Psychoanalytic papers, plus two offprints, as well as book reviews and notes for discussions of papers presented by colleagues at the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Typed and handwritten psychoanalytic papers. Dates of some items are taken from the lists of papers which are included as the final item; these also provide further information about some of the papers.

Published material by Sylvia Payne.

Book reviews by Sylvia Payne.

Paynes's notes for discussions of papers by colleagues, including papers presented at Scientific Meetings of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Untitled notebooks containing handwritten notes, including draft of papers and notes on reading, written in both the front and back of each book. Also included is one file of loose handwritten notes.

This material includes notes on the history of the British Psychoanalytical Society; letters referring to Payne's proposal to write a book on this subject can be found in file P21-G-01.

Lectures on psychoanalysis, presumably delivered to students at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Transcript of a BBC Home Service interview with Sylvia Payne.

Papers received by Sylvia Payne. Most are written by psychoanalytic colleagues but there is also one paper by the American educationalist Beverly Benner Cassara.

Journals, offprints, cuttings and one book, by various authors and organisations.

Various papers related to Sylvia Payne's activities within the British Psychoanalytical Society.

A notebook, plus three letters regarding patients.

Photographs and other memorabilia.

Material collected by Michael Parsons for a proposed biographical chapter about Sylvia Payne (apparently unpublished).