The Penfield fonds consists of over eighty metres of Penfield's personal and professional records dating from his childhood up until his death in 1976, including during his career at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The materials in the fonds include photographs, correspondence, manuscripts and drafts of publications and speeches, research notes, glass slides, bound reports, films, and academic gowns.
This file contains correspondence to and from William Bentley from the Comptroller’s Office and A.P. Glassco from the Bursar’s Office regarding the requisition, payment and accounting of funds granted to Wilder Penfield, specifically in setting up routine statements of account.
This file contains correspondence to and from William Bentley as Comptroller of the Bursar’s Office and A.P. Glassco as Secretary, regarding the requisition, payment and accounting of funds. Mention is made to the Rockefeller Foundation Grant. In addition, a letter to A.P. Glassco from the Dean of the Department of Neurology is included discussing the recommended changes in the department’s budget.
This file contains correspondence to and from C.F. Martin as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor J. Simpson regarding budget concerns. Included is reference to the care and upkeep of the Animal House with specific mention to the monkeys and cats housed there.
This file contains correspondence to and from C.F. Martin as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine regarding budgets, articles and the Rockefeller Foundation Grant. In addition, there is a letter to Sir Arthur Currie regarding the operative mortality of the Department of Neurosurgery and Neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute.
This file contains correspondence to and from C.F. Martin as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine regarding the staffing and lecture schedule of the Department of Neurosurgery. Included are reports from the Department of Neurosurgery for the years 1928-1929, 1931, 1932-1933, and 1933.
This file contains a letter to Sir Arthur Currie from the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, C.F. Martin, regarding the creation of the Penfield Research Fund and the terms for its creation and use, 1930. There is also a letter from Sir Arthur Currie to Wilder Penfield informing him to ignore a forwarded letter, 1932.
The file consists of memoranda, correspondence, reports, and suggestions for an Institute of Psychiatry at McGill University. This includes discussions on the creation of a department of Psychiatry; on teaching of psychiatry; a report on the practice of psychiatry in England; suggestions and lists of psychiatrists to populate the new department; and the CV and recommendations for Dr. Ewen Cameron as psychiatrist at McGill.
The file consists of correspondence between Wilder Penfield and Theodore Rasmussen reminiscing on the Department of Psychiatry, including a photocopy of a letter from Penfield to D.E. Cameron.