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Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Rosemary Howarth, hospice nurse and administrator, relating to Howarth's work placement at St Christopher's Hospice, 1978, to her application for a Churchill Fellowship for overseas research, 1983, and news of the Royal Perth Hospital, Australia. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2051.

Correspondence with management consultant Antoinette Wye, relating to arrangements for Wye's visits to St Christopher's Hospice, her advice on organisational change at St Christopher's with related reports, and personal news. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2060.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Kenneth Calman (b 1941), Professor of Oncology at the University of Glasgow, with related articles and reports. Topics include clinical research at St Christopher's Hospice, invitations to Saunders to visit Glasgow, and Calman's request for a reference for the position of Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, Glasgow. Personal data in the file is CLOSED during Calman's lifetime.

Correspondence and related papers concerning St Thomas' Hospital, including: St Thomas' Hospital Veterans' Association, 1981; Cicely Saunders' appointment as honorary consultant, 1985; the nomination of St Thomas' Hospital Terminal Care Support Team for the Lederle Bronze Award, 1987. File also includes correspondence with radiotherapist Dr Thelma Bates concerning St Christopher's Hospice patients, 1982, CLOSED for review in 2071.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and her friend, the palliative care pioneer Balfour ('Bal') Michal Morgan Mount (b 1939), on topics including: conferences; work placements at St Christopher's Hospice; news of the Palliative Care Unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal; Mount's award of the Order of Canada, 1985; personal and family news. File includes sensitive personal information and is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and her friend, US photographer and medical historian Grace Goldin (d 1995), on topics including: images supplied by Goldin for Saunders' lectures; the history of St Luke's Home for the Dying, Bayswater, London; congratulations on Saunders' awards; St Christopher's Hospice; personal and family news. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and her friend, US photographer and medical historian Grace Goldin (d 1995), on topics including: images supplied by Goldin for Saunders' lectures; hospice history; family and personal news. Also published articles by Goldin, including 'British hospices', published in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1980, poems, interviews and press cuttings. File sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2077.

Enquiries in French about St Christopher's Hospice, answered by consultant Dr Therese Vanier. Topics include visits to St Christopher's, conferences and pain management. In French and English. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2070.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Mrs K Menzies of the Senior Wives Fellowship, a member of St Christopher's Hospice Council, 1986-2000, concerning Menzies' election, 1986. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2051.

Correspondence between Cicely Saunders and her friend, the palliative care pioneer Balfour ('Bal') Michal Morgan Mount (b 1939), on topics including conferences, euthanasia, awards, and Mount's resignation as Director of the Palliative Care Programme, McGill University. File includes published articles, reports, and a briefing document on the development of an International Society for Palliative Medicine. File also includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2079.

Correspondence relating to the Hospice of St Lazarus (formerly the Nowa Huta hospice), Krakow, Poland, and to the support and development of hospice services in Poland, including: the formal twinning of St Lazarus with St Christopher's Hospice, 1991; correspondence, 1991, with Ellen Forrester, about her teaching at St Lazarus; fundraising; requests for published articles; correspondence relating to Cicely Saunders' visits to Poland, and to the art of her husband, Prof Marian Bohusz-Szyszko. In English and Polish. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2080.

Statistical tables, graphs and reports relating to St Christopher's Hospice patients with motor neurone disease (MND), used for a report by Cicely Saunders, Dr Thomas Walsh and Mary Smith, 'Motor neurone disease in a hospice: a review of 100 cases', 1980. Anonymised data includes duration of stay, quality of patient experience, and treatments provided. File also includes some post mortem reports, CLOSED for review 2030.

Details of St Christopher's Hospice patients with motor neurone disease (MND), organised by gender and date of admission, including name, age, symptoms, treatment and any social problems experiences. File is CLOSED for review in 2080.

Letters of thanks from relatives of former patients. Also correspondence relating to requests for admissions, invitations to give talks, visits to the hospice, and work at St Christopher's Hospice. File also includes correspondence, 1965, with Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain (1895-1966), on the legal status of diamorphine, and correspondence with pharmaceutical company Bayer Products on clinical trials for analgesics, 1964. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence, chiefly with Dr Ruben Edgar Bild, Director of Fundacion Prager Bild, relating to conferences on palliative care in Buenos Aires, 1986 and 1989, and to Bild's cousin Harvey Prager (a convicted drug smuggler who ran an AIDS hospice in Maine, USA). Sensitive and personal data in the file is CLOSED during Dr Bild's lifetime.

Correspondence on topics including St Christopher's Hospice, possible work opportunities, personal references, hospice developments in Australia, individual patients and pain medication. File includes published articles, reports on palliative care, and newsletters and planning documents relating to hospice services. File also includes: correspondence, 1983-1985, with Dr John Cavanagh, Mount Olivet Hospital, Brisbane, relating to the use of the Copeland-Chatterson (Cope Chat) punch card system for patient data; correspondence, 1985, with Dr Douglas MacAdam, Senior Lecturer in Community Practice, University of Western Australia, concerning his research on the development of palliative care services in Western Australia. Sensitive and personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2071.

Correspondence including invitations to visit and to give lectures, requests for interviews and discussions of euthanasia. File includes correspondence, 1980-1991, with Prof David B Allbrook (b 1923), concerning working at St Christopher's Hospice, with references and his CV. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2023.

Correspondence on topics including information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, and the development of a hospice service in Brussels. File includes correspondence, 1983, with Prof Jean Bernheim, Insitut Bordet, Brussels, concerning his request for a contribution to a series of monographs on the quality of life for cancer patients, produced by the European Organisation for Research on the Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). In English and French. Sensitive data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2068.

Correspondence including: requests for advice on the care of terminally ill patients or relatives; Canadian hospice services; visits to St Christopher's Hospice; requests for published and unpublished articles and papers; the Special Committee of the Senate of Canada on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, 1994. File also includes correspondence, 1960-1968, with neurosurgeon Dr Frank Turnbull, concerning research on pain management. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2078.

Correspondence chiefly relating to patients under Cicely Saunders' care, including requests for admissions and letters of thanks from relatives. Also discussions of drug use with pharmaceutical companies, and correspondence, 1963-1964, with Brig Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (1892-1973), concerning trials of a new bed pad at St Joseph's. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2053.