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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
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Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/13
TitleCorrespondence A 1961-1962
Date1961-1962
DescriptionCorrespondence including letters from family to Comfort in Brixton prison (September 1961) where Comfort served time, along with Bertrand Russell and other leading members of the Committee of 100, for refusing to be bound over to keep the peace prior to a Ban the Bomb demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
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<li>David Higham Associates (Authors Agents) re.publication of <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>David Higham Associates regarding <i>Come Out To Play</i>
<li>Glynne Wickham (University of Bristol Department of Drama)
<li>MANAS (Los Angeles publisher)
<li>BBC TV regarding Comfort's "Anouilh" script
<li>Rodric Barrett (British painter)
<li>Jane Henderson (later Comfort's second wife)
<li>Peace Pledge Union
<li>David Higham regarding the publication of <i>Come Out To Play</i> and Poems
<li>Wayne Burns (Department of English Literature, University of Washington, USA)
<li>Jeremy Westall (poet)
<li>MacGibbon And Kee publishers
<li>University Institute of Education, Oxford
<li>Maurice Temple Smith (Eyre And Spotiswoode Publishers)
<li>Routledge And Kegan Paul regarding a proposed collection called "Does Pornography Matter?"
<li>Erika Gröger (Leipzig University, Germany)
<li><i>Labour Monthly</i>
<li>T Fox for <i>The Lancet</i>
<li>Nightingale County Secondary School (London)
<li>The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War
<li>Member of the public regarding the Committee of 100
<li>David Higham Associates (Authors Agents) regarding publication of <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>Nonesuch Records
<li>Unilever Research Laboratory (Sharnbrook, Bedford)
<li>Anne Jellicoe
<li>Medo-Chemicals Limited (London)
<li>BBC Readio regarding Comfort's talk "The Frontiers of Knowledge: Growing Up Faster", broadcast in the European Service on 24 May 1960
<li>Charles Frederik Rycroft (psychiatrist)
<li>Eyre And Spottiswoode publishers re the publication of <i>Come Out To Play</i>
<li>A Lipschutz (Instituto De Medicina Experimental, Santiago, Chile) re gerontology research
<li>Draft letter to <i>The Guardian</i> [July?] 1961 regarding American attitude to nuclear war {letter is typed with heavy annotations which are not in Comfort's handwriting]
<li>Horniman Museum, London [regarding Comfort's search for illustations for his Karma Sutra book?]
<li>David Higham regarding the publication of <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i> by George Braziller publishers
<li>BBC Radio regarding the series "As I See It" for broadcasting in the General Overseas Service
<li>Loughton Literary Circle
<li>Nicholas and Ruth Comfort (Alex Comfort's son and wife). Letter in an envelope addressed to Alex Comfort at Brixton Prison.
<li>Anne Jellico. Letter in an envelope addressed to Alex Comfort at Brixton Prison.
<li><i>New Scientist</i>
<li>Mother and Ninnie
<li>Alison
<li>John
<li>The Nuffield Foundation
<li>Campaign in Oxford University For Nuclear Disarmament
<li>Social Surveys (Gallup Poll) Ltd
<li>Jeremy Westhall (Hull Humanist Society)
<li>Gladys V Alexander
<li>P E N regarding <i>New Poems 1963</i>
<li>Member of the public regarding <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>Robi Hall (Robin Hall, Scottish folk singer) regarding Comfort's songs
<li>Eyre And Spottiswoode publishers regarding Comfort's syoescript "The Secret of the Game of Love" [prototype of Joy Of Sex?]
<li>Pete Seeger (American folk singer) regarding Comfort's songs
<li>Professor Sir Robert Platt
<li>BBC Radio Talks Department regarding the "What's An Idea?" series
<li>Wilber M Krieger (Director, National Foundation of Funeral Services
<li>Donald MacLean and others regarding a film verion of <i>Come Out To Play</i> Comfort and MacLean discussed casting Peter Sellers.
<li>Peter F Neumeyer (American author)
<li>Members of the public regarding <i>Come Out To Play</i>
<li>Liliane Fearn (Birkbeck, University of London)
<li>Howard Sergeant (editor, <i>Outposts</i>)
<li><i>Peace News</i>
<li>Nicholas Malleson for the Research Unit For Student Problems (University of London Institute of Education) regarding a possible proposal for a new medical school
<li>Julian Huxley
<li>Dr Deryk Darlington regarding an appeal against nuclear weapons
<li>David Higham Associates regarding Spanish rights to <I>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>David Higham Associates regarding the publication of <i>Haste To The Wedding<i/> (published 29 March 1962)
<li>Pat Williams
<li>Literary Society of the University of Leicester
<li>Albert Radoczy (artist)
<li>David Higham Associates re <i>Sexual Behaviour In Society</i>
<li>David Higham Associates re <i>Authority And Delinquency In The Modern State<i/>
<li>Liliane Fearn
<li>R V Sovani
<li>Morris Blythman regarding <i>Ding Dong Dollar</i> magazine and Comfort's songs
<li>Michale Wolff for <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i>
<li>Invitation to a dinner to honour Earl Russell (Bertrand Russel) on the occasion of his 90th birthday
<li><i> P O T H</i> four weekly poetry-sheet
<li><i>Tribune</i>
<li>Draft of a speech by Comfort, re Mr Gaitskell (Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Labour Party) and the CND. Typescript with handscript annotations.
<li><i>The Statesman</i> regarding Comfort's article on Indian Art in the Statesman Sunday Magazine (letter dated 5 June 1962)
<li>Harold Osborne
<li>London Majlis (Indian Students Organisation)
<li>Medical Research Council regarding possible support for Comfort's work on gerontology
<li>Robert Greacen (Irish poet)
<li>Noriaki Shiro (Japanese poet)
<li>Wayne Burns (Department of English Literature, University of Washington, USA)
<li>John H Gagnon (Indiana University) regarding approval of Sanskrit for Comfort's Karma Sutra book
<li>Committee of 100
<li><i>The Sunday Times</i>
<li>Audrey Winter
<li>Gerald Duckworth publishers regarding "The Game of Love"
<li>Ruth Prothero MD regarding Dr Soblen's asylum case
<li>Bertrand Russell re the Committee Of 100
<li>University College London (UCL) regarding Comfort's salary
<li>Peter Krohn
<li>Eton College Literary Society
<li>Tuli Kupperberg (American poet)
<li>Programme for Trinity College Cambridge Annual Gathering Dinner (1935-1938) held on 25 September 1962
<li>John Doheny (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
<li>Member of the public regarding Comfort's poem "The Bullocks"
<li>[Teri or Lori?] Shearn (Oakland Symphony Orchestra)
<li><i>Eros</i> magazine
<li>Peter Hall (Royal Shakespeare Theatre) re Comfort's translation of "Scene From The Life Of A Dramatist"
<li><i>Peace News</i>
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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