Letters from Ed Tyler, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1971-1972

Records of running the social and business life at Sandstone, especially during its peak years 1970-1972, including original drafts of John Williamson's papers and presentations, a folder of his research and unpublished poems, newsletters and flyers, clippings of articles and publicity about Sandstone, legal documents, about 200 copies of photographs of the center, events, and key Sandstone members dining and doing massage, and approximately 250 pages of correspondence. The correspondence, 1970-1981, is mostly between John and reporters, academics, psychologists, and people the medical community who were interested in learning about Sandstone and people in the Hollywood movie business. Among the correspondence are: Erica Abeel, New York magazine writer; Ruth Beasley, Coordinator of Information Services at Indiana University/Institute for Sex Research, Inc.; Steve and Judy Beltz, Directors of Research at Sandstone; Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex, professor at University College in London, and visiting Professor at UC Berkeley ca. 1970; Albert V. Freeman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Institute for the Scientific Study of Human Sexual Potential, Board Member of Sandstone Retreat, Chairperson of the Task Force on Sexual Mores, Committee on Social Issues, California State Psychological Association; and New York writer Gay Talese. It is mostly from within the United States, but includes 1970 correspondence with Ron Laytner, a photojournalist in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Marcelo Correia from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and Robert N. Whitehurst, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, and Sandstone Retreat Board Member.

Also, regular daily business correspondence about running the center, a DVD with a documentary about Sandstone created and financed by admirers and insiders, and some pamphlets and books from their library (which may be cataloged separately).