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- 2 November 1967-30 November 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 Kathleen Murray (Secretary to Bronowski).
Subjects include: publications by Bronowski; invitations for visits and speaking engagements; Bronowski's visit to Yale University to give the Silliman lectures on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination', discussion of the content of the lectures, and an invitation to be a Professor of Biology and Philosophy at Yale; arrangements for Bronowski to visit Atlanta (Georgia, United States) in December; the philosophy of biology and a book of essays by Peter Medawar (letter to Professor Morton White, Harvard University); a grant application for Bronowski and Roman Jakobson to work together on "the origin of human language, particularly as it reflects the philosophy of its structure" and to employ Anna Wierzbicka (Instytut Baden Literackich PAN, Poland) to work on the project at the Salk Institute; a proposed series of television programmes [possibly 'The Ascent of Man'] (letter to Adrian Malone, BBC); the philosophy of Karl Popper (letter to Dr Henryk Skolimowski, School of Philosophy, University of Southern California); and inviting Professor George Miller (New York) to be a Visiting Fellow at the Salk Institute.