"Dr. Osler and his Friends: A Graceful Act and its Acknowledgment." The graduating classes of 1885, '86 and '87 in medicine from McGill University presented Osler, now of Philadelphia, with a gold hunting case as a token of their esteem. Includes Osler's acknowledgment of the gift, which he read before a meeting of medical students.

"Dr. William Osler." Editorial from the Canadian Practitioner, November 1884, Vol. 9, p. 349 regarding Osler's transfer from Montreal to Philadelphia. Includes manuscript notes.

Letter to Henry Vining Ogden from William Osler, 131, South 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Osler sends words of congratulations. He offers to send Ogden a copy of Stewart's lecture on Digitalis from the Canadian Medical & Surgical Journal.

Letter to Henry Vining Ogden from William Osler, 131, South 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Osler saw Cantlie, who is looking well and thriving in Chicago. He relates news of Marian Francis and her children. Osler plans to go to England from March to the end of April, and will miss the Association meeting in New Orleans. Includes manuscript notes.

Cushing's manuscript notes regarding editorials published in the Canadian Medical & Surgical Journal in 1884, which were likely written by Osler.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Hon. Justice Featherston Osler, 80, Crescent Road, Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Featherston Osler explains that William Osler brought their aunt, Miss Mary Anne Pickton, to Canada in 1884. Miss Pickton lived with Osler's parents on Wellesley Street in Toronto until her death in February 1886. William Osler and Miss Pickton were very close; she may have helped fund Osler's studies in Germany. He mentions his aunt Lizzie [Elizabeth Osler], his father's youngest sister.

Letter to Samuel McClintock Hamill from William T. Sharpless, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Sharpless writes of his memories of Osler at Blockley Hospital. He first saw Osler when he delivered the introductory lecture to the freshman class of the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. Sharpless was a medical intern at Blockley, but Dr. Caspar W. Sharpless was Osler's immediate assistant. He comments on Osler's abilities as a lecturer, his influence in the wards, his sense of humour, his great consideration for patients and students, and his habit of turning his own mistakes into teaching tools.

Cushing's handwritten manuscript notes regarding Osler's work in Morbid Anatomy and on the Pathological Reports for the Montreal General Hospital.

Letter to Henry Pickering Bowditch from John S. Billing, Washington, D.C., USA. Billings sends a memorandum of recommendations and nominations by the Executive Committee, which he urges Bowditch to promptly vote on.

"Pennsylvania Sustains the Code of Ethics: The Action of the American Medical Association Endorsed." List of the men who attended meetings of the American Medical Association in New Orleans and Chicago in 1885, and who have agreed to endorse the Washington Congress of 1887.