CUSHING, HARVEY. 1869-1939.


Autograph Note Signed ("H.C."), to Thomas Cullen, regarding Cullen's co-authored book Myomata of the Uterus, 2 p, recto and verso, 90 x 112 mm, Baltimore, October 8, [1909], on card with Cushing's return address pre-printed at upper left.. WITH: KELLY, HOWARD A. 1848-1953; and CULLEN, THOMAS STEPHEN. 1868-1953. Myomata of the Uterus. Philadelphia: W.B Saunders, 1909. 8vo. Green cloth gilt. Calling card of Cullen loosely inserted. Ownership inscription on free front endpaper, rubbed, light browning.WITH: ROBINSON, JUDITH. Tom Cullen of Baltimore. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1949. Publisher's beige cloth, pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED on free front endpaper "With kind regards, Thomas S. Cullen, Oct 11 (?), 1949." Sunned on spine, tears to jacket.WITH: Photogravure portraits of Kelly and Cullen, 259 x 179 mm and 207 x 159 mm, both with facsimile signatures printed at bottom margin. Cushing writes to Cullen "Dear Tom, the long awaited Myomata volume is bully. It more than makes up for the hard work and long pull for home put in it.... Would that I had the energy — and information — for something as good in my own line." Cullen was an 1890 graduate of the University of Toronto who began his lifelong career at Johns Hopkins in 1892 as Howard Kelly's assistant. Their collaboration is notable for its 388 illustrations, which the authors describe in their preface: "The illustrations have been made with wonderful accuracy in detail by Mr. August Horn and Mr. Hermann Becker. Further comment is unnecessary....