Key Information
Reference code
K/PP149/7/1/53
Title
CLOSED papers, 1978-1979, relating to the diary of Ramsey Short, a patient at St Christopher's Hospice
Date(s)
- 1978 - 1979 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Text, correspondence and press cuttings relating to a diary kept by documentary producer Ramsey Short, a St Christopher's patient with an inoperable brain tumour. File includes typescript transcripts of the dictated diary, press cuttings relating to Short and his work, and correspondence concerning Short's death and permission to quote from his diary (Cicely Saunders quoted from it in talks and lectures, and extracts were published in her biography, Cicely Saunders: the founder of the modern hospice movement, by Shirley du Boulay, 1984). Personal data in the file is CLOSED for review in 2059.