Telegram from the American Ambassador (London) to Wilder Penfield, March 26, 1916.

This is a handwritten telegram to Wilder Penfield from someone named Culbertson, sent care of the American Ambassador in London. The message indicates that Culbertson may have been a fellow passenger on the S.S. Sussex. Culbertson apologizes for having left Penfield following the torpedo attack, but claims that he had been assured that the wounded would be taken care of on a navy destroyer, and that he had been ordered to board a fishing trawler. The telegram was sent on March 26, 1916.

D-C/D 21-2/1