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• W2037135915 abstract "The United States of Jessie Benton Frémont: Corresponding with the Nation Susan Lee Johnson (bio) Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence, eds. The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. xxxvi 595 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95. In 1899, Jessie Benton Frémont wrote from Los Angeles to Theodore Roosevelt, then governor of New York State: “You are an inspiration. I am very, very much pleased with you, if you will allow me to say so — at seventy-six one speaks. You are my typical American in everything.” Jessie was writing to the governor on behalf of a California businessman who had proposed building an arch to honor a Spanish American War hero. She described the businessman’s skill “in initiating good work,” explaining that he had promoted a similar tribute to her late husband (which took shape as the Frémont Gate in Los Angeles’s Elysian Park). Jessie concluded her recommendation on an imperious note; “Consider him introduced by me, I know I am among the more favored of nations.” From there she went on to write of her son, John Charles Frémont, Jr., who as supervisor of New York harbor had called Roosevelt’s attention to pollution there. Jessie was delighted by her son’s contact with the governor: “I am so glad of everything that brings my son into relations with you” (pp. 554–55). It was in this context, then, that Jessie offered Roosevelt her vote of confidence. In this brief letter of no more than 250 words, Jessie Benton Frémont enacted again several of the dramas that gave her life purpose, direction, and meaning — dramas that, by their repetition, created a rather remarkable historical subject. While Jessie asked for Roosevelt’s indulgence as she penned her praises and attributed her boldness to age, in fact she had been addressing powerful men boldly for a half century. In this instance, she wrote on behalf of one man who was promoting the memorialization of another. But she also used the occasion to remind the governor of her own son, ambitious naval officer and namesake of the husband whom she had devoted the better part of her life to promoting and protecting. Then, too, in firing off a letter from California to New York and in addressing a northeastern politician known for his love of the West and his imperial visions of Anglo-America, [End Page 219] Jessie drew on a lifetime of experience. As the daughter of a man whose name was synonymous with westward expansion, Jessie was schooled from childhood at mediating between the power that emanated from the East and the national promise embodied by the West. And as the wife of a man who was not only a western explorer but a player in national politics and an eager parson who lined his pockets by marrying eastern capital to western resources, Jessie’s lessons in the geography of power were ongoing. But perhaps what is most striking in Jessie’s letter to the man who in two years would be president is her deep identification with the project of nation-building and nation-being. Hence, she introduces her friend to Theodore Roosevelt with the self-knowledge, “I know I am among the more favored of nations.” She grants Roosevelt her approval for all he represents in overtly possessive language, “You are my typical American in everything.” By what process did a white American woman of privilege in the nineteenth century arrive at such a sense of self, such a sense of nation? These are among the questions raised by the publication of a wonderful collection of 271 letters written by Jessie Benton Frémont over a period of sixty-three years. Edited by Pamela Herr, a biographer of Jessie Benton Frémont, and Mary Lee Spence, historian and editor of a multivolume collection of documents relating to the western explorations of John Charles Frémont, The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont is an extraordinary achievement. In it, Herr and Spence have gathered about a third of Jessie’s extant letters from repositories across the U.S. and organized them into seven..." @default.
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