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Correspondence, CVs, completed application forms and references relating to applications for the position of Bursar, St Christopher's Hospice. File includes sensitive personal data, CLOSED for review 2067.

Meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, draft manuscripts and articles relating to St Christopher's Research Committee, chiefly to the work of the drug trials sub-committee, 1967-1980. File includes: initial correspondence with the Ministry of Health, 1967, concerning the establishment of the Research Committee; correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Dr Colin Murray Parkes, 1967-1968, about the new committee and its members, with a draft social history questionnaire to be used in the hospice; interim and draft reports on diamorphine (heroin) trials conducted at the hospice by Dr Robert Twycross, including Twycross' articles, 'Choice of strong analgesic in terminal cancer: diamorphine or morphine?', published in Pain, 1977, and 'The effect of cocaine in the Brompton Cocktail', August 1978; CVs of candidates for the position of Research Fellow, 1978; minutes of a meeting of the Medical Research Council pain research co-ordination group, September 1980. Personal data in the second file is CLOSED for review in 2058.

Correspondence relating to Cicely Saunders' appearance on the BBC programme The Frost interview, broadcast September 1974, which also included a visit by presenter David Frost to St Christopher's Hospice. File includes correspondence relating to arrangements for the visit, information about patients interviewed, and subsequent letters received from viewers. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2058.

Correspondence, newsletters, articles, reports and printed material relating to motor neurone disease (MND), including: correspondence, memoranda and case notes, 1967-1969, concerning an MND patient under Cicely Saunders care at St Joseph's Hospice; meeting papers for a case conference concerning an MND patient, St Thomas' Hospital, November 1977; correspondence with patients and their families, 1980-1985, relating to the MND Association, including its newsletter; correspondence with Barbara Wilson relating to Wilson's 1982 British Medical Journal article on her husband's MND and his care; draft and final text of a report, ' Motor neurone disease in a hospice: a review of 100 cases; by Saunders, Dr Thomas Walsh and Mary Smith, 1980; an article by D H Summers, 'Motor neurone disease', published in Nursing Times, January 1981. Files are CLOSED for review, 2092

Correspondence, reports, meeting papers, brochures and off print articles relating to the Royal College of Physicians. File includes: papers relating to Cicely Saunders' election to membership, 1968; her election to a Fellowship, 1974; nominations and comments on prospective members; correspondence, with presidents Sir Douglas Black and Sir Raymond Hoffenberg; text of Sir Douglas Black's annual address, April 1982. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2032.

Papers chiefly relating to a trust created by former nurse Elizabeth Clark (1938-1977), a member of the Sainsbury family, to be used for the care of the dying, notably the redevelopment of the Hostel of God (later renamed Trinity Hospice), Clapham, London. File includes: correspondence, 1968-1977, with Elizabeth Clark, chiefly concerning her donations to St Christopher's Hospice; grant applications made to the Trust by individual nurses, with additional comments by Cicely Saunders; legal papers; meeting papers; financial statements; correspondence between Saunders and her fellow trustees, including David Sainsbury (brother). File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2075.

CLOSED- private information of nurse candidates

Correspondence and related papers concerning the fourth national Cancer Care symposium, 'Catastrophic illness in the Seventies: critical issues and complex decisions', Baltimore, 1970, including draft and final text of Cicely Saunders' speech, 'The patient's response to treatment', with details of named patients. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2058.

Correspondence, texts, press cuttings and related papers concerning a Department of Health and Social Affairs symposium on the care of the dying, at the Royal College of Physicians, November 1972. File includes: drafts of Cicely Saunders' paper, 'A death in the family: a professional view'; printed texts of the symposium papers, British Medical Journal, January 1973; press cuttings about the symposium; correspondence with actress Sheila Hancock concerning Hancock's address to the symposium and its impact. File includes personal data, CLOSED during Sheila Hancock's lifetime.

Reports, questionnaires, meeting papers, correspondence and articles relating to the Bereavement Research Committee, St Christopher's Hospice, and the research of Susan Le Poidevin (née Hicks), research psychologist at the hospice, 1981-1983. File includes transcripts from a staff role-playing training exercise on breaking news to patients; minutes from a meeting on family profile risk assessment; literature on bereavement counselling; a report on the selection procedure for bereavement counsellors; a report on a Camden Council bereavement project. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2047.

Correspondence, draft script and contracts relating to Cicely Saunders' appearance on London Weekend Television programme Answer back, broadcast February 1973, in which she responded to viewers' questions on death and bereavement. Also papers relating to a Southern Television programme, Guideline: death by consent, July 1975, and ITV programme This is your life, about actress Sheila Hancock, broadcast January 1977. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2045.

Correspondence, leaflets, brochures, reports, newsletters and articles relating to the Alzheimer's Disease Society, including: correspondence, 1973-1977, between Cicely Saunders and Cori Phillips, the Society's founder, about her husband, Rev John George Phillips, the progress of his Alzheimer's disease, and the difficulties of finding hospice care for him; copies of letters from Dr Colin Murray Parkes to Cori Phillips, 1973, with advice on John Phillips' condition; later correspondence on attendance allowance, hospice admission policies relating to Alzheimer's patients and respite care. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2078.

Correspondence, financial statements and notes relating to financial difficulties, St Christopher's Hospice, 1981-1982, including correspondence between Cicely Saunders and charitable trusts including the Wellcome Trust, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Knights of St Columba. Also copies of letters to South West Thames Regional Health Authority, 1974, relating to contract negotiations for future patient referrals, with revenue statements. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2062.

Correspondence, contracts and notes chiefly relating to the participation of Cicely Saunders and other members of St Christopher's Hospice staff in a BBC Radio 4 phone-in programme, It's your line: special on dying and bereavement, broadcast April 1975. File includes typescript notes by Saunders on possible questions, and subsequent correspondence concerning fundraising appeals and other television appearances. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2062.

Correspondence and draft texts relating to Cicely Saunders appearance in the BBC2 series Light of experience (in which participants spoke direct to camera about a life-changing experience), broadcast November 1976. File includes correspondence relating to editing, publicity and the accompanying book, Light of experience (BBC, 1977); draft, final text and shooting script for Saunders' talk, 'A window in your home'; letters from viewers. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2058.

Meeting papers and correspondence relating to St Christopher's Education Committee, including correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Dr Michael J F Courtenay, chairman of the Committee, 1981-1985. Also: a report by the Ad Hoc Education Planning and Evaluation Committee, May 1981; statistics on training courses provided, attendance, fees and income, 1982; financial statements for St Christopher's Study Centre, 1983-1984; job descriptions; programmes of events; correspondence concerning the membership of the Education Committee. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2065.

Text, correspondence and press cuttings relating to a diary kept by documentary producer Ramsey Short, a St Christopher's patient with an inoperable brain tumour. File includes typescript transcripts of the dictated diary, press cuttings relating to Short and his work, and correspondence concerning Short's death and permission to quote from his diary (Cicely Saunders quoted from it in talks and lectures, and extracts were published in her biography, Cicely Saunders: the founder of the modern hospice movement, by Shirley du Boulay, 1984). Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2059.

Correspondence, research proposals, notes and articles relating to the charity Cancer Research Campaign (originally the British Empire Cancer Campaign). File includes: correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Dr Nigel Kemp, Cancer Research Campaign, relating to a clinical training fellowship at St Christopher's Hospice; the Cancer Research Campaign annual report, 1982; an article by Dr Thomas Walsh, 'Oral morphine in chronic cancer pain', published in Pain, 1984; reports on research undertaken at Sir Michael House Hospice, Oxford. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2064

Memoranda, reports, case notes and statistics relating to cancer patients, St Christopher's Hospice, including reports 'Pain experience in last 24 hours', 'Experience of patients in the first 100 who did not die peacefully' and 'Advanced cancer pain'. Also two reports by Thomas Declan Walsh, Research Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology, Guy's Hospital and St Christopher's Hospice, on advanced cancer in hospice patients. File is CLOSED for review in 2083.

Correspondence, meeting papers, discussion documents, booklets and leaflets relating to the Attendance Allowance Board, an independent statutory body created to adjudicate on benefit claims by people with physical or mental disabilities, and to advise the UK government on the administration of the allowance. Cicely Saunders joined the Board in 1970, and was Vice Chairman, 1978-1985. File includes: correspondence, 1985, with fellow members Anthony Harold ('Tony') Newton, Minister of State for Social Security and the Disabled, and Professor John Marshall, Chairman, relating to Saunders' resignation; text of a UK government report on the Social Security Bill, 1989; correspondence on the termination of the Board, 1992. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2072.

Correspondence, scripts, shooting schedule and leaflets relating to a television fundraising appeal for St Christopher's Hospice by actress Sheila Hancock, broadcast on BBC1, August 1982. Also correspondence with The Listener magazine concerning a related printed fundraising appeal, and a printed donation form. The second file includes personal data and is CLOSED during Hancock's lifetime.