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- 1 May 1967-31 May 1967 (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 Carolyn Wardell (Secretary to Bronowski).
Subjects include: publications by Bronowski; the Plan of the Salk Institute (document); books for the Szilard collection; speaking engagements at Smith College (opening Clark Science Center) and Davidson College (as the Reynolds Distinguished Lecturer); arrangements for Bronowski to attend the International Design conference in Aspen (Jun); Bronowski making an audio recording for a BBC Home Service radio programme for Julian Huxley's 80th birthday; the idea of serendipity in biology (letter to James H Austin, Professor of Neurology, University of Oregon Medical School); invitations for speaking engagements; Bronowski recording 'The Reach of the Imagination' for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio; Bronowski organising for William Clark to advise Leo Baron (Bronowski's brother) on organisations to work for; and discussion of ideas in Abe Maslow's paper on 'A Theory of Metamotivation' and 'Science and Human Values' by Bronowski.
Also includes handwritten letters from Bronowski to [people he had met at the opening of the Clark Science Center, Smith College] and to John Danby (Department of English, Bangor University, Wales) on Bronowski wanting to send Danby a copy of 'The Identity of Man' as it contained material on "Lear" [by Shakespeare].