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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.

Correspondence on topics including: the development of hospices in the US; Cicely Saunders' publications; St Christopher's Hospice; invitations to the US; bequests; requests for Saunders' comments on draft articles. File includes correspondence with Dr R Merenfeld, 1981, concerning the development of a hospice movement in Venezuela, and articles on pain research conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, 1977. File also includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2066.

Correspondence on topics including: visits and meetings in the United States, requests for reprints, pain management and terminal care, visits to and information about St Christopher's Hospice, and articles about Cicely Saunders' work. File includes correspondence with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) concerning a documentary, 'Hospice', 1981; correspondence, 1959, with John Roderick Heller (1905-1989), Director of the National Cancer Institute, relating to cancer treatment in the US and the control of pain in terminal malignant diseases; correspondence, 1992, with the National Hospice Organization, relating to their presentation of a Founders Award to Saunders. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2076.

Correspondence on topics including: visits and donations to St Christopher's Hospice; invitations and requests for talks; a report on St Christopher's Hospice by Claire T Ravizza, University of Rochester Cancer Center, 1976; a talk by Cicely Saunders at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, 1976. File also includes correspondence with Dr Norman Rosenzweig, Department of Psychiatry, Sinai Hospital of Detroit, concerning his book, Community mental health programs in England: an American view (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1975), and papers relating to a World Health Organization scholarship application by Viola Riebe to visit St Christopher's, 1973. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2041.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; Cicely Saunders' articles; drug information; conference invitations; honours and awards. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2075.

Correspondence on topics including: visits to St Christopher's Hospice; invitations to give lectures; published articles; news of hospice developments in the US. File includes: correspondence, 1965-1966, with the Veteran's Administration Hospital, San Francisco concerning a planned visit by Saunders; correspondence with Sidney Cohen on the therapeutic use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); correspondence, 1989-1993, with Harold Y Vanderpool, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, concerning his article, 'The ethics of terminal care', published in Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978, which Saunders quoted frequently. Personal data in the file is CLOSED during the lifetime of Harold Y Vanderpool.

Correspondence on topics including Cicely Saunders' published articles, the development of St Christopher's Hospice, and invitations to give lectures. File includes a report by Kenneth Wentzel on his service as Visiting Chaplain, St Christopher's Hospice, 1975. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2039.

Correspondence on topics including information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice; the care of the dying; invitations to conferences; personal news. File also includes pamphlets, press cuttings and reports. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2051.

Correspondence on topics including: comment by Cicely Saunders on published articles about terminal care management, depression and euthanasia; visits to St Christopher's Hospice; the international hospice movement; the US hospice movement; correspondence with Professor David Barnard, Department of Humanities, State University College of Medicine, Pennsylvania, 1996-1997, concerning his publications on the US hospice movement, including draft and published articles; correspondence, 1993-1996, with Dr Samuel C Klagsbrun, chiefly concerning Klagsbrun's 1993 report on a visit to St Christopher's Hospice, and his views on physician-assisted suicide. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2061.

Correspondence on topics including the history of the hospice movement, current international hospice development and personal news. File includes correspondence relating to the International Hospice Institute, and letters concerning interviews given by Cicely Saunders. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2080.

Letters and cards of condolence on the death of Cicely Saunders' husband, Prof Marian Bohusz-Szyszko, 1995, with his Times obituary. Also photographs of a visit to Poland, 1978, including Saunders' giving a lecture. File includes personal data, CLOSED for review in 2059.

Photocopied case summaries for patients admitted to St Christopher's Hospice with a diagnosis of motor neurone disease (MND). Files are CLOSED for review 2083.

Patient notes, including comments by Cicely Saunders and by patients themselves, with related correspondence. Also an extract from Saunders' article, 'Appropriate treatment, appropriate death', including an anonymised patient summary. File is CLOSED for review 2083.

Detailed notes on patients with pain that was difficult to control, including details of history, diagnosis, prognosis, drugs administered and duration of stay. File is CLOSED for review 2078.

Summary notes on St Christopher's Hospice patients, including comments by Cicely Saunders and by patients, post mortem reports, case notes and correspondence with doctors and patients' families. Files are CLOSED for review 2079.

Notebook containing manuscript notes relating to Saunders' nursing training, including case notes of patients she attended, lecture notes relating to nursing and medical procedures, drug information and disease aetiology. The notebook also contains contact details of her fellow Nightingale nurses and several named patient charts. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2028.

Case notes, patient histories and correspondence relating to long-term chronically ill patients under Cicely Saunders' care, St Joseph's Hospice. File includes: a transcribed conversation between Saunders and a patient; Hospice newsletters, 1960; related published articles, including a copy of The Almoner journal, April 1962. File includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2037.

Correspondence, clinical statistics, charts and reports, memoranda, financial statements, notes, articles and press cuttings relating to South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board (SEMRHB, renamed South East Thames Regional Health Authority, 1974). Files include: correspondence with J R C Burton-Brown, member of the SEMRHB medical advisory board, concerning plans for a terminal cancer care centre, 1964-1966; correspondence and arrangements for admissions of patients referred by SEMRHB, 1968-1972); statistical data on cancer patients, January 1968; letters relating to arrangement for individual patients referred to the hospice from by SEMRHB and to visits to the Hospice by SEMRHB members; funding negotiations; requests for additional funding, 1974-1975; staff appointments, with attached CVs; correspondence relating to the incorporation of the hospice into the General Professional Training Scheme. Personal data in the files is CLOSED for review 2092.

Correspondence, completed applications and notes relating to the post of housekeeper/caterer at St Christopher's Hospice. File includes sensitive personal data CLOSED for review 2067.