[Rarebooks] FS: Teddy Roosevelt Inscribed to Sir Edward Grey

[Charles Agvent]

[ROOSEVELT,  Theodore (Teddy)] BURROUGHS, John. BIRDS  AND  POETS
WITH    OTHER  PAPERS.  Boston:   Houghton  Mifflin  (1895).   SIGNED.
Burroughs's  friend  Theodore Roosevelt writes: "To/Sir Edward  Grey,/
in    memory  of   our/delightful  afternoon/together,   from/Theodore
Roosevelt/  July  15th  1910."  Sir Edward  Grey,  third  baronet  and
Viscount  Grey of Fallodon 1862-1933, was a statesman and  bird-lover.
At  the  time of this presentation, he headed Great Britain's  Foreign
Office.  Throughout his career in that office he secured and  retained
the  friendship  of  the  United States in peace and in  war,  in  the
process  developing  a personal friendship with  President  Roosevelt,
cemented  by  their  common interest in bird-life and  lasting  beyond
Roosevelt's  years  in  office,  as this  inscription  proves.  Grey's
political  importance  extended beyond Roosevelt. His citation in  the
DNB  clearly  summarizes  the  important  role  Grey  played  both  in
England's  entry  into  World War I as a united people  with  American
opinion  on its side as well as the United States's entry on the  side
of  the  Allies. In addition to his political  accomplishments,  Grey,
who  went  blind  late in life, wrote a number  of  books  including a
respected  book on birds in 1927 and a classic on fly fishing in 1899.
Though  Grey  himself  was  not an avid hunter, he  had  two  brothers
killed  in  Africa in separate incidents, one by a lion and the  other
by  a  buffalo. Roosevelt once said of Grey: "I do not  remember  ever
meeting  anyone  else  ... to whom I took so strong a  fancy  on  such
short  acquaintance."  A  wonderful  association  copy  linking  three
important  naturalists  with an inscription from one  great  political
force to another. About Fine                                  $5000.00

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