OSLER, WILLIAM. 1849-1919.


Typed Letter Signed ("Wm Osler") to Dr. Algernon Coolidge, noting an editorial by Osler on Coolidge's recent work, 1 p, 8vo, Baltimore, July 23, 1889, on Johns Hopkins Hospital letterhead, with autograph additions, old folds, with original autograph transmittal envelope. AN EARLY JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL LETTER, written just 8 weeks after it had opened. In part, "I have been going over your work with the greatest interest and profit, particularly as it bears out the views I have expressed ... you will see in the News for this week a brief review ["review" overwritten "editorial" by Osler] which I had the pleasure of writing." With autograph postscript offering kind regards to his father. The "editorial" mentioned was published anonymously in the Medical News (1889, Vol LV), a review of Coolidge's "The Mortality of Acute Lobar Pneumonia." See Golden & Roland 571.