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- 1 October 1969-31 October 1969 (Creation)
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1 file
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Consists of carbon copies of letters sent by Bronowski, Sylvia Hodgson (Editorial Associate to Bronowski), Kathleen Murray and Lee Lacy (Secretaries to Bronowski).
Subjects include: books to purchase for the Szilard collection at the Salk Institute; Bronowski supporting Roy Ascott's application for the job of Head of the Department of Fine Arts in the University of British Columbia; Bronowski agreeing to be part of a committee of the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment (United Kingdom); invitations for speaking engagements; discussion of Professor C H Waddington's (Institute of Animal Behaviour, Edinburgh) work on ethics (letter to Waddington); Bronowski's support for a programme in visual arts led by Professor Harold Cohen at the University of California in San Diego; publications by Bronowski; quantum physics (letter to Warren Weaver); and informing Edwin Lennox, Alan Bullock, Jacques Monod and Francis Crick that John Hunt (Vice-President Salk Institute) was planning on visiting them in Europe to discuss Institute matters.