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- 28 April 1965-25 June 1974 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence relating to publication of 'The Identity of Man' in the United Kingdom. Correspondents include: Alan Hill and others at Heinemann Educational Books Ltd (publishers of 'The Identity of Man'); Dieter Pevsner at Penguin Books Ltd (also publishers of 'The Identity of Man') on proposed paperback and hardback editions; Melvin Lasky (Encounter) on Encounter publishing 'The Machinery of Nature' (lecture 2 from 'The Identity of Man'); and Robert Lusty of Hutchinson Publishing Group declining to publish 'The Identity of Man'.
Also includes: correspondence on a proposal for the BBC Third Programme to broadcast the lectures; correspondence with Gordon Rattray Taylor (editor 'Horizon' BBC television series) on Bronowski being interviewed for 'Horizon'; a list of people to send copies of 'The Identity of Man' to once published; a copy of a letter to the editors of the New York Times from Bronowski replying to some criticisms about 'The Identity of Man' (Jul 1966); correspondence on permission for 'The Identity of Man' to be transcribed into braille by the National Library for the Blind (London); press cuttings and photocopies of reviews of 'The Identity of Man'; and an annotated reprint of 'The Logic of the Mind' [to be added to an expanded hardback edition of 'The Identity of Man', in the United States].