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Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 Toronto (Ont.)
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Letter to Harvey Cushing, April 25, 1920

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Norman B. Gwyn, 48, Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gwyn has excellent photographs of Johnson and Bovell. He offers to make a list of people for Cushing to consult for his biography of Osler. He describes the positions of Bovell and Ambery at Trinity College and Bovell's influence on Osler.

Gwyn, Norman B.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, April 30, 1920

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Marian (May Francis Osborne, 48, Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Osborne(?) has compiled Osler family letters, written while Osler was at the Weston School. She was amazed to learn through the letters that Osler had persuaded Bovell to retire into consultation work and had offered, though only a student at the time, to take on most of Bovell's office. Osler left the Weston School before it moved to Port Hope and went to Trinity College. Osler only began letter writing in earnest when he moved to Montreal and was far removed from family and friends for the first time.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, August 10, 1922

Letter to Harvey Cushing from A. Kirkwood, Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Degree of D.C.L. (honoris causa) from Trinity College was conferred on Osler on June 25, 1902.

Kirkwood, A.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, August 14, 1922

Letter to Harvey Cushing from A.H. Young, Dean of Residence, Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon Osler on the occasion of the celebration of the Jubilee of the opening of Trinity College in June 1902. The Degree was also conferred upon Mr. E. Douglas Armour, J.P. Whitney, Richard Harcourt, Sir James Whitney, and many other men.

Young, A.H.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, August 27, 1921

Letter to Harvey Cushing from N.B. Wadsworth, The London & Canadian Loan & Agency Company, 51 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wadsworth sends a copy of a photo of the Wadsworth Mill at Weston. He did not go to school with Osler, but was living at Weston at the time and often saw him there.

Wadsworth, N.B.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, August 8, 1821

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.

Osler, Featherston, 1838-1924

Letter to Harvey Cushing, February 13, 1921

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Norman B. Gwyn, 48, Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gwyn writes concerning some Weston School circular-calendars and the Trinity University Chancellor's Prize, which was awarded to Osler in 1866.

Gwyn, Norman B.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, February 25, 1921

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Norman B. Gwyn, 48, Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Typescript copy of article from "The Leader," May 30, 1866, listing the winners of several sport competitions in which Osler competed and often won.

Gwyn, Norman B.

Letter to Harvey Cushing, January 7, 1921

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Adam H. Wright, 30, Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wright draws Cushing's attention to Osler's "The Master Word in Medicine," delivered at the opening exercises of the University of Toronto in October 1903, published in Canadian Practitioner and Review of November 1903. He writes of James Henry Richardson, a teacher of Osler's in Toronto. Osler had a close relationship with and lasting influence on Wright's children; he encloses a note from one of them [see CUS417/75.4]. Wright recalls his relationship with Osler, which began in 1879 or 1880 when Wright substituted for Dr. Barrett, Professor of Physiology, at McGill.

Wright, Adam H.

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