Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks him for his present. Mentions that they had a merry Christmas. One of his brothers from B.C., whom he has not seen for 30 years, Joe Revere, and one of the Wright girls. Mentions that he got a Newton Principae. Revere has bid at Sotheby's for Landors Pericles and Aspasia and got it. Revere is taking an interest in good literature. Mentions that he got his etching out for Christmas. Hopes the Billings Library scheme will turn out right. C. might do it if Cadwallader and Welch asked him. Mentions a coolness between C. and him. Sorry for Barker. Gives his opinion on the whole time teacher. Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. News of their Christmas reunion. He had a niece and her children and Palmer Wright from Ottawa at home. News of Revere. Welch must have told him that W. A. Marburgh will make an offer for Payne's Library. Details on books at the new Barnet. Thanks him for the books. Mentions a possible trip to Egypt for six weeks with his brother E. B. Mrs. Osler does not care to go so far from the boy. Miss Woolley may come over while he will be away. Payne left him the Restitutio Christianismi of Servetus (1791) He has the Calvin. Will be glad of the Harvard Journal. Putnam's article on James in the Atlantic Monthly is interesting. Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mentions his cold. He has been doing too much and worried over the CAMC business. Glad that they got rid of Sam Hughes. Thanks for the Browne's "Miscellany Tracts". He only lacks the 1688 Dutch edition to complete his set. Thanks for his Christmas card. Comments on Woodrow Wilson. Gives his opinion on the war and the peace. News of Revere. Mentions that his battery is on a farm along the Ancre. Glad he is in the artillery. Susan Chapin, Archibald Malloch are with them and the Wrights will visit them tomorrow. Beat wishes for 1917. Mentions the death of their butler.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Thanks for the sketches for which he was waiting before ordering the Aesculapius picture. The Dolet books were not sold separately. Mentions the Norton books in the Harvard Treasure room. Plimpton of New York is lunching with them. Asks him if he ever saw his collection which is chiefly of old arithmetic. The catalogue "Rara Arithmetica" has just been published. Details on the reorganization and the renovation of the Bodleian. Sends him a slip about a gift from a South African diamond merchant ( Otto Beit Memorial to his brother, Alfred Beit, for Medical Research Fellowship). Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Christmas greetings. It will be a sad Christmas for so many people, but on the whole, there is much to be thankful for. Optimistic comments on the war. Words about the recruiting, the training and the spirit of the country. The help received from America was splendid and appreciated. Belgians need it badly. Mentions the group settled in Oxford. With the money Grace has raised and the Rockefeller Foundation they can hold out for a year at least. Words about the clothes arranged from American clothing by a dozen of the Belgian professors' wives in their drawing room. He is hoping to secure at auction for the Hopkins Library the Hutchinson collection. Marburg and Welch have cable a bid. Confident in getting it unless Wellcome bids for his Historical Museum. His brother left him another cheque last summer for his library. Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Has had from the Liverpool Tropical School a Mary Kinglsey medal which he will give Jacobs for his Baltimore Collection. It goes out to McCulloch. Asks him to thank the Secretary of the School for it. Love to the dear old man. Kind comments on Parkes Webber's 3rd edition of Aspects of Death in Art. Hampton Robb has been there. Draper is here today investigating the endemic encephalitis. Alonzo Taylor and Winter will come this weekend. Asks him to ask Storer if he has vol. 35 of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mentions that he had been busy with meetings, that the term has been long. Word on the examinations of that week. He had lost a bid on Jesse Foot Hunter at Sotheby's. He had had the 1643 Religio reprinted at the Clarendon Press and will give them as Christmas presents. Jacobs will get one. News of Revere. They have a French girl living with them this winter. Glad that he is arranging a celebration for Welch. Positive comment on the latter. Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Civilities. Expresses freely his opinion on the war. Sure it will be long. Finance may stop it and leave the issue undecided, which would be unfortunate. England or the USA has to smash Germany. The Navy will decide the war. Mentions the problems turning a democracy into a fighting people. Derby has done a good job in recruiting but lack of proper organization is sadly felt. On the whole the country has done wonderfully, but wishes to muzzle the politicians and the editors. Details of the fire in their dining-room. Lost only the Vernon plaque which melt. Revere is well, but because he did not have enough to do at the McGill Unit, is joining a field ambulance near Poperinghe. He longs to be back at Christ Church with his books. Many friends have lost their sons : Rolleston, Garrod, Moore, Harringham, Schäfer. Admires them in their self restraint. Grace is working with 120 women in a big laboratory. He sees all sort of wounded and sick. Mentions the visit of the Harvard Unit. Cheever seems a pivot. (attached is the program of their visit). Words about the growing of his library. A man from Bodley comes in the afternoon to work at the catalogue.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Mentions that they had had many visitors. He had been lecturing at Newcastle and at Cambridge. Mention of the new reforms which are under discussion. Sent a notice about the vote on the Greek question to the New York Nation. Will send him a reprint copy of "Man's Redemption of Man's" sermonette. Phillips has put it in his December number. Sends him a book by Weber on "Aspects of Death in Art". Will also send a copy to the Library. Civilities.

Letter to Henry Barton Jacobs from William Osler, 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Announces the death of Revere. Repeats that he knew it would come, the Fates have hit him hard at last. Compassion. Revere is at peace, out of the hell of a war he loathed. Only his love for his parents and his sense of duty took him among the combatants, as everything about war revolted him. Glad that he was happier at last and has been devoted to his men whom he admired. Osler's great consolation is that Cushing was with Revere at the end. Has no details except the wire from Cushing at 4:30 and the phone call from the War Office at 9:00 PM with a message from Stoggett. They are heart broken. Mentions his relationship with his son. Details about Revere's tastes. Few fathers can say they never spoke a cross word to a son, but he never had occasion to. Blessing for their sympathy. Glad that Susan Chapin is here.