COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg under Kuno Fischer, Friedrich Paulsen, and others; newspaper clippings; and other papers. Correspondence, 1904-1921, with Woodrow Wilson concerns Thilly's call to Princeton, administrative matters during Thilly's years there, and his recommendations of several men for national and local office during Wilson's terms as President. Other correspondents include Felix Adler, Ernest Albee, Benjamin Cardozo, Lord Charnwood, Morris Raphael Cohen, James E. Creighton, Charles W. Dabney, John Dewey, Livingston Farrand, James Morgan Hart, John Grier Hibben, William James, Hugo Münsterberg, Friedrich Paulsen, Cuthbert W. Pound, Josiah Royce, Nathaniel Schmidt, Jacob Gould Schurman, T.V. Smith, William Ritchie Sorley, William Strunk, Jr., William Howard Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, Andrew Dickson White, and Stephen S. Wise.
Dates
- 1889-1935.
Creator
- Thilly, Frank, 1865-1934. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of Philosophy.
Extent
2.8 cubic feet. (2.8 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Correspondence and lecture notes relating to Thilly's career at the University of Missouri (1893-1904), Princeton (1904-1906), and Cornell University (1906-1934); notes in German (ca. 1889-1890) taken by Thilly while studying at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Manuscripts
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- 1991
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, August 2009
- Adler, Felix, 1851-1933.
- Albee, Ernest, 1865-1927.
- Cardozo, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan), 1870-1938.
- Charnwood, John Roby Benson, Baron, 1901-1955.
- Cohen, Morris Raphael, 1880-1947.
- Creighton, James Edwin, 1861-1924.
- Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Ethics.
- Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Hart, J. M. (James Morgan), 1839-1916.
- Hibben, John Grier, 1861-1933.
- James, William, 1842-1910.
- Münsterberg, Hugo, 1863-1916.
- Paulsen, Friedrich, 1846-1908.
- Philosophy.
- Pound, Cuthbert Winfred, 1864-1935.
- Princeton University
- Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.
- Schmidt, Nathaniel, 1862-1939.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- Smith, Thomas Vernor, 1890-1964.
- Sorley, William Ritchie, 1855-1935.
- Strunk, William, Jr., 1869-1946.
- Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
- Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954.
- United States. -- President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
- Universität Heidelberg
- University of Missouri
- White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
- Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu