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A correspondent for The Sun has reason to believe that President Roosevelt has been sent an invitation to lecture at the University of Berlin in 1910. It is unknown if Roosevelt has accepted this invitation, though he may give an address at the University’s centennial celebration.
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1909-01-20
Letter of introduction for Professor Otto Kobner of the University of Berlin. Kobner is studying the land system of the United States and Theodore Roosevelt hopes that Gifford Pinchot can meet with him.
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1911-06-02
President Roosevelt encloses a copy of the address he will give at the University of Berlin next year and asks Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, to send it to the university’s president.
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1909-02-01
President Roosevelt sends Lawrence F. Abbott his third address, which will be delivered at the University of Berlin. He requests that Abbott arrange for the three speeches to be published after he gives them, although the dates are not yet set. If any problems arise, Roosevelt advises Abbott to ask William Loeb for help. He has decided that he does not want any journalists, even Abbott, to accompany his safari.
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1909-02-01
President Roosevelt humbly inquires whether George Cabot Lodge would mind offering criticisms for drafts of University of Berlin, Oxford, and Sorbonne addresses. Roosevelt invites Lodge to stop by Sunday evening to discuss the addresses.
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1909-01-23
President Roosevelt asks Ambassador von Bernstorff to give suggestions on the speech he is to give at the University of Berlin.
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1909-01-23
President Roosevelt thanks German Emperor William II for the letter and book, which were presented to him by the new German ambassador Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff. Roosevelt praises the previous German ambassador, Hermann Speck von Sternburg, but says that the new ambassador appears to be a very able man. He would be pleased to accept the invitation to speak at the University of Berlin after his African safari, and hopes to meet with William II when he is there. Roosevelt additionally comments on other major events around the world, including the recent Sicilian earthquake, the progress of the Great White Fleet on its journey, and the state of affairs in China.
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1909-01-02
William Loeb confirms receipt of Professor John W. Burgess’s translation of President Roosevelt’s letter to Berlin University, and returns a retyped and signed copy of the letter. Both President Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt like the portrait by Irving Ramsay Wiles.
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1906-06-04
President Roosevelt sends his good wishes to the University of Berlin through Professor John William Burgess, and writes about the historically close ties between the United States and Germany.
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1906-04-12
President Roosevelt is pleased to know that the chair named after him at the University of Berlin will be filled by Professor John William Burgess.
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1905-10-14
Lawrence F. Abbott encloses a proof of President Roosevelt’s editorial article on Leo Tolstoy. The Outlook will print Roosevelt’s lectures at Sorbonne University, the University of Oxford, and Humboldt University of Berlin unless they hear from him otherwise. While Abbott originally had no qualms about printing Philippe Bunau-Varilla’s article on the Panama Canal, he would rather suppress it now than to print something that would be personally offensive to Roosevelt.
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1909-02-15
A. A. W. Hubrecht has heard through newspapers that President Roosevelt intends to speak at the University of Paris, University of Berlin, and University of Oxford while he is in Europe in 1910. Hubrecht asks if Roosevelt would consider “making a four leaved clover of this” by speaking at University of Utrecht as well.
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1909-01-21
Elbert F. Baldwin, European editor of The Outlook, requests that President Roosevelt confirm the message of an article published in The Sun.
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1909-01-21
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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1907-10-29