AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED from Osler to William Fingland. 12/28/1911.

2 pp. ALS on Osler's letterhead mounted in a gold frame (18 x 11.25 in.), alongside an oval photograph portrait of a young Osler. Fine. [Details on request]. The piece is written on stationery bearing the typed heading "13. Norham Gardens, Oxford," Osler's home address from 1907 until his death. This stationery is his personal letterhead from that time. The letter reads: "Dear Fingland, You dear kind man! What a delightful New Year gift! The Fell + Radcliffe letters are specially valuable. R. [Radcliffe] seems t[o] have written very little. We have few letters of his here. I wish you would come and spend a weekend + browse about the Bodleian with me I have a few things too that would interest you. With best wishes for the New Year, Sincerely yours, Wm. Osler." The 'Radcliffe' should be John Radcliffe (1650-1714), the noted English physician, and 'Fell' would be Dr. John Fell (1625-1686), both cited in Osler s Bibliotheca Osleriana. In fact, Osler s item #3492, edited by John Fell, the Restoration Dean of Christ Church, Bishop of Oxford, clearly interested Osler for the following reason as he wrote: ". . . It is supposed, though against the opinion of Dr. Friend, that he [Nemesius] knew the circulation of the blood." It was John Fell who edited the English edition of Nemesius, issued in 1657.

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Publisher: 1911.

Year: 1911

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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