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- 10 May 1965-5 July 1974 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence relating to: Bronowski's 'The Identity of Man' lectures being published as a book by The Natural History Press (The American Museum of Natural History)/Doubleday and Company, Inc. publishers; further editions; permissions for 'The Identity of Man' to be transcribed into braille by the National Library for the Blind (London) and for use of extracts; reviews of 'The Identity of Man'; corrections for a paperback edition; and an expanded edition of (1971/72) which included 'The Logic of the Mind' (originally published in 'The American Scholar').
Also includes: a postcard from I A Richards on subjects including thanking Bronowski for 'The Identity of Man'; correspondence with Donald Davie (department of English, Stanford University) on subjects in 'The Identity of Man' including immunology and science as a language (1969); correspondence with Peter Medawar (National Institute for Medical Research, London) on subjects including Bronowski's view of imagination and creation in science and arts, and truth or falsity of theories as discussed in 'Humanism and the Growth of Knowledge' (1968); a letter from Waldemar G Ostermann (Communication Science Program, Governors State University, Illinois) on issues around linguistics in 'The Logic of the Mind' (1974); and a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Dr Edmund Leach (Kings College, Cambridge) about subjects in Leach's lecture to the Architectural Association (1969).
Additionally includes: a list of reviewers and members of the academic community to send copies of the book to; a memorandum on WBAI radio (New York) wanting to use audio tapes of the 'The Identity of Man' lectures; a press release from The Natural History Press about publication of 'The Identity of Man'; a letter from Radio Station WHB (Kansas City, Missouri) about 'The Identity of Man' being discussed on a radio programme; copies of various reviews of 'The Identity of Man'; a sample dust jacket for a revised edition of 'The Identity of Man' (1970); notes on topics in 'The Identity of Man' and for future editions (1967-69); and press cuttings on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel lecture (1973) and a science report of the ritual combat of fiddler crabs (1968).