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Correspondence, memoranda, meeting papers, texts for readings, floor plans, guest lists and programmes relating to services held in Westminster Abbey, London, to mark the 20th and 25th anniversaries of the 1967 opening of St Christopher's Hospice, September 1987 and October 1992. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2072.

Typescript drafts, manuscript notes and correspondence relating to Wilkins’ draft autobiography, on topics including his childhood and early war time research on uranium. Correspondence includes personal data, CLOSED for review, 2067. Also portrait photographs of Wilkins, [1962] and [1987], and progress reports from the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists,Bath, 1987-1993.

Correspondence, memoranda and related papers concerning fundraising for nursing at St Christopher's Hospice by the Lord Mayor of London's 800 Anniversary Award Trust. File includes correspondence between Cicely Saunders and Sir Christopher and Lady Collett, Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London, and arrangements for a fundraising fashion show at Mansion House, March 1989. The second file contains personal data in the file and is CLOSED for review in 2069.

Personal details of pupils and teachers involved; notes on interviews with survivors; completed questionnaires relating to previous experiences of anxiety disorders; completed 'revised impact of events scale' questionnaires, recording instances and frequency altered reaction behaviour following the sinking, deck plan of the JUPITER; correspondence between William Yule and the school concerning individual pupils; press cuttings CLOSED for review 2089.

Correspondence and notes relating to Wilkins’ earliest years inNew Zealand, chiefly his birthplace,30 Kelburn Place, Pongaroa. Also maps of New Zealand. File includes personal data, CLOSED for review 2074

William Yule's correspondence, 1989-1991, with colleagues and solicitors, relating to assessing survivors of the JUPITER cruise ship sinking, 1988. Also articles by authors including Yule and John Gunn, 1988, on post traumatic stress, and press cuttings, 1998 and 1999 (2 items) on the JUPITER sinking Correspondence CLOSED for review 2091.

Papers relating to research by William Yule and colleagues on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and survivors of the 1988 sinking of the cruise ship JUPITER, including: lists of individuals and schools involved, and the code numbers assigned to them for the first research study; notes and memoranda by William Yule and Derek Bolton on the process of legal-diagnostic assessment by interview, discussions of the presentation of the research findings and detailed analysis of the data collated thus far. CLOSED for review 2094.

Correspondence and related papers concerning the revised third edition of The management of terminal malignant diseases, edited by Cicely Saunders and Dr Nigel Sykes (London, Edward Arnold, 1993). Files include: correspondence between Saunders and Sykes (subsequently Medical Director, St Christopher's Hospice); correspondence with Dr Robert Dunlop, Medical Director of South Auckland Hospice (and also subsequently Director, St Christopher's Hospice); correspondence with Dr Alexander McCall-Smith, Department of Medical Law and Ethics, Edinburgh University; correspondence with Dr Peter Kaye, consultant in Palliative Medicine, Cynthia Spencer House, Northampton; draft introduction by Saunders; draft chapter by Saunders, 'History and challenge'; draft chapter, 'Respiratory symptoms', by Dr Louis Heyse-Moore, Medical Director of St Joseph's Hospice, London; article by Dr Gillian Ford, 'A palliative care system: the Marie Curie model', published in American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care, 1992; article by M Kearney, 'Palliative medicine – just another speciality', published in Palliative Medicine, 1992. Sensitive personal data in the files is CLOSED for review in 2077.

Correspondence, text and related papers concerning Cicely Saunders' article, 'The hospice movement', published in the Christian Medical Commission magazine, Contact, on the creation of St Christopher's hospice, and the hospice movement in Poland and Kenya. File includes: typescript drafts; correspondence with Dr Anne Merriman relating to the Kenyan hospice movement and international hospice conferences; Hospice Information Service newsletters; issues of Contact magazine. File also includes sensitive personal data and is CLOSED during the lifetime of Mary Baines.

Correspondence and memoranda relating to strategic planning meetings, St Christopher's Hospice, November 1991, including a report by management consultant Catherine McLoughlin on the organisation and management structure of the hospice. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2071.

Correspondence, briefing papers, memoranda, architectural plans, cost estimates and notes chiefly relating to the refurbishment of Rugby Ward, St Christopher's Hospice. File also includes papers relating to the construction of the Draper's Wing conservatory, and correspondence with Robert James relating to funding for the building work. Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review 2072.

Files of correspondence, consent forms and contact logs relating to individual participating in the 1994-1996 follow-up survey of survivors of the JUPITER disaster. Files are arranged by individuals' surnames, and include the reference number by which the completed questionnaires are arranged. Files include information on JUPITER survivors contacted who declined to participate, copy follow-up letters to individuals who did not respond to the initial contact, and individuals not involved in the JUPITER sinking, participating as a control group. CLOSED for review 2096.

Correspondence and personal applications relating to the appointment of a new chairman for the Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust (Cicely Saunders chaired the interview panel). File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2075.

Correspondence, draft agreements and notes relating to the administration of the Child and Parents Psychological Counselling Centre, Mostar, Bosnia, including contract details for local staff, and correspondence with the European Union Administration of Mostar (EUAM) CLOSED for review in 2026.

Correspondence, notes, draft agreements relating to the funding and administration of the UNICEF-IOP project in Zenica, a city in central Bosnia-Herzegovina that had received large numbers of refugees from other parts of Bosnia CLOSED for review in 2027.

Correspondence and internal memoranda to and from Alec Buchanan in his capacity as Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Maudsley Hospital, London. Invitations to speak at conferences and to contribute articles, clinic rotas, individual patients' mental health histories, 25 Mar 1997-17 Jan 2001. 1 file

Correspondence and related papers concerning the development of the Cicely Saunders Foundation including: letters from Professor Arthur Lucas, Principal of Kings College London, relating to Saunders' appointment as a Fellow of KCL, 1998; correspondence on the planning of the proposed Foundation with Professor Irene Higginson, Department of Palliative Care, King's College London, and with John McGrath, Chief Executive of Diageo; a draft discussion document, 'The Cicely Saunders Foundation for palliative care', June 1999; memoranda relating to nominations for trustees. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2080.

Correspondence with Michael Rodgers, Oxford University Press, with accompanying draft text, relating to the editing of Wilkins’ autobiography, The third man of the double helix (OUP, 2003). Also personal correspondence, including news of the death of King’ College London colleague Alec Stokes, and requests for interviews, advice and signatures, containing personal data, CLOSED for review 2083. Original file titles ‘2003’ and ‘OUP’

Correspondence, memoranda, meeting papers, briefing papers, brochures and grant proposals relating to the Cicely Saunders Foundation, on topics including the Foundation's purpose, staff appointments, fundraising, publicity, business planning, research applications (on breathlessness and on spiritual care across cultures), and the nomination of Cicely Saunders for the Gates Award for Global Health Leadership and for the Nobel Peace Prize, 2001. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2082.

Correspondence, press releases and meeting papers relating chiefly to the formal launch of the Cicely Saunders Foundation, June 2002. File includes a Daily Telegraph interview with John McGrath, Chairman of the Foundation's trustees, and a funding application to the Tubney Charitable Trust for research on breathlessness. File includes personal data and is CLOSED for review in 2082.