Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
OSLER, WILLIAM, Sir. Autograph Note Signed, to "dear Guthrie" [i. e., the London physician Leonard George Guthrie?], thanking him for condolences on the death of the Oslers' son Edward Revere. One page on Osler's 13 Norham Gardens stationery, 12mo; glued along top edge to larger sheet. Oxford, 16 September 1917

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The Oslers' second and only surviving son after their first died in infancy, Edward Revere succumbed to shrapnel wounds in Flanders on 30 August 1917 at the age of 22.