Eugenics correspondence. Letter dated 3 January 1913 on eugenics from US author and statesman Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) to US eugenicist and biol
Eugenics correspondence. Letter dated 3 January 1913 on eugenics from US author and statesman Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) to US eugenicist and biologist Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944). The letter is on headed paper for 'The Outlook', a weekly magazine published in New York City, USA. Davenport founded the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA, in 1910. Roosevelt (US President from 1901 to 1909) was a contributing editor to 'The Outlook'. The comments in the letter echo those he made in 1914: 'Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them'.
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