Letter to Arthur Thomson from J.S. Fairbairn, 60, Wimpole Street, London, England. Fairbairn begins to see merit in Thomson's views regarding the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford.
Letter to William Osler from Romeike and Curtice, Press Cutting Agency, 4 Ludgate Circus Buildings, London, England. Clipping from "The Expository Times" regarding Osler's Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard on Science and Immortality.
Letter to Henry Vining Ogden from William Osler, Brown Shipley & Co., London, England. Osler reports on his pleasant sea voyage to Europe. He was sorry to hear that Ogden's mother is in poor health. While in Europe, Osler will deliver the Cavendish lecture. Earlier in the day, he attended a meeting of the Royal Society, during which he was sworn in and attended a lecture by Haffkine.
Letter to William Osler from Edward A. Sharpey Schäfer, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, London, England. Schäfer is settling into his work in Edinburgh but has not yet taken a house. He writes of his laboratory and of the progress of the medical school. Schäfer informally offers Osler the position of Chair of Medicine at Edinburgh, which he believes will soon be vacant. He looks forward to Osler's visit later in the year.
Sharpey-Schäfer, E. A. (Edward Albert), Sir, 1850-1935
Letter to J. William White from William Osler, 40, Clarges Street, London, England. Osler met with MacCormac about the Honorary Fellowship affair. Only four candidates will be selected, and two of them cannot be from the same city. He writes of his summer travel plans while in England.
Letter to Francis R. Packard from William Osler, Brown Shipley & Co., London, England. Osler has sent Packard a paper on the Visceral Manifestations of the Erythema group for publication. He asks Packard to give a copy to S.S. Cohen.
Letter to William Osler from Henry Phipps, Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street, West, London, England. Thanks him for the book " Municipal Trading" of Porter. Comments on the evil of municipal ownership.
Letter to William Osler from Ernest Clarke, 31, Tavistock Square, London, England. Comments on his lecture on Robert Burton. Says that he must study the "Anatomy of Melancholy" for mention of Tariff Reform and old age pensions. Thanks him for the quotation he took from him. Mentions that Burton's book is to be sold by Sotheby's. Offers him one of his book written in 1903. Civilities.
Letter to William Osler from J. & J. Leighton, 40, Brewer Street, Golden Square, London, England. Leighton responds to Osler's inquiry into Johann Schall. Letter pasted in Osler's copy of Johann Schall's "Eusebius Historia Ecclesiastica," 1479. Includes manuscript notes.
Letter to William Osler from Walter Morley Fletcher, 71, Bedford Gardens, London, England. Fletcher reports that he had the Bibliomania 1st Edition printed at Warrington. Letter found in fly leaf of Osler's copy of "The Bibliomania, An Epistle..." Additional notes by Osler found in same volume dated January 16, 1916.