New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-10-21

IldStubTn has secured Il Consluti uuie
amount of valuable memorabilia.
1t is the intention of the associa-
ton to give a public exhibition OF
Roosevelt material ia January in the
public library in New York city. A
permanent Roosevelt museum will be
established 10 hold the association
treasures.
There is in Washington a great
store OF ROoseveltiana. Nearly every
public man who was in Office during
Ro0sevel,'s administration has letters
written by the colonel, and many OF
these letters, it is understood, will
be given into the keeping OF the Me-
mortal association.
Recently | saw some of the most
valuable of the Roosevelt manu-
scripts. They are the property of
Rudolph Forster, executive clerk at
the White House, who served in yir-
tually. the same capacity all through
the Roosevelt administrations. 1t is
not probable that Mr.. Forster will
part with these manuscripts, although
they may be shown at the public ex-
hibitiOn in New York. | do not see
how Mr.. Forster can give them away,
even 10 n memorial association. for in
a real n they are dedicated to
him by the written word of Theodore
Roosevelt.
First Drafts Of Famous Addresses.
These manuscripts which Mr.. FOrs-
ter owns are the first drafts of the
Roosevelt addresses in Berlin, in Paris
and in oxford, addresses made when
he was on his return from the hunt
ing trip in Africa.
AT the top Of the first page of each
of the manuscripts, in a broad, black
linked hand, appears Rudolph Fors-
ter's name, and following it the col
onel wrote to the effect that the ad-
dresses by right belong ito you" Mr..
Forster took the addresses ut dicta-
ton and later took them To the col
onel for revision. The revised first
drafts are those which he has in his
possession. They are underlined.
crossed. re-crossed and sub-noted,
with alterations, additions and amend
ments, some Of them written with a
blunt lead pencil and some of them
In ink with a broad stub pen. Each
n bears the signature, Theodore
Roosevelt"
1t IA Rudolph Forster who took
at dictatlon most of Theodore ROOse-
velt's more intimate personal CORE
%spondence. His store of material is
a Roosevelt treasury.
If "A personal note is 10 be allowed.
| will say that ] have n Roosevelt
manuscript that is of high interest.
1t Is the original draft of the article
entitled: Roosevelt on the Nature
Fakers," which | wrot and which
appeared in "Everybody's Magazine"
some fifteen years ago.
The Mature Faker's" Story.
| spent three hours one evening In
the upstairs study In the White House
with President Roosevelt while he
talked to me about the iniquity OF
teaching school children Il false nat
ural history. He talked of solne of
the writer's of the day who said that
their writings were truths. and he
laid bare their ~falsehoods.
| took no notes but wrote the In
terview from memory the next day,
and | wrote a short introduction.
Then | took the manuscript to the
White House for the President TO
read. lie made few or no corrections
in 1t, but taking n blunt lead pencil
he added enough material TO increase
the length of the article about n
quarter.
have this original draft OF the
manuscript and IL Is n fearful and
looking affair. Ii is inter-
lined on nearly every one of its If
teen or sixteen pages. On the top of
page the President, from ONE
within or other, wrote his name with
the blunt lead pencil Of correction.
the end of the article he wrote:
Corrected and approved by Theo-
dore Roosevelt
/ have In my possession a long let
ter from Theodore Roosevelt which
| shall not give TO the exhibitors nor
yet present 10 the Memorial associ-
alton, for the time for the appear
OF such letters Is not yet. II
was written TO me, not In response
to any letter Of mine, but apparently
simply to give Colonel Roosevelt an
opportunity to say TO a friend what
he thought about certain conditions,
that of unpreparedness, dur
Ing the days when 1t was said that
as a people. were t proud 10