File 7 - Letters and cards sent to Rita Bronowski following Bronowski's death and on the memorial tribute at the Salk Institute, some annotated as acknowledged

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Correspondents include Hester [relation of Rita Bronowski], Edward J Bloustein (Rutgers University), Andrew Miller-Jones (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, worked with Bronowski on 'Enquiry into the Unknown' television series), Dick Gilling, James Reeves, Anand Sarabhai, Betty Jowitt, Leo [Baron, Bronowski's brother], Gerard Piel, Sol M Linowitz [United States diplomat], George Noordhof (worked with Bronowski on 'Science in the Making' whilst at the BBC), Larned G Bradford (Little, Brown and Company publishers), Mary Ellidge, Eirlys [Roberts], Eric and Freda [Roll], H Philip Mettger (Salk Institute), Sam [Wanamaker], Francis [Crick], Helen and Ed [Lennox], Juliette and Julian Huxley, Allen G Debus (The University of Chicago), Dorothea and I A Richards (Magdalene College, Cambridge), [James] D Watson (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Kathleen Raine, Sir Michael Swann (BBC), Ann Jellicoe, Lewis Wolpert (Department of Biology as applied to Medicine, the Middlesex Hospital Medical School), Henry A Sauerwein (Executive Director, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico), and Lister Sinclair (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).

Also includes: a letter of condolence sent to the Director of the Salk Institute; a letter of condolence from David Guttman (Professor of Psychology, the University of Michigan) to Harry Boardman (the Salk Institute) including memories of Bronowski as a seminar leader; a copy of a letter of condolence to Jonas Salk from Ralph Wendell Burhoe; a copy of a statement from Rita Bronowski (6 Sep 1974); cards with information on donations made in Bronowski's memory; and lists of people who had called with messages of sympathy (22 Aug 1974) and sent telegrams, a note of the press notice on Bronowski's death, a copy of the cable sent to Leo Baron to inform him of his brother's death, and copies of telegrams from the National Foundation to Jonas Salk and Frederic de Hoffman to members of the Salk Institute on Bronowski's death.

Additionally includes a letter to Bronowski from Richard Burns (festival coordinator for the first Cambridge Poetry festival, 1975) sending information and asking Bronowski for support, with a reply from Kathleen Verlander.