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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 Unidentified, September 1902

Letter to Unidentified from Lawrason Brown, 104, Main Street, Saranac Lake, New York, USA. Brown writes of an ailing Jonathan Osler, and of how he and William Osler looked after the boy.

Brown, Lawrason, 1871-1937

Letter to C.N.B. Camac, August 28, 1922

Letter to C.N.B. Camac from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing requests information on the date and place of Osler's address "On the Need of a Radical Reform in Our Method of Teaching Senior Students." Camac responds at bottom of page: the address was delivered at the Stated Meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine on December 4, 1902.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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 Sir John Burdon Sanderson, May 13, 1904

Letter to Sir John Burdon Sanderson from D.B. Munro, Oriel College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Although Sanderson has agreed to act as Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford until the appointment of his successor, Munro has nominated Thomson to act as Burdon-Sanderson's deputy for the medical exams.

Munro, D.B.

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