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The first three letters are from the legal representatives of the estate of A A Brill to Roback refusing permission to publish 'Freud's Reflections on War and Death' (also referred to in the letters as 'Reflections on Life and Death'). The remaining letters all concern Jones' biography of Freud.

Handwritten paper, plus a newspaper cutting of a version published in 'Tribune'.

There is a single letter from 1911 from Bluma[?] Chouffet to Brill discussing her analysis with him and her relationship with Jones (see also letter from Bluma[?] Chouffet to Ernest Jones, ref. P04-C-F-03).

Correspondence, with Jones, from 1919-1938 is wide ranging, concerning professional, personal and political matters. These include considerable discussion regarding the membership and organisation of the American Psychoanalytical Association and local societies and especially Brill’s difficulties with various members. There are also many letters concerning the funding, content and publishing of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Also discussed are the issues of analyst training and lay practitioners in the USA. Amongst all these discussions are frequent references to significant figures in psychoanalysis, including Sigmund Freud, Max Eitingon, Sandor Ferenczi, Clarence Oberndorf, H W Frink, Adolph Stern, Smith Ely Jelliffe, Otto Rank, Albert Polon, Anna Freud, Gregory Zilboorg.

From 1933-1938 many letters discuss the political situation in Europe with the rise of Nazism and the implications for various analysts and groups. These include arrangements for the resulting emigration and resettlement of analysts from Germany and other affected states.Also discussed is the internment of Edith Jacobson in 1935.

There is a single letter from 1940 from Brill regarding Jones’ son Mervyn on his stay in America with the Brills and also a proposed Freud memorial. There is also one letter in 1956 from Rose Brill complaining of criticism of her husband in Jones’ biography of Freud.

A letter from Jones to Brill, dated 2 May 1933, can be found amongst Jones' correspondence with Anna Freud, as the carbon copy paper was used twice.

Letters from Abraham Feldman regarding his work on Shakespeare and the Freudian method. Also included is correspondence with his brother Harold Feldman regarding research for Jones' biography of Freud particularly focussing on 'Moses and Monotheism'. The final letters are from Jeanette Feldman asking for recognition of her husband's work on Shakespeare in the Freud biography.

Family information and recollections supplied by the Freud and Bernays families; papers on Freud and/or personal recollections of Freud by various colleagues; copies of letters to and from Sigmund Freud to various colleagues, including Wilhelm Fliess; copies of minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, 1906-1915 & 1918 (supplied by Ernst Federn; see correspondence in P04-C-C-01); also miscellaneous articles, reading notes, other notes and lists.

Also included are two sets of interviews conducted by K R Eissler with colleagues of Sigmund Freud. These are copies of material held in the Sigmund Freud collection at the Library of Congress and access is managed according to the procedure applied at that repository. The interviews are: Paul Klemperer, conducted 4 Mar 1952 (available to researchers but may not be photocopied before 2020) and Albert Hirst, conducted between Mar and Jun 1952 (closed until 1 Jan 2020).