7th March, 1912.
From the Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford.
Dear Harvey C.
That is indeed an attractive proposition--but everything turns upon how far you are pledged to Boston, and that is a point which you and Lowell would have to settle. If you have definitely accepted the position I do not see very well how you could get out of it. I have rather a feeling that there is a fine career for you in New England. I am quite sure they need you; at the same time, there would be, as you say, a great many administrative and other side-tracking duties.
I really must try to arrange for a glimpse of you all in Germany, but in any case you will be coming back through England? I may be able to pick you up somewhere on the road early in July.
I'm having a deuce of the time trying to revise my Text-book. I wish I had you at my elbow on these internal secretion problems! I have been struggling through Biedl this week. I shall be most interested to hear how your transplantation case succeeded. Where did you put it? Did you stitch it onto the velum interpositum, or did you split the septum lucidum?
I hope to be off for Italy early in April. Love to Kate in the darlings.
Sincerely yours,
Wm. Osler
13, Norham Gardens, Oxford.