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- 1 April 1966-29 April 1966 (Creation)
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Consists of carbon copies of letters sent by Bronowski and Sylvia Hodgson (Secretary to Bronowski). Subjects include: publications by Bronowski including requests for reprints of 'The Logic of the Mind' lecture and translations right for 'Science and Human Values'; invitations for speaking engagements, to write an article and to attend a conference; a proposed series of seminars at the Salk Institute on recent progress in science in fields other than molecular biology; arrangements for Bronowski to visit the Colorado College (Colorado Springs) and to lead a seminar on 'Imagination in Science and in the Arts'; Bronowski's visit to Mexico; a bronze sculpture ('Mazehead') by Michael Ayrton being shipped to Bronowski; congratulating Ben Whitaker and Harold Wilson on winning in the United Kingdom elections; a conference on Leibniz for which Bronowski gave the concluding remarks; John Moore visiting the United States and Bronowski recommending him as a lecturer on English usage; work of the Van Leer Foundation; ideas about how the brain might be mimicked by a computer including the work of John von Neumann; exchanging topics of interest with Roman Jakobson in preparation for Jakobson's visit to the Salk Institute; congratulating John Maddox on becoming the editor of 'Nature' journal; Bronowski planning to give the Korzybski Memorial lecture (in New York) on 'Towards a Philosophy of Biology' (Apr 1967); and a reference to "black" and "white" magic in the 'Compendium Maleficarum' (Francesco-Maria Guazzo, 1608).
Includes: a copy of a letter to James Reeves from Bronowski, encouraging Reeves to come to the United States; and a copy of a letter to Gilbert Seldes on subjects including a proposed academy devoted to "the intellectual unity of the arts (including science)" and Bronowski meeting [Bern] Dibner.
Additionally includes a copy of a letter to William Glazier from Jacques Monod (Institut Pasteur, Paris) with a reply from Bronowski, about a proposed meeting of Salk Institute Fellows during a Cold Spring Harbour Symposium which Monod and Francis Crick were planning to attend.