Letter to Henry Barton(?) Jacobs from Grace Revere Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Hughes, Alexander Barton, and Thomas McCrae have been to visit Lady Osler in Oxford. She is making an effort to keep up the young atmosphere as Osler would have wanted, but she finds it a difficult struggle. She writes of Osler's funeral. For now, his ashes lie in an old monument in Christ Church until they are sent to Montreal. She writes a brief note about Revere's Library, the Tudor and Stuart Club.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Delighted and surprised by the July Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thanks for recalling his tuberculosis work. Account of his birthday gathering. Miss Revere. Mentions his Class Association address. Details about the meeting. Details about Revere's book. Mentions that he received the 1859 Omar, Fitzgerald's presentation copy to Max Muller. Political comments on the Peace League, the Anglo-Saxon people and on the labour people. Civilities.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the Book Collectors book by Newton. Revere would have appreciated it. Details about his plan for Revere's book. They had a rushed Christmas. Hopes to have Cushing soon. Thayer will give Jacobs the late news of them. Hugh Young and Wyatt visited him. Civilities.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for his contribution to the Anniversary volumes.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from Grace Revere Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Cablegram, the funeral is at 3:15 at Christ Church.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the Shelly Letters. Mentions Revere's interest in it and of the Every-man's Library copy of the Poems he carried everywhere. Word about his project to put all Revere's books together for a purpose. The catalogue and the books he would have loved bring his loss home to their hearts every hour. Repeats his disappointment about the Jenner portrait. Thompson will look at it but Osler fears that it is a copy.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Has had from the Liverpool Tropical School a Mary Kinglsey medal which he will give Jacobs for his Baltimore Collection. It goes out to McCulloch. Asks him to thank the Secretary of the School for it. Love to the dear old man. Kind comments on Parkes Webber's 3rd edition of Aspects of Death in Art. Hampton Robb has been there. Draper is here today investigating the endemic encephalitis. Alonzo Taylor and Winter will come this weekend. Asks him to ask Storer if he has vol. 35 of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Saw the supposed Smith portrait of Jenner. Doubtful about it. Has asked Thompson of the Wellcome Museum about it. Mentions his disappointment as he had hoped it was the original picture.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Rejoices in the fact that the old Faculty has thriven financially. Mentions the Frick Fund report. States that they only need a new Hall for the meeting. Hopes to be able to help with it. Mentions them making their house feehold and their project to leave it to the University as a permanent home for his successors. He has a scheme for Revere's books and his non-medical ones which were to go to his son. Mentions the wedding of Reginald Fitz and Phoebe Wright. Jason Mixter, Forbes and Georges Denny were there. They have always people at home. Mentions Hampton Robb who is at home with the flu. Kind comments on the latter. He has bought the edition principal of Plato (Aldine) and the ed. principal of Copernicus, 1543. Susan Chapin is a trump. Word about the 4th of July celebration in London.
