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- 2 January 1968-31 January 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: arrangements for Bronowski to give the first Damon Educational Foundation lecture on 'Science in the New Humanism' [later called 'Science and the New Humanism'] at a National Science Teachers Association convention (Mar-Apr 1968); buying books for the Szilard collection at the Salk Institute; arrangements for Bronowski's visit to the University of Tennessee (Apr 1968) including plans to lecture on 'The Growth of Imagination'; publications by Bronowski; a meeting of the Study Group on the Unity of Knowledge; invitations for speaking engagements; arrangements for Bronowski to deliver a lecture to a joint meeting of senior school pupils in honor classes and the Delta Kappa Gamma Society (8 Feb 1968); arrangements for seminars by Richard L. Sodman and Melvin J. Cohen at the Salk Institute; John Lucas (Merton College, Oxford) making changes to 'The Freedom of the Will'; and suggestions for Bronowski to be involved with further television programmes for the BBC, particularly on William Blake (letter to Adrian Malone).
Also includes a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Bronowski to Gilbert Seldes on subjects including postponing a planned visit by Seldes to the Salk Institute to advise on the library.