Letter to Victor G. Plarr from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Osler requests information on the history of surgeon's apprentices.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Victor G. Plarr, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England. Plarr responds to Cushing's call for material relating to Osler and encloses four notes written by him. Plarr comments on Osler's tendency for brevity.
Letter to William Osler from R.W. Chapman, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Chapman writes of various editions of Gaddesden's works. Letter and notes found in Osler's copy of John Gaddesden's "Rosa Anglica, 1st ed," 1492.
Letter to William Osler from Robert Fletcher, The Portland, Washington, D.C., USA. Fletcher reports on his progress with the Index-Catalogue. He writes about recent acquisitions of rare volumes of the U.S. Army Medical Museum and Library. He hopes to meet with Osler in Munich.
Letter to William Osler from Robert Fletcher, Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington, D.C., USA. Fletcher writes of the work of Nicolaus Praepositus of 1471, generally regarded as the earliest dated medical book. Letter found in fly leaf of Osler's copy of "Antidotarium," 1471. Includes manuscript notes.