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- 22 December 1937-July 1954 (Creation)
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1 file
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Consists of: letters from publishers declining to publish 'The Thumb in the Margin', 'Two Poets and a Revolution' and 'Three Thousand Years War'; a letter from Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (publishers of 'A Man Without a Mask'); letters from individuals commenting on Bronowski's work including E M Tillyard, Frank Kendon of Cambridge University Press, [Sir Charles Desmond MacCarthy], Max Newman, Arnold Wesker on 'My Brother Died', Herbert Read, Joseph Wicksteed on 'A Man Without a Mask' and Wayland Young; letters from the BBC regarding Bronowski's radio talks on the Hiroshima Report and atomic energy; press cutting of a review of Bronowski on the BBC Third Programme; typescript of radio programme reviewing 'A Man Without a Mask'; a letter about a reference in another authors work.
Also includes a programme for the first stage performance of 'The Face of Violence' (1954) and typescripts of 'The Thumb in the Margin' (single poem).