Letter from Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to Lieutenant Robert E. Peary
This letter communicates that Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's opinion of Robert E. Peary was misrepresented in a newspaper.
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OCR Page 1 of 2THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY.
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON.
October 27,1897.
My dear Mr. Peary:
First of all let me thank you very much
for your kindness in thinking of me and sending
speendid
me that walrus head. Next, I want to mention
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that yesterday I sat by Dr. Nansen at lunch, and
he spoke of you with the warmest regard and admi-
ration, and evidently appreciates to the full
what you have done. He said you were the fore-
most of living Arctic explorers, and was evident-
ly a good deal annoyed at the HERALD having
misrepresented him.
If I were you I should be careful not to
make any public statement about anything that
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