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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/12
TitleCorrespondence A 1959-1960
DateJanuary 1959-December 1960
DescriptionCorrespondents:
Members of the public responding to Comfort's review of Alan A Watt's book Nature, Man And Woman published in "The Observer" 4 January 1959
Peace News
CND
Chingford Committee For Nuclear Disarmament
Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
Peace Pledge Union
Rationalist Annual
Ilford Peace Movement - letter and newspaper cuttings of photographs of protests
David Higham (Authors Agent) re, Art And Social Responsiblity
Now magazine
John Doheny
Sutton Humanist Group
Helga S Hacker
Wayne Burns (Department of English Literature, University of Washington, USA)
Henry Waller
Dorothy Allan for the magazine <i>Eros - A Journal of Sexual Studies</i>
Offprint of a letter by Comfort, "The traffic in pornography", published 19 March 1959 [publication not cited]
Brockhurst Hill County High School (Essex Education Committee)
Eugen Weber (editor) asking to reprint Comfort's poem "Notes for my Son"
"Spratt"
Aunt Maud
Reconstruir (Agentinian Libertarian paper)
Members of the public regarding nuculear disarmament
T Fox for The Lancet
Jewish Observer And Middle East Review
Letters regarding the Ronald Marwood case
Grabowski Gallery
Letter to The Manchester Guardian re literary censorship (typescript draft dated 3 May 1959
Thalia D Childs (art student)
Meanjin
Letters from and regarding Editorial Américalee (Argentine publishing house)
Robert Nye (English poet and author)
Oxford University Press regarding Comfort's article "Social Responsbility in Science and Art"
Civil Service Commission Scientific Branch
Jerome Cushman (Librarian, Salina Public Libary, USA)
A Medical Bulletin
The Nation
Sadamu Watanabe (Director of the Gerontological Association of Japan)
Universities And Left Review
The London Magazine regarding Comfort;s piece "On The Function of Erotic Art"
Robert Pickus for Acts For Peace
Richard Rowe for United (fortnightly paper "for the worker who thinks for himself")
Victor Chamberlain (author)
Cesar Milston
Earl Ubell (Science Editor, Herald Tribune)
BBC Radio regarding the "Man's Knowledge of Man" series of talks broadcast on the General Overseas Service [Comfort's talk was entitled "The Secan Ages of Man and the Riddle of the Sphinx"]
The Pacifist Society, London School of Economics
Cecil Collins (English artist)
-Movimiento Anarquista Univeritario (Argentine magazine) regarding "Authority And Delinquency"
<li><i>Irish Democrat</i>
<li>Anna Aslan
<li>BBC Radio (Arabic Talks Unit) regarding Comfort's script on H 3
<li>Eyre And Spottiswoode Publishers
<li>Correspondence re the Congress for Cultural Freedom
<li>BBC Radio regarding "Darwin and Freud" and "The 1960s" series
<li><i>The London Magazine</i> regarding Comfort's poetry
<li>Member of the public asking advice
<li>BBC Radio regarding the series "Frontiers of Knowledge" for their European English Service <i>London Calling Europe</i>. Comfort's talk was to be called "Growing Up Faster"
<li>Granada TV regarding a recording [regarding senescence] on 12 May 1960
<li>Manchester University Nuclear Disarmament Society
<li>Dorothea Flower (Charlotte Dorothea Rose Stewart. Wife of the zooligist Stanley Smyth Flower, OBE)
<li><i>The New Scientist</i>
<li>Member of the public responding to Comfort's [radio?] talk, "The Art of the Possible"
<li>Jane Henderson (later Comfort's second wife)
<li>Andrew Tessler (author of a text called "The Hormones of Happiness" - [not publshed?])
<li>Centre International De Recherches Sur L'Anarchisme (Geneva) (letter in French)
<li>Manas Publishing Company (Los Angeles)
<li>BBC regarding Comfort taking part in their Management Training Conference
<li>[Trefgarne?]
<li>Professor Medawar (Zoology Department, UCL)
<li>Circular from <i>Trace</i> regarding the "immediate plight" of the poet Kenneth Patchen
<li>McMillan publishers regarding Comfort's script "The Seven Ages of Man"
<li>BBC regarding the recording of an interview on French for Canada on 5 August 1960
<li>Member of the public asking for an autograph
<li>BBC Audience Research Report for "Darwin and Freud" by Alex Comfort for <i>Third Programme</i>, recorded on 10 July 1960
<li>International P E N: A World Association of Writers regarding Comfort's poem "Migration"
<li>Non-Violent Defence Group
<li><i>Sunday Pictorial<'i>
<li><i>Peace News</i>
<li>Betrand Russell regarding the formation of a "Committee of 100" for non-vilent resistance to nuclear war
<li><i>The Irish Times</i>
<li>Routledge Kegan and Paul re <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>A letter by Comfort to the <i>Manchester Guardian</i> regarding American nuclear submarines. Typescript draft dated 2 November 1960.
<li>Glynn Wickham (University of Bristol Department of Drama)
<li>John Latham
<li>Eric Winter re Comfort's song "The Giant Panda"
<li>David Higham (Author's Agent) re <i>Come Out To Play</i>
<li>BBC Radio regarding an interview regarding the treatment of Dr Aslan for North American Service
<li>V Richards regarding <i>Freedom</i>
<li>City of Salford Education Committee
<li><i>The Spectator</i> regarding Comfort's poetry
<li>Margaret Knight (for Watts publishers) regarding Comfort's broadcast "Can Science Make Us Good?"
<li>Colin Ward regarding articles for a new publication by Freedom Press. provisionally titled <i>Autonomy</i>
<li>BBC Audience Research Report for "By Laodicean Out Of Lady Chatterley" by Alex Comfort, broadcast on 6 December 1960. The talk was on racehorses and their names, based on Comfort's National Stud research.
<li>The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
<li>C L Anderson (gerontologist)
<li>Dorris Lessing (novelist)
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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