Show letters t EDITED BY 4 CorM r l y OAM INSTALMENT 33 No president nt has ever taken the ardent interest In the minor Affairs affairs' of ot state that Roosevelt displayed Admiral l Brownson Brown Brown- son resigned from the navy because he tie we WM dissatisfied with the way WILY things were run Commenting on the resignation Roosevelt wrote a a. scorching scorching- letter to tha I Secretary of ot the Navy lie He called Admiral Admiral Ad Ad- miral Brownson disloyal he accused him 0 of reprehensible conduct he used the terms personal pique wounded vanity childishness A letter of ot this I sort would arouse as much toward the president as one of his spOntaneous spontaneous spon spon- acts of ot friendliness had inspired support But he acted often from the impulse of the moment The The Editor Bear ear Bayou flayo October 16 16 1907 I Darling Archie Archi ArchieVie I We Vie have had no luck with the bear I but we have killed as many mapy deer as we needed for meat and the hounds caught a a. wildcat Our camp is as comI comfortable com corn as all possible and we have great reat I campfires at night One of the hunting bear-hunting planters planter with ith ith me told me he once saw a bear when hen overtaken o by the hounds lie down flat on its Us back with all Its legs stretched out while the dogs barked furiously all around it Suddenly the bear sit sat up with mt a a. jump an and 1 frig frightened all the he dogs dOS BO o that they nearl nearly turned ba back k somersaults somer r- r At this camp there Is III a a. nice tame tarna I pussycat which lies out here all aU the time catching birds mice or lizards I but very friendly with any 1 party arty of hunters which happens along i P P. S I 8 I have ha just killed a bear I have writt written n Kermit jl about out It It I SHOOTING lOOTING THE BEAR En Route noute to Washington October 22 1907 Pear Ted Bad old father Is coming back aft aft er a successful trip It was a a. success in m every W way lY including th tha ill bear hunt but in the case of the I Dear ear hunt we WI only just made it successful and no nomore nomore nomore more for foi it was not until the twelfth da pay day of ef s steady Cady hunting that I got m my bear tear ear Then I shot it in the most approved approved approved ap ap- ap- ap proved hunters hunter's a style tYle going up on It ItIn itin t tin in a canebrake as it made a a. walking bay baj before the dogs I also killed adeer a- a l deer more deer more by than han anything else as It was a a. difficult shot QUENTIN'S EXQUISITE JEST White House January Januar 2 2 1008 1908 Dear Archie Friday night t Quentin had three friends including the little Taft boy to spend the night with him They passed an evening and night of ot delirious delirious ous rapture it being a continuous roughhouse save e when they would fall asleep for an hour or two from sheer exhaustion I in interfered erf r d but once and that was Ito to to stop an exquisite jest of ot otI I Quentin's which consisted in t in hydrogen to be used on the other b boys B when they th-ey got into bed They Tiley played hard lard and it made me realize how old I had grown and how very busy I had been these last few years to find that th thoy y had grown so that I Iv v was not needed in the play I Do Jo you vou recollect how we all of us used to play seek hide in the White WhiteHouse Whitehouse House Hoube Arid And have obstacle races down the hall ball when brought in you your friends friends Mother continues much attached to Scamp who is certainly a cunning little lit lit tIe tle dog He is very affectionate but so exceedingly busy when we are out outon i ion on oil the grounds that we ani only catch I glimpses I S of f him zigzagging i at full at 0 h I speed from 0 one end cud of the place to the theother other The kitchen cat and h shave have strained relations but have not yet come to open hostility White House January 27 1008 1108 Pear Dear Archie Arctic Scamp is really a cunnin little dog but bt he takes sQ such an extremely keen interest in hunting and is so active that when he is out on the grounds with us we merely catch glimpses of ot him as he flashes by The ot other er night after the judicial reception when we I went Upstairs to supper the kitchen cat t suddenly appeared parading down the hall with great and was forthwith exiled t to her r proper home again TOM W White H House use February 23 1908 Dearest Kermit II i iI I quite agree with you jou ou about Tom rom Pinch He HeIs Is Is a despicable kind of character just the kind of character I Dickens liked because he had himself lf a a. thicH streak of ot maudlin sentimentality sentimental sentimental- I ity of the kind that that as somebody phrased it made 1 him im wallow naked 1 in n the pathetic I H It always interests m m me about Dickens ta to think how much I first class work he ho did and ho how almo almost al- al mo mot most t all of it was mixed up with every I ai-I kind of cheap second rate matter I Iam Iam am ver very i of him There Then are in innumerable innumerable in- in numerable characters that lie e has created cre cre- which symbolize vices virtues follies and the like hike almost as well as the characters in Bunyan and therefore therefore therefore there- there fore I think the wise thing to do is simply to skip the bosh and twaddle and vulgarity and untruth and get the benefit out of the rest Of ot course one fundamental difference r nce between Thackeray and anti Dickens is that Thackeray Thack Thack- eray cray was was wasa a gentleman and Dickens was not But a man might do some mighty good work and not be a gentleman in any sense I IWhite MARTIN White House February 23 29 1908 Dearest Kermit Of Ot course I entirely agree with you about Martin But the point seem sto me that the preposterous ous perversion of truth and the ill na ture and malice of ot the tile bop are arc of I consequence chiefly as indicating Dickens Dickens' Dickens Dickens' Dick Dick- ens' ens own character about which I care I not a rap whereas the characters InI in American shortcomings and vices and I follies as typified are arc immortal and moreover moreo can be studied with gre great lt I profit by all aU of or us today Dickens was ran an natured ill-natured selfish cad and boor I ran who had no understanding of what the I I word gentleman meant and no apI appreciation appreciation ap ap- ap- ap of hospitality or good treatment treat treat- I ment He lIe was utterly Incapable of seeing the high purpose and the real realI I greatness which in spite of the presence presence pres pres- pres I ence also of much that was bad or vile could have been visible all around him I here in America to any man whose islon vision was both keen keln and loft lofty He could not see seo the qualities of the young youn men growing up here though it was I these qualities that enable these men mento mento I to conquer the West and to fight to aI a a. finish the great Civil war and t though ough I they were to produce leadership like that t of Lincoln Lee and Grant 1 Naturally Naturally atur- atur ally he would think there was no gentlemen gen- gen I 1 in New York because Lecause by no noi i possibility could he have recognized a aI aj j I gentleman It if he had met one Naturally Natural Natural- ly hi he would condemn all America be because be- be cause he had not the soul to see what America as really doing But he was in his element in describing with bitter truthfulness and Jefferson Brick and Elijah EUjah and Hannibal Hannibal Hanni Hanni- I bal bat and Mrs Hominy and the various other characters r great e and hl I II small l that h have vec always made a me e enJoy enjoy en- en I Joy Martin Most of these i iI I characters we still have with us I To be continued I I |