File 3 - Correspondence mainly with organisations, M-Z, filed under organisation or subject

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Includes material related to the correspondence. Correspondents are "William Morrow & Company Inc." asking Bronowski to comment on proofs of a book (declined); Jack Sampson on his daughter having "multiple sclerosis" and research into the disease at the Salk Institute; "National Aeronautics and Space Administration" (NASA) on sending Bronowski photographs of the Moon taken from Lunar Orbiter spacecrafts; "National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment" (United Kingdom) relating to Bronowski continuing on the committee of honour as the organisation was preparing for action against Duncan Sandys' attempts to reintroduce capital punishment; "National Council of Teachers of English" asking Bronowski to take part in a television series for elementary teachers (declined); "The National Foundation" inviting Bronowski to speak at the annual meeting of the Spokane County Chapter (declined); "Natural History Press" inviting Bronowski to a reception for Dr Roger Revelle following his Man and Nature lectures (1967) and Bronowski sending them 2 reviews of 'The Identity of Man'; "New School for Social Research" inviting Bronowski to be on the Half-Century Anniversary Committee (accepted) with a booklet on the preliminary lectures of the school in 1919; "New Scientist" on sending Bronowski copies of the magazine; "Opera News" on Bronowski's Blashfield lecture to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and asking him to write for Opera News (declined); "Oxford University Invariant Society" inviting Bronowski to speak (declined); "Oxfam" on Bronowski writing a statement on Oxfam's work for inclusion in newspaper advert (statement included); "Pantheon Books" offering to send Bronowski a review copy of 'The Dissenting Academy' by Theodore Roszaki; "The Parker Pen Company" on ink refills; "Paulist Press" sending a copy of 'The Humanization of Man' by Professor John Julian Ryan; "Penguin Books Ltd" asking Bronowski to write a book on the education of gifted children (declined) and thanking him for a letter to Sir Allen Lane; "Pergamon Press" on a proposed international journal for artists, and a personal letter from Frank Malina and [his partner] on visiting the Bronowski's; "Pictorial Charts Educational Trust" on sending Bronowski charts and the work of the trust; Damian S Wandycz, director of "Polish Institute of the Arts and Sciences" on meeting Bronowski and sending a copy of 'The Polish Review' and a leaflet on the institute (included); "Programming Services Inc." sending a library survey; "The Rand Corporation" on their publications and sending Bronowski a copy of 'Report on a Long-Range Forecasting Study' by Gordon and Helmer (Sep 1964); Ella Raskin on sending Bronowski her books of [William] Blake poems, illustrations and music; Emmanuel Mesthene of Harvard University Program on Technology and Society sending Bronowski the first volume of "Research Review"; "Salzburg Seminar in American Studies" on their programme for 1970; letters to W A Macfarlane, office manager for "Scientific American" thanking him for lending Bronowski a portable IBM dictating machine for use in New York (1965); "Scientific Research" on wanting to visit the Salk Institute and sending 2 issues of Scientific Research; "Smithsonian Institute" inviting Bronowski to a symposium on 'The Quality of Man's Environment' in 1967 (declined); "Stockholm Conference on Vietnam" inviting Bronowski to a World Conference in Rome (Feb 1973); "The Structurist" sending issues and asking Bronowski to write an article (declined); "Tiffany & Co." regarding a steel stopwatch; "Time: The Weekly News Magazine" on sending [an article] by Howard Gossage on McLuhan, Bronowski meeting Bernard Auer (publisher) and sending him a book, and a change of personnel at Time; notes to Bronowski from Sylvia [Fitzgerald, earlier Hodgson] and Kathy [Verlander, earlier Murray] about "Travellers Cheques"; "United Aircraft Research Laboratories" inviting Bronowski to visit and give a lecture (declined); "Weekend Telegraph" asking Bronowski to write an article on 'How Planets Form' with a reply declining and suggesting R A Lyttleton and Ivan King as more suitable authors; letters from John Rowley of "Western Mail: The National Newspaper of Wales" about a proposed interview of Bronowski for the Sunday Times; "Western Union Telegraph Company" about a pre-paid telegram; Longman Group Limited on payment for "Who's Who of British Scientists"; "World Academy of Arts and Sciences" sending memos and articles (included) on activities resulting from a conference on 'Environment and Society in Transition'; "YMCA" (greater Hazleton area, United States) asking for an item to auction (declined).

Also includes a list of "Nobel Prize winners" in physics, chemistry and medicine from 1962-1972; a leaflet on "San Diego as a Health Sciences Center"; 'Science News' (5 May 1973) containing an article on an international symposium on Copernicus which included Bronowski; a newsletter from "Save Our Heritage Foundation"; a photocopy of an employee price list for "Time-Life books"; and a poster advertising research fellowships at the Helen Hay "Whitney" Foundation.

Correspondence has been filed by the highlighted terms which are shown on the catalogue by double quotation marks, the original order has been maintained.

This file was originally in a ring binder.