1925-03-25

This telegram is from Wilder Penfield to Wilburt Cornell Davison. The telegram affirms that Penfield is safe following the torpedo attack upon the S.S. Sussex, and that [Elizabeth Baldwin] (the Baldwin family’s living daughter) is still unconscious. On the back side of the telegram are the handwritten mailing addresses of Walter Crescent in Bourdeaux and the Victoria Hospital in Dover.

text.telegram.black and white 13.8 x 21.8 cm

English

Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976 -- Correspondence.
Davison, Wilburt Cornell, 1892-1972 -- Correspondence.
Shipwreck survival.

Wilder Penfield Digital Collection

Wilder Penfield Fonds P142 -- Sussex Series

Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University

Telegram from Wilder Penfield to Wilburt Cornell Davison, March 25 1916. [Online image]. Wilder Penfield Digital Collection Wilder Penfield Fonds P142 -- Sussex Series . Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University . Retrieved April 25, 2024 from http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/penfieldfonds/fullrecord.php?ID=9463

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Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976.

Transcription on the front reads:

"Dover Town S 16 CR
Davison Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford,
quite safe tell interested people,Badlwin family living daughter unconscious,I have knee but not bad, Penfield".

Transcription on the back reads:

"Walter Crescent, (?) Faerlie Clark, 10 Walter Crescent, 365 & 368 (?), Bourdeaux, Victoria Hosp., Dover, Weston Heights W.P."

Sussex Box 181