Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson
Title
Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson
Creator
House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938
Identifier
WWP25436
Date
1918 November 10
Description
Oxford wants to give President Wilson a degree and asks if he will give the Romanes Lecture.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess, 1859-1925
Romanes lecture
Contributor
Danna Faulds
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
No. 12.
Lord Curzon tells me that by now you should have received a letter written by him some two weeks ago in behalf of Oxford University in which they offer you the Department degree of DCL and asking you to deliver the Romanes(?) lecture when it is conferred upon you. He assures me you will have the warmest welcome both in England and at this occasion. He suggests that you might be interested in making democracy your theme and give your interpretation of what the world might hope for under its benign influence when properly directed. Politics of a conventionalized nature are frowned upon.
Lord Curzon tells me that by now you should have received a letter written by him some two weeks ago in behalf of Oxford University in which they offer you the Department degree of DCL and asking you to deliver the Romanes(?) lecture when it is conferred upon you. He assures me you will have the warmest welcome both in England and at this occasion. He suggests that you might be interested in making democracy your theme and give your interpretation of what the world might hope for under its benign influence when properly directed. Politics of a conventionalized nature are frowned upon.
Original Format
Letter
To
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Collection
Citation
House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938, “Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 November 10, WWP25436, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.