Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, Rockmount, St. Brelades' Bay, Jersey, England. Glad he is getting settled. News from their holiday. Mentions his bronchitis after his birthday gathering. Asks if it is true that Jacobi had died, Malloch saw it in the Times. Comments on his Classical Association address. Asks for Sarton's address. He is deep in the revision of his textbook. This is the first good rest they have since the war. Mentions Wenckebach and of their trial to stock the Viennese Hospitals. Deplores the loss due to war.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Sorry to have missed Sarton. They are back from Jersey. Recommends he read the Cambridge History of American Literature. Mentions Jacobi. Klebs must have received his Classical Association address.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Acknowledges his letter of the 12th with his greetings. Kind comments on Jacobi who just died. Account of his birthday gathering. Mentions Allbutt. Hopes to have time to devote to his library. Glad that Klebs is going to Switzerland. Invitation to visit them. Comments on Erastus.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (from the secretary's notebook). Sorry to have miss Sarton. They are back from Jersey. Recommends he read the Cambridge History of American Literature. Mentions Jacobi. Klebs must have received his Classical Association address.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Acknowledgment of his letter. Love to Jenks. Thinks that Klebs would be happy in Boston, as there is a nice literary group. His collection of Gesner has grown very much. He has had the promise of many of Muller's early papers. Mentions his catalogue. The list of the Early Printed Medical Books to 1480 is being revised by the British Museum Experts before getting printed by Pollard. Mentions the Americans in England and of his visit of the American Hospitals in South of England. He is busy.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Glad to have his letter from Gibraltar. Asks where is Nyon. Garrison told him of Klebs's plans at Washington. Asks if the Johns Hopkins Hospital said anything about a lectureship on the History of Medicine. Thinks that Klebs could build up a department on Sudhoff's lines. Mentions the Singers at the Bodleian. Hopes to have Withington next year. Still struggling with his incunabula address. Details about it. Details on his schedule of visits at the Canadian Hospitals and at the American Hospital. Revere is Birkett's orderly officer at the McGill Unit. They expect Cushing next week. Comments on the Vesal Celebration. They have postponed theirs until Heger can come. Mentions a great haul at the Bodley, 4000 books from Bywaters library.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Explains that the attitude is exactly the same that which they take in England, pretending that the behaviour of the Germans and the writings of the professoriate are the stigmata of a pronounced degeneracy. Says that it is hopeless to expect that they can agree on the subject, and proposes not to discuss it. Asks him to let them know when he will come to England. Mentions that they had a splendid meeting at the Historical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, about Astruc on whom Alexander Simpson of Edinburgh read a paper. Glad that Cushing is coming to Paris.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (Received in the USA). It is a hopeless job to think of getting any truth between the two sides. Hostile remarks about the editors. Mentions that he seems to have been fortunate in Belgium. In England, they had very different stories told them by Americans who were there, and from the Belgian professors and doctors who gave first-hand ghastly stories. Glad to hear of Sudhoff and Muller. Discussions about how long will the war last. Thinks that the question is how long before the Germans and the Americans will fight against each other. Invites him to visit him if he comes to England.
Letter to Arnold Carl Klebs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mentions that he bought from Italy, the first edition of Roesslin's "Der Swangern Frawen Rosegarten." Details about the book. Asks him to let him know if he found anything about Erasmus, in whom he had become interested. Revere is preparing his exams.
