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Scrapbook of W. W. Francis’ obituaries and in-memoriams

• Statements issued from McGill, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal.
• Obituaries written by MacNalty, H.E. MacDermot, Journal of History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Montreal Star and Gazette, New York Times, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Trinity College School Record, Lloyd G. Stevenson
• Telegrams from Chapin Revere, Mrs. John Fulton, “Bea.”
• Letters from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, and Sir William Gilliatt, President of The Royal Society of Medicine dated 1956.
• W.W.F.’s Certificate of Service from Canadian Expeditionary Force, dated Feb. 6, 1920.
• Letter dated Nov. 6, 1962, from Edmund E. Simpson, M.D., writing to Miss Cecile Desbarats at the Osler library suggesting Ben Adhem as W.W.F.’s second and to have permanent memorial in W.W.F.’s name.
• “Cruelty to Books” article from the Montreal Gazette, April 20, 1963

Childhood Letters

• Scanned copies of letters from Molly Francis, Sandridge Hotel, Cornwall, dated July 30, 1928. Incudes personal drawings.
• Scan of letter from W.W.F. to W.O., May 188.
• Scanned letterers to W.W.F. from Marian, aged 6, dated 1928, and aged 8, dated 1930.

Marian Francis Kelen’s original poetry

• “Maternal Instink” dedicated to Willie, 1951.
• “The Empty Nest,” dated 16 January, 1979. Admin note: youngest daughter went with Cuso to Nigeria and stayed there for three years.
• “Protection of the Environment” written for Earth Day, 1990. Admin note that poem is response to cousin Violet phoning the Minister of the Environment of Ontario and threatening to shoot him.

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