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- 1 March 1968-29 March 1968 (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 giving 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 (30 Mar); publications by Bronowski; ['Tell me if anything was ever done'] BBC television film about Leonardo da Vinci presented by Bronowski; inviting Professor Robert A. Hinde (St John's College, Cambridge University) to be a Visiting Fellow at the Salk Institute; discussion of ideas of "imagination and creation in science and in the arts" (letter to Sir Peter Medawar, National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom); plans to travel to Cambridge, United Kingdom in September (letter to Alan Pars, Jesus College); and invitations for speaking engagements.