This file contains correspondence with Principal L.W. Douglas about suggestions and recommendations for the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Department expenses, invitations for meetings, lectures, reports and the official opening of both the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Electroencephalography Laboratory at the Institute.

This file contains correspondence with Principal F.C. James concerning staffing of the Montreal Neurological Institute (war-time arrangements, salaries, appointments, the creation of new positions, certificates), general maintenance of the Institute, the agreement between the Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) and the Montreal Neurological Institute, financial concerns (increasing deficit, arrangement with the RVH), grants, donations, fellowships, and discussions on visits, invitations and elections for both F.C. James and Wilder Penfield.

Miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) or McGill Community are found in this file. Topics include expenditures, budgets, outside consultations of patients, continued research into epilepsy by Sanitorium, building and outfitting of the MNI, parasympathetic innervention of the salivary glands, and war-time considerations for staff. Notable names include Colonel Wilfred Bovey, George McDonald, B.P. Bakin and William Cone.

Miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) or McGill Community are found in this file. Topics include the allocation of the MNI to the Faculty of Medicine, appointment of examiners for thesis defenses, Department of Anatomy, maintenance (the need for an elevator for the MNI, operating room emergency lighting, the MNI’s flat roof), Psychology, and a draft proposal for a university hospitalization service. Notable names include W.D. Tait and Dr. Harrower.

The file contains miscellaneous correspondence between Wilder Penfield and members of the McGill Community. Topics include maintenance of the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) (steam line repair, installation of elevator, fellows kitchen creation, flagstaff installation), Buildings and Grounds department, specimen preparation, appointment of lecturers, non-teaching staff vacation time, reacqusition of supplies, inclusions and exclusions in the budget, blackout practice (1941), and the University Clinic. In addition, there is correspondence related to Penfield’s appointment as part of the Selection Committee for the Chair of Psychiatry.

The file contains miscellaneous letters, two of which are to and from H. Selye regarding whether McGill should follow American universities and ‘adopt’ a region of the world to study from as many different perspectives as possible and a letter to the Otis-Fenson Elevator Company Limited from P.W. MacFarlane (Superintendent, Buildings and Grounds) regarding the MNI Contracts and whether existing spare parts could be repurposed.

The file contains correspondence to the Associate Dean of Medicine E.H. Bensley. The topics include a questionnaire about Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) staffing, suggestions for changes in the description of the MNI, confirmation of elective courses descriptions under the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, faculty grants for staffing, concern with diploma courses in the Faculty of Medicine, correcting a position error in the 1963-1964 announcement list, the budget, and the Quebec Bureau of Statistics questionnaire.

The file contains correspondence to William Bentley, Secretary and Brusar from Wilder Penfield about 3566 University Street (vacating and occupying the property); donations to the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and their status as anonymous or named; and acceptance by the Board of Governors of Wilder Penfield’s resignation as Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery and reappointment to Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute and Chairman of the Department.

The file contains correspondence primarily related to the proximity of the Stadium to the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and the Royal Victoria Hospital, and the issues this creates. Of note is the letters from staff and from Wilder Penfield to the Comptroller requesting that either events end early or the entrance to the stadium be moved to prevent disturbances to the patients. In addition, there is correspondence about the purchasing procedures for the MNI and a set of correspondence from H.H. Jasper to Dobell about laboratory equipment, university pension plan for staff, appointing Mr. Bain as Business Manager of the MNI, expenditures and the collection of patients’ outstanding accounts.

The file contains correspondence between Wilder Penfield and J.C. Meakins, Dean, regarding staffing (appointments, duties due to war, discharge, chinese fellowship, terms of retirement), teaching (diploma requirements, new curriculum materials, instructional moving pictures, appointments), Ferrier Lecturer at the Royal Society (letter of congratulations), funds for scholarships/fellowships, and recommendations for appointments to the McGill Radioactive Isotope Committee.