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