Jung, Carl Gustav (1947) original signed letter together with an archive of manuscript material relating to Jung and his close circle including Alice Lewisohn, Toni Wolff and C.A. Meier

Carl Gustav Jung (1947) original typed letter signed by Jung, and an archive of manuscript material 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) letter signed (“C.G. Jung”) to Mr. Lewisohn, thanking him for sending “a most amazing document” and proposing a meeting at Locarno.

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

Provenance: 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).