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 William Osler from D. Appleton & Company, 29-35, West 32nd Street, New York, New York, USA. Arrangements for the Spanish Edition of Osler's "Principles and Practice of Medicine."
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]
Osler reports on the meeting of the New York Pathological Society. He mentions Dr. Flint and Dr. Dalton in connection with the meeting. He went to see Edwin Booth play Hamlet. He is uncertain about going to Boston. He spent the afternoon with Professor Arnold, professor of Physiology at the College of Physicians. Incl. ms. notes by both Cushing and Julia Shepley.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Ethel Bovell Barwick, 22, Beekman Place, New York, New York, USA. Barwick responds to a list of Cushing's questions [see CUS417/76.17] regarding Weston, and W.A. Johnson and James Bovell's deaths.
Letter to Charles Ferdinand Martin from William Osler, University Club, New York, New York, USA. Osler writes of medical literature and requests images and photos for a paper he is working on. He will also edit a seven volume Systems of Medicine.
Letter to Henry Vining Ogden from William Osler, University Club, Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA. Osler congratulates Ogden on his recent engagement. Osler will sail for a short stay in England, while Mrs. Osler spends the summer at Murray Bay.
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 Charles Ferdinand Martin from William Osler, University Club, Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA. Osler writes of his decision to accept the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford. He has sent Martin a copy of his Ingersoll Lecture on Science and Immortality. [See CUS417/101.41]
Letter to C.N.B. Camac from William Osler, University Club, Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, USA. Osler writes to inform Camac that he has accepted the Regius Professorship of Medicine at Oxford. Osler is tired of the strain of his work in Baltimore and considers the Oxford position his retirement.