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Retired Officers Association: 'Resolution' (on Strategic Defense Initiative), enclosed in 3/218.

Access Conditions: (RETAINED BY FAMILY. See Introduction and K/PP137/A/13.)

Drafts for book on thermodynamics.

Resuscitator 5 (Bristol, 1965): includes poems by Peter Armstrong and John James;

Issue 6, 1966: includes poems by Jim Burns, Roy Fisher, Paul Evans, 2 copies

Resurgence: Of small nations, small communities and the human spirit 61 (Crymych, Dyfed, 1977): includes a 'transatlantic poetry supplement'

Response to question on European opposition to Strategic Defense Initiative given by [representative] of High Frontier, extracted from an interview.

London medical Education – an alternative framework, reply from a working party on the Flower Report, King's College London Union of Students, David Travers, Chairman, Mar 1980.

Response to cultural studies questionnaire in Travesia: journal of Latin American cultural studies 2/1 (King's College London, 1993) 159-162

Resistances: a homage to René Char (RWC, Sutton, 1991)

Resistance box for measuring resistance in length of telegraph wire at intervals of 50 miles.  Consists of a wooden box with brass plates and knobs.

Resistance box with for measuring resistance in 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 mile lengths of telegraph wire.  Consists of a wooden box with brass plates and knobs.

Residu 2 (London, 1966): includes poems by Asa Benveniste, Gregory Corso, Anselm Hollo, Jeff Nuttall, and a short story, 'Martin's Folly' by William Burroughs

Residency certificates issued by poor law overseers in Slapton, Nothamptonshire. 3 items

Residency certificate issued by poor law overseers in Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire. 1 item

Residency certificate issued by poor law overseers in Blaxly, Northamptonshire. 1 item

Correspondence, notes and related material concerning responses to questions sent by Cicely Saunders to UK hospices, to establish whether they had a religious foundation, and how they met the spiritual needs of patients and their families, as preparation for her lecture, 'The modern hospice', given at a conference, 'The Church's ministry of healing to the dying', Oxford, 1985.

Statistics, graphs and notes on patients studied by Cicely Saunders at St Joseph's Hospice, including their duration of stay, age, gender and symptoms. Also observations and results of a clinical drugs trial for the respiratory stimulant amiphenazole, data on patients who had reported insufficient pain relief, and notes on patients with chronic persistent pain.

Research materials relating to population studies and demography, including article,'Fertility and Mental Illness', by Aubrey Lewis, The Eugenics Review, Jul 1958; lecture, 'Differential fertility, ability and educational objectives: problems for study', by D V Glass, given at the Godfrey Thomson Lecture, Moray House, Edinburgh, 1961; article, 'Birth control in Britain: attitudes and practices among persons married since the First World War', by Griselda Rowntree and Rachel M Pierce, Population Studies, Jul 1961; article, 'Estimation of the direction and intensity of natural selection in relation to human intelligence by means of the intrinsic rate of natural increase', by Carl Jay Bajema, Eugenics Quarterly, Dec 1963; article, 'Literature on psychology and infertility: a critical analysis' by Robert W Noyes and Eleanor M Chapnick , Fertility and Sterility, 1964; summaries of contents, Population Studies, Nov 1966; 'Malthus bicentenary discussion on fertility, mortality and world food supplies: fertility and population growth', by D V Glass, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1966; progress report of the Medical Demography Research Group Jan 1965 - Aug 1966; article, 'Birth control practice in Britain', by Mr C M Langford, Family Planning, Jan 1969; report, 'World Population Trends and Controls' by Prof D V Glass, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Nov 1970; definition of the term 'population' from unknown encyclopaedia; manuscript research notes by Aubrey Lewis.

Reports by Institute of Psychiatry staff: 'Report to the MacArthur Foundation on the development of the Maudsley assessment of delusions schedule' by Pamela Taylor and Philippa Garety, Dec 1990; 'Within maximum security hospitals: a survey of need' by Pamela Taylor, Martin Butwell, et al, Mar 1991; 'Police disposal of mentally ill people in central London' by Graham Robertson, Aug 1992; 'Maudsley assessment of delusions schedule ('MADS')' by Pamela Taylor, Philippa Garety et al (undated); 'Ethnic origin and the outcome of admission to a regional secure unit. A follow-up study of the first 14 years of the Denis Hill Unit' by Anthony Maden, S Rutter, C Friendship and T McClintock (1996); 'Update report on development and progress', by the Home Office Teaching Unit, IOP, Sep 1998

[Established in 1989, the SHSA's mandate was to change Britain's Special Hospitals for the criminally insane from custodial to treatment environments. In 1996 SHSA was dissolved and each special hospital became a special health authority]

Medical case notes, transcripts of interviews with patients, correspondence and notes relating to Cicely Saunders' research at St Luke's Hospital and St Joseph's hospice for her MD thesis. File includes tabulated data on the length of stay of patients, main symptoms, experiences of pain and drug treatments, and a diagram of the commonest symptoms of physical and mental pain.