| Description | A bound volume of letters labelled "Letters 1974-1977, excluding litigation" [no litigation file was found in the collection]. Correspondents and subjects discusssed include:
Member of the public responding to "Latterday Anarchism" in the September/October issue of Center Magazine
Arthur Tattersall of University College London (UCL) wishing Comfort well on leaving UCL
Charles Wrey Gardiner
David Kunzle (academic author who wrote on fetishes). There is quite a lot of correspondence with him, discussing fetishes
Ifor Evans [Baron Evans of Hungershall] (Provost of University College London from 1951 to 1966)
Teachers College Columbia University, New York, USA, regarding a proposed symposium on the interface between art and science
Correspondence regarding the end of Nelson's Natural History of Society series [Nelson is the publisher]
The American Review (journal)
Correspondence with a member of the public regarding sex education
Dan Callahan (academic at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada)
Lyle Glazier (American poet and academic) regarding attempts tp get Glazier's book "Stills From A Moving Picture" published [the book was regarded as explicit]
Lester A Kirkendall (American sociologist)
NBC News
Gordon Inkeles (author who writes about sensual massage)
Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care
Christian Services Inc
National Society for Hebrew Days Schools
New York Times
Justine Hill regarding her book "Let me take you to bed with me" [never published?]
Poetry Therapy Institute, Encino, California
American Association of Sex Educators and Counselors
A letter by Comfort to "The Lancet", 23 Jan 1975
"Avril W"
A Robert Caponigri (academic in USA)
Center for Marital And Sexual Studies, Long Beach, California
Kenneth Tynan (English theatre critic and writer)
Harper's Bizarre
Correspondence regarding "A Good Life ", Sept 1976
New York Citizens for Carter/Mondale Campaign for Older Americans [named after Jimmy Carter]
Programme for "The Politics of Aging, A Series of 5 Workshops Sponsored by the Tri-County Commission for Senior Citizens Area Agency on Aging", 11 October 1976 [5 workshops moderated by Comfort]
New York University
Martin L Feldman (Boston University Medical Center)
"Travel And Leisure" magazine
"Sexualmedizin" (German scientific journal)
"Atlantic" (magazine)
Quartet Books. Correspondence mentions the seizure of copies of "The Joy of Sex in Liverpool", pending legal action
Edward Eichel (sexologist)
Correspondence regarding Comfort's decision to stop writing for "Forum" magazine
Proposal for re-writing "The Biology of Senescence"
Comfort's views on homosexuality (17 May 1976)
Draft of paper entitled "Morphine as an Antipsychotic'", which was accepted for publication in "Clinical Toxicology" in April 1977
regarding article on drug treatment of sexual disfunction, March 1977 (a chapter published by Karger in Basel, Switzerland)
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Correspondence regarding "A Good Age"
KPIX (San Francisco radio station) regarding the "Impact Show" on aging [called "You're Never Too Old"?]. Also a member of the public reaction to the show
Correspondence regarding Comfort's speaking engagements and his decision to cancel all speaking engagements to non-medical groups
"Paunch" magazine
Illinois State Attorney's Office regarding obscenity cases using "Joy Of Sex" as comparatives
<li>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation regarding Comfort's appearance on <i>90 Minutes Live<i/>, 11 April 1977
<li>regarding publication of <i>Aging: The Biology of Senescence<i/>, 1977
<li>Security Benefit Associated Inc (SBA), a life insurance company interested in mortality estimates
<li>J B Hasted (Birkbeck College, British physicist and folk musician)
<li>Comfort letter to David Frost (TV broadcaster and journalist), 26 May 1977
<li>Correspondence with member of the public on the meaning of Anarchism
<li>From the White House, responding to a letter from Comfort, saying that "Mrs Carter is very concerned with the treatment of geriatrics and we anticipate this will be an area that the <li>President's Commission on Mental Health will study. I will forward your recommendations to them", 9 March 1977
<li>regarding Comfort's correspondence with Evelyn Waugh in 1938 (25 August 1976)
<li>Daniel Abse (Welsh poet and physician)
<li>University of Rochester Medical Center
<li>NBC
<li>regarding potential publication of his text <i>I And That: notes on the Biology of Religion<i/>
<li>The American Jewish Committee
<li>The Western Journal of Medicine
<li><i>Fortune magazine</i>
<li>Correspondence referring to royalty fraud [ litigation Comfort won] |