File 2 - "Notes for an Autobiography"

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JCPP/Bronowski/Bronowski/9/1/2

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"Notes for an Autobiography"

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  • December 1954-c. July 1966 (Creation)

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Comprises handwritten notes by Bronowski on people that he had met or known including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, J B S Haldane, Max Black, Richard Braithwaite, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Leslie Carron, Linus Pauling, J D Bernal, Patrick Blackett, Bernard Woolf, Norbert Wiener, Gowland Hopkins, Charlotte Haldane, Julian Huxley, Gregory Pincus and Lionel Penrose.

Also includes handwritten notes by Bronowski on the National Coal Board, key dates and facts for an autobiography, and an autobiography for 'Midcentury authors'.

Additionally includes a typescript of a report by Bronowski on 'Pandemonium' by Humphrey Jennings (16 Dec 1954).

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      Jesus College has a microfilm containing copies of the handwritten notes along with copies of material from Bronowski 1/1/2/1, 1/1/2/2 and 9/1/3.

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      Box 119:2

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