Letter to the president of Johns Hopkins University from William Osler, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Osler informs the President of the University that the Toronto General Trust Company will hand over to the University securities a yearly sum of $1500 to $2000 from Osler and Lady Osler as a memorial to their son, Edward Revere Osler, in recognition of the happy years he spent in Baltimore. Osler enumerated the ways in which he would like the memorial money to be spent.
Letter to William Osler from Edward Revere Osler, R.A. Mess, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Revere discusses rare books. He asks for Osler's opinion on which books to purchase.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Ernest A. Baker, School of Librarianship, University of London, London, England. Baker never knew of Osler's scheme for a "College of the Book." Osler was a great friend of John MacAlister, who took an active part in the foundation of the School of Librarianship, and it is very possible that the two men had often talked over the matter. Includes manuscript notes.
"Memorandum on the Louvain Committee." After the burning of the Library of the University of Louvain, August 25, 1914, an International Committee was organized by the Institut de France, with additional help from the John Ryland's Library and the British Academy. It is possible that Osler was involved in the project through either the British Academy or the John Ryland's Library.
Letter to Helen MacMurchy from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Featherston thanks MacMurchy for her letter of sympathy upon the death of his brother, William Osler.
Pamphlet: "Annual Report and Transaction No. 21 of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto." Hon. Mr. Justice [Featherston] Osler's name appears among the list of honorary members of the Society. Includes article by Mrs. W.T. Hallam entitled "Notes on the Life of Canon Featherstone Lake Osler, and his wife, Ellen Free Pickton," p. 26.
File consists of an unpublished paper by Osler: "The College of the Book" (9 pages, scraps of memoranda found written on a pad and forwarded by Lady Osler on January 1921) ; and the Official Register of Harvard University, vol. XX, April 18, 1923, no. 19, Division of the Fine Arts, 1923-1924.
