Item C39 - Typescript copy of letter from Dr Abraham Flexner, Princeton University, to Benians

F glad that C.U.P. considering American series, and honoured to be asked to prepare book on American universities. F currently writing biography of Daniel C. Gilman (founded Johns Hopkins University 1875). F a student at Johns Hopkins and his brother became Professor in Johns Hopkins Medical School. Book on American universities be 100-150 pages. F would treat subject historically to show how American universities came to be what they are and what their merits and weaknesses are compared to British and continental universities. F willing to consider book provided it can wait until he completed life of Gilman.