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  <dc:title>Correspondence A 1963-1964</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Correspondents include:
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public responding to &lt;i&gt;Darwin And The Naked Lady&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates (Authors Agents) re. Spanish version &lt;i&gt;Darwin And The Naked Lady&lt;/i&gt;, including the Sapnish censor's proposed cuts
&lt;li&gt;Drs John Hewtson, John McEwan and Robert Ollendorff re. proposals to admit unmarried women to clinics for contraceptive advice (Jan 1963)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tribune&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jorge Paulete-Vanrell (Uruguayan zoologist and writer)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Twentieth Century&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cambridge University CND
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public responding to Comfort's article "Must We Grow Old?" in &lt;i&gt;The Sunday Times&lt;/i&gt; 17 Feb 1963
&lt;li&gt;Victoria And Albert Museum (V&amp;A)
&lt;li&gt;Oxford University Humanist Group
&lt;li&gt;Adelph Myers re. geriatric medicine
&lt;li&gt;Stanislav frydberg (Polish violinist) re. geriatric medicine
&lt;li&gt;David Markham (actor) re. the Tax Refusal Campaign
&lt;li&gt;Peter [Kirken?] (Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham)
&lt;li&gt;Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
&lt;li&gt;Philip Glen (Cambridge University)
&lt;li&gt;Leicester University CND
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public asking for medical advice
&lt;li&gt;Alex Comfort to David Higham (author's agent)  informing him that he was no longer going to use an agent
&lt;li&gt;Clarke and Way publishers re. the publication of Comfort's poem "Dylan Thomas on the Gramophone Record" in George Firmage (editor), &lt;i&gt;A Garland for Dylan Thomas&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public re. sexual behaviour
&lt;li&gt;Oxfam
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates re. "The Secret of the Game of Love" and &lt;i&gt;Sex in Society&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Rowan Wilson (athor) re. Comfort's review of &lt;i&gt;Margin Of Safety&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The Sunday Telegraph re. Oil And Associated Industries Trust share quotations
&lt;li&gt;Barclay's Bank re. Comfort's income tax return
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates re. &lt;i&gt;The Kola Shastra&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence with Angus Bateman (Manchester City Councillor) re. Bateman's proposal for a municipal brothel in Manchester
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence re. royalty payments to William G Archer [not stated what for, other than a book published by Allen And Unwin]
&lt;li&gt;The New American Library (American publishers) re. "Old AgeL The Last Enemy (Tentative Title)"
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Hudson Review&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The British Museum
&lt;li&gt;BBC re. &lt;i&gt;This Nation Tomorrow&lt;/i&gt; (a fortnightly radio discussion programme)
&lt;li&gt;The Sunday Telegraph re. Comfort's reviews for them
&lt;li&gt;Hugo Manning (poet)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public re. ageing
&lt;li&gt;Dr Eustace Chesser
&lt;li&gt;Laura Ruggles Gates re. the work of her husband Professor Reginald Ruggles Gates (genetist)
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates re. &lt;i&gt;Sexual Behaviour In Society&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Murray Morton (University of British Columbia) re. an unamed magazine launch
&lt;li&gt;The Nuffield Foundation
&lt;li&gt;Sir Ivor Evans (Provost, University College London UCL)
&lt;li&gt;John Arden
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Luciad&lt;i/&gt; (University of Leicester magazine)
&lt;li&gt;Gerald Duckworth publishers
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Lancet&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;University of Hull
&lt;li&gt;International Planned Parenthood Federation
&lt;li&gt;Arthur James Rook FRCP (British dermatologist)
&lt;li&gt;Letter from member of the public re. the Denning Report. With the envelope, which is addressed to "Alexander Comfort, MRCS, LRCP, MB, BCh, MA, DCH, PhD, Ring-leader of 20 Hypocritical Authors, Self-righteous Pacifist and Free-Lover, Champion of Vice, Ponces and Prostitutes, 44 The Avenue, Loughton, Essex."
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public re. &lt;i&gt;Sex In Society&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Colin Ward for &lt;i&gt;Anarchy&lt;/i&gt; magazine
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates re. &lt;i&gt;Sex And Society&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Arden (English playwright)
&lt;li&gt;John D Munroe re. the future World (Auxiliary) Language
&lt;li&gt;Notice of a memorial gathering for Aldous Huxley to be held on 17 December 1963
&lt;li&gt;Wayne Burns (Department of English Literature, University of Washington, USA)
&lt;li&gt;Arlington Books (publisher)
&lt;li&gt;Oxford University Institute of Education
&lt;li&gt;Letchworth Young Socialists
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public responding to &lt;i&gt;Darwin And The Naked LAdy&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Murmer&lt;/i&gt; (Cambridge Medical Society Magazine)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public responding to an (uncited) letter by Comfort about "Vices of the Obscene Publications Act"
&lt;li&gt;Maurice Craig (Irish architectural historian and conservation activist)
&lt;li&gt;University of Leciester School of Education
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence re. the publication of a song by Comfort and Pete Seger in the March 1964 issue of &lt;i&gt;Sanity&lt;/i&gt; (CND newspaper). The lyrics were erroneously attributed to Comfort alone, when in fact Seger contributed a verse about voting.
&lt;li&gt;Stroud Productions, Inc (Management of the musician Nina Simone), requesting permission for Nina Simone to record the song "Go Limp", written by Alex Comfort and Peter Seger. 
&lt;li&gt;Sam Fox Publishing Company re. the agreement "covering the lyrics of Go Limp, the music of which is being adapted and arranged by Nina Simone"
&lt;li&gt;David Higham Associates re. &lt;i&gt;The Koko Shastra&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Comfort's typescript copy of a letter  to &lt;i&gt;The Times&lt;/i&gt; re. literary obsenity law (published on 14 May 1964). With a letter from a member of the public in response to it.
&lt;li&gt;The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public re. Comfort's views on sex
&lt;li&gt;Dorothy Smith (an old acquaintance from Billericay)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tierra Y Libertad&lt;i/&gt; (Mexican review)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Technologist&lt;/i&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Patricia Ann Jellicoe (British playwright and theatre director), giving her opinion of an [unnamed] Alex Comfort play
&lt;li&gt;Letter re. Comfort's friend Mr Hollingworth
&lt;li&gt;Reg Butler (Reginald Cotterell Butler, English sculptor)
&lt;li&gt;Theodore Fox (Editor, &lt;i&gt;The Lancet&lt;/i&gt;)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>Jan 1963-Dec 1964</dc:date>
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