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- 2 April 1967-28 April 1967 (Creation)
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1 file
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Consists of carbon copies of letters sent by Bronowski and Sylvia Hodgson (Editorial Assistant to Bronowski).
Subjects include: Bronowski assigning control of 2 filmed interviews with Andries Deinum (Portland Center for Continuing Education) to Deinum [these were interviews conducted after Bronowski's had delivered his Condon lectures], and prints of the films of the interviews and tapes of the Condon lectures being sent to the Salk Institute; a meeting at the Salk Institute of the Study Group on the Unity of Knowledge; Bronowski making an audio recording for a BBC Home Service radio programme for Julian Huxley's 80th birthday; publications by Bronowski; plans for Bronowski to speak on 'The New Biology' at a WASI [Women's Association of the Salk Institute] lunch (24 May 1967); stocks and shares bought and sold by Jacob and Rita Bronowski; and plans for filming a BBC television programme about Leonardo da Vinci ['Tell me if anything was ever done'].
Also includes: photocopies of handwritten letters from Bronowski to Barbara Baron, Leo Baron and Lilli [Stein] about Leo Baron's (Bronowski's brother) imprisonment in Rhodesia and illness; photocopies of handwritten letters from Rita and Jacob Bronowski about selling shares in the United Kingdom; a summary of Bronowski's address 'On Being an Intellectual' for the opening of the Clark Science Center at Smith College (6 May 1967); carbon copies of paragraphs to be added to the 'Academic Purpose and Plans of the Salk Institute' document (Mar-Apr 1967) with a copy of a handwritten letter from Bronowski to Jonas Salk sending the paragraphs; and a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Bronowski to Arthur Galston recommending contacts in London.