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Letters and postcards to Colin Kirkwood from friends. Correspondents include 'Beth', 'Carol', Bill Anderson, 'Alastair' and 'Bernard'.

• Letters and poems from David Godwin to Colin Kirkwood, 1960s-1992.

• Papers relating to death of David Godwin, 1996. Includes obituary from The Herald newspaper, funeral programme, euology delivered by Colin Kirkwood, poem entitled 'The Marriage Feast: Song Cycle' read by Colin Kirkwood at the funeral.

Three letters and a Christmas card from Edwin Morgan to Colin Kirkwood. Includes the poems:

'Shadows'
'The Loch Ness Monster'
'and blue toboggans'

Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Colin Kirkwood. Also included is a list of books.

Complete set of 'Castlemilk Today'.

Correspondence with and papers and correspondence relating to Sir Richard Doll and his research.
Richard Doll was a doctor and pioneering researcher with a particular focus on lung cancer. Doll published the first research showing the link between smoking and lung cancer. Nancy Tait and SPAID did not always agree with Doll's research findings and sometimes disputed his calculations in relation to the environmental risk from asbestos.

Papers include:
-copies of Richard Doll articles and research
-copies of some articles by Richard Doll and Julian Peto
-reports and papers about SPAID's comments on Doll's research
-correspondence and copies of correspondence with Richard Doll about his research
-handwritten notes commenting on Doll's research
-statistics on asbestos-related deaths
-copies of press clippings mentioning Doll's research
-correspondence about interactions with Richard Doll
-a transcript of 'smoke gets in your eyes' 'Brass Tacks' BBC programme, 17 November 1987
-correspondence about US and Canadian research on asbestos
-correspondence with newspapers about misleading articles
-correspondence contradicting Doll's research into asbestos in break linings
-correspondence discussing the shortcomings of Doll and Peto's report: 'Asbestos- Effects on Health of Exposure to Asbestos- the Risk from Asbestos in Buildings', 1985.

Papers and correspondence (including telephone memoranda) re Westminster Council's management of the Elgin Estate (Chantry and Hermes Points), in particular whether the Council took appropriate action in response to information about asbestos at the blocks and complaints from people who lived in them. Includes

• documentation of local campaigning subsequent to the Barratt report (see below), including a discussion between former tenants and Dr Julian Peto, February 1997
• copy of John Barratt (24 January 1996) ‘Report of a documentary review into the use by Westminster Council of Hermes and Chantry Points, Elgin Estate, Westminster, for housing purposes, given the presence of asbestos' ("Barratt Report")
• copies of Westminster Council papers (including minutes), relating to the management of the estate 1983-1991
• copies of 'WECH [Walterton & Elgin Community Homes] News', 1996 and earlier

The Barratt report coincided with a press conference to launch the 'Asbestos hazards handbook', at which Nancy Tait was one of five invited speakers.

Correspondence with and about safety and environment campaigner Alan Dalton.
Includes:
-Papers about the TUC Safety Convention 1997
-Correspondence about the death of Alan Dalton, on 11 Dec 2003, and his funeral
-A document: 'A Tribute to Alan Dalton'
-Minutes of a meeting of the National Hazards Campaign, 15 July 2002
-Papers and correspondence about a joint Hazards Campaign/TUC conference, 23 April 2001, at which Nancy Tait spoke
-Invitation to Alan Dalton's 50th Birthday Party
-Press Releases
-Some copies of Dalton articles
-Correspondence about Alan's involvement in and his leaving the 'Transport and General Workers' Union' (T&G)
-Correspondence about the OEDA 'balloon release', 1998
-Dalton's comments on the 'Peto Report', 1997
-Correspondence about fibre levels
-Copy of booklet 'Fighting Asbestos at work & at home'
-Copies of various articles about asbestos
-Copy of an article about John McPherson's story: 'Gleswegians fight asbestos'

Correspondence and papers re the conference ‘Mesothelioma clinical trials’, organised by Clydeside Action on Asbestos, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 20 June 2002. Nancy Tait spoke briefly following the Q&A Session at 9 pm. Includes:

• correspondence between Nancy Tait and Phyllis Craig of Clydeside Action on Asbestos
• copies of conference papers by Dr Robin Rudd, Dr Julian Peto and others
• 9pp overview on Clydeside Action on Asbestos
• photocopy of Mendes et al. (2002) 'Clinical and immunological assessment of Mycobacterium vaccae (SRLI72) with chemotherapy in patients with malignant mesothelioma', in 'British journal of cancer' 86: 336-341

Includes:

• press coverage
• Brunel University MSc thesis by G.B. Farrant on potential release of asbestos affecting residents of Elgin Estate, October 1986
• report of independent commission, January 1996
• report by Professor Julian Peto, January 1997
• photographs, 1997
• papers on removal of asbestos from Winterton House and Gelston Point, Tower Hamlets
• publication by Walterton and Elgin Community Homes Ltd, 1998

Copy of brochure, originally comb-bound, containing the following seminar papers:

• William Evans (partner at Dibb Lupton Broomhead) 'The future for claims covered by insurance'
• Phil Bell (liability insurance manager, Sun Alliance) 'Lessons learned by underwriters?'

Two further presentation - Prof. Julian Peto on 'The future incidence and causes of asbestos related disease' and Prof. Andrew Newman-Taylor on 'The increase in the incidence of asthma and implications for the future' - are missing.

Correspondence and papers (including reports and press cuttings).

Chiefly

• 'Visitors from America and information they were interested in': correspondence, chiefly with Terry Richardson of Blatt & Fales, South Carolina, and papers relating mainly to Dr R Doll, among them copy of a letter from Doll and a photocopy of the HSC-commissioned report by Doll with J Peto, ‘Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos’ (1985)
• 'Information from American visitors': photocopies of court papers from actions against Turner & Newall Ltd, left by Terry Richardson

Correspondence and papers re various editions of the information pack 'Problems arising from the use of asbestos in buildings: papers assembled by SPAID'.

Includes copies of various SPAID notes from the pack, as well as SPAID note 22A ('Asbestos in buildings: effects on health and exposure'), reproducing the Health & Safety Commission publication on the topic by Richard Doll and Julian Peto, 1985. Further, former note 49 ('Industry information: the mineral asbestos'), from 'Asbestos - its special attributes and uses' of the Asbestos Information Committee (AIC), 1975.

VHS recording of BBC South programme 'First sight: a handful of dust' on asbestos in schools.

'Asbestos newsletter' reported: "This thirty minute documentary examined the on-going problem of asbestos in London schools, apartment and civic buildings. It highlighted the pioneering work of Mrs Nancy Tait, founder of SPAID (the Society for Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases), who has been warning since 1982 of the mesothelioma epidemic only recently identified by British epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto. The program was followed by a one hour discussion and phone-in on local radio in which Mrs. Tait, Professor Peto and Nigel Bryson of the General Municipal and Boilermakers Union answered callers' queries and debated the issues raised. The radio 4 BBC series: Face the Facts broadcast a special forty minute program on March 4 which looked at the history of asbestos in the UK."

Notes on a selection of literature on lung cancer, c.1992. Also includes copies of case correspondence and copy of R Doll and J Peto (1985) 'Asbestos: effects on health of exposure to asbestos', with Nancy Tait's instruction to SPAID colleague Martin [Stower]: 'Please list the parts you consider most important or most easily challenged'.