Histories of Psychoanalysis

Archives

On this page are some of the libraries and archives which hold useful material for the study of the histories of psychoanalysis. Any information of other such repositories is welcomed.

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  • BPAS Minute Books (S-A-01)
  • Publications Committee (S-C-01 & S-C-02)
  • London Clinic of Psychoanalysis (S-F-01)
  • Membership Correspondence (S-D-04-B)
  • Member Lists (S-E-01)
  • Memoranda and Articles of Association (S-G-01-01)
  • Claud D Daly Papers (P06)
  • Susan Isaacs Papers (P19)
  • Ernest Jones Papers (P04)
  • Sylvia Payne Papers (P21)
  • John Rickman Papers (P03)
  • Joan Riviere Papers (P02)
  • Karin Stephen Papers (P14)
  • James & Alix Strachey Papers (P17)

Clark University Archives

  • G Stanley Hall Papers

Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Collection

Otto Rank Papers
  • David Forsyth correspondence
  • Eric Hiller correspondence
  • Ernest Jones correspondence

Cornell

  • DW Winnicott Papers

Freud Museum, London

  • Sandor Ferenczi Papers
  • Sigmund Freud Papers

Imperial War Museum, London

Siegfried Sassoon Papers
  • Notes on the staff of Craiglockhart War Hospital, undated, MS 9059

Kings College Archive Centre, Cambridge

Walter John Herbert Sprott Papers (GBR/0272/PP/WJHS)
  • WJHS/1/30: Sigmund Freud letter, dated 1923
  • WJHS/1/52: Ernest Jones, five letters dated 1931
  • WJHS/1/96: Karin Stephen, 3 undated letters
  • WJHS/1/99: James and Alix Strachey, 12 letters dated 1929-33

Library of Congress, Washington, DC

  • AA Brill Papers (MSS51748)
  • Columbia University Oral History Collection (MSS84042)
  • Anna Freud Papers (MSS49700)
  • Sigmund Freud Papers (MSS39990)
  • Smith Ely Jelliffe Papers (MSS57018)
  • Bertram D Lewin Papers (MSS61949)

London School of Economics Women's library

  • John Carl Flügel to Mrs Ursula Roberts, ref: 9/06/181
  • Sylvia Payne and Marjorie Brierly to Mrs Ursula Roberts, ref: 9/06

The National Archives, London

Aliens Registrations Cards (Metropolitan Police only)
  • Lucie Freud (1896-): MEPO 35/29/5
  • Ernest Freud (1892-): MEPO 35/29/4
Naturalization papers (Home Office)
  • Michael Balint HO 334/193/33985
  • Edna Balint: HO 334/244/2558
  • Esther Bick: HO 334/199/36904
  • Anna Freud: HO 334/163/18733 and HO 396/23/288 (exemption from internment)
  • Clemens Rafael Freud: HO 334/228/1216
  • Emanuel Freud: 29 Jan 1877: HO 334/7/2149
  • Jean Martin Freud: HO 334/184/29447
  • Erik Arthur Walter Klein: HO 334/146/10377
  • Melanie Klein: HO 334/134/4336
  • Margarete Eugenie Ruben: HO 334/214/44384
Passport holders, Index of names of (Foreign Office)
  • Emanuel Freud: FO 611/13, 14 and 20

National Archives of Canada, Ottawa

  • Friends of the CAMH Archives (FoCA)
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
  • 1001 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1H4

National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

  • William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn Papers (MSS.50100-50251)

Sheffield City Archives

Edward Carpenter Papers
  • Siegfried Sasson correspondence (1910-1918): Carpenter/mss/386/179, 180-181, 291, 293-296, 298-299, 313, 315
  • Roger Fry correspondence (1890-1924): Carpenter/mss/386/33, 176-177, 407
  • Robert Graves, (1 letter, 1914): Carpenter/mss/386/234
  • Carpenter to Havelock Ellis (1 letter, nd): Carpenter/mss/271/7
  • Albert Moll correspondence (1914): Carpenter/mss/386/145-148

University of Bradford

  • Demitrije Mitrinović Papers, GB 0532 NAF

University of Cambridge, Department of Manuscripts, University Library

G E Moore Papers, Add.MS8330/8 and Add.MS8330/8F/6/1
  • Karin Costelloe correspondence
  • John Carl Flügel correspondence
  • Ernest Freud correspondence
  • Lucie Freud correspondence
  • Roger Fry correspondence
  • Charles S Myers correspondence
  • Walter John Herbert Sprott correspondence
  • James Strachey correspondence
  • Leonard Woolf correspondence

University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology, Archives

John T MacCurdy Papers, Fonds Reference Code: GBR/3377/JTMacC
  • Freud's letters to MacCurdy, dated 12 February 1915, 24 January 1916, and 31 August 1916, under reference GBR/3377/JTMacC/1/1-3

WHR Rivers Papers, Fonds Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers

University of Manchester, Department of Special Collections, John Rylands Library

Freud family Papers (GB 133 SSF)
  • SSF/1/1: Letters and related material from Sigmund to Sam Freud
  • SSF/1/2: Letters and related material from Sam to Sigmund Freud
  • SSF/1/3: Letters from Anna to Sam Freud
  • SSF/1/4: Letters from Sam to Anna Freud
  • SSF/1/5: Letters from Sigmund Freud to Pauline Hartwig
  • SSF/1/6: Other family letters
  • SSF/2/1: Photographs and newspaper cuttings relating to Sigmund Freud and family
  • SSF/2/2: Envelope of photographs of Sigmund Freud and family

University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

  • May Sinclair Papers (Ms. coll. 184)

University of Reading, Department of Special Collections

  • George Allen & Unwin archives
  • Hogarth Press archives

University of Sussex

  • Geoffrey Gorer Papers

Wellcome Trust Library, London

  • John Bowlby Papers
  • SH Foulkes Papers
  • Melanie Klein Papers
  • Roger Money-Kyrle Papers
  • Donald W Winnicott Papers

Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library

Havelock Ellis correspondence, MS 195, Box 1
  • Ellis-Freud correspondence
  • Ellis-Solomon Herbert correspondence