The Sir William Osler Collection, distinct from the Bibliotheca, is an extensive archival holding of Osler's correspondence (including eighteen hundred original letters), daybooks, accounts, engagement books, legal documents, book invoices, membership certificates, notebooks, lectures, addresses, newspaper clippings, photographs, books with manuscript additions, and miscellaneous loose items formerly inserted into individual books in his library. The collection also contains various family papers, including correspondence of Lady Grace Revere Osler and Edward Revere Osler.
The fonds consists of admission and lecture tickets collected by Dr. O.E. Moorhouse M.D. 1889, while a medical student at McGill, 1885-1889. In addition, it also includes an invitation to Dr. Moorhouse to attend the opening of the new buildings, June 6th and 7th, 1910, and a postponement of the opening until June 1911 following the death of King Edward VII. Finally there is the Constitution and By-Laws of the New Brunswick Graduates' Society of McGill University (St. John, N.B., 1897).
The Claire M. Flint fonds contains medical class notes, 3 McGill handbooks (1939-1940, 1940-1941, 1941-1942) and one "Authentic Mappe of Olde McGill" by G. Everett Wilson.
The fonds includes two McGill University hand-books, 1913-1914 and 1914-1915 with brief notes referring to his activities as a student; three booklets of notes taken in Embryology, [191?], Histology, 1914 and one [unspecified] booklet of notes, [191?]. A newspaper clipping from the Chronicle: “The Kaiser and the Lusitania: Torpedoed against his wishes,” August 13, 1917; inventory from the Imperial War Museum of “The Papers of Mrs. G. S. Prichard” (mother to Prichard) relating to the correspondence between Mrs. Prichard and survivors of the Lusitania in search for news of her son during the sinking; Royal Bank of Canada Pass Book from Ewing, Alberta with records of Prichard’s cheque book activities from 1912-1914; a letter detailing investments (on McGill letterhead) dated January 22, 1914, is included inside the Royal Bank Pass Book.
Fonds documents Philip Burnett's activities as a medical student at McGill University. The fonds contains admission cards, schedules of courses, convocation program, certificates and a receipt.
Fonds contains the letters of certification of William A. De Wolf Smith's attendance at medical courses at McGill University in 1883. The fonds includes three letters of certification signed by teachers.
Fonds shows John McNaughton's activities as a medical student. It contains 3 lecture cards signed by or printed for the teachers. Among them are John Stephenson and W. Robertson.
Fonds documents Dr. George H. Christie's medical education at McGill University and the Montreal General Hospital, 1868-1872, as well as his licences issued by professionnal associations, 1874. The fonds contains admission cards, a diploma, certificates and a receipt.
Fonds shows Henry Beaumont Small's activities as a medical student through his admission cards for his complete medical formation. It contains 43 admission cards signed by or printed for the teachers, among them William Osler.
Fonds contains the notebook kept by Walker Herbert Drury of his bacteriology laboratories while a student at McGill University, from 1906 to 1908, but mainly 1906.