| Description | Volume of correspondence to and from Comfort, labelled as '1987/88'. Subjects include gerontology, sexuality, the NHS, nuclear disarmament, molluscan shell patterns, copyright requests, prison healthcare, publishing matters, requests for book/article reviews and to speak at events. Includes correspondence regarding Comfort's involvement in the filming of the film 'The Sexiest Animal', proposed cover design for 'Authority and Delinquency', a letter from the Prime Minister's Office regarding an award of a Civil List Pension in recognition of Comfort's services to poetry, a request from Channel 4 to take part in the programme 'After Dark', a request to be interviewed by a Finnish film company on the history of condoms, a request by Matthew Hayward to paint Comfort's portrait. Personal correspondence regarding finance, Social Security and Inland Revenue, tenancy of property.
Correspondents include:
John Bayliss, Chairman of the Paternosters
Comins & Co. Chartered Accountants
Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care
John M Kellett, St. George's Hospital Medical School
Keith S Harrison, Judge Sykes & Harrison Solicitors
Annie Jackson, Desk Editor, Pan Books
Leonard Hayflick, Editor-in-Chief, Experimental Gerontology
Kathy Ceaton, Programme Associate, After Dark
Ronald Mansbridge
Jack Tresidder, Mitchell Beazley Publishers
Professor Lissy Jarvik, UCLA
Neil Cross, ZLR Literary Magazine
Seed Mackall & Cole, Counsellors at Law
S K Biswas, Sociological Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
Harvey Wheeler, Journal of Social and Biological Structures
Sir Martin Roth, University of Cambridge Clinical School
W C Ellerbroek
Brain Lapping, Granada TV Limited
Helen Broadbent, Glasgow P.P.U. Group
James C Simmons
Kari Paljakka and Alvaro Pardo
Dr Faruq Abdullah
Desmond Morris
Bob Towler, Commissioning Editor, Channel Four
Vernon Futeman, Academic Director of the University of the Third Age in Cambridge
Lawrence Goldie, University of London
Matthew Hayward |