Letter to Bishop of Toronto from Featherstone Lake Osler, Tecumseth Parish, Upper Canada. Featherstone Osler asks to be relocated to parish in an area where his children will have access to a good education, somewhere that would not require constant traveling. Two of his children have already received a good education, but there are six others that he cannot afford to send to school.
"Horrible Accident on the Toronto Hamilton Railroad," from the New York Tribune, March 13, 1857. Typescript copies of articles concerning a train accident near Hamilton.
Notebook for Materia Medica, taught by Dr. Wright at 8 a.m. The notebook is dated January 19, 1857 on front free endpaper, and signed W.P.O. Whitwell, McGill College, Montreal.
Photocopy of W.A. Johnson's note book, pp. 8-33, 36-37, 40-51, 54-97, 200-201, 204-241. Additional notes by Julia Shepley. Includes original envelope with return address Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
"Catalogue de la Bibliotèque de L'abbaye de Saint-Victor, an seizième siècle, rédigé par François Rabelais, commenté par le bibliophile Jacob et suivi d'un essai sur les Bibliothèques Imaginaires par Gustave Brunet," Paris, J. Techener. Librarie rue de L'arbre-sec, 52, près la colonnade du Louvre, MDCCCLXII. Additional notes by Osler. Includes manuscript notes.
Letter fragment. Letter tells of a child's [perhaps Osler?] bad behaviour at school. The note ends with a promise that the child will not be sent back to a place under the jurisdiction of men capable of acting as the majority of the Dundas Board of School Trustees have done.
"Copy of Resolution Passed by the Corporation of Trinity College, 8th November 1864. Proposed School Report Committee." Signed by Sydney K. Jones. Tells of the plans of Rev. W.A. Johnson to establish a school at or near Weston.
Consists of 24 leaves of coloured sketches of plants, animals, and insects, including microscopic images, originally from a sketchbook or field notebook. Sketches are primarily pen and coloured ink, with some watercolour and pencil drawings. Pages are mostly detached. One page features snakeskin pasted in.
