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- 24 May 1965-12 July 1974 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence with individuals including: Dr Irme Lakatos (London School of Economics and Political Science); Professor P T Landsberg (Department of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, University College Cardiff) on sending each other reprints of their articles; Professor William S Laughlin (Department of Behavioural Sciences, The University of Connecticut) on the link between migration patterns and blood groups; Professor Edmund Leach (Provost of Kings College, Cambridge); Gerald Leach on his book, 'The Biocrats', and requesting to have a role in the Council for Biology in Human Affairs; Igor Lebanov (memos to him) [Salk Institute Bulletin] about Bronowski's visitors in 1968 and an announcement in the Bulletin; James Legler (Department of Political Science, Tulane University) on Bronowski reading Legler's papers relating to the development of science in China; Loïk Le Flock (science writer) on his visit to the Salk Institute, reporting on the Institute (report included) and then keeping in touch with Sylvia Hodgson [later Fitzgerald]; Gershon Legman on Bronowski's work on William Blake, his wife's interest in Blake, and his wife (Beverly) dying from Hodgkin's disease; Professor Sir Willliam Le Gros Clark (Department of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford) mostly advising Bronowski on academic issues; Dr Eric H Lenneberg on visiting the Salk Institute, his book 'The Biological Foundations of Language' and shared interests in biology and language.
Also includes correspondence with La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, an invitation to the first annual Albert Lasker Award Lecture at the Salk Institute, and invitations to the weddings of Judith Evans to Gershon Legman and Loïk Le Flock to Janine [Fournier].
The signatures have been cut out of letters from Edmund Leach (2 Dec 1968) and Gerald Leach (3 Apr 1970).