Université de Paris

President Roosevelt discusses the current state of the presidential election and predicts that the Republicans will win the electoral college. He notes their prospects in various states, and in particular notes that although they are “horribly handicapped” by the unpopularity of Governor Charles Evans Hughes, he believes they will win in New York. Roosevelt inquires if William Sturgis Bigelow has shown Senator Lodge the new five dollar gold piece, and reports that he plans to address the Sorbonne upon his return from Africa.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-07

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt approves of Robert J. Thompson’s proposal for the Lafayette scholarship in Sorbonne but does not want to be quoted, as it is a matter he cannot advise on.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-27

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A press release regarding the recent endowment by James Speyer of the Theodore Roosevelt Professorship of American History and Institutions at the University of Berlin.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-13

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Unknown

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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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Henry White for the clipping of the article by Farraro and agrees that he would like to speak in the Sorbonne itself.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt discusses arrangements for the publication of his 1910 Romanes lecture in both England and the United States on the day it is delivered. He will write the lecture before he goes to Africa, but may make revisions after his trip and before he gives it. He approves of the “usual arrangement” of having the lecture printed and published by the University Press.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-02

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt sends the enclosed letter to Ambassador White, and instructs him to take it to London and show it to Arthur Hamilton Lee. After Lee has finished reading it, White is to ensure that it is destroyed. Roosevelt has been invited by J. J. Jusserand to give a lecture at the Sorbonne after his trip to Africa. He will also give the Romanes lecture at Oxford.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

James Brown Scott acquired a copy of Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver at the recommendation of Theodore Roosevelt. He lays out the case for intervention on the part of the United States in World War I, citing international law established at the Hague Peace Conferences, Germany’s violation of Belgian neutrality, and the history of similar cases such as the 1861 Trent Affair.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-07-27

Creator(s)

Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943

Elsie De Wolfe praises Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne and says that she found it inspiring.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-04-23

Creator(s)

De Wolfe, Elsie, 1865-1950

A quotation from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Lydia Bushnell Hall represents many female students in Paris from all over the world who are disappointed that they did not get to see Theodore Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne. Hall will meet Roosevelt at the Embassy, but asks if he could come to see the students for a few minutes while he is in town.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Hall, Lydia Smith, 1863-1944

Ambassador Bacon received Theodore Roosevelt’s telegram. President of France Armand Fallières will see Roosevelt on Thursday or Friday and wants to entertain him the following week. The Sorbonne and the French Institute have arrangements for Roosevelt on the twentieth. Bacon requests feedback from Roosevelt.  

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-03-18

Creator(s)

Bacon, Robert, 1860-1919

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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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-21

Creator(s)

Hubrecht, A. A. W. (Ambrosius Arnold Willem), 1853-1915

Lyman Abbott offers his opinion on President Roosevelt’s two lectures, which he will deliver at the Sorbonne and at Oxford. Abbott read both with great interest, but feels unqualified to make any judgement on the Romanes lecture Roosevelt delivered at Oxford since it deals with scientific development, which Abbott is unfamiliar with. Nevertheless, he plans on reading it again “with greater care.” Abbott notes that his son, Lawrence F. Abbott, is writing Roosevelt a letter about congressional usurpation and endorses what he writes.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-15

Creator(s)

Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922

A press release from The Outlook announces that, after being asked to deliver the Romanes Lecture at the University of Oxford, President Roosevelt will also deliver a similar lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-21

Creator(s)

Baldwin, Elbert F. (Elbert Francis), 1857-