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.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Simon Flexner, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 66th Street, New York, New York, USA. Flexner has sent along several letters from Osler concerning the period in 1898 when Osler was helping Flexner attain the position of Pathologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Henry Barton Jacobs, 11, Mount Vernon Place West, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Jacobs provides details of the famed Dismal Swamp expedition with Osler and Futcher in April of 1900. Osler recorded his famous story of the swamp in a copy of Burton's Anatomy. Jacobs writes of affairs at the Johns Hopkins regarding MacCallum and McRae.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from H.H. Kerr, 1742, North Street, Washington, D.C., USA. Kerr writes that his letters from Osler are brief words of congratulations for published works; letters that mean little to anybody else, but than mean such a great deal to him. Osler was such a busy man and still took the time to encourage the young men around him. Osler served as Kerr's father's best man at his wedding and was a close family friend. It was on Osler's advisement that Kerr studied medicine at McGill. Kerr was flattered to be elected as a member of the Neuro-Surgical Society.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Victor G. Plarr, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England. Plarr responds to Cushing's call for material relating to Osler and encloses four notes written by him. Plarr comments on Osler's tendency for brevity.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Lewellys Franklin Barker. Barker responds to questions asked in a previous letter. See CUS417/88.52.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from T.B. Futcher, 1129, North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Futcher recounts an Easter trip to Virginia with Osler and Jacobs in 1900. He provides Cushing with the details of the Lake of the Dismal Swamp, a humorous adventure that Osler later wrote about. Futcher suggests that Lady Osler may have a copy of this satirical story by Osler. [see CUS417/96.51]

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 Edward A. Sharpey Schäfer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Schäfer writes that Osler stayed with the Howards during the meeting of the [British Medical Association?] in Montreal in 1884. He has dear recollections of Osler during this meeting.