Letter to Harvey Cushing from Nicholas Murray Butler, National Committee of the United States for the Restoration of the University of Louvain, 407 West 117th Street, New York, New York, USA. Butler responds to Cushing's inquiries about the project to rebuild the library at the University of Louvain. Osler's involvement in the project was likely due to early refugees who went to Oxford from Louvain, and who appealed to him for help in the matter. [For more details see CUS417/22.8]
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Anna L. von du Osten, Secretary to Simon Flexner. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, New York, USA. On Flexner's request, von du Osten sends a reprint of Dr. M.C. Hall's "Two new genera of nematodes," which contains references to the organisms named after Osler. [See CUS417/73.1]
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 E.S. Martin, 178, East 64th Street, New York, New York, USA. Martin sends Cushing a letter he found from Osler to C.F. Martin in his copy of "Science and Immortality." [See CUS417/101.42]
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Scudder J. Woolley, 157, West Seventy Sixth Street, New York, New York, USA. Woolley responds to Cushing's call for letters from Osler to members of the medical profession. He reminisces about his first encounter with Osler. Woolley writes that all who knew Osler loved him and are all anxiously awaiting the completion of Cushing's biography.
Letter to William Osler from Abraham Jacobi, 19 E., 47th Street, New York, USA. Birthday greetings on his seventieth anniversary. States that Osler is eminently the indispensable man in medicine.
Letter to William Osler from Leonard L. Mackall, 420, Riverside Drive, New York, USA. Acknowledges his letter of August 6th. Informs him that his cousin Alexander R. Lawton will sail to France with his Regiment and will probably go to England. Hopes that they will have the pleasure to meet each other. Details on the arrangements to make Lawton meet Osler. The new Draft Laws blocked his acceptance by the Red Cross for France at the last moment. He is uncertain of what he should try to do. Civilities.
Letter to William Osler from Leonard L. Mackall, 420, Riverside Drive, New York, USA. Mentions a letter of Boggs. He has written to him December 26th after he heard of Revere's death, but Osler may not have received the letter. He sent him a copy of the catalogue of the library of van Murr, but does not remember when he sent it from Savannah. Details about of the erasure on the copy of it at the Surgeon General's Library. Hopes he did not forget to thank Osler for the pamphlet on the book-worm. Answers his bibliographical questions. Asks him if he had bought anything at the Huth Sale. He has bought Rive's Chasse aux Bibliographes. Details about the other book he bought. Informs him that he gave up his position as librarian of the DeRenne Library in Savannah, and is now waiting to do war work for the National Red Cross. Thinks he will go to France early in October. Civilities.
