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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 Charlotte (Chattie) Osler (Mrs. Charles Gwyn), May 16, 1920

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]

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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 E.E. Tyzzer, July 15, 1922

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.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Ethel Bovell Barwick, July 22, 1921

Letter to Ethel Bovell Barwick from Harvey Cushing. Cushing requests information on the Wilby Woolen Mills, James Bovell [Barwick's grandfather], and W.A. Johnson. [For response, see CUS417/76.16]

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Francis John Shepherd, July 15, 1921

Letter to Francis John Shepherd from Harvey Cushing. "For 1881 folder: questions for Dr. Shepherd." Cushing asks for information on the Rivière de Loup, G.W. Stevens of Lac à L'Eau Claire, and Lake Memphremagog.

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 Harvey Cushing, July 21, 1921

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Stevie(?) Plummer, Sylvan Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plummer writes concerning photographs for Cushing's biography of Osler.

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

Letter to Harvey Cushing, June 25, 1925

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Eugene J. Leopold, 200, West Lafayette Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Leopold, a 1905 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, praises Cushing for his "Life of Sir William Osler."

Leopold, Eugene J.

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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