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Reference Number COMFORT/E/1/6
TitleCorrespondence A Jul 1951-Dec 1952
DateJul 1951-Dec 1952
DescriptionCorrepondence mostly relating to peace activism, Comfort's columns in the<i>The New Statesman</i>, and pigmentation of mollusc shells.
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Correspondents include:
<li>Angus Wilson, English novelist
<li>BBC
<li>The Nuffield Foundation
<li>Kathleen Rawkins (member of Peace-Makers pacifist group?)
<li>National Peace Council
<li>Member of the public - fan mail
<li>Correspondence regarding the society 'Science for Peace'
<li>Society for Social Responsibility in Science
<li>Correspondence regarding a study group on the Psycho-pathology of war
<li>The Abortion Law Reform Assocation
<li>Cecil Collins (English artist)
<li>Members of the public responding to Comfort's column in <i>The New Stateman</i> on 8 September 1951 on roots of 'The Fear Neurosis, that underlies American politics - 'war hysteria in USA'
<li>The Temperance Collegiate Association
<li>Fabian Society
<li>Vero Richards re. publication of Barbarism and Sexual Freedom
<li>Pacifist Society of the London School of Economics
<li>Oxford University Labour Party Group
<li>Peace Pledge Union
<li>Walter Moberly (British academic and Principal of St Catherine's Foundation from 1949-1955)
<li>BBC
<li>Dorothy Glaister (Psychologist, writer on non-violent resistance)
<li>Members of the public in response to his BBC radio talk on Social Responsibility in Science & Art [on <i>The Third Programe</i>?] broadcast on Sunday 18 November 1951 and to a version published in <i>The Listener</i> on 29 November 1951
<li>J H Oldham (Scottish missionary and writer)
<li>Kenneth Patcham (poet)
<li>Correspondence from Viking Press, NYC, regarding A Giant's Strength
<li>Cambridge Scientists'Anti-War Group
<li>Game, Fish & Oyster Commission, Rockport, Texas, USA
<li>Elizabeth Wade White (American author, poet and activist)
<li>Member of the public in response to Comfort's letter "The Drift to War", published in <i>The New Statesman<i/> on 26 January 1952
<li>Henry Treece
<li>Home Office Civil Defence Department (refuting claims in a pamphlet)
<li>T M Ragg (historian and editor at Routledge)
<li>Member if the pulbic regarding Comfort's letter in <i>The New Stateman</i> of 28 June 1952 [on the Korean situation?]
<li>Victor Chamberlain (author on science/sex)
<li><i>Meanjin</i>, A Literary Quarterly, Australia
<li>Reginald Thompson - writer on military subjects
<li>Roy Kepler (American peace activist)
<li>Michael Foot (MP and director of <i>Tribune</i>), 1951
<li>Couple of more personal letters from friends
<li>Committee For The Peaceful Solution Of The German Problem
<li>British Poetry Association - request to speak
<li>Naomi Richardson (Scottish author)
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.
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