Theodore Roosevelt: Letter to Oliver Wendell Holmes

Glossary

Chamberlain Joseph Chamberlain, British politician and statesman who served as Britain’s colonial secretary

Lodge, Root and Turner Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Secretary of War Elihu Root, and former senator George Turner, Roosevelt’s appointees to the Alaska Boundary Commission

Nantucke t an island off the coast of Massachusetts

Orkneys the Orkney Islands, a chain of islands running north from Scotland

Portland Channel a channel in the vicinity of Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada