Postcard from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks; he is collecting post-mortems for Turnball who has had 3 post-mortems and is writing up the bone marrow. Asks him to send him a paper on the gout work, as he would like to add a name on his next Edition. Mentions that Dysentery cases are beginning to come from the East. Russia is getting a bad knock-out, but it is brighter for England and France. Revere is happy with the McGill Unit. Asks for a photo of his babies. P.S. Mentions that his secretary, his chauffeur and his butler are gone.
Letter to Christian (?) from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Doubts that he can come to America next year. Invites him to attend to the British Medical Association meeting in Cambridge.
Letter to Donaldson from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Asks him to get the autobiography of Caspar Wistar from the family for him. Mentions that he had told Cushing to write Donaldson about Spielmann's Vesal Iconography in view of getting financial support from the Wistar Institute.
Letter to Montgomery from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for his note and enclosure about Reeve. Comments on the latter. Mentions the Rabelais meeting in April at the Royal Society of Medicine where W.D. Smith will read the chief paper and Osler will arrange an exhibit.
Letter to W.W. (?) Foster from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Regrets not being able to say good-bye, congratulates him on completing a difficult job and thanks for kindness to W.W. Francis, Later note by Francis who was Foster's aide at Invalidi di Guerra conference in Rome, Oct. 1919.
Letter to W. R. Boyd (State Board of Education) from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Gives his opinion on the way to manage work in a type of hospital closely associated with a University. In that case, it is better to have the practice confined entirely to the members of the staff. Explains that it creates a hopeless confusion to have half a dozen men in attendance whose ways of work are different. Allusion to the new tendency in the fresh graduate to aspire to become a surgical Mayo, which becomes a difficulty. For everyone's sake, it is better to develop a few really distinguished men in the departments than to encourage a wholesale mediocrity.
Letter to Woodrow Wilson from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Explains to him the opportunity offered by an American Lady to the medical services of the U.S. Army and Navy to study the British medical service methods during war. Keogh assures him that every facility would be given. The permission have to be asked by the government. Induces him to talk the matter over with Wood and Gorgas. Civilities.
Letter to W.L. Williams from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the book he had sent (Veterinary Obstetrics). Mentions his attachment to his old days in Montreal. News from McEachran.
