Scope and Contents: On Oct. 25, 1917, Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Lawrence M. Larson of the University of Illinois Department of History, regarding the nation's lack of military preparedness before it entered the Great War. According to a note written by Larson on Jan. 21, 1925, TR was reacting to the coverage of his speeches in a German-American paper, which had interpreted them not as an appeal for preparedness but as "an excuse for a sneer at America."
In an earlier note, on Mar. 12, 1915, TR simply acknowledges a letter from Walter Colyer of Albion, Ill.
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