Letter to Harvey Cushing from A.R.S. Kennedy, 33, Fountainhall Road, Edinburgh, Scotland. Kennedy writes of his correspondence with Osler on the topic of Jean Astruc.

Letter to Cushing. Harvey from A.R. Neligan, Tehran, Persia. Neligan regrets that he did not keep any of the letters he received from Osler. He explains that plans to repair the Tomb of Avicenna at Hamadan were spoiled by the war, but he is currently raising money to renew the project.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Anna L. von du Osten, Secretary to Simon Flexner. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, New York, USA. On Flexner's request, von du Osten sends a reprint of Dr. M.C. Hall's "Two new genera of nematodes," which contains references to the organisms named after Osler. [See CUS417/73.1]

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Minis Hays, American Philosophical Society, 104 South 5th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Hays does not believe that Osler attended the International Congress of Medicine at Philadelphia in 1876. He suggests that Cushing consult the original registration manuscript kept in the Library of the College of Physicians in Philadelphia.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Francis John Shepherd, 152, Mansfield Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shepherd believes that Osler once wrote to him about the death of Mills, a Professor of Physiology at McGill. He describes the course in clinical medicine and microscope that Osler taught during the summer session. He writes of the medical services Osler and others rendered at the Hotel at Tadoussac and for the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, and his family.

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.

Memories and anecdotes of Osler's career at Blockley.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Edward F. Milburn, 216, Charles Street, Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Milburn responds to Cushing's request for information regarding the Barrie Grammar School. The boarders lived with Mr. Checkley. While a student at the Grammar School, Milburn became friendly with Charlie Locke. He looks forward to Cushing's biography on Osler and asks after Lady Osler.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Edward F. Milburn, 216, Charles Street, Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Milburn gives the specifications for the photograph of the Barrie Grammar School he sent to Cushing for his Osler biography. The school was torn down in 1914 to make room for a new high school, which in turn was destroyed by fire in 1916.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Edward F. Milburn, 216, Charles Street, Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Milburn's letters from Osler from between the time he went to McGill and the time he left the Johns Hopkins were lost during a move. He has a handful of letters from the Oxford period, mostly personal in nature, one of which was written in the last weeks of Osler's life. He reminisces about their youth at the Barrie Grammar School. He tells of Osler's spirit of fun and the numerous pranks they played as the "Barrie Bad Boys." Incl. ms. notes.