NEW YORK HERALD TO PUBLISH PAPERS OF TR'S MILITARY AIDE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On January 17, 1924, a full-page advertisement appeared on page 35 of The Evening Star calling readers attention to the coming publication of the letters of Archie Butt*, personal aide to President Theodore Roosevelt.
The ad says that beginning on Sunday, January 20 and continuing daily for eight weeks, the "intimate" papers of the former military aide to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft will be published in The New York Herald.
The papers will reveal, according to the advertisement, the man (Theodore Roosevelt) "more vividly than he has ever been seen before."
*Archibald W.D.C. Butt (1865-1912) was born in Augusta, Georgia & educated at the University of The South (Sewanee, Tennessee). AB served in the US Army in the Spanish-American War & as military aide to TR & Taft.
Archie Butt became one of TR's closest companions. He wrote daily letters to his sister Clara while serving in The White House. The letters, published in 1921 & 1930, are a key source of the two presidencies. Archie Butt died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
SOURCE
"Major 'Archie' Butt, President Roosevelt's Intimate Friend and Military Aide, Who Went Down on the Ill-Fated Titanic, Left a Graphic and Intimate Story of the Roosevelts in the White House," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
