Avery to Pershing, 1917 Mar. 27
Title
Avery to Pershing, 1917 Mar. 27
Subject
Avery, Samuel
Pershing, John J.
University of Nebraska
Pershing, John J.
University of Nebraska
Description
Telegram from Samuel Avery to John Pershing inviting him to speak at the 1917 University of Nebraska Commencement.
Creator
Samuel Avery
Source
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Date
1917, Mar. 27
Language
English
Type
Document
Identifier
RG 05-10-03, Office of the Chancellor, Samuel Avery
Original Format
Paper
Text
Telegram
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 27, 1917
General John J. Pershing,
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The senior class invites you to give commencement address June 13. Honorarium two hundred dollars. Hope you can accept. Colonel Roosevelt and several of the governors will be in the city on occasion of the semi-centennial statehood celebration. Hope to make it a great patriotic occasion. Will be glad to receive acceptance subject to approval by the federal department of war.
S. Avery
Charge to University of Nebraska.
Lincoln, Nebraska
March 27, 1917
General John J. Pershing,
Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The senior class invites you to give commencement address June 13. Honorarium two hundred dollars. Hope you can accept. Colonel Roosevelt and several of the governors will be in the city on occasion of the semi-centennial statehood celebration. Hope to make it a great patriotic occasion. Will be glad to receive acceptance subject to approval by the federal department of war.
S. Avery
Charge to University of Nebraska.
