Letter to Charlotte (Chattie) Osler (Mrs. Charles Gwyn) from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing would like to know if Osler returned to Dundas in the summer of 1874 and if he stayed until his appointment to McGill was received. [For answer, see CUS417/70.17]
Letter to Jennette Osler from Harvey(?) Cushing. Cushing(?) asks Jennette Osler to identify "Mammy Muff, the wicked spider," mentioned in a letter dated May 25, 1867. Jennette replies that the letter referred to her sister, Mrs. Francis.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from C.T. Flower, Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, W.C.2., England. Flower informs Cushing that the records of the Almshouses at Ewelme are described in Appendices to the Eight (1881) and Ninth (1883) Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commissions. Flower is certain that Osler knew of these records when he put his Muniment Room in order in 1906.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Harry Paintin, 14, Regent Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Paintin sends Cushing, J. Allen Shuffrey's drawing of Ewelme, but he has not been able to secure Mr. Howard's photographs. He writes of the visit of the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society to Ewelme on October 18, 1909. During the visit, Osler, the Master of the Hospital, treated the party to tea on the Rectory Lawn and spoke of the "gentle Duchess" of Suffolk, Alice Chaucer. Paintin writes of a humorous incident involving George Randell Higgins and Osler.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from J. Allen Shuffrey, Broadway, St. Margaret's Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Shuffrey has received Cushing's cheque for his drawing of Ewelme. He has several more drawings of Oxford and would be happy to sell them to Cushing should he need them.
Letter to Henri Amédée Lafleur from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing asks Lafleur to clarify to whom Osler wrote the letters entitled "To my house physicians." Lafleur responds at bottom of page with the full names of the physicians with which Osler corresponded while in Europe.
Letter to E.E. Tyzzer from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing requests clarification on Theobald Smith's discovery regarding Texas Cattle Fever. Tyzzer's response is attached at bottom of page. Includes manuscript notes.
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 Marcia C. Noyes from Harvey Cushing, 305, Walnut Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing would like to know when Osler delivered an address on the subject of his visit to the Hunterian Library at Glasgow. Noyes responds at bottom of page.