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Correspondence on topics including: information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; conference invitations; work placements; press interviews. Files include conference papers, press cuttings and published articles, including an article on St Christopher's published in Medical Tribune, March 1974; article about Cicely Saunders (with English translation), published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 1988; interview with Saunders published in View, 1996. In German and English. Files includes sensitive personal data and are CLOSED for review in 2080.

Letters of thanks from relatives of former patients. Also correspondence concerning medical advice, drug deliveries, requests for data, and Saunders' photographs of patients. File also includes brief notes by Saunders on the representation of St Joseph's in a television play, 'I want to go home', by Bernard Kops, 1963. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2050.

Correspondence chiefly relating to the development of hospice services in India, notably the Shanti Avedna Ashram (now the Shanti Avedna Sadan) hospice, Bombay. File includes correspondence, 1980-1996, with Dr Luzito J de Souza, managing trustee, on topics including: the establishment and development of the hospice; fundraising; palliative care treatment options; the development of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore, Pakistan; conference invitations; published articles; work placements at St Christopher's Hospice. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2060.

Correspondence on topics including: St Christopher's Hospice; work placements; pain management; the hospice movement in Israel; Cicely Saunders' visits to Israel. File includes correspondence, 1985-1991, with Dr Catherine F Musgrave, Hadassah Medical Organisation, on topics including Musgrave's visit to St Christopher's Hospice, and subsequent articles by Musgrave. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Correspondence chiefly relating to Cicely Saunders' work at St Joseph's Hospice including requests for admissions, letters of thanks from relatives, requests for medical advice, comment on the planning and early years of Christopher's Hospice, and personal correspondence with former St Joseph's colleagues. File also includes correspondence, 1961-1965, with Nicholas Laboratories Ltd, concerning the clinical testing of analgesics. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence on topics including: information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; conference invitations; the hospice movement in New Zealand; pain management. File includes: published articles; draft extracts from Communication in cancer care by Ivan Lichter (London, Churchill Livingston, 1987); a report, 'The care of the terminally ill' produced by the Wellington Health Services Advisory Committee, December 1981. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2050.

Correspondence and related papers, chiefly concerning Cicely Saunders' 1978 visit to Poland, including press cuttings and posters. Also correspondence relating to information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, requests for published articles, and personal correspondence with Polish friends. File also includes: photographs of a visit by Archbishop Karol Józef Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) to Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland, 1973; literature on Polish medical institutions, including the Institute of Oncology, Warsaw; a press cuttings on the hospice movement and the significance of Saunders' former Polish patient, Antoni Michniewicz. In English and Polish. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2063.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; the relief of chronic pain; teaching at St Christopher's; conferences; requests for published articles. File includes correspondence, 1986-1991, with Dr Xavier Gomez Batiste-Alentorn, Hospital de la Santa Creu, Barcelona, on the establishment of hospice services in Barcelona. File also includes sensitive personal data which is CLOSED for review in 2079.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice, including a visit by the Under Secretary for Long Term Care in the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1976; Cicely Saunders' attendance at a conference of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, Chicago, 1973; the history of the hospice movement; publications. File also includes invitations, leaflets, press cuttings and articles. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; information about St Christopher's; proposed US lectures by Cicely Saunders; congratulations; publications; art therapy; occupational therapy. File includes correspondence, 1978-1981, with Prof Leo K Bustad (1920-1998), Dean and Professor of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, 1978-1981, concerning a visit to St Christopher's Hospice and the use of pet therapy. Also articles, notes, press cuttings and conference leaflets. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2045.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; honours and awards, including the presentation of the Elizabeth Blackwell Award to Cicely Saunders (for outstanding service to humanity), 1985; publications; interviews, including the text of an interview for St Mary's Hospital magazine, 1983. Also personal letters, press cuttings, journals and articles. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; requests for talks and lectures; requests for publications; donations; articles on St Christopher's; Cicely Saunders' Elizabeth Blackwell Award, 1985, with the award certificate; hospice news; articles on palliative care. File includes correspondence with Dr Pedro Bejarano, Bogota, Columbia, 1987, relating to his visit to St Christopher's Hospice, also cards, photographs and printed articles. File also includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2077.

Correspondence on topics including: talks and visits by Cicely Saunders; request for permission to reprint Saunders' article, 'Last stages of life' in Hospice Care: Principles and Practice (1983); visits to St Christopher's Hospice; advice on pain management. File also includes correspondence, with related papers, with Dr Inge B Corless, University of North Carolina, a member of the Spiritual Care Work Group (part of the International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement) including comments by Saunders on Corless' paper, 'Spirituality for whom?', given at a conference, 'The secular and non-secular spiritual issues of death and dying', New Haven, Connecticut, 1986. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2071.

Correspondence on topics including: requests for information and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; invitations to give talks; requests for permission to reprint photographs from articles; letters relating to pain management, especially the 'Brompton Cocktail' (a combination of opiates and alcohol used for terminal pain relief). Also newsletters, circulars and press cuttings. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2046.

Correspondence on topics including information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, pain management and euthanasia. Also: correspondence, 1976-1978, with the Encyclopaedia Britannica, concerning a draft article, 'Death, the ultimate confrontation: coming to terms with the issue' by Joan Kron; correspondence, 1965-1966, with Dr Nathan B Eddy, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, relating to pain management and clinical trials at St Christopher's Hospice; articles, reports, and press cuttings. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence including: requests from medical professionals for positions at St Christopher's Hospice; donations; enquiries about pain management. File also includes correspondence, 1976-1981, with social worker and US hospice pioneer Zelda Foster (1934-2006), on topics including the development of hospice facilities at the New York University Medical Center, and articles by Foster, including 'How social work can influence hospice management of fatal illness', published in Social Work, October 1965. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2044.

Correspondence on topics including requests for information about St Christopher's Hospice, visits to St Christopher's, advice on hospice administration and on pain management. File includes: correspondence, 1981-1993, with Prof John Ercel Fryer (1937-2003), psychiatrist and gay rights activist, on meetings with Cicely Saunders, conferences, and personal news; correspondence, 1981-1983, with Renee C Fox (1928-), Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, including offprint articles; correspondence, 1980-1983, with social worker and US hospice pioneer Zelda Foster, concerning Saunders' visits to her and to Rev Carleton Sweetser, and a report on a St Christopher's Hospice conference, May 1980. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review 2057.

Correspondence including: invitations to make visits and give lectures in the US, from institutions including Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center; requests for visits and work placements at St Christopher's Hospice; requests for prefaces to publications. File also includes correspondence, 1985-1987, with Robert J Glaser, relating to articles for the medical journal The Pharos, and offprint articles, reports and greetings cards. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2076.

Correspondence on topics including: Cicely Saunders' visits to the USA; St Christopher's Hospice; published articles; the development of hospices and terminal care in the USA. File includes correspondence, 1985, with pathologist and pro-euthanasia campaigner Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) on UK attitudes to the possibility of legalised euthanasia, and correspondence, 1986-1990, with Dr Austin H Kutscher, President of the Foundation of Thanatology, New York, on impending conferences and The Journal of Thanatology. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2057.

Correspondence on topics including Cicely Saunders' visits to the USA, St Christopher's Hospice, and invitations to give lectures. File includes: correspondence, 1959-1963, with Dr Robert A Loberfeld, New York City Cancer Committee, concerning statistics on cancer care in the US; correspondence, 1974-1976, with Leonard M Liegner, St Luke's Hospital Center, including Liegner's report on a visit to St Christopher's, 1974. Also published articles, and obituaries for Dr Mason Faulconer Lord (1926-1965). The second file includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2043.