Letter to Joseph Hersey Pratt from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Wishes he was here. He referred to his Tuberculosis work in an address at Leicester. He has little time for writing. Mentions his library and his catalogue. Anecdote of Osler buying Withering's letters. Comments on Withering. Asks him for a photo of his family. Mentions the anniversary of the death of Revere. It has been a hard blow.
Letter to Thomas Archibald Malloch from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Hopes that W.W. Francis will get over before long. Discussion about the case of a Mrs. H. who has had anisocoria.
Letter to William Sydney Thayer from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Longing to see him. Asks if Longscope has come over. Love to the latter, to Boggs and to Finney. They are busy but unhappy (Revere's death). They have stood the year better than could have expected. Mentions his visit at the Heart Hospital in Colchester. Suggests he use Gordon Sanders at Cannes. Kind comments on the latter. Civilities.
Extract from Archibald Malloch's journal. They went to the Radcliffe to look about history of anaesthetics. Osler told them of Buller who wanted him to invest money in a wildcat scheme. Osler told them of James Hamilton who lost all his money in a scheme. Anecdote of an autopsy on case of Hodgkins' disease with Shearman in Montreal. Mentions that Osler works a little at the new edition of the textbook.
Extract from Archibald Malloch's journal. Mentions the book of Parkes Weber dedicated to Osler. Osler is to review book for Annals of History of Medicine. Rand of Harvard was there for lunch. The latter is interested in Locke. Osler said that Welch was born with hypertrophy of the heart. Comments on the College and F.R.C.S. exam which is a disgrace. Mentions Osler's letter to the Lancet. Norman Moore would have to give up the power. Mentions N.M. the first Royal C. President since reformation. Cunliffe was here for tea and talked about postgraduate work for all kinds of students in Europe. Suggestion for his case cards. Grace told him of one of Osler's jokes on Jack Heweston.
Extract from Archibald Malloch's journal. Comments about a doctor Dewar and his wife. Osler relates an offer he received from Copeland and St. John who had a medical school in Chicago. American Army officers from Chicago came to dinner. Anecdote on Osler on the train where a Baptist parson told Osler about his aneurysm and Osler pretending he knew nothing of such things and not a medico. Mentions pirated textbook selling like hot cakes in a Liverpool bookseller's shop. He did not give himself away.
Letter to John George Adami from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Finley writes that he may not be able to come to Osler's dinner at the Athenaeum. Strong will probably be there and Meakins has accepted.
Letter to John Cohn Hemmeter from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Asks him if he has spare reprints of Pastor Tollin. Interested particularly in the one on Cesalpinus and on any of the Servetus ones. All well here. Mentions the Americans coming and going all the time.
Letter to Francis John Shepherd from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Asks news. He has not seen Ernest. Mentions that they are busy. They have many American friends who visit them. This week, he has lectured at Shorncliffe, visited the American Hospitals. He has given a dinner to Finley and Meakins. Good comments on the latter. Harvey Littlejohn who was talking of the Burke and Hare memories, Osler told him of the late persistence of body-snatching in Montreal. Littlejohn suggested that Shepherd could write up the story. Osler asks him if he accepts to do it. If it is not for publication, Osler will put it with his Resurrectionist literature, in the 1829 Parliamentary Report on the Anatomy Act. Mentions his library, of the anaesthesia section. Sends him a reprint of remarks, made at the presentation of some duplicates to the Royal Society of Medicine. Civilities. Love to Gardner and Roddick.
