File 2 - Mainly correspondence on practical arrangements relating to payments, contracts, research, travel and meetings

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Comprises correspondence on: setting up Science Horizons Inc.; a draft agreement from the BBC (copy of draft included); profit sharing; fees; agreements with the BBC; renting and borrowing films of grunion fish; arranging to film grunion (with some research notes on the fish); sending letters and other material relating to 'The Ascent of Man' to London through the BBC's New York office [due to a postal strike in the United Kingdom]; Bronowski taking sabbatical leave from the Salk Institute; travel plans; ordering a booklet on Canyon de Chelly National Monument; and Frederic de Hoffman (Salk Institute) showing an excerpt from programme 1 at a meeting (1974).

Correspondents include Bronowski, Sylvia Hodgson/Fitzgerald, Lee Lacy (secretary to Bronowski), George A Peterson & Co accountants, J D L Hill (assistant head of programme contracts, BBC), John Stringer (head of business co-productions, BBC) and the BBC office in New York.

Also includes: notes on a meeting at Time-Life building in New York with the BBC (John Stringer & Aubrey Singer), Time-Life Films (Peter Robeck) and Little, Brown publishers (Larned G Bradford) in Jan 1970; a copy of a list of work done so far on 'The Ascent of Man' up to Jan 1970; a copy of a check list for 'The Ascent of Man' programmes (Mar 1973); a signed release of rights to the BBC of a film made of Ronald and Norma Chadwick at the Salk Institute; copies of relevant quotes, verse and prose for use in programmes; a letter to William Bernbach (advertising creative director, New York) on 'The Ascent of Man' films being near completion; a letter from Patrick Blackett (Imperial College of Science and Technology) on seeing the first parts of 'The Ascent of Man' (19 Jul 1972); copies of letters from Sylvia Fitzgerald updating Bronowski on various matters relating to 'The Ascent of Man' when he was in the United Kingdom (Nov-Dec 1972); a letter to Petaluma Senior High school from the National Science Foundation declining to help them buy copies of 'The Ascent of Man' films; 'Ariel' BBC staff journal (21 Jul 1972) containing an interview with Bronowski entitled 'The Fascination of bringing Science to the Screen'; an itinerary for Adrian Malone's first recce trip for 'The Ascent of Man' (Aug-Oct 1970) annotated that it had been cancelled and amended; and a flight itinerary for Dick Gilling.