Br'er Rabbit aunt from the State of Georgia, that "She knew all the 'Br'er Rabbit' stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, publishing them in "Harper's", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus', made the stories immortal." These stories were popularized for the mainstream audience in the late 19th century by Joel Chandler Harris (1845–1908), who wrote down and published many such stories that had been passed down by oral tradition. Harris
Robert Roosevelt the United States Fish Commission. Roosevelt was a popular author and a friend of writers such as Oscar Wilde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "Barnwell" or "Ira Zell". He edited "Political Works of Charles G. Halpine", supplying a memoir (1869). Robert's nephew Theodore Jr. credited him with being the first to scribe the "Br'er Rabbit" stories (which had been passed down orally by slaves), "publishing them in "Harper's", where they fell flat. This was a good many years before a genius arose who, in 'Uncle Remus,' made the stories immortal." Roosevelt was first married to Elizabeth Ellis (1829–1887), a