184 MAJOR JOHN F. LACEY 



The White House 

 Washington 



Oyster Bay, N. Y., June 22, 1907. 

 Dear Mr. Lacey : I thank you for your letter of the 

 19th instant. Yes, I saw some passenger pigeons at Al- 

 bemarle. It was such an utterly unexpected sight that I 

 should, have felt a hesitancy in mentioning the fact if it 

 were not that another man saw them also on another oc- 

 casion. I saw a flock of about a dozen. He saw two 

 small flocks — the second, however, larger than the one I 

 saw. 



I have asked, for Mershon's new book on the passenger 

 pigeon. 



With all good wishes, believe me, 

 Sincerely yours, 



(Signed) Theodore Roosevelt. 

 Hon. John F. Lacey, M. C. 

 Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



