File 5 - Letters, telegrams and cards sent to Rita Bronowski following Bronowski's death, some annotated as acknowledged

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Correspondents include Helen Lennox (wife of Ed Lennox), Freeman and Imme Dyson, Lady Mabel Ritchie-Calder, Ralph Burhoe [editor of Zygon magazine], Sam Wanamaker, Sid Colin [relation of Rita], Aubrey Singer, Gerald Holton (The Physics Laboratories, Harvard University), Anne and Joseph Slater, Richard Drewer and John Fisher (Michael Parkinson programme), Jess and Alan Sleath, Alvin White (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California), Leo [Baron], George Steedman, Jacques Monod, Mary-Averett Seelye, Reverend Michael Brierley (Worcester, United Kingdom), [Vladimir] Rojansky, Jane Mair (BBC, sending a newspaper cutting on 'Voyage Round a Twentieth Century Skull' - included), Ronald Bevan, Paul Berg (Stanford University Medical Center, department of Biochemistry), Dorothy Zinberg, and Bob Piddington (Agricultural Research Council at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

Also includes: a condolence letter to Harry Boardman (Salk Institute) from Bernice Neugarten (The University of Chicago); condolence letters to Jonas Salk from the Right Hon. Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Fredi Chiapelli (University of California at Los Angeles), George A Sacher (Argonne National Laboratory), Gifford Ewing and Polly and Louis Cowan (also includes copies of replies from Salk); cards with information on donations made in Bronowski's memory; a letter to Frederick de Hoffman (Salk Institute) on subjects including Bronowski's death; letters to Kathleen Verlander from N C Philips (Vice-Chancellor and Rector, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on Bronowski having accepted a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury and sympathies on his death, and from Ronald Watts (Principal-elect, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada); a letter to Bronowski from a school teacher about 'The Ascent of Man'; a letter to Rita Bronowski about her article on 'Identity of Women'; a letter from Joan Travis (L S B Leakey Foundation) about scholarships given as a tribute to Bronowski for 5 young scientists to attend a conference 'On Search of Man' at Caltech and inviting Rita Bronowski to the conference and a dinner; and a press cutting of a review of 'The Ascent of Man' book (Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug 1974) with an invitation to an art exhibition at California Institute of Technology.