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  <dc:title>Correspondence A Jul 1951-Dec 1952</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Correpondence mostly relating to peace activism, Comfort's columns in the&lt;i&gt;The New Statesman&lt;/i&gt;, and  pigmentation of mollusc shells.
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Correspondents include:
&lt;li&gt;Angus Wilson, English novelist
&lt;li&gt;BBC
&lt;li&gt;The Nuffield Foundation
&lt;li&gt;Kathleen Rawkins (member of Peace-Makers pacifist group?)
&lt;li&gt;National Peace Council
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public - fan mail
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence regarding the society 'Science for Peace'
&lt;li&gt;Society for Social Responsibility in Science
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence regarding  a study group on the Psycho-pathology of war
&lt;li&gt;The Abortion Law Reform Assocation
&lt;li&gt;Cecil Collins (English artist)
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public responding to Comfort's column in &lt;i&gt;The New Stateman&lt;/i&gt; on 8 September 1951 on roots of 'The Fear Neurosis, that underlies American politics - 'war hysteria in USA'
&lt;li&gt;The Temperance Collegiate Association
&lt;li&gt;Fabian Society
&lt;li&gt;Vero Richards re. publication of Barbarism and Sexual Freedom
&lt;li&gt;Pacifist Society of the London School of Economics
&lt;li&gt;Oxford University Labour Party Group
&lt;li&gt;Peace Pledge Union
&lt;li&gt;Walter Moberly (British academic and Principal of St Catherine's Foundation from 1949-1955)
&lt;li&gt;BBC
&lt;li&gt;Dorothy Glaister (Psychologist, writer on non-violent resistance)
&lt;li&gt;Members of the public in response to his BBC radio talk on Social Responsibility in Science &amp; Art [on &lt;i&gt;The Third Programe&lt;/i&gt;?]  broadcast on Sunday 18 November 1951 and  to a version published in &lt;i&gt;The Listener&lt;/i&gt; on 29 November 1951
&lt;li&gt;J H Oldham (Scottish missionary and writer)
&lt;li&gt;Kenneth Patcham (poet)
&lt;li&gt;Correspondence from Viking Press, NYC, regarding A Giant's Strength
&lt;li&gt;Cambridge Scientists'Anti-War Group
&lt;li&gt;Game, Fish &amp; Oyster Commission, Rockport, Texas, USA
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Wade White (American author, poet and activist)
&lt;li&gt;Member of the public in response to Comfort's letter "The Drift to War", published in &lt;i&gt;The New Statesman&lt;i/&gt; on 26 January 1952
&lt;li&gt;Henry Treece
&lt;li&gt;Home Office Civil Defence Department (refuting claims in a pamphlet)
&lt;li&gt;T M Ragg (historian and editor at Routledge)
&lt;li&gt;Member if the pulbic  regarding Comfort's letter in &lt;i&gt;The New Stateman&lt;/i&gt; of 28 June 1952 [on the Korean situation?]
&lt;li&gt;Victor Chamberlain (author on science/sex)
&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meanjin&lt;/i&gt;, A Literary Quarterly, Australia 
&lt;li&gt;Reginald Thompson - writer on military subjects
&lt;li&gt;Roy Kepler (American peace activist)
&lt;li&gt;Michael Foot (MP and director of &lt;i&gt;Tribune&lt;/i&gt;), 1951
&lt;li&gt;Couple of more personal letters from friends
&lt;li&gt;Committee For The Peaceful Solution Of The German Problem 
&lt;li&gt;British Poetry Association - request to speak
&lt;li&gt;Naomi Richardson (Scottish author)</dc:description>
  <dc:date>Jul 1951-Dec 1952</dc:date>
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