Letter to Harvey Cushing from Edmund Osler, 21, Jordan Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Edmund and his brother, William Osler, left for Europe early in August 1872. They landed in the North of Ireland, then moved on to London and Scotland. Additional notes by Cushing remarking that Edmund is wrong about the information in this letter.

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.

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 from Adam H. Wright, 30, Gerrard Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Wright has interviewed four men who knew Osler at the Toronto School of Medicine and sends the notes [see CUS417/64.8]. He did not know that as a student Osler spent so much time in the dissecting room working on his own.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Neither F. Osler nor his sister, Mrs. Gwyn, nor their cousin, Jennette Osler, had heard of the bear-in-the-raspberry-patch episode.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Norman B. Gwyn, 48, Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Gwyn asserts that Osler was not with any doctor or taking any practice in Dundas during the summer of 1874. He worked as a student in the office of Dr. Holford Walker. He suggests that Cushing write to Charles O'Reilly's widow and J.H. Mullin to get some information regarding Osler's work at the Hamilton Hospital. He also advises Cushing to consult the Philadelphia Pathological records for material relating to Osler.