Emilius Clark Dudley papers

The collection consists of eight binders assembled by professor Emilius Clark Dudley, MD, as well as a bound volume of Dudley's lectures transcribed by Enoch Arden during the 1882-83 school year (box 3). Two binders contain the typed and annotated manuscript for his book The Medicine Man, a combined memoir-medical history (box 1). The other six are scrapbooks and contain writings, correspondence, and ephemera related to Dudley's career.
Contents of the scrapbook volumes include: 1) speeches given by Dudley at various association meetings; 2) correspondence, particularly with Northwestern University Medical School Dean Nathan Smith Davis, Jr., related to Dudley's tenure as professor and chair of gynecology, including his attempt to resign and his thoughts about consolidating NUMS with the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, as well as Dudley's membership in various medical and nonmedical organizations; 3) correspondence and ephemera related to Dudley's tenure as professor, and organization membership; 4) speeches given by Dudley at various association meetings; 5) correspondence and ephemera related to Dudley's trip to China in 1922 to teach at "Yale in China," a campus of Yale University in Changsha, China; 6) letters from various people, arranged alphabetically.