Letter from Grace Osler to her sister, Susan Chapin [Transcript]
- Title:
- Letter from Grace Osler to her sister, Susan Chapin [Transcript]
- Creator:
- Osler, Grace
- Contributor:
- Cushing, Harvey (Transcriber)
- Recipient:
- Chapin, Susan
- Date:
- 15 October 1914
- Description:
- Osler has just returned from the Canadian Hospital near Folkestone, located in a house donated by Mrs. Markham. Lady Osler explains that the undergraduates at Oxford are much diminished as a result of the war. She relates news of family and friends, and is particularly anxious about Josephine Phelps, who remains in Antwerp. She has advised Osler to send his books to America for safe-keeping during the war.. [Description courtesy of McGill University.]. About this transcript: Soon after Osler's death in 1919, Lady Osler asked their good friend Dr. Harvey Cushing to write a biography. For this project, Cushing gathered a wide variety of material, including a substantial amount of Osler correspondence and other memorabilia borrowed from Osler's family, friends, and colleagues. He employed three secretaries to transcribe these documents, and later donated the transcripts (along with his other working materials) to the Osler Library. Because many of the original documents were returned to the owners, the Cushing transcripts constitute the largest and most accessible collection of Osler's correspondence.. Harvey Cushing's "Life of Sir William Osler" was published by Oxford University Press in 1925, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1926.
- Original Repository:
- Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Osler Library Archive Collections, P417: Harvey Cushing Fonds
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Genre:
-
Letters (correspondence)
Transcripts - Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 1 pages
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University. Osler Library Archive Collections, P417: Harvey Cushing Fonds. 12841
- Legacy ID:
- GFBBLY
- NLM ID:
- 101743406X187
- Profiles Collection:
- The William Osler Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743406X187
- Story Section:
- Sir William: Regius Professor at Oxford, 1905-1919