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Letters received from the Melanie Klein Trust and Des Femmes publishing company.

Handwritten.

Letters received from family members and colleagues.

Letters to Alix Strachey from friends and colleagues. Also included is a single draft reply from Alix Strachey to Alexander Mitscherlich.

Letters received from friends or colleagues and organisations.

One letter from Melanie Klein (1945) and two from Joan Riviere (1948 and undated), commenting on papers by Isaacs, as well as one from Sylvia Payne (1945) apparently declining to comment on a manuscript and stressing the need for co-operation regardless of theoretical standpoints. Also one letter each (both undated) from Ernest Jones and Adrian Stephen, granting Isaacs permission to quote them.

Also included is a circular letter (1945) seeking the repayment of loans made to emigres by the British Psychoanalytical Society, in order to raise funds to assist colleagues in Europe following the Second World War, and a copy of a letter to 'The Times' (1949) seeking contributions to the Susan Isaacs Memorial Fund.

Two letters, discussing Payne's proposed book on the history of the British Psychoanalytical Society, with comments on the characters of Ernest Jones and James Glover as well as details about Payne's own life. Also included is a photocopy of the second letter, with very brief annotations.

Personal letters to Henrietta (Dorothy) Fanshawe from the psychoanalyst Roger Money-Kyrle, deposited by C J Lucas on behalf of the recipient.

Letters from the poet laureate Robert Bridges and lexicographer H W Fowler, responding to Riviere's queries on matters of language use. One letter from Bridges acknowledges Riviere's subscription to the Society of Pure English. Also included are brief typed notes titled 'regard in periphrasis'.

Letters of thanks and appreciation from readers of the book; handwritten copies of letters of reply. These include letters from Ruth Norman, Joyce Coles, Anna Freud, Michael Fordham, Harold Searles, Ralph Layland, Sadie Gillespie, Clare Winnicott and others.