File 26 - General Correspondence: Wo-Z

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Comprises correspondence with individuals and organisations including: Rabbi Alfred Wolf about an invitation to address Wilshire Boulevard Temple Forum; H L Wolfson on a television show in which Bronowski participated in 1964 ['On the Nature of Things' about Einstein]; Woolper Productions Inc. asking Bronowski to participate in a television programme for the Smithsonian Institute; Harry Woolf (Department of the History of Science, The John Hopkins University) on participating in a seminar on Renaissance Science and sending books to the Szilard Library at the Salk Institute; Dr Andrew Wright (Department of Literature, University of California at San Diego) mainly on Bronowski's writings about William Blake; Christopher Wright (Director of Institute for the Study of Science in Human Affairs, Columbia University in the City of New York) on Bronowski's inquiries about the Institute and arrangements for a dinner before Bronowski's Bampton lectures [on 'Magic, Science and Civilisation']; Jane Wyatt Ward [actress] on visiting the Salk Institute and having lunch at the Bronowskis' house, arranging for Bronowski to meet Sidney and [Frances] Brody [art collectors], thanking Bronowski for copies of his articles, a lecture and a review of 'The Double Helix' [by James Watson]; Tadashi Yamamoto (Japan Council for International Understanding) on a visit to the Salk Institute; Yivo Institute for Jewish Research on a book about the contribution of Polish Jews to the cultural life of Great Britain which Bronowski was to feature in and write the preface for; Professor J Z Young (Department of Anatomy, University College London) on Bronowski's writing about language and Young's book 'An introduction to the Study of Man'; Dr Wolfgang Yourgrau (University of Denver) on subjects including visiting the Bronowskis' home in La Jolla and possibly working at the Salk Institute (curriculum vitae included); Michael Yudkin (The London Magazine) mainly on his discussion of Bronowski's 'The Abacus and the Rose' and the views of Dr [F R] Leavis expressed in his Richmond lecture ['Two Cultures? The Significance of C P Snow' in 1962]; H J Zacharek-Pickett on sending Bronowski a copy of 'The Men Behind Hitler' by Bernhardt Schreiber; John Zane (School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego) on working with Bronowski at the Salk Institute; Victor D Zapanta (Iloilo City, The Philippines) on his play entitled 'Compassion'/'Annie' (synopsis included); Jekabs Zvilna on meeting Bronowski at the Design Conference in Aspen (1967) and sending a book of photographs and an issue of 'Architecture Canada'; Professor Franklin M Zweig (Doctoral Program on the Policy Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo) on a possible visit to the Salk Institute and a research proposal; Ralph Burhoe (Center for Advanced Study in Theology and the Sciences, Chicago) on 'Zygone'; and a letter from Bronowski to Dr Zdizislaw Zygulski (Curator of the Museum Czartoryski, Cracow, Poland) thanking Zygulski for showing him the "Lady with the Stoat" ['The Lady with the Ermine', painting by Leonardo da Vinci] and sending 'Science and Human Values' with some reprints.

Also includes a pamphlet on the music of William Wordsworth, press releases and a copy of a press cutting about the Institute for the Study of Science in Human Affairs.

The signature has been cut out of a letter from Professor J Z Young, 29 May 1968.

Correspondence with Dr Charles Lumsden (Department of Physics, University of Toronto) was moved to Bronowski 3/8/2/18, as it was annotated that it should be there.

A letter to John Wheeler was moved to Bronowski 3/2/25.

For further correspondence with Ralph Burhoe see Bronowski 3/1/10.