CSP was born in Gadsden, Alabama in 1871 & died in Guthrie, Oklahoma in 1955. He practiced medicine in Guthrie beginning in 1897, and for the next fifty years or so, wrote primarily as a diarist and essayist about human nature, love, aesthetics, history, politics, war, religion, science, and, of course, medicine, to mention only some of the many topics that fascinated him. He also wrote some poetry, fiction, and medical papers.
In the early 1930's, my mother, Helen, his youngest daughter, transcribed more than five hundred pages of his "Notes," typing them on legal-sized paper. After CSP's death, she preserved them along with many of the handwritten original notebooks, and a mass of other papers; she entrusted these with me in the late 1990's.
Now that I am retired, I have begun photographing parts of this collection and putting them on the web. All seven typescript volumes of the "Notes" as well as the hand-written volume 8 are ready for the first phase. The timing of this launch is driven by our upcoming Cousin's Reunion in Oklahoma, about a month from today. In another blog post, I'll outline how I plan to continue.
I want to use this blog to report on my progress, write my reactions to what I have read in CSP's texts, and give a space for family members to comment on the writings, the website, or to make requests.
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