Series consists of materials relating to AOS publications, including the Persisting Osler series, the American Osler Society Biographical Directory, and the newsletter The Oslerian. Includes correspondence, notes, working plan, photographs, quotations from printers, working sheets, curriculum vitae, bibliographies and biographic forms, newsletters and reprints.

Subseries consists of records showing partially the links between the American Osler Society and the American Association for the History of Medicine. Includes one file with correspondence and one agenda.

Subseries consists of records regarding the project of restoration of Sir William Osler’s house at 13 Norham Gardens in Oxford and the refurbishing of the library and other memorabilia in the house. The three files pertain to the funding of the project with a grant from the Commonwealth Fund and contain correspondence of the Green College committee as well as the correspondence with Sir John Walton. Includes correspondence, newsletter, permissions and a grant request.

Subseries consists of correspondence showing the links between the American Osler Society and the Osler Library at McGill University. Contains one file of correspondence with the Osler Librarian and information about the financial contributions of the Society to the Friends of the Osler Society, one file relating to the establishment of the Osler Library of History of Medicine of McGill University as the repository of the archives of the American Osler Society, one file with reports from the AOS Historian to the AOS Board of Governors about the archives. Includes correspondence, receipts, and newsletter.

Series contains documents representing the relationships with three external organizations. Includes correspondence, receipts, newsletter, grant request and one agenda.

Subseries consists of published pamphlets of the John P. McGovern Lecture, and manuscripts and correspondence accumulated during the preparation of the edited volume Our lords, the sick: McGovern Lectures in the history of medicine and medical humanism, by Larry Longo.

Subseries consists of the file of the speaker selected for the John P. McGovern Lecture.The presentation of the speaker is published afterwards in the John P. McGovern Lecture Series of the American Osler Society. Typical file includes correspondence, notification of selection, curriculum vitae, guidelines, presentation, manuscript, galley proofs, and drafts.

Subseries consists of documents created by members of the committee regarding the selection of the speaker for the John P. McGovern Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Osler Society. Includes one file of correspondence of the secretary-treasurer with John P. McGovern, guidelines of the committee, programs, press release and newspaper clipping.

Series consists of two subseries containing records generated by the John P. McGovern Lecture, which was established in 1986 through the endowment of the John P. McGovern Foundation. The lectureship makes possible an annual presentation of a paper dedicated to the general areas of Sir William Osler’s interests in the interface between the humanities and the sciences. The lectureship is awarded to a leader who is selected by a committee of the American Osler Society. The records include the documents of the John P. McGovern Lecture Committee (P125-H-1) and the records regarding the annual lecture (P125-H-2). Includes correspondence of the secretary-treasurer with John P. McGovern, guidelines of the committee, programs, press release and newspaper clipping.

Subseries consists of successful candidates files related to the William B. Bean Student Research Award. A typical candidate file contains applications forms, research proposals, curriculum vitae and bibliographies, letter of appraisal, correspondence and notification of award.