Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Mazyck P.(?) Ravenel, New Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA. Ravenel discusses developments in the scheme to create a Tuberculosis Committee and a new Congress on Tuberculosis.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from H.M. Bracken, Minnesota State Board of Health, 514 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Bracken is pleased to hear that the Phipps Institute will take a neutral position on the Congress on Tuberculosis question for the time being. He agrees with Flick that Drs. Trudeau and Biggs should not be left out of any Congress dealing with Tuberculosis. He comments on Daniel Lewis's strategy for organizing his own Congress.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from H.M. Bracken, Minnesota State Board of Health, 514 Pioneer Press Building, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Bracken provides a list of all the people involved in Tuberculosis work in Minnesota. He explains that the issue of the Congress on Tuberculosis is complicated by the fact that Daniel Lewis and Clark Bell are planning two separate events. He advises Flick to join his efforts with those of Lewis and hold a Tuberculosis Congress in Washington in 1905.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Journal, New York, New York, USA. Clark asks for a copy of Flick's book, "The Crusade Against Tuberculosis." He sends Flick an endorsement made by the U.S. Government for his American Congress of Tuberculosis. He asks Flick to be part of a committee appointed by The World's Fair Exposition for the purpose of organizing an International Congress on Tuberculosis in St. Louis.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Arrangements for Osler's upcoming lecture in Philadelphia. He reports that the rivalry over the Tuberculosis question has intensified. After Osler informed people in Paris that there would be no Congress on Tuberculosis in the U.S. in 1905, he saw in the paper that Daniel Lewis's Congress has been postponed until 1905. Osler believes that a national committee should be organized to take charge of the entire issue.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from E.O. Otis, 308, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Otis is in favour of Flick's proposal to form a National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Porter, Mount St. Rose Sanitorium, 9200 South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Porter has refused any official connection to Clark Bell's Congress on Tuberculosis. He lists several necessary measures that must be taken to combat the spread of Tuberculosis in urban centres.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler will do anything he can to help bring the International Congress on Tuberculosis to the U.S. He does not know anything about the American Congress of Tuberculosis, but has heard that it is not in the hands of the right men.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Edward Livingston Trudeau, Saranac Lake, New York, USA. Trudeau feels that Clark Bell's last attempt to organize a Congress on Tuberculosis was a dismal failure. However, he understands that planning an event such as that is very difficult, as medical politics often get in the way. He is happy to stay out of the politics and continue on with his own work.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler has just heard from Magnin in Paris that the International Congress on Tuberculosis has been postponed until 1905. Because two Congresses cannot be held in the same year, plans to bring the International Congress to the U.S. will have to be put off until 1906.