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Research Files
Subseries
44 cm of textual records, 15 photographs, 11 magnetic tape recordings, and 6 audiocassettes.
This sub-series consists of all manner of notes and a variety of secondary materials gathered by Lewis as he researched the life of his grandfather. Secondary materials include historical publications, photocopies of reference works, scientific article reprints, and newspaper and magazine clippings. These series also contains dubbed copies of taped interviews with Penfield obtained by Lewis through the CBC, as well as transcripts of these interviews and others conducted by Lewis in the course of preparing the biography.
Note: This sub-series contains some primary material of the Penfield family interfiled with the research notes. Where possible, this material has been isolated and identified with series above.