Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1967 - 1979 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence and related papers, chiefly concerning Cicely Saunders' 1978 visit to Poland, including press cuttings and posters. Also correspondence relating to information about and visits to St Christopher's Hospice, requests for published articles, and personal correspondence with Polish friends. File also includes: photographs of a visit by Archbishop Karol Józef Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) to Nowa Huta, Kraków, Poland, 1973; literature on Polish medical institutions, including the Institute of Oncology, Warsaw; a press cuttings on the hospice movement and the significance of Saunders' former Polish patient, Antoni Michniewicz. In English and Polish. Sensitive personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2063.