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- 16 August 1963-29 July 1974 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence, mainly with individuals based in Universities and students.
Correspondents include Gilbert Aberg (Head of Radio/Television in the Department of Public Information, The Pennsylvania State University), Joseph Agassi, S H Ajwani, Rachel A. (Menard) Akers, Colonel Hugh O'Donel Alexander [chess player], Stanford Anderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning), Ruth Nanda Aschen (editor, 'World Perspectives'/'Perspectives in Humanism'), Sir Eric Ashby (Clare College, University of Cambridge), The Hon. David Astor, Michael Ayrton and Americo Azevedo.
Subjects include requests for autographs, a party invitation, portrait photographs of Bronowski, possible employment opportunities at the Salk Institute, the Charles Abrams Scholarship Fund, supporting Professor Joseph Agassi's fellowship application to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, lectures and books by Bronowski, supporting Professor Norman Cohen's application to the Athenaeum Club, and discussing publications by other people.
Also includes typescripts of papers by Americo Azevedo: 'A Theory of Subjective Time'; 'A Metaphysical Speculation'; and 'Time, and Time again'.
The signature has been cut out of a letter from David Astor, dated 16 Nov 1965.