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Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/10
TitleCorrespondence A 1957
Date1957
DescriptionCorrespondence, mostly letters asking Comfort to contibute to publications, requests to speak, Comfort's publications, his reviews and editorial work for publishers and journals.
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Correspondents include:
<li>The Malacological Society of London
<li>The Jevons Society (University of Manchester Student Society of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies)
<li>W A H Rushdon (National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests)
<li>Routledge And Kegan Paul Ltd regarding <i>Biology of Senescence</i> publishing and sales
<li>Jane Henderson (later Comfort, Alex's second wife)
<li>International Society fo Socialist Studies
<li>BBC Radio regarding Comfort's appearance on the <i>Fifty-One Society</i> discussion programme to be broadcast on 13 February 1957
<li>Dr F Bourliére (Biologist, Faculté de Médecine de Paris)
<li>Dorothy Morland (Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
<li>John Waterhouse (Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
<li>Member of the public requesting autograph
<li>Christian Action regarding Christian Action African fund to help South Africans arrested on charges of high treason
<li>John Martinson (American conscientous objector)
<li>Birmingham and Midland Institute
<li>Cecil Greenland (psychiatric social worker)
<li><i>The University Liberarian</i> (Manchester)
<li>Dr J S Huxley (Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS, Zoologist)
<li>War Resisters International
<li>The Humanist Council
<li>Members of the public regarding the <i>Fifty-One Society</i> discussion programme broadcast on 13 February 1957
<li>Vero Richards (aka Vernon Richards or Vero Riccione)
<li>Joyce Mann
<li><i>British Soviet Friendship</i> magazine
<li>The Ethical Union
<li>Institute of Arts and Letters
<li>Correspondence regarding the Society for Cultural Relations (SCR)
<li>David Higham (Literary Agent)
<li>BBC Radio regarding <i>Third Programme</i> for recording 28 March 1957
<li>Brockhurst Hill County High School, Chigwell
<li>[Clem?] B Christesen
<li>Hornchurch and District Way To Peace Group
<li><i>News And Notes</i> (magazine of The Ethical Union)
<li>"Aunt Con"
<li>Society For Cultural Relations With The USSR
<li>London Socialist Forum
<li><i>New Statesman And Nation</i>
<li>Emergency Committee For Action Against Nuclear War
<li>Jocelyn Rawlence MBE
<li>John Bishop (anarchist)
<li>Institute of Actuaries
<li>Robert Greacen (Irish poet)
<li>BBC Radio re the discussioj programme "Questions In The Air", broacast in <i>London Calling Europe</i> on Sunday 18 April 1957
<li>Reginald W Thompson
<li>Standing Joint Pacifist Committee
<li>United Peace Fellowhip, Manchester
<li><i>La Protesta</i> (South American anarchist publication, Buenos Aires)
<li>The Humanist Society, Queen Mary College, University of London
<li>Hutchinson Medical Publications Ltd
<li>Art Quarterly Publications Ltd
<li>Nathan W Stock (Chief, Gerontology Branch, Department of Health, Education And Welfare)
<li>Trinity College Dublin
<li>Botanical Society of the British Isles
<li>Lilian Wolfe for Freedom Press
<li>The Progressive League
<li>Elizabeth [addressed to Uncle Alex)
<li>IV Congress of the International Association of Gerontology
<li>Cambridge University United Nations Association
<li>Movemenent For Colonial Freedom
<li>Routledge And Kegan Paul Ltd re sales of <i>The Giant's Strength</i>
<li>R van Outryvre (Belgian shell collector)
<li>The Medical Defence Union
<li>London Anarchist Group
<li>Rachel Hunter for Loughton Women's Petition Against H Bomb Tests
<li>Dick Clemente{s?], editor of <i>Tribune</i>
<li>D[ais?] King
<li>Herbert Jehle (Physics Department, University of Nebraska)
<li>Roy [Rory?] West
<li>Albert Camus [letter in French]
<li>Manchester Library And Philisophical Society. Flyer for the Ramsden Memorial Lecture "Problems of Human Ageing" by Alex Comfort on 18 November 1957
<li>Michael Kidson for <i>Socialist Review</i>
<li>Dave Goodman (Ilford, Essex) re a meeting on stopping H-Bomb Tests on 12 January 1957
<li>National Council for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests
<li>World Federation of Scientific Workers
<li>H L Boisclair (author)
<li>Members of the public responding to Comforts work and views, asking for autographs, asking for advice on personal matters, asking for financial asstance
Extent1 folder
ArrangementChronological. Labelled by Alex Comfort
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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