The collection consists of a journal kept sporadically from 3 August 1835 to 4 July 1839 as well as a notebook titled "Mathematics, 1835;" a handwritten synopsis of the lives of Sir Herbert Taylor and Sir Charles Forbes; and a letter from Sir Charles Forbes to Lord John Russell, 1848, concerning Charles J. Briscoe and his family. It includes two black-and-white photographs of Charles J. Briscoe, a typewritten list of the "Loan collection of Mr. John Kerr", and a list of the lectures of the Philosophical and Geological Society by S. Frye, President, dated November 7, 1841.
Letter to George Grey Turner from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for sending a letter from a Scot who has been influenced by "Way of Life". Sends him a reprint of his sermonette on 'Science and Immortality'.
Letter to John Young Walker MacAlister from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Asks to have a Committee room to discuss a Tuberculosis Journal problem, on the 28th. Mentions that some young men are trying to plan a new Tuberculosis journal. He is trying to induce them to fuse with the British Journal of Tuberculosis and get the various tuberculosis bodies involved in order to obtain a first class journal.
Letter to John Goodwin from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Would be pleased to act on the History of War Committee. Will write to Fletcher about some points.
Letter to Robert Falconer from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mentions that Duncan Graham's appointment has been well received in England. He is inviting all the Professors of Medicine in the U.K. to meet him at a dinner at the Athenaeum. Graham will be the first whole-time Professor of Medicine appointed in the British Empire.
Letter to George Newman from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Hopes he will come to Duncan Graham dinner and see the subject of this whole time Professor experiment. Mentions that he thinks that Graham is the first man to be appointed in a British School, so that he is inviting the teachers of Medicine from the U.K. and Ireland to meet him.
Letter to George H. Simmons from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Accepts something. Asks him to let him have some columns on July 12th for a message to his many friends. Comments on the political situation in Europe, on the role of the USA. Sends a contribution to the Archives of Neurology on the new encephalitis. Mentions that he is not going in America this Summer.
Letter to Harvey Cushing from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. (From Miss Smart's notebook). Letter referring to the Vesal iconography.
