Ambassador White to the Secretary of State.
Rome, August 13, 1906.
Sir: Referring to your instruction numbered 115 of the 21st ultimo I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the diploma and hood indicative of the degree of doctor of laws which has been conferred by the University of Pennsylvania upon the King of Italy, and to inform you in reply that His Majesty, with whom I have just been staying at one of his hunting seats in the Piedmontese Alps, has asked me to defer presenting the aforesaid insignia to him until the return of the court to Rome—probably in the month of November—when he proposes receiving me at an audience especially arranged for the purpose, with a view to indicating his high appreciation of the honor conferred upon him by the university.
I shall not fail to inform you when I shall have discharged the mission with which you have intrusted me in behalf of the University of Pennsylvania.
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