Series C - Correspondence

20 boxes

Wide-ranging correspondence concerning personal, professional and political matters relating to Jones' role in the field of psychoanalysis. The collection contains correspondence with almost 700 individuals and institutions, many of whom were significant in the development of early psychoanalytic theory and the international psychoanalytic movement.

There is considerable correspondence regarding psychoanalytic theory, particulary with reference to patients analysed by Jones, Sigmund Freud and their colleagues. Also included are frequent references to the translation, publication and review of psychoanalytic journals and texts. There are discussions concerning the establishment, membership and organisation of the International Psychoanalytical Association, including arrangements for congresses and the workings of national and local psychoanalytical societies. Throughout the correspondence, there are also references to personal matters including relationships, family and health.

There are several peaks of letter-writing activity which broadly correspond to four major themes:
1909-1914: The early development of the psychoanalytic movement including the London Society and Freud's inner circle of colleagues (see also P04-B-B).
1920-1923: The development of the British Psychoanalytical Society, the IPA and the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' (see also P04-B-B).
1933-1936: Arrangements for emigration of analysts from Europe during the rise of Nazism (see also P04-B-C-03).
1951-1957: Jones' research for his biography of Freud (see also P04-A-E).

Rundbriefe, then named correspondents, then A-Z files

• English
• German
• French

• Latin

It should also be noted that Jones sometimes used the reverse side of letters as notepaper and so further items of correspondence can be found in P04-A-E, P04-A-F and P04-A-G.

• English

• Latin