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- 2 October 1968-31 October 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), Gerry Likens (Secretary to Bronowski) and Kathleen Murray (Secretary to Bronowski).
Subjects include: Gilbert Seldes planning to go to Santa Barbara; photographs taken at a Board of Trustees meeting [of the Salk Institute]; thanking Laura Huxley for a book about Aldous Huxley and giving her news of Julian and Juliette Huxley; invitations for speaking engagements, to take part in a meeting, and to edit a book about the rise of modern science; publications by Bronowski, including a proposal by Bronowski to publish several of his books in French and German; purchasing a Renaissance iron cupboard and chest from Salzburg; plans for Bronowski to deliver the UCLA Art Council Lectures (Schoenberg Hall, University of California at Los Angeles), the Mellon lectures (National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.) and the Bampton lectures (Columbia University, New York); work done for a BBC television programme on William Blake ['A man is as he sees'] presented by Bronowski; sending books by Bronowski to Jesus College, Cambridge; and the National Film Archive (United Kingdom) deciding to preserve some scientific films which featured Bronowski, including one made for the National Coal Board.
Also includes: a photocopy of a handwritten letter from Sylvia Hodgson to Mrs Eversole thanking her for her help with Bronowski's UCLA Art Council lectures [on 'The Prophetic Eye', Oct 1968]; and a carbon copy of a letter from Ursula Bellugi-Klima to Merrill Swain (Department of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine Campus) thanking her for discussions with a group of students and sending references to papers about language.