Record

StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/4
TitleCorrespondence A 1950
Date1950
Description<li>Spanish Confederation of Labour
<li>Dachine Rainer, writing in capacity as editor of <i>Retort</i> magazine
<li>Dr Heinrich Steusloff [letter in German]
<li>Tony Gibson
<li>Evelyn Wood (poet)
<li><i>Public Opinion</i> (weekly review)
<li>J L Banning
<li>E Lederer (Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris) [letter in French]
<li>J L Halliday (Department of Health for Scotland)
<li>R A McCance (Department of Experimental Medicine, Medical Research Council and University of Cambridge)
<li>[Ethel Lewis?]
<li><i>The International Journal of Sexology</i>
<li>[O..?] Richmond (poet)
<li>Mrs F K Hadley (sea shells seller) regarding mollusc specimens
<li><i>American Association for the Advancement of Science</i> regarding the publicaiton of Comfort's paper "Molluscan Shells as a Practical Source of Uroporphyrin I"
<li>J H Saldon (The Royal Hospital Wolverhampton)
<li>R Pickus
<li><i>Discovery</i> magazine regarding the publication of a Comfort article on ageing
<li>Dr Hans Schlesch (Copenhagen, Denmark) regarding mollusc specimens
<li><i>Sunday Pictorial</i> newpaper
<li>Dr Adolfo Ortiz de Zárate (Spain) [letter in Spanish]
<li>Alec Craig
<li>[J... S...?] regarding mollusc specimens
<li>A Smith regarding mollusc specimens
<li><i>Shigaku</i> (Japanese poetry magazine)
<li>Dr Siro de Fez Sánchez (Spanish malacologyst) regarding mollusc specimens
<li>Sir Walter Moberly (principal of St Catherine's, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor)
<li>Pompeo Viglino (Italy) regarding mollusc specimens
<li>Dr Hans Schlesh regarding mollusc specimens
<li>Gordon Rattray Taylor
<li>John Q Burch (dealer in mollusc shells) regarding mollusc specimens
<li><i>Neurotica</i> magazine regarding publication of a chapter of <i>Sexual Behaviour In Society</i>
<li>"Andrew" (friend of Alex Comfort) [possibly Andrew Huxley?]
<li>Dr Ranyard West
<li>Lars Gustav Eskil Hellström (Swedish author and translator) regarding the translation of poems from <i>The Song of Lazarus</i> for the Swedish magazine <i>Prisma</i>
<li>The Workers' Educational Association
<li>Fredric Wertham (psychiatrist and author)
<li>Studio Teatret, Oslo, Norway (Norwegian theatre) regarding the possiblity of producing on of Comfort's plays
<li>Dr Richard Schlickum (Cologne, Germany) [letter in German]
<li>The Nuffield Foundation
<li>Claude Legangneux (French poet)
<li>Dr T M Ling
<li>BBC regarding Comfort's consultancy work on the TV programme "The Heart" for the <i>Matters of Life and Death</i> series
<li>"R W"
<li>Ethel [?]
<li>The Council of Christians and Jews
<li>Dr Hans Friedrich (Germany) regarding mollusc specimens
<li>Major Norman Walter (author) regarding Comfort's review of Walter's <i>Sexual Cycle of Human Warfare</i>
<li>Viking Press (New York) regarding the publication of <i>Sexual Behaviour In Society</i>, scheduled for 8 September 1950
<i>The International Journal of Sexology</i>
<li>Dr L A W C ,Vernmans (Netherlands)
<li>Honor B Fell (Director, Strangeways Research Laboratory, Cambridge)
<li>Cecil Collins (James Henry Cecil Collins MBE, English painter)
<li>Member of the public in response to Comfort's letter in <i>Tribune</i>
<li>Society for Social Responsbility in Science
<li>K W Grensted regarding mollusc research
<li>Kathleen Lonsdale (crystallographer, UCL colleague) regarding SSRS
<li>Wilson Barrett
<li>Manchester University Rationalist Society
<li>Stillman and Eastwick-Filed architects regarding the possibility of working with Comfort in connection with old people's homes
<li>South African Student Associaton
<li>Derek Savage (poet)
<li>Arthur Wrigley
<li>Frederik Wertham MD
<li>Queen Mary College Biological Society (London)
<li>Elsie Winckworth
<li>Peace Pledge Union
<li>National Book League
<li>The Union Society (Cambridge University)
<li>Member of the public responding to one of Comfort's anti-atomic bomb pamphlets, and Comfort's letter in reply
<li>Michel Lambiotte (France) regarding the French translation of <i>The Song of Lazarus"</i>
<li>[J Sareia Pradas] (member of the Spanish Anarchist Movement)
<li>Barbara Wootton (Bedford College, London [and BBC Governor?])
<li>London School of Economics (LSE) Political Society
<li>R Reisdorff
<li>Professor T H Pear
<li>Routledge and Kegan publisher Ltd regarding sales of <i>Letters From An Outpost</i>
<li>Member of the public in response to <i>Authority And Delinquency</i>
<li>Rachel Nicholas (friend of Comfort and UCL colleague)
<li>Aunt Maud
<li>George Paterson (neighbour of Alex Comfort in Honor Oak Road)
<li>Authur G Davis regarding mollusc specimens
<li>Draft letter by Comfort in response to Sir Ernest Rock Carling, "Physical and Biological Effects of Atomic Explosions", <i>Boston Globe</i> 25 November. Typescript with handwritten edits.
<li>The Nuffield Foundation
<li>Member of the public in response to Comfort's letter about atomic bombs in <i>News Chronicle</i> (letter dated 1 December 1950)
<li><i>The Lancet</i> regarding their decision not to publish a political letter by Comfort
<li>Member of the public regarding conscientious objection [in response to an article by Comfort in a Peace Pledge Union pamphlet?]
<li>Maureen Maybin [friend of Alex Comfort writing from Belfast]
<li>Member of the public regarding Comfort's comment on the Marxist conception of liberty in <i>The Listener</i> 21 December 1950
<li>Member of the public in response to <i>Sexual Behaviour in Society</i>
<li>Jack Lindsay (Fore Publications Ltd) regarding a letter by Comfort for publication, and general discussion of Marxism
Extent1 folder
ArrangementChronological
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.
Add to My Items