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 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 George N. Jack, Buffalo, New York, USA. As requested, Jack has enclosed a copy of a letter from Osler [See CUS417/96.8]. He writes that Osler's letter to him was a great inspiration, as it encouraged him to follow a line of research that he continues to investigate to this day.

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 G.J. Coy, The Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department, Office of the Dean, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Coy writes that Osler was Dean of the Medical School for only one year, 1898-1899. Osler was not present at the Commencement exercises of that year - Acting Dean Welch presented the candidates in his place. Coy has a bound volume of articles from English newspapers from the time of Osler's death that he believes will be of interest to Cushing.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Joseph Walsh. Walsh recalls his first meeting with Osler and his son, Revere, in Baltimore. He writes of a patient of Osler's, whose story left a lasting impression on him. Inc. ms. notes.

Letter to Dr. Cushing from William Osler, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler writes of the progress of Dr. Cushing's brother. Halsted and the other Johns Hopkins doctors believe he may become one of the best surgeons in the country.

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 Harold Bowditch, 520, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Bowditch encloses a letter from his mother to his father, H.P. Bowditch dated August 20, 1897.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Harold Bowditch, 520, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Bowditch encloses a postcard from his father, H.P. Bowditch, to his wife, dated August 18, 1897.