TLS as president, one page, 7 x 9, White House letterhead, August 1, 1905. Addressed from Oyster Bay, a letter to Ellen Velvin at The Bailey Inn, in full: “I am greatly obliged to you. You have given me just the information I needed. I was very much puzzled by the way pumas behaved when I hunted them, for it did not seem possible that leopards or jaguars could behave in such manner and yet be the dangerous creatures they were reported. Evidently there is a real psychic difference between the cougar and the other big cats, as your observations upon them in captivity show.” Roosevelt adds the last line in his own hand: “In the wild state I personally have known young cougars, but never old cougars, to frolic and play.” In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope.
A fascinating letter from President Roosevelt, unequivocally the most experienced and storied outdoorsman and big game hunter to claim residence at the White House. Prior to politics, Roosevelt had published three books on hunting—Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, Ranch Life and the Hunting-Trail, and The Wilderness Hunter—and as commander-in-chief, he released related works like The Deer Family and Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter, the latter of which was published the very year he wrote this letter.
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