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African and European Addresses
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Title: African and European Addresses
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Release Date: November 3, 2004 [eBook #13930]
Language: English
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AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN ADDRESSES
by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
With an Introduction presenting a Description of the Conditions under which the Addresses were given during Mr. Roosevelt's Journey in 1910 from Khartum through Europe to New York
by LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT
1910
FOREWORD
My original intention had been to return to the United States direct from Africa, by the same route I took when going out. I altered this intention because of receiving from the Chancellor of Oxford University, Lord Curzon, an invitation to deliver the Romanes Lecture at Oxford. The Romanes Foundation had always greatly interested me, and I had been much struck by the general character of the annual addresses, so that I was glad to accept. Immediately afterwards, I received and accepted invitations to speak at the Sorbonne in Paris, and at the University of Berlin. In Berlin and at Oxford, my addresses were of a scholastic character, designed especially for t