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Mostly ALS, a TLS and a typed note, unsigned. Osler's correspondents include Arnold C. Klebs, S. Weir Mitchell, W. Fleming, Mrs. Parmelee, and Charles Loomis Dana. Letters relate to personal, family and professional affairs and Osler's interest in medical history.

ANS. Asks the librarian of the Royal Society for the "Philosophical Transactions" of 1872.

ALS. Response to the editor's inquiries regarding the tuition and course of studies at the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women.

ALS. Thanks addressee for prints sent to the Princess Charlotte.

Collection comprises three provincial ballots (8.5"x17"), from the South African provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, and the Western Cape. Instructions on how to fill out the form are provided in 11 languages, including English, Zulu, Afrikaans, Northern Sotho, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Swazi, Ndebele, and Venda. Ballots are printed in full color, with each of the 19 parties represented by a symbol, code, and party leader photograph. The Inkatha Freedom Party was a late entrant into the race, and its information was affixed via a sticker. During the election, each voter cast two votes via two separate ballots, one each for the national versus provincial elections. Voter's selected a party, not an individual candidate, to represent them in the National Assembly and the provincial legislatures.

The Southern Sweet Gum Company was a chewing gum manufacturer in Greensboro (Guilford Co.), N.C. Collection comprises 8 full-color advertising trade cards (approx. 4x6 in.), featuring authors and composers, produced as a purchasing incentive for the chewing gum. Included are cards for Burns, Byron, Dickens, Goethe, Longfellow, Mozart, Schiller, and Tennyson. Missing from the collection are Wagner, Beethoven, and Liszt. The cards are undated, but there is documentation for the company's location in Greensboro between 1898 and 1903.

ALS. Explains that he must defer giving his lectures on fever until the end of the course and that the fever hospital is not yet set up to receive patients.

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Letter (ALS) reports the whereabouts and activities of Joseph Henry, his brother-in-law, and A.D. Bache and lists the "scientific men of London" with whom they were in contact, including Faraday, Wheatstone, Babbage, Barlow, Dr. Gregory and a Professor Powell of Oxford.

ALS. Paget writes a cordial personal letter to a Dr. Ewens. Sir Frederick Treves writes Paget regarding the Research Defence Society.

Document, signed. John Mitchell petitions the Hospital for admittance. The Hospital receives the promise of John Haighton, physician, to supply the patient with clean body linen weekly and to remove the body at his expense, if the patient should die within the Hospital's care.

The Superior Match Company was founded by Harold Meitus in 1932 in Chicago, Ill, and manufactured Union Label Advertising matchbooks. Collection comprises the company's matchbook advertising catalog no. 956 (192 pp., in binder), along with twenty sales representative's forms, including business and dealer identification cards, commission request forms, mailing labels, business reply and rush order envelopes, order pads, and a brief case order form. The order pads hold copies of a few orders placed in 1960 for businesses in Youngstown, Ohio.

Card signed by Swale Vincent, 17-10-1919.

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ALS and manuscript, signed. Letters from Thomas to Robert P. Harris, of Philadelphia, statistician of cases of Ceasarean section and extra-uterine pregnacy in New York City and its environs. Manuscript, signed, appears to be a questionnaire sent by Harris and filled out by Thomas on a case of gastro-hysterotomy.

ALS. Sends copies of Bentley's lectures, promises more.

ALS. Asks Brown, a bookseller, to send volumes of the Boston Journal of Natural History to Mr. A. Halsey of Hartford, and to see that the journal is on sale and advertised in the principal cities and towns.

Autograph document, signed by Thauraux. For the receipt of seventy-two livres from the estate of M. Guilhier.

The letter from Theodore Child to Samuel Putnam Avery refers to acquisition of Grolier-bound volume now in the Trent Collection at Duke University Medical Center Library: Benedetti's Anatomice, 1527.

Photograph, letter (ALS), and signature sample.