The file contains a copy of the typescript ‘Thursday’s Child’ and includes 23 folders: Introduction The Birth of Neuropsychology; Ch.1 British Beginnings; Ch. 2 Independence &... Role Models; Ch. 3 America the Beautiful; Ch. 4 Detour with Enjoyment; Ch. 5 Becoming a Clinician in Slow Motion; Ch. 6 Initiation period: Goldstein...; Ch. 7 Second Initiation: Penfield & MNI; Ch. 8 Learning to speak with authority; Ch. 9 Inner Stress and the Stress tolerance ...; Ch. 10 the hyphen between two "lives"; Ch. 11 Hanging up a shingle; Ch. 12 Consulting away from home base; Ch. 13 New marriage, new paterns of living; Ch. 14 Modifications and innovations; Ch. 15 Emergence of Int'nl, Interdiscipline...;Ch. 16 Psychoanalysis - ...Insights; Ch. 17 Don't knock your idiosyncrasies...;Ch. 18 Major crisis; Ch. 19 Rebuilding, finding a home; Ch. 20 "Retirement"...Koffka letters; Ch. 21 Questions and Answers; Notes on Important names
The file contains further data from the Jackson Fmaily and copies of letters from the 1930s discussing the patent and blueprints for the family's bone drill.
This file contains documents related to the Third Foundation, including convocation program, Staff Day invitations, the Third Foundation Program, stationary samples, notices and notes for planning. Folder 2 of 2.
The file contains the diary of Wilder Penfield for November 1975 to April 1976. The diary details the last few months before his death in April 1976. This includes reflections on love, his marriage, his health, and finishing work on No Man Alone. Penfield has gone through and corrected his grammar and spelling or has expanded upon his initial thoughts, usually in pencil or pen. After the last entry, there is a line in a different hand started but most of it is illegible.
The file contains the diary of Wilder Penfield for December 1974 to October 1975. The front cover is inscribed “W.P. Journal Dec 74 → Oct 1975”. The volume is a previously used notebook as Penfield has crossed out previously used pages from 1933-1943 which contain lists of names and addresses and has written in the book upside down and backwards. The diary documents Penfield’s progress on No Man Alone, including his struggles to complete it and officially sending it to the publisher; offers of engagement including sermons and lectures; his health, including the diagnosis of rare inflammation of the muscles polymyostis; Helen’s health, including her broken hip and memory issues; reminisces on past events; and his concern about making his life useful. Penfield has gone through and corrected his grammar and spelling or has expanded upon his initial thoughts, usually in pencil or pen.
The file contains the diary of Wilder Penfield for May 1972 to May 1974. The front cover is inscribed with “May 72 - Nov 74”. The diary documents Penfield’s thoughts and reactions to colleagues deaths, such as that of Dr. Wilburt Davidson and Francis Hall; his health, his age and decreased mobility; Helen’s memory issues; social activities such as church services, weddings, and visits; the writing of No Man Alone; the Vanier Institute of the Family; and addresses and the accompanying trips, to London Ontario’s Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery in September 1972 and the trip to the Glasgow Institute of Neurological Services. In addition, Penfield discusses science and religion during an Easter entry, looking at the resurrection of Christ in terms of brain processes. Penfield has gone through and corrected his grammar and spelling or has expanded upon his initial thoughts, usually in pencil or pen.
