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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.

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.

Students’ coursework handouts and exam questions for the social impact of the biosciences course.  Also notes on students’ marks and attendance, CLOSED for review 2074

Papers relating to a psychiatric case put before the Serious Untoward Incident Panel of the Hounslow and Spelthorne Community and Mental Health NHS Trust. Buchanan was a member of the panel. Including: minutes of Panel meetings; policy and procedure document; photocopy of guidelines on the Care Programme Approach; serious incident reports; Buchanan's handwritten notes; clinical notes, 1996-2001. [The Trust was established in 1992 and dissolved in 2002. It provided health and social care services for people with mental health problems including counselling and other psychological therapies, community and family support, or general health screening]. 1 file

Dr Mann, 1958' Bound volume containing index to Guy's Hospital patients of Dr W N Mann, arranged by ward and including date of admission, reference number, bed number (five or six digit), patient's name and age, disease, [and date of discharge], from John ward Oct 1956-Mar 1961, May 1962-Apr 1966; Mary ward Oct 1956-Mar 1961, May 1962-May 1966; William Gull ward, Oct 1956-Sep 1959; Naaman ward Apr 1961-Apr 1962; and Esther ward Apr 1961-Apr 1962.