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  <dc:title>Correspondence A 1958</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letters arranged by Alex Comfort, predominently political, on the subject of nuclear disarmament. Includes flyers advertising public meetings and rallies. Lots  is regional branches of CND.
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Correspondents:
&lt;li&gt;National Council For Abolition Of Nuclear Weapon Tests
&lt;li&gt;Flyer for an Ilford Peace Movement public meeting, "Stop All H-Bomb Tests!", which took place at Ilford Town Hall on  12 January 1958.  Also resolutions from the meeting. Comfort was one of the speakers at the meeting.
&lt;li&gt;Lilian Wolfe (English anarchist)
&lt;li&gt;Group of students from Braesnose College Oxford regarding public meeting on nuclear weapons and disarmament in Oxford Town Hall on 4 March 1958
&lt;li&gt;British Society For Research On Ageing
&lt;li&gt;BBC Radio regarding the European Service discussion programme &lt;i&gt;Questions in the Air&lt;/i&gt;, to be recorded 5 February 1958
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence with Robert Nye (English poet and author) regarding &lt;i&gt;Art And Social Responsbility&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Copy of the Dedication for H N Brailsford (British left-wing journalist)
&lt;li&gt;Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament
&lt;li&gt;Tracy Morton Sonneborn (American biologist)
&lt;li&gt;A E Dyson (English Department, University College of North Wales)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Peace News&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Movement For The Ending Of Nucelar Weapon Tests And Weapons
&lt;li&gt;Hornsey Campaign Against H-Bombers
&lt;li&gt;Letter by Comfort to the Home Office regarding the political asylum case of Joaquim Perez Selles
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Lancet&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Victor Mayes for &lt;i&gt;The University Libertarian&lt;/i&gt; (University of Manchester magazine)
&lt;li&gt;Campaign Against Nuclear Disarmament (CND) (letters from numerous branches, inviting Comfort to speak at meetings)
&lt;li&gt;United Nations Association
&lt;li&gt;Letters from member of the public in response to Comfort's letter on nuclear warfare, published  in &lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt; on 13 March 1958
&lt;li&gt;David Higham for Peran, Pollinger And Higham Authors' Agents
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;J B Coates (author of &lt;i&gt;A challenge to Christianity&lt;/i&gt; (London, Watts, 1958)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public seeking scientific advice
&lt;li&gt;BBC TV inviting Comfort to take part in &lt;i&gt;Panorama&lt;/i&gt; on 31 March 1958
&lt;li&gt;G Rattray Taylor (British author)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public responding to Comfort's "notes for my son"
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Welsh Nation&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Walter E Spradbery (artist)
&lt;li&gt;Henry Walker (Comfort's former school teacher)
&lt;li&gt;Cyril Hughes
&lt;li&gt;Nuclear Disarmament Mass Lobby Committee
&lt;li&gt;Barbara Fawcett
&lt;li&gt;Flyer and letter regarding a public meeting on "Nuclear Suicide" at Grays Working Men's Club on 1 Mary 1958, at which Comfort spoke
&lt;li&gt;Jeanne [Deviller?] (letters written in French)
&lt;li&gt;Patricia Stoll regarding  the Monmouth Townswomen's Guild
&lt;li&gt;Epsom And District Peace Fellowship
&lt;li&gt;Hornchurch And Disctrict Way To Peace Group
&lt;li&gt;Peace Pledge Union
&lt;li&gt;Students wishing to volunteer to campaign for nuclear arms
&lt;li&gt;The Coventry Peace Council
&lt;li&gt;University of Southampton Nuclear Disarmament Committee
&lt;li&gt;The Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War 
&lt;li&gt;Letter by Comfort to Chigwell Council regarding statstics on offenses against children
&lt;li&gt;April Carter (Secretary, Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War)
&lt;li&gt;Epsom Peace Fellowship
&lt;li&gt;Society for Social Responsibility in Science
&lt;i&gt;A Medical Bulletin&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Harlow Anti H-Bomb Campaign
&lt;li&gt;J Louzara (Ohio, USA) for &lt;i&gt;Suplemento  Literário&lt;/i&gt; 
&lt;li&gt;Friends International Centre (Quakers), London
&lt;li&gt;Homosexual Law Reform Society
&lt;li&gt;Flyer for Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War "March On London", 8 June 1958
&lt;li&gt;Howard Sergant (editor of &lt;i&gt;Outposts&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;E H Shattock (Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Limited)
&lt;li&gt;The Ciba Foundation
&lt;li&gt;Topic Records Ltd regarding the recording of "Ban the Bomb", based on a poem by Comfort
&lt;li&gt;Letter by Comfort to &lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt; dated 5 July 1958, regarding nuclear defence (handscript and typescript drafts). This letter was not published by &lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;T Fox for &lt;i&gt;The Lancet&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;i&gt;Tribune&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;David Higham regarding Pearn, Pollinger And Higham Authors' Agents
&lt;li&gt;Charles L Preston (Iowa)
&lt;li&gt;Nicholas Comfort (Alex Comfort's son)
&lt;li&gt;Ruth Comfort (née Harris, Alex Comfort's first wife)
&lt;li&gt;Argonne National Laboratory (University of Chicago, USA)
&lt;li&gt;Buckhurst Hill Country High School (Oxon) - asking Comfort to address their sixth form forum
&lt;li&gt;St Albans Debating Society
&lt;li&gt;Bowes And Bowes Publishers regarding Comfort's typescript "Why Russia Wants Peace" (rejecting it for publication)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Humanist&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Graecen (Irish poet)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Peace News&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Geneva Committee Of Parents
&lt;li&gt;Mervyn Jones - invitation to a party
&lt;li&gt;Clarence Elliott
&lt;li&gt;Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
&lt;li&gt;C B Christensen for &lt;i&gt;Meanjin&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Nye
&lt;li&gt;Sadamu Watanabe (Director of the Gerontological Association of Japan)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1958</dc:date>
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