Abstract Letters, diary fragments, notes, manuscripts, and other material documenting Burr's boyhood in Newark Valley, New York, and his student days at Cortland Academy, at Cornell University, and at Leipzig University; his travels and activities in Europe collecting rare books and manuscripts for Cornell; his relationship with Andrew Dickson White; his relationships with other American and European scholars and his students; his work for the Venezuela-Guiana Boundary Commission; and his interest in...

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.

Scope and content

Collection contains the record book lists of members and secretaries as well as dates of meetings, speakers, titles of talks, and names of hosts. Also included is correspondence from subsequent meetings, membership lists, and information about speakers.