Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) was the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America, a position he filled from 1901 to 1909. In this letter to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s co-founder Robert Underwood Johnson (1853 – 1937) dated 5 January 1906 (the same year when he won the Nobel Prize for Peace thanks to his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese war), President Roosevelt expresses his enthusiasm for the project to buy and preserve the building at 26 Piazza di Spagna in order to turn it into a memorial to John Keats, a project in which he had become interested thanks to the then Secretary of State John Hay. President Roosevelt also expresses his approval for the fact that the project was conceived by a group of gentlemen which included two U.S. citizens, namely Harry Nelson Gay and Robert Underwood Johnson himself. Johnson was a man of letters and a diplomat whose numerous achievements include the passing into law of the International Copyright Act in, 1891 and the appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Italy in the years 1920-21.Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) was the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America, a position he filled from 1901 to 1909. In this letter to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s co-founder Robert Underwood Johnson (1853 – 1937) dated 5 January 1906 (the same year when he won the Nobel Prize for Peace thanks to his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese war), President Roosevelt expresses his enthusiasm for the project to buy and preserve the building at 26 Piazza di Spagna in order to turn it into a memorial to John Keats, a project in which he had become interested thanks to the then Secretary of State John Hay. President Roosevelt also expresses his approval for the fact that the project was conceived by a group of gentlemen which included two U.S. citizens, namely Harry Nelson Gay and Robert Underwood Johnson himself. Johnson was a man of letters and a diplomat whose numerous achievements include the passing into law of the International Copyright Act in 1891 and the appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Italy in the years 1920-21.Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) was the twenty-sixth President of the United States of America, a position he filled from 1901 to 1909. In this letter to the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s co-founder Robert Underwood Johnson (1853 - 1937) dated 5 January 1906 (the same year when he won the Nobel Prize for Peace thanks to his efforts to end the Russo-Japanese war), President Roosevelt expresses his enthusiasm for the project to buy and preserve the building at 26 Piazza di Spagna in order to turn it into a memorial to John Keats, a project in which he had become interested thanks to the then Secretary of State John Hay. President Roosevelt also expresses his approval for the fact that the project was conceived by a group of gentlemen which included two U.S. citizens, namely Harry Nelson Gay and Robert Underwood Johnson himself. Johnson was a man of letters and a diplomat whose numerous achievements include the passing into law of the International Copyright Act in 1891 and the appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Italy in the years 1920 - 21.
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