Letter to Harvey Cushing from George Dock, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Dock offers information on Osler's connection to a certain stethoscope. He sees no reason to doubt Edwards' note on the matter. He recommends that Cushing contact Dr. M. Howard Fussell, who became Osler's assistant in Philadelphia. Osler writes of Fussell in the introductory chapters of the first edition of "Modern Medicine."

Letter to Harvey Cushing from Ernest Sacks, 97, Arundel Place, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Sacks praises Cushing's "Life of Sir William Osler." In his work with students, Sacks has always held Osler up as the ideal to be followed.

Letter to Harvey Cushing from George Dock, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Dock writes regarding an editorial he wrote in the Physician & Surgeon of Ann Arbor, May 1905. He offers to send Cushing a little volume of Students Notes, Normal Histology, 1882. Osler told him that he originally went to England to study Ophthalmology with Sir William Bowman, but that Bowman encouraged Osler to take up Physiology with Burdon-Sanderson. It was from this point that Osler became interested in Internal Medicine. Incl. ms. notes.