Letter to Harvey Cushing from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Featherston Osler explains that William Osler brought their aunt, Miss Mary Anne Pickton, to Canada in 1884. Miss Pickton lived with Osler's parents on Wellesley Street in Toronto until her death in February 1886. William Osler and Miss Pickton were very close; she may have helped fund Osler's studies in Germany. He mentions his aunt Lizzie [Elizabeth Osler], his father's youngest sister.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from (Mrs. Barrett) Edith G. (née Greenough) Wendell, 358, Marlborough Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Wendell relays a passage from her personal diary that describes her first impressions of Osler upon their first meeting in Tadoussac, Quebec in 1877. [See CUS417/73.19]
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Ramsay Wright, Red Gables, Headington Hill, Oxford, England. Wright recalls the details of his European excursion with Osler in 1890.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Joseph Walsh. Walsh recalls his first meeting with Osler and his son, Revere, in Baltimore. He writes of a patient of Osler's, whose story left a lasting impression on him. Inc. ms. notes.
Letter to Dr. Cushing from William Osler, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler writes of the progress of Dr. Cushing's brother. Halsted and the other Johns Hopkins doctors believe he may become one of the best surgeons in the country.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from George Dock, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, Missouri, USA. Dock sends along his letters from Osler. He has asked Fischel and Baumgarten to look through their papers and send along anything of interest to Cushing. Dock supplies information regarding the authorship and content of an article on Peyronie's Disease published in Medical News in 1902.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Mazyck P. Ravenel, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA. Ravenel sends Cushing the only letter from Osler which he saved. The letter refers to a copy of Dr. Ramsey's Life of Washington, which Ravenel had sent to Osler. [See CUS417/100.64]
Letter to Harvey Cushing from William Osler, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is giving him 150 dollars, which Malloch gave several years ago for a Lister Prize that has never been offered. Osler would like the money to go as a prize for the best piece of original work in surgery.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Thomas McCrae, 1929, Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Precision brought by McCrae on the their book Modern Medicine (in USA) and A System of Medicine (in the English Edition). In the first edition, only Osler's name appeared while in the second edition both names appeared (Osler and McCrae). McCrae listed the articles produced by Osler in each volume.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He is sending the first report of the Vivisection Commission. Mentions that Starling' evidence is A-1. He enjoyed his trip to Edinburgh (Royal Medical Society).