Letter to Simon Flexner from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing asks Flexner for the names of the five men called together at the Arlington Hotel in Washington in 1901 to consider the question of the establishment of an institution to promote research in medicine. Cushing is surprised that Osler was not among them. Flexner responds at bottom of page: the original five were Welch, Prudden, Holt, Herter, and Briggs.

Letter to Vincent Y. Bowditch from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing requests information on Bowditch's visit to Baltimore in January of 1902. He asks specifically about the meeting at McCoy Hall on Tuberculosis, during which Osler allegedly confronted the Mayor of Baltimore. Bowditch responds at bottom of page.

Letter to William Osler from Henry I. Bowditch, 113, Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Bowditch enjoyed Osler's paper on Empyema. He requests a medical instrument from Dr. Roddick. Bowditch is sorry that his poor health kept him from the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Letter to William Osler from Henry I. Bowditch, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Bowditch writes of an problem at the Society for Medical Improvement involving a portrait of Ambroise Paré. Includes a note by Osler praising Bowditch and his nephew, with whom Osler became very close friends. Includes manuscript notes.

Letter to William Osler from John Collins Warren, 58, Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Acknowledges the letter announcing the coming of Monod. He had written to Arnold, the Dean of the Post-graduate School about it and Collins will look Monod up. Sends him samples of the work of the Warren family as requested by Osler. He could not get John Warren's "Mercurial Practice." The latter was President of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, position that he hold at the present time. Civilities. (Letter inserted in bound pamphlets "Papers by five generations of Warren Family, Boston")

Letter to William Osler from Henry Pickering Bowditch, Physiological Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. "Re. newspaper accounts of appt. to McGill to succeed Dawson." Bowditch asks Osler to confirm reports in Boston newspapers that he plans to leave Baltimore for McGill.

Letter to William Osler from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. "Notes from books." Correspondence from "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," Holmes, 1883.

Letter to William Osler from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Duplicate copy of CUS417/85.2.

Letter to William Osler from Houghton Mifflin and Company, 4, Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Agreement letter for the publishing of the manuscript of his farewell addresses. The job will be done in July. It will pay 12 1/2% on the first 2500 copies and 15% after 5000 copies sold. Houghton Mifflin will furnish the books that will be sent as gifts to his friends in America. Archibald Constable & Co. will do the same in England.

Letter to William Osler from Henry Pickering Bowditch, Physiological Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He informs Osler that the Chair of Theory and Practice at Harvard is vacant and hopes that Osler will consider taking on the position.