(W. O. to H. A. Lafleur)
Dr. William Osler
No. 1 West Franklin Street
Baltimore, Feb. 18th, 1893.
Dear Lefleur: -
Thanks for Peter Ibbetson, which I shall certainly read on your recommendation. I had intended to write to you last evening, to tell you about my domestic troubles. Mrs. Osler was confined a week ago last Monday, and fortunately has done very well, but the small boy died at the end of the week, very much to our sorrow. He seemed all right for five or six days and then developed a sudden coma. The birth was an exceedingly easy one, he was a little asphyxiated, and I suppose there was a slight meningeal hemorrhage, and subsequent clotting in the veins or sinuses.
Everything goes very smoothly at the hospital. We hope to arrange to open our medical school in October. There has been a slight hitch about the terms of admission, but they have all been settled. We hope to be able to secure Mall in Anatomy.
We should go to Toronto at Easter, and very probably go round to Boston by way of Montreal. Please do not forget that you promise to spend a week here sometime in the spring. Your room will be ready at any time.
Sincerely yours,
Wm Osler.