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  <dc:title>Correspondence A 1957</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Correspondence, mostly letters asking Comfort  to contibute to publications, requests to speak, Comfort's publications, his reviews and editorial work for publishers and journals.
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Correspondents include:
&lt;li&gt;The Malacological Society of London
&lt;li&gt;The Jevons Society (University of Manchester Student Society of the Faculty of Economic and Social Studies)
&lt;li&gt;W A H Rushdon (National Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests)
&lt;li&gt;Routledge And Kegan Paul Ltd regarding &lt;i&gt;Biology of Senescence&lt;/i&gt; publishing and sales
&lt;li&gt;Jane Henderson (later Comfort, Alex's second wife)
&lt;li&gt;International Society fo Socialist Studies
&lt;li&gt;BBC Radio regarding Comfort's appearance on the &lt;i&gt;Fifty-One Society&lt;/i&gt; discussion programme to be broadcast on 13 February 1957
&lt;li&gt;Dr F Bourliére (Biologist, Faculté de Médecine de Paris)
&lt;li&gt;Dorothy Morland (Director, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London)
&lt;li&gt;John Waterhouse (Queen Elizabeth Hospital)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public requesting autograph
&lt;li&gt;Christian Action regarding Christian Action African fund to help South Africans arrested on charges of high treason
&lt;li&gt;John Martinson (American conscientous objector)
&lt;li&gt;Birmingham and Midland Institute
&lt;li&gt;Cecil Greenland (psychiatric social worker)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The University Liberarian&lt;/i&gt; (Manchester)
&lt;li&gt;Dr J S Huxley (Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS, Zoologist)
&lt;li&gt;War Resisters International
&lt;li&gt;The Humanist Council
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public regarding the &lt;i&gt;Fifty-One Society&lt;/i&gt; discussion programme broadcast on 13 February 1957
&lt;li&gt;Vero Richards (aka Vernon Richards or Vero Riccione)
&lt;li&gt;Joyce Mann
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;British Soviet Friendship&lt;/i&gt; magazine
&lt;li&gt;The Ethical Union
&lt;li&gt;Institute of Arts and Letters
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence regarding the Society for Cultural Relations (SCR)
&lt;li&gt;David Higham (Literary Agent)
&lt;li&gt;BBC Radio regarding &lt;i&gt;Third Programme&lt;/i&gt; for recording 28 March 1957
&lt;li&gt;Brockhurst Hill County High School, Chigwell
&lt;li&gt;[Clem?] B Christesen
&lt;li&gt;Hornchurch and District Way To Peace Group
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;News And Notes&lt;/i&gt; (magazine of The Ethical Union)
&lt;li&gt;"Aunt Con"
&lt;li&gt;Society For Cultural Relations With The USSR
&lt;li&gt;London Socialist Forum
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;New Statesman And Nation&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emergency Committee For Action Against Nuclear War
&lt;li&gt;Jocelyn Rawlence MBE
&lt;li&gt;John Bishop (anarchist)
&lt;li&gt;Institute of Actuaries
&lt;li&gt;Robert Greacen (Irish poet)
&lt;li&gt;BBC Radio re the discussioj programme "Questions In The Air", broacast in &lt;i&gt;London Calling Europe&lt;/i&gt; on Sunday 18 April 1957
&lt;li&gt;Reginald  W Thompson 
&lt;li&gt;Standing Joint Pacifist Committee
&lt;li&gt;United Peace Fellowhip, Manchester
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;La Protesta&lt;/i&gt; (South American anarchist publication, Buenos Aires)
&lt;li&gt;The Humanist Society, Queen Mary College, University of London
&lt;li&gt;Hutchinson Medical Publications Ltd
&lt;li&gt;Art Quarterly Publications Ltd
&lt;li&gt;Nathan W Stock (Chief, Gerontology Branch, Department of Health, Education And Welfare)
&lt;li&gt;Trinity College Dublin
&lt;li&gt;Botanical Society of the British Isles
&lt;li&gt;Lilian Wolfe for Freedom Press
&lt;li&gt;The Progressive League
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth [addressed to Uncle Alex)
&lt;li&gt;IV Congress of the International Association of Gerontology
&lt;li&gt;Cambridge University United Nations Association
&lt;li&gt;Movemenent For Colonial Freedom
&lt;li&gt;Routledge And Kegan Paul Ltd re sales of &lt;i&gt;The Giant's Strength&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;R van Outryvre (Belgian shell collector)
&lt;li&gt;The Medical Defence Union
&lt;li&gt;London Anarchist Group
&lt;li&gt;Rachel Hunter for Loughton Women's Petition Against H Bomb Tests
&lt;li&gt;Dick Clemente{s?], editor of &lt;i&gt;Tribune&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;D[ais?] King
&lt;li&gt;Herbert Jehle (Physics Department, University of Nebraska)
&lt;li&gt;Roy [Rory?] West
&lt;li&gt;Albert Camus [letter in French]
&lt;li&gt;Manchester Library And Philisophical Society. Flyer for the Ramsden Memorial Lecture "Problems of Human Ageing" by Alex Comfort on 18 November 1957
&lt;li&gt;Michael Kidson for &lt;i&gt;Socialist Review&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Goodman (Ilford, Essex) re a meeting on stopping H-Bomb Tests on 12 January 1957
&lt;li&gt;National Council for Abolition of Nuclear Weapon Tests
&lt;li&gt;World Federation of Scientific Workers
&lt;li&gt;H L Boisclair (author)
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public responding to Comforts work and views, asking for autographs, asking for advice on personal matters, asking for financial asstance</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1957</dc:date>
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