Letter to John Young Walker MacAlister from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. He is bidding on the minute books of the Medical Botanical Society of London.
Letter to John Young Walker MacAlister from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Exams are on and he cannot get away until Friday. Should like to hear Macphail on the Vimy fight at the W.L. Med. Chir. Soc. Invites him to visit him in Oxford.
Letter to John Young Walker MacAlister from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (Postcard) Asks him if he has a printed circular. The Embassy should know the localities to whom the Units have been sent. Lyster, the Liaison Officer at the War Office for the Americans might distribute the circular.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Has a reply to his query in Notes and Queries about the (Jewer) picture, from B. Whitehead of Brick Court, London. It looks hopeful. Will see the picture, if anywhere near. He is very busy. Positive comments on the American Units and on their impact. Mentions his worries about Revere. Civilities.
Letter to Henry V. Ogden from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Glad that he has received the illustration of the book worm. Mentions that it is great to have the USA in the war. Final success is now assured. Hopes Ogden will be able to come over. Invites him to their home if he gets over. Cushing and the Harvard men have just visited them. News of Revere.
Letter to John George Adami from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (Card). Gives him the reference to Sudhoff's Graphische typographisite Ersttinge der syph. literature, 1912, p.25. It deals with the Naples myth. It refers to the origin of the disease in the Army of Naples.
Letter to John George Adami from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Returns his papers. Glad that Isabel is better. Mentions that he had a nice visit at the American Hospital in Paignton and then at Torquay with Edmund Boyd Osler's son Jack. States that Sudhoff's researches point very clearly to antisyphilitic regulations before 1495 and Sudhoff scoffs at the Naples story. Some of the Yard lesions described by Celsus may have been syphilis.
Letter to George H.F. Nuttall from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (Telegram). Asks him and Shipley to look after Norris and seven members of the Philadelphia Unit during their visit at Cambridge on Thursday. - note from Nuttall.
Letter to Francis John Shepherd from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Has sent word to Ernest at No. 4 General and will see him if he is still there. Deplores the delay in the mail. Mentions Revere's leave. Comments on his son. Mentions their anxiety. He has just lost another nephew. Hopes the Robertson of Montreal whose death he sees is not Shepherd's nephew.
Letter to Charles Perry Fisher from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Sorry that he has been ill. Expects Taylor Packard and Kennebaker tomorrow. Sends on Pagnes catalogue, has marked the items he would like. Thanks.