Abstract: Constantin Rădulescu Jr. was a distinguished surgeon at the Eforiei Hospital in Bucharest. His correspondence with doctor George Dobrin, his brother-in-law and the first Romanian Prefect of Caraș-Severin County after the Great Union, describes episodes representative for the social, political and cultural life of Bucharest at the turn of the twentieth century: the arrival of Ferdinand, the crown prince, in the capital of the Kingdom of Romania and the vehement reaction of the anti-monarchist press, a long list of state institutions and Romanian Members of Parliament in 1895, the celebration of 10 May 1934. The letters also give biographic notes of personalities of Banat, such as Victor Vlad Delamarina, Valeriu Branişte, Tiberiu Brediceanu, Caius Brediceanu, Cornelia Brediceanu (Lucian Blaga’s wife), Vasile Mangra and George Crăciunescu, a protopope from Belinț Village. Sent on a mission to Messina after the devastating earthquake in 1908, the prominent surgeon from Lugoj provided the Romanian press with impressive accounts of the consequences of the cataclysm.
