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- 13 January 1953-22 November 1967 (Creation)
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Comprises correspondence, mainly with Bruce Mazlish and publishers, about 'The Western Intellectual Tradition'.
Also includes: a letter from Howard Bartlett (Head of the department of Humanities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) on work beginning on editing Bronowski's lectures for the book (1953); correspondence with WGBH FM/Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council on taping Bronowski's lectures; correspondence with Robert Schofield (Assistant Professor, University of Kansas) on sending Bronowski articles about the Lunar Society; copies of letters to Professor Caroline Ware (Vienna, Virginia) and Warren Weaver (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York) on sending them copies of 'The Western Intellectual Tradition' and asking them to review it; draft indexes for the book; a list of corrections for the book; lists of people and publications to send review copies of the book to; a letter from Evarts Seelye Scudder on Bronowski referencing Scudder's biography of Benjamin Franklin in 'The Western Intellectual Tradition'; correspondence with the Encyclopedia of World Art on the Monument [to the Great Fire of London] being ascribed to Robert Hooke rather than Sir Christopher Wren; correspondence with Professor Caracciolo-Trejo (University of Córdoba, Argentina) on a proposed Spanish translation; correspondence with Mazlish about Bronowski writing in support of a fellowship application, and about Bronowski showing Stanford Anderson around the Salk Institute as he was writing an article on Louis Kahn (architect); press cuttings about King George III, inflation and a book of lectures on industrial civilisation; and notes for "Speaking Personally" [interview of Bronowski], Feb 1958.