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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 Grace Revere Osler, August 28, 1921

Letter to Grace Revere Osler from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing asks Mrs. Osler to provide details of her first summer abroad with Osler. Mrs. Osler's response is attached.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs, August 27, 1923

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing is asking for precisions about their meeting at Cannes in 1912. Osler had written him "I have asked Vetter to send the Lenotte sketches." He is wondering about the meaning of that sentence. On the same letter is the handwritten reply of Jacobs. Reminiscences. Osler had brought photos that Revere had taken in Venice which shows his artistic feeling. He was proud of them and predicted that Revere would become an architect or an artist. Details about Osler's activities. He does not recall the Lenotte sketches.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Henri Amédée Lafleur, June 12, 1922

Letter to Henri Amédée Lafleur from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing asks Lafleur for details of the meeting of the American Physicians Society in Baltimore, 1894, at which time Lafleur allegedly stayed at Osler's home. Lafleur responds at bottom of page.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Nona Gwyn, 1899

Letter to Nona Gwyn from Harvey Cushing, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Cushing requests clarification regarding a letter written by Nona's grandmother, Ellen Osler [see letter CUS417/95.41]. Nona responds at bottom of page.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Marcia C. Noyes, August 19, 1922

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.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Simon Flexner, August 23, 1922

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.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Harvey Cushing, November 4, 1926

Letter to Harvey Cushing from J. Hunter P.(?) Paton, James MacKenzie Institute for Clinical Research, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland. On behalf of the Institute, Paton(?) thanks Cushing for donating a copy of "Life of Sir William Osler" to the Library.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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