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Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/14
TitleCorrespondence A 1963-1964
DateJan 1963-Dec 1964
DescriptionCorrespondents include:
<li>Member of the public responding to <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>
<li>David Higham Associates (Authors Agents) re. Spanish version <i>Darwin And The Naked Lady</i>, including the Sapnish censor's proposed cuts
<li>Drs John Hewtson, John McEwan and Robert Ollendorff re. proposals to admit unmarried women to clinics for contraceptive advice (Jan 1963)
<li><i>Tribune</i>
<li>Jorge Paulete-Vanrell (Uruguayan zoologist and writer)
<li><i>The Twentieth Century</i>
<li>Cambridge University CND
<li>Members of the public responding to Comfort's article "Must We Grow Old?" in <i>The Sunday Times</i> 17 Feb 1963
<li>Victoria And Albert Museum (V&A)
<li>Oxford University Humanist Group
<li>Adelph Myers re. geriatric medicine
<li>Stanislav frydberg (Polish violinist) re. geriatric medicine
<li>David Markham (actor) re. the Tax Refusal Campaign
<li>Peter [Kirken?] (Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham)
<li>Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
<li>Philip Glen (Cambridge University)
<li>Leicester University CND
<li>Members of the public asking for medical advice
<li>Alex Comfort to David Higham (author's agent) informing him that he was no longer going to use an agent
<li>Clarke and Way publishers re. the publication of Comfort's poem "Dylan Thomas on the Gramophone Record" in George Firmage (editor), <i>A Garland for Dylan Thomas</i>
<li>Member of the public re. sexual behaviour
<li>Oxfam
<li>David Higham Associates re. "The Secret of the Game of Love" and <i>Sex in Society</i>
<li>John Rowan Wilson (athor) re. Comfort's review of <i>Margin Of Safety</i>
<li>The Sunday Telegraph re. Oil And Associated Industries Trust share quotations
<li>Barclay's Bank re. Comfort's income tax return
<li>David Higham Associates re. <i>The Kola Shastra</i>
<li>Correspondence with Angus Bateman (Manchester City Councillor) re. Bateman's proposal for a municipal brothel in Manchester
<li>Correspondence re. royalty payments to William G Archer [not stated what for, other than a book published by Allen And Unwin]
<li>The New American Library (American publishers) re. "Old AgeL The Last Enemy (Tentative Title)"
<li><i>The Hudson Review</i>
<li>The British Museum
<li>BBC re. <i>This Nation Tomorrow</i> (a fortnightly radio discussion programme)
<li>The Sunday Telegraph re. Comfort's reviews for them
<li>Hugo Manning (poet)
<li>Member of the public re. ageing
<li>Dr Eustace Chesser
<li>Laura Ruggles Gates re. the work of her husband Professor Reginald Ruggles Gates (genetist)
<li>David Higham Associates re. <i>Sexual Behaviour In Society</i>
<li>Murray Morton (University of British Columbia) re. an unamed magazine launch
<li>The Nuffield Foundation
<li>Sir Ivor Evans (Provost, University College London UCL)
<li>John Arden
<li><i>Luciad<i/> (University of Leicester magazine)
<li>Gerald Duckworth publishers
<li><i>The Lancet</i>
<li>University of Hull
<li>International Planned Parenthood Federation
<li>Arthur James Rook FRCP (British dermatologist)
<li>Letter from member of the public re. the Denning Report. With the envelope, which is addressed to "Alexander Comfort, MRCS, LRCP, MB, BCh, MA, DCH, PhD, Ring-leader of 20 Hypocritical Authors, Self-righteous Pacifist and Free-Lover, Champion of Vice, Ponces and Prostitutes, 44 The Avenue, Loughton, Essex."
<li>Member of the public re. <i>Sex In Society</i>
<li>Colin Ward for <i>Anarchy</i> magazine
<li>David Higham Associates re. <i>Sex And Society</i>
<li>John Arden (English playwright)
<li>John D Munroe re. the future World (Auxiliary) Language
<li>Notice of a memorial gathering for Aldous Huxley to be held on 17 December 1963
<li>Wayne Burns (Department of English Literature, University of Washington, USA)
<li>Arlington Books (publisher)
<li>Oxford University Institute of Education
<li>Letchworth Young Socialists
<li>Member of the public responding to <i>Darwin And The Naked LAdy</i>
<li><i>Murmer</i> (Cambridge Medical Society Magazine)
<li>Member of the public responding to an (uncited) letter by Comfort about "Vices of the Obscene Publications Act"
<li>Maurice Craig (Irish architectural historian and conservation activist)
<li>University of Leciester School of Education
<li>Correspondence re. the publication of a song by Comfort and Pete Seger in the March 1964 issue of <i>Sanity</i> (CND newspaper). The lyrics were erroneously attributed to Comfort alone, when in fact Seger contributed a verse about voting.
<li>Stroud Productions, Inc (Management of the musician Nina Simone), requesting permission for Nina Simone to record the song "Go Limp", written by Alex Comfort and Peter Seger.
<li>Sam Fox Publishing Company re. the agreement "covering the lyrics of Go Limp, the music of which is being adapted and arranged by Nina Simone"
<li>David Higham Associates re. <i>The Koko Shastra</i>
<li>Comfort's typescript copy of a letter to <i>The Times</i> re. literary obsenity law (published on 14 May 1964). With a letter from a member of the public in response to it.
<li>The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
<li>Members of the public re. Comfort's views on sex
<li>Dorothy Smith (an old acquaintance from Billericay)
<li><i>Tierra Y Libertad<i/> (Mexican review)
<li><i>The Technologist</i>
<li>Patricia Ann Jellicoe (British playwright and theatre director), giving her opinion of an [unnamed] Alex Comfort play
<li>Letter re. Comfort's friend Mr Hollingworth
<li>Reg Butler (Reginald Cotterell Butler, English sculptor)
<li>Theodore Fox (Editor, <i>The Lancet</i>)
Extent1 folder
ArrangementChronological. Letters labelled by Alex Comfort
AccessStatusCertain restrictions apply
AccessConditionsSome letters in this file contain special category data as defined by GDPR and are closed.. The rest of the file is open.
ClosedUntil01/01/2047
01/01/2048
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