Letter to A.E. Cowley from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Would like to see the manuscripts of Dioscorides in Arabic. He is in bed with a mild bronchitis. Asks him to send it to him by his wife. Asks him if it is a good Arabic manuscript and if the price asked is reasonable.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from Charles W. Eliot, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Eliot provides information on Osler's Ingersoll Lecture, by which he was not very impressed. He instructs Cushing to contact F.W. Hunnewell about Osler's correspondence with the Harvard President's office.
Letter to Thomas R. Boggs from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks. Will be glad to have the reports as he wants to publish a reprint of his "Syphilis and Aneurysm" paper. Glad to hear that the reunion was a great pleasure. Will send back his pin by Wiel. Glad that McCrae is well again. Civilities.
Letter to Francis R. Packard from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Arrangements for a visit to Philadelphia. Osler is delighted that Packard has started a Historical Club. He asks Packard to deliver a talk in Baltimore for the Book and Journal Club of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.
Letter to John H. Musser from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Osler congratulates Musser on the fourth edition of his text book. Osler has sent him a copy of "Sir Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors and Urn Burial." Osler picked up several treasures while in England over the summer, which he intends to donate to the College of Physicians' Library.
Letter to John George Adami from William Osler, 1, West Franklin Street, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Invitation to the Tuberculosis exhibit at McCoy Hall in Baltimore. Osler requests that Adami present a lecture at the event. Additional notes by Adami. Includes manuscript notes.
Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 44, Avenue d' Iena, Paris, France. Did not find Vernon's address yet. Mention of a lecture at the Tropical Disease Society at the Pasteur and Laverand, on an account of the treatment of sleeping sickness by the French Commission. Anecdote of a letter from Jacobs confusing Magnin with Pirquet. Mention of a dinner given by the Dean of the Faculty, Landouzy. Chauffard and gave a dinner and Raymond also. Mrs. Osler goes to Oxford to bring back Revere. He has bought a first edition of Avenbrugger and a Gilbert's Magnet which he got at the Amherst sale. Morgan bought the Caxtons. Civilities.
Letter to William Osler from Thomas Barlow, 10, Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, London, England. Congratulations on his baronetcy. Tribute to his peace making and binding together ways of the different interests of medicine at home and abroad.
Letter to Edward F. Milburn from William Osler, From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mention of Revere's pneumonia. They are having a busy summer. Sorry about Robert Milburn's death, his brother. They saw Mrs. Campbell. Civilities.