Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Sigmund Adolphus Knopf, New York, New York, USA. Knopf believes that it would be best to put off the creation of a Tuberculosis Congress because of the possibility of opposition from the American Climatological Association. Knopf refers to his own article on the Tuberculosis problem, published in the North American Review, which weighs in favour of establishing a National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Karl von Ruck, Asheville, North Carolina, USA. von Ruck shares Flick's suspicions of the Congress on Tuberculosis in New York. His decision to attend was based on his plan to take the Congress out of its present hands and place it upon a more ethical basis. However, the Congress has now been postponed.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Sigmund Adolphus Knopf, New York, New York, USA. Knopf asks Flick if he is willing to make his feelings about the Congress on Tuberculosis public. Knopf would like to make the opinions of Flick and others known to the men who will assemble in Baltimore.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Henry Barton Jacobs, 11, Mount Vernon Place, West, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Jacobs requests a confirmation of Flick's willingness to serve on the Tuberculosis Committee. The first meeting of the Committee will be held in New York on February 27, 1904.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler invites Flick to join him for dinner while they are both in New York for a meeting of the recently appointed Committee to address the Tuberculosis question.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler approves of Flick's idea to organize the next meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee around the date of Professor Maragliano's lecture in Philadelphia.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from Sigmund Adolphus Knopf, New York, New York, USA. Knopf accepts the invitation to the Maragliano luncheon and to the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee in Philadelphia.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from E. Maragliano. Maragliano is sick and will not be able to attend the Conference in Philadelphia. He authorizes a reading of his lecture.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from William Osler, Western Union Telegraph Company, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler asks if it would be better to omit Maragliano's paper altogether from the upcoming meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee in Philadelphia.

Letter to Lawrence F. Flick from E.O. Otis, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Otis regrets that he will no be able to attend the meeting of the Tuberculosis Committee in Philadelphia, as his work keeps him busy and his wife is ill. He was sorry to hear that Maragliano cannot come to Philadelphia either. Otis is in support of forming a national Tuberculosis association.