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HARVEY CUSHING FONDS

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P417 Name: Harvey Williams Cushing, 1869-1939 Harvey Cushing fonds.- 1920-1924. –208 cm of textual records and other records. Biographical Sketch: Harvey Cushing was born on April 8, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the youngest child of Henry Kirke Cushing, physician, and Betsey Maria Williams. In 1902, he married Katharine Stone Crowell and they had five children: William Harvey, Mary Benedict, Betsey, Henry Kirke and Barbara. He went to primary and secondary school in Cleveland. He received his A.B. at Yale University in 1891, and his M.A., M.D., at Harvard University in 1895. He died on October 7, 1939, in New Haven, Connecticut. Cushing began his career at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1895-96. He moved to Baltimore to work at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where he stayed for 15 years, mostly at the Faculty of Surgery. In 1912, he returned to Harvard as Professor of Surgery and also worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1913-1932). In 1933, he became Professor of Neurology at Yale, a position he held until 1937. Considered a pioneer of Neurosurgery, he made several fundamental discoveries about the pituitary gland. Bibliophile and an earnest collector of books, he published many essays and other literary works, among them the 1926 Pulitzer prize-winning biography of William Osler. Custodial History: The fonds was donated to the Osler Library by Harvey Cushing in 1932. Old accession numbers 234, 235, 348, 417 and 455. Scope and Content: The fonds consists entirely of the material of Harvey Cushing assembled for the biography of William Osler, from 1920 to 1924. It also contains information on Osler. Cushing had collected and retyped over 7500 pieces of Osler’s correspondence for his own work, among which are some original letters of the latter. The fonds is separated into three series: Manuscripts, Working Notes and Osler’s Correspondence. It also contains photographs, annual reports, publications, clippings, one watercolor painting, and one postcard. Source of supplied title proper: Title based on the document of the fonds. Language: The documents are mainly in English, but some are in German and there are notes in Latin. Finding Aids: Findings aids of Series 3: inventory on paper for the correspondence for the period 1849-1902, inventory on Access of correspondence for the period 1905-1920.

General Note: Includes 208 cm of textual records, ca. 88 photographs, one watercolor painting, and one postcard. The paper records are very friable. Other Cushing archives are also kept at the Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, at the Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library and at the Allan Mason Chesney Medical Archives. Conservation and description of the fonds to be done.

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Cushing, Harvey Williams, 1869-1939 Letters to and from Harvey Cushing, 1912-1925. [25]t. hdw., ink, and typescript.

Mainly copies of letters received by Cushing on the publication of his The Life of Sir William Osler •

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Letter, n.d., l'Dec. 26", from Cushing, The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, to '-Charles" (Parfitt?]. hdw. ink. '~hatrs a nice and highly appreciated Christmas Day letter from you. The long story was written with thoughts of you and fellows like you in mind

II ... Letter, 1920, Nov. 11, from Cushing, Peter

Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, to F. J. Shepherd, Montreal. typescript. He thanks Shepherd for and returns "additional letters" (from Osler?), concluding I~at a splendid vision he had about the School", and commenting on General Currie's ability to bring about reforms; alsO comments on lack of letters from the Osler family and perhaps this is the fault of Norman Gwyn. I

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Letter, 1920, Aug. 12, from Cushing, to Dr. Shepherd.

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typescript. He thanks Shepherd for the enclosures from Miss MacDonnell and wonders about the location of some pathological reports Which Osler had in Baltimore.

I~voice, 1919, Sept. 11, to Cushing from Ryman & Co., Limited, Oxford, for "photographing painting by Calcar (?) & prints", etc. typescript.

Letter, 1919, May 31, from Henry H. Donal~son, The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, to Cushing, Boston. typescript. I~ greatly regret that ••• in the matte of the Vesalius Iconography I haVe to report in the sense of Greenman's letter to me ••• "

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Letter, 1912, Oct. l4,·from Cushing, Har­vard University Medical School Dept. of Surgery, Boston, to Prof. Paul Heger. typescript. He thanks Heger for a pamphlet on Vesalius by Alphonse Wauters, dis­cusses Osler's and Sudhoff's plan to have a special session on Vesalius at the International Medical Congress in 1913, at which Cushing hopes to pre­sent a report on the portraits of Vesalius. He also would like to know the history of a portrait of Vesa1ius by Titian presented to Granville by Canova, according to Osler.

Letter, 1920, Aug. 17, from A. Ma1t"by, Oxford, to Cushing. hdw" ., ink. Reminiscences by bookbinder to the Bodleian Library of Revere Osler and sir William Osler.

The following items are typescript copies of congratulatory letters and extracts of letters to Cushing on the publication of his The Life of Sir William Osler:

Letter, 1925, May 27, from Robert M. Yerkes, Prof. Psychology, Yale.

Letter, n.d., May 27, from Francis R. Packard, Philadelphia.

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Letter, n.d., May 31, from Mabel Agassiz "[Mrs. George] ", Ponkapoag, MA;Lss.

Letter, n.d., May 31, from Blanchard Randal "[Trustee J.B.U. and J.B.H.]" Baltimore

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13 Letter, n.d., May 31, n(2nd time)", from Howard A. Kelly, Baltimore.

14 Letter, n.d., May 30, from W. G. MacCallum,

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Letter, n.d., June 3, from Stuart P. Sherman "[literary editor, N. Y. Herald-Tribune] I ,

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Letter, n.d., JOne 1, from Norman B. Gwyn, Toronto.

Letter, n.d., May 23, from E. Sharpey Schafer, North Berwick, Scotland. He comments on the "cavilling remarks in some of the reviews - that you have given too much detail. 11

Letter, n.d., May 25, from James Bovell Johnson, Bridgwater, England.

Letter, 1925, April 12, from Archibald Malloch, Montreal.

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Letter, n.d., April 20, from William H. Welch, Baltimore.

Letter, n.d., April 21, from E. S. Martin, New York City.

Letter, n.d., April 22, from Amy McCrae, Philadelphia.

Letter, n.d., April 23, from E. S. Martin, New York City. He notifies Cushing of his editorial on the biography of Osler in "Life" of May 7th.

Letter, n.d., April 27, from Walter Fletche , London.

Letter, n.d., May 1, from C.N.B. Camac, New York.

Letter, n.d., May 1, from "Jake. (H.B. Jacobs)", Baltimore.

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dor "(J .H.H. 1915)", Palmerton, Pa. I Letter, n.d., May 5, from Leonard Mackall, I

Savannah, Ga. I Letter, n.d., May 7, from Homer Gage

U(Harv. 1887) II, Worcester, Mass.

Letter, n.d., May 8, from A. D. Blackader, Montreal. r~ review of the volumes will appear in the June number of our magazine."

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40 Letter, n.d., May 10, "[second letter]", n.d. Box f from A.C. A[bbott], Philadelphia. !

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42 Letter, n.d., May 11, from Joseph H. Pratt, n.d. It . Brookline •

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49 Letter, n.d., May 19, from J. Heyward Gibbe1 n.d. II

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Schawb I 51 Letter, n.d., May 17, from Sidney I. n.d. " [sic], Cambridge, Mass. i

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Davison, Baltimore. He tells him that ! he wUl print a upreliminary review" of the biography in the June Number of

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54 Letter, n.d., May 15, from Edith E. R[eid], n.d. Box f Baltimore. She encloses [lacking] her review of the biography in 1'Forum."

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Abbott, Alexander Crever, 1860-1,935, '16,40 Agassiz, Mabel [Mrs. George] ,11 Batche1dor, Roger P ,35 Beards1ey,E~~9 John Gillespie ,39,53 Bigelow, Gwladys W [Mrs. Albert],

10 B1ackader, Alexander Dougall, 1847-1932,38 Brown, Lawrason, 1871-1937, 34 Camac, Charles Nicoll Bancker, 1868-1940,

31,44 Dana, Helen [Mrs. Jim. Mumford] ,15 Davison, Wi1burt Cornell, 1892- ,52 Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938,5 Donley, John Edward, 1880- ,48 Farnsworth, Lucy, ,47 Fletcher, Walter Morley, 1873-1933,30 Gage, Homer, ,37 Gibbes, J Heyward ,49 Gwyn, Norman Beechey, 1875-1952, 18 Heger, Paul Fran~ois Xavier, 1846-1925, 6

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Howard, Ottilie Wright, ,22 i 'Jacobs, Henry Barton, 1858-1939, 32 ! Johnson, James Bove11, ,20 I Kelly, Howard Attwood", '1858-1943, 13 : MacCallum, William George, 1874-1944, 14 I McCrae, Amy, ,28 I McCrae, Thomas, 1870-1935 ,24 I Mackall, Leonard Leopold, 1879-1937, 36 I

MCMurrich, James P1ayfair, 1859-1939, 43 'I

Malloch, Thomas Archibald, 1887-1953, 21 I Maltby, A ,7 i

Martin, Edward Sanford, 1856-1939, 23,27,291 Moore, J E ,46 . Mumford, Mrs. Jim, see' :

Dana, Helen [Mrs. Jim Mumford] I

Ogden, Frances ,55 Oxford. Ryman & Co., Limited, see

Ryman & Co., Limited, Oxford Packard, Francis Randolph, 1870-1950, 9 Parfitt, Charles Daniel, 1872-1951, 1 Pratt, Joseph Hersey, 1872-1956, 42 Randall, Blanchard ,12 Reid, Edith E[sic] ,54 Ryman & Co., Limited, Oxford ,4

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Schafer, E Sharpey ,19 Schawb, Sidney I ,51 Shepherd, Francis John, 1851-1929, 2-3 . Sherman, Stuart P ,17 Stengel, Alfred, 1868-1939, 45

I . Vander Hoof, Douglas ,33 Vaughan, Ellen Parkman, ,41 I Wagstaffe, William Warwick, 1886-1928, 25 Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927, 56

I Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934, 26 Wood, Edward Jenner, 1878-1928, 50 Wright, Ottilie, see

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Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546, 4 Canova ,6 Cushing, Harvey Williams, 1869-1939/

The Life of sir William Osler Da Cadore, see·

Titian, c.1477-1576 Granville, Greenman, Gwyn, Norman Beechey, 1875-1952, 2 Il Divino, see

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International Congress of Medicine, see International.Medical Congress

International Medical Congress, 17th, London, 1913. Historical Section, 6

Kalkar, Jan Stephan van, see Calcar, Jan Stephan van, 1499-1546

MacDonnell, (Miss), 3 Montreal General Hospital

Post-mortem book, 3 Montreal General Hospital

Reports clinical and pathological, see Montreal General Hospital

Pathological reports Osler, Edward Revere, 1895-1917, 7 Osler, sir William, 1849-1919 Osler family, 2 Sudhoff, Karl Friedrich Jacob, 1853-1938, Titian, c.1477-1576, 6 Tiziano Vecellio, see

Titian, c.1477-1576 Vecelli, see

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Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564, '5-6 Wauters. Alphonse Guillaume Ghislain. 1617-1

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