Advance proofs from Africa
Published: 1909
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Humor
Notes: Souvenir of a breakfast given to Theodore Roosevelt on March 13th, 1909 at 752 Park Avenue, New York, just before his departure for Africa.

Parodies written by William Irwin.

Loaned to the Theodore Roosevelt (then Roosevelt Memorial) Association by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, October 1923.

Deposited by the Theodore Roosevelt Estate, July 1943. Gift, 2019.

Robert J. Collier's own copy. Accompanied by a table chart (9 x 15 cm) of the 32 attendees of the breakfast, and a letter from Robert Collier to Howard Morton, March 30, 1909: ... "These little parodies of some of our best known magazines are the work of Wallace Irwin ... an edition of one hundred printed".

Lacks portfolio, piece no. 6 (Dainty hints for the African Hunters), piece no. 8 (Theodore, tracer of lost animals), and piece no. 15 (There'll be a hot time in the jungle to-night).

As issued, pieces laid into a portfolio with label mounted on cover "Advance Proofs from Africa" and plate inside "Breakfast to Hon. Theodore Roosevelt"; envelope signed "R.W.G. Vail" laid in; in prefab, 35 cm.

Unbound, as issued; in prefab, 31 cm.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: On the boat to Africa (Editorial written in haste for The Outlook); title: Editorials written from the Front; title: Editorial page of the Evening Jungle; title: Hesperian prunes; title: Dainty hints for the African Hunters; title: How I gave some sensible advice to Theodore Roosevelt; title: Theodore, tracer of lost animals; title: My first day in Africa; title: Country life in Africa [cover design]; title: Everybody's Magazine [cover design]; title: Big game Teddy, the dynamite drop; title: My castle on the river Nile; title: Under the bamboo tree; title: There'll be a hot time in the jungle to-night.