "LOngeSt' Narrative of This Sort
 He Ever Wrote

New York. Feb. 10-Colonel Roose- Nelts iongest letter." c5,ooo-word Shaptoum to I,endon hjI In tTaP Iaoa from rom which is described by his biographer Joseph Bucklin Bishop, as "a human document of exceptional character" appears as the first of two install- ments in the February issue of Scribner's Magazine, published today.
 'Soon after retiring from the pres idency, explains Mir Bishop, the colonel went to Africa on a hunting trip. He had arranged before his departure for several formal ad- dresses, which he was to make in Germany, England, France and Nor way on his return. When he reached khartoum in March, 1910, on his way home, he yielded to urgent appeals and made two addresses on Egyptian affairs, one at khartoum and the other at Cairo, which aroused much controversy and led later to d speech on the same subject, also by urgent request, at the Guildhall in London.
 Visits Rome.
 From khartoum he went to Rome, Vienna. Budapest, Paris, Brussels The Hague, Copenhagen, Christiania, Stockholm, Berlin and thence to Lon don. At the close of his tour he paid a long visit to his longtime corre- spondent and friend, Sir George Otto Trevelyan, at the latter's estate at Welcombe, Stratford- -on-Avon. Dur ing the visit his narrative of his ex- periences in Egypt and Europe so strongly impressed Sir George that he urged him most earnestly to put it in writing. This Roosevelt did the following year, in the form of let ter to Trevelyan, under date of De- tober 1, 1911"
 The former president. in the mis- comments upon the characterIstics and personalities of kings, emperors and other, eminent personages with whom he came in contact and in the opening paI0STapO requested that It should not be made public "until long after all of us who are now alive are pu publication, said: 1T do not hesitate to say that it should be published and the sooner the better. The world would be much the richer for 1t. The times are such that the human inter- est and solid value of this wonder full paper would be very great in deed now
 Explains British Rule.
 The cOlOnel drew an intimate pie ture of British rule in Egypt, praised 1t on the whole and declared that the task of posing the twentieth century upon the seventh was a mighty one which onlX a great and powerful nation could attempt and which it is high and honorable thing to have attempted" Nearly B. 900 words devoted to The Nati- can Incident and the reason Roose- welt was not presented to Pope Plus x. A certain Methodist clergyman in Rome had been conducting an attack upon the head of the Catholic church and when Vice President Fairbanks. som etinne before, visited the Holy City the Supreme Pontiff stipulated that he would not receive him in aud fence if he addressed Methodist gath erings Roosevelt took the same at titude as Fairbanks, that he must de- cline to submit to any conditions which in any way limit my freedom of conduct.'
 The colonel said in his letter to Sir George that of his volunteer sec retarieS at that time was anxious to prevent the Vatican from committing what he felt would be a great blum der and while the colonel was at Naples went to Rome to see the then papal secretary of state, Cardinal