Typed letters signed (3) : Big Sur, Calif., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1965 Feb. 16 and 25, and 1967 May 10.

Congratulating him for his book Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt (1958), and saying that reading it has inspired him to resume a project with Roosevelt's children, Ethel Derby and Archie Roosevelt, to record their early memories of Roosevelt; recalling the time he spent as a boy with Roosevelt, who was the first cousin of his father, J. West Roosevelt; discussing Putnam's work on Roosevelt and his current pro-segregation activities; and thanking Wagenknecht for his comments on his book [Theodore Roosevelt; the Man as I Knew Him, 1967].