Material related to Gillespie's literary activities and teaching work, plus two items related to broadcasting.

Material related to proposed publications by William Gillespie. The final item, 'Life, Sex and Death' was published in 1995 but the other books appear to be unpublished.

Articles, lectures, speeches and other papers by Gillespie, some with associated correspondence or other material. The papers cover various psychoanalytic themes and the history of psychoanalysis and also include speeches given by Gillespie in his official capacities. Some individual lectures are included but further material related to Gillespie's teaching activities can be found in P16-A-D.

Many items are undated and dates have been ascribed by consulting other documents in the collection, as well as there bibliography in Gillespie's book, Life, Sex and Death. Incomplete papers have been placed in a single file at the end of the sequence, with the exception of the paper 'Reminiscences' (1990), which is accompanied by related correspondence.

Files of material related to specific subjects of interest to Gillespie, containing his published and unpublished papers, notes, correspondence etc, as well as papers and offprints of works by different authors (see series P16-B for additional material by other authors). It is not clear whether these files were created by Gillespie for his work or assembled after his death for transfer to the archives.

Outlines and texts of various lectures given by Gillespie. The audiences for these lectures are mostly unidentified, but Gillespie's teaching activities included work with training candidates at the British Psychoanalytical Society and students at University College London.

Obituaries, eulogies and biographical items about psychoanalytic colleagues.

Reviews written by William Gillespie. An additional review can be found in file P16-A-C-02.

Formal and informal responses to the work of other authors. The majority of items are Gillespie's contributions to discussions of papers presented at Scientific Meetings of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Some of the works discussed can be found in the series P16-B-A. Additional comments on the work of other authors can be found in the subject files in series P16-A-C.

Offprints and other copies of Gillespie's published works. Additional offprints can be found in series P16-A-C

Transcript of an unidentified interview about Ernest Jones, plus a contract for a BBC interview with Gillespie about Melanie Klein.

Reading notes and references, plus other loose notes related to Gillespie's work. The majority of this material was found loose and unsorted.

Typescript papers received or collected by Gillespie; many are photocopies. Additional papers and offprints of other authors can be found in the research files in series P16-A-C; writings and comments by Gillespie on some of these papers can be found in file P16-A-G.

Papers related to an IPA committee regarding training in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, plus statistics on membership of the IPA.

Material related to Gillespie's activities within the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Papers regarding Gillespie's work as a member of the Editorial Board of the IJPA and IRPA.

Brief exchanges of professional correspondence. Additional items of correspondence can be found with relevant material throughout the collection.

Papers related to the career of William Gillespie, plus two items of personal material.