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Title: Earl F. Nation Collection
Dates (inclusive): 1896-1980
Collection Number: mssNation collection
Creator:
Nation, Earl F., 1910-.
Extent: 231 items in 1 box
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains papers of Dr. Earl F. Nation (1910-2008), a Southern California physician and biographer of physician
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), a
founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The collection chiefly consists of photocopies of correspondence between Sir and Lady William
Osler to Charles Nicoll Bancker
Camac.
Language: English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services
Department. For more information, contact Reader Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to
quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such
activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is
one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Earl F. Nation Collection, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
On permanent deposit from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dr. Earl F. Nation (1910-2008) was a prominent physician in the Southern California
community. After graduating from the Western Reserve Medical School in 1935, he
began a long and distinguished career as a prominent community physician and active
member of various national professional groups. He served as president of the
Western Section Association of Urological Association (AUA) in 1970. In 1978, he became
president of the national American Urological Association. Throughout his tenure, he
helped preserved urologic history. He also became a devoted biographer of the
influential early-twentieth century physician, Sir William Osler. Nation collected
Osler’s correspondence and published the collection under the title
Student and Chief: the Osler-Camac Correspondence (1980).
Nation also annotated a bibliography of Osler’s works,
An
Annotated Checklist of Osleriana
(1976). He continued to attend and
participate in AUA meetings until his death at age 98.
The correspondence between Sir and Lady William Osler to Charles Nicoll Bancker
Camac forms the bulk of the Earl Nation Collection. Other correspondents include
John M. Connor, librarian for the Los Angeles County Medical Association, Clifford
Pilz and William Bennett Bean. For the most part, these letters are arranged
chronologically and then according to author. The one exception is Clifford Pilz’s
letter in Folder 3 explaining and enclosing copies of the letters from William Henry
Welch to C.N.B. Camac; the letters in this folder are arranged as found in the
original collection. The Osler and Camac reproductions span the years 1896-1926,
while Earl Nation’s later correspondence about the collection covers the years 1960
to 1980.
Included are two folders of ephemera, mainly photographic copies of the Osler
correspondence. In addition, these folders contain photographs of Sir William Osler
and envelopes linking the photos to Earl F. Nation.
Correspondence chiefly arranged
chronologically and then according to author, followed by ephemera.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Nation, Earl F.,
1910-.
Osler, William, Sir,
1849-1919.
Medical libraries -- California -- Los
Angeles.
Medicine -- History -- 19th century --
Sources.
Medicine -- History -- 20th century --
Sources.
Physicians -- United States --
Correspondence.
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States -- 19th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- United
States -- 20th century.
Photocopies -- United States -- 20th
century.
Photographs -- United States -- 20th
century.
Bean, William Bennett.
Camac, C. N. B. (Charles Nicoll
Bancker), 1868-1940, recipient.
Osler, Grace Revere Gross, Lady.
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919.
Los Angeles County Medical
Association, former owner.