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            <titleproper>Guide to the Gustavus Watts Cunningham letters, 1911-1944.</titleproper>
            <titleproper type="sort">Cunningham, Gustavus Watts letters, 1911-1944.</titleproper>
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            <date>2008</date>
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         <titleproper>Guide to the Gustavus Watts Cunningham Letters,<lb/>1911-1944</titleproper>
         <num>Collection Number: 14-21-796</num>
         <publisher>Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections <lb/>Cornell University
            Library</publisher>
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               <label>Contact Information:</label>
               <item>Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections<lb/> 2B Carl A. Kroch Library<lb/>
                  Cornell University<lb/> Ithaca, NY 14853<lb/> (607) 255-3530<lb/> Fax: (607) 255-9524<lb/>
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         <date>© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library</date>
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         <unittitle label="Title:" encodinganalog="MARC 245">Gustavus Watts Cunningham letters,
               <unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="MARC 245">1911-1944.</unitdate>
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         <unitid label="Collection Number:">14-21-796</unitid>
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            <persname encodinganalog="100" normal="Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-">Gustavus
               Watts, Cunningham 1881-</persname>
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         <physdesc label="Forms of Material:">Correspondence</physdesc>
         <repository label="Repository:">Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
            University Library </repository>
         <abstract label="Abstract:">Incoming correspondence from fellow philosophers, including
            forty-seven letters from Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane, in which he
            discusses the philosophical systems of Hegel and Kant, comments on Cunningham's studies
            of Hegel and Henri Bergson, and on the writings of Bergson, Bernard Bosanquet, Francis
            Herbert Bradley, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, and others.
            Reference is also made to world events.</abstract>
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         <head id="a2" altrender="biography">BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE </head>
         <p>Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College, 1908-1917, and the University of Texas,
            1917-1927; chairman of the Sage School of Philosophy and Susan Linn Sage Professor of
            Philosophy at Cornell, 1927-1949.</p>
         <p>(Cornell University Ph.D. 1908)</p>
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         <p>Incoming correspondence from fellow philosophers, including forty-seven letters from
            Richard Burdon, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), in which he discusses the philosophical
            systems of Hegel and Kant, comments on Cunningham's studies of Hegel and Henri Bergson,
            and on the writings of Bergson, Bernard Bosanquet, Francis Herbert Bradley, John Dewey,
            Albert Einstein, Alfred North Whitehead, and others, and refers to World War I, in
            particular the condition of the French army, the situation in Russia in 1917, and the
            presence of American troops in Europe, to his wartime posts in the British government,
            and to his meeting (1919) with Woodrow Wilson; five letters from Herbert Wildon Carr,
            mainly concerning the views and writings of Hegel, Bergson, and Benedetto Croce; one or
            two letters each from Henry Rutgers Marshall, Stewart A. McDowell, Andrew Seth
            Pringle-Pattison, and George H. Sabine; three letters from James E. Creighton,
            discussing the "absolute problem," Cunningham's critique of a recently published book by
            Bosanquet, presumably The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy, administrative
            matters at both Texas and Cornell, and the decline of the "solid studies that promote
            discipline of mind," the pitfalls of early specialization, and the "tremendous
            importance of getting a few general critical ideas into the heads of college graduates";
            and single letters from William A Hammond, John Laird, T.V. Smith, and Frank Thilly, on
            personal and professional matters.</p>
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            <head>Names: </head>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 100">Cunningham, Gustavus Watts,1881-</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Bosanquet, Bernard, </persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Bradley, F. H.(Francis Herbert),
               1846-1924.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Carr, Herbert Wildon, 1857-1931.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Creighton, James Edwin, 1861-1924.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Croce, Benedetto, 1866-1952.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Dewey, John, 1859-1952.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Haldane, R. B. Haldane(Richard Burdon Haldane),
               1856-1928.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Hammond, William A. </persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
               1770-1831.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Laird, John, 1887-1946.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Marshall, Henry Rogers, 1852-1927.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">McDowell, Stewart A. </persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Sabine, George Holland, 1880-1961.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Seth Pringle-Pattison, A.(Andrew),
               1856-1931.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Smith, Thomas Vernor, 1890-1964.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.</persname>
            <persname encodinganalog="MARC 600">Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.</persname>
            <corpname encodinganalog="MARC 610">Cornell University--Faculty.</corpname>
            <corpname encodinganalog="MARC 610">Cornell University.Dept. of Philosophy.</corpname>
            <corpname encodinganalog="MARC 610">University of Texas.Dept. of Philosophy.</corpname>
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            <head>Subjects:</head>
            <subject encodinganalog="MARC 650">World War, 1914-1918.</subject>
            <subject encodinganalog="MARC 650">Philosophy, Modern.</subject>
            <subject encodinganalog="MARC 656">Philosophers.</subject>
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            <head>Cite As:</head>
            <p>Gustavus Watts Cunningham letters, #14-21-796. Division of Rare and Manuscript
               Collections, Cornell University Library.</p>
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