| Description | Bound folder of incoming and outgoing correpondence covering radio electronics, Comfort's work as a consultant for the Veterans Administration Day Clinic, correspndence with professional colleagues and publishers. There are also letters from Comfort's readers, members of the public, writing to him about his sex books.
Subjects and correspondents include:
Letter in Practical Wireless
Correspondence regarding. his - rejected - article for the Journal of Social & Biological Structures entitled 'On form dynamics: a further discussion of iterants'.
Proposal to produce a series of videotapesof geriatrics educational material - aimed at health professionals
Correspondence trying to find an agent to handle his fiction (21 June 1983) - including with Books & Broadcasts Inc
Letter to The Economist regarding the result of the UK general election (18 June 1983)
Louis Kauffman regarding book on Iterants they are working on together
Letter to The Times regarding World Peace Council, 6 May 1983
Comfort's referee reports of others' work
regarding publication of his paper "Sir Thomas Browne's Skull and Schroedingers Cat", in ReVision: A Jounal of Consciousness and Change.( 27 June 1983)
Letter to The Lancet [his copy 31 July 1983] regarding AIDs research
regarding. publication of Reality And Empathy
regarding. Paramount film of The Joy Of Sex (5 August 1983]
Discussion of potential for electrical treatment for alcohol and opiate addicts
His copy of a letter to The Times (6 September 1983) regarding the Regan administration's stepping up of missile deployment [also one to Newsweek 20 October 1983)
Attempts to get a publisher for I And That
Proposal to sell Joy Of Sex in gift boxes, and other 'Joy expansion' i.e promotional ideas
regarding promotional problems with Facts of Love
regarding "What About Alcohol?", a book for teenagers by Alex and Jane Comfort
His copy of letter to The Guardian regarding Michael Heseltine (13 October 1983)
Feeback from professional colleagues on A Good Age
Letter from Enoch Powell, Member of Parliament (11 October 1983) - replying to Comfort's letter [which is not present]
regarding publication of On Nineteen Eighty Four edited by Peter Stansky - to which Comfort was a contributer (October 1983)
Correspondence with Desmond Morris (zoologist and author)
His copy of letter to The Economist on "the Grenadan farce", dated 2 November 1983 [which was not published]
Draft article about Resident Ronald Reagan's attempts to discredit CND
Proposal to make video version of Joy Of Sex from a production company [Comfort rejects this as because he does not want live action]
regarding his trip to India in November 1983
Comfort's copy of an open letter to Mr Andropov regarding the Cold War - sent to the New Statesman in December 1983
Comfort's copy of his letter to The Economist, 18 December 1983 on the potential of military robotics |