This file contains Wilder Penfiled In Memoriam programme.

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.

The file contains the diary of Wilder Penfield for July 23rd 1959 to April 24th 1960. The front cover is inscribed “1959 summer 1960 spring rosa interview”. The diary details Wilder Penfield’s travels in Edinburgh, New York and Big Sur, California. It includes discussions on a memorial for Alan Gregg, what he should do upon his retirement from the Institute, comments on what he thought was his last operation, and an account of meeting Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. The back cover has a list of “Points” which potentially outlines the contents of the diary.

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 October 1968 to January 1969. The front cover is inscribed “Oct 1968 to Jan 21 1969 Japan + Reflections re mind + br”. The diary primarily contains Penfield’s trip to Japan for the Okayama Congress of Japanese Brain Chemists and Physiologists and includes commentary on the meeting, the Japanese, Japan, who he met, where they stayed and a full itinerary of their trip. In addition, there is a list of Japanese doctors he met, newspaper clippings showing the 1968 cultural medal winners and aerial view of the new imperial palace, an image of the Nara Daibutsu Shrine, and a Japanese maple leaf. Other topics included in the pages are a history of the Wright brothers activities, an account of the last days of Georges Vanier, Board of Governors news, the preparation of speeches and addresses and his work on preparing forwards and prefaces of volumes. Penfield has gone through and corrected his grammar and spelling or has expanded upon his initial thoughts, usually in pencil or pen.