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.
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.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Stevie(?) Plummer, Sylvan Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plummer writes concerning photographs for Cushing's biography of Osler.
Letter to Arthur Jukes Johnson from Rev. Canon Jarvis, 8, Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jarvis offers information regarding the Weston School that he hopes will be of service to Cushing for his biography of Osler. It was Johnson's father, W.A. Johnson, that started Osler on his scientific career. Osler was not an exceptionally brilliant scholar as a boy, but had great powers of concentration and determination. Osler broke the record for throwing a cricket ball. In 1867, Osler matriculated at Trinity and intended to enter the Church. After a violent fight with the Provost, he decided to take up medicine.
Letter to Arthur Jukes Johnson from Rev. Canon Jarvis, 8, Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Copy of original version of CUS417/61.32. Includes original envelope with postage. Includes manuscript notes.
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 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 Helen MacMurchy from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Featherston thanks MacMurchy for her letter of sympathy upon the death of his brother, William Osler.
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.