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Letter from William H. Carpenter to Nicholas Murray Butler

Letter from William H. Carpenter to Nicholas Murray Butler

Professor William H. Carpenter writes to Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, on behalf of an academic committee which is organizing an honorary dinner for Rudolf Leonhard, the visiting Kaiser Wilhelm Professor. John William Burgess, visiting Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin, received a warm welcome from German Emperor William II the previous year, so Carpenter and the committee hope that Butler will invite President Roosevelt to the dinner in the hopes of fostering greater academic exchange and cooperation between the two nations.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-29

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Nicholas Murray Butler to Theodore Roosevelt

Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, writes to ask President Roosevelt if he will invite visiting Kaiser Wilhelm Professor Rudolf Leonhard and his wife, Klara Wilhelmina Goll Leonhard, to dinner at the White House. Butler feels this is an important gesture for the academic cooperation between the two countries, particularly given the warm reception of American academics in Germany. If Roosevelt would invite the Leonhards to a dinner he is having with German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg, Murray is confident that German Emperor William II would appreciate the gesture.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-28