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JUNG (CARL)
An archive of manuscript material (inc. 2 TLS by Jung), lecture notes, books, etc. relating to Jung and his close circle including Alice Lewisohn, Toni Wolff and C.A. Meier, from collection of one of his patients (Collection)

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JUNG (CARL)

An archive of manuscript material, typescript lecture notes, books, etc. relating to Jung and his circle including Alice Lewisohn, Toni Wolff and C.A. Meier, from the collection of Walter Pickett Lewisohn, including:

MANUSCRIPTS

JUNG (CARL) Two typed letters signed ("C.G. Jung") to Mr. Lewisohn, mentioning in response to a request to be seen, that "I only can spend a very restrictive amount of time on practical work, as I have to be careful with my health... I hope you don't expect too much!", and in the second letter thanking Lewisohn for sending "a most amazing document" and proposing a meeting at Locarno, in both mentioning Alice Lewisohn ("Mrs Crowley"), 2 pages, 4.11.1946 and 17.3.1947

MEIER (CARL A.) Six typed letters signed ("C.A. Meier) to Walter Lewisohn (with copies of his side of the correspondence), ranging from an interpretation of a dream ("The false teeth seem to indicate that you system of grasping things... no longer works"), Jung ("The boss is in good health since he became wise enough to take a vacation every now and then..."), a proposed film of Jung ("... excellent dialogue won't make a moovy"), UNESCO ("... certainly the most barbarous invention white humans ever made"), his involvement with "the bloody C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich", etc., 6 pages, most on headed paper, 16.2.1948-5.12,1959 and 8.11.1971

LEWISOHN (ALICE, Mrs. Crowley) Fourteen typed letters, and 7 letters signed ("Alice") to Walter Lewisohn ("Dear Walter"), or occasionally his wife Florence (with copies of Walter's side of correspondence), mostly written from Zurich, including news of Jung ("ungraspable fact that Toni Wolff had died suddenly.. a terrific shock for GJ who was just beginning to feel ever so much better", "Mrs Jung has died... CG is wholly shattered"), plays and films ("The opening of To Kill a Mocking Bird with Gre. Peck is enchanting and the best job he has yet done..."), life in Zurich, Walter's proposed film, etc., approximately 55 pages, many in original envelopes, c.1947-1961

WOLFF (TONI) Two typed letters signed ("Toni Wolff"), to Mr. Lewisohn, discussing a recent visit to America "which was more than I could afford, psychologically and financially", introducing her student Nora Hoch ("... German and was in concentration camp for talking against the Nazis... she is very intuitive and understands the creative side from the inner level"), mentioning Alice Lewisohn, and offering insight into one of Lewisohn's dream which involved a "six foot ball encrusted with jewels", 4pp., in original envelopes, Zurich, 30.11.1947-2.1.1948; with copies of Lewisohn's side of correspondence, and a typescript of Wolff's essay "on the process of individuation in women"

LEWISOHN (WALTER P.) Five autograph letters signed to his mother, written from Zurich whilst a patient of Jung (she was not supportive...), approximately 15 pages, original envelopes, March-May 1947; and several manuscript and typed essays relating to consultation with Jung, his dreams and interpretation of self

BOOKS AND TRANSCRIPTS

JUNG (CARL G.) Interpretation of Visions. Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology, Parts 1-11 and atlas of plates, edited by Mary Foote, photographic plates 1-20 and 27-29 only (with duplicates of 1-20) loose in portfolio, paper shelf labels on spines, a couple of covers detached, Zurich, 1930-1934

JUNG (CARL G.) Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process. Seminar Held at Baily Island, Maine, September 20 through 25 [Seminar Held in New York City October 16... 26, 1937], 2 vol., [1937-1938]

HAUER (J.W.) AND C.G. JUNG. The Kundalini Yoga. Notes on the Seminar given by... Hauer with Psychological Commentary by Dr. C.J. Jung, new edition, 8 tipped-in photographic plates, Zurich, 1940

HUTCHINS (MAUDE PHELPS) AND MORTIMER JEROME ADLER. Diagrammatics, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, illustrations, publisher's quarter cloth, New York, Random House, [1932], 4to; and 21 other volumes of "Notes on Lectures" by Jung from circa 1928-1941 (Collection)

Footnotes

An archive of autograph or typed letters signed by Jung and his followers Alice Lewisohn, C.A. Meier and Toni Wolff, together with volumes of Jung's lectures, mostly printed "strictly for the use of members of the Seminar", given in New York and Zurich from the 1920s-1940s.

In 1947 Walter Lewisohn, suffering from bouts of mental distress ("A great deal of trouble in my emotional life - something seems to have been killed in me...") travelled to Zurich to consult Jung as a patient, also seeing Toni Wolff ("She has been Jung's right hand woman for years... she's got a mind like a buzz-saw and is a heroic figure"), and Meier ("Am dining with the Meiers tonight and am off for a final session with Jung tomorrow morning. The fun is, you never know what is going to come up...", 9 May 1945).

Provenance: Walter Pickett Lewisohn, nephew of Alice Lewisohn (1883-1972, founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and member of Jung's inner circle in Zurich). After graduating from Harvard he joined several expeditions of exploration, including that of Admiral Byrd to Antarctica, later finding a career as a documentary film maker, and helped to set up the WIM museum on St Croix US Virgin Islands. His collection of Americas folk art and films is now housed at the Center for Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi; by descent to current owner.

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