Subseries consists of subject files of correspondence (C/S = Correspondence/Subject). Most of these files were active up until Dr. Penfield's death and are largely grouped by subject. They may extend over a number of years but seem to indicate a continuing interest on the part of Dr. Penfield.
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.
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
This series consists of records generated by Dr. Penfield as an employee of McGill University or the Montreal Neurological Institute. Most of the material in this series is the property of those institutions, and is not considered personal material.
This series consists of most of Dr. Penfield's correspondence. The series is composed of three sub-series corresponding to Dr. Penfield's "Simple System." (C = Correspondence)
Sandy Nicholson subsequent correspondence with Mrs. Althea Douglas, etc.: -Letter from S.Nicolson to Dr. Francis McNaughton. -Profile of Sandy Nicholson. -Answer from Mrs. Althea Douglas. -Correspondence between Mr. Nicholson and Mrs. Douglas re. tape and contribution.
Sub-series includes all of Dr. Penfield's "correspondence-domestic", or personal correspondence, which was taken from his office at the Montreal Neurological Institute. This sub-series includes material which Dr. Penfield had collected before arriving at McGill in 1928. In particular, it includes correspondence between Dr. Penfield and his wife, Helen Kermott Penfield.
