Guided Primary Source Analysis: Lessons for My Community

 

Letter with illustrated fable, Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 11 July 1890.
“Letter with illustrated fable, Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 11 July 1890.” Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Papers, Library of Congress

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