Løvland, Jørgen, 1848-1922

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Løvland, Jørgen, 1848-1922

President Roosevelt has received the medal, diploma, and check for the Nobel Prize. He thanks the committee, and tells them that the money is being used to create a foundation for promoting industrial peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-08

Roosevelt reiterates his thanks to Løvland for the Nobel Prize, and notes that he will communicate further by letter via “the Norwegian Minister at Washington,” Hjalmar Christian Hauge.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-10

President Roosevelt (through a telegram cabled to Assistant Secretary of State Robert Bacon) thanks Chairman Løvland for the Nobel Prize, noting that “There is no gift I could appreciate more.” Roosevelt states that after much consideration, he will donate the cash award towards establishing a “permanent Industrial Peace Committee” at Washington, D.C. as to carry out Alfred Nobel’s mission.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-10

President Roosevelt deeply appreciates the invitation to speak in Christiania, Norway, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, as he highly values the Nobel prize that he was awarded. However, he cannot accept the invitation for fear of causing resentment among the other institutions whose invitations he has already had to turn down. He has a high regard for the Norwegian people and would like to visit Norway some day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-11

President Roosevelt rewrites a telegram that was to be sent to Jørgen Løvland expressing his gratitude at being named the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt changes the telegram’s statement that the prize money will go towards the building of the Panama Canal and changes it so that the money will go towards a “permanent industrial peace committee.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-03