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Harvey Cushing Fonds

  • CA OSLER P417
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1925; predominantly 1920-1924

The fonds contains original and typescript letters, manuscript notes, newspaper clippings, journal extracts, reminiscences and more, assembled by Harvey Cushing chiefly between 1920 and 1924 during the course of his research for the biography of William Osler. For the biography, Cushing collected and retyped over 7500 pieces of Osler's correspondence, among which are some original letters.

The fonds is separated into three series: Manuscripts, Working Notes and Osler's Correspondence. It also contains photographs, annual reports, publications, clippings, one watercolor painting, one postcard. Osler's correspondence is further arranged in three subseries based chronologically.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Henry Vining Ogden, January 8, 1904

Letter to Henry Vining Ogden from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler writes of the rumor that he charged a patient a $10,000 fee during his stay in Milwaukee. He urges Ogden to submit a paper to the American Medical Association on Dr. Peckham's case.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Letter to Mr. Provost, December 10, 1903

Letter to Mr. Provost from Arthur Thomson, University Museum, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thomson writes about the possible candidates for the recently vacated post of Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. He names Church, Payne, Andrews, and Ritchie.

Thomson, Arthur, 1858-1935

Letter to Arthur Thomson, February 1, 1904

Letter to Arthur Thomson from J.S. Fairbairn, 60, Wimpole Street, London, England. Fairbairn begins to see merit in Thomson's views regarding the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford.

Fairbairn, J. S. (John Shields), 1868-1944

Letter to J.R. Chadwick, February 20, 1904

Letter to J.R. Chadwick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler thanks Chadwick for supplying him with Bartlett's translation and inquires after Thacher's Military Journal. He asks Chadwick of his opinion regarding the establishment of a national society for the study of medical history.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs, March 8, 1904

Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler asks if it would suit Klebs to have the adjourned meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee in Philadelphia after Prof. Maragliano's lecture.

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

Letter to Mazyck P. Ravenel, April 18, 1904

Letter to Mazyck P. Ravenel from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler thanks Ravenel for sending him a copy of Dr. Ramsey's Life of Washington. [See CUS417/100.63]

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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