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    <title>Abraham Flexner papers, 1865-1989 (bulk 1900-1959)</title>
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    <namePart>Flexner, Abraham</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1866-1959</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, research material for Flexner's work, "Medical Education in the United States and Canada" (1910), reports, notes, family papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Flexner's activities in educational reform.  Documents his work with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and other foundations to expand research and educational opportunities and his service as secretary of the General Education Board.  Includes Henry S. Pritchett's correspondence during his service on the U.S. Light-House Board.</abstract>
  <abstract>Family correspondents include his wife Anne Crawford Flexner, daughters Jean Atherton Flexner and Eleanor Flexner, Bernard Flexner, Hortense Flexner, and James Thomas Flexner.  Other correspondents include Louis Bamberger, John D. Barrett, E. Michael Bluestone, Welles Bosworth, W. R. Boyd, Wallace Buttrick, Huntington Cairns, Evans Clark, Richard Courant, Thomas Stephen Cullen, Harold W. Dodds, Albert Einstein, Raymond Blaine Fosdick, Robert J. Getty, Jean Gottmann, Paul H. Hanus, Caryl Parker Haskins, James Hazen Hyde, William S. Learned, Herbert H. Lehman, Charles A. Lindbergh, E. A. Lowe, Paul Mantoux, Violet R. Markham, Thomas H. McKittrick, Paul Mellon, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960), Julius Rosenwald, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Dean Rusk, Ellery Sedgwick, William Henry Welch, Hermann Weyl, Sir E. L. Woodward, and the Ford Foundation.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Author and educational reformer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Bamberger, Louis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1944</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Barrett, John D</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1903-1981</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bluestone, E. Michael (Ephraim Michael)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1979</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bosworth, Welles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1869-1966</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Boyd, W. R. (William Robert)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1864-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buttrick, Wallace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1853-1926</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cairns, Huntington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1985</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Clark, Evans</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1970</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Courant, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1972</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cullen, Thomas Stephen</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1868-1953</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1980</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Einstein, Albert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, Anne Crawford</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1955</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, Bernard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1865-1945</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, Eleanor</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-1995</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, Hortense</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1973</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, James Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-2003</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flexner, Jean Atherton</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1883-1972</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Getty, Robert J. (Robert John)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Gottmann, Jean</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hanus, Paul H. (Paul Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1855-1941</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Haskins, Caryl P. (Caryl Parker)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1908-2001</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hyde, James H. (James Hazen)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1959</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Learned, William S. (William Setchel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1950</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1963</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1902-1974</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1879-1969</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mantoux, Paul</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1877-1956</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Markham, Violet R. (Violet Rosa)</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>McKittrick, Thomas H. (Thomas Harrington)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1970</namePart>
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      <namePart>Mellon, Paul</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Meritt, Benjamin Dean</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1989</namePart>
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      <namePart>Nevins, Allan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1874-1960</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rosenwald, Julius</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1862-1932</namePart>
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      <namePart>Rosenwald, Lessing J. (Lessing Julius)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1891-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rusk, Dean</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1909-1994</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Sedgwick, Ellery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1872-1960</namePart>
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      <namePart>Welch, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1850-1934</namePart>
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      <namePart>Weyl, Hermann</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1885-1955</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodward, E. L. (Ernest Llewellyn)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1890-1971</namePart>
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      <namePart>Light-House Board.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.</namePart>
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