Correspondence, primarily with the BBC, concerning the production and use of the transcripts and copies of the tapes of the broadcast series.
The documents comprise letters from galleries advising of sales,
There is also a list of people invited to a preview of a Margaret Little exhibition.
The documents include letters from Christopher Crickmay; letters from Dr Andrew Crilly of the BBC.
Matters discussed include arrangements for Milner’s interview; copyrights; the course Summer School.
Attachments include a list of questions prepared by Crickmay to ask Milner, (subsequently annotated by Milner); copy of a letter by Milner to Professor Arnold Kettle, supporting the ‘Art and Environment’ course; related notes by Milner; typescript by Crickmay headed ‘Some Features of Mechanised Consciousness That Should Not Exist in Post-Industrial Society’.
The documents comprise letters from John A Lindon, W H Gillespie, Judith Hubback, Euan [?] and Carol Savitz. Savitz's letter accompanied a copy of her review of the book for the 'Journal of Analytical Psychology'. There is also a handwritten copy of Margaret Little's reply to Lindon.
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).
The documents comprise 4 letters from Pontalis; copy of 1 letter from Milner; leaflet advertising Pontalis' 'Frontiers in Psychoanalysis : From the Dream to Psychic Pain'.
Two carbon copy versions of lists of notes and corrections. Title taken from lists.
Handwritten and carbon copy lists of corrections to the 'Standard Edition' by Alix Strachey. Also included are her notes and queries about the corrections plus the original, heavily annotated folders. Two sets of unmarked photocopies of the lists have been discarded, but the annotated envelope in which they were held is included.
See also P17-A-G 'Notes' and P17-D 'Notebooks and Loose Notes' which contain additional corrections.