Letter from David S. Jordan to John William Dawson, written from Palo Alto, California.

Letter to William Osler from Ray Lyman Wilbur, d Junior University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Mentions a meeting of the American Association in Chicago. Asks him if he would consider preparing a set of lectures to be given as the Lane Medical Lectures here in connection with the Stanford University in the fall of 1919. The lectures would be a form of study on the great general facts in medicine that have been brought to the surface by the war and particularly by the assembling together of great bodies of men. Comments about the issue of the war. Mentions his work with Hoover in the food conservation end of the Food Administration.

Letter to William Osler from Ray Lyman Wilbur, Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Invitation to give the Lane Medical Lectureship for 1913, at the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Letter to William Osler from David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Invitation to give, at some time between the 15th of September, 1912 and the First of April, 1913, a course of three lectures under the West Foundation on some phase of the general subject of "Immortality, Human Conduct, and Human Destiny". Details on the conditions. The series of these lectures was given by Charles E. Jefferson. A copy of the conditions of the lectureship as decided by the parents of Raymon Frederic West, to whose memory this lectureship has been decided.

Letter to William Osler from Ray Lyman Wilbur, Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California, USA. Explains that he sent his cable after the receipt of his former letter, because they concluded from it that Osler was not able to give the lectures in the fall, but could give them in the spring. Hopes that he will give them one day. Civilities.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from H.W.(?) Meyer, 121, Waverley Street, Palo Alto, California, USA. Meyer(?) compliments Cushing on his book, "Life of Sir William Osler."