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Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.5 inches. Stationery has Eleven Broadway New York printed at the top. Roosevelt, Kermit is noted in pencil at the top right corner. Ink correction in the first paragraph. Minor soiling notes. Soiling and perhaps some adhesive on the verso. In this letter Kermit Roosevelt addresses having contracted for a series for The Sportsman, willingness to consider writing 'something additional', and discussed Mr. Danielson's comments "on the polo situation" which Roosevelt generally agreed with, but had some reservations about the criticisms of 'our men's sportmanship in actual play." Roosevelt commented that he was departing for India on the night of November 9th. Kermit Roosevelt MC (October 10, 1889 - June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both World Wars (with both the British and US Armies), and explored two continents with his father. He died while serving in the US Army in Alaska during World War II. After WWI, Roosevelt went into business; he founded the Roosevelt Steamship Company and the United States Lines. In 1928-1929, Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Ted were members of the Kelley-Roosevelts Asiatic Expedition. The Roosevelt brothers told the story of their part in the expedition in their book Trailing the Giant Panda. Richard Ely Danielson (1885-1957) was editor of the Boston Independent from 1924 to 1928, editor of The Sportsman from 1927 to 1937, and then president of the Atlantic Monthly Company and associate editor of The Atlantic Monthly. The Sportsman (January 1, 1927 to December 31, 1937) ran for 132 issues. The Sportsman was the first "coffee-table" sports magazine published in America. In the spirit of Vanity Fair and Country Life, which it resembled, the magazine focused on particular interests of the upper class, in this case, amateur sports: fishing, hunting (with emphasis on fox and duck), golf, tennis, yachting and motorboating, the turf, car racing, swimming, even chess and bridge. Prominent contributors included writers Ross Santee, Julian Hawthorne, and amateur champions from most of the sports the magazine covered. Guy Arnoux drew most of the covers in the twenties; a variety of artists contributed covers in the thirties. Contributors of interior art included Gluyas Williams, DT Carlisle, Frank Benson, W. Heath Robinson, Rea Irvin, and E.H. Suydam. The Sportsman persevered through the Depression, but finally succumbed to the economic malaise in 1937. Single sheet, typed on one side.
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