File 23 - General Correspondence: Si-Sz

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Comprises correspondence with, and on, individuals including: notes from Jonas Salk on Beverly Sills (opera singer) being filmed at the Salk Institute; a letter to Harold Silverman (Doyle Dane Bernach Inc.) on advertisements for the Salk Institute; Dr Julian Simon (Department of Advertising, University of Illinois) on the concept logical positivism discussed in Bronowski's 'The Common Sense of Science' and 'Science and Human Values'; Aubrey Singer (BBC) on Bronowski's suggestions for television programmes based on a report by [Matthew Stanley] Meselson, and a joint interview with Bronowski and Maurice Wilkins; Isaac [Bashevis] Singer on books by Bronowski; Joseph Elliot Slater (President of Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies) about the curriculum at Aspen and Bronowski sending an outline of his work at the Salk Institute; Joseph Sloane (Department of Art, The University of North Carolina) on his essay 'Notes for a New Humanism' (included); Walter B Smalley mainly on letters he had written to public figures as "Snoopy Jr."; Dr Vaclav Smil (Czechoslovakia) on shared academic interests and sending each other publications; Dr Charles J Smith Jr. (Medical University of South Carolina) mainly relating to a letter on 'Thermodynamics of Living Organisms' for submission to 'Nature' and a paper on 'The Problem of Entropy in Biology' (both included); Cyril Stanley Smith (Department of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on Bronowski's paper ['New Concepts in the Evolution of Complexity]; Dr Francis Rawdon Smith on sending Bronowski books and being asked to investigate artificial intelligence for the Salk Institute; Dr O M Solandt [was in Japan with Bronowski in 1945] thanking Bronowski for sending him a copy of his Blashfield Address ['The Reach of the Imagination' for the American Academy of Arts and Letters]; Lord Charles Snow [C P Snow] on subjects including sending each other their publications and Bronowski becoming an honorary fellow at Jesus College; a letter from Bronowski to Dr Fred Sommers (Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University) relating to advice on philosophical books for the Salk Institute library; Sir Kelvin Spencer, mainly on 'The Identity of Man' and 'Nature and Knowledge'; Robert M Stecher on sending Bronowski reprints with Bronowski's reply on 'The Darwin-Bates Letters' and on [Arthur] O'Shaughnessy; Dr Mark Steedman (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, The University of Sussex) on subjects including memory models and the organisation of the laboratory; Professor Gabriel Stein (Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on subjects including the Silliman lectures ['The Origins of Knowledge and the Imagination' at Yale University] and the possibility of Bronowski visiting Israel; Dr Gerald Stine (Department of Botany, University of Tennessee) on requesting reprints of Bronowski's articles to use in courses; letters relating to Bronowski being sent copies of papers on antibodies by Dr A G Steinberg (Department of Biology, Western Reserve University); Professor George Steiner (Churchill College, Cambridge); Larry Steinman on visiting, and possibility researching at, the Salk Institute; Professor Gunther Stent on reviews of 'The Survival of the Wildest' by Jonas Salk and 'The Hope of Progress' by [Peter] Medawar (typescript of the review on Medawar entitled 'Ne Plus Ultra' included); John Stevens about his paper on Determinism; J A Stratton (President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on the Lunar Society and the Warrington Academy; V Sudhakaran (Kerala, India) requesting copies of some of Bronowski's books; M V Sussman on Bronowski's article 'Technology and Culture in Evolution' and a course on 'Technology as Culture' at Tufts University; Professor N S Sutherland (Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, The University of Sussex) on Sutherland [visiting the Salk Institute to give a seminar] and work on "the delayed reaction".

Also includes: a press cutting on Anthony Sinclair (tailor); chapter 9 of a dissertation by Jaideep Singh on 'The Humanistic View of Man' (analysing the views of Hubert Bonner, James Bugental, Erich Fromm, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May); Dr Sidney Slomich's curriculum vitae with covering letter; a reprint of 'On Interpreting Bach' by H C Longuet-Higgins and M J Steedman; a reprint of 'The Nature of G and the Concept of Intelligence' by Alexander W Stern; and a press cutting on a talk at the University of California, San Diego, by I F Stone (journalist).

The signatures have been cut out of letters from Sir Kelvin Spencer (4 Sep 1969) & George Steiner (23 Feb 1970).

'Problems with Entropy in Biology' by Charles J Smith was published in Biosystems, Vol. 1, 1975.

A shorter edited version of 'Ne Plus Ultra' by Gunther Stent was published in Nature, Vol. 240, No. 5379, 1 Dec 1972.

'On Interpreting Bach' by H C Longuet-Higgins and M J Steedman was published in Machine Intelligence 6, 1971.

'The Nature of G and the Concept of Intelligence' by Alexander W Stern was published in Nordisk Psykologi, No. 5, 1956 & Acta Psychologica, Vol. 12, 1956.