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Published collections of Theodore Roosevelt's works, letters, papers, writings

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, ed. Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Letters from 1898-1911.

Griffith, William, ed. The Roosevelt Policy. 3 vols. New York: The Current Literature Publishing Company, 1919. Collection of TR's speeches, state papers, and articles which includes some World War I speeches not available in other collections.

Hagedorn, Hermann, ed. Memorial Edition: Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 24 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1923-1926. Most complete edition of TR's books, essays, state papers, and other writings, supplants the Sagamore, Elkhorn, Allegheny, and other editions of Roosevelt's collected works published in his lifetime. Introductions and bibliographical notes with each volume.

--------------, National Edition: Works of Theodore Roosevelt. 20 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Shorter version of Memorial Edition listed above.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, and Herbert Ronald Ferleger, eds. Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. 1941. 2d ed., edited by John Allen Gable. Oyster Bay, NY: Theodore Roosevelt Association and Meckler, 1989. Quotations from TR listed topically; revised edition includes annotated bibliography, introduction, chronology of TR's life, history of Theodore Roosevelt Association.

Irwin, Will, ed. Letters to Kermit from Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1908. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Letters from TR to his son Kermit Roosevelt.

Letters from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt cowles, 1870-1918. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Letters from TR to his sister Mrs. William Sheffield Cowles.

Morison, Elting, John M. Blum, et al., eds. The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt. 8 vols.Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951-1954. The most complete published collection of letters by TR, includes approximately 6,500 letters; appendices with essays by John M. Blum, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; superb footnotes and indexes; chronology of TR's daily activities, 1898-1919, in vols. 2, 4, 6, 8.

Roosevelt, Theodore. Presidential Addresses and State Papers and European Addresses. 8 vols. Homeward Bound Edition. New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1910. Includes almost every speech given by Roosevelt in 1901-1910, many not found in any other collection.

-----------. Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries of Boyhood and Youth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Diaries from 1868 through 1877.

Selections from the Correspondence of Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, 1884-1918. 2 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. Letters between TR and his close friend Lodge with some passages deleted by Senator Lodge.

Stout, Ralph, ed. Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-Time Editorials by Theodore Roosevelt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. World War I newspaper articles written by TR for the Kansas City Star and syndicated.







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