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- 1 April 1968-30 April 1968 (Creation)
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1 file
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Consists of carbon copies of letters sent by Bronowski, Sylvia Hodgson (Editorial Assistant to Bronowski) and Kathleen Murray (Secretary to Bronowski).
Subjects include: Bronowski selecting excerpts from 'The Man in the Moon' for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; publication of Bronowski's Damon Educational Foundation lecture on 'Science in the New Humanism' [later called 'Science and the New Humanism'], and other publications by Bronowski; invitations for speaking engagements; books to purchase for the Szilard collection at the Salk Institute; plans for 'Man and Nature in the Renaissance' symposium jointly sponsored by the University of California at San Diego and the Salk Institute; Bronowski having visited New York, North Carolina and Tennessee; and Bronowski's brother, Leo Baron.
Also includes: a carbon copy of a memorandum to the file recording a phone call from Adrian Malone (BBC television) about ['Tell me if anything was ever done'] a television programme made on Leonardo da Vinci which Bronowski presented, and a proposal for a similar programme about William Blake; a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Bronowski to Edward Pols on having read Pols' work about Gödel's theorems; a carbon copy of a letter to Leo Baron (Bronowski's brother) from Bronowski about employment prospects, Bronowski sending Baron's paper on 'Southern Rhodesia and the Rule of Law' to people in Berkeley, and legal process; and a photocopy of a handwritten letter to Alice King from Bronowski sending documents about and by Leo Baron.