Letter from William Osler to an unidentified correspondent. Osler writes of rare manuscripts. He hopes to see unidentified addressee at the upcoming Medical History meeting.
Letter from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, to F. P. Henry. Osler donates a poem by George Wood to the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Includes manuscript notes.
Letter from William Osler, on the letterhead of the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler will send the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia an important pamphlet. He urges Fisher to collect the Priestley pamphlets. He asks if the Library has a copy of Glisson's "Tractatus de Ventriculo," 1678 and Bishop Berkeley's "Siris: A Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Enquiries Concerning the Virtues of Tar Water" 1744.
Letter from William Osler, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler would like to donate to the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia a copy of "Medicina Diastatica Paracelsus." He asks Fisher to send him a list of Incunabula held by the Library, which he will include in the appendix of his paper on
Letter from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler would like to donate to the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia a rare copy of Sydenham's "Observationes Medicae," 1676.
Letter from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler would like to donate to the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia the 1485 edition of "Opus Repertorii Prognosticon." Osler has finished his card catalogue with help from a Bodleian Library employee. Osler will send Fisher a copy of his list of Medical Incunabula to 1480, on which he would like Fisher to mark off the volumes.
Letter from William Osler, on the letterhead of the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler writes of library collections, his own and that of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is sorry to hear of Jack Mitchell's death.
Letter from William Osler, on the letterhead of the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler writes of the fire in his dining room, which nearly ruined his incunabula and manuscripts. He urges Fisher to tell the Library Committee of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to spend plenty of money on manuscripts and incunabula over the next 3-4 years, as they will be plentiful and cheap.
Letter from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles Perry Fisher. Osler compliments Fisher on the Incunabula list of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Osler writes of his own illness and of the death of F.P. Henry.